tion during the whole time. Some other gentlemen, whom I had seen before, came to make their compliments too, until the MARQUIS OF CARMARTHEN returned, and desired me to go with him to his Majesty. I went with his lordship through the levee room into the king's closet. The door was shut, and I was left with his Majesty and the Secretary of State alone. I made the three reverences; one at the door, another about half way, and another before the presence, according to the usage established at this, and all the northern courts of Europe, and then addresed myself to his Majesty in the following words:

SIRE: The United States have appointed me Minister Plenipotentiary to your Majesty, and have directed me to deliver to your Majesty this letter, which contains the evidence of it. It is in obedience to their express commands, that I have the honor to assure your Majesty of their unanimous disposition and desire to cultivate the most friendly and liberal intercourse between your Majesty's subjects and their citizens, and of their best wishes for your Majesty's health and happiness, and for that of your family.

The appointment of a Minister from the United States to your Majesty's court will form an epoch in the history of England and America. I think myself more fortunate than all my fellow citizens, in having the distinguished honor to be the first to stand in your Majesty's royal presence in a diplomatic character; and I shall esteem myself the happiest of men if I can be instrumental in recommending my country more and more to your Majesty's royal benevolence, and of restoring an entire esteem, confidence, and affection; or, in better words, the good nature and the good old humor, between people, who, though separated by an ocean, and under different government, have the same language, a similar religion, a kindred blood. I beg your Majesty's permission to add, that although I have semetimes before been instructed by my country, it was never in my whole life in a manner so agreeable to myself.'

The KING listened to every word I said, with dignity it is true, but with apparent emotion. Whether it was my visible agitation, for I felt more than I could express, that touched him, I cannot say; but he was much affected, and answered me with more tremor than I had spoken with, and said:

SIR: The circumstances of this audience are so extraordinary, the language you have now held is so extremely proper, and the feelings you have discovered are so justly adapted to the occasion, that I must say, that I not only receive with pleasure the assurance of the friendly dispo sition of the United States, but that I am glad the choice has fallen upon you to be their minister. I wish you, Sir, to believe, and that it may be understood in America, that I have done nothing in the late contest but what I thought myself indispensably bound to do, by the duty which I owe to my people. I will be frank with you. I was the last to conform to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I now say, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power. The moment I see such sentiments and language as yours prevail, that moment I shall say, Let the circumstances of language, religion, and blood have their natural and full effect.'

'I dare not say that these were the KING's precise words; and it is even possible that I may have, in some particulars, mistaken his meaning; for although his pronunciation is as distinct as I ever heard, he hesitated sometimes between members of the same period. He was, indeed, much affected, and I was not less so, and therefore I cannot be certain that I was so attentive, heard so clearly, and understood so perfectly, as to be confident of all his words, or sense; and think that all which he said to me should. at present, be kept secret in America, except his Majesty or his Secretary of State should judge proper to report it. This I do say, that the foregoing is his Majesty's meaning, as I then understood it, and his own words, as nearly as I can recollect

them.

The KING then asked me whether I came last from France, and upon my answering in the affirmative, he put on an air of familiarity, and smiling, or rather laughing, said: "There is an opinion among some people that you are not the most attached of all your countrymen to the manners of France.' I was surprised at this, because I thought it an indiscretion, and a descent from his dignity. I was a little embarrassed, but determined not to deny the truth on the one hand, nor lead him to infer from it any attachment to England on the other. I threw off as much gravity as I could, and assumed an air of gaiety, and a tone of decision, as far as was decorous, and said: "That opinion, Sir, is not mistaken: I must avow to your Majesty, I have no attachment but to my own country. The KING replied as quick as lightning, 'An honest man will never have any other.'

The KING then said a word or two to the Secretary of State, which being between them I did not hear, and then turned round and bowed to me, as is customary with all kings and princes when they give the signal to retire. I retreated, stepping backward, as is the etiquette; and making my last reverence at the door of the chamber, I went away. The master of the ceremonies joined me at the moment of coming out of the KING's closet, and accompanied me through all the apartments down to my carriage.'

It would have made good old ELIAS HICKS himself laugh on 'First-day' to hear our friend BEARD, the distinguished western artist, mention the delivery of a conundrum which he once heard in this state. A tall, red-haired, 'serio-dubious' sort of over-grown boy, who was 'designed for the ministry,' and had just obtained his 'parchment' from an eastern college, was called upon, at a parting supper, to 'make a speech.' He excused himself by saying, 'I don't know any speech that I can say neow.' He was asked for a song. 'No, he never could sing; feöund that out when he first went to singin'-school.' However, being hard pressed for 'something,' he said, looking at and twisting bashfully his long freckled fingers, 'I can tell a

conundrum that I made myself last week. It come to me first one night when I was abed, and I made it out next day, and wrote it down on a piece of paper. I got it here, neow. So saying, he took from his waistcoat-pocket a slip of paper, and read: 'What village in 'York state is the same name as the Promised Land? There was some 'guessing,' but at last it was 'given up,' and a 'solution requested:''Canandaigua! at length expounded the proposer. But the company were still as much in the dark as ever: 'Canandaigua!' exclaimed a dozen in a breath; 'why-how-where is there any resemblance to the 'Promised Land? Can't see the slightest.' 'Why, you see,' said the conundrum-maker, 'this is the way on't; yeöu must divide the word, and instead of Can-an you must say Ca-nan,' and throw the 'daigua' away! Canaan was the 'Promised Land,' see! A resistless and united guffaw followed this 'forced construction,' which the expounder mistook for admiration. Aint it a fu'strate conundrum?' said he, with a visible chuckle, that only increased the obstreperous cachinnation. We should n't like to look at so bright an intellectual luminary as this, except through a piece of smoked glass. WELL do we 'know to feel'

(well did we know to feel, rather) the 'home-feeling' which 'M. P.' describes so well, in his 'Reminiscences of the Past. And although they have passed away who 'made' home Home,' still,

'STILL in our thoughts HoME's sainted image glows,

More blue the heavens there- more blushing far the rose!"

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