se of persons, and of all the
foreign Ministers.

On the return of the procession the Prince and Duke of York put on
their uniforms at Carlton House, and headed the whole brigade of
Grenadiers, and fired a _feu de joie_ before Buckingham House, the
King and Queen and the Princesses standing in one of the windows.
The Prince, before the King got into his carriage, which the whole
line waited for before they filed off, went off on a sudden with
one hundred of the common people, with Mr. Wattie in the middle of
them, huzzaing him, and was done evidently to lead, if possible, a
greater number, and to make it penetrate into Buckingham House.

The breach is so very wide between the King and Prince, that it
seems to me to be a great weakness to allow him any communication
with him whatsoever; for under the mask of attention to their
father and mother, the Prince and Duke of York commit every
possible outrage, and show every insult they can devise to them.
The report of the journey to Hanover prevails to an alarming
degree, and the King talks of it right hand and left; but it is to
be hoped the Ministers will be able to divert his attention from it
at this particular moment, for in the present unhinged state of
things it might be pregnant with very disagreeable consequences. I
believe the King's mind is torn to pieces by his sons, and that he
expects to relieve himself by a new scene, and by getting out of
the way of hearing of and seeing the Prince of Wales, with the
hopes of being able to detach the Duke of York, whom he fondly and
dotingly loves, and of prevailing on him to marry on the continent,
of which there is no chance, for in my opinion he is just as bad as
the Prince, and gives no hopes of any change or amendment
whatsoever in thought, word, or deed.

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P.S.--It is said that the King abuses Dundas to those about him
very much, in a language that is very much copied by those whom we
all know by the term of "King's friends;" and there are some who
pretend to say that his loss of ground at Buckingham House has been
owing to the part he took against Hastings, in which he has the
reputation of having engaged Pitt to concur. I have made every
inquiry whether the King ever expresses himself to his people about