At the late Royal visit to Chelsea, the gallant veteran
Sir Samuel Ilulse addressed the King—" May it please your Majesty, I have stood before two Kings since I have been Governor here, and should have been happy to have stood before a third." (Sir Samuel was wheeled into the room.) "Enough, enough !" exclaimed his Majesty, and took the old soldier by the hand. He is in his ninetieth year.
Last week, a paragraph from a Plymouth paper, stating that Lord Minto had been insulted when dining with the Plymouth Royal Naval Club, was copied into the Spectator; but the Secretary of the Club has written a letter to the Plymouth Journal denying the truth of the story.
Upwards of one hundred architects are expected to compete with their designs for the new building of the Houses of Lords and Commons.
The sale by auction of the personal property of the late Earl of Devon, in Paris, closed on Thursday week. The books formed the last item, and went high. Dodsley's Annual Register (74 vols.) brought between 7001. and 750f. (2.81. to 3)1. British). The jewels, which were fine and in great quantity, sold cheap. The produce of the entire srle is variously reported at fiom 30,0001. to 60,0001. British; all of which, with other property, amounting in the whole, it is said, to 10,00/. or 120,0CA goes to his Lordship's butler.
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