A correspondent informs us, that the public were on Monday
ex- cluded from the Palace at Hampton Court, because the Prince qf Orange was to inspect the rooms! Now, what a gross piece of insolence and absurdity is this ! We are quite sure that the Prince himself would he the last man in the world to assume the airs which those who directed the exclusion must have given themselves for bin in this case; but the affront to the public is not the less on that account. We are almost ashamed to pubiish this freak of some officious martinet, when eve recollect how good a jest it will lie to our neighbours—to the French, for instance—who will amuse themselves by supposing Ver- sailles or St. Cloud shut up some Sunday bemuse a foreign Prince was to visit it! Surely the underlings of the Court should be taught better manners io the people, and to that end be made sensible, that but for the people, their pectination would be stopping-gaps to keep the wind and rain out of palaces, not locking doors to exclude the very persons who pay fur those who shot them out having a much lighter employment than that of bricklayers and plasterers. We trust that the proper authorities will precept the recurrence of an impertinence of this description.—Times.
Mr. Recce, an opulent planter lately deceased, has bequeathed 11.0001. towards the funds of the Wesleyan Missionaries, together with half an acre of land to each of his negro apprentices.
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