A Hundred Years Ago
THE " SPECTATOR," JULY 17TR, 1830.
NEWMARKET JULY MEETING.
We cannot better characterize these races than in the words of the reporter : "The meeting has been dull, the company thin, the sport indifferent, the betting fiat, the whole affair without interest or attraction." This being the case, we need not load our columns with the details.
ADVICE TO KING WILLIAM THE Forums.
At any rate your Majesty does not seem disposed to shut yourself up ; and you may be assured, that this has given very great pleasure to the people. I, who had not seen a King or a regent for five or six and twenty years before the first of this Month, have now seen a King half a dozen times ; and a good hearty, cheerful-looking King too ; and up and at breakfast, I am sure, by eight o'clock in the morning. That is the King for me ; ay, for the people too. Your Majesty brings us Li Queen too ; and, what is more, the gossip goes, that you " live in Queen Street." If that fact be once ascertained, you have all the women's hearts, and then you are sure of the men ; for in England there is no other really legitimate and steady sway than that of the petticoat. And, then (for I will tell you what nobody else will), it is said her Majesty is a very close manager in tier house. Squanderous and wasteful servants give it another name ; but her Majesty may be assured that this character will, if found to be just, as I hope and believe it will, insure her the respect of all that part of the community which form the real strengths and security of the country and the throne. Als ! may it please your Majesty, this is the great thing of all I
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