GEORGE THE THIRD'S FIRST SPEECH.-HIS CLAIM TO THE CHARACTER
HIS EDUCATION. THE LEICESTER ТПЕ FIRST DAY OF THE KING'S REIGN. CHARACTERS OF NEWCASTLE-CHATHAM-CHOISEULAND HARDWICKE.
"BORN and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton, and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne."
Such was one of the first sentences which George the Third addressed to Parliament, on his assumption of the kingly office. By the words of the paragraph here cited, he evidently intended to imply some pre-eminence on his own part over his two immediate predecessors, who were "born and educated" in another land. That the sovereign should have first drawn