CHAPTER I.

AUGUSTA, PRINCESS OF WALES.

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Death of the Prince of Wales--His Character--His Epitaph--The Eighteenth Century--Birth of Caroline Matilda--Lord Bute--Melcombe's Diary--The Great No-Popery Cry--Character of George III.--Majority of the Prince of Wales--Court Cabals--Miss Chudleigh--Horace, Prince of Scandalia 1