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The Recorder's Report--Manners of George IV--Intrigues of the Duke of Cumberland--Insults Lady Lyndhurst--Deacon Hume at the Board of Trade--Quarrel between the Duke of Cumberland and the Lord Chancellor--A Bad Season--Prostration of Turkey--France under Polignac--State of Ireland--Mr. Windham's Diary--George IV.'s Eyesight--Junius--A Man without Money--Court-martial on Captain Dickenson--The Duke and the 'Morning Journal'--Physical Courage of the King--A Charade at Chatsworth--Huskisson and the Duke--Irish Trials--Tom Moore--Scott--Byron--Fanny Kemble--Sir James Mackintosh--His Conversation--Black Irishmen--Moore's Irish Story--Moore's Singing--George IV. and Mr. Denman-- Strawberry Hill--Moore at Trinity College--Indian Vengeance at Niagara--Count Woronzow--Lord Glengall's Play--The Recorder's Report Page 221