Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the Bourbon's name were not a pretext for his own introduction to Royalty, under circumstances of unprecedented splendour and magnificence. It must have been so. What cogitations respecting dress, and air, and port, and bearing ! What torturing of the confounded lanky locks, to make them but revolve ever so little ! Then the rich cut velvet,— the diamond buttons,— ay, every one was composed of brilliants. The night arrived—but for Coates's mortification. Theodore Hook had contrived to imitate one of the Chamberlain's tickets, and to produce a facsimile, commanding the presence of Coates; he then put on a scarlet uniform, and delivered the card himself. On the night of the fete, June igth, Hook stationed himself by the screen at Carlton House, and saw Romeo arrive and enter the palace-; he passed in without question, but the forgery was detected by the Private Secretary, and Coates had to retrace his steps to the street, and his carriage being driven off, to get home to Craven Street in a hackney-coach. When the Prince was informed of what had occurred, he signified his regret at the course the Secretary had taken ; he was sent by his Royal Highness to apologize in person, and invite Coates to come and look at the state rooms ; and Romeo went. Mr. Coates, who by his cockleshell curricle had acquired some of his celebrity, lost his life by a vehicular accident : he died February 23, 1848, from being run over in one of the London streets. He was in his seventy-sixth year. Abraham Newland. Abraham Newland, who was nearly sixty years in the service of the Bank of England, and whose name became a synonym for a bank-note, was one of a family of twenty-five children, and was born in Southwark in 1730. At the age of eighteen he entered the Bank service as junior clerk. He was very...