“On Saturday when the Queen was at Kew, the Blue Horse Guards in stocks stood sentry there. As she goes up the court she says to Lord Lifford and me: ‘I’ll lay you what you will he of the right is a Scotsman, and he of the left an Englishman and a Yorkshireman’. When she came up to them, she asked him of the right, who was a handsome young fellow and a gentleman volunteer: ‘What countryman are you?’ ‘A Scotsman, your Majesty.’ ‘What’s your name?’ ‘Hamilton.’ ‘Of what family?’ ‘The dukes of that name.’ ‘How long have you been in the regiment?’ ‘Ever since it has been the Duke of Argyll’s.’ Then she turns to t’other man, and asks what countryman he was? ‘An Englishman, your Majesty.’ ‘Your name?’ ‘Hill.’ ‘What county?’ ‘Yorkshire.’ The Queen was pleased and so was I, for I would always have her pleased, and turned about to my lord and me, and said: ‘N’est-ce pas que j’ay dit vray? Je connais bien la physiognomie.’” FOOTNOTES TO BOOK III, CHAPTER IV: [27] _Memoirs of Wilhelmina, Margravine of Baireuth._ [28] _Memoirs of Wilhelmina, Margravine of Baireuth._ [29] _Memoirs of Wilhelmina, Margravine of Baireuth._ [30] Wilhelmina states in her _Memoirs_ that the whole thing was a plot of George II., who wished to find an excuse for keeping his son away from England altogether, but the candour of the Queen of Prussia spoilt it all. But there is nothing to support this statement. [31] _Daily Post_, 5th December, 1728. [32] The Countess of Pomfret to Mrs. Clayton, 22nd April, 1728. _Sundon Correspondence._ [33] Thackeray says in his _Four Georges_: “As for Bath, all history went and bathed and drank there; George II. and his Queen,” etc. In point of fact, neither George II. nor Queen Caroline went to Bath. Princess Amelia went in 1728; the Prince of Orange in 1734, the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1738, and Princesses Caroline and Mary in 1840. [34] The Countess of Pomfret to Mrs. Clayton, Bath, 6th May 1728. [35] In the Manuscript Department, British Museum. [36] _Daily Advertiser_, 3rd March, 1731. [37] The Hon. Peter Wentworth to the Earl of Strafford, 10th August, 1730. [38] The Hon. Peter Wentworth to the Earl of Strafford, London 3rd June, 1735. CHAPTER V. CAROLINE’S FIRST REGENCY. 1729.