Indeed, it was not long before there was a very marked feeling against her, and this became obvious to all the world when, within a month of her first _accouchement_, she attended a public installation of the Garter.[244] This early reappearance was thought indelicate, and an ill-advised plea put forward by her friends--that her German training must be taken into consideration--only added fuel to the fire, for foreign customs even to-day find little toleration at the hands of this nation whose creed is liberty. [244] Even before this, the Queen had made a semi-public appearance, for, on the day of baptism, her bed "magnificently upholstered in crimson velvet," was removed to the great drawing-room. "Though she is not yet to see company in form," Walpole records, "yet it looks as if people should have been there, as all who presented themselves were admitted, which were very few, for it had not been notified--I suppose to prevent too great a crowd. All I have heard of, besides those in waiting, were the Duchess of Queensberry, Lady Dalkeith, Mrs. Grenville, and about four more ladies." "You seem not to know the character of the Queen: here it is--she is a good woman, a good wife, a tender mother, and an unmeddling queen," Lord Chesterfield wrote to his son in 1765; and a loyal rhymester set forth the same view in a "Birthday Ode," in which he played at satire. "The Queen, they say, Attends her nurs'ry every day; And, like a common mother, shares In all her infant's little cares. What vulgar unamusing scene, For George's wife and Britain's queen! 'Tis whispered also at the palace, (I hope 'tis but the voice of malice) That (tell it not in foreign lands) She works with her own royal hands; And that our sovereign's sometimes seen, In vest embroidered by his queen. This might a courtly fashion be In days of old Andromache; But modern ladies, trust my words, Seldom sew tunics for their lords. What secret next must I unfold? She hates, I'm confidently told, She hates the manners of the times And all our fashionable crimes, And fondly wishes to restore The golden age and days of yore; When silly simple women thought A breach of chastity a fault, Esteem'd those modest things, divorces, The very worst of human curses; And deem'd assemblies, cards and dice, The springs of every sort of vice. Romantic notions! All the fair At such absurdities must stare; And, spite of all her pains, will still Love routs, adultery, and quadrille."