The American War--Dr. Dodd--The Duchess of Queensberry and the ‘Beggars’ Opera’--Royal Progress--Royal Visit to Bulstrode --Mrs. Delany and Queen Charlotte--Birth of Prince Octavius --Strange, the Engraver--The Riots of London--Lady Sarah Lennox--The Prince and his Sire--The Prince’s Preceptors-- Errors committed in the education of the Princes--The Prince’s favourite, Perdita Robinson--Marie Antoinette’s present to her --Separate establishment granted to the Prince--Lord North’s facetious remark--Parliamentary provision for the Prince--The Prince’s presence in the House of Commons not acceptable--His pursuit of pleasure--The Duke of Clarence described by Walpole --The Prince of Wales overwhelmed with debts--Dissension in the Royal Family--Marriage proposed to him to extricate him from his debts--The Prince’s connection with Mrs. Fitzherbert --The Prince’s Marriage disclaimed by Mr. Fox--The Prince’s behaviour to Mrs. Fitzherbert--The Prince acknowledges his Marriage to the Queen. There had been, during the recent years of Charlotte’s married life, no lack of either private or public trials and misfortunes. The struggles of the government at home against the press had signally failed; and that against the American colonies, wherein France, Spain, and Holland were arrayed against England, ended in the acknowledgment, on our part, of the independence of the United States. The unpopularity of the King, who applied for and received 100,000_l._ per annum in addition to the 400,000_l._ granted to him at his accession, was extended to the Queen. The King was insulted by a female, said to be insane, as he was proceeding in his chair to the Haymarket Theatre. This circumstance rendered the Queen ill at ease for several days. Her sympathy could at no time, however, induce the King to grant her a favour, if he thought it was against his sense of right. Thus, few persons more interested themselves to rescue the Reverend Dr. Dodd, the forger, from the hands of the executioner, than Queen Charlotte. Her respect for the sacred office was so great that it seemed to be something shocking that a clergyman should be hanged. But George III. remarked that Dodd’s offence was rendered the more grievous from the fact of his being a clergyman, and that the law must take its course.