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Thackeray's George IV.
Thirty-eight years ago, when George IV. was but a new King, upon the occasion of his visit to Ireland, Byron wrote: "Spread — spread rsed the judgment pronounced upon the royal glutton by the indignant bard.
Mr. Thackeray is the last who has spoken, and the only difference between the contemporar ect for no sentiment stronger than derision.
All the laughing devils under Mr. Thackeray's control — and their name is legion — are let loose upon the memory of the his friends, in his younger days, is incontestable, in spite of all Byron and Thackeray have said.
Among other talents, Raikes tells us, upon the authority of the D dget of anecdotes was uncommonly large.
In the course of this lecture, Mr. Thackeray alludes to a well known circumstance in the life of George IV., upon which ecret from the world and reigned for him, as Pitt had done for his father.
Mr. Thackeray does not allude to his general madness, but contents himself with alleging <