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WILLIAM THE FOURTH mutter something to himself on this faire reculer, ending with, " I know who you are, I know; "-I followed him out, and insisted upon his explaining what he meant. "Oh ! you are Angelo," said he, "that taught my brother to fence, and I am an officer," with other bullying expressions. I was by this time surrounded by a number of my friends, who were laughing at the man's arrogance, as if his military rank entitled him to insult me. Considering it as coupled with his insolent intrusion, and not to be excused by the humiliation of being thrust out of the box, I here demanded his name, but he endeavoured to evade the question, by quitting the theatre. This, however, did not prevent me from following him into Pall Mall, where, apologizing, by saying that he did not mean to offend me, he informed me that he was a cornet in a regiment of light cavalry, and that his name was Hanson Some time afterwards, I recollect reading his name in the list of the killed, in an action in Spain; and I found by my book that his brother had been a scholar of mine, in the city. I have since heard that his father was an orange-merchant. WILLIAM THE FouRTH A striking instance of skilful seamanship in his present Majesty, WILLIAM the FoURTH, when, in the year 1790, his Royal Father's ship, the Valiant, was distinguished by bearing on her books the name of the then DuKE of CLarenCE, as Captain. It will appear by the books of the above ship of the line, that, from the 12th of May, 1790, to the 27th of November following, the ILLUSTRIoUs DUKE was borne on her books as Captain, and continued on board nearly the whole of that time, cruising in the chops of the Channel, and several leagues