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has given ten tomans to the revenue, in case he should see anything wrong in its expense, has a right to rise up in the House of Commons and seize the vizier of the Treasury by the collar, saying, 'What have you done with my money?'" Having been presented at court, the princes received an invitation to Windsor, and they gravely record that this "superior palace" is "situated in a garden fifty-two miles in circumference, which is surrounded by a wall of iron bars about three yards and a half high. The park has forty gates, splendidly wrought, and through it runs several fine streams like rose water, and its trees are most noble, producing a beautiful shade. Gazelles, antelopes, and deer are here in thousands." Coming to the river Thames the journalist then breaks out in the following strain:—"The ships on this river are like forests. The large men of war are 1200 in number, some of which are of 120 guns; these, besides the packets and steamers. The least of their navy carries thirty guns. The British mercantile vessels are above 25,000, such is their extreme and extensive commerce. . . . In fine, all the ships of other nations on the globe could not equal the number of the English ships alone, nor ten foreign men-of-war stand in battle against one English; they have always been victorious over their enemies. One of the twelve viziers of government has the management of the navy; he is called the High Lord of the Admiralty; Lord Minto fills this high station at present. In his hand is the direction of the whole navy. Besides the above-mentioned ships, they have innumerable others in the West and East Indies, in America, and Australia, which are called out at the time of necessity.