personal observation.  He happened, when last in London, to be invited to a dinner of three persons.  The Prince came by chance, and made the fourth.  He ate half a leg of mutton; did not taste of small dishes, because small; drank Champagne and Burgundy as small beer during dinner, and Bordeaux after dinner, as the rest of the company.  Upon the whole, he ate as much as the other three, and drank about two bottles of wine without seeming to feel it.  My informant sat next him, and being till then unknown to the Prince, personally, (though not by character), and lately from France, the Prince confined his conversation almost entirely to him.  Observing to the Prince that he spoke French without the least foreign accent, the Prince told him, that when very young, his father had put only French servants about him, and that it was to that circumstance he owed his pronunciation.  He led him from this to give an account of his education, the total of which was the learning a little Latin.  He has not a single element of Mathematics, of Natural or Moral Philosophy, or of any other science on earth, nor has the society he has kept been such as to supply the void of education.  It has been that of the lowest, the most illiterate and profligate persons of the kingdom, without choice of rank or mind, and with whom the subjects of conversation are only horses, drinking-matches, bawdy houses, and in terms the most vulgar.  The young nobility, who begin by associating with him, soon leave him, disgusted with the insupportable profligacy of his society; and Mr. Fox, who has been supposed his favorite, and not over nice in the choice of company, would never keep his company habitually.  In fact, he never associated with a man of sense.  He has not a single idea of justice, morality, religion, or of the rights of men, or any anxiety for the opinion of the world.  He carries that indifference for fame so far, that he would probably not be hurt were he to lose his throne, provided he could be assured of having always meat, drink, horses, and women.  In the article of women, nevertheless, he is become more correct, since his connection with Mrs. Fitzherbert, who is an honest and worthy woman:  he is even less crapulous than he was.  He had a fine person, but it is becoming coarse.  He possesses good native common sense; is affable, polite, and very good humored.  Saying to my informant on another occasion, ’your friend, such a one, dined with me yesterday, and I made him damned drunk;’ he replied, ’I am sorry for it; I had heard that your royal highness had left off drinking;’ the Prince laughed, tapped him on the shoulder very good-naturedly, without saying a word, or ever after showing any displeasure.  The Duke of York, who was for some time cried up as the prodigy of the family, is as profligate, and of less understanding.  To these particular traits, from a man of sense and truth, it would be superfluous to add the general terms of praise or blame, in which he is spoken of by other