A Plucky Princess.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1024, 16 October 1891, Page 4

A Plucky Princess.

The Leviathan, of 74 guns, being under sail off Weymouth, brought to and fired a salute to the Royal standard which was flying from the Princess Charlotte of Wales’s yacht. The captain forthwith went on hoard to pay his loyal respects, and the Princess expreesed a desire to look over the Leviathan. The Bishop of Salisbury, her tutor, who had ‘ no more knowledge of mankind than was to be acquired in the quadrangle of a College, where he had passed much of his life,’ suggested that the Regent might not like his daughter to go on such a rough sea in an open boatHe was met with the quick reply— ‘ Queen Elizabeth tcok great delight in her navy and she never entertained any fear of going on board a man-of-war in an,open boat, in whatever state the sea might be ; why then should I ? I am not only desirous, but determined, to inspect the Leviathan,’ To will was to execute with the Princess. The Captain’s barge came alongside the man-of-war, the yards -were manned, and a chair of state was let down to hoist the Royal visitor on board. 4 1 prefer going on board in the manner that a seaman does,’ she exclaimed quickly. ‘ When I am on deck, the chair max 7 be let down for the Bishop and the other ladies ’ —an ambiguous statement that was construed against the Bishop. ‘ He shrank aghast with awe, While British seaman cheered her spirit.’ The Princess left Weymouth in November —a year later she was dead. She was amiable, and would have become wise ; but she was young, and in the flower of her youth tlie dispoiler came.