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and sharply milled, were ringing on all the counters. After ciiap.some days of impatient expectation it was known, on the four—teenth of November, that Iiis Majesty had landed at Margate.

Late on the fifteenth he reached Greenwich, and rested in thestately building which, under his auspices, was turning from a The ,palace into a hospital. On the next morning, a bright and soft entry intomorning, eighty coaches and six, filled with nobles, prelates,privy councillors and judges, came to swell his train. In South-wark he was met by the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen in allthe pomp of office. The way through the Borough to the bridgewas lined by the Surrey militia; the way from the bridge toWalbrook by three regiments of the militia of the City. Allalong Cheapside, on the right hand and on the left, the liverywere marshalled under the standards of their trades. At theeast end of Saint Paul’s churchyard stood the boys of the schoolof Edward the Sixth, wearing, as they still wear, the garb ofthe sixteenth century. Round the Cathedral, down LudgateHill and along Fleet Street, were drawn up three more regi-ments of Londoners. From Temple Bar to Whitehall gate thetrainbands of Middlesex and the Foot Guards were under arms.

The window's along the whole route were gay with tapestry,ribands and flags. But the finest part of the show was the in-numerable crowd of spectators, all in their Sunday clothing,and such clothing as only the upper classes of other countriescould afford to wear. “ I never,” William wrote that evening toHeinsius, “I never saw such a multitude of welldressed people.”

Nor was the King less struck by the indications of joy and affec-tion with which he was greeted from the beginning to the end ofhis triumph. His coach, from the moment when he entered itat Greenwich till he alighted from it in the court of Whitehall,was accompanied by one long huzza. Scarcely had he reachedhis palace when addresses of congratulation, from all the greatcorporations of his kingdom, were presented to him. It was