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Rh and sixpence, and the money so collected assists to defray the expences of the institution.

In this house, as elsewhere, the arms of the Orange family are carefully obliterated, and the portraits of the stadtholder, his father, his princess, and their children, are dispossessed of their places. A small equestrian figure in bronze of Frederic the Great, the gift of that king to his niece the Princess of Orange, maintains its place, perhaps equally through respect to the character of that illustrious prince, and fear of offending the powerful court of Berlin. But the portraits of George II. and Caroline, of Ann their daughter, the mother of the stadtholder, and of various royal personages of a more recent date, are consigned to the lumber-room of the palace, that the eye of the republican amateur may not be offended by their presence, or the Orangist gratified by delineations of the objects of his attachment. As the portraits of the most renowned princes of the house of Orange are permitted to remain, the absence of the modern