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 5 The dance proceeded, however, and Colonel Lennox and his partner danced down, but when they came to the Prince and Princess, His Royal Highness led his sister to the chair by the side of the Queen. Her Majesty then, addressing her self to the Prince, said, You seem heated, Sir, and tired." I am heated and tired, Madam,' said the Prince, not with the dance, but with dancing in such company.' • Then, Sir,' said the Queen, 'it will be better for me to withdraw, and pu: an end to the ball.' It certainly will be so,' said the Prince, for I never will countenance insults given to my family, however they may be dreated by others. At the end of the dance, her Majesty and the Princesses withdrew, and thus Jithe ball concluded. The Prince, with his usual gallantry, alterwards explained to Lady Cathe- rine Barnard the reason of bis conduct, assuring ther ladyship that it gave him much pain to be ob- liged to subject a lady to a moment's embarass- inient. It is now well known that the severe mea- asures taken by His Royal Highness to discourage the practice of duelling, have almost succeeded in banishing it from military society. Amid the po- of His Royal Highness to a Princess of the House of Prussia, served to cement more closely the relations which the Courts of St James's and Berlin had found it their interests to con- tract, with the view of counterpoising the inordi- nate ambition and mighty projects of the restless Empress of Russia. The treaty touching this al- liance was signed at Berlin on the 26th of Janu- ary, 1791, by Sir Morton Eden on the part of the King of England, and three representatives on be- half of his Prussian Majesty.
 * 1) litical agitations of the year 1791, the marriage