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Rh Cross, a gentleman who was just come out of St. James's, hearing them enquire so earnestly for the King, stept up to them, and demanded thus:—'Hark ye, my lads, what do you want with the King? pray, have you any express for his Majesty? An express! no! (answers one of them) we have no express, nor do not know what you mean; but we have got a letter for him and want to deliver it to him if we can:—What! (replies the gentleman) to the King himself, King himself, aye, to the King himself, (cries the sailor) suppose it was to the Lord High Admiral, what of that?—Why my lad, replied the gentleman, If it be a thing of consequence, you may easily see the King, for he is walking in the Mall.—I saw him there within these ten minutes myself.—What Sir, demands Jack, is he walking there alone?——No, replies the gentleman, there are a great many of the nobility and gentry along with him.—How may a body know then, cries Jack, which is he?——why, says the gentleman again, the king is very well