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 VISIT of INDIAN CHIEFS to GEORGE IV.

��Transcript of a Letter from Irving Brock, Esq., to Miss Caroline Titpper, dated London, April 12, 1825.

" I went to Windsor on Wednesday last with the

four Indians, accompanied by my friend Mr. W ,

to show them the castle, Frogmore, &c. ; but the chief object, which I had secretly in mind, was to have them introduced to his Majesty. Sir John

C, the late mayor of Windsor, assisted me very

effectually, and the upshot of the matter is, that the king expressed his desire to see the Indian chiefs, although every body treated this as a most chimerical idea. They wore, for the first time, the brilliant clothes which Mr. Butterworth had had made for them, and you cannot conceive how grand and impo- sing they appeared.

' ' The king appointed half-past one on Thursday to receive our party at the royal lodge, his place of residence. We were ushered into the library ; and now I am going to say somewhat pleasing to your

uncle Savery. As Sir John C was in the act

of introducing me, but before he had mentioned my name, Sir Andrew Barnard interrupted him, and said : ' There is no occasion to introduce me to that gentle- man, — I know him to be General Brock's brother, — he and Colonel Brock, of the 8 1st, were my most intimate friends, — I was in the 81st with the colonel. There was another brother whom I knew, — he who was also in the 49th, — he was a gallant fellow. By

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