London.
_Lord North_ (Vol. vii., p. 317. Vol. viii., p. 184.).--Is M. E. of
Philadelphia laughing at us, when he refers us to a _woodcut_ in some
American pictorial publication on the American Revolution for a true
portraiture of the figure and features of King George III.; different, I
presume, from that which I gave you. His woodcut, he says, is taken "from
an English engraving;" he does not tell us who either painter or engraver
was--but no matter. We have hundreds of portraits by the best hands which
confirm my description, which moreover was the result of personal
observation: for, from the twentieth to the thirtieth years of my life, I
had frequent and close opportunities of approaching his Majesty. I cannot
but express my surprise that "N. & Q." should have given insertion to
anything so absurd--to use the gentlest term--as M. E.'s appeal to his
"woodcut."