_Anecdote of George IV._ (Vol. ix., pp. 244. 338.)--If JULIA R. BOCKETT has
accurately copied (as we must presume) the note that she has sent you, I am
sorry to inform her that it is a forgery: the Prince never, from his
earliest youth, signed "George" _tout court_; he always added P. If the
story be at all true, your second correspondent, W. H., is assuredly right,
that the "old woman" could not mean the Queen, who was but eighteen when
the Prince was born, and could not, therefore, at any time within which
this note could have been written, be called, even by the giddiest boy, "an
old woman." When the Prince was twelve years old, she was but thirty.