A CONVINCING PROOF.

Miss D. had the misfortune to become what the language of our neighbours

delicately expresses by the compound word _fille-mère_, and wished to

bestow, or rather to force, the honours of paternity on the prince. The

subject of dispute having been brought into his presence, he glanced at

the child's raven air, and coolly observed, "to convince me that this girl

is mine, you must prove that black is white."--_Cabinet Library--Life

and Reign of George IV._

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