_Lord North_ (Vol. vii., p. 207.).--MR. FORSTER has, it seems, blundered a
piece of old scandal into an insinuation at once absurd and treasonable.
The scandal was _not_ of Lord Guilford and the Princess Dowager, but of
Frederick Prince of Wales and Lady Guilford. On this I will say no more
than that the supposed resemblance between King George III. and Lord North
is very inaccurately described by MR. FORSTER in almost every point except
the _fair complexion_. The king's figure was not clumsy--quite the reverse,
nor his face homely, nor his lips thick, nor his eyebrows bushy, nor his
eyes protruding like Lord North's; but there was certainly something of a
general look which might be called resemblance, and there was above all
(which is not alluded to) the curious coincidence of the _failure of sight_
in the latter years of both. Lord North was the only son of Lord Guilford's
_first_ marriage: I know not whether the children of the _second_ bed
inherited defective sight; if they did, it would remove one of the
strongest grounds of the old suspicion.