Malta.
_Bishop Burnet again!_--The following anecdote occurs in Mrs.
Thistlethwaite's _Memoirs and Correspondence of Dr. Henry Bathurst, Lord
Bishop of Norwich_, p. 7.:
"I have heard my father mention the following anecdote of my
grandfather, Benjamin Bathurst, Esq., and the Duke of Gloucester (Queen
Anne's son), during their boyhood. My grandfather and the Duke were
playfellows; and the Duke's tutor was Dr. Burnet. One day, when the
Doctor went out of the room, the Duke having as usual courted him, and
treated him with obsequious civility, young Bathurst expressed his
surprise that his Royal Highness should treat a person, whom he
disliked as much as he did the Doctor, with so much courtesy and
kindness. The Duke replied, 'Do you think I have been so long a pupil
of Dr. Burnet's without learning to be a hypocrite?'"