The account of the reception the stranger is to expect is not prepossessing, although correct enough in point of fact:—
"The person on coming up to his Majesty drops one knee to the King—the crowd being great he is immediately pushed forward."
This our readers will perceive (as it is expressed), must immediately upset him at his Majesty's feet; and the great difficulty, instead of not picking his nose, will be "not to break his nose in company." A consolation is offered to the patient hereabouts, which is soothing enough:—
"He may pay his respects en passant to any of the Cabinet Ministers with whom he is acquainted."
A privilege not confined, we conclude, to the place or occasion. The truth is, that when the patient is up and off his knees, he may expect to be pushed forward. At least, we suppose, it is not intended, as the Star expresses it, that he is to be pushed forward while on them, because a more inconvenient opportunity of changing the form of presentation could not have been selected, than when so many gentlemen are likely to appear in the Highland costume.
The mode of preventing a crowd at a Levee, which the Star mentions, is new and ingenious:—
"Every gentleman may appear in the dress of his regiment, but it must be full dress, viz., a coat with skirts, etc.: any person may easily see that unless some regulation of this sort were enforced, the King's Levees would, on all occasions, be crowded to an extent altogether destructive of comfort."
We do not see the force of this regulation, we confess.
Farther on we perceive this:—
"It is understood that Glengarry, Breadalbane, Huntley, and several others, mean to attend the Levee 'with their tails on.'"