CHAP.
III.
Archbishop Drummond's Address in procuring for Dir. West
the Patronage qf the King._Singular Court Anecdote qf
a Lady Qf Fashi0n.- Character qf the King in his Youth-
--Anecdotes Qf the King and Queen.- T he King employ:
Dlr. West to paint the Departure W esi's
Celebrity as a Skater.-Anecdote qf Lord Howe.-Hi:
Fame as a Skater qf great Service in his prqfessional Success.
THE coldness with which Archbishop Drum-
m0nd's scheme for raising three thousand
guineas had been received by the persons to
whom he had applied, and the prejudice which
he found almost universally entertained against
the efforts of living genius, chagrined him
exceedingly.
He
regarded
the
failure
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stigma on the age, and on his country; and, as a
public man, he thought it affected himself per-
sonally. With this feeling, he declared to the
gentlemen who had
exerted
themselves
in
the
business, that he saw no way of engrafting a
taste for the fine arts on the British public,
unless the King could be so far engaged in the