Excerpt from Court Life Below Stairs, Vol. 4: Or London Under the First Georges; 1760-1730 The prince was attended at Windsor by his personal and disreputable friend and private secretary, Captain, or as he was more generally and familiarly termed, Jack Payne, who had recently been refused admittance into Brookes' Club. This worthy gentleman had as little delicacy in Speaking of the king's affliction as if it were a subject for amusement, or, indeed, as the prince himself; and, as he considered all secrecy with regard to His Majesty's situation any longer almost inadvisable, ' wrote full de tails of its various stages to his friends, Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Lord Loughborough; moreover, these letters, in which he 'spoke his mind freely, ' scarcely conceal, a desire, not limited to the captain, for the king's demise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.