From 1810 to 1815 English novelist and diarist Charlotte Bury was lady-in-waiting to Princess Caroline of Brunswick (1768-1821) and began keeping a diary. The diary was first published anonymously in two volumes by Henry Colburn in London in 1838 as Diary Illustrative of the Times of George IV. The diary was widely extracted and published in English newspapers and magazines as well as overseas. This extract from her diary is possibly republished from the English newspaper Saunder's Advertiser of January 1838.
Charlotte Bury's extract 'Times of George the Fourth' is included in AustLit as it was published in Australian colonial newspapers and magazines.