Show the royal noses safe prince george and ids his brother were very friendly with the officers ot of the bacchante on which h they served out of the cami familiarity ii of the princea princes with the other gay young midshipmen nrose several ridiculous rumors one of which was that the royal middies middles had allowed themselves to be tattooed by their and tattooed upon the nose each of them it lyas stated had allowed his princely countenance to be adorned upon its most prominent feature with A broad arrow dono done indelibly the one in blue and the other in red ink that the princes should have allowed themselves to bo be dedicated in such a 11 burlesque manner to the service of their country was an ail idea highly displeasing to the british public for the story absurd as it was found many who accepted it as truth it was so absurd that it went for r omet lino no one officially able to deny it supposing bup posing that it would be seriously regarded the bacchante moreover was wals at that time halt way around the globe from england and it was not known to her officer officers that the lie story had made such commotion there but at length an english official in an australia communicated with the ship and having received receive 41 a formal denial of the truth of tho the story cabled the information to london and the next day the times published in its columns an authentic refutation of the charge and gravely as mired iti its loyal reader readers that the royal noses were safe wife and unadorned manchester england times time |