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Article AN HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. ← Page 4 of 4 Article ANECDOTES. Page 1 of 1
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An Historical And Geographical Account Of The Kingdom Of Ireland.
parliamentary reform were actuall y in the pay and commission of a . foreign enemy , who has avowedly threatened our extermination , physical and political . From the professors of brotherly love and affection among all descriptions of Irishmen emanated that diabolical system of assassination at which humanity shudders . In consequence of information of a very serious nature having been made against a Mr . Dndwellwho was Pr . o-secretary to the
Whig-, club , the newly registered proprietor of the paper called 'The Press , ' Alderman Alexander went to the place where it was printing , in Abbey-street , and prevented its bting published , as was intended the same evening ; seized on the printing materials , because the newproprietor had absconded , and could not be found to answer the charges laid against him . [ TO HE CONTINUED . !
Anecdotes.
ANECDOTES .
T HE Duke of Savoy , one of the ancestors of the present , took indifferently sometimes the part of France , aud sometimes that oi Spain . For this purpose he had a juste an corps , or close coat , white on one side , and scarlet on the other ; so that when he meant to declare himself for France he wore the white outside ; and when for Spain , he turned it , and wore the red . This is the ori gin of the proverb : Tourner cassaque , or turn your coat .
RELATED BY THE LATE LORD OR . FOR . D . ' I CAN tell you , from unquestionable authority , a remarkable fact , generally suspected but not accurately known . The Count Konin ^ smark , who assassinated Mr . Thynne in Pall-mall , afterwards became an admirer ofthe wife ofthe Electoral Prince of Hanover , who was to succeed to the English throne by the stile of George I . The
Prince was often absent in the army , and Koningsmark was suspected to have occupied his place . The Elector being enraged at the real or supposed insult , ordered Koningsmark to be strangled . When George II . made bis fust journey to Hanover , he ordered some repairs in the palace , and the body was found under the floor of ths Princess ' s dressing-room . ' It is supposed the first cause of icion arose from
Koningssusp mark's hat being found in the " apartment of the Princess . Dr . Hoadly , in his ' Suspicious Husband , ' 'introduces a similar incident , while the lady remains immaculate . This pleased George II . who was convinced of his mother ' s innocence . It is whimsical that this Prince often expressed his anger by kicking his hat about the room . ' George I . washoweverseparated from his wifeand there was
, , , no Queen in his reign . He had two mistresses ; one was Miss Schulenberg , afterwards created Duchess of Kendal , a tall thin gawky . The other was the Countess of Platen , who was created Countess of Darlington , and who for size might have been compared to an elephant and castle . This couple of rabbits occasioned much jocularity on their first importation . '
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An Historical And Geographical Account Of The Kingdom Of Ireland.
parliamentary reform were actuall y in the pay and commission of a . foreign enemy , who has avowedly threatened our extermination , physical and political . From the professors of brotherly love and affection among all descriptions of Irishmen emanated that diabolical system of assassination at which humanity shudders . In consequence of information of a very serious nature having been made against a Mr . Dndwellwho was Pr . o-secretary to the
Whig-, club , the newly registered proprietor of the paper called 'The Press , ' Alderman Alexander went to the place where it was printing , in Abbey-street , and prevented its bting published , as was intended the same evening ; seized on the printing materials , because the newproprietor had absconded , and could not be found to answer the charges laid against him . [ TO HE CONTINUED . !
Anecdotes.
ANECDOTES .
T HE Duke of Savoy , one of the ancestors of the present , took indifferently sometimes the part of France , aud sometimes that oi Spain . For this purpose he had a juste an corps , or close coat , white on one side , and scarlet on the other ; so that when he meant to declare himself for France he wore the white outside ; and when for Spain , he turned it , and wore the red . This is the ori gin of the proverb : Tourner cassaque , or turn your coat .
RELATED BY THE LATE LORD OR . FOR . D . ' I CAN tell you , from unquestionable authority , a remarkable fact , generally suspected but not accurately known . The Count Konin ^ smark , who assassinated Mr . Thynne in Pall-mall , afterwards became an admirer ofthe wife ofthe Electoral Prince of Hanover , who was to succeed to the English throne by the stile of George I . The
Prince was often absent in the army , and Koningsmark was suspected to have occupied his place . The Elector being enraged at the real or supposed insult , ordered Koningsmark to be strangled . When George II . made bis fust journey to Hanover , he ordered some repairs in the palace , and the body was found under the floor of ths Princess ' s dressing-room . ' It is supposed the first cause of icion arose from
Koningssusp mark's hat being found in the " apartment of the Princess . Dr . Hoadly , in his ' Suspicious Husband , ' 'introduces a similar incident , while the lady remains immaculate . This pleased George II . who was convinced of his mother ' s innocence . It is whimsical that this Prince often expressed his anger by kicking his hat about the room . ' George I . washoweverseparated from his wifeand there was
, , , no Queen in his reign . He had two mistresses ; one was Miss Schulenberg , afterwards created Duchess of Kendal , a tall thin gawky . The other was the Countess of Platen , who was created Countess of Darlington , and who for size might have been compared to an elephant and castle . This couple of rabbits occasioned much jocularity on their first importation . '