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Character, Life, And Times Of His Late Royal. Highness , By The Public Press.
letters . He was raised to the post of President of tlie Royal Society , as successor to Mr . Dasies Gilbert , in 1830 . He held this honourable position for eight years , but resigned it in 1 S 38 , assigning as a reason the inadequacy of his income to fulfil the various public duties which devolved on him . Nothing could be more delightful than the evenings when Kensington Palace was thrown open by his Royal Highness to the
public . At his soirees were to be seen all that was distinguishable in science , art , and literature , natives and foreigners—men of all particular opinions . On these occasions his Royal Highness took a lively interest in all that was going on , and was always the soul of the party . Every discovery in science , every mechanical invention , every ingenious process , found expounders at Kensington Palace . Whatever tbe enterprise
of travellers had discovered that was rare and curious , was generally to be first seen there . Nothing like these parties had ever before been known in this country . Those who had the advantage of an entrance into the Duke ' s magnificent library on these public nights , will not soon forget them , or cease to think with kindness of the warm-hearted Prince to whom they were beholden for so much enjoyment . Never did a countenance express more faithfully the happiness he felt at making
others happy than that of the amiable Prince whose loss a nation now laments . The Duke of Sussex loved the Queen from her childhood with the fond affection of a parent , and that love was mutual . By no one will the loss of the Duke of Sussex be more keenly felt than by her Majesty . We will not , on an occasion like this , revive unpleasant recollections
respecting the differences between George III . ancl George IV . ancl the Duke of Sussex . This , however , we will say with respect to his Royal Highness , that his nature was absolutely incapable of vindictive or unkind feeling . Like all warm-hearted men , he keenly felt acts of unkindness ; but he never resented them , and was always ready to forget and forgive injuries . No man was more steady in his friendships .
As the Grand Master of the Freemasons , he was perfectly free from all party bias in his distribution of honors . Though most decided in his politics , such was the mildness of his manner of asserting them , so much did they bear the impress of sincerity , that his opponents never became his enemies . We do not believe that he has left an enemy behind him . His nature delighted in kindness , and no other feelings but those of kindness could be entertained towards him .
But we close our hasty tribute to the memory of this able ancl accomplished Prince and truly excellent man . Few men were better prepared by their lives for the entrance to a new state of being than the Duke of Sussex . It is impossible to over-estimate the beneficent influence of a
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Character, Life, And Times Of His Late Royal. Highness , By The Public Press.
letters . He was raised to the post of President of tlie Royal Society , as successor to Mr . Dasies Gilbert , in 1830 . He held this honourable position for eight years , but resigned it in 1 S 38 , assigning as a reason the inadequacy of his income to fulfil the various public duties which devolved on him . Nothing could be more delightful than the evenings when Kensington Palace was thrown open by his Royal Highness to the
public . At his soirees were to be seen all that was distinguishable in science , art , and literature , natives and foreigners—men of all particular opinions . On these occasions his Royal Highness took a lively interest in all that was going on , and was always the soul of the party . Every discovery in science , every mechanical invention , every ingenious process , found expounders at Kensington Palace . Whatever tbe enterprise
of travellers had discovered that was rare and curious , was generally to be first seen there . Nothing like these parties had ever before been known in this country . Those who had the advantage of an entrance into the Duke ' s magnificent library on these public nights , will not soon forget them , or cease to think with kindness of the warm-hearted Prince to whom they were beholden for so much enjoyment . Never did a countenance express more faithfully the happiness he felt at making
others happy than that of the amiable Prince whose loss a nation now laments . The Duke of Sussex loved the Queen from her childhood with the fond affection of a parent , and that love was mutual . By no one will the loss of the Duke of Sussex be more keenly felt than by her Majesty . We will not , on an occasion like this , revive unpleasant recollections
respecting the differences between George III . ancl George IV . ancl the Duke of Sussex . This , however , we will say with respect to his Royal Highness , that his nature was absolutely incapable of vindictive or unkind feeling . Like all warm-hearted men , he keenly felt acts of unkindness ; but he never resented them , and was always ready to forget and forgive injuries . No man was more steady in his friendships .
As the Grand Master of the Freemasons , he was perfectly free from all party bias in his distribution of honors . Though most decided in his politics , such was the mildness of his manner of asserting them , so much did they bear the impress of sincerity , that his opponents never became his enemies . We do not believe that he has left an enemy behind him . His nature delighted in kindness , and no other feelings but those of kindness could be entertained towards him .
But we close our hasty tribute to the memory of this able ancl accomplished Prince and truly excellent man . Few men were better prepared by their lives for the entrance to a new state of being than the Duke of Sussex . It is impossible to over-estimate the beneficent influence of a