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Character, Life, And Times Of His Late Royal. Highness , By The Public Press.
well spent life in the exalted station of his Royal Highness . For how much of the humanity which so favorably distinguishes our times may we not be beholden to him . Honour to his memory !
{ From the Morning Advertiser . ) The difference with the court into which the first of his marriages brought him , aucl perhaps the comparatively small allowance of at first £ 6000 , and afterwards £ 12 , 000 per annum , which George III . provided for him , gave an impetus to , if they did not wholly create , that predilection for popular opinions , which his Royal Highness shortly
afterwards displayed , and maintained during the remainder of his life . Excluded from office , and condemned to inaction , the Duke was now enrolled as a member of the opposition , and in most of the public questions of interest he took a part ; ahvays acquitting himself with credit , if he brought no striking or original views to bear on any subject ; and speaking with that fluency and ease for which several members of the
royal family , especially the Dukes of Clarence , Kent , ancl himself , were remarkable . At public meetings , for which his services were at one time in great requisition , he appeared still more pre-eminent than in parliament . Of the Masonic Festivals , where , in his capacity of Grand Master , he frequently presided , he was at once the head and soul , discharging the duties with a zeal that proved how much he had the interest of the Mystic Craft at heart ; and at convivial meetings of a charitable
nature , he was so eminently effective as a chairman as to have procured the flattering compliment of being pronounced " the best beggar in Europe , " a distinction of which he was remarkably proud . The quiet life which his Royal Highness otherwise led , presents no topic for remark . Immersed in the pursuit of old Bibles , and matters of vertu , of both of which he had by far the largest store of any man in
Britain , and , perhaps , in the world , he rarely ventured abroad ; ancl a narrow escape he made at Lisbon , in 1 S 08 , where , despite his extreme liberal professions , his vehicles and baggage were unscrupulously seized by the French , under Junot , had the effect of still more strongly attaching him to England . At Kensington , where he resided many years , he led a life of comparative seclusion , for which the smallness of his
fortune in the first instance , and long habit , even when his allowance was afterwards raised to £ 21 , 000 per annum , afforded at once an excuse aud explanation . From some cause or another , attributed by some to the mismanagement of his stewards , by others ( and probably with greater truth ) to his own expensive passion for books , he is understood to have always laboured under pecuniary embarrassment ; and some confession of this kind , made by himself a few years ago , when he resigned the presidency of the Royal Society , on the allegation that his
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.
well spent life in the exalted station of his Royal Highness . For how much of the humanity which so favorably distinguishes our times may we not be beholden to him . Honour to his memory !
{ From the Morning Advertiser . ) The difference with the court into which the first of his marriages brought him , aucl perhaps the comparatively small allowance of at first £ 6000 , and afterwards £ 12 , 000 per annum , which George III . provided for him , gave an impetus to , if they did not wholly create , that predilection for popular opinions , which his Royal Highness shortly
afterwards displayed , and maintained during the remainder of his life . Excluded from office , and condemned to inaction , the Duke was now enrolled as a member of the opposition , and in most of the public questions of interest he took a part ; ahvays acquitting himself with credit , if he brought no striking or original views to bear on any subject ; and speaking with that fluency and ease for which several members of the
royal family , especially the Dukes of Clarence , Kent , ancl himself , were remarkable . At public meetings , for which his services were at one time in great requisition , he appeared still more pre-eminent than in parliament . Of the Masonic Festivals , where , in his capacity of Grand Master , he frequently presided , he was at once the head and soul , discharging the duties with a zeal that proved how much he had the interest of the Mystic Craft at heart ; and at convivial meetings of a charitable
nature , he was so eminently effective as a chairman as to have procured the flattering compliment of being pronounced " the best beggar in Europe , " a distinction of which he was remarkably proud . The quiet life which his Royal Highness otherwise led , presents no topic for remark . Immersed in the pursuit of old Bibles , and matters of vertu , of both of which he had by far the largest store of any man in
Britain , and , perhaps , in the world , he rarely ventured abroad ; ancl a narrow escape he made at Lisbon , in 1 S 08 , where , despite his extreme liberal professions , his vehicles and baggage were unscrupulously seized by the French , under Junot , had the effect of still more strongly attaching him to England . At Kensington , where he resided many years , he led a life of comparative seclusion , for which the smallness of his
fortune in the first instance , and long habit , even when his allowance was afterwards raised to £ 21 , 000 per annum , afforded at once an excuse aud explanation . From some cause or another , attributed by some to the mismanagement of his stewards , by others ( and probably with greater truth ) to his own expensive passion for books , he is understood to have always laboured under pecuniary embarrassment ; and some confession of this kind , made by himself a few years ago , when he resigned the presidency of the Royal Society , on the allegation that his