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Character, Life, And Times Of His Late Royal. Highness , By The Public Press.
known , a feeling of profound regret—of sorrow far more real than that which often waits upon the demise of princes . The journals most opposed to the liberal politics of his Royal Highness , express this morning , with the exception of a detracting allusion here and there , which may ivell be passed over , the highest respect for the Duke ' s amiable and independent character , and a becoming estimation of his scholarship and
attainments . Seldom have eulogies been better deserved ; and the highest and most lavish is not too much to bestow upon that feature of his Royal Highness ' s character which , not excepting , perhaps , his devotion to the interests of science , literature , and general charity , was most steadily signalised—we mean the independence with which he maintained his opinions in adverse times , in opposition to almost every personal tie , and every influence of courtly association .
{ From the Weekly Chronicle . ) His Royal Highness Prince Augustus Frederick was the ninth child and sixth son of his Majesty George III ., and was born the 27 th of January , 1773 , being , consequently , seventy years and somewhat less than three months old at the time of his death . Precisely because his character was destitute of those less amiable traits which distinguished
some of his brothers , his early youth furnishes little or nothing open for remark . " Born , " says Sir John Dillon , " subject to an infirmity , which manifested itself seriously at an early period of his existence , and which rendered any continued abode in England , according to the opinion of physicians , incompatible with life , he had been sent at a tender age to the Continent ; ancluntil so late a period as 1804 , he never resided , nor
, had been capable of remaining , for any long period , in Britain . The whole system adopted in his regard by his royal father , George III ., indicates that the king had never contemplated or intended to have established his Royal Highness at any time within Britain : a very natural determination , considering the delicacy of the young Prince ' s constitution . Not only was his education conducted in Hanover on
German principles , and devoted to German studies , but he was kept abroad after it might be said to have been completed . He was never enrolled in the armies or fleets of Britain , as were all the other princes of the royal family , and at an early age . He received no British peerage , nor was any establishment proposed for him to the British Parliament until he was nearly twenty-eight years of age , and after the
preservation of Hanover to the House of Brunswick had become precarious , if not dubious . " Under these circumstances , he being then at Rome , and in his twentieth year , an incident occurred which reads more like romance than history , and of which it is not too much to say , that it shaped VOL . I . x
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.
known , a feeling of profound regret—of sorrow far more real than that which often waits upon the demise of princes . The journals most opposed to the liberal politics of his Royal Highness , express this morning , with the exception of a detracting allusion here and there , which may ivell be passed over , the highest respect for the Duke ' s amiable and independent character , and a becoming estimation of his scholarship and
attainments . Seldom have eulogies been better deserved ; and the highest and most lavish is not too much to bestow upon that feature of his Royal Highness ' s character which , not excepting , perhaps , his devotion to the interests of science , literature , and general charity , was most steadily signalised—we mean the independence with which he maintained his opinions in adverse times , in opposition to almost every personal tie , and every influence of courtly association .
{ From the Weekly Chronicle . ) His Royal Highness Prince Augustus Frederick was the ninth child and sixth son of his Majesty George III ., and was born the 27 th of January , 1773 , being , consequently , seventy years and somewhat less than three months old at the time of his death . Precisely because his character was destitute of those less amiable traits which distinguished
some of his brothers , his early youth furnishes little or nothing open for remark . " Born , " says Sir John Dillon , " subject to an infirmity , which manifested itself seriously at an early period of his existence , and which rendered any continued abode in England , according to the opinion of physicians , incompatible with life , he had been sent at a tender age to the Continent ; ancluntil so late a period as 1804 , he never resided , nor
, had been capable of remaining , for any long period , in Britain . The whole system adopted in his regard by his royal father , George III ., indicates that the king had never contemplated or intended to have established his Royal Highness at any time within Britain : a very natural determination , considering the delicacy of the young Prince ' s constitution . Not only was his education conducted in Hanover on
German principles , and devoted to German studies , but he was kept abroad after it might be said to have been completed . He was never enrolled in the armies or fleets of Britain , as were all the other princes of the royal family , and at an early age . He received no British peerage , nor was any establishment proposed for him to the British Parliament until he was nearly twenty-eight years of age , and after the
preservation of Hanover to the House of Brunswick had become precarious , if not dubious . " Under these circumstances , he being then at Rome , and in his twentieth year , an incident occurred which reads more like romance than history , and of which it is not too much to say , that it shaped VOL . I . x