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Character, Life, And Times Of His Late Royal. Highness , By The Public Press.
Highness , on arriving with his bride in London , caused the ceremony to he repeated at St . George ' s , Hanover-square , on the 5 th of December , in the same year , 1793 . Their first child , Sir Augustus D'Este , K-GIL , and a colonel in the army , was born on tbe 13 th of January , 1794 ; a second child , Ellen Augusta , was born on the llth of August , 1801 . The second marriage attracted the attention of his Majesty , George HI .,
who instituted proceedings for annulling it , under 12 Geo . III ., cap . 11 , better known as the Royal Marriage Act . Of very old times it has been the policy of this country for the Crown to control marriages of members of the blood-royal . The Gth of Henry VI ., the occasion of which statute was the marriage of Catherine , mother to Henry VI ., with Owen Tudor , and which prohibits the
marriage of the queen-dowager without the consent of the king , assigns this reason , —because the disparagement of the queen shall give greater comfort ancl example to other ladies of the state who are of the bloodroyal more likely to disparage themselves . Other statutes have made it high treason to contract marriage , without such consent , with the king ' s relations within certain degrees ; and by the 3 d and 4 th of her
present Majesty , commonly called the Regency Act , it is so made , if contracted with a minor king orqueen within the age of eighteen years , without the consent of the regent Prince Albert , and both Houses of Parliament ,
as well in the principal as in all parties concerned . The policy of this last act seems indisputable , ancl the policy of a moderate control in this respect seems equally clear ; but the House of Hanover have manifested more than a usual jealousy in favor of the pure German connexion , and in the case of the Lady Augusta Murray they have manifested it adversely to a family the blood of which is purer and better than their
own . The act , however , with which we have to do , and which was passed in 1772 , originated in the displeasure of George III . at the marriage of his two brothers . Of the Duke of Cumberland with Mrs-Horton , a widow lady , daughter to Lord Truham ; and of the Duke of Gloucester with the Countess Dowager of Waldegrave , the natural daughter of Sir Edward , brother to Sir Robert Walpole . This act
( 12 Geo . III . ) enacts , that no descendants of his late Majesty George II . ( other than the issue of princesses married , or who may marry into foreign families ) , shall be capable of contracting matrimony , without the previous consent of his Majesty , his heirs , & c , signified under the great seal declared in council , ( which consent , to preserve the memory thereof , is hereb y directed to be set out in the licence ancl register of marriage ,
and to be entered in the books of the Privy Council ) . Every marriage of any such descendant , without such consent , shall be null and void ; and that , in case any descendant of George II , being above twentyfive years old , shall persist to contract a marriage disapproved of by 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.
Highness , on arriving with his bride in London , caused the ceremony to he repeated at St . George ' s , Hanover-square , on the 5 th of December , in the same year , 1793 . Their first child , Sir Augustus D'Este , K-GIL , and a colonel in the army , was born on tbe 13 th of January , 1794 ; a second child , Ellen Augusta , was born on the llth of August , 1801 . The second marriage attracted the attention of his Majesty , George HI .,
who instituted proceedings for annulling it , under 12 Geo . III ., cap . 11 , better known as the Royal Marriage Act . Of very old times it has been the policy of this country for the Crown to control marriages of members of the blood-royal . The Gth of Henry VI ., the occasion of which statute was the marriage of Catherine , mother to Henry VI ., with Owen Tudor , and which prohibits the
marriage of the queen-dowager without the consent of the king , assigns this reason , —because the disparagement of the queen shall give greater comfort ancl example to other ladies of the state who are of the bloodroyal more likely to disparage themselves . Other statutes have made it high treason to contract marriage , without such consent , with the king ' s relations within certain degrees ; and by the 3 d and 4 th of her
present Majesty , commonly called the Regency Act , it is so made , if contracted with a minor king orqueen within the age of eighteen years , without the consent of the regent Prince Albert , and both Houses of Parliament ,
as well in the principal as in all parties concerned . The policy of this last act seems indisputable , ancl the policy of a moderate control in this respect seems equally clear ; but the House of Hanover have manifested more than a usual jealousy in favor of the pure German connexion , and in the case of the Lady Augusta Murray they have manifested it adversely to a family the blood of which is purer and better than their
own . The act , however , with which we have to do , and which was passed in 1772 , originated in the displeasure of George III . at the marriage of his two brothers . Of the Duke of Cumberland with Mrs-Horton , a widow lady , daughter to Lord Truham ; and of the Duke of Gloucester with the Countess Dowager of Waldegrave , the natural daughter of Sir Edward , brother to Sir Robert Walpole . This act
( 12 Geo . III . ) enacts , that no descendants of his late Majesty George II . ( other than the issue of princesses married , or who may marry into foreign families ) , shall be capable of contracting matrimony , without the previous consent of his Majesty , his heirs , & c , signified under the great seal declared in council , ( which consent , to preserve the memory thereof , is hereb y directed to be set out in the licence ancl register of marriage ,
and to be entered in the books of the Privy Council ) . Every marriage of any such descendant , without such consent , shall be null and void ; and that , in case any descendant of George II , being above twentyfive years old , shall persist to contract a marriage disapproved of by his