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Character, Life, And Times Of His Late Royal. Highness , By The Public Press.
being , " ancl , as the reader will find on looking back , directs the consent to be set out in the license and register of marriage . This act , therefore , passed " to supply the defect of the laws then in being , " and those laws being limited to this kingdom , it follows that the act itself must be limited in its operation to the same extent—for a statute enacted merely to remedy defects in laws , cannot , without an expressly declared
intention , be more comprehensive in its objects than those laws . It is also , to say the least , a fair inference , from the acts requiring the royal consent to be " set forth in the license and register of marriage , " that a marriage in this country alone was contemplated—for the license and register are forms not necessarily attendant on marriages elsewhere , but are in a great measure peculiar to our own municipal regulations ; and
, indeed , were any other construction to be put upon the act , the members of the royal family would be precluded from marrying abroad altogether , a predicament never contemplated by the legislature . We have thus laid before our readers a full abstract of the particulars of this very interesting question , which it would be out of place to pursue further in this article , in a legal point of view . But we feel also
that it is by no means out of place to chronicle our most earnest hope that the "legitimate and lawful son" of the Duke of Sussex may ultimately , and at no remote period , succeed in substantiating his claim to
the honors of one parent , vindicating , at the same time , the honor of the other . His struggle is a holy one ; it is one which will command the sympathies of every properly constituted mind . We now resume our narrative , which has somewhat departed from chronological order , from our desire to give this interesting episode in the life of his Royal Highness in an unbroken form . The Duke of
Sussex was , in 1801 , called to the dignity of a peer of the realm , by the titles of Duke of Sussex , Earl of Inverness , and Baron of Arklow . He was created also a Knight of the Garter , a Knight of the Thistle , a Knight Grand Cross of Hanover , and a Privy Councillor . He also obtained a parliamentary grant of £ 12 , 000 per annum , to which the further sum of £ 9 , 000 per annum was subsequently added . His other
dignities and honors were those of High Steward of Plymouth , Ranger of St . James and Hyde Parks , Colonel of the Honorable Artillery Company , Grand Master of the United Order of Freemasons of England and Wales , to which office he succeeded on the accession of his brother , George IV ., to the throne . He was also a Doctor of Laws , President of the Society of Artsan official Trustee of the British and Hunterian
, Museums , a Fellow of the Royal Society , and for some time a President of that learned body . To write his political life would be to write a history of political and religious liberty , and of the struggles in their support during the better
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.
being , " ancl , as the reader will find on looking back , directs the consent to be set out in the license and register of marriage . This act , therefore , passed " to supply the defect of the laws then in being , " and those laws being limited to this kingdom , it follows that the act itself must be limited in its operation to the same extent—for a statute enacted merely to remedy defects in laws , cannot , without an expressly declared
intention , be more comprehensive in its objects than those laws . It is also , to say the least , a fair inference , from the acts requiring the royal consent to be " set forth in the license and register of marriage , " that a marriage in this country alone was contemplated—for the license and register are forms not necessarily attendant on marriages elsewhere , but are in a great measure peculiar to our own municipal regulations ; and
, indeed , were any other construction to be put upon the act , the members of the royal family would be precluded from marrying abroad altogether , a predicament never contemplated by the legislature . We have thus laid before our readers a full abstract of the particulars of this very interesting question , which it would be out of place to pursue further in this article , in a legal point of view . But we feel also
that it is by no means out of place to chronicle our most earnest hope that the "legitimate and lawful son" of the Duke of Sussex may ultimately , and at no remote period , succeed in substantiating his claim to
the honors of one parent , vindicating , at the same time , the honor of the other . His struggle is a holy one ; it is one which will command the sympathies of every properly constituted mind . We now resume our narrative , which has somewhat departed from chronological order , from our desire to give this interesting episode in the life of his Royal Highness in an unbroken form . The Duke of
Sussex was , in 1801 , called to the dignity of a peer of the realm , by the titles of Duke of Sussex , Earl of Inverness , and Baron of Arklow . He was created also a Knight of the Garter , a Knight of the Thistle , a Knight Grand Cross of Hanover , and a Privy Councillor . He also obtained a parliamentary grant of £ 12 , 000 per annum , to which the further sum of £ 9 , 000 per annum was subsequently added . His other
dignities and honors were those of High Steward of Plymouth , Ranger of St . James and Hyde Parks , Colonel of the Honorable Artillery Company , Grand Master of the United Order of Freemasons of England and Wales , to which office he succeeded on the accession of his brother , George IV ., to the throne . He was also a Doctor of Laws , President of the Society of Artsan official Trustee of the British and Hunterian
, Museums , a Fellow of the Royal Society , and for some time a President of that learned body . To write his political life would be to write a history of political and religious liberty , and of the struggles in their support during the better