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Character, Life, And Times Of His Late Royal. Highness , By The Public Press.
{ From the Essex Herald . ) In a political view this mournful event can have no effect . Though the royal Duke had professed liberal principles through life , in the face of sacrifices that would have shaken the consistency of most men , and though his popular name naturally added to the strength of those with
whom he acted , yet of late years , the weakening hand of age had grad * ually been withdrawing him from the public arena . Recent changes , too , have so completely swept away many of the old landmarks of party , that a sort of indifferentism to these struggles seems to have come over our leading men at this moment . Under these circumstances , the death of the Duke will not leave a political void which will
be seriously felt . Still the nation cannot part with the gifted and the good , whom it has been accustomed to treasure in its respect—with those who to nobility of rank add nobility of mind and benevolence of heart , without every member of the community feeling it as almost a personal bereavement . For years the Duke had occupied a conspicuous place , as a philanthropist , in the public eye . His influence and his
example have done much for science and literature : his purse was ever opened to the appeal of honest distress ; and his name was at the head of most of the really benevolent institutions , in whose public proceedings in the metropolis he generally took an active part . He seems to have
felt" Title and wealth are of uncertain date , And on short man long cannot wait ; The virtuous make of them the best . And put them out to fame for interest . " { From the Maidstone Gazette . ) We believe that " no member of the nobility has been better loved , or
more generally deserving of it , than the Duke of Sussex , whose death we regret to have to record . As a warm supporter of literature and the arts , as a promoter of every liberal charitable institution , as a truly respectable member of the royal family , and as an amiable and kindhearted man , the Duke of Sussex will long be remembered with reverence and regret . Holding decidedly liberal political opinions , his manners were yet so conciliatory as to render these opinions inoffensive even to those most warmly opposed to them .
{ From the Brighton Guardian . ) It is not our intention to re-write his Royal Highness ' s biography , which we publish elsewhere ; we shall only notice here one or two traits of his character . From a very early period of his life he was afflicted with a shortness of breath , which rendered much physical exer-
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.
{ From the Essex Herald . ) In a political view this mournful event can have no effect . Though the royal Duke had professed liberal principles through life , in the face of sacrifices that would have shaken the consistency of most men , and though his popular name naturally added to the strength of those with
whom he acted , yet of late years , the weakening hand of age had grad * ually been withdrawing him from the public arena . Recent changes , too , have so completely swept away many of the old landmarks of party , that a sort of indifferentism to these struggles seems to have come over our leading men at this moment . Under these circumstances , the death of the Duke will not leave a political void which will
be seriously felt . Still the nation cannot part with the gifted and the good , whom it has been accustomed to treasure in its respect—with those who to nobility of rank add nobility of mind and benevolence of heart , without every member of the community feeling it as almost a personal bereavement . For years the Duke had occupied a conspicuous place , as a philanthropist , in the public eye . His influence and his
example have done much for science and literature : his purse was ever opened to the appeal of honest distress ; and his name was at the head of most of the really benevolent institutions , in whose public proceedings in the metropolis he generally took an active part . He seems to have
felt" Title and wealth are of uncertain date , And on short man long cannot wait ; The virtuous make of them the best . And put them out to fame for interest . " { From the Maidstone Gazette . ) We believe that " no member of the nobility has been better loved , or
more generally deserving of it , than the Duke of Sussex , whose death we regret to have to record . As a warm supporter of literature and the arts , as a promoter of every liberal charitable institution , as a truly respectable member of the royal family , and as an amiable and kindhearted man , the Duke of Sussex will long be remembered with reverence and regret . Holding decidedly liberal political opinions , his manners were yet so conciliatory as to render these opinions inoffensive even to those most warmly opposed to them .
{ From the Brighton Guardian . ) It is not our intention to re-write his Royal Highness ' s biography , which we publish elsewhere ; we shall only notice here one or two traits of his character . From a very early period of his life he was afflicted with a shortness of breath , which rendered much physical exer-