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Character, Life, And Times Of His Late Royal. Highness , By The Public Press.
in which it required the greatest moral courage to oppose the fashionable ultra-Toryism of the day , had the happiness of seeing many victories won for the Liberal cause , and an immense mass of abuses swept away . He assisted by his votes and speeches in abolishing the Test Acts , the Catholic Disabilities , and the rotten borough system ; and on more than one occasion entered his protest against those commercial and
agricultural monopolies by which the interests of the nation are still sacrificed to promote those of a class . His attachment to freedom , knowledge , and improvement , never wavered , from his first appearance in public life to his dying day . Much of the happiness of the Duke of Sussex's private life was sacrificed to those feelings of family pride and state policy ( falsely so called ) ,
which have induced the Royal families of Europe to persist in marrying in and in , until there is scarcely one of them in which some dreadful disease of body or mind is not hereditary . Early in life , he contracted
a marriage of affection with Lady Augusta Murray , a lady of irreproachable character , sprung from a family which for centuries had ranked with the noblest in Scotland or in Europe . This marriage George III . was so unwise as to set aside—which he hacl power to do under the Royal Marriage Act—and by so doing he shortened the life of Lady Augusta Murray , embittered that of the Duke of Sussex , and placed
the children of the marriage in the most painful and equivocal position . Tbey are illegitimate in England and Scotland , beyond all doubt ; but it is very doubtful whether Sir Augustus d'Este is not the next lawful heir to the throne of Ireland , after the descendants of the late Duke of Kent and the present King of Hanover , and to the throne of Hanover after the present royal family . Mr . O'Connell , whose opinion as an
Irish lawyer is entitled to great respect , has given it as his opinion that Sir Augustus d'Este is legitimate in Ireland , the Royal Marriage Act having never received the assent of the Irish Parliament ; and there is every reason to believe that he is equally so in Hanover .
( From the Worcester Herald ) . We need say nothing here of the talents or acquirements of the illustrious dead ; in another place will be found a sketch of his life , drawn from a journal politically opposed to him at his end , which , however , does justice to his memory , and is at once impartial and eulogistic . A law , than which nothing viler is to be found in any code
of legislation , placed the Duke in a most painful position as regards the tenderest and dearest relations of human life ; and it is humiliating to think that the Church was degraded by being made the instrument in his case of most unchristian cruelty ; she was called upon to separate those whom God had joined , not for delict on the part of either the
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.
in which it required the greatest moral courage to oppose the fashionable ultra-Toryism of the day , had the happiness of seeing many victories won for the Liberal cause , and an immense mass of abuses swept away . He assisted by his votes and speeches in abolishing the Test Acts , the Catholic Disabilities , and the rotten borough system ; and on more than one occasion entered his protest against those commercial and
agricultural monopolies by which the interests of the nation are still sacrificed to promote those of a class . His attachment to freedom , knowledge , and improvement , never wavered , from his first appearance in public life to his dying day . Much of the happiness of the Duke of Sussex's private life was sacrificed to those feelings of family pride and state policy ( falsely so called ) ,
which have induced the Royal families of Europe to persist in marrying in and in , until there is scarcely one of them in which some dreadful disease of body or mind is not hereditary . Early in life , he contracted
a marriage of affection with Lady Augusta Murray , a lady of irreproachable character , sprung from a family which for centuries had ranked with the noblest in Scotland or in Europe . This marriage George III . was so unwise as to set aside—which he hacl power to do under the Royal Marriage Act—and by so doing he shortened the life of Lady Augusta Murray , embittered that of the Duke of Sussex , and placed
the children of the marriage in the most painful and equivocal position . Tbey are illegitimate in England and Scotland , beyond all doubt ; but it is very doubtful whether Sir Augustus d'Este is not the next lawful heir to the throne of Ireland , after the descendants of the late Duke of Kent and the present King of Hanover , and to the throne of Hanover after the present royal family . Mr . O'Connell , whose opinion as an
Irish lawyer is entitled to great respect , has given it as his opinion that Sir Augustus d'Este is legitimate in Ireland , the Royal Marriage Act having never received the assent of the Irish Parliament ; and there is every reason to believe that he is equally so in Hanover .
( From the Worcester Herald ) . We need say nothing here of the talents or acquirements of the illustrious dead ; in another place will be found a sketch of his life , drawn from a journal politically opposed to him at his end , which , however , does justice to his memory , and is at once impartial and eulogistic . A law , than which nothing viler is to be found in any code
of legislation , placed the Duke in a most painful position as regards the tenderest and dearest relations of human life ; and it is humiliating to think that the Church was degraded by being made the instrument in his case of most unchristian cruelty ; she was called upon to separate those whom God had joined , not for delict on the part of either the