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Character, Life, And Times Of His Late Royal. Highness , By The Public Press.
he attached himself to liberal principles , ancl continued to the close of his career their uncomprising advocate . On one occasion only did he deviate from this course , and that was in 1806 , when he spoke and voted against the bill for restricting the importation of slaves ; but be afterwards supported measures for the Abolition of the Slave Tradefor Catholic Emancipation—the Repeal of the Test and Corporation
Acts—the amelioration of the Criminal Law—the promotion of Education—Parliamentary Reform , and every other measure calculated to forward the cause of civil and religious liberty . His well-known views in regard to such subjects are understood to have been the cause why , during the long continuance of Tory rule prior to 1830 , he never received any offices of honor or emolument , although all his other
brothers had lucrative appointments . From the circumstance that even after his political friends attained to power , he still remained unemployed , some have inferred that he must have displayed an inaptitude for the
public service in any capacity ; but it ought to be borne in mind , that by the time the Whigs got the ascendancy , his Royal Highness was advanced in years , and had begun to devote himself to those literary and scientific pursuits , in which latterly , when his health permitted , he spent so much of his time , and which were so much to his taste . To one of his simple and unostentatious habits , advanced age , delicate
health , and philosophic turn of mind , offers of employment which , if sooner made , might have tempted the ambition so natural to youth , had by that time lost their charm ; and as he had contrived to make his income , as a prince of the blood , meet all his expenditure , which is more than his more favoured brothers , with all their advantages , were able to do , he had no pecuniary inducement to abandon those pursuits
so congenial to his disposition for employments where he might have played a more conspicuous part . This we believe to be the true cause why the Duke of Sussex remained a private gentleman under a Whig administration , and not from any lack of abilities to adorn a high station , and to perform the duties of a responsible office .
( From the Dumfries Courier . ) Prince Frederick Augustus was a good man , charitable himself , and the fast friend of charitable institutions , the consistent advocate of the liberties of the subject , and much more the scholar and patron of science and art than any of his surviving or departed royal brothers . Occasionally he had been subject to fits of indisposition , and must have been troubled
more or less , with a weakness of eye-sight , judging from the peculiar spectacles he wore at the coronation . At that time , however , he appeared to be hale and active , and , to our thinking , bore considerable resemblance to Marshal Soult , a veteran , who , by such as merely saw
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.
he attached himself to liberal principles , ancl continued to the close of his career their uncomprising advocate . On one occasion only did he deviate from this course , and that was in 1806 , when he spoke and voted against the bill for restricting the importation of slaves ; but be afterwards supported measures for the Abolition of the Slave Tradefor Catholic Emancipation—the Repeal of the Test and Corporation
Acts—the amelioration of the Criminal Law—the promotion of Education—Parliamentary Reform , and every other measure calculated to forward the cause of civil and religious liberty . His well-known views in regard to such subjects are understood to have been the cause why , during the long continuance of Tory rule prior to 1830 , he never received any offices of honor or emolument , although all his other
brothers had lucrative appointments . From the circumstance that even after his political friends attained to power , he still remained unemployed , some have inferred that he must have displayed an inaptitude for the
public service in any capacity ; but it ought to be borne in mind , that by the time the Whigs got the ascendancy , his Royal Highness was advanced in years , and had begun to devote himself to those literary and scientific pursuits , in which latterly , when his health permitted , he spent so much of his time , and which were so much to his taste . To one of his simple and unostentatious habits , advanced age , delicate
health , and philosophic turn of mind , offers of employment which , if sooner made , might have tempted the ambition so natural to youth , had by that time lost their charm ; and as he had contrived to make his income , as a prince of the blood , meet all his expenditure , which is more than his more favoured brothers , with all their advantages , were able to do , he had no pecuniary inducement to abandon those pursuits
so congenial to his disposition for employments where he might have played a more conspicuous part . This we believe to be the true cause why the Duke of Sussex remained a private gentleman under a Whig administration , and not from any lack of abilities to adorn a high station , and to perform the duties of a responsible office .
( From the Dumfries Courier . ) Prince Frederick Augustus was a good man , charitable himself , and the fast friend of charitable institutions , the consistent advocate of the liberties of the subject , and much more the scholar and patron of science and art than any of his surviving or departed royal brothers . Occasionally he had been subject to fits of indisposition , and must have been troubled
more or less , with a weakness of eye-sight , judging from the peculiar spectacles he wore at the coronation . At that time , however , he appeared to be hale and active , and , to our thinking , bore considerable resemblance to Marshal Soult , a veteran , who , by such as merely saw