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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 7 of 12 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
these in the life-time of their mother . " The Dukes ' s never faltering affection for these children is a not less corroborating circumstance ; and it ought to have required , therefore , sonneting more than a mere want of explanation , which could not be delicately given , and which none had a rig ht to demand , to induce any but the vulgar or the malignant to question for a moment the manliness and the integrity of the Duke ' s conduct . Charges , however , were made , and by some believed . The
establishment which had been the witness of so many years of happiness and of mutual confidence , was broken up ; the causes which led to the event , probably of a mixed and complicated nature , were unexplained ; the mother of His Royal Highness ' s children returned to her profession , and after some few years died abroad dejected and distressed . Here was ground for scandal ; and the Duke ' s guiltiness of the charge of unkindness and desertion was freely assumed from the silence which his
friends so long maintained on the subject . A dozen words are all but sufficient to throw the clearest light on the whole transaction . The object of the Duke ' s affection—his victim , as she was said to be—was never known to utter a word that could denote any feeling but that his motives were perfectly honourable , and the event , under the circumstances , imperative ; on the contrary , she has borne the most unquestionable testimony to his constanthis anxious kindness—his
, thoughtfulness , his generosity . " Money , " she said , in writing to a friend— " money , or the want of it , has , I am convinced , made him at this moment the most wretched of men . " Yet did he spare himself in these circumstances , when the kindest natures are sometimes soured , and the most generous rendered capable of a cold and selfish policy ? Hear what she said , who best knew his embarrassments at the time : —
" Do not hear the Duke of Clarence unfairly abused . As far as he has left it in his o > vn power he is doing every thing kind and noble , even to the distressing himself . " And at another time she writes;— "I lose not a moment in letting you know that the Duke of Clarence has concluded , and settled on me and his children , the most liberal and generous provision . " And again , in a letter addressed to the public journals , she said : — " In the love of truth , and in justice to his Royal Highness , I
think it my duty publicly and unequivocally to declare , that his liberality towards me has been noble and generous in the highest degree . " Lest there should be now , or hereafter , any sceptic upon this point , lest a breath of suspicion or reproach should attach to the character of our departed and excellent Sovereign , it may he pardonable to place here upon record the extent to which the Duke ' s children and their noble-hearted mother were provided for . The statement is given on the
authority of Mr . Barton , who , at the time of his death , filled the office of Treasurer to the Queen ' s Household . "Upon the separation which took place between Mrs . Jordan and the Duke , in the year 1811 , it was agreed that she should have the care , until a certain age , of her four youngest daughters , and a settlement was made by the Duke for the payment , hy him , of the following amounts : —For the maintenance of his four daughters 1500 / . ; for a
, house and a carriage for their use , GOO / . ; for Mrs . Jordan ' s own use , 1500 / . ; and to enable Mrs . Jordan to make a provision for her married daughters , children of a former connexion , 800 / . ; in all , 4400 / . This settlement was carried into effect , a trustee was appointed , and the Monies under such trust were paid quarterly , to the respective accounts , at the banking-house of Messrs . Coutts and Co . "
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
these in the life-time of their mother . " The Dukes ' s never faltering affection for these children is a not less corroborating circumstance ; and it ought to have required , therefore , sonneting more than a mere want of explanation , which could not be delicately given , and which none had a rig ht to demand , to induce any but the vulgar or the malignant to question for a moment the manliness and the integrity of the Duke ' s conduct . Charges , however , were made , and by some believed . The
establishment which had been the witness of so many years of happiness and of mutual confidence , was broken up ; the causes which led to the event , probably of a mixed and complicated nature , were unexplained ; the mother of His Royal Highness ' s children returned to her profession , and after some few years died abroad dejected and distressed . Here was ground for scandal ; and the Duke ' s guiltiness of the charge of unkindness and desertion was freely assumed from the silence which his
friends so long maintained on the subject . A dozen words are all but sufficient to throw the clearest light on the whole transaction . The object of the Duke ' s affection—his victim , as she was said to be—was never known to utter a word that could denote any feeling but that his motives were perfectly honourable , and the event , under the circumstances , imperative ; on the contrary , she has borne the most unquestionable testimony to his constanthis anxious kindness—his
, thoughtfulness , his generosity . " Money , " she said , in writing to a friend— " money , or the want of it , has , I am convinced , made him at this moment the most wretched of men . " Yet did he spare himself in these circumstances , when the kindest natures are sometimes soured , and the most generous rendered capable of a cold and selfish policy ? Hear what she said , who best knew his embarrassments at the time : —
" Do not hear the Duke of Clarence unfairly abused . As far as he has left it in his o > vn power he is doing every thing kind and noble , even to the distressing himself . " And at another time she writes;— "I lose not a moment in letting you know that the Duke of Clarence has concluded , and settled on me and his children , the most liberal and generous provision . " And again , in a letter addressed to the public journals , she said : — " In the love of truth , and in justice to his Royal Highness , I
think it my duty publicly and unequivocally to declare , that his liberality towards me has been noble and generous in the highest degree . " Lest there should be now , or hereafter , any sceptic upon this point , lest a breath of suspicion or reproach should attach to the character of our departed and excellent Sovereign , it may he pardonable to place here upon record the extent to which the Duke ' s children and their noble-hearted mother were provided for . The statement is given on the
authority of Mr . Barton , who , at the time of his death , filled the office of Treasurer to the Queen ' s Household . "Upon the separation which took place between Mrs . Jordan and the Duke , in the year 1811 , it was agreed that she should have the care , until a certain age , of her four youngest daughters , and a settlement was made by the Duke for the payment , hy him , of the following amounts : —For the maintenance of his four daughters 1500 / . ; for a
, house and a carriage for their use , GOO / . ; for Mrs . Jordan ' s own use , 1500 / . ; and to enable Mrs . Jordan to make a provision for her married daughters , children of a former connexion , 800 / . ; in all , 4400 / . This settlement was carried into effect , a trustee was appointed , and the Monies under such trust were paid quarterly , to the respective accounts , at the banking-house of Messrs . Coutts and Co . "