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but I am apt to believe that the idea is formed upon fact , and not merely speculation . " ) Again , the author observes that when Charles I . "found it necessary to dissolve the , ' sitting of Parliament , he hacl recourse to that impolitic measure offopenly compounding with the Catholics for the penalties to which they were subjected . " ( The'Dukeof Sussex observes — "This was certainly a political error ; the Sovereign of this country ought never to be a party man . ")
PHE DUKE OF SUSSEX ' LIBRARY . —Unusual interest was given to the _ fourteenth day ' s sale of the theological portion of the library , owing to the circumstance of the very large sum given for a Common Prayer Book , excessively rare , without date , but printed in the year 1559 , two vols , in one , exquisitely beautiful copies , in old red morocco ; it sold for 101 / . The produce of the whole of the third part ofthe Duke of Sussex ' s extensive ancl valuable library is 2 , 093 / . 12 s . 6 d . ; that of the first ( theological ) part , 0 , 417 / 15 s . Gd . - . "" and that of the second part ( manuscripts ) , 5 , 153 / . Is . Thus the grand total is 13 , 664 / . 9 s .
SIR AUGUSTUS D'ESTE . —After many sittings in the House of Lords on the claims of Sir Augustus D'Este to the honours , titles , & c . of his illustrious parent , His Royal Highness the late Duke of Sussex , their lordships finally decided that however the marriage of his Royal Hi ghness with Lad y Augusta Murray might be morally viewed , yet , in a parliamentary sense , it was not a legal marriage .
THE KINO OF SWEDEN . —A propose de tatouage , it is affirmed that the King of Sweden ' s physicians were greatly astonished the other day , on bleeding his Majesty , to find the words " Liberie ! Egalite ! ou la Mart I " very legibly stained on his arm . They could not recover from their amazement . Charles John has been so long a king that it is forgotten that he began b y being a mere hero , ancl he is so good a king that one cannot persuade oneself that he was formerl y so good a Republican . But how strange—a king tattoed with liberty I Our whole age is exhibited in that rapprochement ; liberty , equality or death I Yet it is with such mottoes that one reached a throne in our days . —Madame de Girardin .
Louis PHILIPPE . —( From the Voss Gazette , a Swedish journal . ) — ' On the 2 nd of August , Vice-Consul Burk celebrated the eighty-second anniversary of his birth-day . On the same clay he received a letter from the King of the French , written with his own band , accompanying a gold medal , bearing on one side the profile of his Majesty , and on the other the following inscription : — ' Given by King Louis Philippe to M . C . Burk , as a memorial of the hospitality received at Hammerfest , in 1795 The
August , . ' letter , which was dated at Neuilly , June 6 , is in these terms— ' It is always agreeable to me to find that the traveller Muller has not been forgotten in a country which he visited in simple guise , and unknown ; and I always recal with pleasure this journey to my mind . Among my recollections I give the first place to the hospitality so frankly and cordially granted me , a stranger , throughout Norway , and particularlin Norland ancl Finmarkand at this moment
y ; , when a lapse of forty-nine years since I made this journey into Norway has left me but few of my old hosts remaining , it is gratifying to me to be able to express to all , in your person , what grateful feelings I still entertain . '"
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Statue Ot H. R,. H. The La.Te Duke Of Su...
but I am apt to believe that the idea is formed upon fact , and not merely speculation . " ) Again , the author observes that when Charles I . "found it necessary to dissolve the , ' sitting of Parliament , he hacl recourse to that impolitic measure offopenly compounding with the Catholics for the penalties to which they were subjected . " ( The'Dukeof Sussex observes — "This was certainly a political error ; the Sovereign of this country ought never to be a party man . ")
PHE DUKE OF SUSSEX ' LIBRARY . —Unusual interest was given to the _ fourteenth day ' s sale of the theological portion of the library , owing to the circumstance of the very large sum given for a Common Prayer Book , excessively rare , without date , but printed in the year 1559 , two vols , in one , exquisitely beautiful copies , in old red morocco ; it sold for 101 / . The produce of the whole of the third part ofthe Duke of Sussex ' s extensive ancl valuable library is 2 , 093 / . 12 s . 6 d . ; that of the first ( theological ) part , 0 , 417 / 15 s . Gd . - . "" and that of the second part ( manuscripts ) , 5 , 153 / . Is . Thus the grand total is 13 , 664 / . 9 s .
SIR AUGUSTUS D'ESTE . —After many sittings in the House of Lords on the claims of Sir Augustus D'Este to the honours , titles , & c . of his illustrious parent , His Royal Highness the late Duke of Sussex , their lordships finally decided that however the marriage of his Royal Hi ghness with Lad y Augusta Murray might be morally viewed , yet , in a parliamentary sense , it was not a legal marriage .
THE KINO OF SWEDEN . —A propose de tatouage , it is affirmed that the King of Sweden ' s physicians were greatly astonished the other day , on bleeding his Majesty , to find the words " Liberie ! Egalite ! ou la Mart I " very legibly stained on his arm . They could not recover from their amazement . Charles John has been so long a king that it is forgotten that he began b y being a mere hero , ancl he is so good a king that one cannot persuade oneself that he was formerl y so good a Republican . But how strange—a king tattoed with liberty I Our whole age is exhibited in that rapprochement ; liberty , equality or death I Yet it is with such mottoes that one reached a throne in our days . —Madame de Girardin .
Louis PHILIPPE . —( From the Voss Gazette , a Swedish journal . ) — ' On the 2 nd of August , Vice-Consul Burk celebrated the eighty-second anniversary of his birth-day . On the same clay he received a letter from the King of the French , written with his own band , accompanying a gold medal , bearing on one side the profile of his Majesty , and on the other the following inscription : — ' Given by King Louis Philippe to M . C . Burk , as a memorial of the hospitality received at Hammerfest , in 1795 The
August , . ' letter , which was dated at Neuilly , June 6 , is in these terms— ' It is always agreeable to me to find that the traveller Muller has not been forgotten in a country which he visited in simple guise , and unknown ; and I always recal with pleasure this journey to my mind . Among my recollections I give the first place to the hospitality so frankly and cordially granted me , a stranger , throughout Norway , and particularlin Norland ancl Finmarkand at this moment
y ; , when a lapse of forty-nine years since I made this journey into Norway has left me but few of my old hosts remaining , it is gratifying to me to be able to express to all , in your person , what grateful feelings I still entertain . '"