The National Register. — London, England, 1809-02-12 00:00:00

FEB. 12. earnest and 46 voluntary tender," in that trying crisis, of his 0 ' personal services," sufficiently evidenced the princely feel ings by which-he was actuated. If any corroboration were re quired as to this trait in the disposition of his Royal Highness, it•was to be seen when . he attended the embarkation of his regi ment, for Spain: in his unaffected declaration of his own wil lingness to have accompanied them, in the affectionate enthusiasm with which he was then cheered by his soldiery . , and in the gallantry with which they afterwards conducted themselves. One of the privates, in this regiment, captured Lefebvre. While the merits of the Prince of Wales are attempted to be ascertained, it will be expected that some allusion should he made to what are considered as his demerits. Liberal and in genuous, but with resources by no means answerable to the splendid situation he was destined to fill, is it to be wondered at, when reviewing the career of this Prince, that we find him early incurring pecuniary difficulties; and frankly applying, to the proper quarter, for assistance I The income of his Royal Highness . ' was allowed, from his establishment in 1783, to be 'inadequate to the expenditure he would find himself called upon to support ; and, though since ailed by parliament, he has never been placed in circumstances completely eligible. Every one regrets the differences existing between this Prince and his 'Lova Consort. They were married, with uncommon magnificence, at St. James's Palace, on the Bth of April 1795 ; *which union produced, on the 7th of January 1796, the young Princess Charlotte. Dryden, were he living, might therefore lament, to borrow two of his complimentary lines on the co ronation of Charles the 2d, the apparently melancholy situation of our Princess— " near whose chaste womb, ordain'd by fate, " The souls of kings unborn for bodies wait !" Still, it is with reference to his higher station, and apart from domestic difficulties, that the people would do well to consider the presumptive successor to the crown of this country. He is purely English. He is rerfectly acquainted with our political institutions ; and has, on more than one occasion, solemnly de clared his unfeigned respect for the principles to which he owes his own illustrious elevation. He has so long mixed with those whose scepter he is expected to sway, and is so personally known among the elevated circles of society in this kingdom, that whenever hi.; Royal Highness, in the course of human af fairs, shall ascend the throne of his august ancestors, the nobi lity of ,this country will surround him as one family ; while the commonest of the people must feel, from the experience he has auquired in their transactions and concernments, that in this Prince, however removed from them by necessary distinctions, they will have every thing to hope from the proper combina tion of humanity with royalty. Disadvantages sometimes pro duce advantages. If this Prince knows the people, he owes this knowledge, which is to him of inestimable value, to the political inactivity to which he has been so long restricted. . Without paoegyrising the Prince of WALES, his magnani mous indifference to his enemies deserves to be distinguished. Often as he is assailed and threatened and libelled, never does he condescend, by penally visiting; his adversaries, to lower him self to their level, and give effect to the effusions of ignorance or malevolence. He justly disdains t k petty warfare of news writers and pamphleteers. Ile properly appreciates himself ; 'knowing tkat, when circumstances shall open to him the fair career of glory, it will be for his evertions to confound his calumniators. His Royal Highness has freqn , ..ntly received the homage of talents ; and, in return, he has sheen himself entitled to such distinction, by his munificent patronage of the Literary Fund : See! first and greatest, in our records ,hive, The princely heir of BRUNSWICK'S (Oval tine Awl grateful science hails, with proud acclaim, The patrJn..uf her sons in Uco RG MUIR!. Pyc's Lines ) April IS, 1807. gm THIS' IN 1 1 1111111'.3 irißriltelTlßß IQI Here, as his Royal Highness observed, when vainly soliciting military promotion among his conntrvruen, were soon seep " those advantages which his example might produce :" far, " the Prince's patronage," says the account of the Institution, " drew the attention of Sir TIiOSIAS NEWTON, Esq. repre sentative of Sir Is Asc NEWTON ; the great philosopher, hav ing no descendants. At the age of eighty-six, he exclaimed, with enthusiasm, This is the Institution for the Representa tive of NEWTON !' and he bequeathed his property to the Lite rary Fund." This extension of his ROYAL HIGHNESS'S patro nage was no less politic than princely. W bile others arc per secuting literature in its professors, let him, by fostering its cause, generously s: -Lire its attachment. Easiness seems time principal defect in his ROY A L H IGH• NESS'S character. His virtues arc his errors. It would not he dill - 16H to illustrate this position by facts ; but the elucidation would prove too painful to certain inlivifinals, and he cannot himself be insensible to the justice of the remlirk. He cannot have fs:rgotten all family oppositions, readily followed up by unmerited forgivenesses ; nor can Ise have obliterated from his mind all recollection of the unprincipled defreion he ex perk enced during the public discussion of his claims to military command ! " Separate thyself from thy enemies," says the wise man, " and take heed of thy friends." Britain, whatever are his defects, ought to be proud of the real character of the present Prince of W A LEs. His errors, which are apparent, will be found, if candidly estimated, more than counterbalanced by the general and acknowledgsd excellencies of his disposition. His personal accomplishments have obtained him universal admiration, and his mental acqui sitions are highly respectable. He loves his country, without the least alloy of continental prepossession; and, while he sin cerely respects the political privileges of the People, he will, if it be the designation of Providence, prove himself to he deeply sensible of the great duties inseparable from the Monarch. Feb' 10, 1809. ONESIMUS• IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. lIOCSE OF LORDS. TUESDAY, 1? Ea. 1. • THE DUKE OF YORK. The Duke of Kent said, that observing an imprevion had gone abroad respecting a daerence, suppw•eil to subsist between the Commander in Chief and himself; he wished thus publicly to state, that. however there might have been a professional (lir. fei%.nce. there was no schism between them, there was no schism in tit:, regarded the Commander in Chief with the feelings of a friend and a brother, and he wished to give him every possible support. lie was firmly convinced that the Com mander in Chief was quite incapable of the conduct imputed to I him. ST NTS Or TJLF Nartos. Earl On oSV EN 11. WOUid observe aS a preliminary, that it their Lordships should accede to the motion, and it should ap pear upon the inquiry which must then take place, that his Ma* jestv's Ministers, had, by their misconduct, disappointed the hopes and expectation; of the nation, he should then follow it up by a motion to addre-s his :%lajesty to ditamiss them from his confidence and Councils. It had been sail, that tht re existed st conspiracy to write down illustrious persons, and to wilte down the Constitution; he did not know that any such eonspiracy ex isted, but he was aware that most improlser paragraphs had ap peared in some of the public innrhals. Ile trastel, that the licentiousness of the Press could ho restrained by the existift laws, and that no attempt would btu m:ote to Mu-wince any new law to curtail the Liberty of the upon which rested sto much of the freedom of the people. 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