The Sun. — London, England, 1820-01-25 00:00:00

THE LATE DUKE OF KENT . The complaint %%bleb has to suddenly deprived, he ROYAL FAMILY And the Country of one of its, most distinguished PRINCES, was an inflammation of the lungs with cough, attributed to a neglected cold which hr caught from sitting in wet boots, atter a walk in the - environs of Sidi►outh with Capt. CoNairt. His illness hail several of those alternations which embitter the mo►►rnfol wag. trophe by the creation of unfounded hope. Re- 'ported to be in imminent danger on the morning of Thursdary last, his Royal Highness rallied to.' wards the middle of the clay in consequence of a' little refreshing sleep which he had been able to obtain ; all the alarming symptoms returned, however, .owarei‘ evening, with increased vio lence, and confirmed till Saturday morning, when second remission to-k place, the consequence. of exhausted nature, and the sine ptecursor of ap proaching death. I)titi9g Ilie whole of his ill- Int.'s, the amiable and i.tllicted ()lidless was inde- I ttitigHbie in her alleloti..o6 10 her drpatted Cosi. sott, And perforturel toll the offices <lur to'-tire sick e most tender •r►ndl affectionate anxiety She ►!i►i not even take oil brr clothe* for five sue. 'cessive niAtts attcl all tt►e medicitns were ad. by 'l►cr own bands. Such conduct !while it :post •true to soothe the ()Hogg of a Ca lamity which her utmost exe►tions could not avert, will render her an objrct of still greater sytopatity with the fititish hui,lie, w#►o are always ready to pay to virtue the tribufe of admiration to which it is entitled. ilk Royal iii a long walk on Thurs ay se'nnigbt, ith Captain CONROY, in the beau itul covitons of Shlrhutith, hid [ii• bouts maim( thtough with the wet. On their return to Wool `brook Cottage, Capt. CoNttoY, finding himself wet in the feet, advised his Royal flightless to change his boots and stockings ; but this he did not do till, 4e dressed kir, dinner, being attracted by the smiles] !of his lapin Princess, with Minns he sat for a con. siderable Lima in fond parental dalliance. Before i Inight, however, b frit a sensation of cold and, hoarseness, wheat Dr. \Sit/Attu prescribed for hia► [fraught composed of calomel and Dr. Jemesisl )owders. This, his Royal Highness, in the usual ontidenee in his strength and dislike et medicine, :lid not take, saying that he had no doubt but a l light's rest would carry off every uneasy syn►ptont.J l'he event proved the contrary. In the morning the symptoms of (ever were increased ; end though his Royal Highness lost 120 ounces of blood from , the arms and by cupping, he departed this life,' ,as we have stated, at ten o'clock on Sunday forenoon. His Royal Highness was sensible of his approaching death, and met it with pious resig nation. He generously:said that , he blamed him self for not yielding to the seasonable advice of Dr. WTU.sow in the 'first instance, by which the' , ccess of the fever might have been checked.— 'Every attention that skill and affec►ion could supply were rendered to him. Prince LEOPOLD,' accompanied by Dr.STOCKMAR, arrived at Spool. brook Cottage on Saturday, at two o'clock, and never left his Royal Brother to the last. The later years of tl►e Duke of KENT were dis tinguished by the exercise of talents and virtues in the highest degree worthy of a beneficent Prince and of an enlightened English gentleman There was no want nor misery which be did not', endeavour to relieve to the extreme limits of hisl embarrassed fortune. There was no public charity er) which his rime, his presence, his eloquence,l were nut willingly devoted, nor to the ends of which they did not powerfully conduce. The l r rives of his intercourse with the inhabitants at this great metropolis on occasions of a salutary . ' lendency to the morals and happiness of his poorer fellow-creatures, will never be effaced from the grateful hearts of those who saw and heard hint. His Royal Highness was tall in stature, of -a !manly and noble presence. His manners were 'affable, condescending, dignified, and engaging . ; l conversation animated; his information varied, !and copious; his memory exact and retentive; 'ibis intellectual power quick, strong, and tuaseu iline; he resembled the King in many of his tastes land propensities ; he was an early riser, a close ] !economist of hic time ; temperate in eating; in (different to wine, though a lover of society ; anal ( heedless or slight indisposition, from confidence in! ;the general strength of his constitution ; a kind , waster, a punctual and courteous correspondent, a steady friend, and an affectionate brother. The Pattace REGENT, in consequence of the, demise of his Royal Brother, kept himself seclud. tct in Carlton liouse during the whole of yes• P rerday, except receiving visits of condolence Iron be Dukes of YORK. And CLARENCR. A number a the Cabinet Ministers, official Centlemen, men and Gentlemen, called sod left their names . Fat Carlton House upon tl►e melancholy occasion. r, Some Gentlemen belonging to the Logo CHAMBER.. i LAIN'S 'Mice lett town yesterday for Sidlitotttil, to make airrangen ents for the funeral of the Royal! Messrs. FRANCE and BANTING, the Royal . I tindertakers, are to conduct: thelune' al, which,' 'we understand, is to be private, and consequently ,under the direction of the LORD CIIAMagRLAIN ; undelli•ood that it will be similar to that of the late Duke of (TLOUCESTER.—Oreero for a General Aimning will be issued iu this night's l!s duration is not yet fixed. That Or tie Doke of GLOUCESTER was fur three months. Duke. Gazette. There is a remarkable circumstance attending the lainenteti death of the Duke Of KENT. The Pi hicess CH RLOTTE and her offspring died at the I same time. Royalty, then, was unhappily dis connected %TIT It hip Royal Highness Prince LEO- N ne his sister- is lett a Dowager, with pi POLD. ; therefore, in the course of events, his Royal flightless nifty be, by succession, a Guar kian to a female Sovereign. MENIOIR OF tifS ROYAL IfIZAINESS THE LATE DUKE OF KENT. His Royal High-nes% was the fourth son and fifth child ofl his Mojesty : he was born on the 2tl of Novenaber, 1767, and was consequently in the 53d year of his age. He was educated in part oath r the present Bishop of Salisbury; but in the' lath year of hiy age went to Germany for the completion of his studies, and resided successively at Luneburg and Hano ver, until October, 1787, when he removed, by his Majesty's command, to Geneva,and there remained till he bad-completed ltis4weitty-second year. In January, 1790, his Royal Highness ke-visited England, but for a few days only, proceeding im kediately, in a military character, to Gibraltar, whence, in sray 1791, lie went to Canada. From this station he proceeded, in December 1793, through the United States, to the West ludic:, to juin the army under the late Lord Grey, and -was k presetat at the reduction_ of St. Lucie on the 4th of April fol !lowing. At the close of the campaign of 1794, the Duke of Keatt, pursuant to his Majesty's commands, returned to'Bri- I fish North America, and served at Halifax as Major-General {till 1796, and as Lieutenant-General till October 1798, when, 11n consequence of a severe fall from his laorse, he was obliged' i to return to England. In April 1799, his Royal Highness was created a Peer by the titles of Duke of Kent and Strathern, and Earl of-Dublin, and I.btaitied,a,Parliamentary establishment adequate to the support of his new dignities. The following month he was, promoted to the rank of General in the army, and appointed ununa►alrt in Chief in North America.- to which destination he Proce;d;tl in July; but ill health again obliged him to! return, add he arrived in England in the autumn of 1800. In March 18014 his Royal Highness was appointed Governor in Chief of the important fortress of Gibraltar, which olEce he held till the time of his decease. In May, 1802, be went l to preside there lei person, and exerted himself very laudablr to suppress the lies-With/attest and dissipation of the wine houses, Which had been found highly prejudiCial to military! discipline. These regulations, however, occasioning great dissatisfaction among the soldiery, who proceeded to some acts'of Violence on the occasion, his Royal Highness thought it advisable to return to England in May, ‘803,-Where he con tinued to reside till August 1816, when economical views led him to the Continent. Here he continued, residing princi i 7 pally at Drussels, until May, 1818, on the 19th of which month' lie was married at Coburg, according to the Lutheran rites, to ! her Serene Highness Victoria Maria Louisa, youngest daugh ter of the late reigning Duke of Saxe-Cohurg,' widow of his late Serene Highness the Prince of LeiningCn; and sister of his Royal Hizhness the Prince of Saxe-Coburg, the chosen! husband of our much lamented Princess Charlotte. ThH Royal Pair shortly after the solemnity arrived in England,, and were re-married, according to the rites of the English Church, at Kew Palace, on the 11th of July, 181 8. Perse vering in the economical plan which lie had laid down before his nr4rriage, the Duke, a few weeks after this second cere , ninny, returned with his Royal Bride to Arnorbach, the resi dence of the Duke of Leiniogen, which the Duchess, who was left by the will of her late husband Guardian of her Son (a minor) and Regent of the Principality (iring his minority, had occupied as her residence during her minority. It was during their Royal Highnesses' retirement at this spot, that the Duchess proved to ,be pregnant; and As her Royal Highness fully concurred in the sentiments entertains ( ' by her illustrious Consort, as an Englishman, that her child ought to draw its first breath on English-ground, they both re-visited this country, where the Duchess gave birth to a daughter named Alexaudrina Victoria, who was born at Kensington Palace on the 24th of May, 1819. His Royal Highness, a very few weeks ago, took his Duchess and their lovely offspring into Devonshire, to give them the benefit of its purer air and milder climate ; but un happily fell himself a victim to a sudden attack of pulmonary inflammation, produced by accidental cold. At the time of his death, besides the of and dignities which, we have already enumerated, his Royal Highness was invested with those of a Knight of the Garter, Thistle, and St. Pa trick, a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, Keeper and Paler of Hanipton Court Park, Colonel of the Royal Scots Regiment lof Foot, and since the year 1805, a Field Marshal in the airulH MISSIONARY MBETING,-The Annual Meeting of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, for the send ing out, and support of Missionaries in Conti, mental India, Africa, and the West India Islands, as held yesterday evening, in Great Queen-streeil Chapel, J03K141 BUTTERWORTH, Fs(l. ill the Chair, surrounded by several eminent Divines and oilier Gentlemen. The Chairman opened the bu. 3iness of the evening in a short speech, after which the Report was read, and was highly gra t hying ; it detailed the labours of the Missiouaries,, and the general success they had met with. Tlie Repot t closed by praying for additional aid, that greater exertions might be used to Bread 011.1 knowledge of Gon and his Holy %%Torii. Several Gentlemen in the course Of the evening wade able speeches in' behalf of the Society. Persons who have friends in India niRY he g 18 ( 1 1 to learn, that, by a recent regulation, Newspapers • can be sent to the East lt►dies, ul►on t h e previous i payment of one penny for each, to be folded and directed as Newspapers for the English hasto• I FOR 11-1 E SUN. THE BLESSINGS OF THE CONSTITUTION. {Continued from our Paper of the 17th iust4 Having demonstrated the influence of Religion upon our Constitution, and the security of life and person which is thereunder enjoyed ; our next enquiry is, into the power of acquiring and retsin ling property. IThis, like all our other privileges, is to be re- ferred to the grand and pervading principle, which I had designed for the close of our discussion ; ibut which the very nature of the subject forced upon me in its commencement.—The equality of the Law. It was as impossible to prove the ex istence of our constitutional privileges, without 'its primary recognition, as it is to enjoy any one right without its protection. The King does not ( right his Crown, or the Peer his dignity, by a claim more valid than that which assures the humblest peasant in his life, his person, and his cottage. Had the British Constitution provided different laws for different classes, k would have deviated from the religion whereon it was found ed, and from the equality of all created mankind ,under their Creator. Every matt is privileged to acquire property. IThe means of its acquisition are left to himself; but while the Law only protects him in the exer tion, without compelling him to it, Religion offers hint instruction anti encouragement. The means are diligence, sobriety, and frugality. Of course, I speak but of honest means, as both the Law and Religion forbid any other, and, who so degenerates from the three means which 1 have described, can never make himself rich without dishonesty. " The children of this world are iu their gene ration wiser than the children of light." If the 'Radicals in their malice deny themselves even reasonable indulgences and comforts, for the sake of iiijuring the State ; let .the well-disposed prac tice the same lesson for,its good, and for their own. The self-denial, of idle gratifications will make every man wiser, and happier, and better, and richer. A friend declares this truth, an enemy teaches it. It is well to bear our friends, equally well to learn front our enemies. The security of property is the inducement ctits. acquisition. No man would labour, if the fruits of his toil were liable to be wrested from him by ,a stronger band, or by unjust authority. To this injustice, are to be ascribed the poverty, and the idleness, and the ignorance, which pervade so many portions of the globe. In Turkey, for in stance, no man dares owu himself rich, as the emissaries of the Government would immediately lay hold of his riches. Ot course, l►e cannot im prove them. And as that State has not yet learn ed the grand political secret--that the wealth of its subjects is better in their hands than in its own—every man is afraid of being thought wealthy ; his riches are useless, and perhaps burthensome. Independence, the great motive.to industry is there unknown ; industry therefore, and all its concomitant blessings are unknown also. It would be of little importance, whether onr property were at the mercy of arbitrary power or 01 lawless force. We should feel the evil neither magnified nor lessened by the quality of its origin. The La-w, however, protects Britons from either extreme: Happy Britons ! were they but persuaded of the blessings of its pro- Itection The security of property is essential to its ac quisition. The wealth which we dare not ac knowledge, we cannot employ; and while con cealed, it is alike useless to ourselves and to others. Thus the baneful effects of insecurity reach from the wealthy to the poor; the one can not expend his money, the other cannot earn it ; the one is destitute, the other is idle. And thus the circle revolves, until all are blended in the same universal poverty. But with the security which exists under our Constitution, every man is safe. Property finds its free channel; the rich provide work, the poor execute it. Thus property is diffused, and every man finds his share. Yet more.-- 7 -The poorest among us obtains, either in his support or the means thereot, a larger sum from the inequality of property than he could have derived from its equal division. There is an instance recorded of a poor man, who, by singular industry and economy built for himself an house, and planted a small slip of ground ; commencing with only fourteen shillings, and continuing without any other aid than his own labour and earnings. Bnt ten years passed before its completion :—and, I most summon the regard of all who admire, and of all who would imitate this honest Rini indefatigable creature, to a most important inference. The equality of pro. perry would keep every body houseless for ten years ; and its insecurity would prevent every body from huilding houses at all. The industri ous would pass ten years in toiling to raise a roof for the slothful-: the honest would devote the heart of their lives to build walls for the profli gate. It on the one hand, unaided poverty kept BRITTON ABBOTT (that was the poor man's name) so long in his laborious Work, undistinguished equality would have disabled him from any labour : tor, from what source could he have earned *his support ? The virtuous perseverance of. this man deserves our highest eulogy ;—yet, we see, though with out arty apparent assistance, he was essentially furthered by the wealth of richer men, and its in direct operation ; a thousand pounds in one hand is of more use to the community than an hundred pounds each in ten hands ; more useful still than one pound ench in a thousand hands. The richer an individual is, the more extended is the good which he can do ; and, let malignant falsifiers say what they please, the mote extended is the good which be does do, We see this every day, every hour, exemplified ; not only in those acts of bene volence, whose frequency, and whose number, and whose amount, almost have taken away their claim upon our observation ; but in the munifi cent expenditures, whereby the poorer classes ob tain their most valuable means of support, sweet ened in its acquirement by industry, and endeared in its possession by independence. The state of,society, and also indeed the state of mortality, is subject to sufferings anti sorrows. I was about to say—unhappily subject_;—but my pen was stayed by the reflection, that these were designed by the Creator, not only as the exercise of submission toward him, but of affection to ward our fellow men. The unequal state of society necessarily implies the superior wealtb, and power of some over others : and, once that a gradation is admitted in society, its boundary be• comes impossible. Without such inequality, half the ♦irtues—all indeed—of human nature would be extinguished ; its kindnesses, its charities, its affections; nay, all the duties and observance* of lite would be obliterated in one cheerless and hopeless blank. There would be no mutuality among men. Looking, then, to the great whole, I will not call the sutrerings'and sorrows of mankind a mat ter of regret. As well might we deplore tile ori• nal fall of man, without which we should not have seen God in his tenderest point of view, as lament those calamities which bring forth the most endearing virtues of man. But, while ine quality of rank and wealth is one among the dis tinguishing characteristics of our Constitution, let us thank and bless the Providence, which in spired its framers to make HIS religion its found ing and pervading principle. That principle hat turned its danger into its security ; apparent in• justice into real justice ; and out of the tnisfor• tunes of humanity has extracted mutual happi ness and reciprocal blessing. [To be continued.] NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. JAN. itt o 1840. A Paper published in this neighbourhood, and which was lately emitted for the first time under the avowed patronage of the redoubtable Com moner of the North, who makes St.. Stephen'a ring with his torrent direndi on all ultra occasions, has so unblushingly trumpeted forth the high at. tributes of certain Requisitionists for Par Haman. tary Reform in this town, designating them fore Tooth as " NINETT OP THU MOST RESPIICTABLitp OPULENT, AND ENLIGHTENED IIIDIVIDUALII,"--"" that, really capable as I am of digesting crudities, and overlooking occasional rhodomoatade, the foregoing involves so very huge an hyperbole, that it would be to *id in the deception not to make an honest attempt to undeceive the public mind. The truth of the matter is,--there are certainly 89 names appended to the Reform Be" quisition in Newcastle; but as the party have WO the temerity to shoot so far beyond the mark, it shall be my duty to give you a correct analysis of its component parts. imprimis, then, there are about twenty individuals who come under tbo description of respectable Merchants or Traders; a full half would be included in the term Trades men ; and the remainder, with the exception of one Barrister, one Banker, and one M. D., and three or tour Attornies, come under the e ppro• priats denomination of Shopkeepers, or small traders ; and part of these even are drawn frous the adjoining Borough of Gateshead, which situate in the County Palatine of Durham ! Those acquainted with the North are perfect!, aware we have many Whigs about us, whose . names would have readily appeared in the Regal" sition under review, had the measure been such as they altogether sanctioned. That they arc absentees or non-participants speaks a volume. In one word, there is no doubt that the Gres , Man, to whom allusion has previously beta made► is the prime mover of the whole affair: at least* if he is not the frons Factionis, it is pretty well ascertained that his self•love received a tno 4 grateful stimulus, as he threw his important re' Bards over the dignified epistle of the Auctioneev Secretary, Should these observation• elicit—as they yen/ likely may—some explanatory remarks in certsiss leading Journals, I pledge myself to resume the matter de itove ; and I take upon me to say will not only exhibit proof of what I have nosf advanced, but in my ulterior developments I will completely unkennel the " ridicules taus." SUDDEN DEATH.—On Sunday evening, at ISO house of his uncle, Mr. Dix's, of Sun-street , Bishopsgate•street, Witt.tax SAIT, a young Kraft about 21 years .of age, was seized with a fit 's apoplexy, and immediately expired. without 1 slightest previous indisposition. His death is the more to be lamented, as from the steadiness ato ll conduct, and his exemplary behaviour in the pel' formance of his duties, few have a greater clatto, to regret, even amongst those in mar e elevirtgA situations. On Tuesday morning, Catherine M'Earlane, 011 old woman, who had been upwards of 30 years servant in the family of the Earl of Ki ono ul, Kit foUnd dead in the open air, at a slosh distance 80 01 her own house. She had left Dupplin the precedil l evening, and on her way home, it is supposed, become so benumbed with the excessive cold, 01 being unable to proceed, she had sa t dow n no° perished. A woman was alto found dead Wednesday morning, on the Perth road, about 6 mile from Cried, :supposed to have died by th e inclemency of the weather.--(Edinburgh Courant 1 'J A