The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-04-22 00:00:00

Corresponbcnct.

THE LATE PRHICE ALBrrid.

To the Editor of Mt Doreet Clittnty iexpresi #lO
A gricultsted Pelee
Sia,—An impression appears to patilli,efalli
certain of the inhabitants ut Dorchester Mgt
unpleasant treatment which the Town Conseil Mb*,
eeived from the Duchy of Cornwall, during the gee-
gress of the waterworks, came under the
of the late Prince Albert, and is therefore • to
be charged upon his memory. Allow ins to a
very few remarks on this subject,
I will assume that the stibetenee of the titellp
itself is true. The Priam had few imperiore.
laborious and conscientious discharge of bistueljj
and it is more than probable that be read dliael
letters which passed between the domed of thd
Duchy and the Local Bowd of Health. nirti
that I wish to deal with relates to the "jilt •
which we are entitled to draw from this caffein+
stance. Are we to regard him who ie gams as
niggard and a narrow, unprinoely dealer, or not?
Now, Sir, let it first be remembered that the
property which the late Prinee was adesinietering an
President of the Duchy Council,,Win the peoperty Of
his son, not of himself and that no client of *4.
gardly dealing in the administration of thole MEW.
would have tended in the smallest ugh% to iggrella
dize his own fortune. It is, fUrthertpoiulbe—l4 II
even probable—that the German *die-aloft
Prince had led him to attach a higher value Al
portance to money dealings in general than lit aell
accustomed, whether rightly or wrongly, to
for in a Prince of the blood. But, surely, mese will
pretend that, though it may be poetically plowing,.
it is, therefore, desirable politically that the heml
the Sovereign's family should be a free-and
loose-handed manager of htudneni cohmoitted
4=4 BS...bv.'ltA • aims
only, We
of money7in—w—reg,....---ppos really is
existence—as a gain rather than • le* to Ile
nation.

ORB 4

But if we take up the case of the Duchy of Coed 2
wall in its particular bearings; if w• remember ilsaft
lu re was an appanage of the heir apparent, which
might prove, under proper and strict masagemeat;,
not only sufficient to support his pummel, espemili-•
tura after his coming of age, but so liberally ansphad•
as to deter him from any thought of haling bear'
upon the appeals to Parliament, which have 110 elm
sullied the careers of former heirs to the throne—.
and if we reflect how important the achievettleat of
such a result must be to the nation, on the side
of politiai and morals—then, Sir, we shObl6l 1711
imagine, be more ready than ever to think title'
before branding the memory of a p.m man with th•
stain of narrowness and vitt,' tion.

I wi ite with only a partial knowledge of tbatibied
facts in Cis case. Bat lam not unaware of OS
extent of ground involved in the transaction, nor dt
the sum actually demanded and paid—in fact, of the
general features of the case of our borough. All WA
I submit, however, iv this ; that without a very
exact knowledge of the case on behalf of the Dusky
Council, and more particularly of the Prince's par-
venal share in this negotiation, we should be slow in
making a charge, which ought, if made at all, to rail
upon the soundest evidence, and to be covrobernbett
by a life the very opposite, in its acts and its tenor,
to the life of the late Prince Consort.