The Express.
London, England, 1850-10-10 00:00:00

THE ELECTORS OF HESSE.

It is the mleforturte of the people of H.see•Cemsel
that for • perry they have been planed by their primers ha
• pridoerwhinoe they Auld contemplate only the dark side
' of monaroly ; for there is no Moe, entravagsre, m violear
which has not been exhibited in the life of oor Electors of
Hero. It was the gresogrunifether of the present prince,
the Landgrays Frederick 11., who reigned tram 1780 to
1786, that founded the policy, sines burns traditional, in
the reigning hour of Hero, of draining off the wealth of
We land into the priori; treasury, and securely bestowing
his aornanlatei wealt kin foreign sides. Each a coarse could
not well too pursued in • c;,nstitutional state, hero the
boundless hatred of the electors lot constitutions, and all the
onstoms of gininmont which grow out of them. Frederick
turned on • norm raustro• in his subjects. He raised
• strong body of troops by violent and arbitrary conscription
in order to sell his soldiers to Aar under the liorifsh d dug in
North America, and by this means realised immense sums.
The convention, when it tame to light, retried a male of
prior: far • killed Hessian ha was to receive twice as much
r Ibt one that wu only wouaded. And although the Hei-
den troops wens called in America, " blind Hessians," on
noconst of their rarklios valour, still the list of
killed was not leaf wittily
g smooch to ttily the father of his
people. Thera exists a Uttar written by this Prior
to his commander. In which the latter is bitterly reproached
for not oftener exposing his men to danger, and admonished
to falfil his duty better, that thus a higher sum may sour
to the sovereign is payment be the lest. It was to he con-
duct of this immortal ruler that Chatham referred, when hot
rid, "I must otiodur in the strongsrlangosgs the system
of carrying on the war with troops bought from some petty
German prime. Were lan Amorimm, ulam an English-
men, I would newt lay down my some so long as • foreign
soldier stood upon the territories of my country—never, never,
no never !" The surserot of this Lindurar• was the first
Elector, a wittily son of his father. This sues the prints who*
muss is iiieekred with the rise of the house of Rothschild,
who put lo story the riches which had grown out of the
blood Of his Mbjects, and laid the foundation of the most
capitalism of Surer. Most of our readers will renumber
the errs whir WI. %Mka his anterior, Frederick Wit.
Ham lt,in Its per 1631,t0 the establishment of a new crud-
' ration, thiough • compact between the states and the govern-
ment. The estm sad sago condom of the estates at that
period is apt less notations. After the settlement of that
etmetinatiod, the print elector, Frederick William
then wont prism, rum to the grunion t, and his father.
whose -*hurler prodigesey and edultery had led in
' the Art insuree to the re-modelling of the star
lestuttlons, found it convenient to retire' to Frank-
feet. likes Philip gm Magrointona, who had two
, whisk* met, Out tendency to polygamy has been beredi-
, try in hour of .Hoses, sod a groat proportion of the
' Hondas nobility owe their attain to the oriental morals of
the ruler of the, ird. Ws will only name here the Hay-
' sur in& On Count of Huienstrin, the fruit of a connexion
r d dm nbovomeritmod Frederick William I. wilt various

Haab& labia. Bow famushielbsea albaserwers to tii
grow* er a native Was, may appear hoc me exam*.
The Ottoteas el liseammin, Fr.deriek William's Let lob
Item had three and twenty children. In the history
of dig liemerellthio of this princely house the rood
amadalows, and Me met serious in their direct can-
emboss@ were the .seletisas of Frederick William I. he a
old named Order', the &amber of • Berlin mechanic,
shawarde the battle Counties Itsichenbach Lessorots.
The wvara, whose brothers end sisters were ennobled by
the Lester, llhetally reigeed for • long psrl,d in Heise with
onlimitsd power, sad her desolate behaviour gave undo*
to the *me sum damemtratioo in 1891. The Cosa-
temitsiehmtesh - bunlince dto demand and the
sq.V
be
lab to ehtela balt with the legitimate consort of the
Mentor, a sable plasm of the house of Prussia, whose
mire Is still renumbered with love end reverence by
both old and poem How deeply the mistress of
' tits prince has segraved her mese into the history of the
omatry sae seam* pay Mew. One day this weemariesived
ea mom tame latter el • menacien Mareeter, she was wear
ported with my, and betesakr diumaded the discovery
bid pahhusst fa die abhor. The moat valeta messares
were instant MOM to the whole land, and a umbel=
=idly, mad whis judicial powers, MU belated,
years • terrible se .cs, hat
-width, afa and maisdament a em of
,fill lamaswithout brim harmed the
eater of
tilt_ ,roomy_eda each Miasma grow by
the son Of ' . Freesias prises.., she beam limit,,
*OW tors his Melees . ham his whams=
'Pr al ist sok bliblel . pie*. „him
!triads Ins Ime mmilste,
_aabosated senteiSlobsr hie
facadysaturis, •sod slims found his grommet fa
destroy Meurer, at others. His ;trek ir WC
Vritscarg% be a • Stets
entimet the bear of be
co' =!-(razt: gir—tf."liatirat ra...tr,
. last math to bur the daily Warm*: melts of the
Oirtiftwe Iddhßhetite loft the Cieiteily wits her see, sad
heir 'her etee at Sem. It we hare that the
=bee trued the seemieratue with the Mon
lit her beamed to follow • Pros.
hit allair, who as this occesios agreed for a need
moo to realm her to the prime. This laelv has deem
Daum nisei to the dignity of Countess Bohaturborg,
and it the moseist weal of Ids ilignmes. Beam whom
bettor to he : this prisms is the fhb a kb home wise bob
esesidared it memo to procure the masaba efamiebra
for the Atitilloatioa a hie inclioatieen. liblist/L
the Coastal is magmatic, and its fertility. issther
- ''-- ambers of Haase le- '"v.—Chissii-