The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-09 00:00:00

The London Gazet'e Extraordinary, just published
is as follows :

Whitehall, July 9.

Lest night, at twenty minutes before ten o'clock, his Royal
highness Adolphus Frederick Duke of Cambridge, uncle to
her Most Gracious Majesty, deputed this lire, at Cambridge-
house, to the great grief of her Majesty and of all the royal
family.

The illustrious duke, whose death we have to day to
record, was the tenth child, and youngest 800, of
King George the Third and Queen Charlotte, and was
born on the 24th of February, 1774. He was brought
up with the care which marked the early instruc-
' tan of all the family. Having received the rudiments
of his education from tutors appointed by his royal
father, he accompanied his elder brothers, the Dukes
of Cumberland and Sussex, to the University of Got-
tingen, where be was entered a student on the 6th
of July, 1786, being at that time only in
his 13th year. The prince was accompanied to
Gottingen by a governor, a preceptor, and a gentle-
man, he was lodged in a house with his brothers,
and on their admission two grand institution dime=
were given, to which the professors and some of the
students were invited. Professor Mayer was the
duke's instructor in German, Mr. Heyne his
Latin muter, the celebrated ecclesiastic Lens
his instructor in religion. Having completed
his education his royal highness was ap-
pointed to a position in the army, and in 1793
he was sent to serve with his brother the Duke of
York in the expedition against Dunkirk. Prince
Adolphus Frederick was at this time only 19, but
even at this early age he experienced some of the
vicissitudes of war, for in a retreat before:a supe-
rior French force at the close of the siege, the royal
brothers were both for a short time in the possession of
the enemy. A reinforcement under Gen. Walmoden
coming up at the critical moment, defeated the French
with much slaughter, and relieved the royal princes
from their perilous predicament.
In 1807, the prince having sheathed hie sword, was
called to his royal father's course's by the titles of
Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Tipperary, and Baron of
Culloden. lu 1802 he was made a privy councillor.
His royal highness was not destined, how-
ever, lung to enjoy the tranquillity of peace.
In the following year the course of war was directed
against the Hanoverian territories of the king of
England. No steps had been taken by the English
government to secure this German territory. At the
East moment, however, the Duke of Cambridge was
sent over as commander-in-chief of the Hanoverian
army, and proclamations were published in his name,
calling on all the inhabitants capable of
bearing arms to defend their country to the
last drop of their blood. It was not to be
expected that such a proclamation, issued at such a
time, could produce any very good effect ; to suppose
the citizens and peasants were to form effective armies
at the moment the enemy was entering the country,
was altogether as absurd as it was unreasonable. The
Duke of Cambridge pledged himself to share
all the dangers of the people, but his display of
gallantry was too late. On the sth of June, Marshal
Mortier was in possession of Hanover, and had taken
up his residence in the palace which the King of Eng-
land his
it is furnishedsaid,of 60,
and embellished for his son at an
expense,
In December 1805, the French having in their turn
Ilbeen obliged to evacuate Hanover, the Duke of Cam-
inidge. was again sent over " entrusted with
the dilution of the military affairs of