The Express.
London, England, 1857-05-09 00:00:00

PRINCE ALBERT OY THE GEORGE S'.

(From the Ladder.)

Prince Albert said at Manchester, "In the
Duchies of Gloucester we have lost the last of the claims
of that good king who occupied the throne during minty
yews, sad carried this couatry fearlearly through the meet
momestous struggles of its history."

We wish it we; possible to piece in contrast four lectures
on the Georges by Prince Albert with the famous four by
Mr. Thackeray. We pewees, however, the opinions of the
greet satirist, and we have now a eine to the opinion,
of the seeemplished Prince. Mr. Thackeray appeals
to the pity of history in babel( at the pose
Meese king, the victim of &Liston end dis-
ease ; he is solemnly end peofoundly palisade
when he ike oa to approach with reveries the aMiction of
s maid, forlorn old man; but Mr. Theekerefe Lear is
Prince Albert's Cromwell. For, standing on the Man-
chester dais, with a cenopy above him very lake a crown, the
corset felt all but regal, and in the name el the Queen
decreed:

Art. I. That George 111. was a good king.
Art. 11. That for misty pars he was The State.
Art 111. That he Inanely earned England through the
most neoessatom stroggias of bar history.

Ike peetraile of thereit men who lived when Clomp
111. wee king, might limo been observed to frown when
Priam Albert, In their perecii, thus drilled the memory of
the Arleen' prior end ebempeon of his people. But the

3lssadvarar Latham purist the Priam al took so heed of
the ststasmen, Its admits* sad the gamuts looted to bis
brief oration.

If Nara iteeld tit 47.
afrolgen the Ho!

A In persons then sight have been, bowery; who,
having nod lard Bronginois Lim, Mr. Thackeray's Lor-
ton% and tha socesaary chapters of Universal History,

went irtartleed to bur thatbeorge 111. bad carried the country
through lug sad glorious struggles. They fancied that,
within a taw measeate, Prince Albert had pawn in voice
and cuatestene• very like a German pedestals of the never
Meath funerary ; his words were so purely mourchloal ; he
attributed all rigour and victory to the throne ; he uttered not
the name of George, bat spoke of him with monumental peri-
phrasis no "that good king." Well might thoughtful
sue, with clear memories, dare at the prince while be gave
this public contradict.= to Mr. Thackerny. Ile who has so
often distinguished himself by the enlightened philanthropy
and scholarly culture displayed in his speeches, who has re-
nounced so often the panegyric of science, of art, of litera-
ture, was holding up his head under that little firmament of
violet and gold, denying history, telling Englishmen that
their recollections deceived them, affecting to believe that
George 111., who was mad half hie life, and mischievous all
the rest, performed those vest achievements which almost
redeemed a policy Meet with diameter and disgrace. Pity
that Mr. Thaektray was not there, repenting of Die Edin-
burgh apology, and resolving, for the future, never to coin-

ealsesnite thiiinibeseility of Prince Albert's model monarch,
to whom England owes that the combined power*, during a
series of wars, did not commune her utterly. The great
Bourbon war and the American war were carried out by
George Ran, so/us; Pitt, Nelson, Wellington, were the
puppets of the kingly Esergumenco.
Prince Albert, speaking of the kindly and charitable
Duchess of Gloucester, in whom beneficence was a virtue
unalloyed by orientation, was, perhaps, bound by courtly
duty to flatter hie father's name. Well, he need not have
beam perplexed how to Impute a good quality to the third
George. There was something personally likelde in the