The National Register.
London, England, 1818-11-23 00:00:00

'l•he habits of her Majesty were viegular, methodical,
and economical ; but it was an economy which enabled
1.:•r inure liberelly to dispense her bounty todeserving,
ol!iects. It is an pteloubted fact, that her Malone
distributed large sums of money in the exercise .4' pri-
vate cherity ; but her charity was really private, not
ostentatiously perfonned, that the world might applaud
the giver. It was an express injunction, which nccom.
pinned every act of benevolence on her part, that it
should be kept secret. 'l'o each nurse of her children
she gave a pension of a year. us well as to several
of their suns Aniont,,, the many instances of her c!iuri y,
we may select the flillowing :—Her Nlajesty took charge
of, and educated, the orphan child of an officer who
wed in the West Indies. The child was brought to
England by a Serjeant of the Regiment. The Qacea's
notice was attracted by au advertisement in the pubiie
pipers, from the Sc.rjeant. Her Majesty not only eau-
cazed this but caused him to be amply provided
for. It a fact, equally known, that the Queen took
ender her protection the widow of an officer killed at
Hill, and educated the son. These two facts
ar;.: mentioned, not as solitary instances of' her Majesty's
I.:.mane, charitable, and honouruble feelings and dispo-
tition, le:t shety the nature of the application of the
large sums of money supposed to have been in her pos-
session. Mauy a retired and solitary sufferer has been
cheered by her royal benificence without knowing the
hand Mint which the succour proceeded.
But the crown and consummation of all her other
excellencies was, that entire unity of affection which.
fier above half a century, knit together her heart and
that of our beloved Monarch ; nor emi we even reflect
but with a feeling of national gratitude on the constant
personal attention to the good old King, which Ilex
Majesty continued, in so exemplary a manner, to pay,
fir years after he had become unconscious of her kind-
ness.

According to another account, the circumstance wjti :h
first excited a prediketion f,r her, on the part of his
Majesty, was the pathetic and spirited appeal, which
site made to Frederick the Great, in 1757, who had
soused his troops to levy contributions in the Duchy of
Mecklenburgh. The fidlowing is a copy of the letter
which she addressed to the Invader
MAY IT PLEASE Y 0111( MAJESTY.

'• I am at n boss whether I should congratulate, or condole, with
you on your !ate victory ; since the same success which has covered
you with hoods. has overspread the country of Mecklenburg!) with
desolation. I '<n n:. Sire, th:a it stouts unbecoming my sex. in this
age of vicious refinement, to feel for one's country, to lament the
horrors of war, or wish for the return of peace. I know you may
think it more properly any province to study the arts of pleasing, or
to inspect subjects of a mare domestic nature; but, however unbe-
coming it tray be hi ne:, I cannot resist the desire of interceeding tor
this unitapppy people.
'• It ems but a very few years ago, that this territory wore the most
pleasing appearance. The country was eultirated. the peasant looked
cheerful, and the towns abounded with riches and festivity ! What
an alwation at present from such a charming scene ! 1 ant not
expert at description—nor can my fancy add any horrors to the
picture; • but ware even Conquerors themselves would weep at the
hideous prospects now before me. The whole country, my dear
country, lie one frightful waste, presenting only objects to excite
terror, pity, and despair ! The business of the husbandman and the
shepherd arc quite discontinued ; the husbandman and the shep.
herd are become soldiers themselves, and help to ravage the soil they
northerly cultivated. The towns are inhabited only by old men, wo-
men aed children ; perhaps here and there a warrior, by wounds, or
/latho rendered unfit Mr service, left at his door; his little
children hang round him, ask an history of every wound, and grow
themselves soldiers before they Mod strength for the field. But this
was nothing, did we not feel the al:Yr:tale ins'frse of either army,
as it happens to advance or retreat, in pursuing the operations of the
campaign : It is impossible to express the confusions, even those,
who rail thennelvcs our frierfils, create. Even those front whom
we expert redress, oppress us with new calamities. Front your
justice, therethre, it is that we hope relief; to you, even eivibiren and
sea„ ten may complain, whose humanity stoops to the meanest petition,
and whose power is capable of redressing the greatest injustice. I
am, Sire," &c.

The will of the late Col. John Drools. of Cowes Castle, in the
Lie of Wight, lately proved in Doctors' Commons, gives the fami-
ne, charitable I.:gacics
To the Secrei.iry at War and Paymaster• General 10.no01. 3 pet
Bent. Reduced Hank Annuities, in trust, to apply the dividends for
tle benefit of the widows of Officers in the army who shall be
killed, or die in the rvice, and whose income, exclusive of their
pensions, shall not amount to 301. per annum, viz.:—'To the Widows
of five Captains, Isl. per annum ; to the widows of five Lieutenants,
Sol. per alumni ; and to the widows of five ens gns. 131. per annum
each, subject to his Ma•sev's approbation ; to Chelsea, Green-
w:e.h. Brides/ell, and itetlileni Hospitals, 1.0001. each. To th,
Niddleiex. British Lying-in, the Coundling. Christ's, the City
of London Lying in. Guys, the Small-pox, St. Luke's. the Mag-
dalen, St. Thomas's, St. Bartholomew s and London 110,pitals
the St. George's Asylum for Female Orphans. the Westminster
Infirmary. the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, the
Philanthropic and Royal Humane . Societies. the Westminster
General Diepensary. the Society for the Relief of the Widows
and Children of Poor Clergymen. the Society for the Belief of l'cr-
atm impriso:: 't for Small D.7'ots, the Lying-in Charity for Mar-
ried Women, and the Charity School of St. Marylebhne, soot,
vett. To the Marine Society and the Institntion for the Sons of the
Clergy,t .0001 each. To tile Asylums for the Blind and for the Deaf
and numb, MI. earth. To the Hospital at Winchester. the Veluale
Charity Scipio!. Hamp,teed-road, and the Burlington School for
telltales, 15111 evil. To the ('aledonian Society, as stain as it shall
be established. 5 ,11. And the residue of the testator's property,
width is very considerable, is given equally between the Ilakai
Military Hospital at Chelsea. and the Royal Military Hospital at
Greenwich. A codicil to the will directs that Mose officers' widow,,
wax shall be killed on ionic:, and.have most children. arc to be
Pretested in the disposal .11 the first legacy. The surviving execu-
te $ are Alexender atm-, Esq. ; Ge:trgs Ridge the elder, Esq. ;
George Cooper Ridge the younger. Esq. ; and the postural pro-
perty within the pravinei of C.-stirrer:try is sworn under 60,0001.
Giton-r tt or rr.% Fa 3fonit.-fsr has the fol-
loTing :—'"f his preciou. Anil). first' introduced into France by a
Russian in Into. promises to • become netittaliied amongst no.
There are already 390 storks. winch it iii easy to multiply. This
tca has received the :.pprobarion of the King's physicians, and the
ratusaiists of France. 'I lie plants are to be sold by subwrip-
WA."