The National Register.
London, England, 1809-02-12 00:00:00

FEB. 12.

earnest and 46 voluntary tender," in that trying crisis, of his
0' personal services," sufficiently evidenced the princely feel-
ings by which-he was actuated. If any corroboration were re
quired as to this trait in the disposition of his Royal Highness,
it•was to be seen when. he attended the embarkation of his regi-
ment, for Spain: in his unaffected declaration of his own wil-
lingness to have accompanied them, in the affectionate enthusiasm
with which he was then cheered by his soldiery., and in the
gallantry with which they afterwards conducted themselves.
One of the privates, in this regiment, captured Lefebvre.
While the merits of the Prince of Wales are attempted to be
ascertained, it will be expected that some allusion should he
made to what are considered as his demerits. Liberal and in-
genuous, but with resources by no means answerable to the
splendid situation he was destined to fill, is it to be wondered
at, when reviewing the career of this Prince, that we find him
early incurring pecuniary difficulties; and frankly applying, to
the proper quarter, for assistance I The income of his Royal
Highness.' was allowed, from his establishment in 1783, to be
'inadequate to the expenditure he would find himself called upon
to support ; and, though since ailed by parliament, he has
never been placed in circumstances completely eligible.
Every one regrets the differences existing between this Prince
and his 'Lova Consort. They were married, with uncommon
magnificence, at St. James's Palace, on the Bth of April 1795 ;
*which union produced, on the 7th of January 1796, the young
Princess Charlotte. Dryden, were he living, might therefore
lament, to borrow two of his complimentary lines on the co-
ronation of Charles the 2d, the apparently melancholy situation
of our Princess—

" near whose chaste womb, ordain'd by fate,
" The souls of kings unborn for bodies wait !"
Still, it is with reference to his higher station, and apart from
domestic difficulties, that the people would do well to consider
the presumptive successor to the crown of this country. He is
purely English. He is rerfectly acquainted with our political
institutions ; and has, on more than one occasion, solemnly de-
clared his unfeigned respect for the principles to which he owes
his own illustrious elevation. He has so long mixed with those
whose scepter he is expected to sway, and is so personally
known among the elevated circles of society in this kingdom,
that whenever hi.; Royal Highness, in the course of human af-
fairs, shall ascend the throne of his august ancestors, the nobi-
lity of ,this country will surround him as one family ; while the
commonest of the people must feel, from the experience he has
auquired in their transactions and concernments, that in this
Prince, however removed from them by necessary distinctions,
they will have every thing to hope from the proper combina-
tion of humanity with royalty. Disadvantages sometimes pro-
duce advantages. If this Prince knows the people, he owes
this knowledge, which is to him of inestimable value, to the
political inactivity to which he has been so long restricted. .
Without paoegyrising the Prince of WALES, his magnani-
mous indifference to his enemies deserves to be distinguished.
Often as he is assailed and threatened and libelled, never does he
condescend, by penally visiting; his adversaries, to lower him-
self to their level, and give effect to the effusions of ignorance
or malevolence. He justly disdains tk petty warfare of news-
writers and pamphleteers. Ile properly appreciates himself ;
'knowing tkat, when circumstances shall open to him the fair
career of glory, it will be for his evertions to confound his
calumniators.
His Royal Highness has freqn,..ntly received the homage of
talents ; and, in return, he has sheen himself entitled to such
distinction, by his munificent patronage of the Literary

Fund :
See! first and greatest, in our records ,hive,
The princely heir of BRUNSWICK'S (Oval tine
Awl grateful science hails, with proud acclaim,
The patrJn..uf her sons in Uco RG MUIR!.
Pyc's Lines) April IS, 1807.