The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-22 00:00:00

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There is an old quotation ; it speaks of " the 4, o 0 Ultis Ai1...5.,:g were to be at war with Prussia, Hanover it,)g..
_ be compelled to join Prussia, and while the K'
con-,s of Hanover's army was fighting the army of ti e s;
tortions of the Sybil without her inspiration." Ourning of these realms, the King of Hanover's proxy T'
prophetic Contemporary, the elderly lady writing iiimight be abetting an anti-national faction in theN
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the hack parlour of Printing-house-square, might sit9House of Peers. In fact, during the wars arising out=?
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for the picture. She has got into what may be calleilof the French Revolution, the King of England, as::)
tin homely language—a mess. She has attempted to Elector of Hanover, was compelled to make peace's:4
swagger and to bully, and, like most folks who swag- with France when England was at war with that 4
Iger and bully, she has been beaten by her foes, and
State ; and there can be no doubt that if there had '.,4A
spat upon by her friends and acquaintance. Poor bel
-Nbeen a separate King of Hanover he would have been
dame, to be cut by the morning Post!—to have the compelled, for the sake of preserving his dominions,
jbutlers and ladies maids' correspondent turn up the to have joined France in hostilities against England!'
;nose at her, and say, ," Fie I you vulgar, blackteovhen Prussia took possession of the Electorate anto
tguardly old thing, we will have nothing to do with', annexed it to her dominions. The French wouldl
!You !" Was ever plight so pitiable ? Neither can,:
V,. not allow George 111. to make war as King of En;-
'pious he bear her sorrows with a good grace • she is fu•• land and to remain Elector of Hano-te,
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at her fury having boded over and scalded `Pe3ver. The .Elector of Hanover was sacrificede
one—at her having had the dirty kettle she had picked to the King of England ; the Hanoverians suf-g;
up amidst her ordinary gropings in filthy places tied to Vered on account of their Sovereign's duty to Eng-P!
her own nasty tail; and there are all the little boys of rland ; and the Elector of Hanover owed to the'
the Carlton Club hooting at her ! What a sordid..being tiaccident of the English successful ther-41
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stinking, venal, virulent, creature it is—denied by tneorestoration of the Electorate at the close of they. 4
'very devil it serves, too ; and then the Mrs. Malapropwar. The time is not very - remote when a greao,
airs the hag gives herself. " Any body in decent statesman suffered much in his popularity for de-P
society must know." "In decent society," forsooth ! . daring in Parliament that " Hanover ought to be asV
That is excellent ! What society does the 01(14 dear to us as Hampshire." He meant, no douht,
reprobate move in ? The Tories pretend to say, ', that Hanover having been invaded on account of thel%
“ Get out with you ! we will have nothing to say to connection of its Sovereign with England this country::
such a piece of inky blackguardism as you are." Mr. ~was bound in honour to vindicate the separate cause
Praed's whiskers curl with ire, and Mr. Borthwick wouldof the King. The expression, however, was unfortu-
not for worlds hold out even one of yesterday's white nate, for the people of England were reminded of the
`kid gloves ; the grave and grand Mr. Twiss says it's e sacrifices which the nation had made for the sake of
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" too bad ;"and the exquisite sense of Lord London-gti Hanover during the greater part of the last century.
derry, though he does not quite like those particular"' When the nation was threatened with a Pretender it
riwords, brings him to the same conclusion. But markwas - :
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the dignified tone,of this wretched vender of renegade acessors retaining the sovereignty of a state totally un
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rubbish ! " Thkhirelings of other papers are paid to connected with the British empire ;. but the ,
abuse her." And what is she ? The monsterlnotin-rtl, character of the King was felt injuriously by the s,
tebank of hirelings. What is she—what are her puff-IL:nation, which was dragged into more than oile„
. ers—what are her proprietors—what are her wholerAexpensive war for quarrels purely Hanoverian. pi
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horde of paltry scribblers of universal abuse—what are -It has been laid down, we know, that a subject
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they all but hirelings ? And hirelings in the most de- cannot shake himself free of his allegiance to theel
graded condition, since they who pay for the workei state in which he was born; mid on this principleN
!actually deem it too disgraceful to be acknowledged, ti British Government has, claimed a right to
Here, indeed, she may have some cause to complain. impress and punish natives of these kingdoms who
To be denied by the Tories after all she has done for-.'have become naturalized Americans. But the Ame- ;.,,
them, or would have done for them—to be told she --ricans have never acknowledged this indissoluble allc-
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none of their child, when there is not a party giance ; and at all events it will hardly be maintained .11 Itt
from Mr. Trevor's to Colonel Thompson's, that would that if the King of Hanover should be taken in armso
adopt her—to be thus cast off in her old age by I: fighting against England, he could be punished as tks
her new masters. What a lesson to political profli- .',`traitor to the British Sovereign. But be this as it ..
gacy or its rewards ! But the fact is, she is contemned ~ may, if the King of Hanover remain a British Peer it
by the Morning Post, and not for the first time ; butseis clear that he cannot act as a King of Hanover and
she is not contemned, vile and wicked as her conduct . - British Peer at the same time. The Duke of Rich-
has been, by the great bulk of the Tories. They rub :, mond, and one or two other Peers of this country, are
their hands and think the policy pursued a good one. also Peers of France ; but they do not consider them-
What is to be done by abuse, they say, that shall be iselves as entitled, in that capacity, to take part in the -.q
done by the Times (all dirty work is done by the Times ;;domestic affairs of France. Will the King of Ha-
indeed), but in case abuse does not succeed, then the nover, in order to qualify himself to vote by proxy as -,
Morning Post comes forward with a dignified eurtsey,l, 1. British Peer, repair to this country every new Par-
and begs leave to say that that 'ere lady who was so liament, and take the oaths necessary on such occa-
werry indecorous is no relation of hers—quite a dill,- 6 sions ? Were he to forget so far the rules of pro- ;
rent family—though they do both write and spell theire priety it would be necessary to take precautions against .
name T-o-r-y ; and this is expected to take with intel- s,the possibility of a King of Hanover taking part hee.
ligent people. Why, this renunciation of the Times . the proceedings of the Privy Council and of the
merely proves the failure of the Times. Is there any "k House of Peers.—Morning Chronicle.
man who does not know the influencial persons wh0,,,,
Few Sovereigns ever descended to the tomb amidst .i.
have access to that organ of abuse—who use it when- feelings ifeelings of more general sorrow than William the •
ever and however it suits their purpose ? Is not the ,i,
`fourth, and we think none ever ascended the British e
editor seen in their houses ? Is he not on terms 0f911,1
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intimacy with themselves ? Does not the great ,
Throne amidst such heartfelt exultation, love, and
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'lope, as his successor—our most gracious Queen Vic-
Proprietor sit in Parliament by them—vote with
.'t'oria. The former was endeared to the people over
them ? And is he not, for his seat, under obli-
whom he was called to preside by his personal qua -:
gations to them ? And is it for one moment to be
'' lities—his frankness—his kind-heartedness—his un• e
supposed that so grave and serious an attack
affected manners, and his undeviating integrity of '
that which has filled the country with disgust was not
intention—even more than by his actions as a King. '
concocted, concerted, premeditated, perhaps written by
The latter, educated in retired simplicity, aloof from:: ''
the pen or under the eye of one of those many :nighty ..!thet.intriues of Court—imbued with genuine British -
orators and multifarious Statesmen who crowd the Op-
feelings and sympathies— 'called to the throne at a
iposition ranks ? Pho I The device is seen through
time of considerable difficulty; but of far more consi- A
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,clearly enough ; and its folly and its failure is seen as
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c expectation—her sex—her youth—her charge-
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clearly also. As to the ingenious art of blackening --,ter, so far as it is yet developed or known—all com- -;',
the memory of our lately-departed Monarch for the is
to the devotion,the
• bine excite - -
sake of perverting the mind of his successor, that is
loyalty of every right-minded Briton. Auspicious is s'-
of a piece with the rest. William the Reformer was
not a Reformer, forsooth ! lie was a poor weak and ,
bullied old man, driven and dragged along in a way ',,, . •
''tli-e accession of our beloved Queen, and though ar-
(mous may be the duties of her exalted station, in con- :,
sulting the wishes of an enlightened people, her Ma-
he never wished to tread. The acclamations which •
lesty will ever find an infallible index to the line ~
hailed him when living were unmerited—the tears which.
and this '...0f conduct which will render the discharge of those
. honoured his death were erroneously shed ; duties a task of comparative facility. Bas;—ineffabh
is the way that the great Toiy organ of opinion speaks
base—must be the wretch, or the band of wretches:
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of the defunct King, whose ear but such a few
who would endeavour to aggravate the embarrassments '
weeks since it would have poisoned and cajoled. ~ . ..,t,
,:.,ot a position so peculiar as that of her Majesty, or
Well, but we have a refutation of this calumny—a re-
li k by associating their Queen in their factions de-:t
futation in King William's own conduct when he wass.-sise ' hazard
;islet:, to the monarchy in sustaining a faction t",
not King William—when he had no Ministers to chive,
to drag the throne itself into the vortex
and to drag him ; no people to pelt or applaud him•—"koP'this failing,
wherein they are themselves hopelessly struggling, a: s
when he was his own free agent and a Peer of England'
ifto grace their fall, and make their ruin glorious."
The Catholics of Ireland have not yet forgotten that, "
co the disgrace of England and of man, there are such
occasion. They remembered it when he was on hi.;„s-v
throne ; they remembei it still, now that he is going to g,i . . . .
heartless wretches in the land—reptiles who wouli,'.ii
d scla,rge their poison in the most exalted places, and 1
his tomb. They remember that as a subject he was
tend,_al- our to dissever with their envenomed fangs tie
ithe friend of religious liberty before he became as aqa
o,nost hallowed connections—those existing between a
0n the
!Sovereia patron of State Reform. No ; the at-
aQueen and her parent, and between a Queen and hem
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tempts to blacken our late Sovereigns memory—top.
people. These infamous objects have been almost
darken our present Sovereign's future course—are more
avowed, in a series of articles which have lately tip
contemptible even than they are odious ; and pro-
neared in a leading Conservative journal—we shall not
ceedh a from the quarter whence they come, there is n 9
employ any expletive, which, however strong, wouli
sentiment that can harmonize with disgust which they merely lessen the effect of the abominable associations
do not excite in us—except one—viz., surprize.—
attached to the name—the Times. This immaculate
Morning Chronicle• print appears to be, not only doing, but over-doing, tin
The Standard questions the position that " his ,: work allotted to it,if we mayjudge from the observations,
Majesty the King of Hanover ceases to be a British of the Standard and Post, who not only disclaim an). Al
Peer upon his accession to the Royal throne of his .. participation in the calumnious and atrocious corn-
brother," and cites as a precedent the case of the first -konentaries of the Times, but the latter denounces themg
monarch of the House of Hanover, at the beginning as a " disgrace" and " pollution," " disgusting to all f
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of the last century. " George the First," we are t01d,.., honourable men." The systematic plan by which the.:
" when adopted by the Act of Succession into pre- :mode of attack was prosecuted by the Times was
cisely time same condition in which his successor, the ;worthy of a less villainous object. First, the Duchess
King of Hanover, stands, was created a British Peer ;es of Kent is assailed for want of due respect to the
for that very reason he was created Duke of Cambridge;lt relatives of the late King ; and some time since, a cir-
eight years before the death of Queen Anne, and was
cumstance of comparative insignificance, a ball at
about to take his scat in Parliament, by the advice of "::.
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the subject
Lord Somers (tolerably good legal authority), when Kensington was made
design was interrupted by the Queen's demise." The -k4=.
eland virulent vituperation. Public indignation scared
the libeller from his task, and lie made a diversion by
'theStandard then goes on to, observe— ~,
: exciting, as he said himself he would, " twenty mil-
.' We have called this a ease in point, but it is really
"lions of echoes" to the alarm that the country had
0 case a fortiori. The King of Hanover is an Englishman ,
"no Government ;" and certainly twenty millions of
he has fought and bled in the battles of this country ; and 4.,
as a Peer of Parliament, has long acted ,a noble and dis- :.ecilioe.s responded, but it was in derision of the
anguished part in its political struggles. His Majesty'tee' 1
a armist "-No Government !" An opportunity re-
language, habits, and affections are all English ; and he is , curs, and lie returns to his task, again calum-
the son of the best monarch that ever occupied the Eng- niates the mother of our Queen--threatens that the
ilish throne. On the other hand, George I. was not an '' country will be in a " pretty mess "—labours with
lEnglishman, or the son of an Englishman. He did not;
even speak our language r to his dying day be never ac- Ig Rendish ingenuity to excite 'distrust and unkind feeling
between the Queen and her parent, urging the former
quired our manners, or formed any attachment to the coun-
"to cut her leading-strings," and invoking every
try. Yat the atur age of fory-seven, he, n inde4 .
pendentet sovereign,m was consideredt entitled to aa Britis ,power of evil to create confusion in the State, with -a
peerage, because of 'his being adopted' into that position of 1-
view no doubt of finding a harvest in the general iglu
'heir-presumptive, in which the King of Hanover is placed mitt'. And yet this audacious incendiary presumes to
by natural right." parade his loyalty—" Heaven save the mark !"—and
With all submission to our Contemporary, the cases after conjuring up dangers which exist only in his
are not in point. Whatever part the Kin.- of Hano- own depraved and diabolical imagination, vauntingly