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did not forbid, or at least did not prevent the int°
gence of some faint degree of hope that the life °
the venerated Monarch might for some time longer
be spared by a gracious and benignant Providence
This was the earnest supplication of a loyal all
grateful people, capable of appreciating the splentfir
qualities which adorned the character of their
Sol
reign, and incapable of forgetting the glory in vre
and the peaceful triumphs, equally valuable and soli'
if less dazzling, of which his reign has presentee
one continued succession. But the Supreme
Disposer of Events had ordained otherwise
and it is our duty to submit to his high decre.
with pious resignation, cherishing the hope
that the august successor of George IV. in reaPilli
the royal inheritance of the British Crown, will ill
heir also to the brightest and richest of those rega
qualifications which for several successive reigns hnci
shed lustre upon the diadem, and made the scent°
of our Monarch a sceptre of righteousness and al
emblem of national glory and prosperity. The his,
tory of the late reign will be distinguished by the
circumstance, that the general current of its polies
both foreign and domestic, has been eminently Silt
cessful, and that, with one or two exceptions, ever:
measure effected or attempted during its course hr
been stamped by the deliberate approbation of thi
country. The proceedings against Queen Caro
line and the Catholic Relief Bill of last year, err
the only measures, during the period of nineteen
years in which the supreme authority rested it
the hands of his lute Majesty, that excited any
vigorous or determined opposition. With respect
to the former, the good sense and manly feel
ing of the country, which for a time the arts ' /
faction were enabled to suspend, were not long
.eri
they resumed their proper and habitual domileon,
The nation did justice to the character and motive
of its injured Monarch. Of the public characters
who took the most active part on one side or the
other in the discussion, or turmoil rather, which the
subject produced, those who adhered to the Kiag
have long been the only men who can look back
to their conduct without the consciousness that i
operates even now as a deduction from their actua
respectability and popularity. .All others ar
glad to take refuge in oblivion. The measur
of last Session—the most important domes
transaction of the late reign—cannot yet be sal',
to have had such a trial as to enable any on'
fairly to pronounce an opinion founded on the bast
of experience of its effects. It is the only on"
indeed, during a long reigH, of which ' the wisdo
or the success is liable to be called in question, ant
this amounts to such eulogy as we fear few M'
narchs have deserved. Let the results of this rnee"
sure be, however, what they may be, we feel that
no deeper insult can be offered to the memory 0
our departed Sovereign than is involved in
the supposition, rashly and irreverently hazarded b)'
some of our contemporaries, that in a transaction 0
so important a nature, he, the father and guardian 0
his people, on all occasions tenderly and scruP
lously solicitous for their happiness and welfare, de"
scended to act 11 subsordinate part, or to be the mere
passive arid quiescent instrument in the hands 0i
others. When we cast our retrospective glance
upon the foreign affairs of the country, the glory 0,
the reign of George tile Fourth shines out aYitP
unequalled and unmitigated splendour. Europe'
rescued from the thraldom and degradation to
which a fierce and domineering conqueror hesl
reduced her by the unconquerable firmness and
perseverance of British Councils, adequately au r,
tained and seconded by the invincible prowess A.
British arms ;—the military character of Britain
placed upon a lofty pinnacle of fame, to which th
most aspiring of her Statesmen and the most il'
trepid of her heroes in any former age would hay{l
deemed it extravagance to aspire ;—a display t) 1
justice and moderation in the hour of victors', 11,1
which she at once consulted her own permanery
welfare and established a lasting claim to tlo
gratitude alike of her enemies end her allies;-'
these are the irreproachable trophies of the reig.
of George the Fourth. Nor shall it be said tint
the personal character of the Monarch had 31'
inconsiderable share in their acquisition. He it
was who made a noble and patriotic sacrifice o'.,
personal partialities, habits, and predilections, upo
the altar of the country, at the moment whe
sovereign power, including of course that of their
unbounded gratification, first became his. This,
sacrifice the British nation will remember witt'.
gratitude to the latest posterity. It was a sacrifice
the most painful that a generous Monarch could he
called upon to make. It was such a sacrifice to the
public welfare us no Monarch who was not also
patriot and a hero could have made. In all the ac:
complishments which benefit a gentleman, in the
polished courtesy of manner, and those engagins
qualities of disposition which constitute the charte
and value of social intercourse, in princely munii
licence, in the condescension and affability which 141,
once mitigate the display and increase the reli
authority and influence of superior rank, in liberal
patronage of the fine arts, and in the taste re'
quisite to make Royal patronage really conducive
to their advancement, the pre-eminence of his late
Majesty was universally admitted. That the 1055
of a Monarch so • conspicuously endowed wit',
all the qualities calculated to endear him to th
hearts of his subjects will be long and deePl•
deplored, it would be injurious to the 1111601
to doubt. The gratification and advantage whicb,l
the nation derived from these high endowments 0`
its Sovereign were, however, it must be admittede
impaired in some degree by the seclusion to which,
condemnedduringthe
him, latterer
in
yeawrshieohf
hhisistasrtee a:l'd disposition
reign,
led him to indulge, as well as by another unproph
dons circumstance which has attended' his entire I
reign—the absence of a female partner of his throne'l
hsei tn
ailoth
In these respects the country will derive advantage
frorn the transmission of the sceptre to his present
Majesty, King William the Fourth, which will not
be deemed inconsiderable by any one who reflects on
the beneficial effects which frequent admission t°,'
the personal presence of the Sovereign is calculated]
to produce among the higher classes of society, and
the various ways in which the influence of it Sri''
ir'
tuous, high-minded, arid popular Qum' of Englan°,l
may operate advantageously upon the manners, feel.
ings, character, and interests of the whole commir 1
city.—lllureing Post.
1

The Churches throughout the Metropolis were
yesterday hung with black clotk on account of the death °f
his late MAJESTY. The name of " our Most Gracia'
Sovereign WHAA.ot" was substituted for that of,
" GEonca," in the Church Service. The latter wane,
has been used since the accession of GEORCIE I, in 1714.

CHARLES .1.—.-The third aid fourth volume
of Ur. D'lsstmELl's Commentaries on the Life and Reign
of this monarch are at length before the public. The
portance and value of such a work must be felt by all who
take any interest in the history of their country. In the
preface to the present volumes the author observes : "
In
the whole compass of our history, no subject is snore dial"
cult to treat than the present. I have not written these
volumes as a partisan ; I leave every reader to his o%'
adopted historian. As for myself, I have adopted every
historian, otherwise I could not have become acquainted
with the secrets of all parties. I was attracted to the life
and reign of CHARLES 1., because I considered them rich
in all that interests the moral speculator, and I have ecol,*,
posed these volumes solely as the history of human nature.