The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-20 00:00:00

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WILLIAM THE FOUR` II

(Abridged from the Morning Post.)
It is our melancholy and painful duty to announce tb
event of the death of his Majesty King William tb
• Fourth, an event for which the subjects of the l3ritisi
Crown have for some days been in a great degree preparers
It is consolatory to reflect that the successor to the Britis
Throne is a Princess whose education, under the vigilar.
guardianship of a high-principled and devoted mother, an,
whose natural disposition, afford the best guarantee tha
the Government of this great country will be carried o.
with an incessant and anxious regard to the general hap.
piness and prosperity. The following are the notification
received from Windsor at different hours during the night—
(RECEIVED BY EXPRESS.)
WINDSOR, Tuesday Morning, Half-
past Two o'clock.
The melancholy forebodings of yesterday have beet
realised. King William the Fourth has ceased to
exist. His Majesty- breathed his last within a few
minutes of two o'clock. The Queen sustained the last
shock with greater fortitude and composure than could have,
been expected. Her resignation is that of a Christian woman
who has the consolation to reflect that her duty to the de-
ceased has been fully discharged. His Majesty's suffer-
ings at the last were not severe. The Queen has been in
the sick chamber during the whole night, and up to the
moment of his Majesty's decease. Her fatigue has been
excessive, as for several days past the King has been un-
willing to take medicine or nourishment except from her
hand, or that of Dr. Davies. Her strength has been won-
derfully sustained. But it is generally apprehended here
that novr, the trial being over, her Majesty's health' will be
found to have suffered from the long continuance of mental
anxiety and bodily fatigue which she has undergone. A
Governmket messenger is just about to set off, to convey
the melanholy tidings to the members of the Royal Family
who are in town, and to Lord Melbourne.
WINDSOR, Monday Evening, Eight o'clock.
This has been one of the most anxious and truly melan-;
eholy days I ever witnessed al' Court. In the early kartefi

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:he day it was understood that his Majesty was decidedly
worse, and, that no further hopes could possibly be enter-'
tained of his recovery ; and since that time his demise
has been hourly expected. The King summoned,
all his family into his presence in the morning,i
and took an affectionate farewell of them, and those
only who have experienced the loss of a kind and,
indulgent father can judge of the sorrowful scene. Hisl
Majesty is perfectly sensible, and awaits his approaching'
dissolution with the most Christian resignation and fortitude.
All are in tears, from the highest to the lowest of the house-1
hoid, every one being accustomed to regard him, not only'
with the reverence due to a Monarch, but with the feelings
entertained towards a dear and affectionate father.
Thi 'heir

ilaining of the conduct of Colonel Quentin, the seen,
• Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment. A Court-Martin
was the consequence. Colonel Quentin was reprimanded
jut the officers who had brought the charges against bin
were, by a General Order, issued by the late Duke c
York, on the 10th of November, 1814, removed from
.heir distinguished regiment. On that occasion 11:
Royal Highness, with what public opinion at the time cop
iidered to be in some sort a Spartan severity, thus expresse.
r tmself :—" His Royal Highness has therefore cornmande,
that the officers who signed the letter of the 9th-of Augufr
shall no longer act together as a corps, but that they she:
be distributed by exchange th-oughout the different reg;
ments of cavalry in the service, where it is trusted that the►
will learn to confine themselves to their subordinate dutieF
until their services and experience shall sanction thrie
being placed in ranks and situations where they may In
allowed to judge of the general and higher duties of tin
• prefession." This event produced, in the mind of Mis.
Jordan, an excited state of feeling, natural, and even par-
donable ina mother. In some of her correspondence shed
expressed herself warmly on the subject, and even described
her sons as" those two sacrificed young men.' The Duk.
'of Clarence, on the.contrary, whose affection was equall
strong, though undiestricter regulation, was never knows
to show, in any public manner, the annoyance and regret
that he could not have failed to feel. As an officer in to
King's service himself he knew that the first military duty
was obedience ; and he would not allow to himself an in
Julgence that his good sense must have led him to reppp
in others. Of the two sons who were involved in what ma'
lbe called the'catastrophe of the Tenth, the eldest is tin
Ipreaent Earl of Munster, and the second died in India it:
1817, an officer in the 87th Regiment.
The strongest proof of the happiness that pervaded the
idomestic circ'e of the Duke, is to be found in the absence
'of any public record of -it. With the occasional exceptio'
,of some question of absorbing interest, he took no part in
the discussion or management of public affairs. Circum-
!stances, however, at length led to the breaking up of an
establishment that had been distinguished for a length o
!duration not common in the conventional connections o
high life. It is not easy to assign the causes that led tA
this event ; they were probably of a mixed and complicated
!attire. But there is good ground to infer, tren;i,

lof Mrs. Jordan s, after the separation bad occurred, that
one of those causes, at least, was of a distressing kind.
The res angusta donzi had evidently its too frequent influ
!rice. " Money," says Mrs. Jordan, in writing to a friend;
" Money, or the want of it, has, I am convinced, made
HIM at this moment the most wretched of men." Yet ever
this circumstance, chilling as it always is to a greater o
!ess extent, had not the power to check the natural warm-
heartedness of the Duke. His provision for those upoi
whom his attachment had so long been bestowed, is thtb
spoken of by one of the objects of it, and the one Vi hos.
testimony is entitled to the strongest credit.. In the lette,l
that has already been quoted, Mrs. Jordan thus speaks o,
this painful subject :—" And now, do not hear the Dukt
of Clarence unfairly abused. As far as he has left it in 1161

n hoard the Prince George, a ninety-eight gun ship, com
!landed by Admiral The King declared that hi:
an should win his way to promotion in the :ams manner a
he most friendless-young man in the fleet ; and the Prince
.as accordingly placed on the same footing, in every re
-wet. with his fellow "youngsters." He had soon an op
portunity of seeing service. An armament, commanded by
lodney, and of which the Prince George formed a part
ailed from Spithead in December, 1799 ; and, on the Btl
f the following month captured the whole Spanish convoy.
•onsisting Of a sixty-four gun-ship (afterwards named tbt
P,iiice William, in comprlment to his Royal Highness).
tad a great number of armed vessels and transports.
When the Spanish - admiral
.was brought on board tin
prince Georj'e as a prisoner, and was told that one of tin
nidshiptnen. whom he saw actively engaged in his duty, was
tn• English prince of the blood, -he exclaimed—" Well may
• !:r.gland be mistress of the sea, when the son of her King is
ints employed in her service!"
The Prince served nearly all the residue of his time as
nidshipmen in the West Indies, and off the coasts of Novi,
icotia and Canada. Some characteristic anecdotes are re-
lated of this period of his naval career. Having had some
vords with a brother midshipman of the name of Sturt.
he young, man said to him, " If you were not the King's
son, Sir, I would teach you better manners." " 0," said
he Prince, " don't let that be any hindrance," and offered
I fight his adversary in the nautical fashion, over a sea-
•hest. Sturt, howeVer, declined the contest, which he said
-ould be unfair,le being the elder and stronger of the two.
I'hc Prince was struck by the young man's generosity, of-
fered him his hand, and became his cordial friend. While
upon the North American station, the Prince preferring the
activity of a cruisinc, vessel to remaining in a stationary
situation, was removeclat his own request from the Prince.
";eorgeto the War:Vick of 50 guns, commanded by Lord
.ieith, and served under' that officer when he captured
a large French frigate, La Sophie, of 22 guns, and
the Terrier sloop-of-war, off the Delaware river, on the 11th -
September, 1782. He then joined Lord Hood ; and it
vas then that he became acquainted with Nelson, to whom
le was first introduced by Lord Hood on board the.
3aylcur. He soon afterwards proceeded to the Leeward
island station, where he remained for some months under
he orders of Nelson, then captain of the Boreas frigate.

A strong and lasting friendship sprang up between them
The King has declared that his mind took its first decided
iaval turn from his familiar intercourse with Nelson when
!;ey served together ; and the high opinion which that
;rent commander entertained of his junior officer is ex-
,ressed in a letter to his early friend, Captain Locker. In
,Jecember, 1787, the Prince returned to England after
rn absence of a year and a half, and was appointed to com-
nand the Andromeda frigate, in which he again sailed for
he West Indies. On the 19th of May, 1789, his Royal
lighnes was created Duke of Clarence and St. Andrew's
the kingdom of Great Britain, and Earl of Munster, in
reland. In April, 1814, the Duke of Clarence was ap-
,einted to escort Louis XVIII. to his native country on

:ome objections were made to the expense of his progres "Ito Lord Melbourne, a man of whose firm and vigo-1
tf ,hrough the different naval stations, in consequence of w:iiel rous principles of Reform the country was now Well
zbe thought proper to resign the office. In 1829 the Duke ;•4. aware, the task of forming an Administration. This7-4.:',
of Clarence took a decided part in the great question oritask Lord Melbourne accomplished, to the entire sa-
ratholic Emancipation. When the Catholic Relief Bill', tisfaetion of country, after a week spent in ToryL,-,
s. was about to be brought into Parliament much anxiety was -,'intrigues, which were defeated by Lord Melbourne's steadi-,-;',
felt as to the line of conduct which would be adopted bylYness of purpose, and the unwavering confidence placed in
the Heir Presumptive to the Crown. Reports were in him by the King. On Saturday morning, the 15th of Noll
14 circulation that his -Royal Highness was adverse to thel vember, the metropolis was astounded with the intelligenee:'..,:•
-,.,- claims of the Catholics ; but he put an end to all doubt that the King had dissolved the Melbourne Ministry. Lordij!
lon the subje-ct by his speech in the House of Lords on the r.';Melbourne had gone to Brighton, where his Majesty was,g
23d of February, in a debate on the presentation of peti- - on Thursday, and had returned the following night to an-reil
'.. tions for and against the measure. The Duke's speech --r: nounce the eventto his colleagues. The king had expressed:.-;contained an able and manly exposition of sound and liberal :no dissatisfaction with Lord Melbourne's Administration ;`
[principles expressed in forcible and even eloquent language.:'- but had let it be understood that he considered it at an end '
•1 On Saturday, June 26, 1830, George the Fourth ex with the death of the late Earl Spencer, and the consequent
.;-,
ipired ; and on Monday, the 28th, the Duke of Clarencen'removal of his son, Lord Althorp, to the upper House. i
,was proclaimed King, by the title of William the Fourth. The motives of a measure, on the King's part so much".
The King soon manifested a marked difference in his habits F .at variance with his conduct on several previous
and deportment from those of his predecessor, and speedily .„,occasions, it is not very easy to comprehend. The
acquired unbounded popularity, by the frequency of his- ,Duke of Wellington, who had been in previous communi-
kOppearance in public, the frank simplicity of his manners,'
. psion with his Majesty, was entrusted with the formation of ,A
'of
the easy condescension. of his intercourse with all ranks a new Ministry ; and in the meantime assumed a species u!' ~.!fn
'of his subjects. •In one of his journeys to town, very soon .i...,lictatorship, being invested, pro tempore with the different`-,
:after his being proclaimed, the King passed through Croy- -;offices of the executive government. A person belonging to
ti
don, at the moment when that pretty little village was in ',.:.the Queen's Household was sent off express to Italy to, ,1
all the bustle of its fair. He was immediately surrounded iilbring home Sir Robert Peel. The sagacious statesman'skl,
by the crowd, who were anxious to obtain a sight of Ma-;usual caution forsook him. Deceived, no doubt, by Cee-,,,,]
lijesty—a sight denied them for many years. Many of the sllattering representations made to him, he hastened to Eng-T
:latore forward were gratified with a shake of the' King's land, and was placed at the head of the Government. 110
hand. . Such an occurrence, we need hardly say, had not .-• But the golden dreams of the Tories were of short dura-,_.,,,
happened at a •Croydon fair, {fin the memory of the oldest don, for, after a hopeless strognie, Wellington and Pee]C
minhabitant," and produced its effect accordingly. The quiet': announced their resignations in both Houses on the 9th
Kin;of
Rland sober mode of life adopted by the Kin and Queen,
„April, having the nigt before been left in a minority one
very much resembled that of George 111. and Queen Char- ,s,.Lord John Russell's resolution on the Irish Tithe question.
tillotte. This was peculiarly remarkable at Brighton ; and a Next day, Lord Grey, Lord Lansdowne, and Lord Mel-'h.
.the appearance of the Court there, so different from what i bourne attended the King ; Lord Melbourne received his
'it had lately been, occasioned much observation. , 2.4. Majesty's commands to form a new Administration ; and 43.'3
When the King entered upon the functions of govern-1 Government was formed which has ever since subsisted. Fsl
ment he made no change in the Cabinet of his prede-
cessor. On the Ministers waiting on him, he expressed. 7
SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
:ihiAitsa
Majesty
)ropbraotrioognu
coif
the
iheirp
ipolicy.e Parliament,
On
whichth the 23mdetof
a.lully hfoisrti
the dispatch of busineTs on the 2d of November. When
the Kim!' went to the House of Lords to open the Par- --ow
TATTERSALL' S—YESrEeDAY.
The bets made to-day were so few in number, and so t:.ifling;7, ,
-Jul amount, as to render any observations unnecessary. The-'

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fiament the people marked their loyalty to his person by:,:.. stay horses mentioned
`we the following :
jthe loudest acclamations, but a different spirit was dis-% 6to 1 agst Mr. Cojqrer7sit-taasn'inri.P.taien
played towards his Ministers. The Duke of Wellington,, 11 to 2 agst Mr. Prince's Enterprise—taken
Hn his way to the House, and on his return, was followed;:i 6to I agst Lord Exeter's Sister to Greenmantle—taken
Iby one loud shout of indignation raised by assembled i';!1. 6to 1 agst Mr. Pettit's Miss Mary Ann filly—taken
thousands. Such was the excitement of public feeling.;* 15 to 2 agst Mr.Gßondv:soSpistesTrAtKorGslaucus—taken
5 r. r.
land so strongly was it expressed, that the Ministers`:; Mr. Fox's colt, The Carpenter, is coming from the North by,
Mound their situation desperate. As a dernier ressori, qlr;steam. He has been backed even agst Hornsea for CO,•-) and agst'
they prevented the King from going into the city to dinei.Caravan for the same sum.
;in Guildhall on the 9th of November, on the pretence) GOODWOOD cur, P. P.
3 to 1 offered on the field.
of apprehended tumult and danger. This foolish devicAl
Phosphorus and Caravan are expected to meet for this race.
produced a real alarm for a short. time ; the funds sud- 1 TIIE ST. LEGER.
denly fell three per cent., and the people in the pro- '''' 4to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Cardinal Puff
'winces expected every mail would bring tidings of some 7 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Henriade—taken
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