The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-27 00:00:00

ORDER OF SUCCESSION

The following is at present the order of succession to the
throne :-
1. PRINCESS ROYAL, born Nov. 21, 1840.

DESCENDANTS OF GEORGE 111.
2. Ernest, King of Hanover, June 5, 1771.
3. George Frederick Crown Prince of Hanover, May 27,
1819.
4. Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex, Jan. 27, 1773.
5. Adolphus Frederick Duke of Cambridge, Feb. 24, 1774.
6. George William, March 26, 1819,
7. Augustus Caroline, July 19, 1822, his children.
8. Mary Adelaide, Nov. 27, 1833,
9. Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, April 27, 1776.
10. Sophia, Nov. 3, 1777.
DESCENDANTS OF FREDERICK LEWIS, PRINCE OF WALES,

FATHER OF GEORGE 111.
11. Sophia Matilda of Gloucester, May 29, 1773.
12. Charles Frederick of Brunswick, October 30, 1804.
13. Charles Maximilian, reigning Duke of Brunswick, April
25. 1806.
The Duke of Wirtemburg, and other progeny of Charlotte,
Duchess of Wirtemburg, the daughter of the Duchess of
Brunswick, sister to George 111.
The King of Denmark (Frederick VII., Sept. 18, 1786), and
other progeny of Caroline, Queen of Denmark, sister to
George 111,

DESCENDANTS OF GEORGE II

The ex-King of Holland, and other progeny of Anne,
Princess Royal, Princess of Orange, and daughter of
George 11,
The Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, and other progeny of
Mary, Landgravine of Hesse-Cassel, another daughter of
George 11.

Other members of the royal family of Denmark, being de-
scendants of Louisa, Queen-consort of Frederick V., and
daughters of George 11.

DESCENDANTS OF GEORGE I

The King of Prussia (Frederick William IV., Oct. 15, 1795),
and other progeny of the Princess Royal, Sophia Dorothy,
Queen of Prussia, and daughter of George I.

DOCTRINE OF ROYAL SUCCESSION

(From Blackstone.—Book 1, chap. 3 and 4)

•
The great fundamental maxim upon which the ins corona,
or right of succession to the throne of these kingdoms de-
pends, I take to be this ; " that the crown, is, by common,
hereditary ; and this, in a manner peculiar to itself : but
that the right of inheritance may, from time to time, be
changed or limited by act of parliament, under which limita-
tions the crown still continues hereditary.

As to the particular mode of inheritance, it in general cor-
responds with the feudal descents chalked out by the com-
mon law in the succession to landed estates ; yet with one
or two essential exceptions, like estates, the crown will des-
cend lineally to the issue of the reigning monarch, as it did
from King John to Richard 11., through a regular pedigree
of six lineal generations, as in common descents the prefer-
ence of male to female, and the right of primogeniture among
the males, are strictly adhered to. Thus Edward V. suc-
ceeded to the crown in preference to Richard, his younger
brother, and Elizabeth, his elder sister. Like lands or tene-
ments, the crown, on failure of the male line, descends to the
issue of female, according to the ancient British custom re-
marked by Tacitus—solent fceminarum ductu bellare, et
sexum in imperils non discernere. Thus Mary I. succeeded
to Edward VI.

And the line of Margaret, Queen of Scots, the daughter
of Henry VII., succeeded on the failure of the line of
Henry VIII., his son. But, among the females, the
crown descended by right of primogeniture to the eldest
daughter only and her issue ; and not, as in common inhe-
ritance to all the daughters at once ; the evident neces-
sity of a sole succession to the throne having occasioned the
royal law of descent to depart from the common law in this
respect ; and, therefore, Queen Mary, on the death of her
brother, succeeded to the Crown alone, and not in partner-
ship with her sister Elizabeth. Again, the doctrine of re-
presentation prevails in the descent of the Crown as it does
in other inheritances ; whereby the lineal descendants of any
person deceased stand in the same place as their ancestor, if
living, would have done. Thus, Richard 11. succeeded the
grandfather, Edward 111., in right of his father, the Black
Prince, to the exclusion of all his uncles, his grandfather's
younger children. Lastly, on the failure of lineal descend-
ants, the Crown goes to the next collateral relations of the
late King, provided they are lineally descended from the
blood royal—that is, from that royal stock which originally
acquired the Crown. Thus, Henry I. succeeded to Wil-
liam 11., John to Richard 1., and James to Elizabeth,
being all derived from the Conqueror, who was then the only
regal stock. But herein there is no objection, as in the case
of common descents, to the succession of a brother, an uncle,
or other collateral relation of the half blood—that is, where
the relationship proceeds, not from the same couple of ances-
tors (which constitutes a kinsman of the whole blood), but
from a single ancestor only ; as when two persons are derived
from the same father and not from the same mother, or vice
versa; provided only that the one ancestor from whom both
are descended be that from whose veins the blood royal is
communicattd to each. Thus Mary I. inherited to Edward
VI., and Elizabeth inherited to Mary ; all children of the
same father, Henry VIII., but all by different mothers.

RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL

(From the same—Cap. 4.)
The Prince of Wales, or heir-apparent to the crown, and
also his royal consort, and the princess royal, or eldest
daughter of the king, are likewise peculiarly regarded by the
laws ; for, by the statute 25th Edw. 111., to compass or
conspire the death of the former, or to violate the chastity of
either of the latter, are as much high treason as to conspire
the death of the king, or violate the chastity of the queen.
And this upon the same reason as was before given—because
the Prince of Wales is next in succession to the crown, and
to violate his wife might taint the blood royal with bastardy ;
and the eldest daughter of the king is also alone inheritable
to the crown on the failure of issue male, and therefore more
respected by the laws than any of her younger sisters ; inso-
much, that upon this, united with other (feudal) principles,
where our military tenures were in force, the king might levy
an aid for marrying his eldest daughter, and her only.