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the disposal of the remainder m
edly take place, whatever unforesew) events may yet follow,
and in discharge of that dnty which I feel incumbent on me,
I think it requisite and just for me to declare in this my last
will that I was solainnly and duly married to Lady Anil:
Murray, second daughter of the Earl of Dunmore, on t
fourth day of April, in the year of 'our Lord one t
seven hundred and ninet

-three, at the cit

the Inn Cm:

only known by the name of Sarmiento' where
my aforesaid wife then resided with her mother, Lady Du-
nore, and her sister Lady Virginia Murray ; and also that
for greater security and not from an apprehension of the first
being insufficient, I again performed the ceremony of mar-
riage with my said wife at the parish church of St. George,
Hanover-square, in the county of. Middlesex, by virtue of
bans published in the said church on the fifth day of Decem-
ber, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
ninety.-three : and that notwithstanding a decree has since

passed the Court of Doctor's Commons to declare my mar-
riage unlawful and void, yet I feel myself still not less bound
by every obligation of law, conscience, and honour, to consi-
der her as my lawful and undoubted wife in every respect, as
if that decree had never taken place, and that I consider and
ever shall acknowledge our son Augustus Frederick) who
was born after both these marriages) and of whom she was
delivered by Doctor Thynne, in Lower Berkley-street,
number sixteen, in the parish of Mary le bone, as my true,
legitimate, and lawful son, but that no dispute ever hereafter
may arise, so as to frustrate the disposition of property I here
make in favour of my wife and child, I vow and declare that
in whatever capacities or situations the law may view or place
them. 1 give and bequeath my property to them and them
alone, in the manner and proportions as "follow, that is to
say, to my said wife Augusta I give and bequeath the full use
and enjoyment of all my estate and effects of what nature or
kind soever they be, for and during the time of her natural
life ; and after her demise, I give and bequeath the said pro-
perty to my before mentioned son Augustus Frederick and
his heirs for ever; and lastly, I nominate as guardians to my
child, and executrix and executors of this my will, my wife
Augusta. my brother George Prince of Wales, the Right
Honourable Francis Earl of Moira, and Thomas Coutts, ESQ.

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years, then I appoint my brother Freder►ck
and Albany, and Prince Bishop of Osnaburgh, to be executo,
and guardian to this, my will, in his place jointly with my
wife, Lord Moira and Mr. Coutts ; and if Lord Moira Should
die before the aforesaid period of my son's majority, I appoint
his Grace Archibald Douglas Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton,
as executor and guardian to my son in the place of the said
Earl Moira, jointly with my wife and the Prince of Wales or

the Duke of York; as the aforesaid' circumstance may render,
begging them to accept these trusts, to maintain and support
the rights of my child as my lawful and legitimate son, and
to superintend and undertake the care of his education, which
I wish to be the best and most liberal possible ; leaving. it to
their wisdom and friendly zeal to choose the most proper
means for that purpose: and lastly, hereby revoking and
making void all other will and wills by me at any time here-
before made, especially one I made for the same purpose at
Berlin the fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and which I
here annul, because I think this will made by myself, in my
own country, will have more sure and certain effect, which
quiets 'all anxieties I may have on this head. In witness
whered, I, the said testator, Prince Augustus Frederick,
have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first
before written.

(Signed) AUGUSTUS FREDERICK.
.fined, sealed, published, and declared by a

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named testator, 'Pr.ince Augustus Frederick, as and for his
last will and testament in the presence of us, who have here-
unto subscribed our names as witnesses at his request, in his
presence, and in the presence of each other.
(Signed)

JANIES YORKE, Barrister-at-Law, Lincoln's-Inn.
T. B. CLARKE, Chaplain, &c., to his Royal High-
C. CUPPAGE, Warwick-street, Golden-square.
As we are in somewhat of a communicative mood to-day,
we shall give a correct copy of a letter addressed by his Royal
Highness the Duke of Sussex to his child, and superscribed,
" To his dearly-beloved son, Prince Augustus Frederick,"—
written thirteen months afte►• the execution of the foregoing
will, and on the occasion of the boy entering on his seventh
year :

January 13th, 1801

Endymion, of Cape Finisiere.
Mr DEAR Sox,—To-day begins not only a new year, but
also a new- dried—of your life, for which you ought to feel
particularly grateful to your Creator. This you can only do
by a virtuous and good conduct—which, at your time of life,
consists' in an entire confidence in God Almighty, in a dutiful
submission to your parents and masters, and being diligent
at your studies, avoiding idleness as the mother of all vice,
which is the only thing you ought eternally to hate.
At seven years old, you are no more a child, but a boy--
therefore you must put all childish things away—thus by de-
grees you will grow up a man—which a good Christian, a use-
ful member of society—to the satisfaction of your fond pa-
rents.

In hopes of this I pray to the Almighty to take you under
His all-powerful protection—that He may graciously please
to guard you from all danger, and keep you in the right path
of virtue.

God bless you, my dear Son, thus writes your truly at
tionate father and friend, AGUSTUS FREDERIC],

(Address.)

my dearly beloved Son
PRANCE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK,
Num. 40, Lower Grosvenor St.
Grosvenor Square, Londor

This is a beautiful composition ; it breathes a true no,
of soul, and evinces all the paternal anxieties that might
supposed to awaken the sensibilities and actuate the feelin,
of a Christian parent and affectionate father. In reading it
we can hardly refrain from imagining that we hear the your;
and ardent parent repeating to his child the lessons of pia:
and virtue which his own childhood had imbibed from tit instructions of the most pious and domestic Prince "
swayed the Britisn sceptre—his own respected o•
father—the good, the venerable George the
without reference to public transactions, we feel
to say that, au fond, the Duke of Sussex must be .
man ; no man with a bad heart ever could have written
a letter. If recent events harmonise not with those earl
sentiments, it must be that his ear has been abused—that h
has been acting under mistaken senses of duty—some mys
terious allusion of an unnatural conflict between his domes
tic affections and his public obligations. Here is a breathini
of love, and truth, and religion—of virtue and of honour
and of conscience—a noble and well-becoming outpourip-
the heart from a father to a son.
Away with the cold etiquette of courts—"

hat ever

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calitiei of

iLUgIISLI.L., .e.ste approach his
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father, bearing that letter in his hand. His life has been a
life of honour—one without stain or reproach. He need
not, like the prodigal, stand afar off; nor in shame and tre-
pidation approach his father's dwelling. He can fearlessly
cast himself at his royal feet—(may it be but the forerunner
to his being clasped to his royal bosom)—.he can exclaim,
Oh, my father, you prayed, and prayed fervently, that the
Almighty might teach my youth the necessity of virtue and
good conduct. You taught me the holy maxim, which yore
learned from your father, of placing an entire confidence in
Almighty God—you impressed upon my mind the precept.
of submission to my parents and my masters--diligence in
my studies—an avoidance of idleness. Here I am, arrived at
man's estate—review my conduct and my actions. The ad-
vice given by the affectionate father and the friend, when I
yet stood upon life's threshold, has not been lost. My
boast and my pride is, that I have so deported myself as not
to be considered unworthy of being called your son."
Could such an appeal as this, and coming from such
son, and recalling such a document, be neglected or with-
stood ?

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YORK MiNsTER.—The subscription recently opened
the restoration of this noble, but ill-fated edifice, has n
proceeded either with that celerity or liberality that min

have been anticipated. The total amount
the committee, after many appeals to public sympatl
not exceed £4500, and of that sum the Archbishop
has enntrilm+nA -ruinn ana +b.F.orl of

& .a_data vt 11aicwOUC1
being one-third of the whole subscription,—Leeds Int

gencer

Fossil TREES.—There have been discovered by til
men employed in cutting out the mew road leadir
Norham Bridge, on the north side of the Tweed. a

of Fossil trees. They appear to he
do most beautifully_illustrate the fora.

remains •of vegetable matter, being for
crusted with that substance, and some o
purest kind. The stones are all lying in a

Ition, and from ten to tweni
roots of the trunk cannot be r

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establish their charac

L and of the branches con;
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vur in size, ouL
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largest appear to be about five or six feet iy n diameter.
veral gentlemen in the neighbourhood have received sr
mens of what we have every reason to believe has been
antediluvian forest. A. number of fossil trunks are ye'
situ, and may be viewed by any naturalist desirous to
them.—Berwick Wa)der.
'MP .

.uring • tt

aacza u,,a extreme
ausincious for the completion of the hay harvest, and for r
opening and perfecting the crops of grain, fruit, and escule
root`s• Last week thp

shower

.uany cola tor the season ; but.sinee Sunday the atmosphere
has been not only free from showers, with the exception of a
trifling fall of rain on Thursday, but the temperature has
been seasonably warm, with a droughty breeze of wind. The
bulk of the hay grown in the West Riding has consequently
been secured, and there is a most cheering prospect for the
forthcoming havvest.• Wednesday last, St. Swithin's day,
passed over without any rain in this neighbourhood, so far as
we have hard.—Leeds Intelligences.