Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-10-07
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Or TIE PRESENT LEGITIMATE Royal FAMILY OF
GREAT BRITAIN.

GREAT BRITAIN.
Should il so happen that some modern Sueto.
MUS or Plutarch shall be induced to undertake
the developement of TIE descent and genealogy
OF leg innate sovercigns, who have sceurged and
oppressed man by divine right, he must not for
get to devote whole chapter 90 the lineal pedi-
gree ofthe present Brlnswic or Hanoverian race
which for one hundred years, has ridden John
Bull. Permit me 10 present you with rough
sketch or skeleton Oft.
The father of the first George who governed
England was Ernest Augustus duke of Hanover
lie was a Younger brother of George William
duke Of Brunswick, Lupenburg and Zell. This
George William, after spending his youth in what
among legitma,es, is called gallantIy but in the
common palance whoredom, became, at the ae,e
of forty, deeply in love with plebean French
woman by the name of Eleanor Desmier This
lady refusing to CRAFTY his seductions, he had
no Other way to crafty his passion but by marry
'ng her. The only issue of this match, was one
daughter, the famous Sophia Dorothea This
daughter beng the heiress of all her fathers es-
tates, her uncle Ernest Augustus of Hanover, in
order TO secure the rich prize for his son George
a proHigate debauchee, demanded her of her ia
Their III marriage The young lady was in love
with adebauched rake of the name of count Ko
a Saxon by birth, who had traversed
Europe III quesl ofamorous enterprises, and who
very narrowly escaped being hanged in Tyburn
for the murder ola certain Mr.. THYME. Several
of his acconlplices Were catched and hanged. bu,
he made his escape The duke of Brunswick
compelled his daughter Sophia Dorothea, notwi,h-
standing her deep rooted passion for EongsmarlS
TO marry her cousin George of Hanover--Just as
the late duke OF Brunswick compelled his daupi,
ter TO marry George the present Prince Regent
of England, notwithstanding her attachment to
her Irish plebean gallant THIS issue was very
simiar--George, the son of Earnest, after his
marriage, continued his gallantres with what in
the legitimate stle is called his mistresses. lust
as his descendant the Prince Regent did with
his Has wife Sophia Dofothea thought it but fair
play that she should Go the same thing. and as
her husband seldom kept her COMPANY. she CO.
hablted with her first lover the notorious Ronings
mark She confined herself pretty closely tober
chamber, under preteIise o md sposition He.
gallant was admitted with all possible privacy.
and returned before daylight in the morning. by
private passage from her bed room Ii happen.
ed however, that old Earnest, the reigning duke
had kept mistress called Madame Platen. who
was also enamored with Konngsmarlc, sud en-
Joyed bis embraces. This lady became Jealous
OF phia Dorothea, bribed some eft her alten-
dants, aud SO discovered her whole intrigue. This
she soon communicated to her paramour duke
Earnest, who one night placed a guard at the
secret pass ige, and as Konigsmack was leaving
his lover, the guard seized him and led linn
INN Ell atelyt a subterranean vault or dungeon
which by means of pipe could pleasure e
Tiled with water. No sooner was he shut MP than
the water was leIln, and he was drowned dead
enough. When Sophia Dorothea was informed
OF this catastrophe she ragged most fnrouslv, and
expressed the most rancor9us Indignation and
resentment. Neither the authority nor. rnenaces
OF her tItherIn law, could subdde her spirit and
reduce her to moderation. She called him a
murderer, monster, and an assassin, and declaf-
ed she would no longer remain among such
bloody savages, and in her frantic violence made
several attempts 10 take her own life Her good
easy husband (d,erwards George l. of EnglandO
was absent at the time this happened His ia.
her Finest who committed the murder. shut
up SOPHIA Oorothea IN prison called the Castle
of Ahloens few miles from Hanover, where she
was deuried during her natural life. This trans
action Sook place in 1886, at the time Sophia Do
rothea WAS only about 20 years of age
She wa the mother OF George 1.-The grand
father OF the present king of England, and the
great grandfather OF the legitimate prince re-
gent hat Count KOnigsnarS was the real
f. herofthis legitimate second George no person
acqHsintedwith thehistory of the transactioneyer
doubted. In order to give colourug to his le
yttmacy, George T. after he assembled the hrone
of Englmd (Which by Legitimate right was the
iDheriance OfJames Steuart and his descendants)
consented, as a matter ofstate policy, TO becon,
contented, and sent an embassy OF English lords
TO Ahlden, to invite Sophia 90 come To England
They represented to her how INJURIOUS her sepa-
al0 might be 20 the interests OF her son, and
hat for sbghter reasons the legitimacy Of James
Syeuart the seconds son had been jmpeached
out she was honest enough to despise al Their
s9phesry she did not pretend 10 conceal tie
deiestatioH she felt for their aoyereen, nor
would she do any act that would impose be-
efnpcn the world that her son was his son.
She remsned IN Ahlden prisonuntil her death
These are the predecessors, in the direct line
fJohn BulPs reignng legitimate soverei gns--
Kcpigsmarfs of Saxony, originally Of Sweden, the
most finished debauchec and rake Of his day, and
the murderer Of Thyme, and Sophia Dorotiea Of
Iell, an adultcrous strumpet, whose only apollo
gy was that she was forced to marry person she
ated, and compelled to sacrifice her affections to
1e Will Of her father, for reasons Of state She
bad a daughter named Caroline Matilda, who
passed for the daughter of George ]. but who un-
loubtcdly belonged 20 Konl gsmarI she was
married to Christian VII. legitimate sovereign
Of Denmark She played a game with struensee.
low bred vagabond, exactly similar to her mo.
ther Sophia with Ronigsmark, and both shared
a similar fate they we're seized--struensee was
put 70 death---Caroiinc was imprisoned in a cas-
lie for life, and at her death was buried along