Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-01-10
RICHMOND, JANUARY 10.
BEAUTIES OF MONARCHY.


RICHMOND, JANUARY 10.
BEAUTIES OF MONARCHY.
The death ofthe Princess Charlotte has
produced tie deepest sensation in Eng
land. The people are clad in the liabili-
menis Ola general mouruing--ihe houses
oil public amnsements axe shut up--every
expedient is adopted for manlestng that
deep sense of grief and despondency,
which fills all their newspapers.
The Princess was sort OF national ia
voriie with the Englisls people-who turn
Ell from The designations of a Prince Regent
and the imbecilty of a Duke of York, 10
contemplate in her character, the traits OF
an arlless and amiable young woman
Many loved her for the warm attachment
she had manifested for her prosecuted mo-
ther- some regarded her as political pu-
pill of the ilinsirious Fox-and there were
several who saw III her the traits of Il Sc
cond Elizabeth, and anticipated from her
reign new food of glory 10 The English
nation. We pass over the bombastic effn-
sions of grief which appear III the English
papers-they suit the country whence
they sprung-but not the plain, sober and
republican people whom we have the ho-
nor OF addressing. They weep Princess
torn from the arms of her Subjects-ac-
cording 10 them 81 no event could have hap
pened of a more iameniabie nature"-Wc
lament the loss of an interesting young wO-
man, who was so suddenly cut off from
the affections of her friends, and whose
unexpected death forms another satire on
the vanity and vexatlons Of all human ex-
pections.
But such is the custom Of monarchies.
Their Princes and Princesses are looked
up 10 as something above the lot Of hui
mainly. The imagination of their sub
jects paints them as something almost di-
vine. They reign by the grace of God
they represent sort of divine majesty
upon earth-they are almost worshipped
while living and almost driiied when they
are dead. The Princess Charlotte is more
worthy OF oar regret than most of them
yet, alter all, we must regard her as NOR
tai, whom nature has made our equal, not
our superior.
1t is no! the excessive grief, however,
at the loss OF this princess, which peculi-
arly strikes our attention-but il is the
concern felt on account of The succession
TO The throne. Already the English pa
pers begin to manifest the most serious
alarm and despondency-disc are
created, and pedigrees are traced. They
speak of her death " as calamitous an
event as could well occur in The annals of
their hereditary monarchy for, il in
wolves the Of the only two preSump-
tive heirs 10 the Crown, i'll direct success
siOn-tlie mother and the child" A Sc
rlous alarm is felt for the continuance of
the succession. 1t is feared that those of
lie " true blood" may fail-and that the
English people may be transferred, like ii
set OF cattle, TO another branch of the
Hanoverian lamily-or TO some other dy-
nasty. Already we are told, though the
king has twelve children alive, viz. sons
aud daughters, (the youngest of them,
too, more than 40 years ODD yet that not
one OF them has legitimate child living.
TGe Duke of York, who is next in tie
order of succession to The PriHec Regent,
Is married TO a daughter ofthe late King
of Prussia, WHO has never had any chill
dren, aud is now fifty-tIiree years Of age.
The Duke of York is despised for lie
dissoiuteness OF his manners and the I'M
beclliiy Of his mind-as the paramour of
Anne Clarke and The leader of the expe-
dItion to Holland. What blessed sys-
tom is 1t, which promises to place All en-
lIgliiencd and gallant people at the feet
OF so llluslrlous monarch Nest 10
HIM IN the line of succession, are his
brothers the Dukes of Clarence and
Kent, who have never been bound by the
lies of lawful wedlock. The Duke Of
Cumberland has wife, but no children.
The Duke of Sussex is married, has son
and daughter but lis marriage has
been declared Illegal, and his children
are bas,ardized. The Duke of Cam.
bridge is unmarried, aud is ~ years OF
agr. The eldest Of The princosses is
widow the Duchess Of Gloucester is
married but neither has children. Tile
tlIree others are single. In case Of tile
demise of all these without lawful issue,
ihe sceplre will pass into tie hands Of
the Duke Of Gloucester, the king neph-
ew, and his sisier-and bext, 10 lie des-
cendanis Of his present Majesty's sister,
the Duchess Of Brunswick beng pro-
teslant.-Such is the genealogical tree
which Is handed to us of this blood
royal
These discussions are interesting 10 =
loyal public but 10 us plain repnbli
cans, how amusing aud absurd do they
appear How ridiculous the spirit of mo-
narchy. Il sets up particular family to
reign over The people-it has no regard
10 qualification or merit IN Che successor,
but TO his blood in the order OF prlmoge-
Hit,re-it traces this blood, drop by
drop, first in right lines, and next ia col