The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1822-05-22


and defects"
Conining our present extracts to the
year l75l, the details of which occupy
2O6 pages Of the first volume, we shall
select as many OF the sketches of char
acter, and as many of the amusing an
ecdotes, as our limits permit. Ia the
hrst division, the death of Frederick,
Prince of Wales, is by far the most
striking event
6 The Prince of Wales had been i'll
of plcurisy, but was so well recover
ed as to attend the King to the House
OF Lords on the 18th, where he was
very hot. He went to Carlton House
to unrobe, put on only light frock, and
went TO Kew, where he walked some
time, aud returning 80 Carlton-House,
laid down upon couch for three hours
in ground room next to the garden,
caught fresh cold, and relapsed that
night He had had blow upon his
stomach, IN the summer by fall, from
which he had often felt great palms,
Drs. Wilmot, Taylor and Leigh attend
ed him, and Hawkins the surgeon. On
Monday, 18th, thrush appeared
however he was thought better. On
Wednesday night, between nine and
ten O'Clock, Wilmot and Hawkins were
with him; he had night of coughing.
Wilmot said. 4" Sir, you have brought
up all the phlegm; hope this will be
over in quarter of an hour, and that
your Royal Highness will have good
night" Hawkins went out of the room,
and said, S Here is something | don't
like" The cough continued--the
Prince laid his hand upon his stomach,
and said, SIC sens la mort" Pavonarius,
his fayourite German valet-de-chambre
who was holding him up, felt him shiv-
er. and cried, s'Good God the Prince
is going!'' The Princess, who was at
the feet of the bed, snatched up cam
die, hut before she got to him, he was
dead An imposthume had broken,
which, on his body being opened, the
physicians were of opinion had not been
occasioned by the fall, but from blow
Il Va u NCAlilAo-OtlI lcdBS U6fOTes
Thus died Frederick, the Prince of
Wales having resembied his pattern,
the Black Prince, in nothing but in dy-
ing before his father. Indeed, it was
not his fault if he had not distinguished
himself by any warlike achievements
He had solicited the command of the
army in Scotland during the last rebel
lion; though that ambition was ascribed
rather to his jealousy of his brother
than to his courage. A hard Judgment!
for what he could he did, When the
royal army lay before Carlisle, the
Prince, at great supper that he gave
to bis Court and his favonrites, as was
his custom when the Princess laid in,
had ordered for the desert the repre-
sentation of the citadel Of Carlisle in
paste, which he in person and the maids
of honour bombarded with sugar-plums
He had disagreed with the King and
Queen early after bis coming to Eng
land rot entirely by his own fault
The King had refused TO pay what
debts he had left at Hanover; and it
ran a little in the blood Of the family
to hate the eldest son the Prince
himself had SO far not degcnerated,
though a better natured man, and
much better father, as to be fondcst of
his second son, Prince Edward The
Queen had exerted more authority,
! joined to narrow prying into his con-
duct, than he liked; and Princess Emily,
who had been admitted into his greatest
confidence, had not forfeited her duty
10 the Queen by concealing any of his
secrets that might do him prejudice
Lord Bolingbrekc, who had SOW ed d.
vision in the Pretender's corrt. by the
scheme for the fathers resigning his
claim to the eldest boy, repeated the
same plan of discord here, on the first
notice of the Princes disgus,s and the
opposition was instructed to offer their
services TO the heir apparent against
the crown and the minister. The Prince
was sensible TO flatery, and had sort
Of parts that made him relish the sort OF
parts of Lord Chesterfield, Doddinglon,
and Lyttleton, the latter of whom being
introduced by Doddington, had wrought
the disgrace Of his protector. Whoever
was unwelcome at St. James's, was sure
of countenance at the Princes apart
ments there. He was in vain repri-
manded for this want of respect. AT
last, having hurried the Princess from
Hampton Court, when she was in actual
labour, to the imminent danger of hers