Litchfield enquirer., 1830-08-19

cause to rellecI on tDetubelNeS tOE JUL nA' '''3 discharged ably and patiently duty of aw- fuI responsibility. The Court adjourned at seven o'clock this evening, and Mir. Webster is in the progress of an argument, in which he knows that his great professional powers are severely taxed by public expectatiOn-heI has been throughout the afternoon collecting host of minute circumstances and winding them cOmpactly together into ball, which he is now swinging round his head preparatO- " to striking his deadly blow on the brow Ol his devoted victim, whose forehead grows pale under the momentary expectation ot its full descent. More tomorrow when the fiat goes forlh.-Ib.
 The Late King of EnglGnd his follies and his vices. are already spoken of with the great est freedom by the LOndOn press; and while the fullest praise is accorded to his conduct m administering the government when its sOve- reign, the errors and proHigacy of his own life while subject are brought up and dwelt upon in the most unceremOnious manner.- Omittng these gossipping particulars, we give the following as the substance of the bi- Ographical sketches with which the English papers are filled.
 The late King of England was born at St. 1 James's on the 18th of August, 1762; and lived, therefore, to be far advanced in the 1 68th year of his age. That he existed so ] long, might, considering the habits of his ear- Tier life, be looked upon as an extraordinary proof ofthe original yigor of his constitution. George w., when Prince of Wales, was. for the greater part of his life, an ostensible rallying point of Parliamentary opposition to his fathers Government. At the era of the l French Revolution, however, when the sta . bty of the throne to which he was heir was
 menaced with the destruction in which the other royal establishments of Europe were in
 volved, he bade farewell to the opposition, in speech against revolutionary politics, and
 was thenceforth designated by MT. Fox's friends, as one unworthy of political trust or attachment. The Prince of Wales appears
 not to have borne any active or conspicuous
 part in politics, between the day on which he ceased to countenance the Foxite opposition, 1 and the period at which, on the mental demise
 of George HI. he assumed the government of the British realms as Prince Regent. The reign of George ". has been distinguished by some political measures that mark 1t as one of the most interesting eras in English his tory-Of these, the repeal of the Test Act, with its provisions, prohibiting dissenters from the Established Church from partici- patton in the honors and emoluments of of flee, and the Emancipation of the Catholics are alone sufficient to stamp the character of the time. The king is said to have spoken well in public, though very rarely. In private, no man was more engagingly conversational |: he told story with great felicity and his | talent for mimicry, which he sometimes in- dulged in for the amusement of his intimate companions, was very great. The looseness of his early habits are too notorious to need limiting at; and the following statement from l the London Times may give some ldea of ] the pCQdjgalitv of his expenses when Hr'n"" In July, 178S, 5O,0OOi. per annum was set l tied on the Prince, then about completing his 2lst year. In July 1786, only three years afterwards, his debts amounted to something ] more than ITO, ,0O0l., and were shortly after wards discharged at the public expense. In 1795, after eight years more, fresh ac- ] cumulatinn of debt was disclosed, to the ex- tent then admitted of $50 ,OOOl. and was pro- vided for by an addition to the Princes in come of 88, ,OOO!. per annum. Notwthstand- ing this, in 1901. further addition of SOOOl. a year was bestowed upon his royal highness i; and again, in 1908. the debts formerly rated at 6SO,OOOI. having been found to exceed sO0,- OOOi. the national bounty was once more drawn upon, and the royal spendthrift was gratified by a fourth pension of 60, ,O0OI. per annum, terminable on the expiration of three l years.
 The London Times urges the necessity of the early settlement of the Regency question.
 If the present possessOr of the Grown were | to die before Regency bill were passed, the young Princess would, ip the eye of the law, have attained her majority. and would. in fact, he Queen. Blackstone says Comm. lib. 1, c.
 z, sec.2.) in reference tO such a contingency, Neither can the King in judgment oflaw, as King, ever be a minor or under age. It hath been usually thought prudent, when the heir-apparent has been very young, to ap- point protector, guardian, or regent, for a limited time; but the very necessity of such l extraordinary provision is sufficient to demon strate the truth of that maxim Ofthe common law, that in the Kirg is no minority. and therefore he has no legal guardian" The Times. after canvassing the claims of | the Duke of Cumberland and the Duchess of Clarence to the office of regent-the first of whom is presumed tO be out of the question from the circumstance of his becoming by the death of the present King. foreign sOve- reign (King of Hanover), and the last even more exceptionable as, being a foreigner, she has no interest in the future sovereign, and, having no children. and her husband be- ing dead,-nO permanent connexion with the country,-decides in favor of the Duchess of Kent. mother of the young heiress to the throne. This lady would unite in her person the office of regent and of custos of the ftl- ture sovereign. and could alone be supposed to have the best interests 0f her child at h