Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1835-01-07
Carlos, at his brothers death, asserted his claim


the views Of Don Carlos, whose .consort, har-
raised by. msfortunes, privations and anxieties,
has fallen victim to persecution, and died in
parsonage-house ofa village near Gosport. The
success ofthe widow of Don ferdinand has ena-
bled her to proclaim her daughter as Queen of
Spain, she selfassuming the title and charac-
ter of Regent. By thisrevolution, for such 1t is,
the Spanish throne is occupied by a child.
Belgium and Holland have been separated:
Antwerp has been besieged by the French; the
Prince Of Sake Coburg, widower OF the Princess
Charlotte of Wales, has been made Prince OF
the Belgians, and married daughter of the oc.
cupier of the French thone. The affairs oil
Greece, which have been so long unsettled,
are as unsettled still, with this difference, that
England has furnished her with king, in the
person Of Prince Ohio OF Bavaria, whose reve-
nue. is derived from this country, but whose Pc
Rod of domination is fortunately not to be cal
cuated upon with any degree of certainty.
In Russia, after the murder of Paul, Alexan-
der succeeded and did not die without some sus-
picion of foul play. He was succeeded by his
brother Nicholas the FIRST, whuse elder brother,
Constantine, with most remarkable difhdence,
or Indifference to imperial sway, declined the
throne in his favor.
Ii must be evident that if the extent or preten-
sions of this paper would admit of our taking
review of the public affairs of all the nations in
the world during the period to which il refers,
it would exhibit u series of mutations calcula
ted equally 10 justify our opinion OF the event
fulness of the last Thirty fOur years with those
We have hastily touched. Our chief object IL,
however, to look to results as relating to En-
gland herself
ImEng and the circumstances connected with
the succession have been compiiCat ana eX-
traordlnary. In 1920. George the Third died,
having survived his fifth SON, the Duke OF Kent,
six days The Princes Charlotte died, with her
infant, in 1917; Queen Charlotte in 1918; the
Duchess Of York in 1920; in 1921, Queen Caro-
line; i'm 1927, the lamenied Duke OF YORK; IN
1928, the Queen of Nuremberg, Princess Royal
of England; and in 1890. his late most Excellent
Majesty. The present King has no surviving
issue and the crown devoves hereafter upon
the daughter Of his late Majesty's fifth son-d
child.
In 1914. the electorate of Hanover was erect
ed into kingdom, the crown of which belongs
to the King Of England, but is separated from It
whenever queen governs this empire; conse-
! quently, upon the accession Of the Princess Vic
tora to the British throne, the Duke of Cumber-
land, as next heir to the crown, becomes King
of Hanover-the Sac law, in that kingdom,
excluding females.
There are peculiarities OF circumstance in
this mortality ofthe royal family (Which itwould
neither be right, nor, indeed, have we space to
enter into them even if it were) which render
the course and order Of these events very re-
markable Not less so have been the casualties
| by which the Ministers of the Crown and many
eminent men have been removed from their sta
tions during the period to which these observa-
tons refer After the death of Pitt, avowedly
accelerated, if not actually caused by his devo-
ton 10 his country, how soon died his great OPP
ponent. Fox2 Lord Grenville is dead: Perci-
val was murdered, Lord Liverpool stricken by
Calamity which left his body living after his
mind was dead; Windham and Huskisson, both
victims of accidents; Canning prematurely lost,
and Londonderry fallen by his own hand; Mel
son, and Moore and Abercrombie in battle; with
a host of heroes equally deserving the tears and
praises Of their countrymen.
Remember that such men as Thurlow, Err
skine, Clifford, Law, Kenyon, Grattan, and Cur
ran, have lived and died within this century. In
literature, and wit, and poetry, can we iorget
Sheridan. Murphy, Cumberland, Cowper, By
ron, and Scott; in science, Banks and Davy; in
art West and Lawrence; on the stage, SddOns
and Kembe. AL these are gone-iaded from
the scenes which they exalted and adorned. We
mention but the very leaders. but, taking every
branch Of art and science into calculation, the
aggregate amount Of nSS within the last thirty
tour year. will, hereafter, when time and ref1ec-
ton Shall have overcome jealousy and envy, be
found vastly to exceed that which this country
ever sustained during any other period of equal
duration.
But let US look at things less unquestionable.
I'm the present century, the bright career OF the
run; for although his services before and up to
the capture Of Seringapatam, in 1899, had rails
ell his character and spread his fame II was IN
this century that his celebrated battle OF Assaye
was fought. From his arrival in Europe. until
the year 1915, he gained that series OF victories
which have mmortalized him. But that is not
all that we have to illustrate our point; besides
the glorious days of Oporo Vimiera, Talvera,
Buzaco, Salamanca, Badajos, Yittoria, Nve,
Toulouse st. Jean de Luz, the Pyrenees, aud
Waterloo, we are prepared to show that more
general actions were fought, and more lives lost
by the fortune of war from 1900 to 1915 than
ever were fought in period OF len times the
same extent;-amone them, Marengo, Alexan-
,iria, Austeritz Corrunna, Aspen and Essling,
Wagram, Barosa. Abuera, Borodino, Lutzen,
Toplitz, LEIPZIG, Orthers, Ligny, besides others
amounting to nearly two hundred general &C
tons 1t has been only because Nelson at Ira
falgar, established the sovereignty of England
on the seas, that We have not to record equal
triumphs of our navy 10 those which have grac-
ed our army.
But then let us see what has taken place in ci
II iteH NTH IL.