The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1844-02-22
IHisroRY OF BkiTAIN's KINGS.

ven confined to truth far exceeds the most graphic pic
ture of romance which imagination can draw. 1t is a
part of the New York Tribune's European Correspon
dence. IalsE
The most striking features of English socialism, is
Beggary. Go where you will-rags and prayers for
aid disgust your eye and and arrest your steps Yet
the land is rich-aye, rich to surfet The wall of the
starving men does sometimes arouse the wealthy middle
class men-the gentleman and the nobeman. But few
dare to look into the cause of Wo-few dare to disturb
the mammoth social machinery-controlled as it is
land constructed as it has been-by the civil and &C.
cesiastical Devil Giants Of Great Britain With Loc-
he'll, they would find solacs in the yeii -l
"They would deaden their sight, grfaf
And hide with mantle the phanl6aS OF fright
But the horrible cry still surges up-and they attempt
alleviate the present. by donations to the poor under
ection ofhospitaIs &c. &c. mad man once proposed
to the Neapolitanst quench the fires of their volcano
by steam hydraulics: verify these beter English cds
ses are but little more sahe than the lunatc. 1t is
estimated that last year, cover one million were TT
lieved;' and still misery abounded." Who will wonder
at this dreadful state into which the nassespu
ged2 Could anything else be expected when we see a
clergy pocketing millions an army of pensioners eating
the gilded bread of idlenessa police man #el paid IN
fat SOLDIER, nearly at euey tenth door,. Corn Laws
which enormously tax the peoples principal articles Of
food-he Queen rolling in state through the country for
the purpose of obtaining from Parliament grant os-
ensiby to cover her expenses to travebut in reality
fund to relieve her from Bankruptcy thousands Of
acres lying idle because itdoes not suit the arstocratc
land owner to put them into cultivation-.a system o.
employment which makes every large renter, iree-ho
der, and manufacturer perfect tyranan army whose
bayonets glitter around the world, and to cap all, ma
tonat debt contracted by the internal Brunswick Dy-
nasty is TOO great for any liquidation but that Of
the Repudiateis. If England was not the most IN
happy, the most hopeless country in the world, she
would indeed be a standing miracle-a miracle
showing how arthe Devil could fight and still be
obliged to succomb to Nature. Asst is the Bishops the
Arstocracy he Queen poor thing, is but expensive
nobod and the Devil have certainly gained the victory
whose wfeahs wet with the blood Of some millions OF
men, women and children either dead-or alive and try
ing, occasionally to catch little Of Gods sweet fresh
air in this English Pandemonum fostering and blazing
and bowling around me.
caught glimpse of Prince Albert and his wife as
they rode through the main street of Leicester The
Prince is gehtee and rather handsome, young man
He was plainly but elegantly dressed and bowed quite
gaceulyo the crowds which pressed around the state
carriage The Queen is parsonage who it untitled,
would never command the least observation. She is
neither homey nor pretty. Her Majesty was also at
tired plainly And the soldiers marched steadily and
the noblemens vehicles followed the, Royal coach, and
the people strained their eyes out of the sockets to see
Brunswick ond Coburg and the mcb-God help them!
gave some cheers that seemed to 'sck in the throat
The fact Is there was small enthusiasm. Majesty how
ever made the most oft There sat monarch ofEng-
land-he head of the most powerful the most naughty,
the most tyrannical the most heartess Aristocracy
the world---My eye glanced back through the History
of England the Kings and Queens OF oden times satup
for moment in their tombs and bore witness 10 the
beauty of the Divine Right. Is Egbert naming Eng
land"--2d Ethewolf introducing tthe 3D.; Ethebert q
Ehebald the latter dying Of pr6fgacy; the former gov
erning as well as King craft can; 4th; Ethelred who
prayed vaorously while his soldiers fought 5th Alfred
commonly called The GREAT-6th; Edward. occupied
mostly in queing nsurrections-nh;3 Athelstan who
did better as he built ships and opened warehouses Sh
Edmund stabbed by robber and principally known by
the manner Of his death; 9th; Edred, who employed
Dunstan (renowned as the puller OF the Devils nose)
to keep his worthless conscience 10h Edwy, who got
into hot water for marrying his cousin whose beautiful
face was burnt by an Archbishop to kill the monach's
love; 1lth; Edgar who ravisheda nun and drove the
wolves lanimal1 from England; 12hi Edward (he mar
| tyr murderedby domestic; 18th; Ethered H., who
bribed, instead Of fighting the Danes out of England
They however returned and chassed the royal rascal
for his meanness; 18th; Canute, comparatively God
send; 18th; Harold Harefoot, good racer and black
murderer l6th Hardicanute who threw contempt on
the body of his predecessor inasmuch as he had not
been able to do SO in his life time; nth; Edward, the
Confessor, who 'rst touched for the Kings evil" All
his successors have only made the disease aror@ 18th;
Harold slain by William the Norman; 18th; William
the 1st we are told that "his common practice was TO
cut off the hands and put out the eyes ofhi enemies
and thento disperse them through the country"-2Oth
William Rufus; so mean, that his body scarcely obtain
edsepuchre; 21s Henry 1st died OF amprey surieit
22d; Stephen and Matilda S. was traitor; M; suffered
23d; Henry the Cd; murdered Beckett and cursing him
self and children 24th Richard lst chiefly known al
making Jaeltass ofhinselt about the Crussdes Pal
esine, &e-25lh; Johnwho granted Magma Chara, s
much lauded by all Englishmen, when il was only par
icularly beneficial to the nobility 26b Henry the 30
he granted the first Parliament Edward the Its he mur
dered the Welsh Prince; 2b; Edward the Sdi SO hateiu
that even his wife entered into conspiracy against hin
and had him murdered; sstb Edward the 3D. 4 will e
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