Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-05-25
The Last British Prince.

The London press, in general, is filled witt
joy. The sovereign lady,Victoria the Queer, has
presented the nation with the eighth scion of roy
atty. This last interesting public pauper will, Of
course like the rest of his brothers and sisters, be
provided for hereafter at the public expense, and
every mans salt will be taxed to pay for his lux
uries. But what of that? The universal Brit
sh nation takes pride in its race of Kings as ii
does in its breed of horses. Both must have
good provender, and plenty oft. Withal, it is
as careful about preserving the breed OF the one
pure, as of the other. Prince Albert is the Godol-
phin Arabian of royalty, his mission being neither
more equivocal nor less honorable. . Both stand
high in the eyes of the British nation on account
of their blood land both were imported with view
to that end.
The British people talk about selfgovernment.
They are evidently quite incapable of governing
themselves, otherwise they would not send to
Germany to import their royal stock This they
do on all occasions. Victoria has no British blood
in her veins, as far as we can learn, nearer than
the Princess Sophia, who was daughter of James
|, and died two hundred years ago. AS far as we
are able to recollect, she was the grandmother
Owe may be wrong) of George /, who was the ia
ther of Frederic, Prince of Wales, who was the
father of George iii, who was the father of the
Duke of Kent, who was the father of her present
majesty, Victoria the illustrious Old Gearge- |
was real, low-bred old German, as thousand
anecdotes of him show. He shut his wife up in
prison, on suspicion, and kept her there for the
greater part of her life. He murdered a man of
whom he was jealous, in the most brutal manner.
He was an execrable tyrant, and truly royal
beast in his own dominions, Che was Elector Of
Hanover before he was brought over to rule the
bold Britons. These last haG not man in their
dominions worthy to govern them, and they nat
urally love kings; so they brought over this old,
vulgar, under-bred German, who could not speak
word of English, to rule them. Before he came
over, he had long quarrel with his son and heir,
George III, hopeful son of a hopeful father, and
he kept it up after he ascended the throne. The
two hated each other as never father and son hat
ed each other BEFORE and as no father and son but
the GuelfS, have ever hated each other since.-
The old scamp seriously contemplated the depor
tation of his son at time, and it has been said
Sir George Rook, the same who took Gibraltar,
was to kidnap him. We do not recolect what
prevented the success of the scheme, but we al
ways felt very sorry it was not carried into exc
cution.
The heir apparent, afterwards George II, was
living in disgrace (at Osnabruch we beieve)when
the news of his fathers death was communicable
to him. He at first thought it was too good to be
true, but when he found out that it was certainly
so, his joy knew no bounds. What he was, and
what his court was, is it not recorded in the me-
moirs cf John Lord Hervey? AS a specimen of
low-breeding he was without an example, having
improved upon his father in that respect. 1t was
his custom to box the ears of his ministers and
courters, upon every slight provocaton, and it is
said that Sir Robert Walpole, in particular, was
frequently honored in that way. Following in
the footsteps of his ilustrous predecessor, he wag
ed deadly war with his son and heir, Frederick,
Prince of Wales, who, following the example of
Isaac, went to the country of his fthersfor wife,
not choosing to contaminate his blood by mingling
it with that of the Canaanites among whom he
resided. He died before his father, leaving his
son, afterwards George iii, to succeed to his in
heritance Old George II, his father, was delight
ed to hear Of his DEATH. Such an agreeable piece
of intelligence had never reached him since the
death of his own father, quarter Of century be-.
fore.
To keep up the breed, George III went to Ger
many, also, for wife. The hereditary feud be-
tween fathor and son was not forgotten by him.
AS long as he kept his senses, he hated his heir
afterwards George w with deadly hatred and
that amiable and interesting Prince returned his
hatred an hundred fold
George w, as we all know, went, likewise, to
Germany for wife, and when it was ascertained
that he would have no son, and that the Princess
Charlotte was 10 be his heir, fresh importation
of Teutonism was made in the person of Prince
Leopold of SAKE Coburg. The Princess died,
greatly to the joy of her father, who, following
the custom OF his house, maintained an open war
against her.
This event produced a wholesale importation
from Germany. All the old Kings sons went at
once to the second Arabia for blooded stock
William lV dying without issue, the present
Queen, the daughter Of the Duke of Kent, sue
ceaded, and imported Prince Albert, from Germa-
ny, of course, AS the English cannot govern
themselves, and as nobody but Germans can gov
ern them, it is of course soothing to an English
mans heart to know that there is little danger of
the royal stock running out. Queen Victoria, in
this particular, may challenge comparison with
all the Queens that ever existed, except Hecuba,
the wife of Priam.
1t may be asked what object we have in re-
peating details already so well and widely known.
We reply that we wish to show that there must
be some mysterious property in the blood of Ger
man Princes with which we vulgar republicans
cannot expect to be acquainted. They are gene
rally, through their whole generations, detested
at home, and the people have, of late years given
very signal proofs of the estimation in which they
hold them. Translated to England, however,
they become the fathers, and mothers of Kings,
who are voted the only persons fit to rule that free
and beer-drinking race. There .is something
strange about all this.
Our solicitude for the peace Of the royal family
of Guelf carries us stillfarther. We see. with a
larm, that family feuds are hereditary in that vr-
tuous and well regulated household, and that the
relgning Prince is always at open war with the
heir apparent. What is to be the state of Queen
Victoria's household when her interesting paupers
shall have attained toan age at which they can
begin the accustomed war? Will they set her
authority at defiance, get establishments of their
own, vote against the measures she has most at
heart in Parliament, or will they retire in gloomy
grandeur to Kew OF to Carlton House, and, as
sembling around them all the disappointed wits in
the nation, keep up running fire of jokes and
pasquinadeS at her expense, la Frederick or la
George 1t is rather too late in the day to think
of kidnapping the heir, as her great-great-great-
grandfather thought of serving her great great
ditto. Otherwise he might be shipped off to Aus
tralia, or Van Dieman's Land, and no mole said
about it. What is to be done when all this in
teresting family, and half dozen more yet to
come, follow the lead of the heir apparent and
come to loggerheads with the old lady y?-Rich
Dispatch.
1- When about the age of seventeen, Madame
de Stael was placed at convent in France. She
was in the habit of visiting a friend who lived n