M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-03-18
From the Philadelphia Ledger.l
Of English PrInceSssa
Generally Unhappy.

marriages OF EnBllSn Pr1nceSSe9
Generally Unhappy.
"Give me neither riches nor power.
ty," said wise and good man. Tho
unfortunate character of the marriages
Of most princesses, the very persons
who might be supposed to have the
greatest chances Of happiness, is one
out Vf many proofs of the deep knowl.
edge Of life embodied in that cay.
ing.
Especially have English princesses,
as we are reminded by the late mar.
riage of the Princess Royal been un.
lucky in their matrimonial connec.
tions. More particularly is this true
Of the Princesses of the House Of Han
over. To go back to Sophia, daugh-
ter of George the First, who married
the first William Frederick of Prussia,
she, poor thing, was almost daily
beaten by her husband, a man whose
brutality amounted almost to insanity.
Once she was nearly killed by him,
with her daughter; and often was in
imminent fear for her life. He deni-
ed her, sometimes, even the common
necessaries of life. She used to say,
sarcastieally, in her old age, that the
only kind words he ever addressed to
her were: "SOphia, get up and see me
die"
The eldest daughter of George the
Second made match only less un.
happy. She was twenty.four before
she married at all; and then had to
take the deformed Prince of Orange,
because he was the only Protestant
Prince in Europe Of suitable age
Her father expostulated with her on
the malformation of her proposed
bridegroom. "Were he a Dutch bab-
oOn," she answered, tired ont with her
position at home, 81 would marry
him." 1t was the custom Of that
coarse age for a bride and groom, on
the nuptial evening, to sit up in bed,
in costly night. dresses, to receive the
compliments of their friends. On this
occasion, as the royal family and no.
bility detiled past the Prince and
Princess, who were magnificent in
lace and silver, the Queen, the BRIDES
own mother, declared that when she
looked at the bridegroom from behind
he seemed to have no head, and when
she looked at him in front, she could
not, for the lite of her, tell where his
legs were. Walpole or Henry, we
forget which, records the anecdote.-
The Princess lived to regret her mai
den condition at her fathers court,
even with all the neglect that attend
ed it.
Another daughter of George the
second married the Landgrave of
Hesse, the same who afterward sold
his soldiers to England in order to as.
siSt in conquering these colonies
He was so brutal that his wife, at last,
had to desert him and seek refnge in
her native country. A third married
King of Denmark, who abused her
shameiulIy, openly insulting her in the
presence OF an unprincipled woman,
who shared what he had of affection.
She died, partly of a broken heart,
partly OF cruel disease, at the early
age oftwenty-seven. The melancholy
story of the Princess Charlotte, only
child Of George the Fourth, is of so
late date, that it is familiar to ALL
Her marriage, however, was unfortu.
note only in its early and fatal ter.
mination; for while she lived, the
conduct Of her husband, we believe,
was blameless.
Not as Princess, but as young
and innocent girl, Of whom every one
speaks well, the new bride ought to
have the wishes of every one, at least
those of her own sex, in favor Of a
happier lot than fell to her predeces-
sors. Inevery respect, however, Prus-
sian marriages have been unfortunate
for both English and Prussian PriR-
cesses. The gloomy day on which
the bride lett London, for it was snow
ing heavily, has been cited as a bad
omen. But the beliefin oEens, luck
lily, ispast.