Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-11-13
George Nv and Queen Caroline.
sKETHCED BY THACEERY.

Many Of my hearers, no doubt, have journeyed to
thep retty old town of Bru nswick, in company with
that most worthy prudent, and polite gentleman, the
Earl of Malmesbury and fetched away Queen Car
cline for her longing husband, end Prince of " aies.
Old Queen Charlotte would have had her eldest son
marry niece of her own. that famous Louisa, of
Strelitz. afterwards Queen AntOinette in the last
age the sad preeminence of beauty and misfortune.
But George III had niece at brunswick; she was a
richer Princess than her, Serene Hghness OF StreuZ
in fine the Prince Caroline selected TO marry
the heir of the English throne. We follow my Lord
Mamesbury in quest of her we are introduced to
her ilustrous father and royal mother we witness
the balls and fetes of the old court; we are presen-
ted to the Princess herself with her fair hair her
blue eyes and her impertinent shoulders lively,
bouncing romping Princess, who takes the advice
of her courtlv English Mentor most generously and
kind. We be present at her very toilet, If we
like, regarding which, and for very good reasons,
the British courtier implores her to be particular.
What strange court! What a queer privacy of NOR
ais and manners do we look into! Shall we regard
it as preachers and mOralss, and cry, Woe, against
the open vice. and selfshness and corruption; or
look st it as do the king in the pantomlme, with
his pantsmime wife, and pantOmime coUrtiers whose
big heads he knocks together, whom he pOkes with
his pantomime sceptre, whom he orders to prison
under the guard of his pantomme beef eaters, and
he sits down to dine on his pontOmime pudding
Ii Is grave it is said it is theme most curious for
moral and political speculation; it is mOnstrOus,.
grotesque laughable with its prodigious ttleness,
etiquettes, ceremOnials sham moralities; 1t IS as
serious sermon, and as absurd and outrageous as
Punch's puppet show.
Malmesbury tells us of the private life of the
duke, Princess CarOlne's father, who was to die
like his warlike son, in arms against the French;
presents to his cOurters; his tavorite; hs duch-
ess, George HIS sister, grim old princess, who
took the British envoy aside, and told him wicked
old stories of wicked old dead people and times;
who came TO England afterwards when her nephew
N i'm a Sha Furnished lodging,
old and dingy, and deserted and grotesque, but
somehow royal. And we 90 with him to the duke
10 demand the princess hand IN form, and we hear
the Brunswick guns fire their adieux of state, as
Ii. K H. the Princess Of Wales departs in the frost
ana snow and we visit the domains of the Prince
blshOp OF Osnaburg-the Duke of York of our
carly time; and We dodge about from the French
reyoLutomsts whose ragged legous are pouring over
Holland and Germany, and gaily tramnling down
the old world to the tune of ca ira. and we taln
shipping at Slade, and we land at Greenwich where
the princess ladies are in waiting to receive her
royal hiGhnesS.
What 4 history follows? Arrived in London tho
bridegroom fastened eagerly TO receive the bride
When she was presented to HIM, Lord Malmesburv
says she very properly attempted to kneel lie
| raised her gracefully enough, embraced her and
| turning round to me, said:
Harris, am not well pray get me glass of
brandy"
said, "Sir, had you not better have glass of
water
Upon which, much out of humor, he said with
an oath, No, will go to the queen"
What could be expected from a wedding which
had such beginning-from such a bridegroom and
such bride: am not going to carry you through
the scandal OF that story, follow the princess
through all her vagaries; her balls and her dan
ceS, her travels to Jerusalem and Naples her
jIgs and her JunketiHgs and her tears. As | read
her trial in history, vote she is not guilty don't
say it is impartial verdict; but as one reads her
story the heart bleeds for the Kindly generous out
ragged creature. If wrong there be- let it lie at his
door who wickedly thrust her from it. Spite of her
fOllieS. the hearty people of England loved and
protected and pitied her. "GOd bless you we will
bring your husband back to you" said a mechanic
one day, rs she told Lady Charlotte Bury with tears
streaking down her checks. They could not bring
that husband back they could not cleanse that sell
fish heart. Was hers the only one he had wounded?
STEPPED in seshness, impotent for faithful attach
lnent and manly enduring love-had it not survived
remOrse was il not accustomed to desertion
Malmesbury gives US the beginning of the mar
rage story;-how the prince reeled INFO chapel to
be married: how he hiccuped out his of idcli-
tv-you know how Ne kept them; how he pursued
the woman whom he had married; to what state
he brought her; with what blows he struck her:
with what malignity he pursued her; what his
treatment of his daughter was; and what his own
life. lie the first gentleman of Europe. There Is
no prcuier satire on the proud English society Of
that day, than that they admired George
No thank God we can tell of better gentlemen;
and whilst our eyes turn away, shocked from this
monstrous image Of pride, vanity, weakness, they
may in that England over which the last George
pretended to reign, soRe who merit indeed the title
of gentlemen, some who make our hearts beat
when we hear their names, and whose memory we
fondly salute when that Of yonder imperial manikin
is trembled into oblivion.