The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-11-01
~. r,m.. are CHANGED.

In one Of which he found the arrival of the
Duke of Kent. father Of the present Queen
VICTORIA, at Boston, announced without the
flourish of a single trumpet. 1t was while he
was Governor General of Canada, tive believe
that was the Office he held while in America,)
and must therefore have been somewhere
about the close OF the last century. The royai
visitor quietly took mp his quarters Win the
British Consul and attracted no SORT OF at
tention and remark, beyond snort news
paper paragraph or two. Our frshd entered
into a train of reflections suggested by the
contest between this species OF reception
and the series of oyations which sprung up as
II by magic in the footsteps Of his descendant,
when he lately visited our shores. 1t was
very great, it must be owned, and yet it was
not AT all strange.
The Duke of Kent was but Kings SON
the fourth in point of birth, and therefore a
ve'y distant expectant of the crown. Between
him and the throne. lay three others, big, bur-
ly, life-like, in the flower of life, the oldest
not being forty years of age. Who could ex-
pect that young man to outlive all those sons
of ANAK, the gigantic GEORGE, the gigantic
FREDERICK, and the gigantic WILLIAM9 In
point of fact, though the youngest, he was the
fret of the four to die. But who could have
guessed, that a child of his, even, would ever
succeed to the throne of his ancestors All
these young giants might marry according to
law-one of them actually was married, and
the Princess CHARLOTTE was already born
The chance of KENT, and his posterity, there.
fore, was beautifully small-like the small
end of no thing Whitfield down, to use phrase
said TO have originated with old BEN HARDIN
hat 4 YHaiu vic
might he said, almost, not to have existed at
all. Now, Lord BEoUGHAM tells us, that
while the Prince Regent was carrying on his
prosecution of his wife-endeavoring to get
| her decapitated by his Parlisment-the people
were stirred against him to such degree of
intensity, that had a tolerably popular Prince
OF the blood offered himself as an aspirant for
the crown, he would infallibly have overset
the elder brother For many gears before
that triai-ever since he had been Regent in
deed-he had passed along the same street
every day, in his carriage, and had scarcely
been noticed. Yet no sooner had he been
crowned, than the poor Queen and all her
wrongs were forgotten, and the same people
who had scarcely raised their eyes TO look at
the chariot and livery of the Regent, could
scarcely be kept off the chariot and livery of
tHc Mug L CT II was 6ulue GudilOi, tAe
same equipage, and the same man So great
is the difference between him who is merely a
Kings son, and him who is King in his own
person.
Now, il is probable that the Prince of Wales
in very few years will pass through London
without attracting more notice than his grand
uncle did when he was Regent, and that he
will tir up the loyalty of JOHN BULL afresh
when he becomes King. john has seen SO
many Kings and Queens that he cares not to
look upon royalty in ProSpecti. But Brother
JONATHAN, while he cares nothing for man
who is only Kings sou, with no prospect of
being King himself, satiates his curiosity by
gazing upon the undoubted heir of royalty.
He never saw before man who was certain
to be King, if he only fulfilled the condition of
OUTLYING his mother. This is the nearest APP
preach he can make TO seeing King, and he
makes the most of his opportunity.
The relative situation of the two countries
England and America, was at the time (l799,)
very different from their present relations.
We had then hardly recovered from the heart
burGIpgs which the war of independence had
produced. But a few years before, the Eng
lish had come from Canada, built forts wi'hin
our borders and instigated the Indians to
make war upon US. So we thought, at least,
and there seems to be little cause for distrust-
ing our suspicious. That war-loving Minis
ter, the younger PITT, was at the head OF al
rairs and il seems to have been a principle
with him never to ask for anything in q
civil manner, but to knock the man down
first, and take what he wanted. "Britan-
MIA ruled the waves" at that time, with 4
vengeance "NRLsON was then Britannia's
Goa of War" and he ruled the waves with a
will. He, and the Minister, and all their subor-
dinates and understrappers, naval, military
and Judicial, firmly believed that no other ma
ton upon the face of the earth had any rights
of their own, and that all the privileges they
epioyed were so many grants from Great Bri-
tain, to be resumed at her own good pleasure
Inuumerable causes of quarrel necessarily
sprung up with our neighbors across the Ca
madam line, as we'll as with JOHN BULL on the
ocean. We looked upon them as they have
always looked upon the French since the wars
of EDWARD ILL., FIVE centuries ago; that is to
SLY, We regarded them as our natural enemies.
and forty i've years of peace have not entirely
eradicated that impression. 1t is hardly Won
derfuI, then, that the arrival of the Duke of
Kent created no extraordinary sensation in
Boston. A few old Tory families, of pre-rev-
dictionary times, were still in existence.-
Doubtless these paid their duty to him, whom
they considered the son of their lawful sove-
reign. But the body of the people would have
considered it. no doubt, unpatIIotic, ant-re-
publican and derogatory to their character,
for independent opinion aud manly bearing.