New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-20

To the Editor 0 Tie N y Tribune.
SIR have seeG good many curious thing, /.
New-York journals, but never anything, in TK,
TRIBUNE at least, 70 curious US the following which
appears in your editorial columns this morning:
ROYAL SHARP PRAcTicR IRON the British journal. IT,.
at hand gather the iolo~ing scts The Duchy Of CIV
wall Is ,ditsy 10 the British Royal Family ana w. ia,
birth Of male heir 10 the Crown THE present Prime. ATS
he succeeded tie Dncby hut the trustee. IN hi. b.s
the part Of tho Royal Duke which in hum,, Sss.a
w"uld have been branded ~ bAsiacsd r.scslisy." 'S
Allow me to remark, Sir, with great respect 70,
your usual accuracy Of statement and soundnsm NJ
judgment, that / doubt very much your hayn,
gathered any such facts from British jOurnals Tos
present Prince Alfred and there has never been an,
other, IL he second son Of his mother, was ney.,
made hoiS to the crown, and never succeeded IA
the Dnchy;" and, iuri ermoie, the Ducby Of Com.
wall If DO more hereditary in the British roysl
family than any other part of the British Isles.
certain portion If il is the personal property of TIA
Prince Of Wales, with Which the other members ~
the royal family lave no right 10 interfere; and
when there bappens TO be no Prince Of Wales. Il
reveits, of conrse, 10 the crown.
The late Royal Duke rs you call that honest ola
fellow King William the Fourth, lad Just the ,a,ns
riQht to do ~ he pleased with lis as any o,ber
man who iuher1ts An estate from MS ancessOra
After detailing tie particulars Of the case to show
how King William swindled bis successor, whom
You per-ift in calling Princa Alfred, you say:
"Tarsnsat ought 10 pans oct 20 prevent Royal Dsks.
swiBdDg their hereafter Bu. VIII have he
tenrrtty to do 20 |"
Really 10 not think Parliament will pey any A.
teption 70 yyDr gentle insiuuaticn for tie reason
that the laws against swindlIng already in existence
Apply se well 10 ROYAL DHkss a. TO barker. AID
brewers, and furthermore kings are no. called dSkes
And then You volunteer the remark that:
Had tbs dodre been invented by Yankee horscocksy
II v0uld have been olszoned in The IVES LONDON
evidence OF tfe scapi Of the America char
ac-r A. thu sct H. only proves tina. rogue sogus
WHISTLER IN ii-rnis Or iow"
| do not believe TIE Times London, wonll have
done anything OF tie kind, II II not the ba'it Il
thai journal 10 make the private affairs of even public
men, when they have 40 connection with public IN.
cresis The .ub lec public comment, or as evidences
Of ma ional cLalact,f.
be-. to assure you HAT my only reafon for being
at hs trouble Of writing THE noe, is that take 10
other paper in ny family than TIE TRIBUNE. sni az
have taught nv children TO believe In Its staie.
meuts, ] 90 not want their minds lee astray on .
sus, OF history, witch nigh; caIse them 10 ail
into iici llous nis'a.ei.
Az 20 the " ecsmpi.bness" OF William w., there
nav be- allowable differences Of opinion. Bat DO
probably never bestowed IA moments thought Oh the
revenue. Of the pu.hy oi Cornwall, but allowed the
Chancellor Of the DGcby, aud Lis own Chancellor II
he FNcheq er &C. make he most ont Of Ihela they
could Tor bis Leueit.
Your ooetisnt servant, HOkAIiO "kApu-.