The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-05-20
A Suppressed Prince.
A COMPANION PIECE TO THE STORY OF A
SUPPRESSED PRINCESS.

! A COMPANION PIECE TO THE STORY OF A
SUPPRESSED PRINCESS
A writer in the Canton (Illinois)
Weekly Register, referring to the article
in Harper's Magazine, entitled "a Sup
pressed Princess, - makes the following
curious statement
"The reader of the Suppressed Prin-
cess will be able to form some idea of
the care taken by royalty and its i'm
mediate adherents to keep such mat
tiers from the ears of the vulgar multi
tude; the extreme vigilance that would
! be exercised in the case now under con-
sideration, and consequent difficulty of
! securing a really reliable history of such
cases, and especially of this one, which
was undoubtedly guarded with the ut
most care and jealousy. Nevertheless,
| the writer Of this has good reason for
| believing that he can give an account
/ Of what became of Hannah Lightfoot
and her children. At any rate, it is the
only one he has ever been able to learn
of, after considerable inquiry and cor
respondence in both England and Anne
rica.
George III. well knew the storm of
Indignation that would be poured him
upon by the nobility of England-and
| that it might even deprive him Of the
throne-should he attempt to make
Hannah Lightfoot his Queen, and her
oldest son his heir; consequently he
divorced her or put her away. In order
the more completely to rid himself and
! successors from all trouble from that
source, he sent his oldest son, whose
name was also George, to Pennsylvania,
in company with a family who came
there to settle, with whom he grew up
under the name Of George SheareT. On
arriving at the age Of manhood he mar
ried and settled in the western part of
the same State His oldest son, James,
is now a resident of this county (Ful-
ton, Ill ~ and is something over sixty
| years ofage. He is a quiet, industri-
Gus farmer and his features bear so
| strong a resemblance to those of his
royal grandfather stamped on Eng
! lisn pennies-that the one has often re-
minded the writer OF this Of the other
He is comfortably well of, and posses
es to an eminent degree the prominent
characteristic of George III.-that of
a shrewd money-getter. We may also
add that he is a most unhinching Union
man. and has no more affection for roy
atty than any other American. 'sove-
reign
The exact date when George Shear
er was sent to this country we have
never been able to ascertain; but about
a year subsequent to that event Han
nah Lightfoot and her other children
were sent to Richmond, Va, in the
neighborhood of which the King gave
them a large grant of land, and where
she subsequently married again, and
raised another family. Mr. James
1 Shearer says he well remembers his
father going from Pennsylvania to visit
I his mother, two or three times. He
! (James) has lost all trace of that branch
Of the family; but the writer hereof
1 believes that he had found one portion
of il, by corresponding, when the war
/ broke cut and put an end to all furth-
er search at present
This is no new story to US; we have
/ been acquainted with the clfcumStGn-
ces, as here stated, for a number of
years, and for the accomplishment Of
certain purposes not necessary to state
in this connection, have been endeavor-
ing to secure all the information posi-
bic in reference thereto Although we
have not been able to secure anything
that would be considered prima facis ev-
idence, yet every circumstance yet at
tanned only goes to confirm its truth /;
and should opportunity ever offer, we
F. intend 10 make some further inquiries
at Richmond and vicinity We shall
also watch with interest the denoue-
ment in the case Of the Suppressed
Princess, if that case is ever brought
before Parliament; more especially, as
il may throw SOME further light upon
the circumstances we have related