The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1865-10-05

kent Chufc1-cfa1t GOWN. There were
parsons at Oxford as double-dealing and
dangerous as any priests out of Rome,
and he routed them both. He gave
Englishmen no conquests, but he gave
them peace, and ease, and freedom; the
three per cents. nearly at par; and wheat
at five and six and twenty shillings a
quarter.
1t Was lucky for us that our first Georges
We're not more higll-minded men; espe-
cially fortunate that they loved Hanover
so much as to leave England to have her
own way. Our chief troubles began
when we got king who gloried in the
name of Briton, and, being born in the
country, proposed to rule it. Hewas no
more fit to govern England than his
grandfather and great-grandfather who
did not try. 1t was righting itself DUR
ing their occupation. The dangerous,
noble old spirit of cavalier loyalty was
dying out; the stately old English High
Church was emptying itself: the ques-
tons dropping, which, On enc side and
the other-the side of loyalty, preroga-
tive, church and king; the side of right,
truth, civil and religious freedom-had
set generations of brave men in arms
By the time when George III. came to
the throne, the combat between loyalty
tttlNt iiDCluN was COiliG 70 t1 Gilu anu
Charles Edward, old, tipsy, and child
less, was dying in Italy.
Those who are curious about European
Court history Of the last age, know the
memoirs Of the Margarine Of Bayreuth,
and what a Court was that Of Berlin,
where George HIS cousins ruled sover-
eign. Frederick the Greats father
knocked down his sons, daughters, Off
GERS of state; he Kidnapped big men all
Europe over to make grenadiers of; his
feasts, his parades, his wine parties, his
tobacco parties, are all described. Jona-
than Wild, the great in language, pleas
ures, and behavior, is scarcely more del
ieate than this German sovereign. Louis
XIV, his life, and reign, and doings, are
told in q thousand French memoirs.-
Our George H., al least, Was not q worse
king than his neighbors. He claimed
and took the royal exemption from do
ing right which sovereigns assumed. a
Gull little man, OF low tastes, he appears
to us in England; yet Iiervey tells us
that this choleric prince was q great SEN
timentalist, and that his letters of
which he wrote prodigious quantities.
We're quite dangerous in their powers
OF fascination. He kept his sentimental
tiles for his Germans and his queen.-
With us English he never chose to be
familiar. lie has been accused of avar-
ice, yet he did not give much money,
and did not leave much behind him.
He did not love the fine arts, but he did
not pretend to love them. He was no
more a hypocrite about religion than his
father. He judged men by a low stand
ard; yet, with such men as We're near
him, was he wrong in judging as he did?
He readily detected lying and hattery,
and liars and t1atterers were perfOrce his
companions. Had he been more OF a
dupe, he might have been more amlable.
A dismal experience made him cynical.
No boon was it to him to be clear-sight-
ed, and see only selfishness and t1attery
round about him. What could Walpole
tell him about his Lords and Commons
but that they We're all venal: Did not
his CLERGY, his courtiers, bring him the
same story? Dealing with men and
women in his rude, skeptical way, he
comes to doubt about honor, male and
female, about patriotism, about religion.
"He is wild, but he fights like a man,"
George l., the taciturn, said of his son
and successor.
Courage George II. certainly had
The Electoral Prince, at the head OF his
fathers contingent, had approved him.
self a good and brave soldier under Er-
Gene and Marlborough. At Oudenarde
he specially distinguished himself, At
Malplaquet the other claimant to the
English throne won but little honor
There was always a question about
James's courage. Neither then in Elan
ders, nor afterward in his own ancient
kingdom of Scotland, did the luclless
Pretender show much resolution. But
dapper little George had a famous tough
spirit of his own, and fought like 1ro-
Jan. He called out his brother OF Prus-
STA, with sword and pistol; and | wish,
for the interest of romancers in general,
that that famous duel could have taken
place. The two sovereigns hated each
other with all their might; their seconds
were appointed; the place of meeting
was settled; and the duel was only pre-
vented by strong representations made
to the two, of the European laughter
which would have been caused by such
transaction.
Whenever we hear of dapper George
| a II * nn;.toiy tEat hn fa,onannl