The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-24

ing in that simple early life of the kings AS
long as his mother lIved-a dozen years after
was a great, shy, awkward boy, under the tute-
lage OF that hard parent. She must have been
clever, domlneering, cruel woman. She kept
her household lonely and In gloom, mistrusting
almost all people who came about her children.
seeng the young Duke of Gloucester silent and
unhappy once she sharply asked him the cause
of his silence. II am thinking,n said the poor
child thinking, sir and OF what" II am
thinking II ever l have son ] will not make
him 90 unhappy as you make me-" The other
sons we're all wild except George. Dutifully
every evening George and Charlotte paid their
visit TO the kings mother at Carlton House.
she had a throat complaint, of which she died;
but 10 the last persisted in driving about the
streets to show that sne was allVe , Inc it n'gnt
with her son and daughter-in-l as usual, went
10 bed and was found dead IN the morning.
''George be kingw were the words which she
was forever crOakng In the ears of her son; and
a king the simple stubborn, ahectOnate,
bigoted man tried TO be.
he aid his best: he worked according to his
lights; what virtue he knew he tried TO practise;
what knowledge he could master he strove tn
acquire. He was forever drawing maps, for
example, and learned geography with no small
care and industry. He knew all about the
family histories and genealogtes of his gentry,
and pretty histories he must have known. He
knew the whole Army List and all the facings
and the exact number of the buttons, and ali
the tags and laces, and the cut OF all the cooked
hats, pigtails, and CATERS in his army. He
knew the personnel of the universities; what
doctors were inclined TO Sociniansm, and who
we're sound churchmen; he knew the etiquettes
OF his own and his grandfather's courts to a
nicety, and the smallest particulars regarding
the routine Of ministers, secretaries, embassies
audiences; the humblest page in the anteroom,
or the meanest helper in the stables or kitchen.
These parts of the royal business he was
capable of learning and he learned. But as
one thinks of an Office almost divine performed
by any mortal man-of any single being pre-
tending to control the thoughts, TO direct the
faith, to order the implicit obedience of brother
millions, to compel them into war at his offense
or quarrel; to command, an this way you shall
trade, in this way you shall think; these neigh
bors shall be your allies whom you shall help,
these Others your enemies whom you shall slay
at my orders; in this way you shall worship
Godn-who can wonder that when such man
as George took such an office on himself, punish
ment and humiliation should fall upon people
and Chiet?
Yet there is something grand about his
courage. The battle of the king with his aris
tocracy remains yet TO be told by the historian
who shall view the reign OF George more justly
than the trumpery panegyrists who wrote I'M
mediately after his decease. 1t was be, with the
people to back him, who made the war with
America; 1t was he and the people who refused
justice to the Roman Catholics; and on both
questions he beat the patricans. He brtbed;
he bullied; he darkly dissembled on occasion;
he exercised slippery perseverance and vim
dictive resolution, which one almost admres as
one thinks his character over. His courage was
never to be beat. 1t trampled North under foot;
1T beat the stiff neck OF the younger Pitt; even
his illness never conquered that indomita6le
spirit. As soon az his brain was clear 1t resumed
the scheme, only laid aside when his reason left
him; as soon as his hands were out OF the strait
waistcoat, they took up the pen and the plan
which had engaged him up to the moment of
his malady. l believe II is by persons believing
themselves IN the right that nine tenths OF the
tyranny of this world has been perpetrated.
,t..v,N On n
Algiers would cut off twenty heads of a morning;
Father Dominic would burn score OF jews In
the presence of the most catholic king, aud the
Archbishops of Toledo and Salamanca sing
Amen. Protestants were roasted, Jesuits hung
and quartered at Smithheld, and witches burned
at Salem, and all by worthy people, who believed
they had the best authority for their actions.
And So with respect to old George, even Amerl-
cans, whom he hated and who conquered him,
may give him credit for having quite honest
reasons for depressing them. Appended to Lord
Brougham's biographical sketch OF Lord North
are some autograph notes of the king, which
let us most curiously into the state of his mind
''The times certainly require" says he, con.
currence of all who wish to prevent anarchy.
have no wish but the prosperity of my own
dOmmions, therefore must look upon all who
would not heartily assist me as bad men as well
as bad subects.n That is the way he reasoned
al wish nothing but good, therefore every mau
who does not agree with me is traitor and 8
scoundrel.7 Remember that he believed himsel
anointed by q Divine commission; remember
that he was a man of slow parts and imperfec
education; that the same awful will of Heaven
which placed a crown upon his head which
made him tender to his family, pure in his life
COURAGEOUS and honest, made him dull of com
prehenson obstinate OF WILL and at manY times
deprived him of reason. He was the father o.
his people; his rebellious children must bC
fogged into obedience He was the defender
of the Protestant faith; he would rather lay
that stout head upon the block than that Catho
lies should have share in the government o
England. And you do not suppose that thert
are not honest bigots enough in all countries L
back kings in this kind of craftsmanship? With
out doubt the American war was po0ular II
England In l775 the address in favor o
coercing the colonies was carried by 304 to 10
Lords. Popular? so was the Revocation of tht
Edct of Nantes popular in France; so was th'
massacre of st. Bartholomew; so was the In
quisition exceedingly popular in Spain.
Wars and revolutions are, however, the poll
ncian's province. The great events OF this Ions
reign the statesmen and orators who illustrated
It, do not pretend 10 make the subject of al
hours light talk Let us return to our humble
duty OF court gossip. Yonder sits our littl
queen, surrounded by many stout sons and tai
daughters whom she bore to her faithful George
The history OF the daughters as little Miss Bur
ney has painted them to us, is delightfuI The,
were handsome-she calls them beautiful; theJ
were most kind, loving, and lady-like; the,
were gracious to every person, high or low, Wht
served them: They had many little accom-
plishments OF their own. This one drew. tina
one played the piano; they all worked mos
prodfgiously and fitted up whole suits of room
pretty, smiling Penelopes-With their bus
little needles. AS we picture to ourselves tn
society of eighty years ago, we must imagin
hundreds of thousands ofygroups OF women i
needing away, while one of the number, {
nerhaps favored gentleman in pigtail, read