The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-18
ralcrEaArs LEGTuRIs on rHl aIOaeEs.
GEORGE THE SRCOND.
Ioonunued from rhe last Issue Of THE Evi

On the afternoon Of the l4th Of June, 1877.
two horsemen might have been perceived Gal.
lopnR along the road from Chelsea TO Rich
mond The foremost, cased iH the jack-bootg OF
The periOd, was q broad-iaced, jolly-lOokinp and
very corpulent cavalier; but, bY the manner in
which ne urged MS horse, yog might see tnat he
no man loved SPORT better; and, in the hunting.
6elds of Norfolk, no squire rode more boldly
after the fox, or cbeered RING wood and s Eeei
tins more Justify than he who thundered over
the Richmond road.
He speedily reached Richmond Lodge and
aeked TO see the owner of the mansion. The
mistress of the house aud her ladies', to whom
our friend was admitted, said he could not be
introduced to the master, however pressing the
business might be. The master was asleep after
his dinner-he always slept after his dinner
and woe be to the person who interrupted hlml
Nevertheless, our stout friend of the jack-boots
mt the atfrinbted ladies aside, opened the for
hidden door of the bedroom, wherein upon the
bed lay little gentleman, aud here the eager
messenger kneli down in his jack-boots.
He on the bed started up, and With many oaths
and a strong German accent asked, "Who was
there and who dared 10 disturb him ?'
AZ am Sir Robert Wapoe," said the messenger
The awakened sleeper hated SIR Robert Wal
pole 81 have the honor to announce to your
majesty that your royal father, King George J.
died at Osnaburg on Saturday last the l0tn
sDdt is one big Iie!n roared out his sacred
majesty King George IL; but Sir Robert Wal
pole stated the fact, and from that day until
thTee-and-thirtY years after, George, the second
OF the name, ruled over ENGLAND.
How the king made away with his fathers
will under the astonished nose of the Arch
bishop of Canterbury; how he was a cholerc
little sovereign; how he shook his fist in the face
of his fathers courtiers; how he kicked mis- coat
and wig about in his RACES, and called every
body thief liar, rascal, with whom he differed
you will read in all the history books; and how
he speedily and shrewdly reconcled himself
with the bold minister whom he had hated
during his iather's life, and by whom he was
served during fifteen years of his own with
admirable prudence, fidelity, and success. But
for Sir Robert Walpole, we should have had the
Pretender back again. But for his obstinate
love of peace, we should have had wars which
the nation was not strong enough nor united
enough to endure. But for his resolute cOunsels
and soOd-humored resistance, we might have
had German despots attempting Hanoverian
regimen over us; we should have had revolt,
commOion, want and tyrannous misrule, in
place of quarter OF a century of peace, free
dom, end material prosperity, such as the
country never enjoyed, until that COrrupter of
Parliaments. that dissoute,g tIpsy cynic, that
courageous lover OF peace and liberty, that great
citizen, patriot, and statesman governed it. In
religion he was little better than a heather;
cracked ribald jokes at bigwlgs and bishops,
and laughed at HIgh-Church and Low. IN pri-
yate lite the old pagan revelled in the lowest
pleasures; he passed his Sundays tipplng at
Richmond and his holidays bawling after dogs,
or boozing at Houghton with Doors over beef
and punch. He cared for letters no more than
his master did; he judged human nature SO
meanly that one is ashamed to have to own that
he was right, and that men could be corrupted
by means so base. But, with his hireling House
of Commons, he defended liberty for us; with
his incredulity he kept ChurchSCraft down.
There were parsons at Oxford as dou6le-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 shtlhngs
quarter.
1t was lucky for us that our first Georges were
notmore high. minded men; especially fortunate
that they loved Hanover so much as to leave
England to have her own way. Our Chief trout
bles began when we got king who elOried in
the name of Brlton, and, being born in the
country, proposed to rule it. He was no more
fit to govern England than his grandfather and
gTeat-grandfather, who did not try. 1t was
righting itself during their occupation. The
dangerous, noble old spirit of cavalier loyalty
was dying out; the stately old English High
Church was emptying itself; the questions drop
ping, which, on one side and the other-the side
OF loyalty, prerogative, 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 and liberty was
come to an end; and Charles Edward, old, tpsy,
and childless, was dying in Italy.
Those who are curious about European court
history OF the last age know the memoirs of the
Margarine of Bayreuth, aud what court was
that of Berlin, where George IIs cousins ruled
sovereign. Frederick the Greats father knocked
down his sons, daughters, officers OF state; he
kidnapped big men ali over Europe to make
granadiers Of; his ieasts his parades, his wine
parties, his tobacco parties, are all described.
Jonathan Wild the Great, in language, pleasures,
and behavior, is scarcely more delicate than this
German sovereign. Louis XV-his life, aud
reign, andldOings-are told in thousand French
memoirs. Our George III, at least, was not a
worse king than his neIghbors. He claimed and
took the royal exemption from doing right which
soVereigns assumed. dull little man of 10 "
tastes he appears to us in England; yet Hervey
tells us that this choleric prince was a great
sentimentalist and thar his letters, OF which he
wrote prodigiOus quantities, were quite DANCE
rous in their powers of fascination. He kept his
sentimeutbhtes for his Germans and mis- queen
With us English he never chose 70 be familiar.
de has been accused OF avaTice, yet he did not
give much money, and did not leave much be-
hind him. He did not love the fine arts, but he
dld not pretend to love them. He was no more
hypocrte about religion than his father. He
ludgeu inen oy low standards; yet, with such
men as were near him, was he wrong in Judging
as he dldy He readily detected living and aatterV,
and liars and hatteTers were perforce his com.
panions. Had he been more of a dune, he
might have been more amiable. dismal ex-
perience made him cynical. No boon was il to
HIM to be clear-sghted, and see only seIfsbness
aud hattery round about him. What could
Walpole tell him about his Lords and Commons
but that they were all yenalg Did not his CLERGY
his courtiers, bring him the same storyY NasII
ing with men and women in his rude, skepticaI
way. he comes to doubt about honor male ana
female, about patriotism about religion. ''H1
is wild hut he fights like man" George /, tht
taciturn, said of his son and successor. Cour
age George III certainly had. The eleclora
prince at the head of his fathers contingent ha
approved himself good and brave soldier un
der Eugene and Marlborough. AT Oudenatde
specially distinguished himself at Malplaqut
the other claimant to the English throne Wo
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