The Shasta courier., 1868-07-11

almost devoid of reason-and finally lost all
his wits. He delighted in farces and low
comedy at the theatre, and never laughed So
heartily as when the clown swallowed a car
rot or string of sausages.
Besides his wife, he divided his love
among Hannah Lightfoot, the Quakeress,
Sarah Lenox, and many Others His mother
was Ignorant, selfish, sour. of inferior intel
lect, and finally died of filthy chronic throat
disease. Ills wife, the, simple-headed soft
hearted Charlotte of Strelitz, loved her chill
dren, loved q few simple stupid amusements
and snuff. And the old king himself had
such a vast amount of hereditary taint in his
blood. that he not only became slaverng
idiot, and remained so for years, but became
sore-eyed and blind, and also deaf.
After him came George Nv, and here we
must go down a fathom or two deeper into
the filthy cess-pool. He was proHigate,
prCdigal, gambler, gutton, and unk-
ard. He delighted in French ballet dancers.
horse jockeys, procurers, and buffoons, and
wine and brandy. His only companions were
dandies, parasites, and fourth rate loafers.
He was bollow-hearted voluptuary, without
friends. He was merely bow, grin. an
empty nothing. No one ever went deeper
or lower into the tainted abyss of state vo-
luptuouSness. He kissed and fondled Per-
dita. and the Duchess of Devonshire. His
wife Caroline, whom he married for her
riches. and whose father had the sister of
George Ill for his mistress, travelled in for
eign lands, and had favorites everywhere.
He was drunk when they were married, and
beat her brutaly few days after.
Alexandria Victoria, by her pure and
blameless life. seemed destined of Heaven to
rado fha of 81 III A. L.,
honor former members of the family had
had brought upon the name While the
breath of scandal has, indeed been blown
upon her fame, it has never been ably TO
sully its brightness and the world hoped
that the line would assume new lustre
from this reign, and that hereafter it should
be as ilustrions for virtue and nobleness of
character as it had formerly been notorious
for trofgacy and vice. But the conduct of
her eldest son and heir, Albert Edward.
Prince of Wales, is not of such character as
to justify the expectation. For the era in
which be lives, he has already acquired a
reputation for vicious habits scarcely outri-
vailed by the most prohigate of his ancestors.
Since the death of his father, he has scarcely
sought to conceal his scandalous conduct from
public notoriety. Even after he had taken
the lovely and pure Princess Alexandra of
Denmark to his polluted couch, he soon ap-
parently wearied of her love and her society,
and plunged into a course of dissipation and
lmpurity which has elected the severest COM
ments from the British press. The ancient
faint is ever reappearing in the life OF the
younger Brother, Prince Alfred, who was and
is the most popular and best esteemed of
best esteemed of Victoria's children, and to
whose career the English have pointed until
recently as a model of propriety and manli
ness. But his hereditary proclivities strongly
assert themselves when he finds himself free
from the restraints of his good mothers au
thority and scrutiny, and his recent exploits
in Australia show that there is little to be
hoped from the Duke of Edinburg in the way
of elevating the family name and lineage.
Napoleon said the blood of the Guephs
was Every poor ditch water" and it was
no crime to spill it," If this be "royal
blood" it would seem that a little admixture
from plebian veins would hardly fail to i'm
prove it. Even Victoria herself united one
of her daughters to a man who had already
a morganatic or left handed" wife-a prac
tice which other people than purists can
hardly discriminate from the customs of the
Turkish Sultan or of Brigham Young. Tie
nineteenth century will not tolerate course
of conduct that would have been permissible
two hundred years ago, and unless the
=. royal blood" of England shall at least cease
degenerating, there is likelihood that sys-
TEN of phlebotomy and TRANSMISSION of fluid
may some day be resorted to for its puri6ca-
tiOn and improvement.