Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-02-18
THAT MYSTERIOUS BOOK.

THAT MYSTERIOUS BOOK.
scandaIcus Memoirs of King Georgo tho
Fourth-A Big Literary Speculation i'm
Prospect.
From the st. Louis Republican.
About two weeks since an offer OF one
thousand dollars in gold WAS publicly
made for the production of book de-
failing the secret history Of certain
members of the royal family. of Eng
land. We regarded this at the time as o
olap.trap advertisement, which referred
to book written by Lady Hamilton
aud published secretly in London about
1880, and that in consequence of this
sensation produced by the Greville
memories, it was intended to issue a
large addition of the Hamilton book,
for which the flaming offer of thou
sand dollars was intended as prelimin.
ary puff. The lengthy associated press
telegram from Louisville, informing the
public at considerable expense to our
selves that the book had been found in
the possession of young lawyer there,
confirms our previous opinion.
The book thus introduced with q
grand flourish is called the "Memoirs
of George w." and is doubtless re-
print of that which we have referred to
as written by Lady Anne Hamilton (not
Nelson's Lady Hamilton), lady-in-wait-
ing to Queen Caroline, the unfortunate
wife of fat George, the " first gentleman
in Europe" AS we'll as we remember
the book at this time it contained about
one hundred and fifty pages, and was
full of attractive matter to those who
could take an interest in the groyelling
debaucheries and supremest littleness
of as base q race of men as ever cursed
q father with their united infamy. It
was 30 full, indeed, that the attempt
was made early in the reign of William
~, when it was published, to suppress
it, an attempt which only partially sue
ceeded, for although the book could
not be purchased, it remained in the
possession of many private individuals
of England, and by those it was passed
from hand to hand. Lady Hamilton
was declared mad in the court circles
presided over by the Jerseys and H rt-
fords, but her family, the Gordons, was
too powerful to crush, and the new
queen, Adelaide, too respectable wo.
man to participate in m attempt to per.
secute. It gave full account of the
scandals attaching to George ~. under
the regency, his disgraceful horse-rac.
ing career, his left-handed marriage to
Mrs. Fitzherbert, his forfeited debts in
which the Dukes of York and Clarence
were parties-payable when he first
came to the throne-and his quarrels
with the old king. It was fearful ex-
posure Of the means brought to bear by
George and his set to crush the Princess
Caroline of Brunswick, to whom he
was to be married, on her arrival in
England. surrounded as she was by o
clique of harpies who were determined
that no wife and children should cone
between them and the man whose dis.
tinguishing trait was that he was never
known to be true to man or woman.
Lady Hamilton wrote with pen of
flame that burnt. Much as the people
of England were disnosed in some re.
speots to blame Caroline for certain i'm
pruderces which were not in accordance
with their ideas of English propriety,
still they took her part strongly against
the jersey court set, whom the hated,
and with Perceval, (afterwards assas-
sinated), Brougham, Denman, Alder
man, Wood, the Gordon family, and
others equally potential, her spirited
friend revealed astounding acts which
electrified those of that day into whose
hands tho book fell. In describing cir
oumstantially the arrival of Caroline,
she stated how the stranger was drugged
to such an extent that she was actually
married in g condition of semi.intoxica.
tion. Lady Hamilton, whose love for
her mistress was supreme, did not hest
tate to charge this infamy against Lady
jersey, nor Tint their object from the
first was to present the unfortunate lady
before her intended husband in suoh
light as to provoke disgust where
an unmerited dislike had simply existed
before.
The death of the Princess Charlotte,
sole issue Of this unhappy marriage,
made o terrible episode in these
memoirs. The suthoressdeclare bold
ly that the princes was murdered,
though she gave no reaacns for