The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-02-04
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE.

him to take 1T to America and keep il carefully :,
as il might one day be valuable and could no
safely be retained in England. Another owner
of the work offers it freely at S5, so that the
g, nteman referred to will scarcely obtain the
90 per cent. commission which he asks It is
understood that still another copy is in the
hands of one of the smaller publishing houses
down town, who propose to put it upon the
market.
In relation TO this subject the Tribune has re-
ceived TIE following:
CARD FROM j. sABIN s. SONS.
To the Editor of the Tribune
SIR: We have had many inquiries as 10 the
name OF mysterious book. for whi"h the enOr-
nous price of $1,000 is offered by Mr.. Col
bourne in LOLdOn. or Mr.. Brown in New
York, and the question seems to have acquired
so much importance in the newspapers that we
have thought 1t worth while to say, that in our
judgment, the whole story is q sublime hum
bug, or else an obscure method of advertising
certain book" which has .ately been published
IN this country. We have aseertained that
there is no b. r. Brown TO be found at No. 500
Broadway. and there is no G. COlbourne No 81
Duke street, in the London Directory of last
year. But we are met this morning with
statement in the newspapers that a certain Mr.,
Fountain i. Fox of Louisville is the fortunate
pOssessor of this precious work. We hope that
Mr.. Fountain T. Fox will not, on the strength
OF that forthcoming (?) thousand pounds. in
duge in any riotOus living, for the book which
is described Is nothing more or less than:
memoirs of George the Fourth, Descriptive
of the most Interesting Scenes of his Private
aud Public Life; with Characteristic Sketches
of all the Celebrated Men who were his Friends,
Ministers aud COunsellors. By Robert Hush.
London. printed (by William COw'es, Stamford
Street) for T. Kelly, PaternOster Row; Fisher,
Son and p. Jackson, Newgate Street; Jones &
Co, Temple of the MUSES.. Finsbury Square;
and e. Virtue, Ivy Lane, 1890" 2 vols, s 70.
With Portraits of his Court and Courtesans.
This work was said tn have been suppressed,
but it is by no means ra-e-we have sold seve-
raj copies at about $40 (ten dollars per setl and
will undertake to furnish it to any anxious in
qurer at about that figure. The story of George
the Fourth and his alleged marriage with Mrs.
Fitzherbprt, is all told by the Hon. c. Lang
dale, in his ''Memors of Mrs Fizherbert."
vo. London, 1856-a book which has not been
suppressed, and it is surprising that the news
papers should have been so easily led into the
discussion of this 'humbug." Mr.. Fox's name,
and the fact that he has received number OF
dispatches" is suggestive of still another
sell" We might add that there can be no
reason for offering any such reward in view of
the political importance of proving the exis-
tence of claimant to the throne of England.
Such importance is entirely suppostitious--tOr
from the nature of the "Royal Marriage Act"
and the law of protestant Succession" even
an ordinarily regular marriage was illegal un-
der the circumstances, and the issue OF any
such marriage illegitimate. Mrs. Fitzherbert
was Subject" and a "Romln Catholic"
J. SABIN & Sons.
No. 84 Nassau St., New York, Feb. /, 1875