The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-20
THAT MYSTERIOUS BOOK,

THAT MYSTERIOUS BOOK.
eamdalous Memoir. of King George the
Foarth-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 a book de-
failing the secret history OF certain
members of the royal family of Eng
land. We regarded this at the time as
clap trap advertisement, which referred
to book written by Lady Hamilton
and published secretly in London about
1880, and that in consequence of this
sensation produced by the Greville
memories, it was intended to issue q
large addition of the Hamilton book,
for which the flaming offer of thou
sand dollars was intended as prelimin-
airy puff. The lengthy associated press
telegram from Louisville. informing the
public az 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 a
grand flourish is called the Memoirs
of George w." and is doubtless q 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 il contained about
one hundred and fifty pages, and was
full of attractive matter to those who
could take an interest in the grovelling
debaucheries and supremcst littleness
Of AZ base q race of men as ever cursed
. father with their united infamy. It
was SO full, indeed, that the attempt
was made early in the reign of William
w., when it was Published, to suppress
it, an attempt which only partially sue
oeeded, 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 81 It
fords, but her family, the Gordons, was
too powerful to crush, and the new
queen, Adelaide, too respectable a wo-
man to participate in an attempt to per-
secute. It gave q full account of the
scandals attaching to George ". under
the regency, his disgracetul horse-rac-
in0 raroop HE 1aft hopIaI x,e~-:~-o -
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 q
clique of harpies VINO were determined
that no wife and children should come
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 q pen of
flame that burnt. Much as the people
Of England were dis,osed in some re-
spects 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 the book fell. In describing cir
cumstantially the arrival of Caroline,
she stated how the stranger was drugged
to such an extent that she was actually
married in q condition of semi intoxica-
ton. Lady Hamilton, whose love for
her mistress was supreme, did not hest
tate to charge this infamy against Lady
Jersey, nor that their object from the
first was to present the unfortunate lady
before her intended husband in such
. light as to provoke disgust where
an upmerited dislike had simply existed
before.
The death of the Princess Charlotte,
sole issue Of this unhappy marriage,
made a terrible episode in these
memoirs. The authoress declared bold.
]y that the princes was murdered,
though she gave no reasons for
the commission of such a crime. She
directly implicated Lord Castlereagh
and the physician, whose name we for
get, with a guilty knowledge Of the
event which abe says was effected by
poison. Her details were SO circum-
stantial, however she arrived at them,
20 as to be absolutely startling, but it
Is due to the dead to state that there
are very strong reasons for doubling
her, as the death of the princess oc-
Cured either during or Immediately
after her accouchment. Lady Hamil-
toms statement WAS nevertheless broadly
made and apparently supported by sub
sequent occurrences, which appeared to
constitute at least a case for serious
doubt and ref sction. She referred to
the suicide of Lord Castlereagh-" car
otid artery cutting Castlereagh," as the
fierce Byron calls him-the remorse and
death Of the physician and the horror
of the nurse as proofs in sustainment
Of her extraordinary theory.
The Duke Of York's disgraceful in
trigue with Mrs. Clarke makes another
chapter, in which the fact was distinctly
brought home to this younger brother
Of the king that through her he sold
preferments in the army.
The inhumanity Of the Duke Of Clar-
ence, afterwards William II : Mrr.
Jordan, one Of the most beau.iful &C
tresses Of her day, and ths mother of
half a dozen Of his children, forms an
otter episode that causes us to wonder
what manner OF men those Guelphs