The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-02-19
THAT MYSTERIOUS BOOK.
candaIous Memoirs of King George tho
FOurth-A Big Literary Speculation in
Prospect.

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 r~eferrei
to a book written by Lady Hamilton
1 and published secretly in London about
: 1880, and that in consequence of this
sensation produced by the Greville
. memories, it was intended to issue
large addition of the Hamilton book,
4 for which the flaming offer of a thou.
sand dollars was intended as a prelimin.
airy 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 a 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 a re.
print of that which we have referred to
as written by Lady Anne Hamilton (not
Nelson's Lady Hamilton), l~ady-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 YVES
full of attractive matter to those who
could take an interest in the g~rovelling
de~baucheries and supremest l~ittleness
OF as base a race of men as ever cursed
a father with their united infamy. It
was so 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
wa declared mad in the court circles
presided over by the Jerseys and q IT.
fords, but her family, the -Gordons, was
too powerful to crush, and the new
queen, Adelaide, too respectable a wo-
mar to participate in an attempt to per-
secute. IL gave a full account of the
scandals attaching to George ". under
the regency, his disgracetul 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 a fearful ex-
posure of the lean 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 I
England. surrounded as she was bv q
clique of harpies VINO were determined
that no wife and children should come
between them and the man whose dis
ti~nguishing trait was that he was never i
known to be true to man or woman.
Lady Hamilton wrote with a pen of
fame that burnt. Much as the people /,
of England were dis1osed in some re-. /,
spects to blame Caroline for certain i'm i
pruderces which we're not in accordance
their ideas of English propriety,
still they took her part strongly against j
Jersey court set, whom the hated. /
and with Perceval, afterwards assas- 1
slnated), B~rougham, Denman, Alder
man, Wood, the Gordon family, and 4
others equally potential, her spirited {
revealed astounding acts which
electrified those OF that day into whose !
lands the book fell. In describing cir !
.'umstantially the arrival of Caroline. /,
stated how the stranger was drugged 4
o such an extent that she was actually !
married in a condition of se~mi.intoxica- /
ion. Lady Hamilton, whose love for /
ler mistress was supreme, did not hest d
ate TO charge this infamy against Lady a
ersey, nor that their object from the 4
Irst was topresent the unfortunate lady ,
'efore her intended husband in such 4
light as to provoke disgust where /;
unmerited dislike had simply existed j
efore. I
The death of the Princess Charlotte. h
Issue Of this unhappy marriage, Q,
Iade . terrible episode in these ID
lemoirs. The authoressd declared bold ii
7 that the princes was murdered nj
lough she gave no reasons for oI
10 commission of such q crime. She
implicated Lord Castlereaph
I'd the physician, whose name We for.
with a guilty knowledge OF the
rent which she says was effected by
bison. Her details we're so circum- 7.
antial, however she arrived at them.
as to be absolutely startling, but il
due to the dead to state that there -
g very strong reasons for doubling
as the death of the princess oc-
Erred either during or Immediately
Ter her accouchment. Lady Hannil.
n'sstatenaent was nevertheless broadly n
and apparently supported by sub.
quent occurrences, which appeared to u
institute at least a case for serious ~
ubt and reflection. She referred to "
. suicide Of Lord Castlereagh-a car. NJ
q artery-cutting Oastlereagh, I" as the 81
rec Byron calls him-the remorse and X
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