Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-08
How a Fat and Willy Queen Ruled a
Dapper King.

Temple Bar,
The second George, in spite of his open
infidelities, was deeply attached to his
consort, woman OF great Judgment. we'll
| read, and of considerable tact, but want
| ing In all those softer qualities with which
her sex is generally credited. She had
the sense and culture of man, with a
mans standard of purity Provided her
husband accepted her counsel and advice.
she was Indifferent to whom he gave what
he was pleased to call his heart The in
dignities that another woman would not
have tolerated for a moment she bore
with charming good humor, and was per-
fectly content to lose her husbands aifec-
tons so long as she retained the command
over his intellect. Yet with that anus
ing blindness which never makes us see
ourselves as others see US, the King was
under the impression that he was the
most autocratic and independent of
sovereigns. He expressed the strongest
contempt for all monarchs who permitted
themselves to be ruled by their wives or
their subjects. He sneered at Charles I.
for being governed by his wife; at
Charles II. for being governed by his
mistress; at James II. for being governed
by his priests; at William III. for being
governed by his men favorltes; at Queen
Anne for being governed by her women
| tavorites, and at his father Tor being GOV
erned by any body that could get at him.
Then, at the end OF this TRADE, he would
turn round to his audience and ask,
And who do they say governs nowg
,yrtIa
ply, but wag took the subject up and
put it to verse;
you may strut, dapper George, but twill all
be in vain;
We know tits Qleen Caroline, not you, that
reign
You govern no more than Don Philip OF
Spain
Then if you would have us fall down and
adore you,
Lock up your fat spouse, as your dad did be-
fore you.'
How this power over the King was
maintained, and how great was the self
denial II demanded from the Queen, we
read in the pages of Hervey. The pre-
dominant passion OF Queen Caroline was
pride, and the darling pleasure If her
sou. was power; "Dut she was forced to
crafty the one and gain the other as
some people do health, by strict and
plain re CINE, which few besides herself
could have had patience to support, re-
solution to adhere to-" Every day she
remained tete-a -tete with the King, dur
ing which time she was generally saying
what she did not think, asserting to
what she did not believe, and praising
what she did not approve; for they were
seldom OF the same opinion. and ne too
fond OF his own for her ever at first to
dare to controvert it. She used to give
him her opinions as jugglers do card,
by changing it imperceptibly, and max
ing him believe he held the same with
that he first pitched upon"
To him she sacrificed her time, fer him
she mortified her inclination. Sine
looked, spoke and breathed but for him,
like weathercock to every capricious
blast OF his uncertain temper She gov
erned him by being SO great slave to
him thus ruled as any other wife could be
to man who ruled her. For all the tedi-
Gus hours she spent then in watching him
while he slept, or the heavier task of
entertaining him while he was awake,
her single consolation was in rejecting
she had power, and that people in coffee
houses were saying she governed this
country without knowing how dear the
government OF it cost her. The position
of affairs was not lost upon so worldly an
observer as Walpole. He paid his court
to the Queen he ingratiated himself into
her good graces, he let her see the differ
cnce between himself and Compton, and
how the one could materially hel p her
while the other would be of little service.
he heard that Compton had offered Her
Majesty an allowance of e60,000a year. ''It
my office OF Minister be secured me said
Walpole, 81 will make the allowance
FAC, 900 more" The bail was accepted;
'the Queen assured him that she believed
no man so capable Of serving the King as
himself; that her interest, if she had any,
should never be employed for any other
body, and she was sure the Kings inten-
tons were to continue him. And so it
came to pass that Walpole was restored
to power, and the Tories still continued to
gaze from the Pisgah of opposition upon
the Canaan of Office without being invited
TO take up their abode within the fertile
territory. sit was now understood by
every body" says Hervey, "that Sir
Robert was the Queens Minister; that
whomsoever he favored she distin guished;
and whomsoever she distinguished the
King employed. His reputed mistress,
Mrs. Howard. and the Speaker Compton
his reputed Minister, were perceived to
be nothing; and Sir Pultenev and Lord
Bolingbroke, in the algebraical phrase,
less than nothing" The Administration
that was IN office at the death of the last
King was not displaced.