Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-15
The First Gentleman i'm Europe.

Meanwhile this worthy king, in order to avoid the curses which beset him at home, took Q trip to Ireland. During the passage he amused himself by partaking largely Of goose pie and copious draughts of milk punch and whiskey, and sang many joyous songs; so that when his loyal subjects first saw their monarch in Dublin he was more than half seas over" However, they got him to the Phoenix Park, and the paddles an nounced him 8 jolly good fellow. He also visited Scotland, when Sir Walter Scott, bubbiing over with loyal enthusiasm, grasped the goblet from which his majesty had just drained a powerful dose of toddy, raised 1t aloft, declared that the glass should be han dled by his family unused to posterity, placed 1t for safety in the tail-pocket of his coat and immediately afterward, forgetting the treasure, sat down and smashed 1t to atoms. This exuberant loyalty was more than matched by the linen of Kent" who erected an obelisk at Ramsgate, "as grate- ful record of his majesty's graceful condo scension in selecting this port for his em harkation" to Hanover; as if the poor nor tai could pass from place to place without traversing the intermediate space
 If the kings conduct to his wife was shame fuI it was scarcely less so to his only child, of whom he became profoundly jealous. At others that by divorcing his wife he should get rld of the heir to the throne. When this scheme failed he next endeavored to get her out of the country by marrying the Princess Charlotte to the Prince of Orange-a man without the least affection for her, and who swore like trooper, got drunk, and lodged at his taiIor's He was at length told by his lady-love that his offer was declined with thanks. Upon hearing this. her fond father -''the first gentleman in Europe"-was flu rious He stormed and swore placed her under lock and key, and dismissed all her at tendants, until the princess ran away in a hackney coach to her mothers; and then the unseemly wrangle abated: The regent at length consented to her union Drought about about by the crafty Duchess of OIdenburg) with Prince Leopold, whom he generally smoke of in terms of contempt. This was the father who, in response to the health of the Princess Charlott whom he scarcely ever saw, could de- clare that t.he had made 1t his first care to instill into the mind and heart of his daughter the knowledge and love of the Brit ish constitution :" This was the father who heard of that daughters death when on 8 visit to Lord Hertford in Suffolk with pro fession of profound grief at one moment and the next was in the best of spirits, planning a most elaborate funeral by tegch- light and longing for it to come of. This was the fa- ther who could say to an ambassadors wife when all England was aghast at the mournful nsws that stthe death of his daughter had been most fortunate event for this country; she would have made very bad queenm
 A man is known by his friends, and his character is tested by friend and foe !; and if we call men to speak of the character of him who was known in London as ssFlorizel, ' ssBig Ben," The Rising Sun, ]" s'our Fat Friend, 3 and to oountly cousins as the first gentleman in Europe" we find such testimo- ny as the following:
 Lord Brougham writes: George ". had 8 temper by no means low or revengeful, but he had become selfish to degree so extrava- gant that he seemed to act upon 6 practical conviction of all mankind being born for his exclusive use, and hence he became irritable on the least incident that thwarted his wishes He was quick, lively, gifted with g retentive memory, and even with Q ready wit; en-