The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-11
STORY OF A KING'S,S SHAME
Extracts from the Famous Memoirs
of George ", of England.
Points from the Career of the Most Licen-
tious Prince that Ever Disgraeed u
Throne-The Hush Memoirs.
chicago Inter Ocean.

chicago Inter Ocean.
The interest that has recently been re-
vived in facts and incidents relating to the
life of King George ", by reason of the
finding of a copy of the famous Memoirs
long since thought to be suppressed prompts
the Inter Ocean to give its readers an insight
into the character of that dissolute monarch
as it is defined by this book. These memoirs
were issued by Robert Hush, in 1881, and
created such a sensation of scandal that the
royal family of England Immediately set
about suppressing the edition and prevent
ing future issue.
1t was believed this aim had been success
fully accomplished until some time since a
copy was found in New York, for which the
British government paid 50, 500, 1t appears,
however, that there exist in this country
three other sets of these books one being
owned by Mr. ]. H. Eskridge, of this city,
who has kindly loaned them for use to the
Inter Ocean.
THE PRINCE AT NINETEEN.
At the brilliant celebration of his nine
teenth birthday the Prince gave some out
ward evidence of his own disposition, and
the influence it was likely to exert upon
female hearts susceptible to the potent
charm of royal wooer. Lady Sarah Camp
bell was one of the greatest beauties at the
British court, and it was not strange that she
should have personal fascination for the
Prince, when it is considered that she
was, together with her beauty, creature
of angelic mood and temperament. She
was his chosen favorite at the table and
at the ball. Says our philosophical memo
rialist:
The assiduities which the heir apparent to the
crown may show toward any particular lady
have something in them of a wholly different
character than those which pass between indi-
vduals whose rank ana station equal; the
former can have only one object in view-the
possession of the person-for the usual expecta-
ton of any matrimonial union resulting from
the familiar and affeclionate intercourse cannot
for moment be entertained; aud, therefore, to
the strictly Virtuous female whom no blandish-
ments, however royal, can divert from the path
of mOdestY, cannot be received but with the
most repulsive Indignation. The keenness Of
the female eye sees at once the aim where any
disparity of rank exists; and to the honor of
Lady Sarah Campbell be 1t said that she did see
the aim of the Princes attentions and although
she might have loved. yet all beyond pure
as the pearl taken frusn its NATIVE shell. She
saw the danger with which she was surrounded;
the chain was not yet strongly entwined
around her but il might be broken. She did
break it, and became the wife of one of the
1t is set down among the annals of COM
mon report of the day that his first serious
escapade was with Mrs. Robinson famous as
Perdita But this is disputed by some who
have further recollection, and the writer
of these memoirs finds that Harriet Vernon,
a maid OF honor, was seized upon in her sew
enteenth year. when the Prince was APP
preaching his majority. Owing to the Sc
cluded life of the Prince and the strict de-
corum of the life of a maid of honor they
had great difficulty in effecting a seeret
meeting after it had been arranged by signs,
but it followed quickly that the fair flower
was defoliaged and Harriet Vernon ceased
to be an honorable maid but few days be-
fore she was retired from the position of
raid of honor.
Nature fortune, rank and education fitted
him for the easy making of conquests. and
this simple girl, though the first, was by no
means the last nor the most discerning of his
victims He had an INSCRIPTIONS surround.
ing of flatterers, who servilely fell in with all
his views, and fawned upon him for their
own profit. There was no act too groveling
nor too base to which they would not stoop
to ingratiate themselves in his favor-there
was no virtue which they would not attempt
to undermine to pander to his passions They
inspire him with a belief that in regard to
female fayors he had only to ashland to re-
ceiye; and it must be confessed that great
number of the blooming women, who by
their beauty adorned the court of his mother
required little or no persuasion to concede to
his wishes; they even appeared to be vain of
the honor of being thought in possession of
such personal attractions as to captivate the
affections of such Prince, and, so far from
repelling him in his advances they encour-
aged HMM many instances anticipated
him-and all gloried in their conquest. With
every fresh amour his appetite appeared 10
be sharpened, with the possession of each
object his self-opinion and his natural incon-
stancy increased.
THE BEAUTIFUL PERDITA.
The intimacy between the Prince and Mrs.
Mary Robinson was one of his most noted
love affairs, and is, perhaps, no less famous,
while it is more highly romantic, than his
subsequent variously understood relations
with Mrs Fitzherbert When they first met
he was but nineteen, while she was twenty
one. She was beautiful, lovely, and in
many respects highly talented woman and
her misfortunes were certainly commissera-
BILE. This lady was the wife of careless,
neglectful, and proAigate young man, who
left her with her fascinating mental and
personal attractions exposed to the gaze and
Establishments OF llbertine rank and fashion.
separation had taken place between them,
and on an Introduction to Garrick and
Sheridan she was encouraged to adopt the
stage as the means of her future subsistence
She accordingly came out at Drury Lane
Theater i'll the character OF Juliet, in which
she was eminently successful, and ultimate
ly obtained an engagement at high salary
to enact the principal characters in tragedy
and comedy.
Through this actress the Prince received
his first public introduction into the world
of gallantry. The play OF "A Winters Tale
was commanded by their Majesties, and Mrs.
Robinson was cast for the part of Perdita in
which to make her first appearance before