Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-14

united states government Dullt the
NATIONAL road to Baltimore. did the un-
grateful task Of saying that the United
States government built no turnpike east
of Cumberland, and added:
MIR. Peters. the representative of the
Western Maryland district. at great pains
and local patriotism. prepared and passed a
bill for a government pike from Washing
ton city to the Baltimore and Cumberland
pike 1t was vetoed by Andrew Jackson
from hatred OF Henry Clay. Gallatin and
Adams. and has never been fesuscitated
The people between those points are not
public spirited enough to build it. Wash
tngton city takes the same restricted view
OF its influence. Hence 1 heard a man say
but yesterday that he would haul his
peaches from Boonsborough to Washington,
in revenge for the high railroad rates, and
! said: Friend. you have not fulcrum
enough to move peach Andrew Jackson
dished you and your peaches sixty years
ago. Mr. Mayor. the banks of Baltimore
and the Maryland towns west of II took
stock in the Conococheague and Baltimore
Incorporated pike as the blackmail upon q
renewal Of their bank charters. 1t Is
bank rad. and though the government
was refused by sour and fierce old Tiber-
las the right TO build 1t, the banks which
he hated equally. did build the only pike
ington-"
60 not think the mayor believed me. 1t
Of local patriotism.
Named After Prince Frederick.
Frederick Calvert did not become Lord
Baltimore till isl, and Frederick county
was created in f74S when Charles Lord Bal
timore. was gentleman In waiting to Fred
erick, Prince OF Wales. At the time Prince
Frederick's name was beng conferred upon
localities In many other states, and proba-
bly, Frederick. who was the last Lord Bal
timore, was himself named for Prince Fred
erick.
Would the proprietor Of the province, ex-
MS prince-perhaps to be prime minister
Observation-Disclosures his last county for his
son and not for his prince?
mere IS the story OF Prince Frederick:
In lI6 George the Second married a lady
aged twenty-five. Caroline wiihelmina
Oorothea Of Brandenburg Anspach. Her
husband was Of the same age and was
porn In Hanover, loss, of the adulterous
Oorothea OF Zell and George. son OF the
slector, afterward George the First who
was the great grandson of Shakespeare
James the First
The Princess Caroline was brought up by
Frederick. afterwaru the first king of Prus-
STA, whose wife was sister of George the
First OF England.
George the First quarreled with his son
and did not speak with him for years. and
called his ughter-in-law a she devil
IL was only In 1IOl that king OF Prussia
existed. and Prince Frederick, the she
devils son. was born in Hanover January
This Is the person who gave name to
Frederick county and Frederick City and
Fredericktown. which was on the eastern
shore OF Maryland. and Prince Frederick.
the county seat Of Calvert county, and to
fredericksburg. Va, Frederick county, Va,
wherein Is Winchester, and other Fred
ericks and Frederickas.
Prince Frederick In Hanover was taught
English. and was cunning, idle. dissipated
boy HIS father and grandfather both kept
mistresses right in their households, and
the child early won the dislike of both his
MAI hNrl bal
ing deep.
He has the tricks Of grooms and scoun-
drels. said his tutor, and he was exceed
tDgly spitefuL
land with his parents. but was kept back in
Hanover. where in Iii he received the
title Of Duke OF Gloucester, and In I726 Duke
Of Edinburgh"
The Prince In England.
In IT'S he was brought to England at the
age Of twenty-one. but his mother DOM
mated his father. and both of them wished
that he were dead: he was not allowed to
be regent of England when his father re-
visited Hanover. and hating both his pa
rents the opposition party made him their
chief. His Hanoverian debts his parents
would not pay. and when parliament grant
ed him one hundred thousand pounds his
father would allow him but one-third of 1t,
and he was also refused active military
service. He showed his brother-in-law of
Holland the low sights of London even
when that Dutch prince was awaiting his
marriage ceremony His father kept two
mistresses in his wife's household, Miss
Howard and Miss Clayton.
The queen called her son an extravaganza
and unprincipled fool, who was costing
his father fifty thousand pounds a year
Frederick was more of German than an
Englishman and when George the Second
saw him the king affected to see only an
empty space. When the father seduced or
brought new mistress in Germany, Mrs.
Wilmoden. he wrote to his wife all the
ninutest circumstances. including the fact
that he had bought her to leave her hus-
band for thousand ducatS. The queen to
maintain her ascendancy replied to the king
says DR.. Doran. encouraging her hus-
band in the German anours in letters
which wallowed in Epicurus sty." The
king wrote his wife to get the bad Duke
Of Orleans to bring his daughter to Eng
land with him from France that she might
be added to the list OF his conquests.
The king loved to go to the theater to
see Henry the Fourth played that he
might come home and rejoice to describe
the vfllainies of the Prince of Wales in
Wales. his son.
dress TO the throne by parliament, for the
marriage OF Prince Frederick by picking
out a bride silently and buying the wedding
clothes. though the groom did not know
the lady at ALL This was Augusta of Sake
Gotha-
At the command Of his mother Prince
freuerick dismissed his mistress. Miss
Vane. to Immediately take another one
Lady Archibald Hamilton. who had ten
children.
Lord Charles Baltimore took the message
TO the first mistress at the solicitation Of
the second. demanding that she leave Eng
land and give up her little Legitimate son
for 4. 800 year or starve in England Miss
Vane exposed the princes letter and her
own reply and then compromised. but soon
died at Bath with her unfortunate son.
This was Charles. fifth Lord Baltimore
who came to Maryland in 1872. wrote poetry
named his son FOR Prince Frederick and
married his daughter Caroline to Gov Eden
He was the father OF Benedict Calvert ille-
gitimate ancestor Of the late Custlses and
Lees Of Virginia.
The Prince of Wales Marriage.
Lord Delaware was sent to secure the
hand or Augusta and refused to meet her
offers OF love half way. She landed from
the ship at Greenwich April .. 1876. miss
OF seventeen. The mob cheered her. but
the royal family gave her no welcome. She
was taken In chair to st. James palace
der ainanced opened a quarrel on the spot
WIN MS brothers and sisters Yet he was
pleased with Augusta
Tremendous row by taking the sacrament
n the German Lutheran Chapel instead of
IN the thGrch OF England. She also fondled a
doii bahy In the windows Of Kensington
palace. 70 the wonder OF the servants and