The Sunday globe., 1901-06-09

state-he never acknowledged the pa
ternity of George H. and surely he
must be allowed to have been better
informed on that head than any Of
his ministers or councillors.
George IL was no great improvement
on his reputed father. Like the lat
ter, he burned wills and appropriated
the proceeds-then a capital offense
! But that is one of the many wonders
of our wonderful constitution. If King
Edward were to commit a manifest
murder tomorrow he could not be
brought to trial without a revolution.
The King VS.. the King at the Old Bail
ey would nonplus the entire bench and
bar Of England.
George the Second and his wife.
| Queen Caroline, were a strangely
mated couple. the gray mare being by
| far the better horse. On her death
bed the dying woman advised her royal
| spouse to marry again. Non, jaurais
des mattresses (No. | will have mis-
| tresses) blubbered the Defender Of the
Faith Mon Dieu, Geld n empeche
pas my God, that is no obstacle)
was Carolines wifely response.
George ILL., the grandson Of George
| III, was probably the most disastrous
| sovereign that ever reigned in Eng
land. He was a tyrant. a bgot, a mad
man and a bigamist He lost Britain
! the noblest heritage on earth-the
United States of America-iust as Ed
ward the Seventh and his pal,
! Rhodes, are now losing us the United
States of South Africa. Phillimore
! does not hesitate to describe farmer
George, at his accession, as an ignor.
ant. dishonest, obstinate, narrow-mind.
ed boy at that very moment the tool
Of an adulteress (his mother) and her
paramour Butte.
About George IIIs bigamy and the
! ilIegitimacy of George w there can
be no reasonable doubt. George mar
ried Hannah Lightfoot, a Quakeress,
i'm 1859 lPitt. afterward Lord Chat
ham. being one of the witnesses, and
in 1861, i'm the lifetime Of the said Han
nah. he led to the altar Princess Char
lotte i"Snufy Charlotte'D Of Neck
lenburgh-Strelitz. George ", when
Prince of Wales, used to eXtort money
from his mother by telling her that
she was neither wife nor queen. Han
nah Lightfoots offspring all Of a sud
den disappeared. peradventure. "for
reasons of state" and George ~ was
I'm consequence enabled to adorn the
British throne.
He also was beyond all doubt a big
amist After his death the validity Of
the proofs of his marriage with Mrs
Fitzherbert were frankly admitted by
his executors the duke of Wellington
and Sir William Knighton.
But what need to speak of the First
Gentleman i'm Europe and his broth
pr, "the BLUM Sailor King (otherwise
Silly Billy? The one should never
have been seen outside of a peniten-
tiary; and as for the other, though un-
fit to be a cabin-boy, he was, Of course,
quite good enough to be a king He
William TVD. says Greville, the clerk
of the council, who knew him we'll
always continued to be something Of
"a BLACKBOARD and something Of a buf.
foOn'
And these be your Gods, o Israeli"
I'm fine. the British monarchy is, per
haps. the most colossal fraud and farce
planet Worth 100000 per annum to
vorably with the harmony, beauty of
the British people say you? Yes il
you prefix that sum by the minus sign.
Why, If the vast sums Of which royalty |
during the late long reign had been
devoted to the promotion of science, |
art and letters how different might |
have been the civilization Of Great |
Britain today The one million per
aunum Directly wasted on a wholly noX-
ious institution would supply a fund |
out Of which 1000 scientists and men
of genius all over the country might |
receive yearly grants Of goo apiece, !
to help them to prosecute their benei
cent studies uuimpeded by the baying
of the wolf of poverty at the door.