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Character, Life, And Times Of His Late Royal. Highness , By The Public Press.
and ready to give his personal aid in pleading the cause of the widow , the orphan , and the afflicted of all denominations ; and he did so with a degree of earnestness and zeal which will embalm his memory in the minds of thousands of relieved sufferers . The Duke of Sussex has left two children , a son and daughter , by his first wifeLady Augusta Murray . These descendants have taken legal
, steps to vindicate their legitimacy , and claim to all the rights of their high birth . As the present King of Hanover has but one son , the decease of these parties might render the right to succession of the Sussex family a matter of some consequence .
( From the Galloway Advertiser . ) Though he had a smaller income than any of the other royal Dukes , his contributions to public and private benevolence were immense . Till within the last three years of his life , there were upwards of sixty established charities to which he was a permanent annual contributor . It is for these virtues more than for any other , perhaps , that he is now
rightly estimated and lamented ; and when we consider the position in which he was placed in early life , the temptations amid which he was thrown , and the exception which he proved to the vices of the clay ancl of his class , it is impossible to speak with too much reverence of one who showed so nobly to the world that great rank might be accompanied by greater virtuesancl that in England the prince ' s palace might
, be a temple of as unostentatious merit as ever graced the peasant ' s cottage . It is supposed that he'has left his body to be dissected for the benefit of science . When the Anatomy Bill was passing through the House of Lords , some years ago , and opposition was made to it on the ground that the parties most likely to be affected by it had feelings of repugnance to its enactment , his Royal Highness declared that he
would not vote for inflicting any thing on the poorest man in the realm to which he would not himself submit ; and , in order to attest his own sincerity , and facilitate the operation of a measure which he thought so useful , he then avowed his intention of bequeathing his own body to a scientific institution , that meaner subjects might not afterwards shrink from the prospect of what a royal duke had in his own case
enjoined . The sentiment was truly noble , and spoke the character of the man , —always ready to be an example and a benefactor to his kind .
( From the Belfast News Letter . ) One of the most prominent articles in our paper of this day relates to the decease of the Duke of Sussex , and though as a politician he was peculiarly obnoxious to the Tory party , yet it is gratifying to find that
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Character, Life, And Times Of His Late Royal. Highness , By The Public Press.
and ready to give his personal aid in pleading the cause of the widow , the orphan , and the afflicted of all denominations ; and he did so with a degree of earnestness and zeal which will embalm his memory in the minds of thousands of relieved sufferers . The Duke of Sussex has left two children , a son and daughter , by his first wifeLady Augusta Murray . These descendants have taken legal
, steps to vindicate their legitimacy , and claim to all the rights of their high birth . As the present King of Hanover has but one son , the decease of these parties might render the right to succession of the Sussex family a matter of some consequence .
( From the Galloway Advertiser . ) Though he had a smaller income than any of the other royal Dukes , his contributions to public and private benevolence were immense . Till within the last three years of his life , there were upwards of sixty established charities to which he was a permanent annual contributor . It is for these virtues more than for any other , perhaps , that he is now
rightly estimated and lamented ; and when we consider the position in which he was placed in early life , the temptations amid which he was thrown , and the exception which he proved to the vices of the clay ancl of his class , it is impossible to speak with too much reverence of one who showed so nobly to the world that great rank might be accompanied by greater virtuesancl that in England the prince ' s palace might
, be a temple of as unostentatious merit as ever graced the peasant ' s cottage . It is supposed that he'has left his body to be dissected for the benefit of science . When the Anatomy Bill was passing through the House of Lords , some years ago , and opposition was made to it on the ground that the parties most likely to be affected by it had feelings of repugnance to its enactment , his Royal Highness declared that he
would not vote for inflicting any thing on the poorest man in the realm to which he would not himself submit ; and , in order to attest his own sincerity , and facilitate the operation of a measure which he thought so useful , he then avowed his intention of bequeathing his own body to a scientific institution , that meaner subjects might not afterwards shrink from the prospect of what a royal duke had in his own case
enjoined . The sentiment was truly noble , and spoke the character of the man , —always ready to be an example and a benefactor to his kind .
( From the Belfast News Letter . ) One of the most prominent articles in our paper of this day relates to the decease of the Duke of Sussex , and though as a politician he was peculiarly obnoxious to the Tory party , yet it is gratifying to find that