THACKERAY'S LECTURES OH THE GEORGES, j
' GEORGE THE FIRST. '
fjnntlDucd from ths lst Iwue . of Thb Kvkmino !
TKhKOHAVH,
That beautiful Aurora Ton Kotitsrafirck and '.
htt brother are wonderful as "types of bygone ;
anner, and strange illuBtrntioaa of the morals
ol old day. The Kiuvgsmarcka were descended
irom an ancient noble lamily ol Bran lenbiirtr.
a branch ol which, paused into Sweden, where
it enriched itself and produced several mighty
jnen of valor.
The founder of the race was Hans Chrlstof,
famous warrior and plunderer ot the Thirty
Years' War. One ol Hans' sons, Otto, appeared
m ambaf-tador at the Court of Louis XIV, and
bad to make a Swedish speech at his reception
before the Most Cbiistian Kinsr. Otto was a
famous dandy and warrior, but he foreot the
ppeech, and what do you think he did r Far
Irom beinar disconcerted, he recited a portion of
the Swedish Catechism to his Most Christian
la'(tv and bis court, not one of whom under
stood his Hiiro with the exception of bis own
unite, who had to keep their gravity as best
Otto's nephew, Aurora's elder brother, Carl
Johann of Konlgsmarck, a favorite of Charles
JI a beauty, a dandy, a warrior, a rancal of
more than ordinary mark, escaped, but deserved
being hanged in England for the murder of
Tom Tbyune of Longleat. He had a little
brother in Loudon with him at the time as
great a beauty, as great a dandy, as great a
villain as his elder. This lad, Philip ot Konlgs
marck, also was Implicated in the affair; and
perhaps It is a pltv he ever brought his pretty
neck out of it. He went over to Hanover, anil
was soon appointed colonel of a regiment of
II. E. Highness' drasoons. In early lite he bad
been page in the Court of Celle; and it was said
that he and the pretty Princess Sophia Dorothea,
who by this time was married to her cousin
George, the electoral prince, had been In love
with each other as children. Their loves were
now to be renewed, not innocently, and to come
to a fearrul end.
A biography of George I, by Dr. Doran, has
lately appeared, and I confers I am astounded
at the verdict which that writer has delivered,
and at his acquittal of this most unfortunate
lady. That she bad a cold, Belush. libertine of a
husband uo one can doubt; but that the bal
husband had a bad wile is equally clear. She
was married to her cousin for money or conve
nience, as all princesses were married. She was
most beautiful, lively, witty, accomplished; his
brutality outraged her; his silence and coldness
chilled her; his cruelty insulted her. No wonder
she did not love him. How could love be a
part of the compact in such a marriage as that?
with this unlucky heart to dispose of, the poor
creature bestowed it on Philip of Konlgsmarck,
than whom a greater scamp does not walk the
history of the seventeenth century. A hundred
and eighty years after the fellow was thrust
into his unknown grave, a Swedish prolessor
lights upon a box of letters in the University
library at Upsala, written by Philip and Doro
thea to each other, and telling their miserable
story.
The bewitching Konigswarck had conquered
two female hearts in Hanover. Besides the
electoral prince-" lovely young wife, Sophia
Dorothea, Philip hud inspired a passion in a
hideous old court lady, the Countess of Platen.
The princess seems to have pursued him with
the fidelity of many years. Heaps ot letters
followed him on his campaigns, and were an
swered by the daring adventurer. The princess
wanted to fly with him; to quit her odious hus
band at any rate. She besought her parents to
receive her back; had a uotion of taking refuge
in France and going over to the Catholic religion :
had absolutely packed her jewels for flteht. and.
very likely arranged its details with her lover
in that last long night's interview, after which
Philip of Konlgsmarck was seen no more.
Konigsmarck, inflamed with drink there is
scarcely any vice of which, according to his
own showing, this gentleman was not a prac
titioner bad boasted at Dresden of his intimacy
with the two Hanoverian ladies not only with
the princess, but with another lady powerful In
Hanover. The Countess Platen, the old favorite
of the Elector, hated the young electoral
princess. The young lady had a lively wit, and
constantly made fun of the old one. The
Jirincess' jokes were conveyed to the old Platen,
ust as our idle words are carried about at this
present day; and so they hated each other.
The characters in the tragedy, of which the
curtain was now about to fall, are about as dark
a set as ever eyes rested on. There is the jolly
prince, shrewd, selflBh, scheming, loving his
cups and his ease (I think his good humor
makes the tragedy but darker); his princess,
who speaks little, but observes all; his old
painted Jezebel of a mistress; his son, the
electoral prince, shrewd too, quiet, selfish, not
ill-humored, and generally silent, except when
Soaded into furvDythe intolerable tongue of
is lovely wife; there is poor Sophia Dorothea,
with her coquetry and her wrongs, and her pas
sionate attachment to her scamp of a lover, and
her wild imprudences, and her insane fidelity,
and her furious jealousy regarding her hu'Daud
(though she loathed and cheated him), and her
prodigious falsehoods; and the confidante, of
course, into whose hands the letters are slipped:
and there is Lothario, finally, than whom, as I
have said, one can't imagine a more handsome,
wlr ked, worthless reprobate.
How that perverse fidelity of passion pursues
the villain I How madly true the woman is,
and how astoundlngiy she lies I She has be
witched two or three persons who have taken
her up, and they won't believe in her wrong.
Like Mary of Scotland, she finds adherents
ready to conspire for her even in history: and
people who have to deal with her are charmed,
and fascinated, and bedevilled. How devotedly
Miss Strickland has stood by Mary's Innocence !
Are there not scores of ladies in this audience
who persist m it tpoT Innocent 1 I remember
as a boy bow a great party persisted in declaring
Caroline of Brunswick was a martyred angel.
So was Heleu ot Greece innocent. She never
ran away with Paris, the dangerous young Tro
jan. Menelaus, her husband, ill used her: and
there never was any siege of Troy at all. So
was Bluebeard's wife innocent. She never
peeped into the closet where the other wives
were with their heads off. Sho never dropped
the key, or stained it with blood; and her
oromers were quae right in finishing Bluebeard,
the cowardly brute I Yes, Caroline of Bruns
wick was innocent; and Madame Lafaree never
poisoned her husband; and Mary of Scotland
never blew uo hers; and poor Sophia Dorothea
was never unfalthlul: and Eve never took the
apple it was a cowardly lubrication of the
serpent's.
George Louis has been held up to execration
as a murderous Bluebeard, whereas the electoral
prince had no share In the transaction in which
Philip of Konipsmark was r-euffled out of this
mortal sceife. The prince was absent when the
catastrophe came. The princess had had a
hundred warnings mild hints from her hus
band's parents; grim remonstrances from him
self but took no more heed of this advice than
euch besotted poor wretches do. On the nieht
of Sunday, the 1st of July, 161)4, Koniesmarck
paid a long visit to the princess, and lett her to
get ready for flight Her husband was away at
Berlin; her carriages and horses were prepared
and ready for the elopement. Meanwhile the
snies of Countess Platen had broiieht the news
to their mistress. She went to Ernest Augustus,
and procured irom the Elector an order for the
arrest of the 8wede. On the way bv which he
was to come, four guards were commissioned to
take him. He strove to cut his way through
the four men, and wounded more than oue of
them. They fell upon him; cut him down; and,
he was lying wounded on the ground, the
counteTs" bis enemy, whom he had betrayed
-insulted, came out and beheld him prostrate.
H Juried her with his dying lips, and the
I ,tl woman stamped upon his mouth with
furious woman iramp i presently hia
beLi thHext day ! and all traces of the
body burned the ne ay, j d hl
man iP?!fr severe penalties.
were enjoiueu yr ho , , .- ouart.
TheprinwBS w ck---- - , October of
the iame year. . "Jined to the castle of Ahlden,
years old, and conswneo w tuc thau
ihere she remained a prisoner tor n
htrn-two years. reparation . u,1K.
THE DAILY EVENING TELKGHAril rillLADELrillA, WEDNESDAY,
of Ahlden," and her silent husband no more
uttered berns me. 1 ' ' .
Four years alter tbeKonlgmrcV cMastropne
Ernest Aueustus, the orst Elector ot ""nover,,
died, and George Louis, hia son. t-o t & n o 1 ;
stead. Sixteen years b. reigned in "Morer.
alter which he became, s-we, J
(Jrcat Britain, France, and Ireland, lender of
the Faith. The wicked old Countess Platen
died in the year 1706. Bhe bad lost her sight,
but nevertheless the legend says that she. con
stantly saw Konlsrsmarck's ghost by her wicked
Old bed. And SO mere irm ou ruu ui uci.
in the vtsr 17n0 the little Duke ot Gloucester,
the last "ot roor Queen Anne's children, died,
and the folks of Hanover straightway became of
prodieious importance in England. The Electress
Sophia was declared the next in succession to
Iho English brone. Georee Louis was created
Duke of Cambridge; grand deputations were
sent over from our country to Ueutschland; but
Queen Anne, whose weak heart hankered after
her relatives at St. Germain's, never could begot
to allow her cousin, the Elector Duke of Cam
bridge, to come and pay his respects to her
Majesty, and take his seat in the House of
Peer. Had the Queen lasted a month longer;
had the English Tories been as bold and reso
lute as they were clever and crafty; bad the
prince whom the nation loved and . pitied been
oua I to his fortune, Georee Louis had never
talked Girman in St. James' Chapel Royal.
When the crown did come to George louis he
was In do hurry about putting it on. He waited
at home for a while; took an affecting farewell
ol his dear Hanover and Herrenhansen, and set
out in the most leisurely manner to ascend
"the throne of his ancestor," as he called It tn
his first speech to Parliament. He brought
with him a compact body of Germans, whose
society be loved, and whom he kept round the
rojal person. He had his beautiful German
chamberlains; bis German secretaries; his
neerocs, captives of his bow and spear in Turk
ish wsrs; his two ugly, elderly German favorites,
Meedaraes of Kielmanseirgo and Schulenherg,
whom he created respectively Countess of Dar
lington and Duchess of Kendal. The Duchess
was tall and lean ot stature, and hence was Irre
verently nicknamed the Maypole. The Countess
was a large sized noblewoman, and this elevated
perso lage was denominated the elephant. Both
of these ladles loved Hanover and its delights;
clung roucd the linden trees of the great Her
renhausen avenue, and ai first would not quit
the place. Schulenberg, in fact, could not come
on account of her debts: but, finding the May-
Eole would not come, the elephant packed up
er trunk and slipped out of Hanover, unwieldy
as Ehe was. On this the Maypole straightway
put herself in motion, and followed her beloved
Geoign Louis. One seems to be speaking of
Captain Macbeath, and Polly and Lucy. The
King we bad selected; the courtiers who came
in his train: the English nobles who came to
welcome bim, and on many of whom the shrewd
old cynic turned his back I protest it is a won
derful satirical picture ! I am a citizen waiting
ot Greenwich pier, say, and cryin? hurrah for
King George, and yet I can scarcely keep my
countenance and help laughing at the enormous
aDsuraity ot mis event!
Here we are, all on our knee?. Here Is the
Archbishop ot Canterbury prostrating himself
to the head of his Church, with Kielinansegge
and Schulenberg with their ruddled cheeks
grinning behind the Defender of the Faith. Here
is my Lord Duke of Marlborough kneeling too,
the greaiest warrior ot all times; he who be
trayed King William betrayed King James II
belrajed Queen Arine betraved England to the
French, the Elector to the Pretender, the Pre
tender to the Elector; and here are my Lords
Oxford and Bollngbroke, the latter of whom
has just tripped up the heels of the former, and,
ll a month's more time bad been allowed him,
would have had King James at Westminster.
The great Whig gentlemen made their bows and
conges with proper decorum and ceremony; but
yonder kern old scbemer knows the value of
their loyalty. "Loyalty," he must think, "as
applied to me it is absurd I There are fifty
nearer heirs to the throne than I am. I am but
an accident, and you fine Whig gentlemen take
me for your own sake, not mine. You Tories
hate me; you arch bishop, smirking on your
knees, and prating about heaven, you know I
don't care a fig about your Thirty-nine Articles,
and can't understand a word of your stupid
sermons. You, my Lords Bollngbroke and
Oxlord you know you were conspiring against
me a month ago; and you, my Lord Duke of
Marlborough you would sell me, or any man
cine, it you found your advantage in it. Come,
my good Melusinu, come, my honest Sophia, let
us go into my private room. 'and have some oys
ters and some Khine wine, and some pipes after
wards; let us make the best of our situation; let
us take what we can get, and leave these bawling,
lying English to shout, and fight, and cheat in
their own way !"
If Swift bad not been committed to the states
men of the losiDg side, what a fine satirical
picture we might have hud of that geueral
sauce qui peut among the Tory party! flow
mum the Tories became; how the House of
Lords and House of Commons chopped round;
and how decorously the majorities welcomed
KiDg George!
Bollngbroke making bis last speech in the
House of Lords, pointed out the shame of peer
age wheie several lords concurred to condemn
in one general vote all that they had approved
in former Parliaments by many particular res.o
lutlons. And so their conduct was shameful.
St. John had the best ot the argument but the
worst of the vote. Bad times were come for
him. He talked philosophy and professed in
nocence. He courted retirement, and was ready
to meet persecution; but, hearing that honest
Mat Prior, who bad been recalled tram Paris,
was about to peach regarding the past transac
tions, the philosopher bolted, and took that
magnificent head of bis out of the ugly reach of
the axe. Oxlord, the lazy and good humored,
had more courage, and awaited the storm at
home. He and Mat Pi lor both had lodginzs in
the Tower, and both brought their heads "safe
out of that dangerous menagerie. When Atter
bury was carried off to the tame den a few
years alterwards, and it was asked what next
should be done with him? "Done with him?
Fling him to the lions !" Cadogan, said Marl
borough's lieutenant. Bat the British lion of
those days did not chtc much for drinking the
blood of" peaceful peets and poets, or crunching
the bones of bishops. Only tour men were exe
cuted in London for the rebellion of 1715, and
twenty-two in Lancashire. Above a thousand
taken in arms submitted to the King's mercv,
and petitioned to be transported to bis Majesty's
colonies in America. I have heard that their
descendants took the Loyalist side in the dis
putes which arose sixty years atter. It Is plea
cant to find that a friend ot ours, worthy Dick
Steele, was for letting off the rebels with their
lives. ....
As one thinks of what might have been, how
amusing the speculation 1st We imw how
the doomed Scottish gentlemen came out at
Lord Mar's tummous, mounted the white cocn
ade, that has been a flower of sad poetry ever
since, and rallied round the Stuart standard at
Braemar. Mar, witn euuu men, ana out idwj
ouposed to him, might have driven the enemy
over tne rweea, auu macii i)umiuu ui iuc
whole of Scotland, but that the Pretender's
duke did not venture to move when the day was
bis own. Edinburgh Castle mignt nave neen in
King James' hands, but then tne men who were
to escalade it staid to drink his health at the
tavern, and arrived two hours too mie at tne
rendezvous nuder the castle wan. mere was
sympathy enough iu the town -the projected
attack seems to have been known there Lord
Mauou quotes Sinclair's account of a gentleman
not concerned, who told Sinclair that he was In
a house that evening where eighteen of them
were drinking as the facetious landlady said,
powdering their hair" for the attack of the
castle. Suppose thev had ntt stopped to powder
tneirbalr? Kdtnhurcrh rtip. and town, and
an Ncotland were Kinir James1. The north of
Tlku IL, ....... ii ..... n.1 Vila
mat OUS mliitreesoSBiu.W .rH norhnns
HarwTh ?Jfne!" iu oiitt, via
Harwich aud Hclvoetbluva r,.. nfiiiisch-
Ivoetbluys, for dearold Deutsch-
muu. ilie 1VIUB lloil -., vu.i l.,A k
i;,V Jwun '"tnnituous applause: shontln
E?!1 t"ude8' cannon, the Duke of Mar
- DUTC Ll 1 1 II 1"1UUU0 . W
r,"". wiping tears of i0, n the
i ri'L'"' ft,,d marches over Baruet Heath
X i11-. Wymlhain lg Bp in Somerset
shire, Packiugton in Worcestershire, aud Vivian
in Cornwall.
mass Is said in Rt.' PauVsi matin and vespers,
are sung in York Minster; and Dr. Swilt is
turned out of his stall and deanery housa at St.
Patrick's to give placo to Father Dominic, from
Sa'amama, All these changes wcie possible
then, and once thirty y ars alterwards all this
we might have had but for tho puloerla nigui
jartu, that little toss of powder lor the hair
which the Scotch conspirators stopped to take
at the tavern.
You uuderstand the distinction I would draw
between bltory of which I do not aspire to bo
an expounder and manners and life sncn a
these sketches would describe. The rebellion
breaks out in the north; its story is before vou
in a hundred volumes, in none more fairly than
in the excellent narrative of Lord Mabon. The
clans ate up in Scotland; Derwentwater, Nlthls
dale, and Forsier ate in arms in Northumber
land these are matters of history, for which
you are relerred to the clue chroniclers. The
Guards are set to watch the streets and prevent
the people wearing white roses. 1 read pre
sently ol a co u Die ol soldiers almost flogged to
(ealh for wearing oak bonphs in their hats on
the 20th of May another badge of the beloved
Stuarts. It is with these we have to do rather
than with the marches and battles of the armies
to which the poor fellows belonged with states
men, and how they looked and how thny lived,
rather than with measures of state, which be
long to history alone. For example, at the
close of the old Queen's reign, it is known the
Duke of Marlborough left the kingdom after
what menaces, after whatj prayers, lies,
bribes offered, taken, refused, accepted; after
what dark doubling and tacking, let history, if
she can or dare, say. The Queen dead, who so
eager to return as my lord duke? Who shouts
God save the King 1 so lustily as the great con
queror of Blenheim and Malpiaquetl (Ry tne
way, he will send over some more money for the
Pretcncer et on the sly.) Who lays his band
on his blue ribbon, and lifts his eves more .
gracefully to heaven than this hero f tie makes
a quasi-triumphal entrance into London, by
Temple Bar, in his enormous gilt coach and
the enormous gilt coach break z down some
where by Chancery lane, and his Highness Is
obliged to get ai.vther. There It is we have
him. We are with the mob in the crowd, not
with the great folks In the procession. We are
not the Historic Muse, but her ladyship's at-tendant,tale-bearer
valet dechambre for whom
no man is a hero; and, as yonder one steps from
his carriage to the next handy conveyance, we
take the number of the hack ; we look all over at
his stars, ribbon, embroidery; we think within
ourselves, O jou uniathomabie 6chemerl O you
warrior invincible! 0 jou beautiful smiling
Judos 1 What master would you not kiss or
betray? What traitor's head, blackening on
the spikes on yonder gate, ever hatched a tithe
of the treason which has worked under your
periwie?
We have brought our Georse to London city,
ann it we would behold Its aspect, may see it in
Hogarth's lively perspective ot Cheapside, or
read it In a hundred contemporary books which
paint the manners of that Hire. Our dear old
Spectator looks smiling upon these streets, with
their innumerable signs, and describes them
with his charming . humor. "Our streets are
filled with Blue Boars. Black Swans, and lied
Lions, not to mention Flying Pigs and Hoes in
Armor, with other creatures more extraordi
nary than aay in the deserts of Africa." A few
of these quaint old Scores still remain in Lon
don town. You may still fee there, and over
its old hotel in Ludgale Hill, the Bell auvaee,
to whom the spectator so pleasantly alludes in
that paper; and who wa, probably no other
than the sweet American Pocahontas, who res
cued from death the duriDg Captain Smith.
There is the Lion's Head, down whose laws the
Spectator's own letters were passed ; and over a
great banker's In Fleet street, the eftizyof the
wallet which the founder of the firm bore when
he came to London a country boy. People this
street, so ornamented with crowds of swinging
Chairmen, with servants bawling to clear the
way. with Mr. Dean in bis cassock, hi9 lackey
marching before him; or Mrs. Uinah in her
sack, tripping to chapel, her footboy carrying
htr ladyship's great prayer book ; with itinerant
tradesmen singing their hnndred cries (I re
member forty years ago, as a boy in London
city, atcoie oi cneery, laminar cries that are
silent now). Fancy the beaux thronging to the
chocolate-houses, tapping their snuff-boxes as
they issue thence, their periwigs appearing over
me rea curtains, f ancy sacnartssa orcKoning
and smiling from the upper windows, and a
crowd ot soldiers brawling and bustling at the
door gentlemen of the Life Guards, clud in
scarlet, with blue facings, and laced with gold
at the seams; gentlemen of the Horse Grena
diers, in their caps of sky blue cloth, with the
garter embroidered in front in gold and silver;
men of the Halberdiers, intbeir long red coats.
as bluff Hurry left them, with tbc'r ruffs and
velvet flat caps. Peihaps the King's Majesty
himself is going to St. James as we pass. If he
is going to parliament, ne is in bis coacu-ana-
eitiht, surrounded by his guards and the high
officers of his crown. Otherwise his Majesty
only uses a chair, with six footmen walking
before, and six yeomen of the gnard at the sides
ot the scaan. The officers in waring torow tne
King in coaches. It must be rather Blow work.
Our Spectator and latter tne full of deliehtlul
glimpses ot the town liie ot tboe days. In the
company of that charming guide we may go to
the opera, the comedy, the puppet-show, the
auction, even the cock-pit; we can take boat at
Temple Staus, and accompany Sir Roger de
Coverley and air. Spectator to spring uaruen
it will be called Vauxhall a few years hence,
when Hogarth will paint for it. Would you not
like to 6tep bock into the pout, and be intro
duced to Mr. Addison? not the Bight Honora
ble Joseph Addison, Esq., George I's Secretary
of State, but to the delightful painter of contem
porary manners: the man who, when In good
humor himself, was the pleasantest companion
in all England. I should like to go into Lockit's
with him, and drink a bowl along with Sir R.
Steele (who has Just been knighted by King
George, and woo aoes not uappeu vo uvo auv
money to pay his share of the reckoning). I
should not care to follow Mr. Addison to hia
Secretary's office in Whitehall. There we get
into politics. Our business is pleasure, and the
town and the coff ee-house, and I he theatre, aud
the Mall. Delightful Spectator! kind friend ot
leisure hours I happy companion I true Chris
tian gentleman I how much greater, Detter you
are than the King Mr. Secretary kneels to I
You can have foreign testimony about Old
World Loudon, if you like, and my before quoted
friend, Charles Louis. Baron de Pollnitz, will
conduct us to it. "A man of sense," says he,
"or a fine gentleman, is never at a loss lor com
pany in London; and this U the way the latter
pastes his time. He rises late, puts on a frock,
and, leaving bis sword at home, takes bis cane,
and goes where bo pleases. The park is com
monly the place where be walks, because 'tis
the Exchange for men of quality, l is the same
thitg as tbe Tuileries of Paris, only the park
has a certain beauty ol simplicity which canuot
be described. The grand walk is called the
Mall; Is full of people at every hour ol the day,
but especially at morning and evening, when
their majesties often walk with the royal family,
who are; attended only by a half-a-dozen yeo
men ol "the guard, and permit all persons to
walk at the same time with them. The ladies
and gentlemen always appear In rich dre-ses;
for tbe English, who, twenty years ago, did nat
wear gold lace but tn their army, are now be
daubed as much as the French. I speak of
Eersons of quality; for tbe citizen still contents
imself with a suit of fine clotb, a good bat and
wig, and fine linen. Everybody is well clothed
here, and even the beggars don't make so rasged
an appearance as they do elsewhere." After
our friend, the man of quality, bos bad his
morning or undress walk iu the Mall, he goes
home to dress, and then saunters to some coffee
house or chocolate-house frequented by the per
sons he would see. "For 'tis a rule with the
Englh-n to go once a dav, at least, to houses of
this 6ort, where they talk of business and news,
read the papers, and often look at oue another
without opening their lips. And 'tis very well
they are so mutej for were thev all as talkative
as people of other nations, the coffee-bouses
would be intolerable, and there would be no
hearing what one man said where they are so
many. The chocolate-house In St. James' street,
where I go every morning to pas away the time,
is always so full that a man can scarce turn
about tin it."
Ici)kUul M London city was, King George
I liked to be out of U ss much as ever he coild:
"' " i'""u mii nig time with bis
Geimans. It was with them as with Blucher,
one hundred years afterwards, when the bald
old reiter looked down from St. Paul's and
sighed out, "Was furPlonderl" The German
women plundered; the German-secretaries pluu
dered; the German cooks and IntendenU plmn
dered; and even Mustaph and Mahomet., the 5cr-'
man negroes.had a share ot the booty. Take what
you can get was the old monarch's maxim. He
was not a lofty monarch. cerUlnlyj he was not
a natron of the fine arts; but he was notVhvpo.
crite, he was not revengeful, he was not extra
vagant. Though a despot In Hanover, he was
a moderate ruler in England. His aim was to
leave it to ltelf at much as possible, and to live
out of It as much as be could. His heart was
in Hanover. When taken ill on his last journey
as be was passing through Holland, he tbrust
his livid head out of the coach window, and
gaped out ' Osnabnrg, Osnaburgl" He was
more than filty years of age when he came
among us: we took him because we wanted him,
because he served our turn; we laughed at his
uncouth German ways, and sneered at hlra. He
took our loyalty for what it was worth; laid
bands on what money he coull; kept us assu
redly from Popery and wooden shoes. I. for
one, would have been on bis side in those dava.
Cynical and selfish as he was, he was better than
a king i it of St. Germain's, with the French
King's orders in his pocket, and a swarm of
Jesuits in bis train.
The Faies are supposed to interest themselves
aoout royal personages, and so this one had
omens and prophecies specially regarding him
He was said to be much disturbed at a prophecy
that he should die very soon after his wife; anil
sure enough, pallid l'eatb bavine seized uoon
the luckless princess in her castle at Ahlden,
pretently pounced upon H. M.King George I,
in bis travelling chariot, on the Hanover road.
What postilion can outride that Dale horseman ?
it Is said George promised one of his left-handed
widows to come to ner atter aeatn, u leave
were granted to him to revisit the glimpses of
the moon; and soon after his demise, a great
raven actually flying or hopping In at the
Duehets of Kendal'i window at Twickenham,
she chose to imagine the King's SDlrit inhabited
these plumes, and took special car? of her sable
visitor. Affecting metempsychosis funereal
royal bird I How pathetic is the idea of the
duchess weeping over it! When this chaste
addition to our English aristocracy died, all her
jewels, her plate, her plunder, went over to her
relations in Hanover. I wonder whether her
heirs took tbe bird, nnd whether it is btill flap
ping its wings over Herrenhausen?
The days are over in England ot that strange
religion ot king worship, when priests flattered
princes 1b tbe temple of God; when servility
was held to be tbe ennobling duty; when beauty
ana youtn tried eagerly tor royal favor; and
woman's shame was held to be no dishonor.
mended morals and mended manners, in courts
and people, are among the priceless conse
quences of the freedom which George I came to
rescue and secure. He kept his compact with
his English subjects: and. if he escaped no more
than other men and monarchs from the vices of
his age. at least we may thank him for preserv
ing and transmitting the liberties of ours. In
our free air, royal and humble homes have
alike been purified; the Truth, the birthright ot
high and low among us, which quite fearlessly
judges our greatest personages, can only speak
oi tnem now in woras oi respect ana regard
There are stains in the portrait of the first
George, and traits in it which none of ns need
admire; but among the nobler features are jus
nee, courage, moaeration ana tnese we may
icuoguize ere we turn me picture to tne wail.
To be continued Id our next Issue.
LUMBER.
1867."
SELECT WHITE PINE BOARDS
AJND JUAJNK.
w, , 71. o, nuu incu
CHOICE PANi-L AUD 1st COMMON, 16 feet long
rii u-1. v--, g o mi u i mull
WHITE PINK. PANfct PATTERN PLANK.
LAKOE AND BUPERIOR SrOCK ON II AND,
i C PT7 BUILDING!
BUILDING
XKJJ I . BUILDING!
LUMBER I LUMBER! LUMBER!
4-4 OA KU LIN A LAJOK1NU.
6-4 CAROLINA FLOORING.
4-4 DELAWARE FLOORING,
B-4 DELAWARE FLOORING.
WHITE PINE FLOORING.
ASH FLOORING.
WALNUT FLOORING,
BPRUCE FLOORING.
bTEP BOARDS.
RAIL PLANK.
PLABTEKING LATH.
1867.
CEDAR AND CYPRESS
bH INGLES.
LONG CEDAR MTINGLFA
feliORT CEDAR&H1NGLES.
COOPfc-R BlflNOLES.
FINE ASSORTMENT FOR BALE LOW.
NO. 1 CEDAR LOGS AND POSTS.
i QfV7 LUMBER
JLOU I . LUMBER F
FOR UNDERTAKERS I
FOR L'NDERTAKKRal
RED CEDAR, WALNUT. AND PINE.
1 WAT ALBANY LUMBER OF ALL KINDi
LOU I . ALBANY LUMBER OF A T.I. KINDS,
SEASONED WALNUT.
DRY POPLAR. CHERRY. AND ASH.
OAK PLANK AND BOAJtDS.
MAHOGANY.
ROSEWOOD, AND WALNUT VENEERS. '
i WAT -CIGAR-BOX MANUFACTURERS.
lOU I . CIGAR-BOX MANUFACTURERS,
SPAN1&H CEDAR BOX BOARDS.
1 Q.T SPRDCE JOIST
-LOU I . SPRUCE JOIST!
! SPRUCE JOISf!
FROM 14 TO 2 FEET LONG.
SUPERIOR NORWAY SCANTLING.
MAULK, BROTHER A CO.,
SI rpt No.ua SOUTH STREET.
U. S. BUILDERS' MILL,
ai, ae, Ann as . fifteenth st.,
ESLER & BItO., Proprietors.
ways on band, made of the Best Seasoned Lumber,
at low prlot-s.
WOOD MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, BALUSTERS
AND NEWELS.
Neweis, Buluaters, Bracket aud Wood Mouldings.
WOOD MOULDINGS. BRACKETS, BALUSTERS,
AND NEWELS.
Walnut and Ash Hand Railing, 3, 3!-i. audi laches.
BUTTERNUT, O H E S N U T, and WALNUT
MOULDINGS to order. g m
p H. WILLIAMS,
Seventeenth and Spring Garden
liTJILIIINT0 LUMBER
AND IIAKU WOODS). SlSwsm2m
J.
c.
PERKINS.
LUMBER MKIICLIANT.
euuceaiiorto B Clart.Jr.,
NO. ZU CHRISTIAN STREET.
Constantly on band a large aud varied assortment
Of Building Lumber. I Mi
Government
I .PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE
wnKmco.
AWHINC1S, WMWH COVCBS, BAUH, ETC,
It yon want an extra Awning vtry cheap, let our
antiiiig niHker take the meanure, and make It from
a lot of 16UU botpltal tenW, lately purchand by us.
many ol which are entirely new, and oi the neat lit
ounce dunk. Also. Government Saddles and Harneaa
of all kludi.eto. PiTKIM A ixi
6 8 8uo N'oa. 887 and 838 North FRONT Street.
PATENT WIRE WORK
OB RAILINGS, WOM mm
COAL SCREENS, FOURURINIER WIRES, KlH,
Manufactured by
w. WiLMRB A SOUS,
1 17 ffm No. U W. SIXTH Btrewt
i Jj L I A M "B. 0R AN T
COMMIHHION MERCHANT,
NO. it B, DELAWARH Aeuue, Philadelphia,
' amjcmt mi a . i
Dopont'aOnnpowder. Keflurd Nitre, Charcoal, Eta.
W. ilHker A Co.'a Chocolate. Cocoa, aud Broma.
Crocker Rro. A Cu.'i YaUuw AUUkl fcUeaihlng,
SiauaMtaN.iiuv 14
JULY 17, 1867.
FINANCIAL
J O T I O E
TO THE IIOLDEltH
or
OVERDUE LOANS
for mi
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Holder of the following Loan ol the Common
wealth of Pen nay) van la can receive payment (prin
cipal and interest) by presenting them at the
FARMERS' AND MECHANICS' NATIONAL
BANK, on and after MAY 20, 1867:
Ian of March M, 1828, due December 1, 1853.
Loan of April 22, 189. due December 1, 1854,
Loan of April 16, 1845, due August 1. 18M.
Loan of March U, 1881, due J uly 1, 186S.
All of the above Loans will cease to draw Interet
after August 1,187.
JOHH W. (JE1BT,
GOVERNOR.
JOHN F. IfABTBANFT.
AUDITOR-GENERAL.
WIULIAM II. KESBLE,
STATE TREASURER.
S 1 wrm84t
BANKING HOUSE
or
Jay Cooke & Co..
NOS.113 AND 114 S.TBIBD TM PHILA.
Dealers in all Government Securities,
OLD 6-SOa WANTED
IN EXCHANGE FOR NEW.
A UBEB11 DIFFERENCE ALLOWED,
Compound Interest Notes Wanted.
INTEREST AIXOWED OH DEPOSITS.
Collections made, Stocks bought and sold on
Committal on.
Special business accommodations reserved for
ladles. u 24 8m
7 3-10s,
CONVERTED INTO
Five-Twenties of 1865,
JANUARY AND JULY,
WITHOUT CHARGE.
BONDS DELIVERED IMMEDIATELY.
DE HA YEN" & BROTHER,
10 2rp WO. 40 U. Till P STREET.
Jm G. SECURITIES
A SPECIALTY.
SMITH, RANDOLPH & CO.,
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
HO.ISS THIRD KTi NO. 8 NASSAU ST.,
fHJLADKI.PHIA.
KKW YORK
ORDERS FOB STOCKS AND SOLD EXE
CUTED UI FUILADELT'llIA AND HEW
York i n
7 3H10S SEVEN - THIRTY NOTES
CONVERTED WITHOUT CHARGE INTO
THE NEW
C - O H.
BONDS DELIVERED AT ONCE.
COMPOUND INTEREST NOTES WANTED at
blgbeet market rates.
WM. PAINTER A CO.,
WO. SOUTH Till BP STB EET.
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING.
p A I N T I N C.
THOMAS A. FAHT,
HOUSE AND SIVN PAINTER.
(Lit la Faby A Bra)
No. 31 North THIRD Street,
Abov. Market.
OLD BRICK F RON 'I'M done dd, and mads to look
equal to the tlurat prM brlok. bnipla at tutiiliop,
City aud country trttda sullcHed.
promptly Ueuded to.
All orders by Pout
4 id rtuw
GARDNER
& FLEMING,
COACH MAKERS,
WO. BI4 SOUTH FIFTH STREET.
New and Second-band Carriages for sale. Par
tlcnlarsttcptlon paid to repairing. 6 80 6m
PKIVY WELLS OWNEKS OF PKOPKRTY
1 be only plane to t frlTJ Walla oleaaad au
iMiniut4 at vaiv kw ixumm,
f tt Y BOW.
Manutacturer Poudreits,
ioj fioueatmrB jiaxi ijlbju&y street
Ll : : w .. ,j2 ,.
WA i"CtffcS JEWELRY, ETC.
AMERICAN WATCHED.
W. W. CASSIDY,
HO. IS SOUTH SECOND STREET,
fHrLADILrHlA
APKS ATTENTION TO HIS
VARIED AND EXTENSIVE STOCK
Of
HOLD AND SILTEB WATCHES
AND
SILVER. WARE.
Customer, may b assure tbat none bat tksbs
articles, at reason able prlcta, will bs sola at bis stort
A fins assortment of ' '
PLATED-WABE CONSTANTLY ON HAND
WATCHES and JEWEL BY carefully repaired. Al
orders by mall promptly attended to. 4 IS wsm3m
LEWIS LADOMU3 & CO.
Diamond Dealers and Jewellers,
WO. 803 CHESNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA
Would Invite the attention ot purchasers to their
large and banosome assortment of
DIAMONDS, ,
WATCHES,
JEWELRY,
SILVER-W ARB,
ICE PITCHERS Id great variety. KT
A large assortment of small BTUDH, or eyelet
boles. Inst received.
WATCHES repaired In the best manner, and
guaranteed. 614p
WATCHES, JEWELKY.
W. W. OASSIDV,
NO. IS SOOTH SECOND STREET,
!tffprssn entirely new and most carefully selected
AMERICAN AND GENEVA WATCHES.
JEWELRY,
8ILVEB-WARE, AND FANCY ARTICLES Qf
EVEB.Y DESCRIPTION, suitable .
FOB BRIDAL OB HOLIDAY PBESENTS
An examination will show my stock to be nnsur
pasftrd Id quality and cbfapnesa.
Particular attention paid to repairing. 16
G. RUSSELL & CO.,
WO. SS NORTH SIXTH STREET,
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
FINE WATCHES,
FBENCH CLOCKS,
COLD JEWELS Y, AND
l SOLID SILVER WARE.
HENRY HARPER,
No. 520 ARCH Street,
Manufacturer and Dealer Ju ; ,:
WATCHES,
FINE JEWELRY,
SILVER. fLATED WARE, AND
al SOLID SILVER-WARE
C. & A. PEQTJIGNOT,
Mannisotnrers ol
Gold and Silver Watch Owes,
XMrOBTBBS AND DKAUCBS I If
WATCHES.
Ofllce-No. IS south SIXTH Street,
Msnnfactory No. Ecuth FIFTH Street,
PHIIAPSXJ'HIA.
LEGAL NOTICES.
TN THIS DRl-HANS'CODKT FOR THE CITY
X AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA. '
TbeExtaleof WIUMAN W Hi LLDIN, deceased.
Tbe Auditor appointed by the Court to audit, smile,
and adjust the account ol WILLIAM M. FAHK. Ad
ministrator ortheEHtateotCapittinWILMOM WHIL
DiN. deceased, uuder letters granted by the RusiaUtr
S! JMl'V1 "'"delphla. May a, me, and to report
distribution of tbe balance In thebands ol tbe account
ant, will meet tbe parties Interested for the purpose
olhls appointment, on TUESDAY, the Sad day orjulv
lust.. IK?, at 11 o'clock A. M at his office. No. lis
?,TU Btreet' ecoud "r"lD the city"?
Philadelphia. EGBERT NICHOLS.
712fmw6t Auditor?
TN THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE CITY
A. AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA.
Estate of MARGARET bCANLON. deceased.
1 he Auditor appointed by the Court to audit settle,
and aujust the account of JOHN O'BVKNB Ad
ministrator of all and sinsular the goods and chattels,
tl-t credits which, were of MAKOtS
bCANLON, late of lbs county of Philadelphia
deceased aud to report distribution of the balauce lu
the hands pf the accountaut, will meet tbe parties
Interested for the purpose or his Hwnolnirnmit ,T
WEDNESDAY. thsWh day ol Jul, Tifsu iw it ?2
o'clock P. M., at the olllce of John O'Ryrne ' Esq
No. 614 WALN UT Street. In the city of Phllo'elpb?al
7 12 lmwf,t GEOUG E W. RAUGH. Auditor.
TN THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE CITY
X AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA.
Estate of JOHN TURNEK. deceased.
- "o'lof "PPoluted by the Court to audit, settle,
snd adjust Urn account ol lil'uli GAMBLE, sur
viving Executor of tbe last will and testament ur
JOHN TURNER, deceased and to repoTt d 8trmU
tlouof tbe balauce In the bauds ol lbs accountant
will meet tbe parties Interested toi lhen"is ot
his appointment, on WEDNESDAY, the 2uh7l
of July. lH7.at 11 o'clock A. m" at h olllce No
11SK H1XTH street, in ibetlty of PblladeloS
7 VI imw6t A. AT WOOD OR ACE? Au.mor.
IN THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE CITY
AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA?
Estate of JOHN R. W ORRELL, deceased.
..2, ,iAud.'t.0.,' PP1"td by the Court to auditsettle,
and adjust the account of WILLIAM T inwVk'J
HAMUEL F. FISHER, and FREDERICK sV
PER, surviving Executors of the last wlVl and s
Uieut of JOHN R. WORRELL. XJaied. am? to
report distribution ol tbs balance lu the bands ol
the accountaut, will meet the parties lntre!ed I for
tbe purposes ol his appointment, on MONDAY
Ihe2mbday ot July. lb7. at 11 o clock A M it ui
office, B. E. corner SIXTH aud WALNUT Streets
lu lb city of Philadelphia. VVALAUI Streets,
7 10 'mu W. J. MCELROY. Auditor.
TTSTATE OF WILLIAM PRICE, DECEASKP.
,t i!iH. J ale of tht Philadelphia, de
ceased, having been granted to tbe uinli.li-ii all
person. Indebted to suTd estate are request to mats
payment, and tbose living claims or aemanVagalust
the same will present them wlchout delay to
.1 MM IV PIT ti 'Ltrrua
Kn Oi iT Vs A li l n ti , aa
MaRY PRICE,
No. 1620 FRANKLIN Street,
CHARLES XI. MASSON,
No. HUU N. SIXTH ntroet.
Or to her Attorney,
lWwtit
FURNITURE, BEDDING, ETC.
T housekeepers;
Iaavsa largs stock oi'avery variety of
FURNITURE,
SMi?1 .U1.1 rednoed prices, consisting of
yAf&V CHAMBER BU118.
Cil'fP11 8UITS IN VELVET1 PI.TOH. '
AtH SUITS IN HAIR CLOTH.
PARLOR bUITS IN h.t t .
bldeboard. Eitenaiou Tallies, Wardrobes. atooK
Oases, MatucMiaui, Lmiugas, ato. etc , . ,
' " im irsTimu,
tit M.M. corner SECOND and RACE bUeels.
Eh