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ON THE REIGN OF GEORGE THE FOURTH.
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The public press has dealt , not perhaps unjustly , but rather ungentl y * with the character of George the Fourth . His amours and his prodigalities were catalogued and commented upon while his remains were yet unburied ; we might almost say before his corpse was cold ; and censures were pronounced which would have seemed severe , had it not been for the yet severer censure implied in the fact that the very few who attempted eulogy were driven to the solitary topic of his gentlemanly manners and accomplishments . . ' ..,.,: We cannot feel altogether satisfied of the purity of this exhibition of independent writing and moral feeling . The royal memory would probably have escaped much of it had His Majesty pursued , in some particulars , a
different course , without being one jot or tittle nearer to moral worth . The disappointment which he inflicted upon the long-cherished and confident hopes of the Whigs , on his accession to the Regency ; and the equally bitter disappointment of the Tories , on a so much more recent occasion , have operated as might have been expected , A Sovereign cannot with impunity alienate , and be believed to have betrayed , in turn , each of what the two of the tritwo ot
were great political parties country . He may depend upon were e great political parties me country , ne may aepena upon its being ** remembered in his epitaph . ' * Nor is there any class whose regrets are so deep , or whose numbers are so great , as to make an efficient stand for the protection of his memory . He was too fickle in his friends ships to be the object of any deep or extensive personal attachment . . He kept his people at too scornful h distance for the multitude to admire or mourn him . And he was too regardless of the decorum which his
father so steadily maintained for it to be decent in religionists to become his apologists . The profane and profligate have -happilyceased * to Jbe ^ n influential class of society . His real failings imposed silence dfn those who would have thought little of the political conduct which , whetnfer justifiable or not , has led others to imitate a not very uncommon procedure in oufcri-
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY - ¦ ¦ ' . - ¦ ; < < . ' ' ¦ ¦ ¦ : . ¦ ¦ .: ; ] AND > . ' " ¦ ¦ : . - . ¦<; - ¦ : ' ¦ ¦ : = ' . : ¦ ¦ - ¦ REVIEW . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ * - "¦ - ' ¦• ? ¦ ' y i ! I ? ; ' ¦ , ? - ¦¦/ . ¦ ¦ .. NEW SERIES , No . XLIV .
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AUGUST , 1830 .
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On The Reign Of George The Fourth.
ON THE REIGN OF GEORGE THE FOURTH .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1830, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2587/page/1/
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