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"court , with certain imposing variations upon the old , dancing air , of "Oh , ' tis love , " in one hand , and his crowned-head fiddle-AukUe in the other , —bow and resin inclusive—we see him placing hifMirif in a tender and supplicating attitude in front of his adored
angel , furly persuaded that his first tour de force will at least dfacomfort and put to flight all the other suitors . We shall see . Many are already gone , and others are going *; but next season we shall be sure to have them all back again . The matter is not so easily dispatched as he fancies , and we may yet hope to see the smart action of Fiddle-royal versus Sour-crout and Sagarcandy .
The royal pips of the House of Orange have just left London for Rotterdam , attended by a guard of honour , and accompanied by ~ a four-oared oak cutter , with green cushions , gold lace , and orange tufts , presented by King William , The father of these Oranges , it will be remembered , was one of the rejected suitors of the Princess Charlotte , who had a particular aversion to legs
of mutton , large breeches , and the Dutch . It is very natural , therefore , that he should wish to reimburse his mind and pocket by the union of one of his sons with the probable sovereign of England , as they have little else to look forward to , and he himself has lost one-half of his kingdom , which fell into the possession of Leopold—and there is " no knowing" about the other
hatf N . ot to tire our readers with any more of these gentry , we will conclude with Ferdinand of Saxe-Cobourg , whom we regard , at present , as the most " likely" of the whole train . He is nephew It-Leopold and the Duchess of Kent , and brother to the husband of Donna Maria of Portugal . The father of this prince , when to divorced his first wife , allowed her four shillings and threepence per day at Cobourg , for her maintenance , reserving
nineponce out of his crown to be put into a " savings bank , " Bltle sinking fund . * After a time , however , she became dissatis-SmA with the unhandsomeness of the stipend , and coming over to England , entered a suit at law against Leopold , not from any positive claims upon him , but because she knew he was the monied ¦ Mm of the family . If it reall y ever happens that the son of Midi a close-fisted prince should be allied to an English Queen , we have only to hope that he will not inherit his father ' s love of change , unless it be for the happiness of his royal spouse and the interest of the nation to purcnase his absence . And for these fwign suitors collectively , we feel bound to address to each of them the old Latin proverb of Knee-suitor ultra crepidam ;—©• and kneel to your own princesses !
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 476, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/16/
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