Anecdotes and Characters of the House of Brunswick; Illustrative of the Courts of Hanover and London, from the Act of Settlement to the Youth of Georg

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821. Excerpt: ... PART X. ORIGINAL CHARACTERISTICAL TRAITS OF THE YOUTH OF GEORGE THE THIRD. An ancient Scotch gardener, now in the eighty-ninth year of his age, whose eye-sight and memory are almost unimpaired, and his strength such as enables him still to work at his healthy calling, was employed in Prince Frederick's gardens at Kew, some years previous to his lamented death. According to the picture drawn of that Prince by this veteran, he was one of the most generous, indulgent, and humane of masters. Far from displaying that false dignity, which so often keeps the little great, at a distance from their indigent fellow-creatures, it appears to have been a maxim with that benevolent Prince, to consider that he who is born to rule a nation, should be most intimately acquainted with its taste, genius, manners, and customs. Whether he regarded his marriage P with the Princess of Saxe Gotha as a sacrifice made to the welfare of the state, or that Mr. Bubb Doddington, for some secret and sinister purpose of his own, interpolated that declaration in his ' Diary'; according to this old Scotchman's declaration, the parents of George the Third lived together in the most perfect and unbroken state of domestic harmony. He has often seen Prince Frederick, with all the alacrity of youth, enter into the sports of his playful children. The summer before his death, he played a match at trap-ball in Kew Gardens, against his two sons, George and Edward; when George, suspecting his father had counted too many, called upon the gardener for his testimony, who gave it against his royal master. There's a guinea for your honesty, said Frederick: now play away, my boy George, continued be, and I'll soon beat you and Ned, to your heart's content, and without cheating! The Princess, Lady Mi...