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Character, Life, And Times Of His Late Royal. Highness , By The Public Press.
He was a patron of literature , and he had become celebrated for his astonishing collection of versions ofthe Holy Scriptures , manuscript and printed , in all languages , —numbering , if we mistake not , from 5000 to 6000 different editions . His Royal Highness gave a firm and earnest support to the Reform
Bill , and sanctioned by his votes and speeches in the House of Lords , and by his presence when the royal assent was given , that great change in the Representative system . He was particularly distinguished for a warm and enlightened attachment to religious liberty . In him the rights of the Dissenters ever found a decided advocate . At the present moment , the loss of so illustrious a friend to the rights of conscience will be sincerely lamented .
( From the Newcastle Chronicle . ) It is gratifying to think that in the end he had the gratification of seeing his principles triumphant , and that in tbe kindness and gratitude of our beloved Queen , to whom he had proved himself a kind guardian and valuable counsellor , he found a recompense for his long sufferings and sacrifices . Of his kind and unostentatious disposition , the last act
of his life affords an affecting instance . It was his last request that his body might be buried in . other than the royal tomb at Windsor , in order that the affections of himself and of his bereaved Duchess might be gratified by their remains being allowed to be deposited in the same tomb . To this request , expressed also in his will , her Majesty had been pleased graciously to accede . The body of his Royal Highness will therefore be deposited in the Kensal Green cemetry .
( From the Tyne Mercury . ) We could have wished to have written largely on the character of this most estimable man , hut we fear neither time nor room will admit of it . Those who remember his being in Newcastle when he laid the foundation-stone of the present building ofthe Literary and Philosophical Society , will have a happy local reminiscence of his Royal Highness
, and never , perhaps , was a royal prince more suitably chosen , or more happily invited to commence so noble an undertaking . Had the royal Duke been less trammelled by his high station , or less oppressed with the indispositions which , as might have been anticipated , have finally brought him to the tomb , he would probably have proved himself one of the greatest men of his time , both in literature aud science . His
collections in biblical literature have been very extraordinary , and those who were most intimately acquainted with him , declare that his knowledge of those collections was altogether unequalled . As a man of science , it was always to us matter of curiosity how he had had the time
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.
He was a patron of literature , and he had become celebrated for his astonishing collection of versions ofthe Holy Scriptures , manuscript and printed , in all languages , —numbering , if we mistake not , from 5000 to 6000 different editions . His Royal Highness gave a firm and earnest support to the Reform
Bill , and sanctioned by his votes and speeches in the House of Lords , and by his presence when the royal assent was given , that great change in the Representative system . He was particularly distinguished for a warm and enlightened attachment to religious liberty . In him the rights of the Dissenters ever found a decided advocate . At the present moment , the loss of so illustrious a friend to the rights of conscience will be sincerely lamented .
( From the Newcastle Chronicle . ) It is gratifying to think that in the end he had the gratification of seeing his principles triumphant , and that in tbe kindness and gratitude of our beloved Queen , to whom he had proved himself a kind guardian and valuable counsellor , he found a recompense for his long sufferings and sacrifices . Of his kind and unostentatious disposition , the last act
of his life affords an affecting instance . It was his last request that his body might be buried in . other than the royal tomb at Windsor , in order that the affections of himself and of his bereaved Duchess might be gratified by their remains being allowed to be deposited in the same tomb . To this request , expressed also in his will , her Majesty had been pleased graciously to accede . The body of his Royal Highness will therefore be deposited in the Kensal Green cemetry .
( From the Tyne Mercury . ) We could have wished to have written largely on the character of this most estimable man , hut we fear neither time nor room will admit of it . Those who remember his being in Newcastle when he laid the foundation-stone of the present building ofthe Literary and Philosophical Society , will have a happy local reminiscence of his Royal Highness
, and never , perhaps , was a royal prince more suitably chosen , or more happily invited to commence so noble an undertaking . Had the royal Duke been less trammelled by his high station , or less oppressed with the indispositions which , as might have been anticipated , have finally brought him to the tomb , he would probably have proved himself one of the greatest men of his time , both in literature aud science . His
collections in biblical literature have been very extraordinary , and those who were most intimately acquainted with him , declare that his knowledge of those collections was altogether unequalled . As a man of science , it was always to us matter of curiosity how he had had the time