The Life Of His Royal Highness The Prince Consort Volume 2

Author : Sir, Theodore Martin
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230436562
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book The Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort Volume 2 written by Sir, Theodore Martin and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER L. 'He that will not be patient of slander must procure himself a chair out of this world's circle, ' was a saying of the great Lord Burghley. The Prince had already had his full share of the misrepresentation to which eminence is always liable. He had borne it without a murmur; but he was now to have his ' patience of slander' put to the fullest test. On the announcement of Lord Palmerston's resignation, some of the journals conspicuous for their admiration of that statesman's talents began to throw out insinuations in various forms that the Prince had used his position to control the action of the Government, and to advance the interests of foreign dynasties to the prejudice of England. The folly of these charges was at least equal to their malignity. The journalist who could say of the Prince--as, however, was said--that he was the chief agent of ' the Austro-Belgian-Coburg-Orleans clique, the avowed enemies of England, and the subservient tools of Russian ambition, ' might have been thought, by his very language, to have forfeited all claim to a moment's consideration. For he asked the British people to believe that the man, of whose intelligence and pure feeling they had long had experience, was foolish enough and heartless enough to imperil the interests of his Queen, of his children, and of the country of his adoption, for the sake of distant relatives, and of dynasties with which the well-known tenor of his political opinions had again and again shown that he was in no sympathy. What, too, must all our Governments have been about, that such an 1854 SYSTEMATIC ATTACKS ON THE PRINCE. 539 influence could have been possible, or that there could have been a shadow of truth in the further charge, that'our foreign policy was.