THE HANOVERIAN LADIES.
Moen interest is excited for the Hanoverian ladies, BOTH; whose distresses, apparently acting upon a morbidly acute pride, have prompted them to the commission of more than one tragical extravagance. The. last extraordinary proceeding of these ladies, was to fling themselves simultaneously out of a boat into the Thames, by which paroxysm of German heroics, one of them was unfortunately drowned. In the ac- count of their difficulties, it is said that Count MUNSTER offered to pay their expenses home to their friends in Germany; and that they at first joyfully acceded to his proposal, but . . . . "on being informed that their conveyance to Dover was to be a stage-coach, their pride recoiled; they contemptuously spurned the offer, and peremptorily refused to move unless a private carriage was provided for their journey."
If this be true, (and Heaven forbid,that we should too hastily give credit to the facts of newspapers! ) it certainly would indicate a pride of most unmanageable magnitude and intensity. The current of bene- volence in favour of these poor ladies we would by no means desire to see checked ; but we cannot be insensible to the moral suggested by all similar cases,—namely, that.patierit suffering, enduring compliance with circumstances, and submission to fortune, are lost upon the world; while the irritability which throws itself out upon the public in the coup de theatre is sure of commanding relief. People who lack succour must do something striking for it, or they may starve.
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