"Int 6pectator," gobember 22nb,1851 Tun last of the sons of
George the Third died on Tuesday, in the old German palace of his race.
To the manes of Ernest King of Hanover the Spectator has little apology to make for misrepresentations of that potentate during his life. Many years ago, when it was popular or the fashion to hold very different language respecting him, we spoke of the King of Hanover exactly as the great majority of Liberals do now. We ventured to represent that the Duke of Cumberland was neither a Bluelmoird nor a would-be uncle of the Babes in the Wood, nor any other melodramatic villain, but an English gentleman, who had the misfortune to combine in his own person the obstinacy and narrow views of his father and the lax morals of his eldest brother, uncompensated by the domestic propriety of the one or the fascinating manners of the other. The justice of this opinion has been acknowledged since King Ernest, by ceasing to take an active part in English politics, has ceased to be a butt to the malicious exaggerations of party spirit.
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