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قراءة كتاب Social England under the Regency, Vol. 2 (of 2)
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The Emperor enters the Thuilleries this day."
Here are some of the names by which he was assailed by The Times:
- The Tyrant.
- The impious tyrant.
- The flagitious tyrant.
- The wretched tyrant.
- The Corsican tyrant.
- The wretch.
- The impious wretch.
- The Corsican.
- The impious Corsican.
- The rebellious Corsican.
- The usurper.
- The Corsican usurper.
- The homicide.
- The impious homicide.
- The Outlaw.
- The Corsican outlaw.
- The infamous outlaw.
- The perjured outlaw.
- The impious outlaw.
- The rebel.
- The perjured rebel.
- The traitor.
- The perjured traitor.
- The Brigand.
- The Thief.
- The Robber.
- The Murderer.
- The Tiger.
- The Monster.
- The Villain.
- The Criminal.
- The notorious Criminal.
- The Prisoner.
- The Assassin.
- The Incendiary.
- The Impostor.
- The bloody and perjured chief, &c.
This man of many names gave us much trouble just at this time. Lulled in false security, everything was being put on a peace footing, only to be brought again to its old dimensions, and Sergeant Kite was once more abroad, and active.
A few disjointed ana must fill up the time until we come to the next halting stage of history—the Battle of Waterloo.
Of course London has vastly increased in population since 1815, and Visitors come by rail, or steamboat, from all parts of the earth, but the difference in the number of visitors to the British Museum in one year, is very marked. In the year ending March 25, 1815, they amounted to 33,074; in that ending Dec. 31, 1889, to 504,537, and this does not include the visitors to the Natural History Department, at South Kensington, which, although removed from the parent building, is part of the Institution, and is governed by the same trustees.
The Prince of Wales was utterly reckless in his expenditure, he put no kind of curb to his extravagance, and left no whim ungratified. The consequence was he was again fearfully in debt.
"The Civil List.
"'John Bull,' exclaims old Nick, 'pray mind,
The Civil List is now behind:'
'Good Lord!' cried John, 'why, what a bore,
It was behind, you know, before.'"
Here is a list of the Prince of Wales's debts:
Debts 1787 | £161,020 |
Debts 1795 | 640,080 |
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801,100 | |
Debts paid in three years to Feb., 1815, from Extraordinary Allowances to the Prince | 150,000 |
Sum granted for outfit Feb., 1812, and applied to debts | 100,000 |
Paid from Droits of Admiralty, 1813 | 39,000 |
Paid from Feb., 1815, to May, 1815, one qr of £50,000 | 12,500 |
Paid in three years from Duchy of Cornwall to Feb., 1815 | 39,000 |
Known to be remaining unpaid May, 1815 | 339,000 |
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Total of debts contracted by the Prince | £1,480,600 |
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The Newspaper from which this is taken goes on to say: "The public will see, by this statement, how unavailing all engagements, and all Acts of Parliament hitherto passed, have been to prevent the system of incurring debts; but the distresses of the country now demand some effective prohibitory checks, and we trust Parliament will not separate without supplying them; although from the vote for the payment of the Russian debts, for the reduction of Guadaloupe, and the aids to Holland, there is too much reason to fear that the Senate, and the public, entertain different views as to the necessity of economy, and that the public must encounter the awful trial of a protracted system of profusion and prodigality."
"The statement of the debts was extracted from the Journals of Parliament, and when £339,000 was described as the known excess still due, the term known was certainly used to signify avowal, but not to embrace the total, for there is great reason to believe that treble £339,000, would not release the Prince Regent from his pecuniary embarrassments."