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Character, Life, And Times Of His Late Royal. Highness , By The Public Press.

and ready to give his personal aid in pleading the cause of the widow , the orphan , and the afflicted of all denominations ; and he did so with a degree of earnestness and zeal which will embalm his memory in the minds of thousands of relieved sufferers . The Duke of Sussex has left two children , a son and daughter , by his first wifeLady Augusta Murray . These descendants have taken legal

, steps to vindicate their legitimacy , and claim to all the rights of their high birth . As the present King of Hanover has but one son , the decease of these parties might render the right to succession of the Sussex family a matter of some consequence .

( From the Galloway Advertiser . ) Though he had a smaller income than any of the other royal Dukes , his contributions to public and private benevolence were immense . Till within the last three years of his life , there were upwards of sixty established charities to which he was a permanent annual contributor . It is for these virtues more than for any other , perhaps , that he is now

rightly estimated and lamented ; and when we consider the position in which he was placed in early life , the temptations amid which he was thrown , and the exception which he proved to the vices of the clay ancl of his class , it is impossible to speak with too much reverence of one who showed so nobly to the world that great rank might be accompanied by greater virtuesancl that in England the prince ' s palace might

, be a temple of as unostentatious merit as ever graced the peasant ' s cottage . It is supposed that he'has left his body to be dissected for the benefit of science . When the Anatomy Bill was passing through the House of Lords , some years ago , and opposition was made to it on the ground that the parties most likely to be affected by it had feelings of repugnance to its enactment , his Royal Highness declared that he

would not vote for inflicting any thing on the poorest man in the realm to which he would not himself submit ; and , in order to attest his own sincerity , and facilitate the operation of a measure which he thought so useful , he then avowed his intention of bequeathing his own body to a scientific institution , that meaner subjects might not afterwards shrink from the prospect of what a royal duke had in his own case

enjoined . The sentiment was truly noble , and spoke the character of the man , —always ready to be an example and a benefactor to his kind .

( From the Belfast News Letter . ) One of the most prominent articles in our paper of this day relates to the decease of the Duke of Sussex , and though as a politician he was peculiarly obnoxious to the Tory party , yet it is gratifying to find that

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TO BROTHER WILLIAM HENRY WHITE, GRAND SECRETARY Article 1
CONTENTS. Article 2
THE SUSSEX MEMORIAL. Article 3
Untitled Article 4
THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. Article 5
THE DEATH Article 13
HIS LAST MOMENTS . Article 17
POST MORTEM EXAMINATION OF THE BODY OF THE LATE DUKE OF SUSSEX. Article 19
Public Orders. Article 20
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. Article 21
ments, with an especial view to the adva... Article 27
CHARACTER, LIFE, AND TIMES OF HIS LATE ROYAL. HIGHNESS , BY THE PUBLIC PRESS. Article 29
INTRODUCTION OP THE LATE DUKE OF SUSSEX ... Article 66
UNITED GRAND LODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF ENGLAND. Article 67
GRAND LODGE, APRIL 25, 1843. Article 68
MASONIC MEMOIR. Article 73
MISCELLANEOUS. Article 81
Manody ,ON THE DEATH OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX, Article 87
Funeral Dirge, Article 89
Funeral Dirge. Article 91
THE LYING IN STATE. Article 92
THE FUNERAL. Article 97
FREEMASONS OF THE ROYAL HOUSE OF BRUNSWICK. Article 108
ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF SUSSEX. Article 111
MASONIC ODE, Article 112
THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. Article 113
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Character, Life, And Times Of His Late Royal. Highness , By The Public Press.

and ready to give his personal aid in pleading the cause of the widow , the orphan , and the afflicted of all denominations ; and he did so with a degree of earnestness and zeal which will embalm his memory in the minds of thousands of relieved sufferers . The Duke of Sussex has left two children , a son and daughter , by his first wifeLady Augusta Murray . These descendants have taken legal

, steps to vindicate their legitimacy , and claim to all the rights of their high birth . As the present King of Hanover has but one son , the decease of these parties might render the right to succession of the Sussex family a matter of some consequence .

( From the Galloway Advertiser . ) Though he had a smaller income than any of the other royal Dukes , his contributions to public and private benevolence were immense . Till within the last three years of his life , there were upwards of sixty established charities to which he was a permanent annual contributor . It is for these virtues more than for any other , perhaps , that he is now

rightly estimated and lamented ; and when we consider the position in which he was placed in early life , the temptations amid which he was thrown , and the exception which he proved to the vices of the clay ancl of his class , it is impossible to speak with too much reverence of one who showed so nobly to the world that great rank might be accompanied by greater virtuesancl that in England the prince ' s palace might

, be a temple of as unostentatious merit as ever graced the peasant ' s cottage . It is supposed that he'has left his body to be dissected for the benefit of science . When the Anatomy Bill was passing through the House of Lords , some years ago , and opposition was made to it on the ground that the parties most likely to be affected by it had feelings of repugnance to its enactment , his Royal Highness declared that he

would not vote for inflicting any thing on the poorest man in the realm to which he would not himself submit ; and , in order to attest his own sincerity , and facilitate the operation of a measure which he thought so useful , he then avowed his intention of bequeathing his own body to a scientific institution , that meaner subjects might not afterwards shrink from the prospect of what a royal duke had in his own case

enjoined . The sentiment was truly noble , and spoke the character of the man , —always ready to be an example and a benefactor to his kind .

( From the Belfast News Letter . ) One of the most prominent articles in our paper of this day relates to the decease of the Duke of Sussex , and though as a politician he was peculiarly obnoxious to the Tory party , yet it is gratifying to find that

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