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Article TRYING TO CHANGE A SOVEREIGN. ← Page 10 of 10
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Trying To Change A Sovereign.
or stood , rather—but the handsome asylum in St . George ' s Fields . We hear of him at Broadmoor—a kind attendant on his sick fellow captives , beloved and respected by keepers and kept alike , the trusted and trusty servitor of the establishment where he has been for so many years immured , where he will almost certainly die . He is fifty-seven years and three months of age now ; thirty-nine years of that period he has passed in a captivity thatwhatever its
, physical alleviations , can have been , can be , no other than sorrowful . Forgive me , poor prisoner , if I have laughed at thee ; and yet , Ihave not laughed at thee , but at those foolish boyish freaks of so-called principle thou hast , I doubt not , longsince learned to laugh at thyself—no ! not to laugh at—to contemn , to despise . For my part , I like to think , to this day , that the whole affair was the outcome of the silly " Young England" visionthat the bullets were as tangible
, , ancl only as tangible , as that paper-valiant society , ancl that , after all , Edward Oxford , blazing off his powder in the park , posed in a foolish attitude involving , it is tme , the commission of a dastardl y ancl wicked act , but that he was wholly innocent of the crime of really " trying to change a sovereign . "
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Trying To Change A Sovereign.
or stood , rather—but the handsome asylum in St . George ' s Fields . We hear of him at Broadmoor—a kind attendant on his sick fellow captives , beloved and respected by keepers and kept alike , the trusted and trusty servitor of the establishment where he has been for so many years immured , where he will almost certainly die . He is fifty-seven years and three months of age now ; thirty-nine years of that period he has passed in a captivity thatwhatever its
, physical alleviations , can have been , can be , no other than sorrowful . Forgive me , poor prisoner , if I have laughed at thee ; and yet , Ihave not laughed at thee , but at those foolish boyish freaks of so-called principle thou hast , I doubt not , longsince learned to laugh at thyself—no ! not to laugh at—to contemn , to despise . For my part , I like to think , to this day , that the whole affair was the outcome of the silly " Young England" visionthat the bullets were as tangible
, , ancl only as tangible , as that paper-valiant society , ancl that , after all , Edward Oxford , blazing off his powder in the park , posed in a foolish attitude involving , it is tme , the commission of a dastardl y ancl wicked act , but that he was wholly innocent of the crime of really " trying to change a sovereign . "