. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . e, and an addition of a hundred and thirtythousand pounds to the royal income, provoked only the remonstrance ofShippen. He did not even find a seconder to his amendment. The time wasnot yet ripe for agitating the question of a distinct provision for the eldestson of the king, independent of any allowance the Crown might bestow uponhim. Frederick was about twenty years of age; was not a resident in England ;and was not yet created Prince of Wales. The case of his fath
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . e, and an addition of a hundred and thirtythousand pounds to the royal income, provoked only the remonstrance ofShippen. He did not even find a seconder to his amendment. The time wasnot yet ripe for agitating the question of a distinct provision for the eldestson of the king, independent of any allowance the Crown might bestow uponhim. Frederick was about twenty years of age; was not a resident in England ;and was not yet created Prince of Wales. The case of his father wasdifferent, when he was Prince of Wales. He was thirty-two years of age; Horace Walpole, EeminiscenoeE. + Ibid. ff 172-J FREDERICK, THE HEIR-APPARENT. 59 he came to England at the accession of George I.; and lie lived here with hiswife and daughters. Unhappily, both on the part of the father and themother of Frederick, there was a deep rooted antipathy towards this eldest son—an unhappy circumstance which probably interfered with such an arrange-ment as would not have left him wholly dependent upon what lord Hervey. Queen Caroline. (From a Painting by Vanderbank.) terms the discretion and generosity of his father. George II. was not verydiscreet, and he was very far from generous. The unkingly passion of avaricewas predominant in his most trivial disbursements. But this precise little manUad one supreme royal virtue, that of an inflexible love of justice. Personalcourage he signally possessed—it is an attribute of his race. He fought underMarlborough at Oudenarde in 1708. He headed the charge of his infantry atDettingen in 1743. In queen Caroline, George, for ten years of his reign, hadsuch an adviser and friend as few sovereigns have ever been blessed with. Shepossessed the rare wisdom—difficult even in private life, but far more difficult inthe relations of akingand hisconsort—of governing her husbandwithout appear-ing to govern. She never offered an opinion when
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