. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . His vacOlating conduct during the Crimean war is wellknown, and lowered his character in the eyes both ofprinces and people. In the year 1857 he first exhibitedsymptoms of fiiilure of mind, and in October, 1858, hisbrother, Prince Frederic William Louis, was created Re-gent, to the general satisfaction of the people. Frederic William IV. married a daughter of the sternand commanding Nicholas of the North
. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . His vacOlating conduct during the Crimean war is wellknown, and lowered his character in the eyes both ofprinces and people. In the year 1857 he first exhibitedsymptoms of fiiilure of mind, and in October, 1858, hisbrother, Prince Frederic William Louis, was created Re-gent, to the general satisfaction of the people. Frederic William IV. married a daughter of the sternand commanding Nicholas of the North, who, when ear-nestly soliciting his assistance against the Western Powers 324 IMPERIAL COURTS. durinc the Crimean war, received a reply not uncharacter-istic of Prussian sovereignty. There is hardly anything Iwill not do for the Emperor Nicholas, whom I love, saidhe; but if I remember that he iij my father-m-law, neitherdo I forget that Prussia is not the sister-m-law of sovereign closed his earthly career on the third ofJanuary, 1861, at the palace of Sans Souci, leaving histhrone to his brother, who, since 1858, had been fulfillingthe functions of Eegent of the KINO OF , FREDERIC WILLIAM LOUIS. Frederic William Louis, the present King of Prussia,whose portrait we give, is the second son of FredericWilUam III. and of that Prussian Queen whose name is en-circled with a halo of romance from the severities withwhich she was treated by Napoleon I. He was bom in1797, and before he was called upon to take the conductof affairs of his brothers kingdom, fiUed the posts of Mil-itary Governor of Rhenish Prussia and Kmgs Lieutenantin Pomerania. Until he became Regent he held aloof fromall uninvited interference with the affairs of the generalgovernment; but whenever his opinions were mvited bythe King, he gave them at once and without reserve,showing at the same time that they were very differentfrom such as were entertained by his royal brother. Heevinced no
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