A satirical ballad on the expulsion of Prince George from St. James's Palace, which was followed by the death of the newly-christened baby Prince, is droll enough to here repeat:--
The King then took his gray goose quill, And dip't it o'er in gall; And, by Master Vice Chamberlain, He sent to him this scrawl:
"Take hence yourself, and eke your spouse, Your maidens and your men; Your trunks, and all your trumpery, Except your chil-de-ren."
The Prince secured with nimble haste The Artillery Commission; And with him trudged full many a maid, But not one politician.
Up leapt Lepel, and frisked away, As though she ran on wheels; Miss Meadows made a woful face, Miss Howe took to her heels.
But Belenden I needs must praise, Who, as down stairs she jumps, Sang "O'er the hills and far away," Despising doleful dumps.
Then up the street they took their way, And knockt up good Lord Grant-ham; Higgledy-piggledy they lay, And all went _rantam scantam_.
Now sire and son had played their part, What could befall beside? Why, the poor babe took this to heart, Kickt up its heels, and died.
Mahon, despite all his desire to make out the best for the Whig revolution and its consequences, occasionally makes some pregnant admissions: "The jealousy which George I. entertained for his son was no new feeling. It had existed even at Hanover, and had since been inflamed by an insidious motion of the Tories that out of the Civil List £100,-000 should be allotted as a separate revenue for the Prince of Wales. This motion was overruled by the Ministerial party, and its rejection offended the Prince as much as its proposal had the King.... In fact it is remarkable.... that since that family has reigned, the heirs-apparent have always been on ill terms with the sovereign. There have been four Princes of Wales since the death of Anne, and all four have gone into bitter opposition." "That family," said Lord Carteret one day in full Council, "always has quarrelled, and always will quarrel, from generation to generation."
"Through the whole of the reign of George I., and through nearly half of the reign of George II.," says Lord Macaulay, "a Tory was regarded as the enemy of the reigning house, and was excluded from all the favors of the Crown. Though most of the country gentlemen were Tories, none but Whigs were appointed deans and bishops. In every County, opulent and well-descended Tory squires complained that their names were left out of the Commission of the Peace, while men of small estate and of mean birth, who were for toleration and excise, septennial parliaments and standing armies, presided at Quarter Sessions, and became deputy-lieutenants."