The happy marriage of his royal highness, to which event we have
already alluded, has, we trust, been the means of clearing away the
prejudices which the duke's former conduct may have engendered.
There is a tide in the affairs of man,
Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.
This period of his royal highness' life has probably arrived, and
his appointment to the important office of Lord High Admiral will
doubtless accelerate the beneficial effect. The public are perhaps
sanguine in their expectations; but from early and subsequent proofs
of the duke's devotion and attachment to the service over which he now
presides, we have reason to think they will not be disappointed. It
has been shown that his royal highness neither wanted zeal nor ability
at any stage of his life, and the ardent assurances which have been
quoted from one of his most recent declarations, bespeak that he still
possesses the vigour of manhood, tempered with experience; and it must
be truly gratifying to his royal highness to know that the honour and
authority of the office of Lord High Admiral, have been revived, after
the sleep of a century, as if to compensate him for past neglect, with
their investiture.
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