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The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], Loss of grain at Sea. (search)
the same suspicion. Her son was much devoted to her, and would have restored her to liberty when he came to the throne; but she died a month or two before that event happened.--Horase Walpole says that the dispute between the King and the Prince ran so high at one time that the King had determined to kidnap the Prince and send him to the West Indian, and that Admiral Terrington had actually consented to perform that piece of service. What prevented it, we do not recollect. Probably Mr. Robert Walpole, who could not fail to see the consequences, may have interfered to prevent such a crime and folly. But the Prince became aware of the plot, and always afterwards honored Torrington with his inveterate hatred. George II., notwithstanding his experience, pursued towards Frederick, Prince of Wales, the same course that his father had pursued towards him. In this case, the Queen herself took sides with her husband. Frederick set up a court of his own, and assembled at it all the di