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The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1860., [Electronic resource], Killed. (search)
observed to us that he had been overhauling an old file of newspapers, in one of which he found the arrival of the Duke of Kent, father of the present Queen Victoria, at Boston, announced without the flourish of a single trumpet. It was while he wasen he lately visited our shores. It was very great, it must be owned, and yet it was not at all strange. The Duke of Kent was but a King's son — the fourth in point of birth, and therefore a very distant expectant of the crown. Between him andight marry according to law--one of them actually was married, and the Princess Charlotte was already born.--The chance of Kent, and his posterity, therefore, was beautifully small — like the small end of nothing whittled down, to use a phrase said tears of peace have not entirely eradicated that impression. It is hardly wonderful, then, that the arrival of the Duke of Kent created no extraordinary sensation in Boston. A few old Tory families, of pre-revolutionary times, were still in existenc