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The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
the will of his father, George I., and the will of Louis XIV., by which he endeavored to exalt his illegitimate children, at the expense of the Regent Duke of Orleans, utterly failed to be carried into effect. The longest will we ever saw is that of the Duke of Aragon, the well known commander of the Royal Guard in the time of Ferdinand 7th. and a chosen instrument of his tyranny. It is on record in the Department of State at Washington, where it was brought as evidence in the great Hackley case. A whole page of the large book into which it is transcribed in a most minute hand — the book is as large as the largest ledger of a merchant — is taken up with an enumeration of his titles. The will occupies, we believe, about a dozen pages. One of the most curious wills we ever saw, is that of the celebrated Alexander Campbell, once a great lawyer in this city. Among other curious requests, he desires that no tombstone may be erected over his remains, for the reason that if every