HOW THE QUEEN WAS BORN IN ENGLAND.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 100, 30 August 1879, Page 3

HOW THE QUEEN WAS BORN IN ENGLAND.

I Tho Lsraelistisclie Wookonschrift pubises tl«; following" historical rumisconcc," in which Sir Moses Monteflore plays a prominent part. In the year 1810, under tin- nominal rule of George 111., his third son. Edward Duko of Kent, settled ut Brussels in conscquenoe of tho unsettlod state of finances ami of the necessity of living wore economically thun was possible in England. Two years later he married the widowed Princess of Leinningen, with whom he subsequently resided at her castle of Ainorbaeh in the Odenwald. Then the prince was visitod by Moses Montcfiore (with whom he was acquainted) in order to arrange .some financial matters, and during this visit the last mentioned personage took the opportunity of calling the attention of the Royal Duke to an expected change in the occupancy of tho English throne, and advised him, therefore, to return to his native country. The duke, however, was unwell, ami postponed his departure, being desirous of awaiting his recovery before introducing his consort at the English Court. MontoHors then betook himself to the duchess and urgently pressed on her notice the fact that BO one could be heir to the throne jrabjsii ho <* sl "-' wM " boni in Eu land , that under thecirciini .Umv

iu which she was then situated, she owed it tn herself and her coining child at oucfl to rep.-dr to England. Ha reminded her that tii.- death (if George 111. «M shortly to be expected ; and both the Prince lierant and the Duke of Clarence (afterwards William IV. were childless—the Prince Kegeirl had lout his only child, the Princess Charlotte, in 1817—WhI consequently after the Iw.i princes just mentioiieil.'the throne would devolve ou the Duke of Kent and his descendants. So earnestly dill Mr. Montehore press his point especially with reference to the necessity for the heir to be horn in England, that the (Inches followed his advice, mid urged her husband to aoooinpany her to Hugland. On the 24th of May, 1819, she gave hirth to a daughter who. eighteen yean later, succeeded to the throne lis Uuecn Victoria. This circumstance, concludes our contemporary) was the result of the sensible advice given by MosesMontetiore, ami in ]iart accounts for the esteem in which the venerable baronet is held by all parties ill the country, as well as by the Court. The Jewish Chioniclo adds that .Sir Moses is warmly esteemed by >jiiany who have nuvcr heard this anecdote, and hy some who dp not believe it.