Afterwards Went by the Name of the "Cato Street Conspiracy." About Twenty-Five Years Before George IV

Afterwards Went by the Name of the "Cato Street Conspiracy." About Twenty-Five Years Before George IV

254 GEORGE IV. CHAP. LVIII. afterwards went by the name of the "Cato Street Conspiracy." About twenty-five years before George IV. came to the throne, he had married his cousin, the Princess Caroline of Brunswick. The marriage was not a happy one, and the Prince and Princess of Wales separated soon after the birth of their first and only child, the Princess Charlotte. This led to a sad quarrel, which I think it is no use for us to re- member. The Princess Charlotte, who would have succeeded her father on the throne if she had survived him, had married Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, and died the year after her marriage, to the great grief of the people. This happened before her father became king. It was towards the middle of King George's reign that a war broke out between the Greeks and Turks. A great many English gentlemen, amongst whom was the poet, Lord Byron, went to Greece to take the part of the Greeks. The struggle lasted several years, and was ended at length by a battle fought in the harbour of Navarino, where all the Turkish ships were sunk by the British fleet.-Navarino is at the south-west corner of the Morea in Greece.- The commander of the Turkish fleet was named Ibrahim Pacha, and the commander of the English fleet was Sir Edward Codrington. After this battle, Greece, which had been subject to Turkey, was made into an independent kingdom, and three German princes were invited in turn to be king; Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg (the same who had married our Princess Charlotte) declined the honour, but Prince Otho of Bavaria accepted the invitation, and became Otho I., King of Greece. Lord Byron died.

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