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" No use till the wind changes ! " Then on the 

 story of Zacchaeus being read, " Behold, the half 

 of my goods I give to the poor," his Royal 

 Highness's outspoken comment was " No, no ! 

 that's too much for any man no objection to 

 a tenth!" The Rev. Mr. Wilkinson, in the 

 Reminiscences above-mentioned, asserts that one 

 nervous curate was driven out of the parish by 

 princely interruptions to the service, not to 

 speak of criticisms on the sermon. " A damned 

 good sermon ! " was the remark Sir William 

 Gregory heard him make, coming out of a 

 London chapel where the preacher had eloquently 

 held forth against swearing. The Duke was 

 buried in Kew Church, while his brother of 

 Sussex chose to "lie among the people" at 

 Kensal Green, where indeed he lies among such 

 mere " people " as Thackeray, Leigh Hunt, Tom 

 Hood, Sydney Smith, Isambard Brunei, George 

 Cruikshank, John Leech, and a whole academy 

 of R.A/S. In Kensal Green Cemetery also was 

 buried the last Duke of Cambridge, beside his 

 wife Mrs. Fitz-George, who seems to have won 

 love as well as respect in her anomalous position. 

 This Duke, the Commander-in-Chief of our 

 day, was born and partly brought up in Hanover, 



