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 GEORGE IV. This prince was born 12th August, 1762. He was married to Caroline, his first cousin, the daughter of the Duke of Brunswick Oels. By her he had an only daughter the Princess Charlotte, who died at the birth of her first (and still-born) child. George IV., when Prince of Wales, though in the receipt of a handsome income, acquired habits of gaiety and extravagance to such an extent, as to be obliged to solicit the aid of Parliament to relieve him from some heavy pecuniary difficulties.

It is much to be regretted that an unhappy difference with his consort, rendered him very unpopular. He died June 26, 1830, in the 68th year of his age, and 10th of his reign.

WILLIAM IV., was born August 21, 1765, and crowned September 8, 1831. His reign will ever be memorable on account of his consenting to a Reform in Parliament; and the total abolition of slavery, by a vote of twenty millions paid to the slave-owners, as a compensation for the freedom of all slaves in the West Indies. Also, in this short reign of 7 years, the criminal code was rendered less severe, but more prompt and certain in its operation. He died at Windsor, on June 20, 1537, in the 72d year of his age.