The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-03 00:00:00

THE WIFE OF TWO HUSBANDS.

The following singular account of the fugeraat
of a celebrated beauty in her day, who was call e,
Kate Cannom, in which the chief mourners "'ire
her two husbands, is taken from the file of i t. 19
General Evening Post for the year 1752.
in a letter from the Mayor of Colchester, col'

August 15, 1752 -
" Perhaps you have heard that a chest was seized bye °ll
Custom-House Officers, which was landed near this Plincthe
fortnight ago. They took it for smuggled goods, thougl„.„3-
person who brought it produced the King of rrances si6oins
tune, to Mr. Williams, Hamburgh merchant. Our Cast the
people, not satisfied with Mr. Williams's account, oPefiedchen
chest, and one of them was going to run his hanger into it, his
the gentleman to whom it belonged clapt his hand 01300 the
sword, and desired him, in French, to desist. for it wsisficerti
corpse of his dear wife. Not content with this, the ° The
plucked off the embalming, and found it as he had said., the
gentleman, who appeared a person of consequence, was, in who
utmost agonies, while they made a spectacle of the 13"3:11001;
was placed in the church, where any body might come an ve
at her ; nor would they suffer him to bury her, till he fine
further account of himself. There were °ther chests i°` 3c,
clothes, jewels, &c. belonging to the deceased. bed his
knowledged at last that he was a person of quality, al that
name not Williams ; that he was born in Florence, all", he
the lady was a native of England, whom he married, an
desired to be buried in Essex ; that he had brought lie for
Verona in Italy to France by land—then hired a vess,tch,
Dover, discharged her there, and took another for Hari' nor
but was drove hither by contrary winds. This account wa4„ai-
enough to satisfy the people; he must tell his name and co-
Ile
tion, in order to clear himself of a suspicion of murder: ehe
was continually in tears, and had a key of the vestry. wheroa
censtantly sat with the corpse. He talked both Lati°,l,,,e
French, and finding a gentleman to converse with him in JO'
languages, he (to his great surprise) told him who thehelp
was, which proving to be a person he knew, he could n°t t lie
uncovering his face. In short, the gentleman confessed toseot
was the Earl of Rosebery's eldest son, Lord DalmanY ; lot
he was born and educated in Italy, and never was in Bagioye
till two or three years ago, when he fell passionately 01 the
with this lady in London, and prevailed on her to qui had
kingdom and marry him ; that having bad health, he s
travelled with her all over Europe, and when alien, the
dying she asked for pen and paper, and wrote—' I it,.o •
wife of` the Rev. Mr.. Rector of Th---., in s tv be
my maiden name was C. Cannom, and my last request t, dher
buried at Th—.' The poor gentleman who last marrtt.lid,
protests lie never knew, till this confession on. her deawionce
that she was the wife of another person ; but in coull'e ocied
with her desire, he brought her over, and should
ot
her at TIT—, (if the corpse had not been stopped),'
making any stir about it. After the noblerhen had thritocil.
-confession; they sent to the Rev. Mr. G—, who Pot shie
first 'into a passion, and threatened to rtin her last huoini;
through the body. However, he was prevailed on to he„e/I zt
it was represented to him, that this gentleman hati
great expence and trouble to fulfil her desire, and Mr. roe'
at length consented to see him. This meeting was ce'Y ryto'
ing,, and they addressed each other civilly. The strange., oi
tested that his affection to the lady was so strong, thattlto be
his earnest wish, not only to attend her to the grave, WI dscOle,
shut up for ever with her there. He had a very ha!!
coffin made for her, with six large silver plates over lI
at last was very loth to part with her to have her burietoc, flls
put himself in the deepest mourning, and on SundaY,ini'vet
coach attended the corpse to Th where Mr. t°
in like manner. After the funeral lir. G. attended
London, where they parted very civilly."

g telt
The Editor of an American Paper, the the
Observer, thus apologises to his readers `° hot
absence. of original articles during the 13te for
weather :—" The only apology we can °ffie,ruer.
the absence of original articles in this daY's/,'llo
is the excessive heat of the weather, 01"e'l1 re.
actually dried up the ink in our stands, aneo..
duced us to such a state of lassitude as Pre ~`„ios
us from ascertaining whether the wit in our '—
has not shared the same fate."