The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-08-10
ENGLISH GOSSIP-THE QUEEN, &c.
liverpool Correspondence Of the Nc,o York Star

. AStpG pun correspondence " Ht NCD Uk STAR.
LIyERrooL, July 9, 1899.
This letter will reach you by the British Queen tho
monarch OF steamboats, She arrived here yesterday
week from Glasgow and did not enter any dock, be-
cause we have none with entrance wide enough TO
admit her. She has engines Of 500 horse power, and
rather think she will be " roarer.''
All the melancholy details about Lady Flora Hastings
the papers will tell you. The Queen is very Gauch
blamed II is confidently asserted that her Males
ty the original suggester Of the calumny which has
caused Lady Floras TO be brought prominently
before the public, limited this in my last, and my in
formation correct. The newspapers tell the
story General opinion acquits Lady Tavistock
Of any participation in the ISLANDERS, she out Of
Town at the time to the Queen principal, and to
Lady Portman and Sir James Clark propagators Of
the SANDER, much public blame is given.
About the Conroy affair." The facts are as follows
told you n May, 1897, that the Queen then Princess
Victoria, had taken fit OF offended dignity because
Sir John Conroy, comptroller of her mothers house.
hold. had turned away Of her attendants, groom)
who had been sancy to him. and he had thought it
Of sufficient Importance to trouble her with complaint
She Immediately had the groom reinstated, and never
after spoke to SIR John, except the formal
ner. She was p,qned, and she was unforgiving To
the Conroys she gave the direct from the day she
became Queen Il with difficulty that her mother
prevailed on her grant him the Baronetcy, and she
forbade HIM the Court.
When he recently learned that on his accoun. she
had quarrced with her mother, who refused to dismiss
him, he wrote letter to the Duchess, saying tina. he
was grieved to be the cause of any difference between
her and her daughter and rendering his resignation
The reply that her husband, dying had CON-
mended Captain Conroy to her that for twenty
years he had been her faithful servant and that her
daughter should drive her fathers friends away On
this Sir John who in Ireland at the time) wrote
back to renew his offer of resignation. The Duchess
consulted the late speaker Lord Dunfane) and the
Duke Of Wellington who advised her to accept the re-
signatIon, she did not, excuse would be made
10 dripe her fran the Palace, and there iods no knotonp
That might there # she oas to ieape me
Queen IN bad hands So, she did accept it, and the
Conroys have left England He, it is said is to have
Peerage. After he had gone the Duchess asked the
Queen when the patent would be made QUIT The du-
hlul daughter said, Whenever there is vacancy in
the IRISH peersge, your aporc shall be elevated to it."
To understand this, tell yon tina, an Irish peer
has no seat in Parliament, such, and that there can
only be vacancy when the Irish peerages become ex-
tnct-a thing which it may take half century to wit
ness $50. the 'amabc young Queen" has fairly
done them ALL "
An excellent joke about her is current Just now She
is liable TO the complaint Of dyspepsia (the complaint Of
all luxurious ivers who eat and drink much) aud
when last at Windsor Sir Henry Halford M d., was
several times for The fee in such cases is so gui-
meas and the Queen said the fourth time he came
Sir Henry, must be very much Of your way to
come down al! this way often, and as observe that
you always ordered me the same medicine, you will
obge me by leaving the prescription - The request
was command, of course, and when the Queen had sub
segment attacks OF repetion, she the prescription
to her spothecary, and saved the fifty guineas fee.