Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1847-06-26
Correspondence Of the National Police Gazette
fhs Paufer Countess.

Fauper SOuutesss
MosDAr, June l4tb:
Gentlemen.-I noticed in you paper Of ttt 22d
May, report Of the rroceedingt in London
Pohce Court, in which the Countess of Morning.
Ton figured as an applicant for ptuper rslefa,
gsinst her hustsnd, William Wellesley Pole
Long, the Earl OF Mornington and also ob.
served il your last weeks paper, some editorial
remarks in explanation Of the position and char.
acter Of the respective parties to the case As,
however, your account, though correct is not
FELL Ind as the history of the pair involves
romance of peculiar interest will take the Ii.
berty of offering you brief sketch of its main
features.
The name Of the present Earl of Morningtoh
was William WELLESLEY Pole, and he is member
Of the Wellesly family of which the Duke of
Wellington is the distinguished head Instead
Of being creditable to his connexions, however,
he became, Immediately on arriving at his ma.
jority, a reckless brutal debauchec, and carried
his excesses to such a degree, that he wa. not
only discarded by his family, but generally avoid
ed by tl persons of an equal rank es discredit-
able acquaintance. After having spent several
amiable young lady named Tilnsy Long, @ho,
in addition to the possession of fine person and
exemplary character, was the richest heiress in
the British dominions.
Being man of dashing appearance and fasc.
| mating manners, Wellesley Pole attracted the
young ladys attention, and sooa succeeded in OBJ.
| tanning that favor in her eyes which the wot.
thiess noblenan Of the kingdom had sought to
| inspire in vain. She was warned against his
| character, but warped with passion, ard betrayed
by the false maxim, that L" a reformed rake makes
! the best husband," she trusted to her horss and
married hn1-binding him to no condition be-
yond the Incorporation Of her name with his
own. She soon found that she had made fatal
mistake and had no: only to experience the NOR.
tifcaton of his personal neglect, bu, 10 deplore
the wanton squanderng Of her immense proper.
ty. No extravaganza was too great for him, and
| to such en- exten. did he carry lis waste, that
even toe venerable oaks which stood around the
manor houses of her vast estates, were cut
down 70 supply his d'sgraceinl wants.
| While pursuing this career, he met with the
beautiful wife Of Captain B,igh in the fashlona
bic circles of London society, and being STRUCK
with her extraordinary charms, he adopted to.
wards her series of attentions that finally effected
her seduction, The guilt OF the parties was soon
discovered The sedncer lett for the continent.
to escape the vengeance OF the husband, and the
wife OF the fugitive retired from society, the VIC
tim Of broken heart. Captain Blgh, who had
loved his wife most tenderly, prosecuted for a
divorce, and having obtained it, shortly after
wards died, and was soon followed I'd tie grave
by Tilney LOns, the wretched wife of the Sc.
ducer.
The field being thus cleared Of The two ob.ta
cles to their guilty ariodr, Mrs. Bligh and vii.
liam Wellesley Pole Long resumed the conhee-
tion and for the tpose Of making it toleraba
TO society. got married 10 each other.
A connection thus begun. was not calculated OF
a lasting character, and the seducsr falling into
the possesssion Of the title Of Earl Of Morning.
ton by his fathers death, expelled her from his
establishment altogether, allowing her thou.
sand pounds year for ber support II appears,
| however, from the recent proceedings of the
Marble street Police Court, as republshed in your
paper, that the Right Honorable Earl with char.
acteristic regard for his contracts, has not paid
any portion Of this sum for reriod OF fourteen
years and that my lady the Counties, has been
tbliged in consequence TO apply to poiee court
| for panrer teieft to keep her from the parish
poor hoiiae. This, sehtlesien, Is but one chap.
ter in the morals Of the arlstoctaty OF London.
| This is the "uhforthnate and much abused lady"
whom your female readers doubtles felt such a
large administration f6t, and this Earl is ;he
GENEROUS gentleman" whose inordinate wife re:
fused TO receive according TO the report, the
sum Of $4,000 year. as adequate 10 the wants Of
her station.
! trust that they will be recognised in their
trte light, nnd slso trust that while the reader
condemns them to a deserved inCamy, that I shall
gain my object in writing this article, by i'm
Pressing upon them another proof. that take
seldom reforms until nature gives out, and that
man, who has been once thoroughly corrupted,
Is likely TO make the most dangerous Of hus'
bands. JUTITIA.
HENS At this season your hens reutire
constant supply Of meat This article, so ln-
dispensble, obtsin from the shaintles, or re'y
good substitute may be found In fish. Ar" 20"
not a Waltonisn! II er. take your 'st and
line dnd mike your pista,ory excursion a 'ouree
ofpfoht to yourself and Of comfort to ,oar mems
To PakvEsf FRorH RisiS0 WIEN CHrRN'
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