The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-08-28
The llaAUe~s Of Vanity.


all the hOnOrs OF her birth, as she consider.
ed them to be- She had the happiness to
please, such was her own expression, the
man of the finest sense and sharpest discern
ment and in 50 doing found her only pleas
ure. She became after his death, at The
age Of seventy one. the guardian of his son,
a minor, and the lofty possessor Of the Buck
ingham house, respecting which We find in
the Suffolk Letters curious epistle from
her, treating, in 1923, OF granting lease Of
hist mansion to George H., then Prince OF
Wales. Considering, she impertinently
remarks, the little care and regularity that
S taken in the princes family, did his high
ness give as much again as he might now
have it for, il is possible one might repent i,
at the expiration Of the lease. Ii their roy
al highnesses will have everything stand as
il does, furniture and pictures, | will have
f3 900 per annum both run hazards OF
being spoiled and the las, to be sure, will
be all new bought when my son comes oil
age She afterwards offered i, on purchase
for eco, 900, the Princess of Wales having
asked her at the drawing loom, if she would
sell her fine house The royal family, OF
whom The Duchess Of Buckingham was
thus speaking, were the objects Of her evow-
ed adherence; yet it did not prevent her
treating with them, in hopes Of driving
good bargain She gave TO the laughing
world indeed, burlesque Of Jacobtism
maintained sort Of royal state, and affect
ed great devotion to the memory Of her
grandfather and father. She went to weep
over the body of James IL. at Paris. One
Of the monks, seeing her emotion, thought il
proper opportunity TO remark how ragged
the pail was which was placed over the
body, then kept unburied, to be inferred One
day in England; but the duchess did not
Offer to supply another. She had occasion
ally correspondence with the chevalieI
James Stuart, over whom she is said 10 have
exercised an influence proof Of wha,
effrontery can effect over weak minds
when the duchess found herself diving.
she sent for Anstis the herald, and settled all
the pomp Of her funeral ceremony. She
was afraid Of dying before the preparations
were Why, she ready. asked, won't they
send the canopy for me to see! Let them
send it though the tassels are not finished.
And then she exacted, as Horace Walpole
affIms, vow from her ladies that, il
she should become insensiblc, they would
not sit down in her room until she was dead
Funeral honors appear, indeed, to have been
her fancy; for when her only son died. she
sent messengers to her friends, telling them
that, if they wished to see him lie in state,
she would admit them by the back stairs.
Such was the delicacy Of her maternal sor-
row.
But there was one match in pride and
insoencc for Katharine, Duchess of Buck.
ingham this was Sarah, Duchess of Mari.
borough. Upon the death OF the young
Duke of Buckingham, his mother endeavored
to borrow the triumphal car that had car
ried the remains OF Marlborough, to the
grave. No, replied the widowed Duchess
Of Marlborough, the car that has carried
the Duke of Msrlborough's body shall new
er be prOfaned by any other. Il have sent
to the undertaken, was the Duchess of Buck.
ingham's rejoinder, and he has engaged to
make better for $50. Memoirs Of
tiscountess Sundon.
THE EARL OF ORRERY.-"W henev.
er, he wrote, eve step out Of do
mestic life in search Of domestic felicity.
we come back again, disappointed, tired,
and chagrined. One day passed under our
own roof with our friends and our family is
worth thousand in any other place. The
noise and hustle, OF, as they are ioolishly
called. the diversions Of life, are despicable
and tasteless when once we have eXperien-
ced the real delight of fireside. ID.