Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-11-06
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
A DUCAL BREAKING-UP.

may serve to show that ii my Lord OF Buckingham
was not, he very well merited TO be, the Young
Duke" of novel which, under that title, made
some noise about fifteen years since.
We had seen, OF late, in the London journals,
obscure limitations Of the approaching ducal catas-
trophe; but with nothing that could afford to us
transmarnes clue TO the name of the illustrious
bankrupt. First, we saw that nasmuch as the
stud and plate of an anonymous grandee were
swamped, he was probably, like the silver, to be
brought to the hammer, and, like the horses to be
going to the dogs. Next we perceived that the
dogs themselves had had their day, like his grace,
whose STYLE of address has so little saved him from
being most graceless: pack OF creditors, keener
of scent and deeper of mouth than all his thirty
couples, were in full cry after his kennel and it
was evident that the hunt was up after his lordship,
who, we soon perceived was about to take to the
water and get to the continent AT length palmer
spoken paragraph brings us his name and gives us
some idea Of his debts which, sooth to say, appear
to be about equal to those which have at times been
on the point of bringing several Of our sovereign
States under the statute of bankruptcy. He seems,
in Short to owe not far from nine millions of dollars
"THE Duke BucKISGHAM AND HIS CREDIToRs.
The of this nobemans affairs has for time formed
topic Of conversation and his have become
public that secresy considered necessary
the subject The creditors Of the duke have been trying
bring his personal property to the hammer and to divide
amongst them what little could be obtained by the sale Of the
valuable effects of the duca residences Stowe and Woon
Bucks Arlington in Hampshire and Buckingham House and
Chando House in London They estimated that the value
Of the pictures, furniture plate wines, &C. in these man
sons would be between ESQ., and 9l00 000 Operations
consequently commenced and in the latter end OF Au
gust an execution was put Buckingham House for
Of eco O00 for which verdict had been obtained at the last
asszes at Devices This Immediately followed by other
executions in Stowe, Woton and Arlington, he house in
Chandos street being occupied by the Austrian Embassy
The total of the dukes debts is stated at between
$780, 900 and Ell 100000. When the officers in charge
OF Buckingham House about to seize the furniture &C.
it innated them that the duke had assigned the
whole of his effects down to his wearing apparel wines, &C.
TO his eldest son. satisfaction of claim which he had against
his father and which would be preferred to the claims of the
dtors The sheriff then requested to leave the house.
but this he refused to do, and application made to the
judge at chambers when 1t argued that the deed OF
sgnmenl fraudulent and void against the creditors and
that the distress legal The Judge decided that the sheriff
should remain in possession until security given for the
amount of the eyes and directed issues to be tried between
the parties the validity of the various claims, to
bring the whole question before the court 1t is reported that
there no less than sixteen executions in the town
mansion Of his grace the Duke of Buckingham at the suit Of
various creditors, whose debts from 930 900 downwards
The officers of the sheriff of Bucknghamshe have failed in
almost all their satagem for gaining admission to the dukes
residence at Stowe Park. few days since two of hem
armed with execution for $500 got under the porch
and through dwarf hachway, when of his gaces do
mescs locked the door against them On another OCCASION
of the officers demolished of the windows OF the
mansion and thereby obtained admission but upon appca-
ton TO the Judge at chambers yesterday his ordsp
ed his opinion that the act did not amount to legal possess
son The extensive property at Arlington, Winchester be-
longing to the duke, also in the possession OF the sheriff of
Hampshire, at the suit of creditors Opposed to
the executions of the bona tide creditors number of claims
have been up under the ntepeade by the dukes
aves and Others who insist that the greater portion of the
valuable paintings, plate, &C. belong to them The judge at
chambers before whom all these have been heard has
recommended the sher TO delay the sales until issue
be tried set at rest the disputed claims. Observer.
This title has been remarkable, as well for its re.
peated extinchons and revivals for the poetic
renown of some who have borne it, and the figure
which now they have made by their politics, now
by their dissipation. Shakespeare, Dryden, and
Pope have each his Buckingham = and the two
latter have, as if in emulation, avished upon one of
the Dukes all those coors OF poetic characterpant-
ing that perpetuate the vices and confer an i'm
pershable Interpolation. Besides all this, the first
Viers James the First's Steenie y tempted the
pen of Scott to a novel, though by no means one
of his best; the second figures with sort of courty
blackguardism in the gayeties and wit of that hero
of proligacy, the Comte de Grammont, and takes,
besides, lasting place in British poetry, the au-
thor of that matchless satrical drama, the Re
hearsat; the next Duke, (of the revived title, Shelf
field, ranks high, by the suffrage Of Dryden and
Pope, for his versfed Art of Poetry; while no less
than four of them Including him in Richard Ill,
the /" deep-revolvng witty Buckingham y attained
to high ministerial infuence--two of them, indeed,
as favories, to complete royal sway. Apparent
ly, however, the escutcheon has, in our degenerate
age, forfeited all spendor but that of most unde-
generate profusion; and the authorship for cele-
brating the foies which stain il, declining in the
same proportion, has come down from Dryden to
DIsraeli, and from Count Hamilton to ourselves
Were we well-read in any thing but history pro-
per, politics, poetry, and general literature were
we qualified for leading consular station under this
sagacious dynasty of Young Hickoryism, by hav-
ing kept country store," far in the interior, and
dealt in feathers, butter, eggs and tow-nen, know
ledge-giving commodities, the handling of which
dspenses one from all other information J had we,
by thrd-rate county-court practice grown pro-
found enough, in all that the practical publicis must
know, to have ever merited being sent abroad an
ambassador was it not our fate, in common with
some of those who represent abroad the radiance of
the Presidential wit, to have no foreign language
nor enough English to learn one with, we should,
OF course, have Burke's I" Peerage" and all other
peerages at our fnger-ends. But away with all
heraldry, except that Of Hickoryism! Down with
all genealogical trees but that which is now giving
this crashing nation such toothsome nuts to crack
Hang all lineage but that in direct line from the
rope! Down with all descents, except the faciHs
descenSus of Democracy Races and stocks we
scorn all races but those of horses, all stocks but
such as people are set in In short, we cannot un-