The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-09-28
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When that note may strike or with
what success, still sleeps in the uils
written future, but of all probabilities,
the least probable is that Spain will
wear much longer the Pearl Of the
Antilles in her diadem. 80 Our Tines, f
SilAsllEar Elise 81 q York lEsIasrse5 4
Stable Boy. l5sias;s5gt z
The Paris correspondent of the Iona
don Daily News gives the follow.
singular history of the now Regent oil
Parma: The elevation of Ward t,J
the Regency of Parma is tot only q
singular instance Of the mutability Of
human affairs but of the tendency OF
the Anglo-Saxen race, when transplants
ed to foreign countries, to emerge to (
cminence and surpass others by the
homely but rare qualities of common s
sense and nnfaltering energy. Ward.
as your readers are perfectly aware,
| was Yorkshire groom. The Duke
Of Lucca, who obtained, by his fall
from horseback in Rotten-row, the farni.E
liar so6riquet Of Filthy .lucEe,' spys
ing the lads merit, took him into hisfal
service, vnd promoted him through:thesa
several degrees Of command in hisss
stables to be head groom of the ducattSIl
stud. Upon Wards arrieal ih Italy ].
with his master, it was soon found thati
the intelligence which he displayed Id 1
the management Of the stables was,
applicable to q variety of other de-
partments. In fnct the Duke had such
9 high opinion Of Wards wisdom that
he very rarely omitted to consult him.
upon any question that he was perplex1s
ed to decide aud the success, which
never failed to crown y ards advice
gave him in the eyes of the feeble, desl
sceudvnt Of the Spanish Spanish BDur4s
bons the prestige of infallibility!
AS Louis XII. used to answer those
who applied to him on any business,
by referring them to the Cardinal
dAmboise, with the words ask
George" SO Charles of Lucca cut short,
oil applications with "Go to Ward
s It's expenses Of the stables having 1
Sbeen Ieduccd 70 less than half under
J 1EsS,sis ii oi,. syhil tha Buke'a
horses were tho envy Of all Et5sisy;
struck the prince naturally enough tiist
it would be q good thing if tho same
economy could be Introduced into
other departments. So Ward tried
his hand on one thing and the other,
continually enlarging his sphere Of, in
tluence, until from household matters
he passed to those connected with the
state, which, indeed, is such rninia-
ture affairs that it does not greatly
pass the limits of some private do
mestic establishment. Ward now be-
came the tactotum Of the prince, won, 1
in the disturbances which preceded thea
revolutionary year of ls4S, a diplo-s
matte dignity, and was dispatched tp$
Florence upon confidential mission
of the highest Importance. He was
deputed to deliver 10 the Grand Duke l
the act Of abdication Of the Duke Of
Lucca. At first the Grand Duke was
doubtful wheth he could receive in a.
diplomatic capacity messenger of
whom he had only heard in relation to 3
tho races OF the Cascine, where Ward
had been i'll the habit of riding as g
jockey. "
But it soon appeared that the Luc-'
chese envoy had in his pocket com.
mission making him the viceroy OF the
Dukes states, which was to be acted
upon in case the Grand Duke made
any difficulty, or even if he refused to-
receive Ward rs ambassador Of tho
states Of Parma at the capital of the
NIedicis. Soon after, in lS49, when
the Duko of Lucca resigned his other
states to his son, Ward became the
head counsellor of this hopeful prince.
who has thus been able to follow out o
sporting bent under the best auspices, &!
while he had minister whose shrewd
sense was more shan match for. the
first diplomists in Italy. Ward was
on one occasion dispatched to Vienna
in q diplomatic capacity. Schwsrzen-
burg was astonished at his capacity ~
in fact, the ciQeraat Yorkshire stable
boy was the only one of the diplomatic
body that could make head against the {
impetuous counse s, or rather dictates
of Schwarzenberg and this was found
highly useful by other members of the J.
diplomatic body. Il
Among others, Meyendorf, the Rns4
sian ambassador, cultivated him great
ly. An English gentleman, supping
one night at the Russian ambassadors
complimcnted him upon his excellent
ham. "Ihere's member ofonr di. &
Plomatic corps here" replied Meyen-E
dvrti, who supplies as oil with hams
from Yorkshire, of which country he y
is a native" Ward visited England. I
The broad dialect and honey phrase
hotraying his origin through the pro-
fusion Of orders Of ali countries spark
ling on his breaet, he rarely ventused
- appear at evening sources. Lord
stpn declared he was one of &
ss,Esrksshle men ho had ever
s;engh all yieissi-