Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-10-09

his name and estates. This Richard Cooley was
the linea ancestor Of Wellington, whose family name
of Wesley was modified 10 Wellesley, by his brother,
the Marquis Of Wellesley.
Arthur Wesley was sluden, at "Eton," and was
not at all remarkable a scholar, while he attended
that famous seminary. He studied afterwards at the
military school Of Anglers, in France, fact made re.
markable by the other fact, that Napoleon at the
same time was studying in the sister institution of
Brienne. At seventeen years of age, Wellington
entered The army, and by his powerful family nau-
ence, and on account Of his orthordox toryism,
which strongly recommended him to the arstocratic
government Of Great Britain, he rose with remaika-
BILE rapidity from the position Of an ensign to that Of
General In 1897, he went to India with his regi-
ment, and assisted his brother, the Marquis Of
Wellesley, who was then Governor General of In
da, to rob Tippoo Saib of his country, aud extend,
with fire and sword, the baleful domiaion Of Grea!
Britain over Southern Asia. The policy q Great
Britain, as represented by the East India Company,
has always been one of duplici,y aid rapine. She
first foments what she calls rebellion, by her civil
agents. and then she makes those rebeions the pre-.
texts for military aggression and social oppression.
The Marquis Of Wellesley created quarrels in India;
his brother Arthur prosecuted them, and executed
vengeance on the people Of that country. The Mar.
qnis Of Wellesley made his brother MAJOR General
for his Indian exploits, and the king of England
made him Knight.
In 1907, Sir Arthur Wellesley made Secreia.
ny Of Ireland In this capacity he acted like for.
eign conqueror, and infexibe tyrant, and moi like
a native Irishman. His countrvmen never forgaye
him for his unholy antipathy his native land; and
the intensity of that antpathy never seemed TO relax
in his bosom man false to nature as he was
in this respect, could not by possibility be the child
of inspiration and genius. He was, in all his rela.
items with the outer world, an iron machine. Intel.
ect seemed be his only human distinction; he did
not seem to be possessed Of what call heart. in
the same year that he was made Secretary of Ire.
land, he was recalled to active military service by
his tory patrons, and sent to the Peninsula, to
endeavor to crush hghbred liberalism and Napo-
eonsm and reconstruct the shattered thrones of abs
soutism. From that period to 1915, he the
champion of the "holy alliance" oil 10Y al miscreants,
who initiated that system political oppression and
suppression, which eventuated in the oubursis o
lS4S.
In 1914, Arthur Wellesley was created Duke O.
Wellington. He has received in gratuities and PEN
sIons, from the aristocra;ic government of Great
Britain, upwards of $I5,OOO,OOO; and all his reIa-
tves. to remote degree, have been literally titled,
placed, and pensioned.
The Duke Of Wellington was driven from the ac-
tive political arena BY the events connected with the
passage of the Reform Bill He was too obstinate,
too inveteratey tory, and too much inclined 10 threat
en- military vengeance the reformers then compris
ing the great majority Of the nation, to be trusted al
the helm OF government in the political crises OF
imminent peril then occurring. Since the death Of
his relative, Lord Hill, he has been kept 10 nominal
connection with the ministry whether wing or tory
as commander-in-chef of the forces.
1t is as the conqueror of Napoleon, that yelling.
ton is regarded with most interest The events Of
his life, not military, of no special interest In
his YOUTH like the great majority of the British pa
trcians, he gambed frequented fashionable bagnios,
contracted debts far beyond his powers of liquidation,
and resored to Jew brokers for the means of extrca
ton from his embarrassments. He won wealth and
lance and now dies, amidst Fle syoneFHeHt
erybody possessed of the love of very few persons,
save absoIutists and tories.