Butte record., 1854-09-16
NELSON'S s LOVE.

Lamartine's Memoirs Of Celebrated
Characters, has, in the memoirs OF Mel
son, an episode concerning the famed
beauty that once enchanted him. Trac
Ing Nelson through the early stages 0!
his rapid and signal success, the author
leads us to the contemplation Of bis
= fatal attachment to Lady Hamilton !;
She who was . first tie Asplsil. aac
afterwards the IIerodias Of her age. y
Here is :, description how this wonder
ial woman emerged from obscuriiy, and
biazed on the world
LADY HAMILTON : YOUTH AND FOR
TUNES.
Her only name was Emma. for her
father remained always anknow Shc
was one of the children of love, OF
crime, OF mystery, whom nature delights
to overwhelm with gifts in coaipensa-
Tor the loss of hereditary claIms. Her
mother was poor farmers servan; r
the county Of Chester Whether. she
had lost her husband by death, or. lIke
Hagar. had been abandoned by her Sc
ducer, she arrived, unknown and reduc-
ed to beggary, at Il village in Wales, the
Switzerland Of England. She carried
in her arms a female INF ant of f-w
months old The beauty Of both, al
tracted The simpl mountai neers Of the
village of iawarden; the stl anger pick
ed Up . livelihood by work. ne for the
farmers and cleaning in the fields. The
marked and noble features q! the child,
served to propagate the rumor that her
birth was illusjrious and mys terious
she was said u be daughter Of Lord
Halifax. Nothing Afterwards, ei .her in
her fortune or education, gave codor to
the report At the age Of t9elv. She
was received in a nelshboring family,
as children'S servant. The freq aeut
visits OF hcr master and mistress 10
Lond.n, where they resided in the hot 'e
Of their relative, the celebrated engrav-
er, Boydell, gave her the first idea Of
the impression her fgure produced on
the crowd in public places, and a vague
prcsentiment OF the high fortune to
which her beauty would exalt her. At
sixteen she made hrr escape from Ha-
warden, 4 field too obscure and circum-
ssribed for her exp nded dreams, and
engaged herself in the household Of a
respectable lradesman in London. a
lady of superior rank, struck by her
appearanee in the shop, e'eva ed her TO
higher position in scrvitude.
Almost without employment in an op-
ulcnt family, Emma gave herself up 10
the perusal Of those fascinating roman
ces which create an imaginary world for
the love or ambition Of youthful minds;
She irequented the theatres, and lmbib-
ed there the first inspirations Of the ge-
nius Of dramatic expression, Of acton,
and attitude which she embodied alter
wards In new art, and she became the
an'mated statue of beauty and passion.
Beng discharged by her mistress Tor
some household negligence, her growing
taste .or the theatre induced her to seek
situation in the family of one ct the /
man gers. The irregularity aud tree
dom OF that establishment, the constant
intercourse with actors, musicians ana
dincers. initiated her in the subordln-
ate me chanism of the dramatic art.
She W as then in the flower of he,r youth
and the full perfection of her beauty.
de-. tall and elegant figure ecu allied N I
h9.tural grace the studied attit udes Oh
the most practiccd dgurantes- he[ :
voice was soft, mellow, aud capable u