The true Democrat., 1854-09-20

THE HOUSE OF BARRING BRoTHERs-THE HIs-
 TORY OF THE FAMILY
 will take this opportunity of saying some thing about the Barring family, particularly its most distinguished members Sir Francis and hls second son Alexander, as we'll as the hono- rable chief of the Amsterdam house, MT. Henry Hope, whom l have already named. The last of these, when l first made his acquaintance. had reached his seventieth year, and was some what deaf. He had never been married. It was he who opened the way for the autocratic power of Russia, under the Empress Catharine H., to the confidence of the then wealthiest capitalists in Europe, the Dutch, and thereby lad the foundation of Russian credit Always treated by the Empress with great distinction, he had been honored with the gift, from her % own hand, of her portrait, the full size of life. This picture occupied the place of honor in the superb gallery of paintings fitted up by him in his place "t Huys ten Bosch," (now royal pleasure palace,) which he had built in the woods of Harlem. Upon his emigration to England he had taken this spleuuid gallery, entirely composed of cabinet pieces with hiri6c and had the pleasure of seeing it frequently. at his residence in Cavendish square. To the tone of refined gentleman and man of the world he united certain atfability which spoke to and won every heart. The whole-souled cordiality with which he always met me when 1 came to his. dwelling in the city, or to his country seat, Eastsheen, in the neghborhood of Richmond, has always remained fresh in me- mory. Yet secret trouble seemed to be weighing on his mind. This annoyance arose from the notorious relations of his niece, Ma dame Williams Hope, with Dutch officer of dragons, by the name of Dopff had attract ed his confidence, and he one day seized me suddenly by the hand, led me to the window, and could not restrain his tears, as he told me he must close the door of his house against her II she ventured to bring this man with her to England. The larger part of his considerable fortune, which he had bequeathed to Henry, the eldest son of this niece, and who died un- unmarried, passed, at the decease of the latter, to Adrain, the second son, who left no male heirs, but from whom 1t descended to Francis, the third son, born several years afterwards. This third inhertor is the rich and we'll known Mr. Hope now settled in Paris, and the only surviving member of that branch of the whole family.
 A close examination into the origin of the Barring family traces it back to certain Peter Barring, who lived in the years from 1866 to 1870, at Cronngen, in the Dutch province of Overyssel. One of his ancestors under the name of Francis Barring, was pastor of the Lutheran church at Bremen, and in that capaci- ty was called to London, where, among others, he had son named John. The latter, we'll acquainted with cloth making, settled at Lark beer, ln Devonshlre, and there put up an estab- HShment for the manufacture of that article- lie had five children-four sons, John, Thomas Francis, Charles, and daughter, called Eliza beth. Two of these sons, John and Francis, established themselves, under the firm of John & Francis Barring at London, orlgl. ally with view of facilitating their fathers trade in dis ponsng of his goods, and so as to be in posi- ton to import the raw material to be required such wool, dye-stutfS, etc, themselves direct ly from abroad. Thus was established the house which-after the withdrawal of the elder brother John, who retired to oEXeter-graduallv. under the hrm-name of Francis Barring & Co.,. and eventually, under the firm name of Barring, Brothers Co.,, rose to the highest rank of mer- cantlle emlnence in the commerce of the world
 Sir Francis, who, under the Ministry of the Count Shelburn, father of the present Marquis of Lansdrowne, had become his intimate friend and adviser in financial matters, having in the year 17O3, received the title of Baronet, was already styled by the latter the Prince of Mer- chants. He had become somewhat feeble, and very deaf, when first got personally acquaint- ed with him.
 On the occasion of one of my visits to him he told me that he had kept at his business for thirty years before he considered himself ent- tied to keep an equipage. Upon another oc- casion when spoke to him of my project in establishing myself in New Orleans, after the termination of my mission, he remarked: "Usu. ally, my young friend, that commission busi- ness is the best in which the commissions take this direction"-here he made motion with his hands as if throwing something towards him" but where the business goes thus!''- motioning as if he was throwing something from him. This amounted to saying, in other words that receiving consi gnments was better business than executing commissions. Three of his sons, Thomas, Alexander, and Henry, entered the London establishment; but the first, who was intended to have carried on the fathers name, after the death of the latter on the 12th of September l8lO assumed the name of Sir Thomas, and withdrew from the house, as the third also found occasion to do at latter period. The latter was passionately fond of play, and indulged in it with so much success that he sometimes broke " Enterprise Generale des Jeux" of Paris. But the sight of one of the heads of such house, one night after another, in the great gambling establishments, produced a bad effect; and even if it did not impair his credit, it in no slight degree damaged his re- spectability This was felt at headquarters and an understanding was come to for his with drawal from the firm.
 Alexander Barring, the second son of Sir Francis, had received a portion of his educa- ton in Hanau, had then completed it in Eng land, and commenced his mercantile career in the house of Messrs. Hope, where friendship sprung up between him and MT. p 0. Labou- chere, which led to the latter's marriage, at later period, with his sister, Maria Barring When the Messrs. Hope retired to England, in consequence of the occupation of Holland by the revolutionary French army, under Piche- gru, and after Alexander Barring had left the house, he determined to visit the United States of North America. At his departure his fath- CT confined his advice to two especial recom- mendations one of which was to purchase no uncultivated land, and the other not to marry wife there: Because" said he, "uncultivat- ed lands can be more readily bought than sold again, and wife is best suited to the home in which she was raised, and cannot be