The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-05-05


preserve. & memontosol their dayl of couftahip
these singular love letters which give % much
might into the minds and dispositions q
both
/ We pass over this romantic period Of 10.
lday Mars > life with less comment Than We
could desire. She rays herself that the los
six weeks Of her girlhood was spenl with-
out sleep, she had 90 many lovers she was
troubled which one 10 choasel At last,
Though her love letters aVe very cool and
sensible, she escaped from her window in
Iher night-clother, aud ran away with DIR.
Wortley and was married. He was passion-
ately fond other, and hao often panied tOhet
the devotion thai should mark their married
life and make earth Paradise to her.
We give one OF her letters which needs no
comment. Il showslhat the fate Of nearly all
the daughters 81 Eve was hers.
= IT'S an old lesson time approves true
And those who know ii best deplore it most
when al is won that 81 desire 10 WOO,
The paltry prize IS scarcely worth the cost.
Here is the letter which shows the brill
liant beauty and belle transformed into the
unhappy mother and neglected wife.
"Iknow very well that nobody was -ver teas
ed into liking; and It's perhaps harder to revive
past one than TO overcome an aversion. but I
cannot forbear any longer telling you think
youuse me very unkindly. don't say so much
Of your absence as should do,if you was in
the country and in London because would
not have you believe that an impatient to be
in town; but am very ser.sible parted with
you in July and it's now che middle Of Novem-
Der, As if this WIS rot hardship enough, you
DO not tell me you are very sorry for it. You
write seldom and with so much Indifference, as
shows you hardly think Of me at all. | COM
plain of',Il health, and you only say hope it is
not So bad as make it You never inquire
after your child. / would fain fatter myself
You have more kindness for him and me than
you express; but reflect with griefthat man
th at is ashamed of passions that are natural and
reasonable is generally proud of those that are
sh meful and silly"
ley gets into the Cabinet through Sir Robert
Walpole's influence, and then Lacy Mary
come. to London, and blazes the sonnet of a
season." George the FIRST would. not let her
leave an entertainment without demonstrating,
and one time she was leaving Ball and was
BY his orders foreibly carried back because
the Royal Host could not do without her!
Poets. wits, and philosophers were u her
train,the andtears that the forsaken woman shed
in her neglected country home, had al been
crystelized and made her the brilliant and heart
less coquet that she then was. Who shall
say what she would have been had she been
marriedt to man that knew how to appreciate
her.
In I7l6 the Embassy to the Purte became
vacant. and Mr.. Wortley was appointed 10 it.
Lady Mary accompanied her, husband to the
East and wrote back letters. descriptive Of the
countries through which she passed, and the
men and women she met, which created a
great sensation in England at the time, and
are still admired as being models of epistolary
writing. While she was at the Hague where
they fingered for their last dispatches from the
Court, Pope who had fallen desperately in love
with her, writes to her:
"You may easily imagine how DESTROYS must
be of a correspondence with person who had
taught me, long ago, that it was as possible to
esteem at first sight as to love and who has
since ruined, me for all the conversation of one
sex and all the friendship ofths other. am
but too sensible, through your means that the
company of men wants certain softness to
recommends and that Of women wants every
thing else. How often have been quietly go
ing to take possession of that. tranquility and
Incidence had so long found in the country.
when one evening Of your conversation has
spoiled me ofyour solitaire tool! Books have
lost their effect upon me; and was convinced
since saw youths' :here is something more
powerfulgthan philosophy; and since / heard
you, that there is one alone wiser than all the
sages.
They visited on their wayto ConstRntinople.
most Of the Courts Of Europe Lady Mays
beauty and wit and admirable tact. secured
them welcome wherever they went. They
were eight months reaching Adrianoplc.
I'VE shall be compelled to defer finishing
his article till next week as the space we a.
otted isexhauste
Communicates
BEnToN. Miss. May End 1855.