Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-05-10
LADY RLEssINGT0N.

The Ne. York Tribune sketches Lady
Blessington as follows -
In house within pleasant drive OF
London, whose combination Of suburban
beauty with city grandeur, and whose chaste
adornments OF art and graceful luxury OF
decoration, give to it the air almost OF
fairy palace, sits woman of middle age,
but round the parting SUMMER OF whose
beauty somewhat o, lingering spring HIS
still DELAYED. This woman had, when young,
welded nus band at the altar with sworn
vows.
She abandoned him for lover. She sick
encd again OF him, and scared up TO another.
She betrayed, too, his foolish, but loving
and trusting heart. which forced him INTO
marrying her, and kept as parlmour.
gay, gallsnt and gorgeous young French
man, Count D'Oorsay. To this man she
conceived the foul design oil marrying her
husbands child, her own s,ep-daugh,er,
in order thus TO center IN the object OF nar
frul,v passion, her duh dotard of Il hus-
bands wealth. The plot succeeded. After
III, marriage she still continued the intmi-
cv. When the liz time came, her daughter
was driven from the doors the Lady Bless
iDu,on and Count D'Orsay maintained their
connection, and set shame al defiance to
the last The w.etched outcust OF the street,
poor and seduced, is called prostitute.
The brilliant mistress of Gore House, aiiiu-
ent and the seducer is called "a charming
person
Men of the highest rank and most honor
able names in England, were not ashamed,
nav. were proud to worship this polluted
goddess and to lay garlands at her shrine.
We ownve were startled to find among
the list Of such woman's choicest COM
munieants and most favored guests such
names as those Of the decorous Peel and
the refined Lord John Russell. Yet. this
wouan had not the pallatlen OF seduction
of desertion, or of want, like the rustic out
cast. She was rich, and had fond husband
aud bcauteous home.
Yet, she did deed, and that to her own
husbands child, so deep and damnably in
famous, that not ali her charms ofsplrkllng
conversation and elegant ease can wipe 1t
out from the books OF the recording angel.
In this fell purpose she had for her accom-
plice. her paramour, Count D'Orsay, an
accomplished diettante, who dressed, rode,
walked. talked wrote, chseled, played
and painted with a singular good taste, but
who carried under these superficial sccom-
plishments. as his one act to his victlmized
wife clearly showed, a heart as cold and
black as was ever harbored by avil!ain.
Such was the woman and such the man
round whose graceful board the pure and
stainless aristocracy OF England loved TO
gather. Yet in hurrying home from such a
feast, there was not one OF these well man
nered men and fastidious W omen who could
have passed the outcast without shudder,
The historian who will disclose the hid
den causes Of the recent political blunders
of England, can scarcely complete his task
unless at the same time he drag aside the
folds VIII CHI decently drape that hidden
social corruption inevitable in every com.
munity based on the principle Of caste and
hereditary inequality of classes. The phllo-
sopher and lover of man may mourn over
evils revealed in the process, but it is
the means of reaching that disease of which
they are but symptoms. The death of Lady
Blrssington may induce maud!n sentiment
aists to throw disguise over the real vices
and protrude her fictitious virtues, But such
distortion of truth does not elevate the dead,
il merely lowers the living.