Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-01-25
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Nlrard rlSht hand man was countryman
of his, named Roberieot, who, however had
received his mercantile education entirely at
Hamburg, under the tutelage Of Professor
Busch. This Roberieot was the only man
whom he now and then, and only now and
then, took into his especial confidence, and he
had worked in the house of Girard for re-
| spectacle, yet very moderate salary, during
| the lapse OF twenty years; frequently some
thing was said about increasing it, but moth
| ing of the sort was ever done. Roberieot,
who had some desire to be taken care of in
! his old age, resolved to let his patron know
! that if he desired to keep him any longer, he
must take that matter into consideration, and
| give him handsome sum, that he might pat
aside, and turn to good account. Girard, a
| little nettled by this, replied that he would
| give him ten thousand dollars, but Roberieot
demanded sixty. He was ted to wait until
the next day, when, without hearing another
word in relation to the matter, he received
what he had asked for-sixty thousand dol
lars.
Magnanimous as Girard could be in many
things, he was, on the other hand, equally
petty in many others. OF his numerous re-
| latlVes IN France, who were all poor peasant
folks. he would never hear syllable mention
| ed. When some of them upon one occasion
ventured to cross the ocean and visit him in
Philadelphia, he immediately sent them away
again, with tritling present. In one partic-
ularinstance he exhibited ususual hard heart
edn ess. His captains bad received the strict
est orders not to bring either strange goods,
passengers or letters back with them. One of
his ships was returning from Bordeaux, and
through another, which had hurried on be-
fore it, he learned that it was conveying him
some relations of his as passengers he ms
family sent to Newcastle on the Delaware
Where the ships coming i'll from sea usually
touch, an order to the captain, forbidding him
TO land any passengers, but TO remain at that
point until another had been procured TO take
them back to Bordeaux, when he might come
up to Philadelphia with his cargo. The cap
tam was then replaced by another person.
lie, however, made an exception i'll favor of
two nieces, the orphaned daughters OF a broth
er who had died in poverty He allowed
these girls to come to him, and gave one of
them permission, along with some twenty
thousand dollars, to marry the brother of Gen.
Latlemant, who had emigrated to America
upon the restoration of the Bourbons, after
the battle of Waterloo In his will he be.
queathed to the other an equal sum.
THE HOUSE OF Barring & BRoTHERs-THE
HISTORY OF THE FAMILY.
l will take this opportunity of saying some
thing about the Barring family, particularly its
most distinguished members, Sir Francis and
his second son Alexander as ell as the hon
orable chief of the Amsterdam house. Mr.
Henry Hope, whom l have already named
The last of these, when l first made his ac-
quaintance, had reached his SEVENTEEN year,
and was som ewhat deaf. lie had never been
married. 1t was lie who opened the way for
the autocratic power Of Russia, under the En-.
press Catharine H., to the confidence of the
then wealthiest capitalists in Europe, the
Dutch, and thereby laid the foundation of
Russian credit. Always treated by the En-
press with great distinction, he had been hon
ored with the gilt from her own hand, of her
portrait, the full size of life. This picture &C.
cupied the place of honor i'll the superb gal.
lery ofpaintings fitted up by him i'll his pal
ace ct Hugs ten losh," (now a royal pleas.
ure palace,) which he had built i'll the woods
of Harlem. Upon his emigration to England
he had taken this splendid gallery entirely
composed Of cabinet pieces, with him, and |
had the pleasure of seeing it frequently, at his
residence in Cayendish square. To the tone
OF refined gentleman and man OF the world
he united a certain attablity which spoke to
and won every heart. The whole soulod cor
diality with which he always met me when l
came to his dwelling in the city, or to his
country seat, Eastsheen, in the neghborhood
of Richmond, has always remained fresh in
my memory. Yet a secret trouble seemed to
be weighing ON his mind This ANNOYANCE
arose from the notorious relations of his niece,
Madame Williams Hope, with a Dutch Off
Ger of Dragons, by the name Of Dopf. had
attracted his confidence, and he one day seiz-
ed 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 if she yentured to bring this man
with her to England. The larger part of his
considerable fortune, which he had bequeath-
ed to Henry, the eldest son Of this niece, and
who died unmarried, passed at the decease Of
the latter, to Adrian, the second son, who left
no male heirs, but from whom it descended to
Francis, the third son. born several years ar-
forwards. This third inheritor is the rich and
well-known MIR. 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 1860 to
to 1910, at Groningen, in the Dutch province
of Oyeryssal One of his ancestors, under the
name of Francis Barring, wasspastor of the
Lutheran church, at Bremen, and in that ca
pacity was called to London, where, among
others, he had son named John. The latter,
well acquainted with cloth making, settled at
LarKOeer, III DeVOnSnlreI and there put up an
establishment for the manufacture Of that ar Il
ticle. He had five children-four sons, John,
Thomas, Francis, Charles, and a daughter
called Elizabeth. Two of these sons, John
and Francis, established themselves, under the
firm of John s Francis Barring, at London,
originally with view of facilitating their
fathers trade, in disposing of his goods, and
50 as to be in position to import theraw ma--s
terial to be required, such WOOL dye-stnfFs,1rr
&C., themselves directly from abroad. Thus
was established the house Whitewater the
withdrawal of the elder brother John, who d
retired to Exeter-g gradually, under the firm
name of Francis Barring & Co., and eventually,
under tho firm name of Barring Brothers, 4
Co., rose to the highest rank Of mercantile
eminence in the commerce of the worId.s,
Sir Francis, who, under the ministry of tho
Count Sheburn, father of the present Mar
quis of Landsdowne, had become his intimate
friend and adviser in financial matters, hav-
ing, in the year 1893, received the title of
Baronet, was already styled by the latter the 2
Prince OF Merchants. He had become some
what feeble, and very deaf, when / first got
personally acquainted with him.. ........, ,...
On the occasion of ona of, INV. Waite r.