Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-07-23
A strange Claimant for an English
EarldOm.

An extraordDary and my s,eriou- ai1nir, snys
n late English paper, is now in course OF exam
iua,ion both by English and French lawyers
This new and valuable prey for greedy gossip
consists in the claim which is about to be raised
by poor trumpeirr in French regiment Of
Chasseurs, 10 the estates and titles of OF" OF
the first earldoms Of Great Britain. The story
goes that the late earl, having sundry reasons
for residing ON the continent. had ceased for
many years before his death to hold any com
munca,ion with his family. Now and then, the
lawyer despatched IN business TO FontaiDbean.
where the late earl had taken up his residence.
would bring hack the most cheering news for the
heir apparent IN the title, in the shape of an ac.
count concerning the mi-anhropic habits of my
lord, who would wander alone whole days in the
forest. sometimes. indeed, remaining away for
days together, md living in the hut of a snbot
maker. situated in tn. very bosom IT the wood.
But the lawyer, whose hurry t. get back To-
roast beef and coal fires evidently marred HIS
professional clrarnes- Of understanding WAS COM
petely at fault in his calcuatpn His lordshif,
did MT wander 'a'onr" in the Forest neither did
be remain in solitude whom there. The sabot
maker Ind daughter 81 pewerfu' mind. yoics
and manner, before wh ,a lis "rdShip very soon
learned 10 tremhi,liko - l.it cLi!d.
The irnnpeter W. pnkr t has in his possess
sion certain documents bt,ti sLi t.l light by the
circumstance of lying n xi IL English soldier
in ambulance before : .hu-tppol. whie h give
at this IN ,mrni sleel.>- night. and aching. hesrts
to noble English family, whose high posiiion
about the English Court renders them peculiarly
conspicuous.
These document. prove that the power, III mind
of the -abot maker daughter was loo much for
m, lord. md TINT just oefpre the birth of the
irumpeter she hud acquired the right of pla cing
the coronet of countess on brow remark adj e. it
appears. for the bump of decision, which WAS de-
veoped TO an extraordinary degree. But neither
the powerful mind nor decision of character could
avail, she died in giving birth to the truu,peter,
whose infancy beng sp"n in the sabot makers
hut. without the smallest care or ackno vle,lg.
nent save from his maternal great grand ta her.
who. believing him Ia he the child of shame had
sought rather to conceal than TO display his exis-
tenoe.
II was the sineularity of French soldie bear.
ing an English Christian name which led to tho
discovery we mention: for the days aad lights
seem very long to "A man stretched on canvass
bed and unable t" move from ugly wound in
the shoulder, and in such a case what can man
So situated do but talk to his neighbor alb, ,ut his
own affairs Tho English soldier rather truu-
besome customer, who has been lawyer IS clerk
IN Il little place in Wales. and enlisted for disap.
pointed love, has found somewhere the m cans 81
pursuing The affair in favor ofhis friend tn trum-
peter and will not allow the latter to mI,romise
the affair on any terms.
curious scene is nightly hcheld in the good
old town of Fontainebenu; two Establishment Mt
the Cheral Blcau, drinking brandy and W, ter to.
gether and who, having come hither for the nd :
verse parties in the affair, have been all d,,y long
husy-the one in ransacking the whole pl ace Tor.
the witnesses of the marriage" If Lord =, the.
other in hunting up proofs ri his lord~hps insan
n.y. so Us to aGnul the marriage altogether. Al
though much endeavor l. made to hush the affair.
III mas got abroad among lie initiated few, aad
opinion is all in favor of the just and undo niatlo
claims Of the lucky trump. tnr