New-York daily tribune., 1856-07-15
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Now the British patton is emphaticahy grateful
one. Nobody can Justly accuse John Bull Of being
mtnp, whatever other faults may be laid to his
charge. Where he thinks be has incurred an obh-
Cation. he is impatient till he bas satisfied it. The
Marlborough and Wellington pensions, the one OF
y bich has lasted century and half snd the other
may last twice as long (as it is proverbial that
pensioners and annutaRts are preterLa'urally tena
cious of life) prove tie truth Of this assertion.
Within the curreut year, too, the remains oil the
pension set.ied on the Duke Of Schomberg, killed
Of the battle Of the BOyne in 1880, was also finally
extingushed BY the ayment of present sum OF
money. But these pensions were for services
which the Nation had sgreed TO consider great,
and 10 mske part Of its traditional g'ories. How
much actual good the victories Of either or both Of
her Cheat Dukes did England, is Lot the point
BE the same more or less, the English were agreed
to consider it more, decidedly than the rewards
they heaped upon them. What then, were the
services Of this yet oder ducal house that it should
be yet better paid for them thsn those OF Churchill
and of Wellesley The per siCns Of the heroes OF
Blenhfim ard of WaterlO, are, if We remember
Alright, $4,000, or about $4,000 year. The re-
muneratcn of the Grafton race, for something like
hundred and fifty years, was almost four times
az great-nesr els 900, or about $4,000, per
drnpm.
Remuneration, indeed "Better than remuner-
alton !" Cos'srd might we'll say, "Most, sweet
D,,<f To- Int II -
Ether's or his own 1t is as perpetual testimony
of his paternal sffection that the Most Religious
King, Charles III bequeathed this legacy to his
subjects and their children's children. More
Fortunate than a great man We wot OF, who be-
queathed his larger debts to his most particular
frieIds as a tender mark o. his esteem, this be-
quest was accepted and paid over and over again,
by grateful posterity, and has been extinguished,
from time to time, only by being capitalized to the
satisfaction of the fortunate possessor. golden
monumt nj, indeed, to the natural affection Of q
monarch who was authOritatiyely pronounced to
have been he father Of go many of his subjects,
if not of them all 1t was not long after the Happy
Restoration (about 1868, we think when he, as
his poet laureate tells us,
Scattered hi. Makers image Ger the land"
that Barbara villiers, the beautiful Dschess of
Cleveland, bore him the second of the tive or six
Dukes with which he enriched the British Peerage
While yet boy, he was made Duke, aud in due
timethe ample provision we have indicated was made
for the support Of himself ard his successors, at
the public expense. Is it not characteristic of the
English people that they should have patiently en-
dur,d all imposition of this kind for so many gener
atiors, aud, when waxing impatient under it, have
never thought of rdang themselves of it except at
its fair value according to the tables Of the Lii In
surance Offices There is something fine in thus
generously if not justly dealing with an inveterats
injustice.
We are not fresh enough from our researches
into the Scandalous Chronicles Of that time t. tell
just 0w, if we ever knew, the reason why the
Duke of Grafton was go much better provided for
than any OF the other of the royal issue entitled to
bear the arms of England with only the bind SINISTER
athwart the shield. The poor Duke of Monmouth,
whose history and person Maciulay and Dryden
have ade familiar to everybody, was well pro-
vd.d for by marriage with the richest heiress of
the time. Two, at least, if not more, Ofthese Of
shoots Of spurious royalty, were grated on the
stock of English nobility, besides the three that
have come down TO our time-the Dukes of Rich
mcnd, Grafton and st. Adams. We do not know
what the paterBsl goodness of their sire did for
these other two noble families, but they have en-
dured unto this day, and We believe have been az
we'll rtputed and useful as the average Of their
order The origin OF their peerages is not more
discrtdi'abls than thai of many of their asssssors
though it may be- more plainly written in the Book
of the Chronicles of Barke or of Lodge. To the
Grafton peersge we owe tie knowledge of the in
tensity of bitter that can be expressed out of the
Ell gllsh language by the alchemic power of a
Jupius, and also Of the delicate aroma Of poetic
adulaton that can be distilled from it by genius
like Grays. The contemporary Duke of Richmond
was fast friend of America during the Revolution,
and the race have been distinguished for personal
bravery, patronage Of art, and encouragement to
agriculture. As to the st. Adams race we do not
remember nythrg the world owes them, except
ing Topbam Beauclerk, JohnsOns mercurial young
frerd, " th whom he had that immortal Z" "frisk"
ore Summers day and night.
The priuces and rulers that Rave lorded it over
our Yankee herisge for tie last seventy years,
baye much more cOupendious and ecOnO nical
method Of dispOsipg Of their irregular j. scend,ns
than this We have been considering. 1t consists
imply OF selling them themselves, or leaving them
as assets in the hai Of their heirs, executors ad
minstrstors and sssigns. This provision. far from
burdeDing the public, or even their own estates,
puts oney into their own purse or that Of their
legal representatives. At the same time the labor