New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-08-29
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BY Dr. KING. (.

About the year seventeen hundred and six knew
one Mr.. Howe, ID sensible, Wesnatured man possessed
Of an estate Of seven or eight hundred pounds per
annpn4 He TaaIFed yoltrig lady Of good family
in the West Of glands her maiden name was Nal
let; she was agreeable in her person and manners
and proved avery good wife. Seven or ell Ehs years
after they had been married he rose onss morning
very early and told his wife he was Obliged fo 90 to
the Tower to transact some particular business he
same day at noon, his wife received letter from
him, in which he informed her that lie was under
necessity Of going to Holland, and should probably
be absent three weeks or month. He was absent
from her seventeen years, sduring which time she
neither heard from him. nor of him. The evening
before he returned while she was supper and with
her some of her friends and relationspar tiGularly
one DIR. Rose a physician, Vsho had married her
sstera billet, without any nanie subscribed, mas de-
livered to her which the writer requested the favor
Of her to give him meeting in the Blrdcage Walk
in St. James Park. When she had read the tiliet
she tossed it to Dr. Rose. and said, laughing you
see. brother; old as L am, have got gallantn
Roses who perusea the note with attention, de-
elared it to be Mr. Hewess handwriting. This sur
Howe that She tainted away. However, she soon re-
scoFefed, yshen#it was aereedthat Dir. Rose and his
wife, with the other gentlemen and ladies who were
easBas a oRRa t. ase eae Ws Mt aebs sd ts bs
there more than five SIX minutes. when HIr. Howe
came to them; and, after saiut his friends and en-
bracing his wife, walked home with her, and they
lived together great harmony from that time to
the day of his DEATH ssss
But the most curious part Of my tale remains to he
related. london is the only place IN all Europe where
man can find secure retreat Or remain, if he
pleases, many years unknewn If he pays constantly
for his lodging, for his provisions and whatsoever
else he wants. nobody viii ask Question concerning
him. or inquire whence he comes, or whittier lie goes.
When Howe left his wife, they lived in a house in
Jermyn street,sn st. James Church. He went no
farther than to little street in Westminster where
hetook room, for which he paid FIVE or six shilngs
week and changing his name and Disgusting him
Iii IL
he remained in this habitation during the whole time
Of his absence. He had two children BY his wife
when he separated from her, who were both living at
that time but they both died young, in a few years
after. However, during their lives, the second or
third year after their father disappeared Mrs Howe
obliged TO apply for Act of Parliament 10 pro
cure proper settlement Of her husbands estate and
"a provision for herself out of it during his absence al
it uncertain whether he was alive OF dead. This
act he suffered to be solicited and passed enioyed
the pleasure OF reading the progress of tin the votes
in little coftee-house near his lodging which he fre-
quented. sH =93
Upon quitting his house and family, in the manner
have mentioned, Mrs Howe at first imagined, as
she could not conceive any other for such an a
rupt eopement, that he had contracted large debt
unknown to her. and by that means involved himself
in difficulties which he could not easily surnount
and for some days she lived in continual apprehen.
sion OF demands from creditors, of seizures and excu
tons. But nothing Of this kind happened on the
contrary, he not only left his estate quite free and
but he paid the bills Of every trades
man with whom he had any dealings ]; and upon ex-
aInning his papers in due time after he was gone
proper receipts and discharges were found from all
persons, whether tradesmen otherss with whom he
had any manner of transactions OF money concerns
Mrs. Howe after the death of her children thought
proper to lessen her family servants and the expenses
of her housekeeping, and therefore removed from, her
house in Jermyn street to q little house on Brewer
street, near Golden Square. just over her
lived one Salt, colnchandler About ten years after
his disappearance, Mr. Howe eontryed TO make, ac-
Iptn Gall nt
gree Of intimacy with him, that he usually ded with
Salt once twice week. From the room in which
they ate, twas not difficult to look into Mrs HoYes
dining room, where she generally sat and received
her company and Salt (Bho believed Howe to be "a
bachelor) frequently recommended his own wife to
him suitable match. During the last seven wears
OF HoWes5 absence, he went every Sunday to St.
James church, and used to sit in Mr. Salts seat.
where he had q view of his wife, but could not be
easily seen by her, 20 sls
After he returned home, he never would confess.
even to his most intimate friends. what was the real
cause of such singular conduct Apparently thereya
none, but whatever it was, he was certliniy ashamed
to it. Dr. Rose has often said to me that he he
lieve his brother Howe would never have Iettlre tn
his wife, II the money he took with him, which was
supposed to have been one or two thousand pounds
had not been spent ;and he must have been GOOD
economist, and frugal in his manner of living other
wise his money would scarcely have held out for
imagine he had ms Whole fortune by him q mean
what he carried away with him. in money or bank
bills, and daily took out of his bag like the Saniar
in G! Bias what was sufficient for his expenses. Yet
have seen him. after his return addressing his wife
IN the language OF n bridegroom. And I have been
assured by some Of his must intimate friends tbat he
treated her during the rest Of their lives, with the
greatest kindness and affection SF 11E
DR.. King adds in a note that he was well aeouaint.
ca WIN ~ Rose and also with Salt !; that he often
met them at Kings Coffee House, near Golden Sanare
CDR. King was an active Iacobite, and Rose was OF
French concessions y and that they frequently enter
tanned him with this remarkable story relating these
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