Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-07-02

. o.sy1 ~AskOMANeE,
(, f6efather Of General Braddoek was man
of ooInpesent fortune. On isdesth he left no
les than thousand pounds asA:provision for
sum to his Onl y SON, Edward Braddock
one Of the daughters died esrly, snd her
sPtef, Fanny Braddock, BECAME possessed of
hes share of he.father's legacy. Goldsmith,
u Aislife of Beau Nash, has told the dmantie
s3ry of Fanny !: under the name of Miss
aylFia s." with his sweetness of nd drrative
and gentle Kindness of sympathy. She was
descended, he says from one Of The belt fami-
hes inthe kingdom, and was left a large for
tune upon her sisters decease. Whatever the
finest poet could conceive Of wit; or the most
eetsbrsted painter imagine of beauty, was ex.
eellsd In the perfections Of this young lady.
soc. Tas- naturally gay, generous te I fault
goed-aatured to the highest degree, affable in
conversation; and some of her letters and other
writings, as we'll in verse a. in prose, wsuld
have shone among those of the mos. celebrated
Wit; this or any other age, had they been
published w.
o., BHtthese qualifications were marked by an
othef, which lessened the value of them ALL
sne was imprudent-" by which," says the
philosopher, 81 mean she had no knowledge of
the use of money" She was arrived at the
age OF nineteen, when the crowd of her lovers
and the continual repetition of new fattery
bad taught her that she could never be fors.
saken and never poor. young ladies are very
apt to expect" wisely moralizes G Goldsmith, In
, rstfain shas rethinds us Of = passage In The
Vicar eff Wakefield, So certainty of SUCCESS
from a number Of lovers, and yet have never
seepa gil coprted by hundred lovers, that
found husband in any. Before her choice is
hxed, she has either lost her reputation or her
good sense, and the loss of either ID sufficient
to eonsign her to perpetual yirginity'
Among the number Of this young lady's low
a rol r
fellow, of whose name We can learn nothing
beyond its initial, IS" Practically, it ap-
pears, he followed the dictates of every newest
passion. He loved Fanny Braddock, and
Fanny loved him. The vices of man tfold-
smith gently terms them .'imprudences,'' soon
ruined him, and be was thrown into prison for
debt Fanny Bfaddeck, with the disnterest-
etHess4 IA pure and lovely woman, was feso-
lutely bent On freeing him, and sacrificing her
whole fortune in relieving her love from his
obligations to his creditors, and thus restored
him to- liberty s., instead Of improving
in friendship or affection, only studied to avoid
crsaitsr he never could repays for Though
mAh fayors produce good will, great -ones
destroy friends hip, "said Goldsmith, who could
only utter maxims worthy Of Solomon, while
he lived as riotously rs the Prodigsr Son,
Poor Fanny, however, was ruined in repu.
tstion as weh as in fortune by this profuse
generosity to her ungrafeful lover: Beau Nash,
thou ncctinS Hitu-neI among some OF bis
friends In London, prevailed on her 10 90 with
him to Bath, where the Beau, being pa aramount
IN power, might introduce her to- the best COM
pany, and leave it to her merit to do the Fest
People Of distinction coarted her acquaintance.
and istfove 70 divert her with fhe social enioy-
merits and fashionable frivpltissdf the place
But / was apparent that settled, Inelaneh hoit
had taken possession of her nind, aaa4 she
moved along with, but was NOT of, the gar
throng. Ktth loss Of lore, loss of fortune, 1oss
Of friends, end ;lessaof health, she was finally
induced, as a mere refuge from hef own
vEsiehedness, to- yield to. the inyitatien of a
dame Lindsey, who desired 70 secure 10 much
beauty as an additional temptation to those
who resorted to her gambling room Although
she Yielded ia dame Lindsey sipvitatiop, Fanny
Braddsck is'not believed to. have been ssintesi
With any othef vice than that Of presiding at
the hazard table for the advantage Of oilers,
She could not long, however, endure this dis
grace, and preferred the humble condition Of
hOusekeeper in gentleman's hmily, TO which
her poverty nov reduced her Here she re-
mainsd . ways sad, but faithful to her duty.
The gentleman with whom she lived now went
up TO London with his wife, leaving the child
ren and the house to her care. When he WIS
expected to return, Fanny, after the discharge
OF her daily duty, wentinto the dining room
aAd wrote these lines upon one Of the window
panes: '-'--' - .7''',:
oh, DEATH thou pleasing end Of human woe,
Thou cure for life thou greatest GOOD Below
stu mayst thou ny the coward and the slave,
ana thy soft slumbers only bless the bravei"'>
some visitors coming in she entertained them
eneerfully, and, on their going out, she went
70 the library, where she had ordered supper
Here Z" she spent the remaining hours pre-
eeding bedtime in dandling TWO Of Mr. Moods
the gentleman in whose family she livedl chill
dren." In retiring thence to her chamber,
she went INTO the nursery to take leave Of, an
h. - L. II
Struck by the innocence Of the little babes
looks, and the consciousness Of her meditated
guilt, she could not avoid bursting into tears
and hugging it in her arms She then bado
the old servants o. sgood night" for the first
tine she bad ever done so, and wen. to bed as
usual. .. ...,
1t il probable she soon Quilted her bed. She
then dressed herself in clean linen and white
garments Of every kind, like bridesmaid
Her gown she pinned over her breast, just as
nurse pins the swaddling clothes of an in
fa9t. She; then took pink silk girdIs, and
Heightened it with another made of gold thread; !;
she made moose at one end, and tied three
kpots at small distance from each other
She noH-sat- down to read that passage in
Ariosto's. Orlando Furioso," whore Olympia
Is abandoned by her bosom friend and ruined
Having laid aside her book, she arose; took the
2irdle she, had prepared, and throwing the
cad uOf. the girdle over the closet door, at
tempted 10 ndng herself. The girdle, how
ever, broke with her weight, and She fell with
such noise that the workman, who Was pass
ing the night in the houss, was awakened.
he, nevertheless, thinking no more Of it,
turned over sod went to sleep again She
now made apother attempt with . stronger
girdie, and succeeded. Her old maid, next
pefning, waited ~ usual the ringing Of the
bell, and protrscted her patience hour after
hour, till two O'Clock in the aftsrnoon, when
the workman at,lsngth entering. fkss room
ttroagh . window, found their unfortunate
mistress stu hanging, and quite cold
q Such isths romantic history of FANNY Brad
dock. for the most psrt as relatsd by Gold,
smith. Hundreds in life, - says he, "kmebted
her fate. Hos brother, whom he heard of II,
remarked Poor FsnnylyI aiusys thought
,she would Plsy till she would be forced to tuck
ihersef UP. Horace Walpols might well say,
"BrsAdook is very Iroquois in disposition. >"
.fs-s ~ 49, E." -
- rThe New. Yptk pApess are not yet done
dseorsbiAg The magnificent entertainment pro-
}. viAsd for the japanese st the New York Metropo-
liam HoeeL smbsacfngl the whole Of sNibfs's
Tbeatfe, adjoining, and both Of the large dining
halls and both 0f The spacious gardens aud al
the lobbfog paFlors. baiconIes and siderooma of