Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-02
A Philosophers sAfTectIOn-FrancIs BacOn's
Love and Marriage.
A recent writer on Bacon pivea tha follow


ing:
More than year ago. in writing to his
cousin Cecil, Bacon mentioned his having
found handsome maiden to his mind. She
loved him and he loved her. But her mother,
a widow and again wife, having made two
good matches for herself, has set her heart
on making great alliances for her girls. In
part to please her. still more to glorify his
bride, Bacon waits and tolls that he may lay
at her feet settled fortune and a more
splendid name. The family into which,
when he can steal an hour from the courts of
law and the pursuits of science-he goes a.
courtipg, and in which he is now an ac-
cepted lover, consists of four girls their
pretty mother and bold, handsome, heady
stepfather Of ffty.six a group of persons
notable from their private stories, and Of ro-
mantle interest from their loves and feuds
with the philosopher and from the part they
must have had in shaping his views of the
felicities and infelicities of domestic life.
The four young girls are the orphan
daughters of Benedict Barnham, merchant
of Cheapside and alderman of his ward; an
honest fellow, who gave his wife a good lift
in the world, and left his children to take
their chance of rising among men who, with
all their sins, are never blind to the merits of
women blessed with youth, loveliness and
wealth. Alice is the first to fall in love but
the three hoydens who now romp around
her, and perhaps get many hug and kiss
from her famous lover, will soon be in their
turns followed for their bright eyes and
brighter gold.
Elizabeth will marry Mervin Touchet Earl
of Castlehaven, that miserable wretch who,
when his first young wife, the hoyden of to-
day, is in her grave, will expiate on the
block the foulest crime ever charged against
an English peer. The two little things now
playing at Alice's knee will become in due
time Lady Constable and Lady Soames.
Bacon's wedding. The day is named the
10th of May. By help ofSir Dudley Charlie
ton we may look upon the pleasant scene,
upon the pretty BRIDE the jovial knight the
romping girls and the merry company, as
through glass. Feathers and lace light up
the rooms in the Strand. Cecil has been
warmly engaged to come over from Sails.
bury House. Three of his gentlemen, Sir
Walter Cope Sir Baptist Hicks and Sir Hugh
| Beeston, hard drinkers and men about town,
strut over in his stead Haunting in their
swords and plumes; yet the prodigal BRIDE
| groom, sumptuous in his tastes as in his
| genius, clad in a suit of Genoese velvet, pur-
| pie from cap to shoe, outbraves them all.
| The bride, too, is richly digit; her whole
| dowry seeming to be piled upon her in cloth
| of silver and ornaments of gold. The we'd
| ding rite is performed at st. Marylebone
CudpelI Two mlles uOu Iue DJrdnui among
the lanes and suburbs winding toward the
foot of Hampstead Hill. Who that is blessed
with any share of sympathy or poetry can
not see how that glad and shining party ride
to the rural church on that sunny 10th OF
May how the girls will laugh and Sir John
will joke, as they wind through lanes now
white with the thorn and the bloom of pears;
bow the bridesmaids scatter rosemary and
the groomsmen struggle for the kiss Who
can not imagine that dinner in the Strand,
though the tiny hunchback Earl of Salisbury
has not come over to Sir Johns lodging to
taste the cheer or kiss the bride? We know
that the wit is good, for Bacon is there; we
may trust Sir John for the quality of his
| wine.