Daily national Democrat., 1861-04-07

ever thou art that fndest these remains, re-
spcct them as those Of a virtuous man Aitcr
ter nv wires death | would not remain an
lher day upon this earth so stained with .
crimes" 1t was the body of Roland.
The sketch of Lady Mary Wortley Monta-
que, first loved then hated by the poet F'Pe /
(,yho made love to her in fact and was not
approved, she being already married, etc.,) /
who was satirizcd hy Horace WaIPole and |
idolized by hundreds more Of the wittIes' ana
noblest is highly entertaining. Most OF our
readers are probably familiar with her wri-
,ings but not entirely so with her private /
history. They will find their curiosity great
" eraliied by obtaining this book She /
married Wortley Montague against her iath-
er'- will and the match was not altogether |
happv one When her husband was made |
Commissioner of the Treasury, in the reign |
Of George | she went TO court and there was
prosecuted by the attentions of the Prince OF
Wales who was no less vulgar than dissolute.
Al this time she is described possessing |
attractions of the following character: Her |
face was not absolutely beautiful, but was so
mobile and expressive that her quick and pow
erful mind shone through in every feature
and lighted up her eyes with peculiar
brightness There was thought, eminence
and dignity in her look Her face was oval,
and her head freely set on neck perhaps
not quite long enough. The nose was sharp
and slightly rctrouSSc, the mouth small well
formed and firm set. Her eyes were not large
but very bright and her complexion exceed
iugly fair and fresh. The only effect the at
ten,ions Of the Prince of Wales had on her
was that Of nausea. She maintained her posi-
tion while she remained at Court, without
difficulty, as a wit and beauty and after she
left, greatly distinguished herself by her
writings. Returning from her travels, she
resided at Twick kenham, where she had the Sc
ciety Of Pope, Gay and Swift, and where she
was induced to sit or rather stand to Sir
G Geolfrey Kneler for her portrait in a Turk
ish costume which she had described in one
OF her letters Pope was in raptures over
the portrait, and addressed to his idol the
following verses:
"Thc playful sn lies around the dimpled mouth,
The happy air of majesty aud truth,
So would draw (but oh It's vain to try,
My narrow genius does the power deny
The equal lustcr Of the heavenly mind,
Where every grace with every virtues joined,
Learning not vain and wisdom not severe,
With greatness easy and with wit sincere,
With lust description show the soul divine,
and the whole princess i'll my work should shine.
That was when he was making love to her,
and when she firted with him. Afterwards,
the little, crooked poet got down on his knees
to her and in his rapture was describing in |
glowing terms all his feelings and all his
love- when Lady Mary, overcome with the
ludicrousness of the figure before her, broke
out into fit of uncomfortable laughter.
Pope arose in wrath and never forgaye her.
He commeuced in fact the mean business of
lampoonng her, and she retorted on him with
such lines as these:
at was the equity of righteous heaven
That such a soul to sucha form was given
"Tf limbs unbroken skin without a sain
Unwhipt, unblanketed, unlocked, unsain,
That wretched little carcass yon retain
The reason is not that the world wants eyes,
But thourt 50 mean' they see and they desplse'
"But as thou hatst be hated Of mankind
And with the emblem of thy crooked mind
MurAed on thy back, like Cain by Gods own
hand,
Wander, like him, accursed through the land"
Pope sent'back verses the most cruel, we
suspect, that were ever penned by man
against a oman, for his genius was gigantic,
and it was no child's play to encounter his
weapons of satire.
OF the Dutchcss Of Devonshire about
whom and the celebrated orator and States
man, Charles Fox, there was scandal 81. f.
L." the poetess and beauty; end the lest of
tie beauties and wits mentioned in this work,
we had intended to speak, but time iorbids
and we refer our readers TO the work itself
assuring them that they will find a luxury in
its perusal. So far as we can Judge 10y our
own reading of general history, &c, cotem-
poraneous with these Queens Of Society, the
biographies are very reliable
PORTRAIT OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE.-Motlev's !
History Of the United Netherlands gives the
annexed sketch of Sir Francis Drake-who,
some say, was the discoverer of our Bay of
San Francisco, $50 named by the Spaniards
some two centuries later), and of the golden
riches Of California. There is painting of
sir Francis says the Bulletin, in the room of
the Board of Supervisors, in the City Hall.
Drake was small man, apparently about
forty-6vc years of age of fair, but some