Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-12-02
QUEEN cARoLrNs.

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s'.d3 81 i.ym.lg QUEEN cARoLiHB. y s7gt ers vsai
Her beauty, wbirh had been great Of
the time Of her ma rriage. had fallen vic
tim to the fatal ravsges of the terrible dis
temper which was then so little understood
and so unseieDiiGcalls treated that IL is q
matter Of wonder that any survived TO bear
upon their countensnces for life The distin,
gushing sign and seal With which small pox
marked the victims who had escaped it's
clu' ches alive Z pzf.iis ,,.fti
The beaming eyes of the queen. indeed,
were as expressive as, ever, aud could kihde
With indignation and affrouted maj sty fr om
uuder The royal brow. Another great
-benniy which the queen could boast, was
the marvellous symmetry Of her small,
plump and graceful hands, charm by no
means to be despised, and one far less com.
mon tpan that Of q pretty face, or bright !,
rosy complexion. Her personal attributes,
indeed, were so far f'om contemplate, that
the King himself, though atyrsnnical a and
unfairbful husband, frequently declared in
public that he had never yet seen woman
whose charms eqnaled those of the queen /;
aud when be described his own idea OF
beauty. be saIwsys literally described that
of his own wife. Upon more than one oc:
,cason, indeed he subjected the good How.
ard herself 10 exquisite tificaiion on the
queens account ; for, coming into the room
as that lady was manipulating the royal
head, Ga 1menial occupation to which the
wife had the power of submitting the mis-
lress, be snatched off the handkerchief
WHICH concealed the fair and beautifully
modelled, throat of the former, saying
ungrily 10 Mrs. Howard as he did so, Be
cause you nave an. ugly neck yourself, you
hide the qneer's.7 ,ss % 20, ''i 'a''' 81.
But maj sty also has its moments Of
self imposed humiliation and al such times
we bear Of The queen herself rising meekIy
aud Offering toAre'i'e. when the king aud
his prime minister, Sir Robert WaIpole, for
whom she had a grea. personal regard,
consulted upon the. business of the State
matters which, says Horace WaIpole, she
aud my father had previously settled be
tween Them She, was fond Of, laying ont
and improving her garden at Richmond
aud she managed (beiug q clever womau)
to boodwihk the kipg iuto believing that
The expenses Of these Improvements were
betrayed ont Of her privy purse, while she
was, ia fact. supplied with the necessary
foDds by tbs aid aud connivance OF The frsl
minister Of STATE. m so;.s-,s i,''s p = ~ ~
She understood perfectly the art of man
aging coarse aud tyrannicai husband, by
an assumed appearance of the most pro.
found submission and respect. She died,
indeed, q martyr to this principle OF i'm.
plicit and uuqaestioDable obedience to the
arbiHary rule Iuf her exsc,ing spouse ); for,
rather than oppose any wish or command
Of bis, she underwent hours Of fierce tor
lure, and kept secret within her own breast
the progress of the malady which was SOON
10 terminate in death.
When suffering flom the gout 10 her leg,
she did not hesitate to plunge the limb so
affected into cod water, that she might be
enabled to attend the king in his morning
walk. aH gls9 saf 1 'a.,a .Ht a1