Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-12-02
5sASHTABULA o.. SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER g. 1868

ed all bounfs Having q portrait OF Lady
Batemap. she blackeued ber face, and wrote
90 Il; Now her outside is as black as her
inside. ~, ~ fi.,.....op s4,
This Is the last we hear Of her from her
graphic pen. excepting few lines announc
ing her death. which took place soou after.
Old Marlborough is dyipg-but who can
tell Lest year she bod lain i'll for q great
while without. speaking; ber physician said,
She must be blistered. or she will die. She
called out, l wont be blistered, and | wou't
FEMALE VANITY ga9'lfDeaH
Cstharine, Duchess Dowager OF Bnck.
iughsm, was natural daughter Of james III
She was remarkably princeiy for her over.
weeping pride and for her affection Of regal
privileges aud prestige. D. Of her Horace
WslpoIe relates: The Duchess of Buck.
ingham, who is more mad with pride than
any mercer's wife in Bedlsm. came, last
night to the opera, en- prinoesss literally in
robes, velvet and ermiDe. 1t was she who
made the famous reply to Sarah, Duchess
Of MAJ thorough, upon the lauer's refusal
to lend tue funeral car which had conveyed
the great Duke to The grave. Tell her,
replied Cs,haiine az Buckingham, trans
ported with rage, that my nphosterer tells
me that can have better Que for twenty
pounds. OF her own death bed, Mr.. Wal
pole gires this curious account /: .'f..f...ts
Princess Buckingham is dead or. dying !;
she has sent foi Mr.. Anatis, and settled
the ceremonies Of her burial On Saturday
she was SO III that she feared dying before
oil the pomp; she said, Why don't they
send for the canopy for me to see Let
them send it,. though the tsssels are not
finished. But yesterday was the greatest
stroke of all she made her ladies VOW to
her that if she should lie senseless, they
would not sit down in the room before she
was dead y ! 1855 EGI lad Js0,a =
.2oHaf div a Pook FINE LADY. 'c5rsA,I %.
From This proud won au we turn to one
whoioecupied position in court about the
qneen's pei SOD, but who was also publicly
Recognized as the favorite mistress of the
king. meI1 Da8l. rh1' ,-sy 3T aharQ
Henrietta Hobart was the daughter Of
Sir Henry and the sister of Sir Johu Ho.
barr, Knight oe the path, afterwards by her
interest made a baron, and since created
Earl of aBuekiDghanshire. She married
early Mr.. Howard, brother Of the Earl
Of Suffolk. and prepared with him to face
the bitter brunt of poverty in a.position Of
life which was far superior to the circum
stances which must support il. They saw
before them but one chance OF promotion,
and that was in attaching themselves to
the Court of Hanover, where the future
sovereign of England awaited the demise
of the reigning queen, Aune.) lei -l
AS q way OF ekiHg out the ways and
means of their neaage las great q bugbesr
to fashionable young married couple then
as now--we fnd an amusing anecdote OF
her cutting off her beautiful tresses ICON.
manding high price from the peruke
makers 10 hose days Of flowing aaxen wigs)
to furnish forth banquet for her husbands
guests. Wigs were sold at that time for
twenty aud thirty gaineas apiece and as
each fair tress fell into the trembling bal
ances, we nigh, suppose il to have been
in every sense of the words, worth its
weight in gold On, the accession of bis
father TO the throne of England, the elec
tosal prince afterwards Geo~ge II) caused
Mrs Howard TO be appointed woman of
the bed chamber TO the young Princess Of
Wales
To these apartments came frequently the
eiec oral prince. not attracted at that time
by the mild teau'ies Of their fair mistress,
bat by the lovely, lively, laughing Mary
Belenden, described by every one of ber
contemporaries as the most perfect creature
they ever saw.
The fat, phlegmaiic heart of her royal
adorcr beat strange music within the
princShy breast when the sound of her foot
steps fell on his. car. m rsa ailG
One of bis 'smusemeuts consisted in
counting and recountiug his money, apro-
ceediug " bich greatly irritated the nervous
system OF he ssury Bellenden. Sir J. she
cried QUITO him one day. cannot bear it,;
if yen count your money any more. i will
90 ou, of the room. The chink of bis gold
was as dissgreeable 10 her as bis unwelcome
presence, aud the heart Of the giddy Bel
lendtn was safe from the spells Of either.
That was already iI the possession of Col
Campbell, one of the grooms of the bed
chamber, who afterwards succeeded to the
title OF. Argyll at the death Of Duke Archi.
bald. N'' '''''s il
Mrs. Hosard succeeded her friend in the
pest, Of favorite ssd she bad neither the
wish nor the spirit to repel the attentions
Of her royal admirer, as Mrs. Brllende
had done before her. Horace Walpole
tells US that she preferred the solid adraa
tages TO the os,eutatious telat Of her posi-.
tion.G nc lIea hH0 b5i. rl sr,yrd aUe.'y fsb,
THE WILD DUCHESS or QUEEN. BERRY di o'
Catherine Hyde was daughter of the
Earl of Clar endon, and afterwards became
the wife Of Charles Douglas, Duke Of
Queensberry. She was celebrated for her
beauty; aud for the daring with which she
d, fed the court party, by promoting sub.
scrptions 10 hesecoud part ofithe Beggars
Opera. when il had been prohibited from
being acted. For this offence she was for
biddeu the court Pope. Swift and Prior
have immortalixed her 10 letters and verse /;
the latter in the poem entitled The Female
Pbe ION, which, 4 as q description Of q fast
young lady Of those days. is worthy of an
insertion here ;nu3ia bna ssios1a31A
Thus Kitty, beautiful and young,
oia' And wild as colt untamed, = 2--1Jrt7'
n Bespoke the fair from which shs sprung
With little rage infiamed; i.
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