The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-10

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| Interiors and her. children under her
feet. With her eldest daughter (whO
succeeded her, by Act of Parliament
as Duchess of Afarlb lboroughl, she was
at open war. With her youngest, the
duchess of Montague, she agreed nc
az wonder,r said, the duke her .hus-
band, with less knowledge of human
nature than of the art Of war, ifthaI
yop two cannot agree, you areiso much
Lady Bateman, daughter of the
Duchess, persuaded her brother to mar
~ handsome young lady, who un7
luckily was the daughter OF Lord IRE
vor, Whn had been bitter enemy Of his
grand dtather, the victorious duke The
granddam'S rage exceeded all bounds.
daVlng a portrait of Lady Bateman,
Sne DlRckened her face, and wrote on It,
i,s:Now her outside Is as black as her In
side" suH =. lEll7 1t1S-St 51si
This Is the last we hear OF; her from
ms graphic pen, excepting a few lines
announcing her death, which, took
place soon amer. "Old AIarlborouefii 4
/ dy1ngEbut who can tellw Last wear
Sne nad latnt Ill Tor q great while with
out speaking; her physician said
'She must be blistered or she Will die. u
Sne called out, = won't be blistered and
Next in the succession of courtlv
celebrities COMES Catharfne, Duchess
Dowager of Buckingham, who was a
natural daughter of James II. She was
remarkable principally for her over
weening pride and for her affectatson
Of regal privileges and, prestige. OF
her Horace WalpoIe relates: "The
Duchess of Buckingham, who is more
mad with pride than any mercer's wife
IN Bedlam, came last night TO the opera.
en- PrinceSSe literally in robes, red vel
wet and ermtne." 1t was she who made
S9 6ae famous reply to Ssrah, Duchess ,ol
MARI borough, upon thelatter'S refusing
to lend the funeral car which had con.
yeyed the great duke to the crave,
'"IelI her, replied Catharine of Buck
tnghanl, transported with rage, "that
my upholsterer tells me can have a
better one for twenty pounds" OF her
own deathbed, Mr.. Walpole gives This
curious account: -,.,-..t - -
Princess Buckingham Is dead or Cly-
ing: she has sent for Mr.. Anstis, and
settled the ceremonial of her burial.
On saturday she was so i'll that she
feared. d.dytng, before all the pomp she
said, why won't they send the canopy
tof me to seer let them send it though
all the tasselS are not finished, ? But
yesterday was the greatest stroke of ali :
she made her ladies VOW to her that ii
she should lie senseless, they would
not sit down in the room before she. was
dead" ..I,-.E.. -
POOR PINE LADY.
From this proud woman we turn to
one who occupied position in the
court about the Queens person. but
who was also publicly recognized as
the fayorite mistress Of the King. Hen
rietta Hobart was the daughter of Sir
Henry and the sister of Sir John Ho-
bart, Knight of the Bath, afterwards
by her interest made a Baron; and since
created Earl of Bucking ghamshfre. She
married early, Mr., Howard, brother
of the Earl OF Suffolk, and prepared
withihim to. face the bitter brlint OF
poverty In a position of life which was
far superior to the circumstances which
must support 1t. They saw before them
but one chance for promotion, and that
was In attaching themselves to the
court OF Hanover, where the future
sovereign of England awaited the de-
mise ofthe reigning Queen tAnne.) AS
wny of eking out the aFwavs and
means" of their small menage, as great
a bugbear to fashionable young mar
rted couples then as now, we find an
amusing anecdote of her cutting OFF
her beautiful abundant tresses tcom-
manding high price from the peruke
makers in those days of flowing, ,f1axen
wigsl to furnish forth a banouef for her
husbands guests. Wigs were sold in
that time for twenty and thirty 1tlineas
apiece and as each fair tFess fell into
the trembling balances, we might sup
pose it to have been in every sense of
the words worth its weight in gold. y
On the accession of his father to the
throne of England, the electoral prince
Gatterwards George IT.) capsed Mrs,
Howard to be appointed woman of the
bsd-chamber to the young Princess Of
Wales. 81 - -
To these apartments came frequently
the electoral prince, not attracted at
that time by the mild beauties OF their
fair m tstressi but by the lovely, lively,
laughing Mary Bellenden, described 6y
every one of her contemporaries as the
most perfect creature they ever knew,
oa The fat, lphlegmati6 heartof her foVal
adorer beat strange music within The
prlncely breast,whe the soundio of her
footsteps fell upon his ear.
One of his 'amusements consisted in
counting and recounting his mon9y.7a
proceeding which greatly irritated the
nervous system Of the saucy eHeuieu:
''Str ". she cried out to him one day. 81
cannot bearit: il you count your money
any more will go out of the room. 70
Inc chink OF his gold was as disagreea
able 90 her as his unwelcome presence.
and the heart of the giddy BellendeIl
was safe from thespelIs Of either. That
was already in the proud possession of
Colonel Cambel, one Of the grooffls of
the bed chamber, who afterwards sue
ceeded to the title of Argyll at the death
of Duke Archibald. . n Z
Mrs. Howard succeeded to- her friend
in the post offaVofite; and she had reil
thert the wish nor the EnfFft Il, TaI3oJ Flio