Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-23

ing Mary BeTlenden, described by every
one o finer contemporaries as the most Pc
feet creature they ever saw.
The fat phlegmatie heart OF hef rOIaL
Ladorer beat strange music WITHIN the
nrineely breast when the sound OF hef
footsteps fell upon his ear. -.
One of his amusements consisted IN
counting and ~recounting his money, a pro
ceeding which greatly irritated the ner.
vous system of saucy Bellenden- "Slrf
she cried out to him. one day, al can not
hear If. If YOU count your money any
mora I will 90 out of the room" The
chink of his gold was as disagreeable to
her as his unwelcome presence, and the
heart of the giddy Bellenden was safe
from the spells of either. That was
already in the proud possession of Colonel
| Campbell, n of the grooms of the bed
! chamber, who afterwards succeeded to the
title of Argyll at the death of Duke Archl-
bald.
Mrs. Howard s~ucceededher friend in the
most of favorite; and she had neither the
wish nor the spirit to repel the attentions
of her ROYAL admirer, as Mrs. Bellenden
had done before her. Horace Malpole
tells us that she preferred the " solid adj
vantages to the ostentatiOus ectdt OF her
position.
THE WILD DUCHESS OF QU~EENsBERRY-
Catherine HYDE was a daughter Of the
Earl of Clarendon, and afterwards be
came the wife of Charles Douglas, Duke
of Queensberry. She was celebrated for
her beauty, and for the daring with which
she defed the court party, by promoting
subscriptions to the second part of the
/" Beggars' Opera" when it had been pro-
hibited from being acted. For this offence
she was forbidden the court Pope, Swift
and Prior have im~mortalized her in Letters
and verse; the latter in the poem entitled
HThe Female Pheton", which, as a de-
scription of a fast young lady of those
DAYS, is worthy Of an insertion here;
Thus Kitty, beautiful and young,
And wild as colt untamed,
Bespoke t~ilefair from which abe sprung
With little rage inhamed;
Unframed with rage at sad restraint,
Which wise mamma ordained,
And sorely yexed to play the saint,
Whilst Wit aud beauty reigned.
must Lady Jenny frisk about, SO
And visit with her cousins;
At balls must she make all the rOut,
And bring home hearts by dozens RSs
Co. ~ hat mas sno DeAlcT pray Aheh
What hidden charms to boast,
That all mankind for her must die,
While I EIn scarce a toast
"Dearest mamma, for once let me,
Unclaimed, my fortune try
I'll have my Earl as well as she,
Or know the reason why.
"Tu soon with Jenny's pride quit score,
Make all her lovers fall
THEY'LL erieve l was not Ioosed before;
She, Twas lOosed IT ell.
"Foudness prevailed, mahlma gave way;
Kitty, at hearts desire,
Obtained the chariot for a day.
And set the world on hre.' I
Wa1pole describes a quarrel between
her and the Duchess of Richmond, whose
daughter, Lady Caroline, had recently
eloped. "There is q very good quarrel on
foot between two Duehesses. She or
Queensbury sent to invite Lady Emily
Lennox to a ball her erase of Richmond,
who is wonderfully cautious since Lady
Caroline's elopement, sent word, she
could not determine" The other sent
again the same night; the same answer.
The Queensberry then sent word that she
had made up her company, and desired to
be excused from having Lady Emilys, but
at the bottom of the card wrote, " too great
a trust" You know how mad she IS, and
how capable OF such q stroke.
The next we hear of her is regaining
a footing at court, q point for which she
had intrigued two years unsuccessfully,
and which she achieved on the occa-
sion of her sons being obliged to
the king for q regiment in the Dutch ser
vice. She would not let him go to kiss
hands until they sent for her too. Then,
agsin. we find her at Richmond, at a tire-
work fete amongst the "whole court OF st.
Germans and all the Fitzes upon earth,"
in "a forlorn trim, in white apron and
hood" which it was her within to assume
on that occasion, making "the duke swal-
low all her undress."
@Tother day." Mr.. Walpole goes on to
inform his correspondent, "she drove post
haste to Lady Sophia Thomas, of Parsons
Green, and told. her that she had come to
tell her something of Importance. "What
is it?p "Why, take a couple of beef
clap them together as if they were
for a dumping, and eat them with pepper
and salt; it's the best thing you ever
1 could not help coming to tell
YOU this" and away she drove back TO
Town. aDon't a course of folly for forty
wears" tu adds, with zvruv justice, mako
one very SICK,
LADY MARY woRTLEY MONTAGUE.
aid tell YOU" he says, that Lady
Mary Wortley is here2 She laughs at my
LADY Walpoie, seolds my Lady Pomtret,
and is laughed at by the whole town. Her
dress, her avarice and her impudenee must
amaze anyone that never heard her name
She wears a foul mob, that does not cover
her greasy black locks, that hang loose,
- nnmhnd or cnrIad: m old mazarine