The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-19

wilks ia his sketches Of the South of india:n-
| IAN English gentleman commanded one of
the corps, AND was most severely wounded, after
q desperate resistance; Others in the same un-
happy situation met with friends or persons of
the same caste to procure Tor them the rude aid
offered by Indian surgery. The Euglishman
was destitute of this poor advantage; his wounds
we're washed with simple warm water by an
attendant boy three or tour times n day, and
under this novel system Of surgery they reco-
yered with q rapdity not exceeded under the
best hospital treatment"
writer in the Quarterly ReoieB, 1917,
appends 70 the above quotation the following:
4 This English gentleman is the person dstn-
guished by the name OF Walking Ste,cdrt who,
after the lapse of half Gentry is stll alive and
still, we believe, J1Gktng DAILY, in the neighbor-
hood OF the Haymarset and Charing Cross"
Hitherto, Stewart had saved little money. He
now entered the Nabob of Arcots service, and
became prime minister, the memoir does not say
how. At length he took leave OF India and
travelled over Persia and Turkey on foot in search
OF name, it should seem, or as he was wont to
say, IN search of the Polarity of Moral Truth
and alter many adventures, arrived in England.
de brought home money, and commenced his
London liie In an Armenian dress, to attract
attention.
He next visited America, and on his return,
made the tour of Scotland, Germany, italy
and France, on foot and ultimately settled in
Paris" where he made friends. He intended to
live there's but after investing his money in
French property he smelt the sulphur cloui OF
the revolution, and retreated as fast as possible
losing considerable property in his fight. He
returned to London, and suddenly and unex
pectedly received 100000 from the India Com
pany, on the liquidation of the debts of the
Naoob Of Arcot. he bought aRnuities, and tat
tened bis yearly income. The relative saws
'One of his annuities was purchased from the
County Fire Office, at a rate which, in the end,
was proved to have been paid three and nearly
four times over. The calculation OF the assurers
was mere completely at fault: every quarter
brought Mr.. Stewart regularly to the cashiers
whom he accosted with, Well man alive | am
come for my money!" which Stewart enjoyed
as Joke.
Mr.. Stewart now lived in better style, gave
dinners and musical parties Every even
ing a cohUeTsdzI0ne was given at his house.
enllVened by music; on Sundays he had select
dinner parties, followed by philosophical dis.
course and performance of sacred music
chiefly selected from the works of Handel and
concluding with the Dead March in SAUL"
which was always received by the company as
the signal for their departure.
Stewart was attached to King George ", and
lived peaceably until the arrival of Queen Caro-
lire, when her deputatons aud political move
ments alarmed Stewart ana awakened his walk
ing propenstles, and his friends had great diff
Guilty to prevent HIM frem going to America.
Stewards health declined in 1921; he went to
Margate, returned, became worse, and on Ash
Wednesday he died.
To all entreatIes from friends that he would
write his travels, he replied no-that his we're
travels OF the mind. He, however, wrote essays
and gave lectures on the philosophy of the mind
know, auo loM attempt to talk of what they do
not know. ..I.
BARON Wards REMARKABLE CAREER
Perhaps no man of modern times passed q
more varied and romantic life than the famed
Yorkshire groom, statesman and friend of soye.
reigns, and who played so prominent part at
the Court OF Parma; his career exemplifying the
adage that truth is stranger than fiction.
Thomas Ward was born at York, On the 9th of
October, 1910, where he was brought up in the
stable, but was shrewd and intelligent far be.
yond boys of his own station.
He left Yorkshire boy in the pay of Prince
Llchtensteln, OF Hungary; and, after four years.
successful career on the turf, at Vienna, as a
locEey, he became employed by the reigning
Duke of Lucca,
He was, at Lucca, promoted from the stable to
be valet to HIS Royal Hieb ebness, which service
he performed up to 1916. About that period he
was made Master of the Horse to the Ducal
Court, when he caused extraordinary changes
in that department: the stable expenses were
reduced more than onehalf. Yet the Dukes
stud was the envy and admiration of all Italy
Eventually, he became Minister of the Household
and Minister of Finance; he acquired diplomatic
dignity in the disturbances which preceded the
revolutionary year lS48, and was despatched to
Florence upon a confidential mission of the
highest importance. This had no less an object
than the delivery, to the Grand Duke, of his
masters abdicatlon of the Lucchese principality.
AT nrSt Lne Ofanu Duke neSltale0 10 receive, In
a diplomatic capacity, one of whom he had only
heard in relation to the races OF the Casino
But our envoy had seen and provided tor
such an emergency. He produced from his
pocket commission, making him Vlceroy of the
Dukes estates, which was to be acted upon il
the Grand Duke raised any obstacle, or even if
he refused TO receive Ward as AMBASSADOR of the
States OF Parma, at the CAPITAL OF the Medicis
this, of course, ended all difficulties.
Ward held the above offices until the Dukes
rule was violently terminated by the great reyo-
luton of l648. With some difficulty he escaped
with his nble and faithful minister, when they
retired to an estate near Dresden called Weiss
top. At this period Ward became an active
agent OF Austria, and as Austria triumphed, he
recovered the heredia ary estates of Parma and
Placentia; but the Duke, disguised by his expe-
rience, resigned in favor OF his own son, with
whom the minister retained the same
favor and exhibited the samei talents that
hrst raised him to distinction, being more than
a match for the first OF the Italian diplomatists
as an envoy from hls little Court, when he
astonished Schwartzenberg by the extent of his
capacity. His acquaintance was specially culti-
waited by the Russian Ambassador, Meyendorff,
VINO appears 10 have been very fond of York
shire hams. An English gentleman, supping one
night at the Russian Ambassadors, Compli-
mented him upon the excellence OF the ham.
'"Ihere is member of our diplomatic body
here" replied Meyendorff, "who supplies us all
with hams from Yorkshire, of which county he
is native.n
As prime minister, Ward negotiated the abdi-
cation OF Charles III, and placed the youthful
Charles III on the throne, who, will be remem-
bered was assassinated before his own palace in
1864. II should be observed that as soon as
Charles III came to the throne, the then Baron
Ward was sent to Germany by his patron as
Minister Plenipotentiary, TO represent Parma at