Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-27
ARISTOCRATIC SPENDTHRIFTs.
Three Noble BrItishers in Pecuniary
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From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
To Judge from the accounts which from
time TO time reach US from England, it
would seem that there aristocracy has been
placed upon IFS trial, and that some very
damaging evidence has been offered against
the defendants. Within the last three
months the names Of three peers of illus
trious lineage have been brough promi-
nently before the public in connection with
transactions on the turf, which, if not actu-
ally inculpating these hereditary legisla-
tors, are disgraceful enough to lower them
infinitely in popular estimation.
The three peers above alluded TO have
dissipated handsome fortunes, and eaten
into estates inherited from ancestors Of
great name and fame, by as reckless gamb-
ling az perhaps was ever known in the an
nails of the turf. The Duke of Beanford,
who heads the list, is no youthful spend
thrift, bat man ofthe mature age of forty
five, the bearer of great historic name,
quartering the royal arms of France and
England, and formerly member of con-
servative government. A quarter of
century's experience of blacklegs, sharpers,
and Jockeys proved insufficient 10 sharpen
his wits, and now, ruined in purse and
reputation, he is about TO send his stud to
the hammer, and TO retire from the arena
where his name is already jest and by
word. The old age of such a man is not
pleasant thing to contemplate.
Next to the Duke comes the Marquis Of
Hastings, a descendant of Lord Rawdon,
the well known antagonist of Gen. Greene
in our revolutionary war, and afterwards a
distinguished civil and military officer in
India. The present Marquis is but twenty
five years old, but within the brief period
that has elapsed since he attained his ma
jority he has lived fast, and managed to
squander a very considerable portion of his
patrimony. A year or two ago the sport
ing fraternity pronounced him a young
man Of infinite pluck and spirit, the very
one fitted TO become a leader on the turf,
and to secure its splendid prizes. But
sudden and overwhelming reverses over
took the young aristocrat, and his prestige
was lost almost as quickly az it had been
gained. Not only has his stud been sold,
but he has been so hard put to it to meet
his turf engagements, that his name is no
longer mentioned with that reverence
which the lords temporal Of Britain are
supposed to command. But brighter days
it seems, are coming, and a scheme has
been devised by al liable gentleman" by
which the financial position" of this titled
scapegrace can be made perfectly satisfac-
tory to his creditors. In other words, his
estates are to be ruinously mortgaged, and
he himself compelled to live the residue
of his life, perhaps, on bare competency
to redeem the excuses of a month ortwo of
insane folly.
The career of the last of this ill-starred
trio is calculated to excite mingled feeling
Of contempt, amusement and pity. The
Right Hon. Victor Albert George Child
Nilliers, Earl of Jersey, etc, has not yet
attained the age of twenty-three, but APP
pears to be as irretrievably ruined as the
Duke or the Marquis. His downfall, how
ever is due to other causes besides the turf.
While boy at Elton school the money
lenders got hold of him, and one remorse-
less member of the fraternity forced upon
him a lone of GS000, on which he has
managed to build up claim, for principal
and interest, amounting 10 100000 or
more. Other sharpers, II may be pre-
sumed, also beset him, since his liabilities
incurred during his minority are estimated
at 100000, a sum amounting to nearly
500 600 in our currency. Upon attaining
his majority the immature victim plunged
into excuses of various kinds, and, like
the majority of rich young men of his
order, was ambitious to have a stud equal
to any of the United Kingdom How
many horses he bought during his brief
career we are not informed, but upwards
of forty-one owned by him were recently
broughtto the hammer in one lot, which
had cost tens Of thousands Of pounds. The
manner in which this poor young simple
ton was swindled in his purchases Of horse
flesh almost exceeds belief Nearly the
whole of the animals" says an English pa
per, appear TO have been stuck into him
in the most remorseless manner, and it was
painful TO see some of them knocked down
at such wretched figures" When one
horse, for which the Earl had paid 5000
guineas, was brought out, "the laughter of
the crowd at such an unshapely brute be-
came uncomfortable" and another costly
animal came in for similar show of de-
rision. The whole stable realized probably
less than firth part of the money origi-
nally paid for it. When to these losses are
added those resulting from betting and a
multitude of other follies, it will scarcely
seem an exaggeration to estimate his total
Liabilities at 100000.