The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-17

and clearly the mixture Of ferocity and hypo-
criay characterizing the internal life Of the
youth in his fathers slaughter-house, whore,
as old Aubrey tells us. he exercised his
fathers trade, and when he killed calf would
DO IT In high style, and make speech. She
dwelt on the account given by Davis of his
being much given 10 all unluckiness in
stealing venison and rabbits" and showed
how habits which. with less susceptible
ilbre and coarser strength Of nature, were
tolerable for his companions, we're deadly to
nun; infringing his nervous system, which
she considered might have been still further
unhinged, when Sir Lucy whose venison he
stole, 'often had him whipped, and some
times imprisoned" and she recalled to the
listeners mind how the same chron-
ioler adds "but his revenge was great"
quoting his own terrible description Of the
state Of mind to which he had gradually been
brought by unrestrained indulgence in every
description of criminality and excess:-
'Lucius 9A
Ay, that had not done a thousand more.
Even now curse the day (and yet think
Few come within the compass Of my curse)
wherein did not some notorious III:
As k't man or, else dertse his death"
Mrs. H b. Cherstow was so impressed and
excited by the whole scene and the recital,
that she begged for two or three days to delibe-
III.
memorandum with her to London, and gave
day or two TO the consideration Of the SUBJ
ject., She wrote to Mrs. Shakespeare that
while this act of consideration for the morals
OF the people of England did seem to be
called for, yet if these dreadful disclosures
were published during the lifetime of Mistress
Susannah Hall, her husband. or relations.
some steps might probably be taken to vindi-
| cate her reputation and Mr.. Shakespeare's
memory: but that by waiting until they should
all have been called to their account, there
would be nopossibility of refuting the charges
| contained in the memorandum, which would
| thus become document of considerable
marketable value.
There is no doubt that the present writer's
venerable ancestor was infuencedsin making
these remarks by that prudent forethought
| for the worldly advancement of her family
| which regulated her course through life, and
has caused her memory to be gratefully re-
| vered by whole generations of Cherstows; she
| probably foresaw that, if published at fitting
moment, these dreadful disclosures might be
made instrumental under Providence, in pro-
viding meat for those infant blossoms of the
Cherstow family she was about to conduct to
| America.
After the death of the first H B. Cher
stow, her descendants sought eagerly among
her papers for the important memorandum in
question; but failed to discover it, and, in
deed, it had long been supposed to be irrevo-
cably lost or destroyed, when the providential
fall (through dry rot) of the house inhabited
by the first generation of Cherstows brought
the missing document to light, when it was
at once appropriated by the present writer, as
an Invaluable means of doing justice to the
memory of one whom she considers the most
remarkable woman the sixteenth century
has produced. No such memoir has
| appeared on the part of her friends and
> Mr.. Shakespeares editors have the ear OF
the public sowing far and wide those poison.
GUS efusions of his genius, which are eagerly
gathered up and read by an undisoriminating
community.
/ However, Anne Hathaway Shakespeare has
an American name, and an American exist
ence, and reverence for pure womanhood is,
we think, proved, by these pages, to be an
American characteristic; and, what is even
more to the point, there can be little doubt
of the profit likely to accrue to one specimen
of pure American womanhood through theil
publication by, it is hoped, not unworthy
descendant of the original H B. Cherstow.