Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1870-05-27

always held their own Il the House oi
Lords no man ever stoo! higher than
Lord Brougham and, viii all his preju-
dices, few Lord Chief lktices or Lord
Chaucellors have uaintined their own
more stoutly from first y last than did
canny John Campbell. Perhaps the in
tense Scotch nationality sf people from
over the border bring viii them to Lon
don has something to dofith their sue
cess. Sam. johnson ssa that good
deal could be made of Sotchman if you
caught him young; and Carries Lamb, af
ter his rebuff from the yourg Highlander,
who replied, mo sir, Ilim not Jew,
but only one of your own,a n,ampertect SYM
pathzers, suffered, THAT'S all non
sense; you know [ haveh great respect
for Scotchmen if--if-tha1 aid not think
such deal of themselval.f Ever since
the days of Smollett, shisYd emigrants
from the north country haze found ways
to success1n the great metropolis. Hun
ter. Macpherson and Dundls were Scotch
men. Irving in the last generation was
a Scotchman, as Cumming is in this
The Couttses, by unequalsl prosperity in
banking, furnish no exoep.pn to the rule
A word, before proceeding in our mar
rative, as to the peculiarities Of Coutts's.
It does no business in exehs4 ges. There
is not banking house III london less
known at the Clearing H.hse. Its for
eign connections are limited With pro-
vincial banks it has dealih gsnext to none.
It is not a bank of discnina More bills
are ''done'' in single dag at Glynns's
than at Coutts's in a tweivemonth. 1t
does not advance monies Of securities, or
enter the lists on Government loans, or
speculate in the funds, or. dabHe in for
eign securities, or purchase post-;obits.-
1t is simply bank Of depayit. II is the
agent of no government - referee Of no
corporation. the guaraasy! enters
prise, the backer Of no ca5rsul41rsss5s. The
fact that it stands aloof from all schemes
of money making gives it speciality. In
England there are thousands Of men, par
sons, country squires, gentlemen of leis-
ure, besides the landed aristocracy, who,
i Iinheriting wealth and fearing speculations,
have large sums of money lying idle
All this is paid in at Coutts's. Outside
Of the Consolidated Funds (Consols) it is,
perhaps, the only place in the United
Kingdom where an Englishman feels that
ssaeueJ is perfectly safe.
When old Thomas Coutts's affairs were
ripening towards the close of the last CEN
tury, aud his name had become syn
onym for wealth, his daughters made H.
lustrious matches He himself was a cur
mudgeon. But his wealth gave his fam
lily notoriety, and that opened the way to
position. Sophia, in 1893, married Sir
Francis Burdett; Susan, in 1876, married
the Earl Of Guilford, and Francis, in 1899,
married the Marquis Of Butte. They
were fine girls. and had great expecta-
tions. But their immediate dowry was
small It was as heiresses of the great
banking house, that they were deemed
eligible. Meanwhile, old Coutts lived on
He was sixty-nine years old at the end of
the century. In 1915 his wife died. He
was then eighty-four. For year previ-
Gus it had been rumored that he was at
tentive to Miss Mellon, the charming ac-
tress. People said she was his mistress
At all events, to the disgust of his daugh-
ters and against the entreaties of his
friends, standing squarely on the old opin-
donated self-esteem which had achieved
his fortune, and fouting the jeers of the
world, he married her three months after
his wife's death. The high-connected
daughters would not brook it. They cut
their father and his wife. And though
towards the close Of his life, more than
six years after Miss Mellon had become
his lawful wife and presided at the head
of his table, receiving all guests with
grace and dignity and caring for the old
man with tender solicitude, an effort was
made towards reconciliation, the veteran
died at the age Of ninety-o one, unforgiving
and sturdy to the last, bequeathing every
farthing of his immense estate, the per-
sonalty alone of which Was sworn to be
under six hundred thousand pounds, to
his still blooming reliet.
The widow endeavored to behave hand
somely towards tho discontented heirs
She received their visits of coincidence. -
The position they had denied her as a