Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-05-04

At the bankruptcy proceedings lately
IN re the Duke Of Newcastle debts to the
amount of 988, 900 were proved. The lar
gest sums appeared to be due to money!
lenders holding bills for such amounts as
.Gl0,173, 924, 566, in the joint names of the
Duke and Lord Westmoreiand, another
ruined turtle. The debts due to trades
men and unsecured creditors are over
600 900. r7-r5tF
The claims of the notorious Mr.. Padwick
amount to no less than e3GO, 00O secured
by mortgages. Never was there such a
family whose members were more entitled
to exclaim, in the words of the famous
Courtenay Notice, "Ubi ldpSuS, quid feci?"
(Where nave fallen, what have I done?)
than the Pelham Clintons of the present gen.
GRAFTON; with the single exception of the
Dukes next brother; there is not a reputable
member of the family. The Dukes moth
er, Lady Lincoln, is only sister of the late
Duke of Hamilton; and aunt of the present
Duke, whose property is, yet to d greater
extent than his cousin of Newcastle, in the
hands of the great Mr.. Padwick, that as
tutest Of professional betting men, who is
now supreme over Hamilton House and
Hamilton Palace. Lady Lincoln (she never
became Duchess of NEWCASTLE eloped with
Lord Oxford, and certainly the career of
suffered severely from the want of moth
er'S care. Her daughter made marriage
with Lord Adolphus Yane Tempest, which
may be mildly described as most unde-
sirabIe While Of her four sons, three
have, during the past eighteen months,
been constantly before the public as insol-
vent debtors.
The present Duke has had every chance
of retrieving, but has again and again will
fully turned into the road to ruin. Leaving
England some years ago, terribly out sc the
elbows, he, then Lord Lincoln, went to
Paris, where by chance he fell in with the
greatest heiress of the day, Miss Hope.
This young lady was the only child of the
late Mr.. Hope, who inherited the enormous
wealth of the celebrated Amsterdam house
of his name. Lord Lincoln Tooed and
won the rich prize, and for some time after
his marriage seemed to be a reformed char
acteri. but he is a mentally weak man and
could not long resist the temptation of bet
ting. His ruin came about year after the
grave had closed upon that unhappy cpl
tome Of vicious folly, the last MARQUIS of
Hastings, with whom, also, Mr.. Padwick
was most closely associated. Even now,
If the Duke could, after the Massachusetts
custom, be treated as person not fit to be
trusted with money, the estate, which will
soon be worth 5e40, 600 year, might right
itself. AZ
The Duchess has separate income Of
e10, 900 a year, but her father very wisely
left the sole disposal of his money to his
widow. This lad, who is an admirable
person, has large mortgages on the Dukes
property. Some time since she purchased
the extensive estate of Lord Blayney, in
Ireland, and has proved herself most
benefcent proprietress. The experience
she has had of her son-in-law will probably
cause her to take very vigorous precaution
in the disposition of her estate.
The late Duke was the contemporary at
Elton and Oxford, and intimate friend of
Mr.. Gladstone, who is one of the trustees
of his estate. He was very sensitive man,
and had he not died the conduct of his
children would probably soon have sent
him to his grave. 1t was said that when
he was requested, as Secretary of State for
the Colonies, to accompany the Prince of
Wales to Canadaand this country, he beg
ged 20 be excused, frankly telling the
Queen, when she urged his going, that he
had been so unlucky man that he feared
to undertake so grave responsibility Her
Majesty, however, overruled his scruples,
and happily all went well.