Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-19
LOVE AND TITLES.
Were "suocessfuI."

From the New Orleans Sunday Heraldl
About the time Of the marriage of
Miss Patterson to Jerome Bonaparte,
there was another brilliant nuptial incl
dent in Baltimore. This was the marri-
age of the lovely Marianne Cation 10
young Robert Patterson, the brother Of
Miss Patterson. This lady, whether liv-
ing or not now, we are not Informed,
losing her husband, afterward became
the second Marchioness OF Wellesley, the
brother of the Duke of Wellington and
Governor-General Of India.
About tho time Of their marriage,
Daniel Clark, the frat representative in
Congress from the State Of Louisiana,
being in Washington, became acquainted
with the Cations, and fell desperately in
love with the youngest sister, Miss
Louisa. In regard to the progress and
status Of this affair we tread on tender
ground, inasmuch as it relates TO one
Of the most mysterious of incidents
in that remarkable lawsuit, which
is still lingering in our courts, known as
the great Gaines case. II is affirmed,
with some color of probability, that Miss
Louisa Cation was very favorably in.
clined to Clark, and encouraged his ad-
dresses, and that his final visit TO Louis
lana had in view the arrangement of his
affairs, 80 as to return to Baltimore and
resume and consummate his matrimo-
monial aspirations. And the theory Of
Mrs. Gaines, in her suit, rests upon the
charitable hypothesis that Clark was so
bewildered by the charms of Miss Cation,
and the ambition to effect a brilliant al
lance with her, that he renounced
and destroyed the evidence of his secret
marriage to Zulime Carriere the mother
Of Mrs. Gaines, and the widow Of one
DeGrange.
But Clark failed in his aspirations and
schemes. Miss Louisa admiration and
regard for him could not endure so long
an absence, and distance which, in
those days, required thirty days to "an-
initiate, and suddenly, TO the supreme
chagrin and disgust of Clark, she gave
him his "conge," and hastened to Eng
land to join her sister Marianne and her
dear friend, Mrs. Jerome Bonaparte.
There, with their wealth, their high social
position, distinguished connections, great
beauty, grace and elegance, these ladies
attracted much attention, and were
received on intimate terms by the
highest circles of British society.
1t was not long before the lovely
Louisa Cation had long train of
admirers and solicitors for her hand.
She dilly-dallied with them until at last
her choice fell upon distinguished and
wealthy baronet, Sir Fellin Bathurst
Harvey, with whom she lived happily for
many years, aud at his death was LEFT
widow, fair, fat and forty. But her wild
owhood was not of very long duration,
for in 1928 her hand was sought by the
young Duke of Leeds, ten or fifteen years
her junior, to whom she was married,
and thereby elevated to one OF the high
est positions in the peerage, as the Ouch
ess of the Godolphip darcy Leeds, with
q number of country seats, q vast estate,
and innumerable armorial bearings,
crosses and all that,
The old Carroll longevity, however,
triumphed over all, even in this connec
ton, for the Duke Of Leeds, dying in
l849, Louisa Cation became again
widow, but without children, and she is
now the dowager duchess, passing most
of her time at her favorite of many
other seats st. Leonard on the sea. At
this place was signed last summer
power of attorney to her lawyer in Phil
adelphia, in regard to the administration
of her large estates in Maryland, Vir-
ginia and Pennsylvania, which was
shown to US on Northern visit. The
signature was bold and strong one, as
that which her father attached to the
Declaration of Independence, and she
lacks but FIVE years Of the age which
that venerable patriot attained, who was
the last survivor of all the siguers of
that memorable proclamation, and died
at the age of ninety-six.