The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-06-03

His Grace of Marlborough will no lon
ger have house in st. James's Square.
His noble palace of Blenheim, near
Woodstock, England's gift to the hero
who BUNDLED the Grand Monarque, can-
not be sold. But it is to be shut up, and
turned over to the care of servants; and
the head Of the great family of Spencer
Churchill, John, seventh in the succession
of his titles from he first and world a-
mons Duke and Prince, is about to "re-
tire to the Continent" like lame duck
from Lombard street, ora crippled corn
merchant from Mark lane, or fellow
that hath losses on the Derby. This
matters little, indeed to us; nor very
much, perhaps, 80 iaras her immediate
interest in the actual house OF Marl-
borough is concerned, to England. The
contempt with which the clever and vim
dictive old Duchess Sarah regarded most
OF her fellow creatures has been avenged
upon the direct heirs Of the rank which
her great husband won with his sword,
and sought in vain to buttress forever
with his purse. or the five nOblemen
who have borne the titles of Duke OF
Marlborough in England and Prince oil
Mindelheim in the Holy Roman Empire,
since Duchess Sarah's lovely but wilIul
daughter, Henrietta, was empowered by
special act of Parliament to take and
transmit them, not one has made himself
personally valuable either to his family
or TO his country. Henrietta as every
body knows, was a headstrOng beauty
who would have been beaten at a frs
bout in spelling tournament by any
New England girl Of six of our day. She
took a lively interest, it is true, i'll litera
ture. as impersonated in the airs anC
grace of "Mr. Congreve," +" and after tina
perfumed poet and man of fashion died
and and left her.in his will ten Thousand
hounds as token Of his admira n ant
regard, she tooa the trouble not only L
have monument put up for him Il
Westminster Abby, but to write an epl
taph for it herself recording the "hono
and the pleasure she had taken in hi
company" "What pleasure she may
have had in his company" ," said her bit
ter old mamma, when she was told OF II
Il cannot say; but | am sure no honor
Henrietta's second son, who succeeded
her, in his grandmother's lifetime was
mere tool in the hands Of his clever slstel
Lady Anne Bateman, who put him in tn
charge of the most astute and most uli
scrupulous man of his times Henry Fox
the first Lord Holland. Lord Hullan,
made a Walpole man of him without hi
knowing it, and taught him. as he taugh
his own illustrious son, the rival Of PHI
all the fashionable localities of tn
age.
Duchess Sarah bore no love for this t
the man whom she never spoke G
excepting as 'the Fox who has stole m
poose;" and though she knew that "he
goose" had gone so far as to mortgal
her iointure in her lifetime, she con
temptuously excused him, as a poe
creature "who did not know right irol
wrong" and who "would probably com
at last to sell his vote to the Treasury tc
a pension" OF course the successors
the brilliant Duke, none have made then
selves specially notable in any way el
cepting perhaps, the bibliomaniac fath'
Ofthe present Duke, who more than one
drove booksellers almost to Row stree
by his acquisitiveness; and the presel
nobleman himself, who cut quite figul
during his fathers lifetime as Marquis
Bandford, in the front rank of eyangel
cal Toryisn, until he was extinguisht
in memorable contest for the represeI
tation of Middlesex by the caustic an
merciIess Mr., Bernal Osborne, wi
threw the crowd about the hustings in
commissions oflaughter hyQrotins again