The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-06-03
him certain lines from Hoods delightful
"Epistle to Rae Wilson, Esquire"

A man may cry CnurCN CnuTclll dt cNSiy "N'N
With no more pety than other people,
A davis not reckOned religious bird
Because 1t keeps cawing irom rhe steepe'
Neither FL gland nor the Tory party
have lost much then by the withdrawal
of the Duke of Marlborough from public
life and Euglish affairs. Nor is the ruin
of this conspicuous house entirely uneX-
ampled even in recent English story.
Without going back so far as Humphrey
Biyod, Duke of Norfolk, who was solemn
ly deprived by an English Parliament Of
his dignities for his poverty more than
four centuries ago, and sent to die abroad
pauper in Flanders, we have had
several instances within our own time Of
the pecuniary ruin of great personages in
the British realm. The catastrophe of
Stowe, once the grandest palace OF the
peerage, was chronicled quarter of a
century ago with much impressive mora
lizing in the London Times; the superb
extravaganza of the magnificent young
Maruuess OF Hastings revived in our day
the tradition of the second Villiers and
of Philip, Duke of Wharton and the
head of the ancient house of Fame hangs
now about the outskirts of the English
turf like ghost in pain,
The peculiarity of the Marlborough
collapse seem to be that, so far as is known
it is an illustration of the old Hebrew
law which visited the sins of The fathers
npon the children. The present Duke
of Marlboro gh, not only before but since
his accession to the title and the encum-
brances Of his foreathers, has been a
model to the focial propreties. His du-
cal motto seems to throw back the res
possibility of his mishaps upon long
buried past. "FieI, per0 deSticOddO"-
faithful but distinguished"-not only
recalls the fetterlock of the Black Night"
in "Ivanhoe," but revives the memory OF
that curious will of the Duchess Sarah, Ill
which the intense personality OF that
most decided dame was so sharply lncar-
mated. The Duchess Sarah, like her hus-
band, the great first Duke, was shrewd
handler of money. Coke, who wrote the
history Of the soldier of Blenheim, has
preserved letter il which the Duke
writes to financial friend: " beg par
don for troubling you, but | am IN very
odd distress-too much ready money. |
have tiny thousa nd more next week; II
you can employ it in any way you Will
do me very great favor" The Duchess
! Suran was as full of ready money and
as prompt to have it well "employed' as
her lord; and when she came to make her
will in l744 she took the greatest possible
pains to settle her property in such way
us to save it, if possible, from utter waste
and dispersion. Her tavorite grandson,
John, first Earl Spencer, was not much
wiser than his brother Charles, third
Duke of Marlborough, but she tied him
up. She left the bulk of her vast proper
ty, valued then at $50 900 sterling year
of estates in Surry, OXfordshlre, Buck
inghalnshire, Huntington Including the
old Hampden property BedfOrdshire,
northampton, Stahordshire (the old
Fauconberg property, Leicester, Hert-
lordshire and Norlolk-to Lord March
mont and her lawyer, in trust for this
grandson John, whose custom 1t was
when he went about London streets
drunk to give only guineas to his chair
men, thinking it low and vulgar to use
silver money. She fixed upon these es-
tates, it is true, a charge OF g3,COO a year
during their minority to each OF the
sons of her grandson Charles, and of
Gl 500 year during life to their
wives. These charges have Injured, Gu
riOusly enough, to TIE advantage OF the
ducal branch. The Duchess's granCson
Charles had three sons, and her great
grandson George, the fourth Duke, two
sons, But the second son Of Duke
Lord Charles Spencer Churchill, married
a sister of the Duke of st. Adams inl762
and she lived till 1872. drawing thus her
FL 800 year from the younger branch
for fifty years. George, the fourth Duke
married Lady Caroline Russell in 1852,
and she died in 1911, drawing her Gl 800
year for forty-nine years. George, the
| fifth Duke, married in 1871 a daughter of
the Earl of Galloway, who died in 184l
having drawn her Gl 800 year for fifty
years.
1t really looks like preconcerted joke
of destiny. But in spite of all this the
younger branch of the Earls Spencer has
grown steadily weathier and more pow
erful, giving notable and able men ais
to England, and founding that famous
library at Althorp with which in its more
recent history, if we mistake not, one OF
the very first lawyers of the New World
has been closely connected. Yet John
Spencer, first Earl of the name, as we
have already indicated, was really no
better than his ducal brother Ch rles.
Why are these things thus? Oris there,
after all, no moral lesson at all to be
drawn from these quips and cranks OF
Fate? BE this as it may, one OF the
grandest and proudest names in English
history now stands sadly, and, so far as
now appears, forever eclipsed. The pen
sion Of $4,000 Il ' cara sum equal to our
Presidential income before our Congress
men thought fit to double it by way of
securinga proportional increase in their
own emoluments--which was granted a
hundred and sixty years ago by England
to the hero of that day, is still Sc ured to
his descendant. But this will only suf-
flee to maintain the ducal state in a mild
Continental eclipse, Are we to say with
the stern predestinarians of old, that the
money loving Marlborough, the only
prototype, so far us We know, with Soull
of our own accumulative Chief Magistrate
among the famous soldiers of modern
history, has "been punished where he
sinned,' - though in the person OF his in
nocent descendant? Or shall we rather
feel with Wordsworth, when we read o.
this calamity overtaking so bright fame
and SO high an estate, that
Men are we, and must grieve when even th'
shade
OF that which once was great doth pas away
N. Y. World.
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