Wilmington journal., 1875-08-06
THREE AMERICANPE
Career of Three Famous Baltimore
BeIless
(From the New York World.)

Baltimore, grand-daughters of Chas.
Carroll, of Carrollton, who was gener-
ally regarded at the time when the
Declaration of Independence was
| signed as the wealthiest of the Amer /
can rebels. He came lawfully by his
rebellious tendencies, at least, tor he
was of Irish blood, and there are some
"tales of grandfathers' in his family
history that would not discredit baillff-
bas ting Galway herself. But that Is
| noA now to the point. He had been
educated in England, and he had very
early and in trying circumstance
proved himself to possess the spirlt
and determination which made hl1 i
| leading figure in the revolution. He
| had two daughters, one of whom mar
ried Mr.. Cation, an EngHshman OF
Lincolnshire, if wa mistake not. bet
| citizen of Baltimore, and the other
Mr.. Goodloe Harper.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cation had four daugh-
| ters, all famous for their beauty, aud
| and three of these young ladies event
ually became British peeres8es mal:.iy
| through the dauntless social ambition
| of the eldest, of their DumD9r, 4iis"
| Marianne Cation. who married early III
| life Mr.. Robert Patterson, OF btiI-
more, the son of Il North Of lcel&u0
merchant, who had settled III this
| country and acquired what IN those
| days was regarded as very 8r' az Tor
| tune Robert Patterson s sister, El1l-
abeth, married Jerome BOnaparte, TIA
youngest brother Of Napoleon, VINO,
after carrying hel across the Attant4"
to Portugal, left her there to lind hef
way as best she could TO England, and
eventually, at the command OF ms
brother, submitted to an illegal aAd,
unrighteous divorce from Ter, and
married again a princess OF WurGelu-
berg. This was a great blow, hc
| doubt, to the Patterson family, but it
| is not quite correct to represent Rob
ert Patterson while i'll Europe AS
sbothered beyond measure with TIC
affairs of his sister, his slippery broth
er-in-law and the angry First Consul.
The "angry First Consul" gave HIM
self very little trouble about the Pat
tersons, beyond ordering his worthless
brother to drop the whole family aud
| to insult his wife (Which he Obedlentiy
| did) by offering her sixty thousand
francs year to give him up and go
home. After the fall of Napoleon, Mr..
| and Mrs. Robert Patterson went to
Paris. They were accompanied By
Mrs. Patterson's younger sister, Eilz-
abeth and Louisa Catherine. They
| we're all beautiful, and Paris at that
time was full of military, diplomatic
and royal personages deeply devoted
to the worship of beauty Foremost
among thes alike in renown and III
gallantry was the Duke Of Wellington,
Thanks to the friendship OF
the great cOnQuerOr, MIS-.
Patterson and her sisters went every
where and saw everything. A Paris
ian records that at the first grant ban
quet given by Louis XVIII t. the al
| lied sovereigns the Patterson party,
were the only ordinary mortals lnNltel,
and that Mr.. Robert Patterson, being
tired of standing behind his chair with
the rest Of the company, created a de-
cided sensation by pulling his char
out and sitting down in 1t, before the
royal parsonage with sound Of trum-
pets and the hinging wide open Of
double doors had madetheir appearance
Two years afterwards, in 1917, Mis-
Louisa Cation married one Of the Duke
of Well1ngton's aides-de- camp, Col
afterwards Sir FELTON, Elwell Bathurst
Hervey, Bart. Sir FELTON, Bathur t.
ful circumstances two years after hls
marriage, and in 1928 his widow mar.
ried the Marques Of Carmartheu, wh9
finally became Duke of Leeds. Mrs.
Robert Patterson had become widow
a few years after her brilliant advent
ures in Paris and returning to England
married in 1925 the Duke of Yelling
toms elder brother, John Quincy
Adams friend and classical correspOn
dent, the Marques Wellesley. Loro
| Wellesley was a statesman and Z
scholar of no mean merit. He filled
many offices in England, was twice
lord lieutenant of Ireland, and as Ear
of Mornington was for seven year
viceroy of India, from 1898 to 1905,
during which time his brother Arthur
laid the foundations of his great fam,
as a soldier, and
Ear away.
Against the myrlads Of Assaye,
Clashed with his fiery few and Won.
But Lord Wellesley had rather vague
notions of domestic life, like many
others of his rank. He lived for 3
number of years with a French lad y,
Mile. Roland-who, however, was not
"a ballet dance" "precisely-and by hel
had two daughters. He afterwards
married Mile. Roland. Both Of bis
daughters married we'll, one becom-
ing Lady Atherton and the other Lady
Abby. Lady Abby, however preferred
Lord Bentinck to her spouse, Sir Wi
liam; ran away with him, was divorced,
and married the man of her choice. by
whom she became the mother of the
present heir of the Dukedom OF Port
land. The Marquis died III 1912, leav-
ing his second and American wife il
such narrow circumstances that she
became a royal pensioner. In 1886
the third Miss Cation, Elizabeth, b5
that time decidedly mature young
lady, if not fat, yet fair and not ia,
from forty, married a sexagenariali
widower, birmingham, Lord Stafford
And thus it was that there came to he
at one time on the rolls of the Britisl
peerage three American sisters, all ol
them peeresses of Great Britain
Whether the game was worth the can
die, who shall say But how does ii
happen that a Baltimore newspaper
tells us ''tbe Bayards of Delaware III
herit much of their talent from the
younger daughter of Charles Carroll
of CarrolltOn, who married RUhert
Goodloe Harper" If they do il must
be In some marvellous manner that
would make Garter King-at- -Arme
scratch his wig. The Bayards of Del
aware-we mean those whose talents
have So long frightened the high
sphere in which they move-have no
more to do with the CAROLS of Balti-
mora than they have with the Capulets
and Montagues. Huguenots by origin,
Philadelphians by settlement, and
Delawarians by translation, their tai
ents and patriotism come from other
springs. The blunder arises doubt
less from the marriage of Mr.. Richard
81. Bayard, an elder brother of the
Delawarian senator, with Miss Car
roll, of Philadelphia, not Baltimore.
Edgecombe negro notions. The Rocky
mount Mail says: that W. P. MADISON
negro candidate for convention III
| EdpeconIbe said in his sDeecb ut