Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-08-03
From the n. Y. World ]
The Blue Blood of Baltimore.

The Blue Blood of Baltimore.
Appietons' JowHaI has recently
published and the Baltimore Gazette
has reproduced an article on the
Three American Peeresses' which
as the Buijmo;e Gazette Justly OBJ
serves. contains much matter of
special interest to Baltimore. We
hesitate 10 express our opinion of the
substance Of the article, for its sub
stance seems TO have been very intcl-
IjgentIy taken from a paper on the
same subject published in these
columns abcut year ago. But in
recuistruc;ing our article the writer
in -fplIet0nS' JU7uWuL Las fallen into
some errors Of his own, ard the BuItj-
.aOTe Gazette in reproducing. him has
added unto these new errors. Not in
any spirit Of faul, finding with. our
coutcmpCo. aries then, both of whom
We desire 70 treat with the COnSiderI.
ton and the courtesy which bo'h Of
them deserve. but "nith a single eye
to The public good" wc uu<t thrg
VIII permit us to set their feet back
III the straight path.
Tht three American pceresses"
IN question were three young ladies'
OF Baltimore, gTanddau2hJcrs Of
Charles CARROT, of Crrro,lton, who
was generally eardrd at tic time
waer. tie Declaration OF Independence
YVES signed. as the wcalthiest Of the
American rebels lie came lawfully
By his gebclli0us tendencies, at least,
for he Was Of Irish blood, and there
are some tales Of grandfather"
i'll his family history that would not
discredit bailiff-basiing Galway her,
self. But that is not now to the
point. lie had been educated III
Eng land, and he had very early and
in trying circumstances proved him
self to possess the spirit and determi-
nation which made him a leading
figure in the Revolution. lie bad two
daughters, one Of whom married Mr..
Caton, an Engishman of Lincolnshire,
if we mistake not. but citizen OF
Baltimore, and the other Mr.. GoOdloe
Harper.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cation had four
daughters, all famous for their beauty,
and three Of these young ladies
eventually became British peeresses,
mainly through the dauntleSs social
ambition of the eldest of their NUM-
Der, Miss. Marianne Cation, wsho mar
ried early in life Mr. Robert Patterson,
of Baltimore, the son of North OF
Ireland merchant who had settled in
this country and acquired what in
those days was regarded as a very
great fortune. Robert Patterson
sister, Elizabeth, married jerome
Bonaparte, the youngest brotl er OF
Napoleon, who, after carrying hel
across the Atlantic to Portugal, left
her there to find her way as best she
could to England, and eventually,
at the command 0. his brother, sub.
mitted to an illegal aud unrishteous
divorce from her, and married again
a princess of Wgrtemberg. Thi:
vas a great blow, no doubt, to the
Patterson family, but it is not quite
correct to represent Robert Patterson
while in Europe as "bOthered beyond
measure with the affairs of his sister.
his slippery brothcr-in'law and the
angry First Consul" The "angry
| FIRST Consul gave himself very lit
tie trouble about the PattersOus, be-
vond ordering his worthless brother
to drop the whole family and to insult
bis wife (which he o5cdiently did by
Offering her sixty thousand francs a
year to give him up and go home
After the fall of Napoleon Mr.. ano
Mrs, Robert Patterson went to Paris
They we're accompanied by Mrs. Pat
terson's younger sisters, Elizabeth and
Louisa Catherine, They were al
beautiful. and Paris at that time was
full of military, diplomatic and royaI
personages deeply devoted to the
worship Of beauty. Foremost among
these alike il renown and in gallautry
was the Duke of Wellington. Thanks
to the friendship of. the great con-
oueror, Mrs Patterson and her sister:
vent everywhere and saw everything
| 4 Partisan. tradition records that "a
tie first grand banquet given by Louis
| XVIII. to the allied soyereigns the
Paterson. party we're the only ordi'
nary mortais invited, and that Mr
Robert Patterson, being tired .