The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-07-19
Grant in England.

The following letter to the New York
WorId, received from an Englishman OF
distinction, as familiar almost with the
United States as with England, has been
handed in for publication. It opens the
way, no doubt, for an interesting series of
social revelations:
LONDON, June 30.
Well, General Grant has come and
gone, been lionized, dined and wined to
his hearts content, and beyond, another
link has been forged in the chain which
binds together the two great branches of
the Anglo-Saxou race-I believe that's
the proper aysof putting it-but, as al
ways happens On such occasions, there is
a disagreeable nnder-current left behind
of tales told out of school which I sup
pose will be sure to find their way to the
light of day sooner or later.
Perhaps, therefore, there is. no obiec-
ton to my telling you that people were
not universally delighted here with the
,ex-P Presidents ways, and that they were
pretty universally disgusted with the
ways of some of the people who made
social capital for themselves out of his q
visit or belonged to his suite. In the
first place, hiksilence at most of the din
ners which he attended was something
APPALLING. On two occasions he literally !
never spoke one word from the soup to
the salad. At another dinner he almost
broke up the company by objecting to
allow the Duke Of Cambridge to take
precedence of him-this, doubtless, on
the instigation Of Pierrepont.
Worst of all the stories current, how.
ever, is that in the Princess of Wales
drawing room at Marlborough House he
pulled out an enormous cigar. and was
going to light it, when somebody stepped
up and prevented him. However. he
must not be too harshly judged for this,
for>when Mr.: Seward was here, twenty [.
years ago, and was taken by Mr.. Dallas
in full dress, with ruffied shirt-to a
private concert at Buckingham Palace,
le insisted on injecting himself with the
umes of huge Havana just before he !:
vent in, in spite of civil hint from Mr..
Dallas that the Queen had strong per-
onal repugnance to the smell of tobacco. .
Moreover, it islwell known that poor dead "
drs Thornton, the excellent housekeeper ::
+ Windsor Castle, never got over the (
bominable conduct ofVictor Emmanuel, Il Il
Tho, visiting the Castle when King of =
ardinia, insisted on smoking all night !, :,
I bed, and thereby, as Mrs. Thornton y
sed to say, spoisyned" the beautiful n
reen satin hangings of his room. ~
The tricks and the manners" of the 8
z-President, however, probably would -
Of have annoyed people so much had it " w
ot been for the insufferable way in !, a.
hich he was compelled to drag the ue th
mister and the whole Pierrepont con- ~. "
'ction about with him wherever he ~ ~
ent. He was incensed at this himself, 81 81
I'd openly expressed his satisfaction at ~ -,
tting out of Cavendish square. Gen. "a "a
adeau was another bob on the Presi- a. ~,
ntial kite which tapped unpleasantly op or
peoples faces; and it is a great pity a. a.
at some kind friend had not advised ua -.
,neral and Mrs. Grant to- send that -. ~,
ung hopeful, their boy Jesse, to school ~ ~
tore them in some cool and healthy inc
rt of Switzerland. On the evening of we ,us
dinner at Windsor this misguided b,,, mn
!, by way of making himself agreeable ~ ~,
the Queen, went up to her Majesty and h., n
ably attempted to open q conversation ,.< -rt
b her by saying "Well ma'am, your aRF RF;
jesty, l hope your newspaper don't =
tie about you in your country as ours fro,
about my father and mother" I far, for,
eve to say that the interesting CONVEX tIa ,1
ion thus began never went any further. ma me,
young gentleman, I believe, still and arH
., and / hope is not beyond learning. the the