Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-10-18

FROM Slr John bownngs Memoirs.
LAos HEsrRn SrAxmope.-"While
At Beyrost sent . message 10 Lady
Hester Staahope, who had established
herself Al Joun. = bill locking down upoa
sneient Sidon. asking If she would do
me the houor Of receiving me. - I vss
acQnsiated with come Of her ianilv in
England. She replied that she would
receive no envoy from Cupid (Loed
Palmerston,) bet she was visited by
|1mmss11De, hises Fsskier llssksu -
others. She had written letter to the
British consul-general in Egypt. in
which she saids in answer 70 . claim
which he had been directed to prefer
against her, that she would recommend
him to put on wig and give his orders
from the woolsack, servant rs he was
of the wise Lord Palmer>ton, and he
the servant Of our magnificent Queen,
and ended BY saying that she would no,
pay her debts unless her Majesty order
ed her to do so.
"She lived, with more than hun
dred and twenty armed people around
her, like a sovereign but Mehemet Ali
told c olonel Campbell that she should
have as many people as and no more
than were necessary for lady. Upon
this Colonel Campbell sad she might
have sixteen, whcreupon she called the
old Pasha a bloody tyrant, at which
dare say he laughed heartily. She COW
eted the title Of Queen OF Syria, and a
mad fellow at Alexandra, who called
himself King Of jerusalem, wanted to
marry her. Mr.. C.-yisited her. and
gave strange accounts Of her manners
and conversation. She said to him -
You are not such puppy as Lord BY.
ron was. You are lame, as he was: bu,
you don't come shutting into room as
IL you were ashamed OF what is no fault
Of yours, standing before this picture
and that. and making your way to a
seat siding, just to hide what any one
can see-that one Of your legs is shorter
than the other She told him that il
he would stay she would send for ma.
gician to take him TO place where was
a serpent born before the world wa.
created, and that the serpent would
show him a SPOT where treasures were
concealed"
1t is we'll known that Lady Hester
Stanhope had a great hatred and con-
tempt for British consuls and other Off
cials Of her own country. Sir John Bow.
ring tells US that when one OF the con.
sular body, thinking she would be
pleased at the compliment. asked he,
what name he should give to his new
born child, she wrote back that he
should be called "Humbug' or "Fid.
diesticks." II is we'll known that hel
ladyship with all her exalted ideas, hac
very lax notions Of me"m and fuum ir
matters Of money, aud that she was con.
tent to live on in debt. when presse,
tor payment Of what she owed" write.
Sir John Bowring, she would say, i
have divided my creditors into three
categories. Those who have asked fo
their money which consider an insult
shall never be paid; and the second ant
third. who have never asked, I shall d.
vide into two classes, some Of whom
shall pay and others not Her dres.
was rather that OF man than woman
She talked Of religious matters, sayin,
that she had been looking into the res
pective merits Of the Koran and th.
Bible, and that she had come to thu
conclusion that, on the whole, the form
er was the better book of the two. He
creditors endeavored to lay hands OF
the pension which her uncle, William
Pitt. had obtained for her (she had KEEP
house for HIM; but she managed to re
ceive the money so eleverly through tn,
French and not the English authoritie.
that not penny could be reached.