Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-19
THE VESTS.
ALL ABOUT THE NEW BRITISH MINISTER
TO WASHINGTON.
who and What He Is-A Titled Ancestry
Washington Notes-Guiteau.
WASHINGTON. November 9. 1881.

WASHINGTON, November 9, 1881.
Saturday evening Hon. Lionel Sackville
West. successor to Sir Edward Thornton
as British Minister to the United States,
| arrived at Washington. He landed at
Philadelphia Friday from the steamship
Indiana, having accepted for himself and
suite, out of compliment to our country,
the hospitality of transportation by the
only American line of steamers, the
estate :" line, SO called from being named
after various States. Friday at 9 A NJ. the
| United States revenue cutter Hamilton,
with the gentlemen of the Sackville West
reception committees, among whom were
Captain William Arthur, R. N, naval
attache of the British Legation at Wash.
ington Frederick Adam, Second Secretary
of Legation at Washington Captain Clip
perton, British Consul at Philadelphia, and
| Vice. Consul Crump, started from Walnut
street wharf and met the Indiana off
League Island, where the ensigns were
dipped on both vessels, and
| HEARTY CHEERS
Were given as the Hamilton approached
the steamships side On the gangway
being lowered, the committees boarded
the ocean steamer, where they were re-
ceived by its Captain, conducted to the
main saloon, and were joined in few
minutes by Minister Sackville West. He
| was duly welcomed, and by letter from
| Mayor King was rendered the hospitality
of the city, responding in brief and
graceful speech. After introductions all
round, the party were driven to the Con-
| tinental Hotel, where the new Minister'S s
name was jotted down from the register
| by reporters for next mornings papers as
Hon. L. S. West" just like any rural
Congressman. After presentation to the
Mayor, and inspection of Independence
Hall, which must have been a privilege
of doubtful value to his John Bull pride,
| he was escorted to other points of inter-
Georges Hall by the various British So
cieties of the city. Among the two
| hundred guests for whom covers
had been laid, Secretary Blaine, who
arrived late, was conspicuous. Sec
retary Blaine's presence in the city was
accidental. He had come on to escort his
second daughter, Maggie, Ia years of age,
who sailed under the care of Minister Ham
! lin and wife in the Illinois the following
morning-they on their way to their post
at Madrid, she to study in French pen
| sion. Minister Hamlin is venerable, but
his wife is much younger, g lady tall in
stature, handsome in appearance and of
courteous and affable manner. She will be
an admirable chaperon for Miss Blaine.
Since Minister Vests arrival in Washing
| ton he has been
VERY QUIET,
And only informal calls have been paid him
by few who had met him abroad. This is
because he must first present his creden-
tials in full court-dress, to the President,
who does not return from New York till
Thursday. Meanwhile the new Minister
has what woman would consider inesti-
mable-anice quiet time to unpack his trunks
| and arrange his bureau drawers. How.
ever, Sydney Mills, his steward,
who has been with him twelve years,
first at Buenos Ayres, afterwards
at Madrid, probably relieves him of that
| function. The Hon. Lionel Sackville West
is officially called a bachelor, but is in re.
ality widower by private marriage
some eighteen years since with a beautiful
| Spanish actress, Countess in her own
right, but because of her profession never
eligible to recognition by her husbands
naughty and titled mother. She died in
Paris during the Franco. German war, leav-
ing two daughters and a son. The eldest
daughter is nearly of age to enter society,
and it is more than minated that when
| that time comes her father will send for
her here, and will present her at our Amer
lean Court, glad of the greater freedom of
thought here, where no barriers of caste
would be raised against her admission.
His wife's portrait, for it's wonderful beau
ty, has place in the Royal Art Gallery of
Munich. He brings among us the prestige
of an illustrious diplomatic career, and is
weighted with huge and
IMPRESSIVE PEDIGREE,
Reaching back to John La War;, who re-.
csived the Lordship of Bristolton from his
sovereign King John, of Magma Charta
fame. The curious will find it in &c Burke's
| Peerage," under the head of De La War;,
his father and three of his elder brothers
having successfully held that earldom. 1t
is a page of interesting reading, and in
cludes in his ancestral list our own Lord
Delaware, the first royal Governor of the
| Old Dominion, who died upon our soil and
gave his name to one of the original thirteen
States. Then there are brave leaders who
figured at Crecy, Poictiers, and in the early
feudal and many later wars; fighting
barons, pious crusaders, and monastic heirs
to the title, with now and then woman
inheritor. The present Earl Delaware,
Mortimer West, the brother next but one
elder than Lionel-who was the fifth son
OF his parents-was clergyman in orders
when the title fell to him through the sud-
den death of his brother, Charles Richard.
The last.named earl was aid-de.camp to
the commanding General at Balaklava, and
received wounds which affected his reason,
and in that state sorrow that came to
him through his mistress led him to com.
NIT suicide by drowning. There are other
tragedies in the cotemporaneous family
history, and there are frequent infusions of
new titled blood by intermarriage with other
leading families, so that their
ARMS AND DOUBLE CREST
hlO IAO UaiOHJ Wdo
merged in an earldom in 176l. The family
motto is Jour de ma uie." Two OF the
quarterings on the coat of arms come from
the mothers, or Sackville, side. She was
Lady Elizabeth Sackvilie, youngest
daughter and co-heir of the third Duke of
Dorset, and in her own right was created
Baroness of Buckhurst in 1864. The sis
ters of Mr.. West are Elizabeth, Duchess
of Bedford, married in 1874, and Mary
Catherine, who in lS47 married the late
Marquis of Salisbury, and in 1870 the
present Earl of Derby. 1t was she who
accompanied her brother on the steam
launch that brought him to the ship in
which he set sail for America. No lady
has come with him. He is not brother.
in.law, as reported, to the noted beauty,
Mrs. CORVALLIS West, this lady being the
wife of remote cozsin. For the present