The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-11-15
GREAT MEMS RELATIONS.
Incidents Of and Reflections Upon the
Relations.of Noted People.

4 Partnerships between fathers ant
e sons are too numerous to be noticed
IS but there are few curious instances il
e which the father has seconded the son
{ a certain king of Media appointed hi
!. !, father to a sairapy, and the sire quietly
i served under the son. But since the
! hereditary principle first found favor
: Iamong men no sovereign can have felt
himself altogether a king while his
!. father lived. Phillip II. was constant
| " receiving advice from the ex-emperor,
and must have felt bound at least to
excuse himself when he did not follow
it. How much the paternal superin-
tendence annoyed him he showed by de-
laying the payment of the paternal pen
tsion There are fathers, again, and
more of them, perhaps, than we suppose,
who have been content to be the hum
BILE admirers of their son, and 10 bask
in the rays of their good fortune. Old
Richard Give had never thought his son
good for much till the news of the defence
of Arcot arrived in England, but he
gradually became immoderately proud
and fond of his son, who joined filial
piety to his other qualities. Robert
cleared off the mortgages on the family
estate settled 9800 a year on his
parents, and insisted that they should
keep a coach. Mr.. Give now began to
mix in fashionable society, and was pre-
sented at court The king graciously
noticed him, and asked where Lord
Give was. He will be in town very
soon," said the honest squire quite
aloud, "and then your majesty will
have another vote," which was true
enough, but not intended for publiea.
ton. One can scarcely be surprised that
it was never thought expedient to con-
fer peerage on Richard Give. On
St. Johns being created viscount his
father obtained similar title, though
by some blunder his patent was dated
after his sons, so that the latter had the
precedence. Their descendant still sits
in the house of lords as Viscount Bol
lingbroke and ST. John. The above pre-
cedent, however, has by no means been
invariably followed. 1t is pleasant to
read how Rowland Hill, when he return
ed from the peninsula peer and gen.
eral, quietly took his seat at his fathers
table in the old Shropshire manor house,
not according to his rank, but simply |
according to his birth as a younger son.
1t is noteworthy that Lord Beaconsfeld,
with his usual good nature, turned
Abney Hastings into Lord Honington to |
lessen the distance between him and his
son, the earl of Loundoun.
''The Complete Patton; or a Guide
to Ministers, has yet to be written; and
very difficult it would be to lay down
anything more than the vaguest rules
for the distribution of loayes and fishes.
But there are bright examples, and ex-
amples to be Stunned. After Robert
Grosseteste had been named bishop of
Lincoln, his rustic brother called on
him and solicited preferment. The
bishop replied that if he wanted new
plow or a yoke of oxen he would cheer
fully pay for them; ''but,, he added,
"a peasant found you, and peasant
l shall leave you" The good bishop
might have put the truth a little more
politely; possibly he feared that any
thing less than the plainest speech
would not be understood. Napoleon
once found himself in exactly the oppo-
site position to Grosseteste, with poor
relative who only begged TO be left alone,
and positively dreaded the idea Of eleva- {
tion out of his own homely sphere. 1t
was quite surprise to the emperor, in
the hey-day of his glory, to learn that a
mere parish priest in Tuscany bore the
name of Bonaparte, and descended /
from a common ancestor, with him.
an aiae-de-camp was dis
patched to Italy to ask the able what
he would like. The emperor wanted him,
f only for the sake of the family pres I
sige, to accept bishopric, and it was
linted that the purple would soon fol O
ow. The padre would have none of c
,hese honors at any price, and ended by k
the officer of his sincerity.
Napoleon shrugged his shoulders at his
,missary's report, but did not insist. "
To the question, what caused the
all of Napoleon? Talleyrand would !
lave replied in two words, "his rela- e
ives" The prince of Benevent's
answer is as correct as any that could be
ramed. Properly supported by Joseph a
n Spain, by jerome in Westphalia. by s,
louis in Holland, by Murat in Naples, v
he emperar would have been invincible.
tells us that he warned Ma
'oleon of the inevitable consequences of oi
important interests to men
ike jerome and Joseph make them, :,
said to his majesty, "areh-chancellOrs, :
and so forth, as much as
ou please. Give them any number of al
onorary distinctions. Do not think
f giving them real power" II
The ablest opponent OF Napoleon b,
uring the first half of his career COM
litted the same mistake en- a smaller
Gale. Pitt, whose name was considered th
with patriot, would not see
hat his brother Lord Chatham, was
holly unfit for high Office. For more n D.
han six years, including two of the
ar, he kept at the head of the Admi- W
Atty, till something like an outcPy M
ompeIled the incapable minister to
ssign. Pitt soon recalled him to the W
abinet as lord president. The second
nathan was so dull man that George
II. hesitated to give him the Garter BY
hich he had offered to Pitt, and which co
le latter at once begged for his brother Al
inally the king consented on the dis
net understanding, as he wrote, that ~
le honor should be considered as =
sstowed on the Pitt family in general.
Some men of genius, who might have po
zen expected to start in life backed by
lie eager friendship of powerful kins- or
en-, have for all practical purposes, Fl
ood as much alone as the typical
;otch boy who comes to London with
xpence in his pocket. Read Byron's eli
count of his first visit to the house of
rds. He seems, one of his biogra- th
lers remarks, to have had ia keen
i'd painful sense of the loneliness Of
s position" He could not ind a single
,er to introduce him, and this from no jus
ck Of cousins in the upper house. or
fter wandering about for q while he
ade his way into room where the alb
es were to be paid--fhere il never any do