New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-16
TIE ODD LORD DUDLEY.
From All The Year Hound.

From All The Year Round.
"Iord Dudley says Mr. Moore. "it is well
known has trick of rehearsing over to himself. in
an underone the good things ne is about to deliver
to the company, that the person who sits next TO
him has generally the advantage OF his wit before
any of the rest OF the party. man not very re-
Inarkable for agreeableDeSs once proposed to walk
from the House OF Commons TO the Travellers
Climb with Lord Dudley, who, discussing the pro-
posal mentally las he thoughtl with himself, said
audibly, 'Idon't think II VIII bore me very much
to let him walk with that distance On an
other occasion, when he gave somebody seat III
his carriage from some country-hOuse he was over
heard bv his companion. after fit of thought and
silence saving to himself, Now, shall / ask this
man to due with ne when We arrive III town. IL
is said that the feilowtravelleT, not pretending TO
hear him. mgttered out in the same sort OF Tone
Now if LORD Dudley should ask me to dinner
shall accept bis invltanonl -.
happy specimen OF his VII was TINS retort TO a
German lady at Vienna who had somewhat rudely
complained of the bad French spoken by You
Fngiish (" in London - True. madame" re sald
I'VE have not enjoyed the advantage OF having had
the French twice III our capital"
This recalls a retOrt about good made by an
Englisnman to the Due de Broglle when Ambassa-
dor III England, v no SAID win equally lax manners
that they right III thinking the English a na-
ton of shOpkeepers. Perhaps So" was his reDly
lust as we always thought you were nation OF
soldiers"
Alter ms retirement his curious mania and various
Oddities increased TO an extrayagant degree, and
Were the talk OF the town, which, however, soon
came 10 accept them as II does all kinds OF Oddly
lie would go TO dinner parties and sit without Ut
teTIng word excepting TO himself during some
brief flashes OF silence" MI. RalkeS tells OF a
friend of his whom he describes good-natgred
and a kerry go0d-ooklng man, not OVERLOOKING
with intellect. ut was at a tine wnen poor Dud-
ley's mind was the wane, when his caustlc hui
NOR would still ind vent through the cloud when
was gradually overshadOwIng MS mastery INTEL
lect be was sitting Il his room, unheedlng those
around him. and soIiOquising aloud as was so often
ms custom His favoTite Newfoundland DOG WAS al
mis- side who seemed TO engross the whole OF his
attention. At leugfh, pattIng his head, he ex-
claimed 'fido mlO, they say dogs have no souls
Humpni And stIll they say has soul" Upon
one occasion he found MT Allen at Whites about
o'clock and asked him 10 dinner. On ms arrival at
Park Lane he found II Jete-a-tete with the
host When in the evening he asked how the
dinner went of, Allen said, Lord Dudley spoke
little TO h8s servant and great deal to hs dog, but
said nothing 80
In this state, too. he would invite large compa-
MES TO dinner VINO stranger STILL would accept ms
invitations; though when they came he womb
not address them, Mr.. Moore, VINO loved cheeriul-
ness ana gayetv complained mOurnfuiiy OF these
festivities as damping and depressing. FOR the
most would SIT the whole time In sort OF stupor,
or converse with himself or have volume Oi
Hume open before HIM which he would read
foroughout his dinner! This the beginning OF
rhe end A short time aferward, IN 1857, IL was
known that the doctors had directed that ne
should be put under restraint, and on the 6th OF
March, s}3, this brilliant but eccentric man eA-
pired lie was only hfty-twO. relation OF hls
the Rev Mr. Ward, succeeded 10 the title with four
thousand pounds year only while eighty thousand
a year passed TO tins clergymans sou, the present
holder OF the title.