The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-02-13
ItEFiiFITI0ESIeRBS
Brief Description Of Some Of h ProGi-
gates and wantons Of the British Aris-

london Letter to San Francisco Argonant
The two great scandals of the hour
involving as they do the names and hon
or of two noblemen, and which at pres
ent occupy almost exclusively the yves
end" and the fashionable club" por
lions of the public mind-viz., the breacl
of promise suit against Viscount Gar
moyle, eldest son of Earl Cairns, anC
the marital troubles Of the Earl of Eus
ton, eldest son of the Duke of Grafton
call up into ones recollection severa,
previous noble ~recreants, and make one,
in contemplating the array of titled
b&cksliders, nolens volens regard the
saying of noblesse oblige as a f~arcical
axiom, rs any to be found among the
many senseless foreign aphorisms with
which the English language is becoming
more burdened.
Noblesse oblige had a meening once,
I dare say, but it dosen't seem to have
one any longer. The only thing which
nobility appears to oblige nowadays Is
shat it's possessors be blackguards. Ger
tainly, in the estimation Of all proper
minded people who are not dazzled by
titles, such are both Viscount Germoyle
and the Earl of Euston. Noblesse OBJ
lige in its old acceptation dosen't apply
to them. One makes love to q poor,
pretty, and virtuous actress, promises to
marry her, compels her to leave the
stage, adYertises himself as a man who
will marry the women he loves, what
ever her caste and no matter what his
family may say, and then suddenly
breaks off the engagement, refuses to
marry the girl, and gives no apology,
explanation, or reparation, simply be-
eause-as he says the Duke of Rich
mond told him his wife could never be
received at court The other for years
has been married to and cohabiting
with 9 notorious courtesan, whom, upon
his coming into a title and the posses
sion Of 3 fortune, he seeks TO discard BY
a trumped-up charge that she had been
previously married to another man.
As 1 say, they are but two more to
add to the already long list of noble
black sheep, both male and female, who,
n the memory o 1.-THE present generation,
have made for themselves regulations
EOr the possession Of traits and ways
painfully incompatible with the "nobil-
tyT their titles are supposed to confer
upon them. A short resume af the most
GOsed ones would seem 10 be In point at
this stage Of the proceedings. First
and foremost. there's the Duke of Marl-
borough His career as a seducer of
w0nen-rsngingin the social scale from
sagTant-maids 70 co~untesses-as an IN
blaEhing sdulterer, unprincipled scoun-
drel. and cowardfy vife-beater, is too
well uo=n and fresh IN the minds Of
everybody to need recapitulation from
me.
NEXT we have the Marquis of Water
ford, Lord Charles Beresford's eldest
brother. he begun life as the Earl of
Tyrone By seducing the wife of Captain
Vivian, NJ p. Adivorce followed, with
tina esl IS correspondent, aud, on its
being Obtained, he married the erring
ma The Earl of Shrewsbury isan-
other youthful Gbertine. When but
eighteen, he seduced the wife of Mr..
Mandy a woman exactly double his
age and quite old enough to be his
mother, but Of strangely fascinating
powers for young men, it is said. At
Ter the regulation divorce, during the
proceedings of which he openly con-
dnued the ~liaison, he, two, years ago,
married the partner of his sin, and
there have already been two children
one, a son and heir to the oldest earl
dom in England-born In wedlock to the
m-assorted couple.
The duke of Hamilton one seldom
hears of now, except as a seller at auc-
ton Of family heirlooms, priceless to q
anobleman,n to enable him to continue
an already long and disastrous career
On the turf. The duke Is perhaps bet
As< known IN p aTis than IN London. In
the former capital he has long been re-
garded as a disgusting profigate and
lbidin0us brute, whose sensual habits
are as oriental In their peculiarities as
they are degrading In their bestiality.
He Is married 30 a daughter Of the Duke
Of Manchester, e girl who sold herself
20 become duchess. She is q sister oi
Viscount Vaudeville, and it is q curious
fact. which may throw some light ON the
~sliiance, that both she and the duke have
French mothers.
The Hon. Walter Hartford. Lord auf-
fields brother-I note them just as
recall them-we viii consider next. A
major In the Seventh Hussars, one 81
The swellest light cavalry corps In thu
army he q few years ago was the friend
aud pal ofthe Prince Of Wales, q brighi
and shining light ia Belgrayian society
and an authority IN the best clubs. III