The sun., 1885-11-01

the real scion OF a noble race; he liked moth
Ing but dull pomp and ceremony. and could
only endure people who paid him court and
homage. After n great deal Of coarse and yul-
gar gallantry. generally purchased at a high
rate. he formed a connection with Lady strach-
an which thenceforward determined all the
habits Of his life. She was very infamous
and shameless woman. his love for whom.
after some years. was changed to hatred; and
che. after getting very large sums out OF him.
married a Sicilinn. But her children. three
daughters. he In a manner adopted. though
eventually all his partiality centred upon one.
charlotte BY name who married Count Zichy.
Hungarian nobleman. This daughter contin.
ued to live with Hertford. on and OF.
here and abroad. until his habits be-
came In his last years 30 ostentatiously
crapulous that her residence In his house. In
England at least. ceased to bs compatible with
common decency. She was. however. hero
until within week or ten days OF his demise.
and her departure appears. curiously enough.
to have led to tho circumstances which imme.'
diately occasioned his death There has been
as far as know no example OF undisguised
debauchery exhibited to the world like that OF
Lord Hertford and his age and innrmities
rendered II at onoe tho more remarkable and
the more shocking" Then. after a passage
too crude In diction to be quoted, tho author
OF this journal proceeds to recount tho end OF
this hereditary legislator. whose execrable OK
oesses can only be paralleled In modern times
by those OF the Regent Orleans or those Of
Rochester and Buckingham in the reign OF
Charles II. "Lo," Mr.. Greville seems to say
with grotesous foreshadowing Of Aytouns
verse;. 10. I have never told thee yot
how tho great Marquis died" For some
months or weeks past Lord Hertford had been
living at Dorchester House. and the ZIchys
with him; but every day at a certain hour his
women. who were Quartered elsewhere. arrived.
passed tho greater part Of the day. and ono or
other Of them all the night. in hs room. He
found sthe presence OF the Countess Ztchy
troublesome and embarrassin 9 to his pleasures.
and he made her comprehend that her absence
would not be disagreeable to him. and accord
inRly she went away. He had then been Ill In
bod for many days. but as soon as she was gone.
as II to celebrate his liberation by a jubilee. he
got up and posted with his serngllo
down to Richmond. No room was ready.
no fire lit. nevertheless he chose to
dine there amidst damp ana cold. drank
quantity OF champagne. came back chilled
and exhausted. took to his bod. grew gradually
worse. and In ten days he died." Greville. who
had road Tacitus. Is hero obviously reminded
OF the historians reflections on the death OF
tho Emperor Tiberius. What a life. termi-
mating In what a death without serious
thought or kindly feeling avshinC sums in
calculable on tho worthless objects OF his PLEAS
ures or caprices. never doing a generous or a
charitable action. caring and cared for by no
human being. the very objects OF his bounty
only regarding him for what they could get on:
OF him faculties. far beyond medlocrity. wasted
and degraded immersed in pride without dig.
nifty. In avarice and sensuaity: all his rela-
tions estranged from him. and surrounded to
the last by a venal harem. who pnndered to tho
disgusting exigencies lassnt,e sed nondum sa-
tidtls libidinis"