Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-07

acquaintance of Maria Stainshury, the
wife of q substantial country squire re-
siding near Radbourne, North Willis.
| Fox was for some time quite devoted to
| her and the gOod-natured husband, over
| come by the glory of entertaining the
| mighty Fox, seems never to have sus-
| pected what was going on. The couple
| that is Fox and Mrs. Stainsbury-had
| many pleasant walk in the moonlight
! near the RadbOurne church, where the
| stone heads of Norman kings look out on
| the rural scene. On one occasion, dur
ing the absence of The squire in Lo ndon,
Fox arrived unexpectedly at the hail and
behaved with less circum Spection than
| usual. A brother of Mrs. Stainsbury
was more observant than her husband
and challenged Fox TO duel. Mrs.
Stainsbury succeeded in appeasing the
brother, but only on the promise CT Fox
that he would never again visit the sis
ter. Fox also had female friend in
Wootton Bassptt, pretty village some
miles from Radbourne, and it is proba-
BILE that he made this acquaintance
while riding about the country from
Squire Stainsbury's. By her he had two
children, who were shamefully neg
lected after his death, and never rose
above the rank of country laborers.
Their descendants still live in North
Willis.
Lord Nelson's association with Lady
Hamilton was clearly case of cOnni-
vance on the part of the husband, who
otherwise would never have suffered the
hero to live in the same mansion as him.
self and Lady Hamilton, at Merton, Sur
rev, at q time when the relations OF the
oil
made breach between LORD Nelson and
his wife. Lazy Hamilton was a most
fascinating woman, and her admiration
for Lord Nelson seemed only eQualed by
her contempt for her husband. She set
out from the first to captivate the hero,
and it is but justice to her to say that she
had a keen appreciation, long before the
world at large, of the extent and grasp
OF his genius. 1t was this, as much as
her charms, that led Nelson to seek her
companionship, aud he was true to her to
the last, however faithless to his own
family ties. His last thoughts, in the
moment of victory and death at Trafal-
gar, were with her, as well as With his
country. The association was in Itself go
scendalous that it
WOULD HAVE RUINED ANY LESSER MAN
than Nelson; but he was indispensable to
England. When some courtier malic-
iously alluded to the intimacy in the
presence of the prince regent. his royal
highness met the remark with stony
stare that forever silenced any subse-
queut tendency in that direction aud
was sharper rebuke than words could
have been. In different way, but with
equal force and meaning, Napoleon gave
his opinion. Fouche, his famous minister
of police, thought that he would crafty
the ruler of France by retailing some
fresh gossip IN relation to the most dam
gerous enemy of France on the seas.
"Give me Nelson, - said Napoleon,
''to command the French navy and be
can have all the ladies of my court. -
But the connection certainly hurt Nelson
in SO far that it debarred him from many
amenities that society would have been
delighted to bestow. For this he cared
nothing devoted as he was to the woman
he loved aud who both loved and
worshipped him.
The Duke OF Wellington in all his vic
tories never proved himself more of a
nobleman than when he refused to take
advantage of Lady Packenham IS release
from their engagement of marriage,
made when she was beautiful and he
was starting forth, young officer, to
seek fame on the fields Of India. When