Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-09

not the price. This is the price And the
pardon goes with him."
I believe that I have now told enough
to discharge myself of that which I set
out to do: 1 mean the clearing my lord I'm
the eyes of all judicious persons of those
imputattons which certain faction have
never ceased to heap on him: and this with
the greater ass.duity ard spite. since he
by his single conduct at the time of the
late queens death was the means under
providence of preserving the Protestant
succession and liberties in these islands.
That during tho long interval of seventeen
years that separated the memorable meet
Zig at kensington which / have ventured
to describe from the still more famous
scene n the queens death chamber. he
took no part in public life has seemed TO
some crime on the tac:t avowal of one.
How far these err and how Unqualified
they are to follow the workings of that
noble mind, will appear in the pages / have
written, which show with ciearness that
the retirement on which much -tress
mas been lad was due not to guilt, but to
an appreciate of honor so delicate that
a spot invisible to the common eye seemed
TO MIN a STAIN non subtle delenda. After
the avowal made before his colleagues
OF the communications, l mean, with Lord
Middleton-nOthing would do but he must
leave London at once and seek in the
shades and retirement of Eyford that
peace of mind and ease of body which had
for the moment abandoned him.
He went and for a time still retained
Office. Later. Notwithstanding the most
urgent and 1attering instances on the
KING part-which yet exist, honorable
alike to the writer and the recipient-he
persisted III his resolution to retire and
On TIE 18th of December, 169S, being at
that time i'll very poor health, the conse-
quence OF fall while hunting, he returned
the seals to the king. In the autumn of
the following year he went abroad, but
though he found III a private ife-so far as
the life of a man of his princeiy station
could be called private-a happiness often
denied to piacemen and favorItes, he was
not to be diverted when the time came
from the post Of danger.
Were L writing eulogiun merely, /
should here enumerate those great posts
atiC o1nceS which he so worthiiy filled at
the time of Queen Anne's death, when ;
Il I'd treasurer of England, lord chamberlain
and lord lieutenant of Ireland-an aggrega-
ticn of honors believe without precedent
he performed services and controlled events
on the Importance OF which his enemies,
no less than his friends, agreed. But 1
1orbear, and leave the task to a worthier
hand. This being SO, 1t remains only to
speak OF Matthew Smith and his accom-
plice. Had my lord chosen to move in the
matter there can be no doubt that Smith
would have been whipped and pilloried, and
In this way would have come suddenly and
by a short road to his deserts. But the
duke held himself too high, and the man
who had injured him too low for revenge,
and Smith, after lying some months in
prison, gave useful information and was
released without prosecution. He then
tried to raise a fresh charge against the
duke, but gained no credence, and, rapidly
sinking lower and lower, was to be seen
Two years later skulking in rags in the
darkest part of old Savoy. In London /
must nave lived in hourly dread of him:
at Eyford was safe, and after the winter
or 0, i'll which year he came to my lords
house to beg. looking broken and diseased
l never saw him.
L was told that he expected to receive a
rich reward in the event of the dukes dis
grace, and on this account was Indifferent
family. 1t seems probable however that
ne still hoped t. retain his influence In
mat quarter by means of his wife and
thwarted in this by that evil woman's dis
missal, was no better disposed to her than
SIZE was to him. They separated; but be-
fore he went the ruffian revenged himself
ny beating her so severely that she lay long
III In her apartments was robbed by her
landlady and finally was put to the door
penniiess and with no trace of the beauty
which had once chained my heart In this
plight, reduced to be the drudge of n
tradesman's wife, and sunk to the very
position in which 1 had found her at Mr.
D-s She made a last desperate effort to
the duke for assistance.
He answered by the grant of a pension
small but sufficient, on which she might
nave ended her days in a degree of com
Tort But having acquired in her former
circumstances an unfortunate craving for
drink, which she had now the power to
crafty, she lived but a little while. and
tEat In great squalor and misery, dying. ii
l remember rightly, in public house in
SpltalneldS, In the year 1903.
(The end.)