New-York tribune., 1905-12-23

pared for the Information Of the brench hins
and his mother-a letter written year a1Ier
his marriage when Henrietta Maria was Dus
seventeen years old It is not unknown to these
relatives, writes Charles what unkindness ano
distastes have fallen between my wife q me.
which hitherto have borne with great patience
Gas all the world knoweth) ever expecting ana
hoping an amendment knowing her to be out
young, etc"
shee. one night when was S esa q. put ,poss =
paper in my hand telling me It was list OF nose
said would read it the next morning, but withsn .sl
told her that by tn In ers both fngs
and French in the note. replied that those 1ngiis
f th2%sf he freheh t fq It Sa heT
her in that naturethen she said an taose Sar IN sefe
& that She could admit no other: Then said II !,
was neither in her mothers power nor sbe me Stood
upon that, whomsoever she recommenaea M snon,H ,S,
G5 ands to @ n.y. e s6s f f. she a had no power
in whom she would in those places she wouIo nave az
her What anqi thought 9 t in PENSION bad e
remember TO whom she spake told her sns
discourse how she miserable In having no PpTe e
10 oTe pace foT ber which when
offred to answer she would not so much as heare se
base ddaefR to be V 0ed so m them both
heare me and end that discourse
"And then" adds the compiler, at may be
piously believed His Sacred Majesty turned
over and pretended to so to sleep" AS Tor tne
outcome of this matrimonial tiff we know
from records found elsewhere that Charles
proved obdurate and that the girl-queens
French retainers were bundled out Of the coun-
try. In the Harleian manuscript there is let
ter in the Kings hand addressed e few weeks
later to "Steenie" (the Duke Of Buckingham
and commanding that the French be sent away
IF you can, by fair means (but stlke not
longe in disputing), otherwise force them away
dryving them away lylze mamie wyld oeastes
until ye have shipped them, and so the Devil
goe with them" The little Queen. It is said.
upon the occasion of this expulsion. was so
impatient" that she Drake the glass wtndowes
with her fste."
Equally passionate, but of another sort than
the daughter of Henri Quatre, who had strain
of nobleness in her nature was Caroline. the
uncrowned queen Of George ". There is among
these "Pryings' q woman's letter describing
Georges coronation and the frustrated at
tempts Of the Queen to gain entrance to the
Abbey: "Her rage was dreadful, she knocked
the baton out Of the hand Of one Of the con-
stables ordered to see her to her carriage, and
several gentlemen told me (who attended her
in her various trials for entrance to see what
she would do) that her language & swearing
were so dreadful they could not repeat 1.-THE
mob returning it, & always ending with Go
coronation, half comic, half distressing, arose
from the predicament Of Lord Anglesea- who
had lost a leg at Waterloo, and who had ac-
commodated himself with one wooden leg for
walking and with another of a different KIND
for riding. AS High Steward he had announced
dinner on horseback. and. thinking his duty
done, did not return. But he was not up" on
the medieval etiquette Of the occasion. and the
King sent word that he could not dine until
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when Lord Anglesea was in great distress. not
being allowed to ride except in announcing
dinner, &. as he said, unable to walk with
his riding leg on which caused great laugh"
The mention of Waterloo brings us to a graphic
little description by Lady Clarendon OF the
First Consul as she saw him in Paris:
His outline of face has great resemblance to
Kemble. the actor. in miniature; his stature MI Is
best appearance is when horseback; his features
his mouth. with small eyes very Hollow in his head.
His manners are shy without oeng coiu,
he is little and insignificant in his appearance but
not unpleasing.
Many tragic pages in this volume are filed
with contemporary accounts Of the qtarrels,
duels and executions Of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries There is a curiously cool
description of the hanging Of Sir John Johnston
for assisting his friend, the Hon. James Camp
bell in eIoping with and marrying the heress
Mary Wharton. Campbell. brother OF the first
Duke of Argyle, escaped into Scotland, and
Johnston paid the debt for both. HE made
strenuous speech at the gallows; such, it seems
that proved so insinuating to the foolish mob
as to draw tears from their eyes, insomuch as
was told by some that a little prompting
would almost have prevailed with them for
rescue; which seems credible, in regard they
afterwards offered violence to Mrs. Wharton's
lodgings by breaking the windows, ETC." We
advise the reader to search for himself among
these accumulations of strange instances, end
ing here with more quotation Of the -strans-
est among them-a story found in letter
written one winter day in 1885,
A boy of seven years came up into a gentle
mans chamber and prattled to him, and drew his
sword and fourished with it. The gentleman, be-
ing in bed, wondered to see the boy toss his blade
so, and said, So, good boy, thou hast done well,
put up the sword The boy persisting, the gentle
man rose, and held him the scabbard, and the
rude handed lad thinking to sheathe the sword,
Justify chopt it into his belly. Company were
called one offered to strike the child. Let him
alone Quoth the gentleman. God is just, this boys
father did kill five years since, and none knew;
he hath revenged it, And the gentleman died
the second dressing.
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