New-York tribune., 1906-04-30

princes would become wanderers the face Of the
earth and homeless. a fate which they do not
relish and which they do not TO risk.
AND SHALL TRELAWNY DEP"
Old Horace Trelawny's death, at the age of near
y ninety naturally evokes memories OF that
famous Cornish County ballad Of hundreds and
hundreds of years ago. which includes IN, rolIouT
ing lines:
And shall Trelawny dieP
reason why ~ 80
1ieia"ny has for nearly thousand years been
o"e oi the most honored and widely known names
In the West OF England especially In Devon and IN
- OofH"aA' where the family was already estab-
,sIieo at Irelawny. near Lskeard, in the days OF
iAiis h""aro the COnfessor according TO the
aurnorl'y l,. OF the Doomsday Book. And there Sir
"ilhdlh IreiaWny, whose baronetcy dates from
the reign Of King James l. keeps house TO-DAY
Perhaps the best known of the Trelawnvs IN
rnooern times was that Edward Trelawny uncle of
me one VINO has just died and who was the inti-
mate Iriend OF the poets Shelley and Byron Ed
ward Trelawny was to have accompan;ed Shelley
and Nllhams on their last fatal cruise in Byron's
yacht Some sudden business detained him AZ Tae
norm and he watched the doomed vessel through
spyglass until she became enveloped in that sea
fog from which she was never to emerge He<re
covered the bodies Of his two friends and superin
tended their cremation the seashore
Subsequently he accompanied Lord BYRON n
Greece and fought by his side for her in her war
OF independence 10 which she owes her freedom, of
to-day In his later life Edward Trelawny sat as
model Of the old mariner in Sir John E. Milaiss
famous picture. The Northwest Passage"
Trela why's to be found figuring on nearly
every page Of English history A Sir John Tre-
lawny of the most famous generals Of
King Henry y Another was fined by Queen Eliza
beth for declining to accept the dignity of knight
hood at her hands Another chief OF stan at
the battle OF Blenheim to the first duke OF Marl-
borough, while a Sir William Trelawny died as
Governor General Of Jamaica. and lies buried there
TO this day.
WIDOW OF ITALY's RED DUKE
The Duchess of sermonets, whose death has Just
taken place in England. the mother of
Don Livio Cactani. who is in this country. but
his step-grandmother, by birth an English woman
and member OF that Ellis family OF which Lord
Howard de Walden and Lord Seaford are the
chiefs. Alone among all the consorts of the great
mobiles OF the old patrician houses Of Rome she had
remained Protestant. Not that this rnattered
much 70 her husband for old Duke Michael Angelo
OF Sermoneta- who died in 1882. not only an
unbeliever but also of the btterest foes OF the
Church. took a prominent part IN bringing about
the downfall Of the temporal power Of the Papacy
bore 10 King Victor Emmanuel IN Florence the
suits Of that Roman plebescite OF 1870 upon which
the regning house Of Italy bases its rights TO the
possession Of the Eternal City. and actually went
far 10 propose, from his seat the Extreme
Left Of the Italian Chamber. the expulsion OF the
Papacy from Italy and the destruction Of the
Vatican
The Romans used to say that the old duke who
shortly afterward stricken with blindness
dared 10 sleep again after this In the palace
OF his ancestors. They declared that too many
family phantoms-including the spectres OF the two
ropes and OF the seventeen Cardinals which his
house had furnished 10 the Church-swept past him
in the watches Of the night trailing reproachfully
those ecclesiastical robes which he had done his
best TO deprive of temporal significance. He was
already blind when he married, as his third wife
the Hon. Harriet Ellis, who has Just gone to her
last rest. After his demise she divided her time
between her place in England. Malvern.
and her beautiful palace Florence She was
enormously rich, having inherited not only a hand
some fortune from her husband but also a vast
amount OF property from her mother the late Lady
Howard de Walden; also the estate OF her aunt,
Lady Harriet Bentinck
Il will be interesting see what disposition she
has made of all this wealth. which includes whole
districts in the fashionable quarters OF London
None OF the members OF her husbands family
likely TO benefit by her will, for she was on very
bad with her son-in-law, the present Duke
OF SermOneta. and had several lengthy lawsuits
with him in connection with his fathers property
II is possible that she may have left something TO
the two daughters of George CaYendish Bentinck
who were great favorites OF hers who were in a
way related 10 her. and who TO be married next
month in London-one of them to the son of Lord
Arthur Hin and the other John Ford. of the
English diplomatic service, the marriages being in
each case love matches, since neither of the
is rich. The present Duke OF SermOneta has
several occasions held office Minister OF Foreign
Affairs. is Zone OF the learned and liberal
minded members OF the Roman patrtciate, is per
haps the largest land owner OF the Campagna and
of the Pontine marshes and processes moderate
views that radically opposed TO those OF his
hot-headed old father.