New-York tribune., 1907-10-02

IN recording in these columns last week the
death Of the Comte de Bechevet, son of Napoleon
III by Miss Elizabeth Howard. whom that mon
arch created Countess of Beauregard and OF
Bechevot in her own right, in recognition of the
assistance pecuniarv and otherwise. which she
had afforded him in his efforts to secure the
throne of France I omitted to mention that after
the Emperor's marriage TO Empress Eugene the
discarded countess became the wife Of Clarence
TreIawney. who was serving in the Austrian army
that time, and who obliged TO resign his
commission in consequence Of the union. The lat
ter did not turn very happily. Miss Howard
had been much accustomed to aduation while
she reiEned supreme over the heart of Napoleon
as President Of the republic and as Emperor, that
she could not resign herself 10 the treatment OF
Clarence Trelawney. who for his part could not
help letting her feel that in wedding her he had
been guilty Of a mesalliance. Moreover, he re-
sented her domineering disposition and her cN-
travagant caprces, and felt h -enly the ostracisn
which he had incurred among the people Of his
caste by giving his honored name to the cast-oT
favorte Of Napoleon. Before year had passed
they had parted, to meet again, and five
, years after her dealt Clarence Trelawney married
a Scotch woman. Miss Campbell. and died six
years ago, leaving several children.
Treawney has been for nearly a thousand years
one Of the most honored and widely known names
IN the West of England, especially in Devon and
in Cornwall. where the family was already estab-
lished at Trelawney. near Lskeard, in the days Of
King Edward the ConfessoT, according 10 the
authority OF the Doomsday Book and there Sir
William Trelawney, whose baronetcy dates from
I the reign of King James I. keeps house to-day
Perhaps the best known Of the Trelawneys i'll
modern times was that Edward Trelawney who
was the intimate friend of the poets Lord Byron
and Shelley He to have accompanied Shelley
and Williams their last fatal cruise on Byron
yacht Some sudden business detained him at Leg
horn, and he watched the doomed vessel through
a spyglass until she became enveloped in that sea-
fog from which she never 10 emerge lie re-
covered the bodies Of his two friends, and super
intended their cremation on the seashore. SUB
/ seauently he accompanied Lord Byron &c Greece,
and fought by his side for her in her war of in
dependence to which che owes her freedom to-day.
In his later life Edward Trelawney sat as model
for the old mariner in Sir John Millas's picture,
! The Northwest Passage"
Trelawnevs are TO be found every page Of
| English history. A Sir John Trelawney was one Of
the most famous generals of Henry V Another
was fined by Queen Elizabeth for declining to
accept the dignity OF knighthood at her hands.
! Another was chief of staff at the battle Of Blen-
helm to the first Duke Of Marlborough. while
| Sir William Trelawney died Governor General
OF Jamaica and lies buried in that island. The
fame Of the Trela wneys is perhaps best shown by
/ that famous Cornish ballad OF hundreds of years
! ago. which includes the following lines:
! And shall TreaWney die?
twenty thousand Cornishmen shall know the reason
l why. - -r-,-o>,v