Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-06-19


vote his election would be annulled.
Thereupon the young member at
once retired to France
In 1926 his father died and he
took his seat in the house of lords
which he used to talk of as "hospi-
tai for incurables." But StanhOpe
was in the rudest of political health,
and from henceforth attacked Wal
pole and his party with the greatest
violence. Owing to the insistence of
George H., with whom he had always
been on the most intimate terms he
was appointed ambassador at The
Hague a few years later, where, ac-
cording to Horace Walpole, "he
courted the good opinion Of the Dutch
people by losing immense sums of
money" But in addition to gam
bling, Stanhope fell deeply in love with
a beautiful young lady by name Bou-
chet it was her son to whom the ia
nous letters were written. In 1882,
owing to i'll health, he relinquished
his diplomatic career and returned to
England and the house of lords. For
the next sixteen years his whole life
was given up to politics. In 1744 he
was appointed lord lieutenant Of Ire
land, but owing to i'll health was
compelled to resign a few months af-
terward. Later he was made secre-
tary of state, and when, owing to
differences of opinion with his col
leagues, he resigned his office, he COM
forted himself by gambling heavily at
Whites. When the days Of the
American war were drawing near,
Chesterfield, with Lord Chatham,
condemned with all the energy at his
command the attempt to tax the COL
onies. For my part" he says, Il
never saw a froward child mended
by whipping, and I would not have
the mother country become a step
mother" From this time onward
Q74S) until his death, twenty-five
years later, politics had little attrac-
ton for him.
Having settled down to q quiet life
he turned his attention toward archi-
lecture and literature. In his enthu-
siasm for the first he built Chester
field House, and also spent large
sums Of money in enlarging a villa
which he owned at Blackheath. AS
regards literature, he was a constant
contributor to the World newspaper,
and in addition to corresponding with
the leaders Of intellectual society in
Paris wrote many books. But apart
from writing himself, he was great
patron of literature, though his kind
ness often involved him in serious
difficulties. Such was the case with
the bricklayer poet, Jones, and Faulk-
ner, the Dublin bookseller. both OF
whom he spoiled. The former final
ly borrowed large sums of money
from his patrons butler and was cast
off. The odd thing is that he should
have been so Indifferent to the gen.
ius of DR.. Johnson, for beyond send
ing him FLO he seems to have taken
little or no interest in the production
of the celebrated dictionary.
In the last ten years of his life he
suffered much from rheumatism and
gout, and, what was a still greater
trouble to him, he became practically
stone deaf. Such infirmities with
drew him, as they increased, more and
more from the world. But he never
lost cheerfulness of temperament, de-
spite the fact that "he was hobbling
on to his journeys end" as he tells
us. 1t was during these days that he
experienced the great grief of his life.
His son, by Miss Bouchet, had for
wears been his one care and all alb
sorbing interest. When the boy was
but years old the father began the
series of the celebrated letters, which
continued until his son died. Every
day, no matter how pressing affairs
of state the youth received a budget
Of instructions as to how to become a
reputable man Of the world. Chester
field, as he informed friend, tried to
make him, as near perfection as pos
sible." In short, young Philip was
his fathers idol. One can imagine,
therefore, the terrible grief and blank
Lord Chesterfield must have felt
when In 1863 the long correspondence
was closed by death. But there was
more than this to make him misera-
BILE; his agony Of mind was increased
a hundredfold by the revelation that
the son whom he had endowed with
his lfe's interest and affection had
been secretly married for years, and
that to a woman Of little social res
pectability.
But the end was drawing near. In
the autumn of 1872 he had a serious
relapse, from which he never really
recovered. It is said that as he was
on the point of dying his great friend
Dayrolles entered the room, and that
Chesterfield with his last breath beg
ged him to take a chair" According
to Lord Hervey he was "stunted
giant" with "a broad-featured, ugly
face, with black teeth" But DR..
johnson, Horace Walpole and this
very Lord Hervey were the bitterest
enemies of his life thus none Of them
spared him when he died, which he
did in the seventy-ninth year of his
age, on March "a. 1773.-London
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