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creditors can touch, and the great
property of the family, which com
prices the ground ownership of all
the once slum but now fashionable
London district of Chelsea, will be
vested in the hands of trustees for
the benefit of his son, if he has one,
or, failing male issue, for the benefit
Of his brothers next in the line of
succession.
The present Lord Chelsea was for
several years an officer of the First
Life Guards, and atterward aid-de-
camp to his father when the latter
was viceroy of Ireland. He served
through the South African war as
captain of mounted infantry, but sub
sequent to his return to England at
the close of the conflict, and since
the completion of his fathers term of
Office at Dublin castle, has been with
out any employment and wholly de-
pendent upon an allowance of $4,000
year accorded to him by his father,
and which I understand has been
stopped since his marriage.
This is partly due to the fact that
he had not only contracted last
spring union against his fathers
wishes, and without his consent, but
also because he had been foolish
enough to express his disapproval of
his fathers own second marriage in
May, at Florence, to a young Floren-
tine kinswoman, daughter of olivia
Cadogan, who had married Count
Neri Palagi of Florence.
In view of the recklessness of Lord
Chelsea's expenditure since his faith
err extricated him from his difficult
ties and paid off his liabilities Just
a year ago, it is improbable in the
extreme that any of his relatives will
come forward to help him on this oc-
casion to secure his discharge from
the court of bankruptcy, and as long
as he fails to receive that discharge,
he will be subjected to all sorts OF
disadvantages.
Debarred from Civil Rights.
Not only is he debarred from the
exercise of any of his civic rights,
being reduced, in fact, to the status
of a minor, or a iudicially declared
lunatic, but he is likewise precluded
from election to the House of Com,
mons, or from taking his seat in the
House of Lords, as a peer of the
realm, in the event of his fathers
death.
Lord Cadogan, or rather the late
Lady Cadogan, is responsible for hav-
ing converted the former slums of
Chelsea, at one time the most pov-
erty-stricken district of London into
one of the most fashionable quarters
Of the British metropolis. At her in.
stance, he formed the so-called Chel-
sea Reconstruction Company, which
in the seventh and eighth decades of
the nineteenth century was in full
blast, and which transformed the
earl from a noble of average fortune
into a peer of vast wealth. AS all
the Chelsea land was sold vacant,
for ninety-nine-year leases, and has
since been built upon, with street
upon street, and square upon square,
OF the most costly houses and man.
stons in London, and which on the
expiration of the lease become the
property of the ground landlord. the
wealth of the earlGom of Cadogan is
bound, like that of the Dukes of
Westminster, of Bedford, of Port
land, of Lord Howard de Walden. and
OF Lord Portman, the great landlords
or London, to steadily increase in
gigantic strides, as time goes by,
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