The New York Herald Newspaper, December 13, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK 6 amused whether the play was hich or low, but the stake be preierred was five aod ponies,” or | | five pound points and twenty-five pounds on the | rubber. The Duchess had Hohenzoliern habits, and preferrea balf crown whist, “She fre- quently walks out very late at night, or, rather, early in the morning, and she sleeps with open windows, She dresses and break/asts at three o'clock, afterward goes out with her dogs, and seldom appears before dinner time.” Al- | though this royal lady never staived her own con- versation she was much amused ‘with jokes, stories and allusions which would shock a very nice person.”” It may a8 well be remembered to her honor that nothing ever offended her more than to beat or kick one of her dogs. She hated the Prince kegent, and he hated her. As for the Duke, this great nobleman was easily amused “with jokes full of coarseness and tndelicacy.’ Mr, Grevilie tells us that his associates were “tres poligson,” or irredeemable biackguards. In this drifting, horse-jockeying, card-playing existence Mr. Greville passed the first few months of the time given in bis dlary, There is a glimpse of Rogers ‘in a nervous state about his poem,” called ‘Human Life.” There are exploits among the pheasants, and we learn that the Duke of York was appointed to take charge of the person of the poor old blind King—his wife haa just died—fir which service he was to receive $50,000 a year, Peel supporting the proposition and Sir James Scarlett, aiterward Lord Abinger, opposing it. We have a note of the birth of Queen Victoria, who was very nearly being called Georgiana, and Snally this pathetic announce- ment of the death of George Iil., in the sixtieth year of his reign:—*The last two days we killed 245 and 296 pheasants, 322 and 431 head. On Sun- day last arrived the news o! the King’s ueatn.”’ GRORGE ON THE THRON: The new King, George IV., of ever glorious mem- ory, ascended the throne “desperately il.” He had a bad cold at Brighton, for which he loa: eighty ounces of blood—Knighton afraid to bieed him. He had troubles about his Queen which are known to history, but it ie pleasant to learn that his life was comforted by the association of the Lady Conyngham, who appears in these volumes as holding the same relation to George 1V. that | Mme. Pompadour fuldiied in the memorable and happy reign of the most Christian King Louls XV., of France. Lady Conyngham was the wife of the Marquis of Conyngham, who had been created | Viscount Slane, Earl of Mount Charles and | Marquis of Conyngham, in the peerage o! Ireland, | | 1m 1818, when the King was Prince Regent. After | he became King be made the Marquis an Englstt peer, Baron Minster, as well as general officer in | . | the army and Knight of St. Patrick. In other YEARS OF TALLEYRAND. | words, witnin the present ceatury we find a King | of England showering the honors of nobility upon | A JOURNAL OF THE REIGNS oF KING Georoz IY, | the wretched bhusb: of his paramour, This mis- np Kine WriuiaM IV. By Charles C.F. Greville, | 'T88 took the place of another mistress, one Esq., Clerk of the Council to those sovereigns, | Maria Fagiana, Lady Hertford. The popular ea- Edited by Henry Reeve, Kegistrar of the Privy | t°¢m1n which these ladies were held 1s curiously | Council. Three volumes. London: Longmans, | Ulustrated by anote oi Mr. Grevilie’s. “It 1s odd Green & Co. 187% | enough,” he writes, ‘Lady Hertford’s windows We have received an English edition of the Me- pep Be oeio tate emia aay moirs of Mr, Greville, s work which bas made a Conyngham. Somebody asked Laay Hertford if she Geeper impression in Euglish literary and political 144 peen aware of the King’s aomlration ior Lady mp than any which has appeared since Macau- Conyngham, and whether he had ever taiked about Jay's History of Bugiand. Mr. Greville: was | Lady Conyngham, She replied that intimately as | father's, ‘TDW proud relationsbip drought bim | WT! Ber OMevery subject, he had never ventured ” | closely into the first familiés of England, led to $O, RPCRE TBI HGR Returns eS merceeeee bee | 1adyship ever seems tO have recovered ner sbanene prepasicn ere oe pera ici | position in the affections of the King, but she | lived for fourteen years aiterhe acceded to the rapachsgres et Goceanctah ha net | throne, and died in the reign of Wiiliam IV. . P cil. | eTPhere was quite a great crowd assembled yester- An aristocrat, a Man of taste, education and some . day to see old Lady Hertiord’s funeral go by. The literary acquirements, he embraced hia oppor- | King (William 1V.) sent all the royal carriages, tunities, which were unusual, to put on record | i “8 his observations of the reigns of George IV. ane | 40 every other carriage in London was there, I Wiillam IV. He became Prat of the eisat tn. | eUaRe 8, Contes pesictas prece or IOye a0 ene : King? 1821, and 30 remained ior forty years. The journal Bsn i's come nee Parone ® dines One, Sete OBIy ROYALTY IN ENGLAND An Inside View of} Two Reigns. aeacemmana ‘GEORGE IV. AND WILLIAM IY How England Was Governed for Twenty Years. ‘GEORGE THE MAGNIFICENT. The Hanovers as Bad as the Stuarts. Nell Gwynne in the Nine-| teenth Century. THE SAILOR KING. William IV. England. Ruled How Ignorance, Selfishness, Vice, Rapacity | and Crime in High Places. —_--—_—_ GLIMPSES OF ENGLISH STATESMEN | Wellington, Canning, Brougham, Melbourne, Palmerston, Macaulay and Others, LAST | | | | | ground on wiicu she could claim such an honor before us is continued to the death of Wiliam IV., | Was that of baving been George WV.t8 mistress.” jot only, however, bave we ao evidence of the Which took piace in 1887, covering'tn ‘sil'a period | Tin inch of Lady Conyngaam in exalting her bus- | of sixteen years. As the remainder of the journal | band tothe peerage; we tnd her son Francia, would concern Queen Victoria and many of the the Leb row appointed to be Private secre- men now famou3 in English pubic lite, Mr. Reeve | ary to the King. CANNING CRAWLING INTO OFFICE. bas judiciously postponed its publication. Many George IV. was @ popular king when he as- | years must elapse belore it wilisee the light. We | oe ri fee We = woonrgeed ig & io , | ceived with immense g clamations,” Lord Hert- pan bee ren Dapesaee she yldeainst ote be ag = ; ford, busband ov his ichected mistress, “dropping Mr. Greville’s book—notably Lord Brougham’s, | one of the candies as he was lighting the King in.” Lord Campbeii’s “Lives of the Chancellors,” | — in eee alee ne Pipe e ros bent +4 "i ” | wie, Georgey’ jajesty not like the ae ee eae a oaty | Duke of Wellington, aud there is a queer story of | olland’s ecollections, yron’s Live, the | a quarrel they had at dinner because the Duke “Life and Despatches of Lord Grey,” and others. | ps Re aE ee peanan aoe qian 5 | fan e ish. About this The history of that time is coming slowly into | tine "tne pavilion was finished, with the subter- light, not colored, hidden, darkened by passion or | ranean passage from the bouse to the stables, party prejudice, but truthfully, so that we may | ited STEELE Su nie SOATITOOtET Mae Klay mae | 4s al ent; e King bas know the manner of men who governed England pot taken a sea bath for sixteen years.” His dislike in the early part of this century. o Canning, Ob account of that statesman’s con- The great value of memoirs lke those of Mr. | SPOT Ber politioe tan bo HGk tata manifest. was neces- Greville is their evident sincerity and truthfulness. | gary tg admit Canning into the government of We have history as it 13, not uistory in fall dress. | Lord Liverpool tne King expressed hig consent in There is more reserve in what Mr. Greville nas Slotees puomme she carene relation Cire mi “rhe King Written than in the famous diary of Samuel Pepys, | thinks the brightest Jewel in bis crown 18 to ex Secretary to the Admiralty im Cuarles II.’a reign, | tend bis grace and javor to a subject who has of- or John Evelyn, or even Horace Walpole, There is Teel th sctnte tn ae Coins tenes | 0 3 . formin; nothing whatever about himself, We kuow all | part of the Cabinet.” It is ‘sleassucte learn th about Pepys—his irtations, his gossiping, his | Canning resented tms letter and fur a long time fondness for the theatre, bis domestic troubles. SORE Fidlene aud IuGiEaARC reptN TT Mitac i He is as fresh a figure to-day as when he pattered | fuenves controlied “him; he submitted to the | down into Westminster Hali to see the heads of i King’s indignity, and became his Minister. Cromwell, ireton and Bradshaw exposed to tg- | Se a mominy by the paid hirelings of a Frencn King. Sho weproeninn: thsh he Minister OC Hotes Ty, was thoroughly constitutional, that the King | There is absolutely nothing of Greville | reigned bu i not rule, is dispelled py the: ges, Wh . | these memoirs, That {foolisn, wretched mon- | = opp htegne hab we observe particu | sich maintained and exercised, at times, as | larly is his spirit of fairness. He does uot | supreme a sway as the Stuarts. Take tue ques- | | across tue table and recom: ig attempt to alver to-day opinions he expressed four | tion of mt 1 phd og me io bf: * Poa King con- |. | cetves that the whole of the late King’s property years ago. We follow him irom year to year feel- | Gaycives upon bim personally and mot upon the ing that we are speaking with @ man who gives | Crown, and he has consequentiy appropriated to os the opinions of the day in which he lived. aoe the she ol ee ony Age gt One ° a | would suppose that a Cabinet of honorable statea- Consequently, we have strange disparities Of | ieq would have prevented these acts of royal judgment—censures of Wellington in one year | piiferiag; but, ‘‘so touchy is he about pecuniary which become commendations later, as party pol that ah Tite ae ae Pag pero. + oon remonstrate wi ™ nor to m that he feeling moved the writer; censures of Peel and | No right so fo act. The consequence is that he h: praises of Peel; criticisms upon all the leading | spent the money and taken to himself the jewels men with whom he associated; no attempt to ee mis OR Beate See Henne’ pe “ |. h regi jewels, sum up historically the character or achievements |"1he Duxe of Wellington, it may be naturally ofany. This is the great value of a journal, and | supposed, could not took tamely on this whole- we have little doubt that the book of Mr. Greville, | Dakeeapinia vitae Tae Wallasers Orient ts bare x, with some pruning, perbaps, of descriptions of | taken the opportunity of the coro: jon, when a political events—iike the Catoolic emancipation | new crown was to be provided, iY ate to him and the Reform bill, that even now lose their the trach with regard to the jewels and to suggest interest—wiil occupy a permanent place in the | ShelF being c uvetsed to that purpose fais Swe 2 i faprdtea Pp ever, the¥ dare not do, and so the matter re- literature of English politi: s. bored one Ve the acts for hele King George GEORGE THE MAGNIFICENT. y. bas received much Lonor was the presentation | When ur. G i f Olerk 7 te 0 .. | Of lis father’s ilbrary to the Britisn Museum. ‘The en Mr. Greville became Clerk of the Council yisitor to the Musoum may see this nobie collec- His Gracious majesty George IV. wasin the fiity- | tion of Doona.set spare asa mark ot Tespect to the ye e memory of the King whe founded it, aud to the minth year of his age, aud had just ascended the ' ying nis son, who gave itto the nation. But Mr, throne. His ‘ather, George LL, of glorious Mem- Greville telis us that George IV. had even designed ory, had died a !ew months previous, in the eighty- bisny | the ees, seeps a the late King, but ar Of bis age, ab d “this he was obiiged to abandon, for the Ministers second year of bis age, a blind old man, who bad ana tne royal amily must have interfered to pre- been living in retirement for many years, | yent so scandalous a transaction. It was there- wandering about the Windsor galleries, singing | /ore presented to the Britisn Museum.” . , % | HOW GEORGE RULED EXGLAND. Pealms and playiog on the narpsichord, with Oc- | On political questions this noble King had his casional fits of waduess—iouely, sorrowful, de- | own way. It was a long time belore he would ac- serted., Ueorge [V. had been prince-regent for | belt & a bis confidante, with mom he 5 | could “blusier and talk big,” he expressed in no mene: years before he ascended the throne. Mr. measured terms his dis tat Liberal opinions, and Greville began his journal in 1518, when he wasin | especially at the Catholic emancipation, Canning the twenty-iourth year of his age, and it is mainly | what the short tenure Othman te bsg? hu- | Millating circumstances. ed by the King, the crode ideas of @ young man who had not yet opiosed by the aristocracy, withou: support in obraine: knowledge of the world, and who | Parliament, Peel wouid not serve under him, the writes GAvout dinners and horseraces, Iu | Puke of Feller eee er koa wie the . e Commander-in-Chiel of the Army, With the his first entry we learn that “the Re- | exception of Huskisson and Lord Lyndhurst there gent drives in the park every day in a | were no strong xen in bis Cabinet. The Duke of tilbury, with his groom sitting by bis side, | Portland was the only high pobleman who wouid serve, and he was bg relative, All the King desired was “to live @ quiet iife and aispose of all the patronage.” Canning was a man of great industry, ‘Such was the clearness of his head that he could address himself aimost at the same time to different subjects with perfect precision and without the least embarrassment. On one occasion, when he had a gout in bis band and could not write, he stood by the fire and dic- tated at the same time a despatch on Greek afairs to George Bentinck, and one on South American oltties Howard de Waiden, each writing as fast as he could, without hesitation or embarrass- and grave men are shocked at this ondignified | practice.” The Queen, his mother, Sophia Char- loute, of Meckienburg-Strelitz, was very o:d and il, and about to die. But the poor lady had her own troubles, and we have @ note about her fainting wheo sne heard tbat her daughters-in- law, the Duchesses of Cambridge and Cumber- dand—one a German Mecklenburg-Strelitz Princess like hersejf, and the other a Hesse-Cassel Prin- eeas—had met and embraced. Por she was a very | ment. virtuous Old iady, this Queen of George ILI, and DOMESTIC FELICITIES, , would have no dealings with her daughter-in-law “a @ have eimpee Oo cenckt irks bi it 4 fe, wi weak in his knee The evening passed off toi- erably, owing to the Tyrolese, wnom Ksterhazy brought down to amuse the King, and wno was so pleased with them that he made them sing and dance befor the whole evening. ‘The women Kissed his tace and the men his hands, and he talked with them in German.” *‘As for Lady Conyngham, the poor woman looks bored to h, and she never speaks, never appears to bi one word to say to the King, who, however, taiks himself without cessation.” Bat when patronage was to be distributed the King became acu He dispensed the honors after the battie of Navarino without consulting the Ministers, and to please his, mistress appointed Sumner tobe a bishop. The holy man, who owed his episcopal honors to the javor uf @ royal tavorite, passed away, full of piety and iame, during the | 01 Cumberland because she naa been divorced from ber husband, the Prince Saim-Saim-Bromiels. “She was in such ® rage that a spasm was brought on, and she was very near dying,” as she did die five montus later. THE DUKE OF york, Mr. Greville seems to have been a protégé of the Duke of York, the King’s eldest brother, who had married the Princess Royal of Prussia, grand niece of Frederick the Great and aunt of the present Kaiser. This great Duke was Bari of Uister ana Commanaer-in-Chief of His Majesty's forces and one of the first princes in the realm, and mainly qpent hia time playing whist was “eaually well present year. While the good King was feuacious” about any interierence in his appropriation of public money, he was aiso touchy on the question of Bis private debts, “Macgr gor (old me the other Gay that not one of toe physicians who attended the Duke of York had ever received the smailest remuneration, although pee names and services bad been Igid belore the ng.” Jockey Club dinner, “I sat Opposite to him, and he was particularly graciou o me, talking to me nding ail tue good things. made me, aiter eating a quantity of turtle, eat a dish of craw-fish soup until | thought I shouid have burst.” “He then ordered paper, pen, and so forth, and began making matcnes and stakes,” ‘the Kiog’s londness jor racing was & fam Us point In his character, ‘Alter the council the King called me and talked to me about race horses, which than the welfare of Ireland or the peace of Europe.” But age was telling on this glorious Prince, in 1828, says Greville, “Ll think be will not live more than two years’”—almost a prophecy, for he died within eighteen months, “his Majesty ps everybody at a great distance from mim, and ali about him are alraid of him.” “rere is Rot one person about bim whom ne likes.” ‘The King told them the other day tbat his surgeon, O'Reilly, was the damnedest liar in the world.” He was especially airaid of Sir William Knighton, @ physician who had become per of the Privy Purse, and who seemed to havea ge influence over him, ‘He 18 afraid of bim,and t is the reason he hates him so bitterly. He deiignis in saying the most mortifying and disagreeable things to him, One day, wnen the door was opened so that the pages could hear, he said, “I wish to God some- body would assassinate Knighton! Tve King’s indolence was 80 great that it was impossible to get him to do the most ordinary detail of business, and Knighton was the obly person who could pre- Vail upon him to sign Lap “rates His greatest delignt 13 to make those who have business to transact with him wait in bis anteroom while he ia loung- ing and talking of horses or any trivial matter; and when he 18 told, ‘Sire, there 1s Watson wait- ing,’ he replies, ‘Damn Watson; let him wait |’ He does it om purpose and likes it.’ PERSONAL TRAITS. These stories of this great King’s personal life and habits mauve their own jmpres-ion upon Mr. Greville, “A wore contemptible, cowardly, Selfish, unieelng dog does not exist than this King, on whom such flattery is constantly lavisted.” littieness of his character prosants his displaying the dangerous {faults that belong to great minds, but with the vices and weaknesses o/ the lowest and most contemptible orier it would dificult to find # disposition more abundantly iurnished.’’ There ts another glimpse of the Defender of the Faith, “dressed ina biue atcoat, all over gold frogs and embroidery; “the greatest master of ie in the world, and his curiosity about every- y's afluirs insatiable.” As everything that concerns this glorious monarch must inter- est the English-speaking world, we careiully gather these tilustrationg of bis character. “He leads & most extraordinary lie He never gets up until six o’clock in the aiter- noon.” Ili is pieasant vo learn that he reads every newspaper quite through. “Three or jour hours ago he got up in time ‘or dinver and retired to bed about ten or eleven. He sleeps very ill and rings his bell forty times to a night. If he wants to know the hour, though a watch hangs cicse to him, he will have his valet de chambre down rather than turn bis head to look at it, The same thing if he wants agiass of water; he won't stretch out his hand to getit.”’ Tbe per-on who had most control over him was Knighton—‘‘ne could do anything, and without him nothing could be done”’—and ‘‘aiter him Lady Conyngham was all Powerlul.” ‘Lt is pleasant to know that this dear soul interfered jor the comfort of the valets and Induced the King to make an arrangement lessen- jug their lator. We bave all heard of the polite. ness Of “the first gentleman of Europe;” but when O’Conneil came to his levee the King would not speak to him, simply saying to those around, “Damn the fellow, what does he come here fort’! Most of bis time he spent under opiates, in the hands of three doctors—Sir Henry Holiaud, Brodie and O’Reilly—O’ Reilly, the go-anead Irish surgeon, “who brought him ail the gvssip and tictle-tatile of the neighborhood,” to the great annoyance of Knighton. The only thing he feared was ridicule; but when it was uecessary to decide upon ques- uuops of capital punishment in the Council “tne King aiways leaued to the side of mercy.” “It not unfrequently happens that the culprit escapes owing to the scrupies of the King.” Let this pleasant trait be remembered to his nonor, tor tuere are few Lbings in bis lue worthy of remem- brance, ROYALTY IN A SERIOUS MOOD. Occasionally the mind of this givrious Prince became absorved ip serious questions, “lhis murnibg my brother and the Duke of Wellington were occupled fur half an hour in endeavoring to foid a letter to His Majesty in a@ particular way | Which he has prescribed, for he will bave his en- velopes made up 1 some French fashion.” Some- times ne grew into a terrible tantrum, “so violent and irritable that be must have his own way.’ Thomas Denman, who bad opposed him in bis di- vorce suit, came, ag Common Sergeant of London, to make report of the number 0! people under sentence of death, The King would pot see him, “go that business is at a stand still, and the ubfor- tunate wretches under sentence o1 death are suffered to linger on.” ‘Ihe expenses of the civil jist,” and this, although Welliog- ton was Prime Minister, “exceeded the amounts in every quarter, but nobody can guess how the Money is spent, My belief is that certain persons junder him.’ In this, the last year of his iile, he country will be gratifed in knowing that his anoual tailor bill Was besween £4,000 and £5,000, and “he is how employed in devising new dresses jor the guards.” ‘This subject of @ dress for the guards evidently grew upon His Majesty's mind; Jor @ month later we find @ record to the effec tnat no council bad been held, as tue King was vc- cupi d in alterimg the untiorms of the guards, “and has pattern coats with various colors sub- mitted to him every day.” “The Duke of Cumber- land assists bim, and this 1s his principal occupa- tion, He sees much more of bis tailor than he does of his Ministers.” The Duke of Cumberiand was his brotuer, who will be remembered as Earl of Armagh, Knight of the Garter, Knight of St. Patrick, of the Prussian Orders of the Black and Red Eagles and Field Mar- shalin the army. His son became King 01 Han- over, and is now tue same biind old gentieman who was turned out of bis kingdom yy. grrr a4 and who wanders over Burope. e havé a pleasant trait of bis dethroned Majesty which 13 worth repeatin, “The Duke of Cumberland’s boy, who 18 at Kew, diverts himself with making the guard turn out several timee in the course oi the ‘There 13 a fine picture of His Majesty ata | he cares more avout | rhe | day to salute him.” But His Majesty would not see | Denman. The Duke of Wellington could not com- pel him, “although there were turee men who must be hanged.’ DEATH OF GEORGE, But the beg 4 grew dark, for the King was becom- | ing olind, He couid not see, and death—waich dves not respect even a Plantagenet—tinally | came to him on whe 26th of June, 1830, It was a | dreary end. “For many months beiore his death those who were about him were aware o1 bis dan- ger, but nobody dared to say a word.” “Lady Conypgham and her family went into his room once @ day.’’ His servants robbed him, friends—if he had any—aoandoned him; ‘‘cer- any, nobody was ever less regretted than the late King,” At the juneral was William 1V,, King George 1V.’s chief mourner. “To my astonisi- ment,” says Mr. Grevilie, ‘as the King entered tbe chapel, direct!y behind the body, in @ situa- tion in which he should have been apparently absorbed in the melancholy duty he was perform: ing, he darted away to Stratuhaven, who was ranged on one side, Lelow the Dean’s stall, shook him violently by the hand and then went on nod- ding to the right and left.” to reat in God with bis honored ancestry. weeks later they sold his wardrobe. numerous enough to fill “These clothes are tne perquisites of his and wiilfetcn @ pretty sum. coats he has ever nad for fifty years.” There In 81x “It was ages were 300 whips, canes without number, every sort of untiorm, the colors of all the orders in Europe, splendid _ furs, hunting cosis and breeches; among other things, “@ dozen pairs of corduroy oreeches he had bad made to bunt in when Don Miguel was here.’’ “His projusion in these articles was unbounded, because he never paid for them; and his npter| Was so accurate tuat he rememvered every articl of dress, bo matte: now old.’ Tuey found about £10,000 in his bags o/ money, scattered aboutevery- where. “here were about 500 pocketbouks of different dates, and in every one money. There never was anything like the quantity of trinkets and trash that was found,” ‘his glorioas King never gave away anything; and itis pleasant to Temark that this ts the last glimpse we have of him in this history; that “there was a prodigious quantity of hair—women’s hutr—o! ail coiors and lengths, some locks with the powder and pomatum Stil! sticking to them; heaps of women’s gloves— gages damour, which he had got at balis, and ‘With the perspiration still oiarked on the fingers,’? NELL GWYNNE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. We cannot let this gracious sovereign pass (rom our presence without voting as iar as we can the history of the noble lady, his mistress, and who, for 80 Many years, controlied the councils of England. Lady Conyngham, who heid this exalted office. was a daughter of a Mr. Dennison, and at this time 2, a8 her son, of Mount ‘as twenty- During the reign of Her i ag she married her son intothe roud family oi the Pagets, which shows that even ‘o (his century @ great nobleman did not disdain to ally nimseli with @ dishovored line, Our first glimpse of Her Ladyship is when she coaxes the Queen to make Sumner a bishop, The Duke ot Wellington, who provably tmagined that bishops shoald have @ higher Tecommendation, opposed the appointment, for wnich whe King never forgave him. Her Ladysbip lived in Marlborough row, and all the members of her family were supplied with the King’s carriages and 80 on. She dined with the King every di but never @ppeared tn public with him. She re- ceived magnificent presents. Her daughter Eliza- beth, who afterward became Marchioness of Hunt- ley, was wanae dint honored, story :—"‘After dinner Lady Uonyngham called Sir William Keppel and said, ‘sir wire, do you de- When the Kin, sire them to light up tne saivon ? in she said that she had told them to ligh' loon, a8 Lady Bath was coming. td ates! ing seized ‘m, and said with the gi tenderness, * k you, thank you my dear; you always do wi 18 right; you caunot lease me #0 much as by doing eve thing? a jease—everything to show that you are mistr ere.” Then we find His jesty aining at Devonshire Honse, his mistress present at table of the proud Cavendish family; ‘on head @ sapphire which belonged to the Stuart and was given by Cardinal York to the King.’’ Thia sapphire was reaily public property aad a his | Monmouth street.” | So George IV. went | These are all the | | by the tail of hia coat.’ Stull later tnere was an- | | peremptory manner, HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1874—-QUADRUPLE SHEET. crown jewel, bat the King took possession of it and gave it to bis paramour, Her ladyship was strongly im javor of Catholic emancipation, and we inier that her intuence induced the King to | consent to that measure, ie, we lear, caunot | have been altogether pica ot to this exalted | woman, lor we have a glimpse of her at the Royal | Lodge one evening, when the Tyrolese were danc- | ing, “iookimg bored to death.” She did not lose her hold upon the King during bis life, She and Knighton were ail powerful, ‘Nothing could be | done but by their permission, and they understoou nighton Opposes every kind 0! C1 what is lavisued on her. The wealth she bas ac- cumulated by savings and presents must enormous. The Kiog continues to lavish all kin ol presents upon her, and lives at his e. ense, They do not possess & servant, ord Conyngham's valet is not properly their ser- vant; they all have situations in the King’s houselold, from which they receive pay while they continue in the service o! the Conyngham’s, 1 dine every day, while in London, at St, James’ Palace, sud when they give dinuer it 1s cooked | at ‘St. James? and bg} up to Hamilton place in hackney coaches, and in machines made ex- pea for the purpose, There is merely a fire it in their kitchen for sucn things a8 mast be heated on the spot. At Windsor the King sees very little of her except of evenings. He lies in bed bait the day or more, sumetimes goei out and sometimes goes to her room for hour or so in the alternoon, and that is all he sees of her. A more despicable scene cannot be exhib- led tian that waica the interior of our court presenis—every base, low, unmanly propensity, with selfisiness, avarice aud @ life of petty in+ trigue and mystery.” Nor did the King confine his attentions to her ladysiip, for we find hum in- | Viting a parcei of ‘eldest sous and lords tu posses- | sion to the cottage, tn order to find «# husband jor Lady Maria, her daughter, who, however, was not married until after this good sovereign’s veath, when she espoused Lord eSureneey. then Sir Wit- itam Summerville, the motto of whose house was ‘Fear God as long a8 thou shalt live’? When the King was dying her ladyship was constant in her alicntions, It is said sne wus anxious to leave | the castle, and Knighton with difficuity induced | her to stay to com/ort the wretched, dreary, dying man, “At that time abe was ip wretched spirit: and aid nothing bat pray trom morning untt night. Her conscience, however, did not seem to have interfered with her ruling assion, avarice, and she went on accumulating.” Mr. Greville says, “while the King was dying wagons were loaded every night and sent away irom the castle, the sup- poston being that tney were treasures for the ouse of Conyugoam.” Her ladysbip died in 1861, at a very old age, having covered her family witn wealth and honor. The motto of her house was “Over, Fork over.” THE SAILOR KING. The second volume of Mr. Greville’s memoirs be- ee with the reign of Wiliam 1V., brother of jeorge 1V., Duke of Clarence and St, Abdrew and Earl of Munster. This prince was born in 1765, was the second son of George II. and showed so mucn ability that when he was twenty-one years old be was made post captain in the royal navy. Having passed through the and admiral, when rades of rear admiral fie was forty-six years ol age he was made Admiral ol the Fleet. Alverward Vanaoing, during his hun. dred days’ administration, made him Lord High Admiral of England, but he was compelled to re- sign by reason Of @ quarrel with the Duke ol Wei- lington, When William IV, ascended the throne he was in the sixty-nith year of his age, and we learn {rom Mr. Greville that ‘King George had not been dead three days belore everybody discovered he was no loss, and King Williama great gain.” Among other achievements the Duke of Clarence had lived in the marriage relation with Mrs. Jour- dan, a famous actress, by whum be had nine chul- dren, of whom Mr. Greville speaks through his ‘diary as “the bastards,” ‘The eldest of these children, George Fitzclarence, was made Eari of Munster, his title vejug Earl of Munster, Viscount Fitzclarence and Baron Tewkespury. He was also made a major general in the army and he married into the 1amous house of Egremont, now, unhappily, extinct. It is well to note what became oj these natural children be- fore we proceed any further in our narrative. George, as we have seen, was made an Karl, Frederick went into the army, Adolphus was made Admiral, Augustus became a clergyman, and, afterward, Chaplain to the Queen; while the five daughters each married nobiemen. This only shows that the England of the nineteenth century does not look more unkindly upon royal inirac- tions of divine laws than did the England o! the seventeenth century, when Charles Stuart made his Datural children dukes. The new King did not continue the relation with Lady Conyngbam, but it 1s pleasant to observe that he re- spected the affections of his deceased brother so much as to make her son Lord of the Bedcbamber. ‘In the meantime itis satd that tue bastards are dissatisfied that more is not cone for them; but he cannot do much ior them at once, and he must have time.’? William abolished tue luxury and magnificence of his brother, dismissed the cooks, and, although be could not ride, in- spected the Coldstream Guards “in a military uniform, With a great pair of gold spurs hall way | up his legs like a gamecock.’” ‘Altogether, he | seemed @ kind-hearted, well meaning, buriesque, bustling old fellow, and, i! he doesn’t go mad, may ae @ yery decent king.” He liked to bustle abou he streets, had Immengé dinn:rs every day, wen! to the Duke of Wellington's, made a long speech about the Duke’s victories over the French, | compared him vo Marloorough. ‘The French Minis- ; ter wag present—the Duc de Layal. ‘The Duke, not understanding one word of English, thought that all the King was saying was complimentary | to the King of France and the French nation, and | he kept darting t1om bis seit to make his ac- | kKnowledgments, while Esterhazy held him down | other dinner at St. James’ Palace, His Majesty | presiding. ‘After dinner be gave a long rambling Speech in French, and ended by giving asa senti- ment ‘he land we live in.’ This was beiore the ladies left the room. He then made another speech after they leit, ending with a very coarse toast and tae words ‘Honi soit qué mal y pense.’ Setton, who told it to me, said he never telt s ashamed. Lord Grey was ready to sink into the earth. Everybody laughed, of course, and Sefton, Who sat next to Talleyrand, said to him, “Ah, weil! what do you think of that?’ With bis unmoved ee he merely answered, ‘It is most remark- | abie. ANOTHER STUART. The King was a parti He believed in no- body but the Duke of ilington, His joy was gteat at what he thought was to be bis delfver- ance from the whigs. ‘He made a speech at ain- | Der, repeating the same thing over and over | Qgaio, und altogether such a mass of confusion, | trash and imbecility as made one laugh and viusn at the same time.’” On one occasion he said to the | Duke of Wellington that be wou.d like to have @ stice oi Belgium. ‘It would be a convenient addi. | tion to Hanover.” This was in 1832, When Lord | Normanby went to take ils leave as Governor of | Jamaica the King “pronounced a harangue in | favor of the slave trade, of which be has always | been & great admirer.” He bad odd ways of con- | versation, One day, at dinner, ne asked the Duke | of Devonshire “where he meant to be buried.” | Although be appointed one o! his natural children, Frederick, to @ piace in the Tower, he was com. | pelled to remove Lim, the Commons threatening not to pay his salary, In 1833 we find this | entry:—‘sir Thomas Hardy told my brotuer he thought the King would certainly go mad, he Was so excitabie, Joathing his Ministers, par ucularly Graham, and dying to go to war. He tas some of the cunning o! the madmen who fawn upon their keepers when jooked at by them and | grin aod shake their fists at taem when tueir , backs are turned. So he is extravagantly civil when his Mipisters are with him and exnibits | every mark of aversion when they are away.” He | loved letter writing, and he hated the French, | especially Louis Puilippe, making @ speech one time to 18 soldiers and saying toat, whether at pe or at war with France, he would consider er as his natural enemy. As he grew oider he became more and more irritable, ‘reviewing the guards and blowing up people at Vourt.”” “He grows very choleric and 1s 60 indecent in his | Wrath.” On.one occasion he wasexamining some | pictures in Somerset House, dir Miciael Shea said, pointing to Napier, “That 1s one ot our naval heroes,” to which His Majesty was Tomes reply that, af he served him right, he Would kick nl down stairs for so terming Mim. Then comes the appolutiog tothe peerage of “disreputabie, haif mad women whom he pad loved early tu life, and wished, to recampensa jor not having been made Queen,’ He disliked Brougham, Lord Joho Rus- sell, and dismissed Lord Melbourne in the most He had a queer fancy for meddiing with foreign affairs. On one occasion he wrote to Wellington:—“‘His Majesty begs to call vhe attention of the Duke to tne theoretical condition of Persia.” The Duke replied that he was aware of the tmportance of Persia, but sub- mitted that it was @ matter which did not press for the moment, Then he wanted to go to war with China, “and writes In this strain to the Duke, who is obliged to write long answers, very re- spectiully telling him what an oid fvol heis, He thinks bis present M| yprera do not treat him well, inasmuch ag they do not teil him enough.” When the whigs came back to the gov- ernment under Lord Melbourne “he was in the most pitiable state, constantly in tears, a that he felt his crown tottering on his When the new Ministers came to the Council took no notice of them, although this was a Ua bet composed of such Men as Kusseli, Palmerston, Hovhouse, Landsdowne and Cariisie. The only cheeriul interval be had in 1835 was wheo te heard of Lord John Russcii’s aeteat, “whom he hi Wien sir Charies Grey was sworn in as Governor of Jamaica he made # speech remind:ng him that the colony had been ubtained by the sword, and that he would strenuously assert those prerogatives. “of which persons wao ought to bave known better had dared, even tn my pres- ence, todeny the existence.” He insuited Lord Melbourne, with whom he kept in continual quar- rel, tr bim and speaking to him with “shocking rudeness.” “ine King cannot bridie his temper, lets = slip nO | Oppo! tunity of his dislikes, He ad- mits no one tories into bis private society,’ In 1835 he was anxious to strengthen the army, 80 a8 to fignt Ru with whom the country was pro oundly at peace, and believed the id be largeiy increased. The Duchess o1 Kent, the mother of the present Queen, was very popular. Tis annoyed the King, @nd on one occasion He treated her with “extreme tudeness,”’ A dinner party was given atthe Palace of Wind- Victoria sat opposite the King, the Duc of Kent at tie Queen's side, He rose and made ferocious attack upon the Duchess, telling her would have fer know that he was King and woud have bis authority respected. Victoria burst into tears, and the whole company was aghast. On another occasion he puolicly ad- dressed her as @ nuisance. When King Leopold, of Belgium, dined at his table he treated him feaey Leopold called for water, and the King ask “What 18 that you are drinking, sir? ‘Water. sir.’ “Damn it,” rejoined the other King, ‘Why don’t you drink wine? I never allow anybody todrink water at my table.” When the Bisnop of Ely cami see him he admonished him to vote against the Jews. He continued his hatred of bis Ministers. The K: wing okt and rapidly drawt e was growing old a MA to bis close. ‘The worst that can be said of niu is that he is lish oid man.” We find him pray- ing that he might live till the Princess Victuria ot » He gr di rei prayed for. Arel bishop of Canterbury and took “He said, ‘This is the 18th of June; to Dave lived to see the sun of Waterloo get,’ }! That evening there was a Waterloo dinner at As- | ley House, the Duchess of Cauvizaaro crowning the | Duke of Wellington with laurel, when they all | stood up and drank bis health, and at night they ng@bymn in honor of the day “Two days ter, at ten o’clock in the morning, the King died, and at eleven the same morning, June 21, 1837, Victoria met the Council at Kensing- ton Palace, “Never,” says Mr. Greville, was anything luke the impression she | made.” “She bowed to the Lords, took her seat, and read her speech in a clear, distinot and audi- ble voice, She was quite plainly dressed and in mourning.” Then came the royal Dukes of Cuin- | berland aud Sussex, who knelt and ki her. | hand and swore allegiance, ‘i saw het biush up to the ey: i she felt the contrast between their civ! natural relations.” “Her manner to them was very graceful and engaging. She kissed them both and rose irom her chair and moved toward the Duke of Sussex, Who was fur- thest irom her aud too infirm to reach her.” The concluding words of Mr. Greville’s book are of Queen Victoria, of whom he say’ “The young Queen, who might well be either dazzled or con- founded with the mrangeur, and novelty of her , Situation, seemed neliher one nor the other, and behaved with a decorum and propriety far beyond her years and with all a steadiness and digniiy, | ane want of which was 80 conspicuous in ler uncle,’ © a, WELLINGTON, The most conspicuous figure in Mr. Greville’s | Memoirs alter these royal personages is the Duke of Wellington, Mr. Greville knew Lhe Duke very well, and occasionally there are notes of interest- ing conversations with that remarkable man. In 1826 Wellington was sent to Russia as Ambassador to the coronation. oi Nicholas, “Upon taking leave Oo! bis iriends and family he was deepiy affected, as il he had some presentiment that he was never Mr. Greville found the Duke ‘8 ver; He takes no notice oj any oj his family; | bis mother—has only visited her two in the last few years.” Lora Wel- riously offended with bim for consideration be received. In fought the duel with Lord Winchelsea—a most absurd business—which offended every Englishman except George IV,, “who was bignly plaased with the affair.”’ in 1880 the people were abusing him lor “going about visiting and shooting, while the country was in ditficuity.” But these visits never interrupted his oficial business.”’ All hia letters are regu- larly sent to him and regularly answered every day, and tt is his habit to open his letters himsell, to read them all and answer ail. He never re- ceives any letters, whatever may be the subject or situation of the writer, tuat he does not answer, and that immediately.” There 1s @ de- Scription of the opening o! the Liverpool Railroad and the horrible accident to Huskisson, the Duke's rival, who was killed crossing the raliroad track. “As tothe Duke of Wellington,” says Greville, ‘a fatality attended bim, ana it is perilous | to cross his pathy There were perhaps | 500,000 people present on this occasion, and proba- bly not a soul, besides, burt. One man only ts killed, and that man his most dangerous political Opponent, the one man whom he most fears,” In his beart Wellington never forgave Canning. He believed in the Holy Alliance, was “confident, pre- mptuous and dictatorial, out on all things open and good-humored.’’ “He coveted power,” this Mr. Greville writes a3 @ note in 1850; ‘but he was periectiy disinterested—a great patriot, if ever there was one.’ Like Grant, be despised news- apers, and we find bim udmitting to George Vil- hers that his administration had committed a great error in not paying more attention to the press, He bad a singular relation with Byrou’s LADY JBRSEY. Lady Jersey, a famous woman in those days, who took deep ‘iuterest in politics, and who Mr. Greville describes as “an extraordinary woman and has many good qualities, surrounded as she is by Matterers and admirers, she ts neither proud nor designing; @ woman of vivacity, spirit and good nature, with neither wit nor imagina- | tion nor humor, a retenfive memory vnd a restless mind, defictent in passion and soitness, exciting more admiration than interest.” During the reform movement Mr, Greville found the Duse “g great man in littie things, buta little man in | great measures,” an optnion which he alterward modified by saying, ‘‘He is not, nor ever was, & lite man in anything.’ During these reigns, however, he 1s, by all odds, the most powerful figure, and, notwithstanding the limitations of his character, ie him, more than to any man, England owed its greatness. His course on the reform measure is an inconceivabdie vl Ager He learned his policy of repression at the ighéas 0: Vienna; as one of his greatest critica says, ‘The result of that policy is written for our instruction; it 1 written in that great explosion of popular | passion which, in the moment of its wrath, upset the proudest thrones, destroyed the princely families, ruined noble houses, lesolated beautiful cities, and, if thé counsel of Wellington had been | followed, if the just demands of the people bad | been entorced, this same lesson would have been | { written in the annals of England.” TALLEYRAND. Another interesting figure on Mr. Greville’s can- | vas is Talleyrand, who came. in the ciosing years of @ Jong ile, a8 Minister tothe English Court. There is a story told Greville by Frederick Ponsonby to the effect that the march of the allied . army on Paris was in- spired by a letter addressed to the | eror 0! Russia by Talieyrand. The second in- | vasion of France, atter Waterloo, cost the French overament, acco: ding to Wellington, $500,000, 000, pers is @ glimpse of Marmont, who came to Eng- jand after the tall of Charles X. Marmont said that if Prince Eugene had followed Napoleon’s orders the allies would have been destroyed in the invasion 1n 1614, “that tne Emperor had conceived One of the most splendid pieces Of strategy that | ever had been devised, which failed by the dis- | obedience of Eugene,’ who, “according to Mar- mont, dreamed of beiug Kiug of Italy alter the | Jail ol Napoicon.’”’ There is a turther dinner with | Talleyrand, who spoke of Benjamin Franklin as “remarkable jor nis great simplicity and ti evicent strength of his mind.” ‘Jalieyrand at an- other dinner speaks of Mr. Fox, “his sim- plicity, gayety, cnildishness and profoundoess.” Cardinal Fieury he regarded as one of the greatest Ministers who ever governed France. “It sirange,” says Greville, ‘to hear Tulieyrand talk weventy-eight. He cpens the stores of his memory | @nod pours iorth @ stream on any subject connected With nis past Iile. Nothing seems to ave escaped irom that great treasury of bygone events.” On one vecasion he said that Mirabe was really itn | ‘himsclt, Nar- | timate with three people onl bonne and Lauzauo;” ‘that be had found, during the provisional governmeni, @ receipt 0! Mira- beau’s for 1,400,000 iraucs, whioh he had given to Louis XVI" Talleyrand was & good deal in so- | ciety, Dining at Greeowica on one day, at the | Apollo, “1 thought.” says Greville, “we sbvuld never get hia up two narrow, perpendicular stutr- Foe out he sidies aud wriggies himsell some- ow into every place he pleases.” Palmerston ne (Taileyrand) ‘considered tne only statesman of that time, although he hated him, His favorite haunt Was Holland House, generally coming tn ‘‘at ten or eleven o'clock and staying as long as they would let nim.’ FAMOUS MEN AND WOMEN. Many celebrated figures pass through Mr. Gre. ville’s book, but we regret that our space will not permit us to dweil upon them, Poor Beau Brum- Mmeli turns up at Calais, where Mr, Greville saw him in 1830, “in bis own lJodging, dressing, some preity pleces of old furniture in the room, an en- tire toilet set of silver, and alarge green macaw perched on the back of w tattered sik chaw of ded gtit, full of gayety, impudence and misery.’ | here are many glimpses of ‘Tom Moore, diving, singing and chirping around London. We have a sketch of Fanny Kewpbie’s first appearance, but | she does not seem to have impressed Mr, Greville with her genius, There is a glimpse of O’Uounel “supposed to be terribly alraid oi the cholera, an dodging avout Loudon and Dublin to avotd it.’ O'Connell is a marked figure, although the author does not treat nim with justice. “A somewhat | vulgar but highly active, restiess and imaginative beimg ‘of Inimitable versatility, dexter'ty and prudence, practising upon the passious of the, people with the precision 0! & dexterous’ anato- | mist who knows every muscie and fibre of the bumen irame ;" “truly iost to all sense of shame and decency, {rampling truth and honor under his | feet.” There is a GH ad of Wordsworth, border- log on sixty, “‘hard-jeatured, brown, wrinkled, with promiment teeth and a Jew scattered gray hairs; “very cheerial, merty, courteous and talkative;” talking a great deal about “poetry, Politics abd metapuysics and With @ great deai of eloquence.” eville dined with Macaulay at Holland House, sitting next to him without know- ing him, taking him to be “some obscure man of letters or medicine, perhaps @ cuolera doctor,” “a Gul teliow.”” “Having thus settled my opiaion I went on enting my dinner, when Auckland, who Was sitting Opposite me, addreased my neighvor, ‘wr, Macaulay, will you drink a giass of wine?’ f pain (ad [ Id have Sopee of my chair. It was the man I had been so long most curious to see, aud here | had been sitting next bim, hearing him ialk, and setting him down tor ‘a dull teilewl’” Again he —"‘Nutaray of intellect beams from iis countenance; @ lump of more eed clay never enclosed a more power- ful mind aod lively imaginanion."’ There are many extracis we should like to copy | from these memoirs, but we ‘ave already gone ve- yond our space. Mr. Greville has written the most remarkabie contribution to Englisn history @ince the publication of the letiers of Sir Horace Walpole. A new light bre in upon a eriod of which heretolore we have known but ttle, and the development of the inside causes Ot the Knglish power and authority, of the reat Motives tuat, even under constitational king! the will of Parliaments, The fact thal TV,, with all his wretchedness and irivoiity, was ually as powerful in many respects. ai Charles IL, must go far toward the strengthening of that repuolican sentiment wht a time has been oer life in England, and the ‘ealization of which will be aided by sucd books as this o: Mr, Grevilie’s more than by any other | Bengalese. as ; the government officials. All BURIED IN MID-OCEAN. ——- Fearful Mortality of Caleutta Coolies from Asiatic Cholera on the Ship Forfarshire. Arrival of the Ship in New York- The English ship forfarshire, owned by Messrs, Shaw, Saville & Co,, of London, which ts now at anchor off the Battery, has been visited, while on her voyage from Calcutta to this port, via Demerara, tn the West Indies, with @ feartal Cholera epidemic, iollowed by measies among the children, gnd Aity-two of her dead coolie passen- gers have been buried in the deep. In addition to this ner engineer died. Yesterday a(ternoon a HgRaxp reporter mot, at the British Consulate, the commander of said vea- sel, Captain Jones, who consented to give the story of the ‘earful mortality on board his vessel. THE CAPTAIN'S STORY, I am the captain of the ship Forfarshire, and left Calcutta on the 18th of last August, vound for Demerara, with 510 coolles and a cargo, consisting principally of linseed, for New York. The coolies were engaged for a term of five years in Demerara to work on sugar plantations, and are to receive about half a rupee @ day (twenty-five cents) Indian money, for their labor, Their con- tract states where they were born, who their favner was, and the name of the British govern- ment agent who had selected them, Before ship- ment they all had appeared before a magistrate, and declared that they came of their own {ree will and volition, Upon tneir arrival at Calcutta, from diferent parts of the country, they were shipped under the supervision of the Pro tector of Emigrants, The majority of them wert Some of them were In good condition, but others, in my opinion, had suffered trom the Tecent famine in India, which had, doubtless, somewhat impaired their normal condition of health, THEIR QUARTERS, Their quarters were between decks, where an elevated. platform had been arranged for their sleeping accommodation, about two feet six inches from the deck, Some of them slept on this platform and others on the ‘deck, with blankets and rugs. All these arrangements were made under government inspection at Calcutta. No berths were erected for them, as they are almost tnvariably accustomed to sicep on the ground. The rations prescribed for them by the charter party were all placed on board, and consisted of rice, flour, preserved mutton, salt beef, curry powder for condiments to their meat, tea, onions, &c. They bad their own cooks, and we gave them the best facilities possible with the galley for their cooking. They did not drink tea to any extent, all coolies invariably preferring water. In a word, they are better ‘found’ than passengers taken to Australia, I may mention in this connection, that I recently carried over five tundred emigrants | to Australia in the Forfarshire, and only had one Geath, Well, to return to the coolies, their quar- ters were dry holystoned dally, as we are not allowed to use water in cleaning them. The sides Of the vessel were whitewashed with carbolic pow- der and lime. The coolies were forced to wash themselves daily, and every effort was used to keep the place clean. 1 must do them this justice, viz, :—To state that they are cleanlier in their eat- ing and lovers of more frequent ‘tudbing”’ than many European emigrants that I have carried. The Ventilation was as good as possible, THE CHOLERA BREAKS OUT. The cholera broke out the second day after passing the Sand Heuds, the germs o! the disease, undoubtedly, having been brought on toard ship, tne first person attacked being @ woman. Our doctor, who is an vil poe holding @ diploma Irom the Medicat Coliege at Calcutta, and his as sistant, the apothecary, who was an experienced doctor also, had the woman placed in the hos pital, These gentlemen worked hard, but were unable to stay the progress of the feariul disease, The next day other cases developed themselves, precoe mong the women, and as soon as wé joupd = tha! they were attacked we had them placed in our comfortable hospital on deck and quarantined from the other coolles, who were, apparently, in good healt On the third day a young pee een & boy a two children were attacked, and disease umphed over aut our Siemts. to stay its feariul progtéss, hen ten days out ag many as forty of Tny coojies were suffering from cholera. Previous to eve ay Some tear one ~ Pes third ate and the ecary were att: id nar- ‘owly eacaped Pith elf 1 Ves, While the disease was thus committing such feariul havoc in our midst the engineer employed on board to distil water died. ‘The average time of sickness was from three to four hours, and the coolies resigned themselves apathetically to their fate when they found that they were attacked. IN FIVE DAYS THIRTY DEATHS TOOK PLACE, and it looked at one time as if every soul on board would be attacked. The sick were given condensed milk to drink, port wine, brandy, essence of beef, &v., and everything that could be thought of, 1 used to observe that woen their eyes commenced turning upward in their socket1¢ ‘Was an infallible sign that death was near. I went freely among the sick and did my best to cheer them up—speaking to them in their own language (Hindostanee), of which I have a fair knowleage. I was struck with the courage that many of them showed, who apparently looked upon the matter as a fatalist would, viz. :—Ll they live, they live; if they die, they die! Tne majority of the deatis were those of children, many of very tender age, who had not the stamina of their parents, But as cholera left us MEASLES CAMB UPON US, and among the first cases were those of my two children, Who Were attended to by my wife; but the disease was not nearly so fatal as cholera, and attacked merely the children, not the adults, HOW THE BURIALS WRRE CONDUCTED, When the coolies died we wrapped them up in their blankets acd put some sand with the boay to sink it, O/ course, they were hurried, as we had to give ail our attention to the living. The last death FOR pinks, at about fourteen days from our arrival at Detarara, and was a child debiit- tated by measies. We arrived in Uctober at Dema- Tura, The cholera Jasted from first to last about three weeks, alter which we had no more cases, AN INVESTIGATION AT DEMERARA, Upon our arrival at vemeorara an investigation was held by the British emigration agent, who took my sworn deposition, also that of the doctor who leit the vessel there and proceeded back to Calcutta) and some of tie officers and coolies, The report and their finding will be sent to the Com. missioners of Emigration at London. The doctor receives £1 a head on all coolies landed alive, RECAPITULATION. The following is our loss of coolies:—12 wome: from cholera; 13 men, from cholera; 22 children, tis cholera; 6 cbildren, from measles, Total, 53 jOuls. The government officials at Demerara sent all our coolies to the hospital to recruit, About twenty of them were in debilitated health. The Forfarshire was the first ship of the sea. son to arrive with coolies at Demerara, About 4,000 more of them are coming there in 1875. They are far better off there than in India, where there 1s a surplus of population liable to fearful famines. In Calcutta the laborers get about twelve cents @ day; in Demerara double, and at this latter point do not have to pay for their food. We were seventy-one days on tne passage between Calcutta and Demerara, The passage money for coolies ta £15 a head, and children above two and under te! half price. At Demerara I received payment o! the bolita 4 Byaipity for careful attention to the coolles, Au had not received it § should have regarded It @ stricture by haye to gay | that every soui of the ship's obra pay Nid that best under very trying circumstances. When I leit Demerara for New York | received a clean bil) Ol health and was not quarantined here. About 10,000 coolies are shipped annually from Calcutta, None of them are allowed to go to Cuba on ace count of slavery existing there. They are, hows ever, allowed to go to the French colunies—Mar- tinique, Cayenne, &c. The proportion of women and children in every shipment is regulated be- fore they leave India. Every year a number of coolies go back to Caicutta irom Demerara whose time of engagement has expired, and many of them with well filled purses, SEIZURE OF THREE HUNDRED WATOHES, The German steamship Cimbria, which arrivea yesterday morning, brought among her steerage passengers @ poorly dressed man named Mr, Wil- iam Wetzel, @ resident of Prairie du Chien. Upon the arrival of the emigrants from the steamship at Hoboken, in the Castle Garden barge, belonging to the Commissioners of Emigration, the exami. nation of the passengers’ baggage commenced. Afver a number o/ their trunks had been examined Wotzel was asked If he had any duttabie articles, and replied “no,” he had only a few presents for his friends in the West. ting the mi spector Joseph L. Chapm: jked him to make @ formal deciaration that he had no dutiable articles, This Wetzeldid. A thorough searching of hia effects then took jar which resulted in finding over 300 gold and silver watches, made in Switzer- land, and an 1 oice for them amounting to 21,984 france, Ii ctor Chapman then went ta the Custom House and consulted with the officials there, who ordered him to seize the watched fortawith, which was accordingly done, ;