On this page
-
Text (2)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
" ¦¦ H e' appointed a day for all his nearest relations to meet him at an apartment , over the gateway of St James ' s Palace , belonging to Mr Pointz , who was married to Lord
Peterborough ' s niece , and at that time preceptor to Prince William , afterwards Duke of Cumberland , Lord P . also appointed Lady P . to be there at the same time . When they
were all assembled he began a most eloquent oration , enumerating all the virtues and perfections of Mrs A . Robinson , and the rectitude of her
conduct during his long acquaintance with her , for which he acknowledged his great obligations and sincere attachment , declaring he was determined to do her thatj ustice which he ought to have done long ago , which
was presenting her to all his family as his wife . He spoke this harangue with so much energy , and in parts so pathetically , that Lady P ., not being apprised of his intentions , was so affected that she fainted
away in the midst of the company . " After Lord P / s death she lived a very retired life , chiefly at Mount Be vis , and was seldom prevailed on to leave that
Untitled Article
habitation , but by the Duchess of Portland , who was always happy to have her company at Bulstrode , when she could obtain it , and often visited her at her own house .
" Among Lord P / s papers she found his Memoirs , written by himself , in which he declared he had been guilty of such actions as would have reflected very much upon his
character . * For which reason , she burnt them . This , however , contributed to complete the excellency of her principles , though it did not fail giving offence to the curious enquirers after anecdotes of so
remarkable a character as that of the Earl of Peterborough . ^" Lord Peterborough was an extraordinary person in every respect , and very likely perplexed the faculties of poor Anastasia a good deal ; but the perplexity was not all of his own creation . She must have
known his reputation as a general lover before she married him ; and though the vivacity of his temperament seems to have kept him young , in a manner , to the last , yet the disproportion of their ages was great enough to warrant a doubt of the disinterestedness
* Lady B ., who had seen these Memoirs , says he boasted in them that he had committed three capital crimes before he was twenty Burney * It is a pity that 41 Lady B . who thought fit to sanction this extraordinary " boast , " had not informed us what the " three capital crimes" were , upon which a man like Lord Peterborough could pride himself ! She must have fancied them very engaging felonies ; and one is at a loss to imagine in what code they could be found . Even Mr Buckstone ' s happy and seasonable idea of a shocking criminal sympathised with by the fair lovers of excitement ( a subject , we should think , that would tell still better on the stage at Paris , in the present outrageous state of the literature of that metropolis ) must yield to this unique combination of an excessive villany with an undoubted nobleness of character . f Burney's « History of Music' Vol . iv . p .
Untitled Article
Marriages from the Stage . 161
Untitled Article
No . 222—III . N
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 161, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/17/
-