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and only thinks objectionable because legalized with an actor ! Here ' s a chaos of conventional morality ! But " Lady Mary , " it may be said , was an
exception ; she was a genius , nighty aaid " all that . " Well , her father was a man of pleasure ; his successor in the Dukedom
of Kingston another , or an imbecile ; and her own son , another , eccenjtric beyond herself and as to her husband ' s relatives the Montagues ( with no
disparagement to the better part of them ) , see what is said of them in Pepys , in Grammont , &c . down to the times of " Jemmy Twitcher" and Miss Ray . Reader , this is not a nickname
given on the stage in a farce . It is one of the numerous sallies of the anti-theatrical tongue of fashion . " Jemmy Twitcher " was John Montagu , fourth Earl of Sandwich , and First Lord of the Admiralty , famous for having a mistress who did not love him , and for
playing the kettle-drum . Compare him with any given player of kettle-drums in an orchestra , who can get a living by it , and has a mistress that loves him . Which of the two has the right to look down on the other ?
yfe do not wish to be getting scandalous , even retrospectively . Our sole object is to admonish scandal , and vindicate justice . Lady Henrietta
Herbert ' s own family , the Waldegraves , produced excellent people , nor do we mean to blame them for marrying natural children ; and yet even a conventional moralist , standing
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up for his principles , should be bound to ask why an honest player was to be despised by them , while they thought it an honour to be descended from
the illegitimate offspring of princes and ministers * Lady Henrietta ' s own name came to her from her grandmother Henrietta Churchill , daughter of James the Second , by the sister of the famous Duke of
Marlborough ; which great General , by the way , is understood to have owed his first advancement in life to the favours of the Duchess of Cleveland , mistress of James ' s brother . On which
ever side one turns in the great world , one meets with lessons against the stone-throwers among them . The " glass houses " are innumerable . It is a city of fragility ; and the theatres ,
we must say , peopled by the humanities of Shakspeare , cut a solid figure in the perspective . We do not wonder at the great world , " nor blame it , as long as it is considerate to others . Its
faults are among the natural consequences of the refinements of civilization ; and the glass , it is ] to be hoped , will consolidate itself somehoyr or other into a nobler material . But
we must proceed with our case . Poor flimsy , witty , wise , foolish , aristocratical , old bachelor Horace Walpole , ip shocked at his nephew ' s
marrying a pretty actress who brought him a hearty offspring , and at Lady Susan Fo ^ 's running away witfr William Q'Brien , W nature formed to plej ^ e / ' Whjr , the $ ^ ea
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174 Duchess of St Albant ; and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 174, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/30/
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