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Otago Witness, Issue 931, 2 October 1869, Page 20

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The opportunity occurred. One day it wm underetood that •mral thing* hid happened to the old exile, Lord Oleochwlle, toe new* important o* which

muohgoodto'-folks^that-it- causes alike '"taiktjabojlVthem; - •;•; Pedple;, lreland ;,s^h« •■ they- 16i^w, l br,rWhitsthey 11 l^bughJb^|Key' Knowj; of the: last ; years ;bff Lord Lirintejis.; l as«'pr6^Bly>le^di,^, conjecturel* ; lf these raridbntftales weretQ be vprftdited, < ;librd\ .Clanoh^rlie^itowards 1 the end o^is, i( iae r Mmust^a^ye;had his )n* pubUc^mJln^ified^tftf.tbjelexten^ marrying (strange i^obfltmaey Jhe exile), the daughter of the regicide^ Ann Bradshaw ("the^'were ■preeiso^aboufiKa name).', She had ; also died, it Was said, but jin giving birtH t6 an infant— a boy. If these Sbtails^shbuld prove^ to be, correot, jhe' would therefore be the legitimate and rightful' heir of Lord Olancharliei These reports, extremely, vague in their form, ■were rumours rather than f acts. Circumstances which happened in Switzerland^ in those days,' were as 'remote from the England of that period as those which take'plaoe in Ohifla from the England of ■•to-day.'/, >llu 'V v n lv .,,- lt . , lt " i , Lord.Clanoharlie must have bean filternine at the time of his marriage, they sam, and sixtyVatihe birth of his son,, and had 1 ' died/iKortty, after, leaving his infant ' orphaned both of 'his father and mother. This'was possible, perhaps, but improbable. They added that this child l was 'beautiful as the day, — just as we read in all the fairy tales. < King James nut an end to these rumours, evidently without foundation, by declaring, tone fine morning. Lord David Dirry-Moir sole and positive heir in default of legitimate issue, and' by his royal pleasure, of Linneeus, Lord Clanchatlie, his natural father, the absence of all other issue and descent being established, patents of which grant were registered in the House of Lords: By those patents the king substituted Lord David Dirry-Moir, to the 'titles,' rights, and prerogatives of the late Linneaus Lord Clancharhe, on 1 the sole condition that Lord David^ should wed, when she attained a marriageable age, a girl who was, at that time, a mere infant, but a few months old, whom the king had, in her cradle, created a dutoheas, no one knew why— oi* rather everyone knew why. They called-' this little infant the Dutchess Josiana. '„ ', ,' * . The Engfch f ashion then ran on Spanish names. One of the bastards of Charles 11. was called Carlos) Earl' of JPlymbuth. It is likely that Josiana ,-was.a contraction for Josef a-y-ana. Jb'siana, ' howjeverJ may have been a name — the feminine; of Josias. One of Henry VIII. 's gentlemen ]was called Josios dv Passage. ' s v It was tothat little dutchess that the king granted the peerage of Olanbharlie.. She was a peeress till there should be a' peer ; the peer should be her husband. The peerage was founded on a doublCQastleward, the barony of Clancßarlie and the barony, of Hunkerville ; besides, } the Barons of Olanoharlie were, in recompense of an anoient feat of arms, and by royal licence, Marquises of Corleone in Sicily. Peers of England cannot bear foreign titles ; there are, nevertheless, exceptions ; thus — Henry Arundol, Baron Arundel of Wardour, was, as was also Lord Clifford, a Oount of the Holy Boman Empire, of which Lord Cowper is prince. The Duke of Hamilton is Duke of Chatolerault, in France ; Basil Fielding, Earl of Denbigh, is Count of Hapsburgh, of Lauffenburg, and of Eheinfelden, Germany. The Duke of Marlborough was Prince of Mindelhei in Suabia, just as the Duke of Wellington was Prinoe of Waterloo, in Belgium. The same Lord Wellington was a Spanish Duke of Ciud&dßodrigo, and Portuguese Count of Vimiera. There were in England, and there are still, lands both noble and oommon. The lands of the Lords of Clanoharlie were all noble. Those lands, burghs, bailiwicks, fiefs, rents, freeholds, and domains, adherent to tho peerages of ClancharlieHunkerville, belonged provisionally to Lady Josisna, and the king declared that, onoe married to Joaiana, Lord David Dirry-Moir should be Baron Olanobsrlio. BosldostheOlanohftrVeinheritftnoe, Lady Josianft had her personal fortune. She possessed great weilfch. much of which was derived from the gifts' of Madam* sans quiiuo to the Duke of York. Henrietta of Englaritl, Dutcheia ofOrlesn«i thb lady of bighsst rank in France after the quoon, wfs thus called. .. Having prosporea under Oharlos and James, Lord uavid prospered, under William. His JaooWte fooling did not roach to tho ox'tont of foUowing James into oxilo. While h» oontinuod to love his legitimate king, ho h»d tne good sense to servo the usurper; ho was, moreover, although sometimes disposed to rebel against dietplino an oxooUont oJEQoor. Bopasnodfrom tho land to tho sea foross. and distinguished himssU in the White Squadron, Ho roso in it to bo what was then oallod oaptain of a light frigate. Ho ended by making a tww fine follow, carrying to* a groat extent the eloganoWot Tib* : % bit olapoetlikooTerronoelse; agoodsorTant o! th« sUts, a flo^d ssrvant to tht prinoo : awldious at foattt, at gsjss, at Udles >oo»ptlons, at ostsmbolon, and in battle j MfrU* in a gsntlotnanMs way j t«y biuglity} wttlifyoslght ttoll w

c^re'M'M^ the smiles' aiid frowns of the royal humour ; careless bef or^eV^swbrd's, vpoirit',} <\ always* ready WxM&Wtoe on> r sfgrfrom bis majesj|; ( wijbh[ heroism and complacency;: 1 ihspplbut of, no imoolite-; njsss,'; a man;of c6urtesy : -and ; etiquette, proud of (kneeling/a|igr,(9at Iregll ceremonies j f'ofi'a gay^ftlo^r|j)9'C|ourtier! t ',on ijhe surface/ a paladin , oelqw ///quite V 3:oupg ) at^forty-five.i t Eord{|ElaVid i, sang.. French aorigswithan'elegant g^eity which Had delighted Charles 11. He loved eloquence and {fine language. He greatly admired those celebrated, discourses which are; paUed the funeral orations of Bossuet. ' f Frorp/'his^mother he had inherited almost enough to live on, about £10^ 000 a year: 'He managed to get'on with it—;by running into debt. ' In magnificence, extravagance, and novelty he was without a rival. was copied he changed his fashion. ' On horse-back he wore loose boots' ' of ' cow-hide, which* turned over, with spurs. 'He had hats resembling ino others ;' un-heard of; lace, and bands! of which he alone had the pattern. ' , (Tp be eonti'med. )