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The Duke of WelLing gtoa and Mass Co1tts.


" From Marberough's eyes the streams of dotsge flow


The marriage of the old Duke of Wellington,
now in his seventy-ninth year, to Miss Coutls,
heiress OF the Duchess of ST. Albans, and the
greatest fortune in the world, is spoken of in the
London prints as 4 g fixed fact" We are at a loss
which most 10 admire, the doating folly of the
oclogenarian, or the shocking deprayity which
would induce young woman to link herself TO
him for the little residue of life already drawn
out to its longest span. We hope, for her punish
ment, he may live TO the age oil Pharr or Jenkins.


Old Couu's fortune has taken singular round
since II was acquired by the first owner. He, hi m
self, when a young man, it will be recollected,
married a servant girl, one Susan Starkie, by
whom he had three children-all daughters. One
Of these married the Earl of Guilford, another
the Marquis Of Butte and third Sir Francis Bur-
dett. Miss Coutts is daughter of this last mar
riage, and Of course grand daughter of the old
banker. Couus having lost his wife in 1915, mar
ried IN three months after her death, Harriet Mel
lon, an actress Of some celebrity, on whom he had
several years before settled 100000. He died
in about twenty years, and as he had already
made what he deemed an ample settlement upon
his daughters, he left the whole of his enormous
property valued at 10000 per annum, TO his
widow She did not wear the willow very long,
having, in few years. dgain entered the bonds OF
rIiatrihohy with the Duke of St. Albans, young
lioBIeman of axo otsAhree andtwenty, Thigh
rank being related to royalty itself, and of a very
badly filled purse, being the poorest man of his
rank in all the kingdom -.s.- -


This match, very unsuitable in point Of years,
for the gentle Harriet was not only "lat and fair,


but forty" and the rise, was for many months
the subject of unsparing ridicue in all the prints
of the British metropolis, whig, tory and radical.
The Duke cared little for that, however, but gave
loose to his natural propensity for dissipation with
so much earnestness that his career was soon
brought TO an end, and the weeping widow was
left with the title of Duchess of St. Albans and
100000 year to console herself as best she
might. She never married again. but left her
enormous estate to Miss Angelina Bu:delt, one OF
the grandchildren of her first husband, on con-
dillon of her taking the name of Coults- This
is the lady who is about TO become the Duchess
of Wellington. ef -


This is, truly, what Byron calls &c making the
tender passion tough" Richmond Wing.