The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 331: what you’re looking at

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RL ST a a ST cE SN A ATG OS cS 826 THE NMYSTARIES OF THE COURT. man to whom, notwithetanding all hie crimes, her . heart was devoted. It was now communicate! to- | a'l the domestics and to the surrounding teaantry | that our young hero hn Duke of Marchmont. Ho received their respectf mage with a becoming modesty; and he gave osders that the faneral of the deesesed husband and wife should be con- ducted with all possible privacy. They wore in- terred in the family vault of the village charch ; and thus terminated the career of a man whose life was fall of misdeeds, and of a lady whose soul | Clandou; and the youth of the to was spotless. promise that it might not be anproductive of Wilson Stanhope, Mrs. Oxenden, and Armytage | issue. Thus if an heir were boro to were released from their captivity, according ta | estates of Marchmont, farewell to the Queen’s promise; and they all three had their own good reasons for maintaining a profoend silence in respect to the transactions in which they had played a part at Oaklands. Madame An- gelique executed a deed, which Mr. Coleman drew up, transferring the balk of her property to certain charitable institutions in the metropolis; and she was then suffered to take ber departure from Oak. lands, bitterly repenting that she had ever mixed herself up in the affaire of the late owner of that mansion. The Barker was conveyed away secretly, and under circumstances of all possible precaution, by the two Hindoos; and in a deep disguise, as well as under a feigned name, he was placed on board a ship bouml for the East Indies. The embalmed Oaklands. We have purposely avoided entering as yet into any details calculated to clear up the mysteries attending the fate of the Duchess Elisa after her flight from Oaklands, as well as the birth of her twin children; because we shall presently have to deseribe the whole of the evidence which was given before a Committee of Privileges appointed by the House of Lords to investigate the claim of Christian to the Marchmont Peerage. But before commencing those important explanations, we will lay before the reader the substance of the sion made by the deceased nobleman, in ¢ eence of Mr. Coleman, Purvis, and the ph and which the solicitor duly committed to In doing this, we shell have to make references to the opening chaptere of our narra tive; and it would therefore be as reader would here cast a glance earliest portions of the story which related the loves of Bertram and Eliza. Soon after the marriage of the Dake of Mareh- mont and Miss Lacey, they went abroad on a eon- tinentel tour, which lasted for several months; and they then returned to Oaklands, in the autumn of the year 1820. There they were joined by Lord Clandon and Bertram Vivian. The singular beha- viour of Eliza end Bertram to each other, myati- fied Lord Ciandon, who was perfectly ignorant of the loves of his brother ani Elisa when they were at Oxford—as indeed the Duke himself likewise wes. Lord Olandon fancied that Mrs. Bailoy, as a relation of the youthful Duchess, roight possibly be in her Grace's confilence, and therefore be en- abled to thsow some light on the matter which eum that was EOMICOOOLKS. CO