Show broin the vicissitudes of families in great cleat this subject is discussed by sir bernard burke in a recently published work ile he bets that lineal des descendants of the house of lancaster are still to be found pursuing pui rui suing the humble occupations of butchers and to toll 11 gatherers and Plantage nets have become cobblers and sextons sex tons nor have thedarl the dark shadows which passed over these royal roal bous ei of E england n gland left undimmed the families of the aristocracy in III herefordshire Hereford shire a county peculiarly rich in ancient families there are it la is said but two or three country gentlemen u vibo bo can show a male descent from the proprietors prie tors recorded in in thi visitation inthe in the north too commerce has uprooted most of the old proprietors of the soil it has often been remarked says sir bernard burke that the more distant a country is from london the more lasting are its old families nor are these mutations cl C fortune only known on the south of it the tweed tw eed scotland according to sir B burke has had her full share of family while in ireland he tells us there is 13 scarcely a family or a seat that has not shared deeply in in those feverish changes and cala calamities few descendants ts of the royal blood of ireland are to be met with in the irish peerage e the real re ab r of the ill a n races are to be found in the austrian french or spanish service amon among the be middle classes or the ireland fand peasantry of ireland Ire th the e f following fats facts fa ts illustrate the decay of families once flo flourishing drishing uri shing in opulence the last descendant tat but one of the urn um br avilles the famous stock of robert with the beard the lord of tours arid and vieux died not many years ago keeper of st nicholas workhouse Mork house at newcastle the last baronet of the Hunger fords died in in 1711 at the age of a pauper subsisting upon the scanty charity ot of a tew lew friends lie ile had inherited i a property of at least per annum annum art an enormous en lentil at the time ticie when be lived and long before his bis death lie had bad sold the irole of the twenty eight ei lit manors of which aich he had once been lord zi and master the last of the conyers a rare race which did not yield in eminence to any other oher in england died in in a workhouse the Yorks yorkshire hiie were finally represented by a carpenter aho ho died dining the last century the beir of the ancient family of Casti castleton eton died in in at lynn as a breeches maker lady roche of the second or third generation from the gallant lord roche who withstood to so stoutly to in his own castlo the forces ot of cromwell w was as seen begging in the streets of 0 cork and many more instances mi might lit be looted noted from tins this interesting volume aich might sadly I 1 print point a moral or adorn a tale The following account of ane family of lugene the empress emi ress of ane french is is furnished by mr burke and it certainly well illustrates his I 1 theme namely the vicissitudes of families Fani lies if the ki rk patric ks from m born the empress eugene is descended are of the family idof of Clesi Clee eburn burri it yet to be beasher ascer tamed when and how they diverged from the fie ancient tree thomas kirkpat kirkpatick rick had a sm small it I 1 property called knock in in dumene shire his second son Ito berr married I 1 henrietta e gillespie Gille ipie at ai d was father fathe 0 of will william ia kirkpatrick kirl of Con heath in Dumfries ire who married mar mary wilson by whom lie he had bad accia accad children one of chiq cons settled a as a merchant merchant at malaga and married the daub danah ter of a forel foreign coi sul there by vi whom born che tie lad had three daughters the eldest m who tio was very avery beautiful attracted the notice of the y youngest son of the great family of montijo I 1 grandos grand os of f spain of the first arst class the daughter co daughter of the scottish merchant was considered a liana for a voting roan man of so BO distinguished a family birth was stated as a reason for consent being re fused I 1 an application was made hereupon by the friends or the fai family nily to the late ingenious mr charles kirkpatrick sharp a gentleman who from fro his wit and fondness for virta was called by sir walter scott the horace walpole of edinburgh mr under took with w ith considerable zest the is task I 1 k of sup gup I 1 plying his bis fair country woman with a along long and nourishing flourishing genealogical tree in which wb h the dagger dripping the hearts heart 1 blood of ace the I 1 i red comyn made a conspicuous figure the pedigree was beautifully drawn up and sent bent to spain when it was submitted to king ferdinand VII he andul indulged ged in a joke on the occasion oc casior looking at the document where the origin of the Kirk patricks seemed lost I 1 i in the mists of ancient caledonia his majesty said oh by all means let the joung young montijo marry the daughter da lighter of 1 the ibe husband of miss kirkpatrick eventually succeeded to the titles and estates estate of this family and left two daughters of whom the elder espoused the duke of berwick and alva representative of the marshal due do de berwick natural son of king james II 11 and the younger long celebrated for her beauty and grace as countess co atess de abeba is ia now eugenic empress of the abe french until within the last two years a misi kirkpatick grand aunt of the empress inhabited a very email house in the third rate scottish country town tow of dumfries and her imperial majesty has several first conkins of the name of kirkpatrick sons of her mot mothers berys sister who married her cousin hold g respectable mercantile situations ons conr of them was riot not long ago settled in trade at havre |