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1920

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COUTTS' BANK.

· ROMANCES BROUGHT UP TO THE LIGET OF DAY.

After 60 years of durance vile and

dark a large number of love-letters reposing in tin boxes in Coutts' Bank have been brought up to the light of This is Mr. E. Hartley day. Coleridge's justification for publish ing his Life of Thomas Coutts,

Banker

There two calamities, the death of the master and his house, are often bracketed together as a result of the Cowdray curse." supposed to have been pronounced by a monk on the Montagu' ancestor. Anthony Browne, when he destroyed a priory in order to build Cowdray.

INEXPLICABLE INSANSITY.

Of far more interest are his many business letters to the Young Pre tender's unmarried wife-Clementina Walkinshaw-who makes such a dramatic appearance at Fairladies in

Red Gauntlet," when

resumption of sary condition for any German trade, and it could only suc ceed if the claims of the shipowners. on the State for compensation were settled in such a manner as to ensure a lady as them

and freedom of movement

to Sir Francis Burdett was Lot Dae

GERMAN SHIPPING

FUSION.

HAMBURG-AMERICAN AND GERMAN LEYANT LINES,

it was therefore necessary for Ger- man shipowners, the chairman con- tinued, to consolidate their position by close co-operation. This policy would be specialty advantageous for the Levant Line, whose held of activity Lay in the Near East. The extraordi- narily strong competition in the beme- ward trade from the Levant as well

if by sudden apparition glided into development. But in any case, it the apartment: her bow with the would take years to acquire new ton- stately glance of the large open blue nage, and until that had been done eyes might have become Jano bershipowners would be in a state of However that may be, the shoot self." The banker in his generosity transition. After that period had been ing of Schaffhausen Falls was a made the poor despised and rejected safely passed, the reconstruction of piece of inexplicable insanity, an woman periodical doles of money. their shipping trade would fail in a other piece of inexplicable insanity. The marriage of his daughter Sophia time of sinking freights as a result whether as the result of the Though he became the richest "Cowdray curse" or not, followed of the least of the banker's trials, of the great shiptslding activity of man in England and the confident of seven years later, by which another particularly when he raged through the last few years and the disturbance Rovalty, Tom Coutts" life was great mansion was levelled to the the famous Brentford election and of European economic life. Foreign chequered with great misfortunes. dust. The first madman was the laid himself open to the lampoon shipowners found their position con- One of the greatest was that his fiancee of Susannah Coutts: the which represented the Devil disgusted siderably strengthened by their enor mother died when he was still but second madman was her husband.

because the road to Brentford was mous war profits, and they would derive more advantage from the period an infant. She came from a house "Kirtling Hall, a few miles to the too hot for him.

of sinking freights than "German with a curse upon it a house haunt south of Newmarket, was a vast and

undertakings. ed by a vengeful ghost. This was noble mansion, rich in historical the wrong done to "Pearlin Jean." association. Here, during the reign of her sister, Princess Elizabeth was of the lace-trimmed robe.

"A son of the house when travel concealed in one of the towers, slip- ling on the Continent had fallen in ping out through an opening in the love with a novice, but was sum leads to take the air, Here when moned home by his father to woo Queen she was magnificently enter- and wed a more suitable bride. When tained in the great hall, with its he was leaving the convent for the music gallery. Lord Guilford in last time the girl stepped on the 1800 or 1801 blew up and almost carriage wheel to make a last appeal totally demolished the ncestral

At a general meeting of the Ham- us in the outward trade by way of the, to her lover, but as he turned a deaf home of his family. He had ample!

of the existence of the Levant -tarif, ear and told the postition to drive on, means for keeping up the house, and burg-American Line the shareholders Rhine and the Scheldt had, in spite she threw herself under the wheels the explanation of his act of van confirmed the resolutions of the made it impossible for "the Levant of his postchaise and was killed. The dalism is yet to seek.

extraordinary general meeting of Line to earn adequate profits. The next time that he saw her was on Thomas Coutts' beautiful daught the top of the arched gateway at ers. the three Graces," inherited November last regarding the issue of task that now lay before them was all Allanbank, her head and shoulders some of his own delicacy. Fanny,s,000,000 marks preference shares, the more difficult because the peace covered with blood."

the middle one, afterwards Countess and also, adopted the proposal for the treaty had destroyed the Levant traffic, and the company's sphere of activity, of Bute, suffered for long from a Her wrongs were repaid in kind. nervous disease which puzzled all the acquisition of the German Levant even after the complete return of The cup of her bitter disappointment doctors. She recovered, only to have Line. With regard to the latter tran- peace, would probably remain for was handed down to two daughters seriour relapse when her lover was saction, the chairman, Herr Max ven many years in a state of political un- rest, which would be greatly detri of Thomas Coutts, who drained it to. the dregs when on the eve of their man old enough to be her grand-Schinckel, remarked that for several mental to economic development.

During the period of transition, marriage death robbed them suddenly father. But such marriages seem to years past the relations between the have run in the blood of the Coutts'

two companies had been very close. when the Levant Line would find itself and fearfully of their two bride family. Nothing is more astonishing in the meantime, both and lost a very compelled to find business in several It was a rash, over-sporting ad- than the marriage of the banker him- considerable portion of their respec- new directioons, it would be a great venture that cost Lord Montagu and self when 80 years old to the young tive Beets. Both, however, possessed advantage if it was closely associated Underneath his austere exterior valuable and extensive organisations, with a strong undertaking, which had the banker had an impressionable the amalgamation of which appeared experience in many different branches beart.

PROWNED ON WEDDING EVE.

groome:

Sedley Burnett their lives.

They

determined to shoot the Falls of

Schaffhausen, in Switzerland.

Having provided themselves with

a small flat bottomed punt, as they were about to step into it, Lord

drowned. She eventually married a

actress Harriet Mellon..

to be desirable. It was natury of trade. On the other hand, the very difficult matter to establish the Hamburg-American Line would have AN OLD MAN'S CAPTURES:

value of the sires, as no proper the benefit of the special knowledge The story of Harriet Mellon is estimate of the assets could be estab-and experience which the Levant Line Montagu's servant seized his master well-known. Her mother was the fished. From the information avail had acquired in the working of smaller by the collar. His Lordship, how daughter of an Irish collier, who beable it seemed, however, that three sized ships in the European trade. ever, extricated himself, at the ex- cante a travelling player. Coutts pense of part of his collar and neck-saw her first when he was 70 years Hamburg-American shares could be The amalgamation would enable the cloth, and pushed off immediately old, and soon fell in love with her.exchanged for one Levant Line share, two companies more easily to carry with his companion. They got down There is this excuse for him that his and, that was what it was proposed to out their, important tasks in the re- the first fall in safety, and began to wife was hopelessly insane.

Coutts' language to his bewitching shout and wave their handkerchiefs! in token of success. They than push actress in these letters that now see ed down the second fall, by far more the light for the first time is that of dangerous than the first, from which a youth suffering from his calf time they were not seen or heard of. love

Just about the same time, Lord, Montagn's magnificent seat of Cow- dray in Sussex was burnt to the ground, and all the pri less old family portraits were destroyed. |

I kiss the paper you are to look upon and beg you to kiss it just here. Your dear lips will then have touched what mine touch just NOW,"

do. No increase in the Hamburg- storation of the German shipping busi- American Line's capital was neces- ness. In conclusion, the chairman Sary, as certain holders had placed the said that the Hamburg-American Line special limited company for the work- necessary number of shares at the contemplated the lformation of a disposal of the directorate.

The proposed amalgamation was ing of the Levam Line also discussed and approved at an extraordinary general meeting of the German Levant Line. The chairman, Dr. Camo, said that the reconstruction of the mercantile feet was a neces

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