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Title: Anne Seymour Damer. A woman of art and fashion, 1748-1828
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Noble, Percy
Subjects: Damer, Anne Seymour Conway, Mrs., 1749-1828
Publisher: London, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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ent Garden; having had supper with fourcommon women, a blind fiddler, and no otherman, he dismissed his seraglio, Orpheus beingordered to come up again in half an hour. Whenthe fiddler returned he found a dead silence andsmelt gunpowder. He called, the master of thehouse came up, and found Mr. Darner sitting ina chair dead, with a pistol by his side and anotherin his pocket; the ball had not gone through hishead or made any report; on the table lay a scrapof paper with these words, The people of thehouse are not to blame for what has happened,which was my own act. This was the soletribute he paid to justice and decency/ Thuswrote Horace Walpole to Sir Horace Mann onAugust 20th, describing the tragedy that hadbefallen his beloved cousin, Mrs. Darner, whom,to use his own words, he loved as his own child.What a catastrophy, he writes, for a man ofthirty-two,1 heir to two-and-twenty thousand 1 John Darner was born on June 25, 1742, and was thereforethirty-four at the time of his death. 60
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PORTRAITFrom an Engraving by R. Cooper, 1*10 HER HUSBANDS DEATH a year. We are persuaded that lunacy, notdistress, was the sole cause of his fate. LordMilton, whom nothing can soften, wreaks hisfury on Mrs. Darner, though she deserves onlypity and shows no resentment. He insists onselling her jewels, this is all the hurt he can doher/ Lord Carlisle, writing to George Selwyn onAugust 17, 1776, says: A coroners inquestsat on Mr. Darners body and a verdict of lunacywas returned. What were Mr. Darners motivesfor so dreadful an action ? There was no manmore indifferent to me, but the account shockedme extremely. It is a bad example to others inmisery. It makes people think of having recourseto that method of finishing their calamities, with-out which, perhaps, it had never entered theirheads. If it was not so selfish an action, it wouldbe difficult to condemn it in some cases. Therenever appeared anything like madness in him,yet the company he kept seemed indeed but abad preparation for et

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