There  must  Iw  many  true  gentlemen  and  many  true  ladies  in  the  world !

The  Mis.t  J.,  (or  enample,  whose  letters  to  and  from  the  Duke  of  Wel-
lington were  recently  published,  was  a  true  lady.  In  the  preliminary  biog-
raphy (page  I)  we  are  told  thai  she  belonged  lo  the  "smaller  English  gentry,"
and  was  brought  up  at  "one  of  the  best  schools  in  England,  where  many  of
her  companions  were  of  noble  birth  ;"  and  yet  this  young  woman  of  twenty,
this  companion  of  the  aristocracy,  when  she  made  her  first  epistolary  attack
in   1834,  confessedly  in  the  hope  of  getting  the  duke  to  marry  her,  "was  not

the  battle  of  Waterloo  took  place."

An  effort  has  lieen  made  lo  prove  ihal  General  Grant  was  a  true  gentleman
of  the  same  kind.     In  England  the  following  slory  has  been  related  as  a  fact :

"General  Gianl  was  once  invited  to  dine  at  Apaley  House  by  the  second
Duke  of  Wellington.  A  most  distinguished  party  assembled  to  meet  htm.
During  a  pause  in  the  middle  of  the  dinner  the  ei-President,  it  is  related,
addteliing  the  duke  at  the  head  of  the  table,  said,  'My  lord,  I  have  heard
that  your  bther  was  a  military  man.     Was  that  the  case  V  "

The  anecdote  is  repeated  in  Sir  William  Fraser's  Ixrak,  "  Words  on  Wel-
lington." But  in  the  very  same  book,  one  hundred  pages  farther  an.  Sir
William  regretfully  owtts  that  he  asked  the  second  duke  what  really  took
place,  and  was  assured  there  was  not  a  word  of  truth  in  the  story.
