STANHOPE. Lady EIESTEN. Lucy, the eldest daughter of Charles. third earl Stanhope, and his wife Hester, daughter of the great lord Chatham, was b. Mar. 12, 1776. She grew up to be a woman of great personal charm, and of unusual force and originality of character. Very early she went to resie with her uncle, William Pitt, and as mistress of his establishment, and his ri.eat trusted confidant during his season of power, and till his death, she lied full scope fur the exercise of her imperious and queenly instincts. On the death of Pitt. a pension (ff 1;1200 a year was assigned her by the king. Mr. Fox proposed to provide for her tnneh more munificently. but she proudly declined his offers, as unwilling to accept benefit at the hands of the politic a enemy of her dead uncle.. The change front the excitements of a public career, as it might almost be called, to the life of an ordinary woman of her rank with means somewhat insufficient, was naturally irksome to her, and in 1808 she was tried still further by the death, at Coruna, of her favorite brother, major Stanhope, and of sir John Moore, for whom she is known to have cherished an affection. The precise relations between them have never been sonde known; bat the last words spoken by the dying hero were: "Stanhope" (a captain Stanhope of his staff, who stood by (tint) " remember me to your sister." Conceiving a disgast for society, she retired for it time into Wales, and in 1810 she left England never to return to it.. In mere •estlessness of spirit she wandered for a year or two on the
shores of the Mediterranean. and finally settled herself among the semi-savage tribes of mount Lebanon. Here she led the strangest. life, adopting in everything time eastern manners, and by the force and fearlessness of her character. obtaining a curious ascend ency over the rude races around her. She was regarded by them with superstitiouk reverence as a sort of prophetess. and gradually came so to consider herself. With the garb of a 31ohammedan chieftain, she adopted something of the faith of one, and her religion, which seems to have been sincere and profound, was compounded in about equal proportions out of the liortn and the Bible. Her recklessly profuse liberalities involved her in constant straits for money; and her health also giving way, her last years were passed in wretchedness of various kinds, under which, however, her untamable spirit supported her bravely to the end. She died in June, 1839, with no Frank or Europeaenear her, and was buried in her own garden. The main sources of informa tion about her are the notes of the frcqueut travelers who visited her iu her strange seclu sion, and the Memoirs derived from her own lips, and afterward (3 vols. Loud. 1845- 46) published by a medical gentleman Who went abroad with her, and from time to time lived-with her in her retirement.