ROMANTIC STORY OF A NOBLE ENGLISH FAMILY.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 119, 10 January 1880, Page 3

ROMANTIC STORY OF A NOBLE ENGLISH FAMILY.

The September number of Scribnei's Monthly contains the histor}' of a search for a lost English heir. In the Illustrated London News of Januaty 4, 187G, the caption " Eminent Persons," was a notice of the decease of Sir Wiliam Beauvoir, Bart., who died at Brighton, England, on December 28, 1878. He was the head and representative of the junior branch of the ancient and honourable family of Beauvior, Bart., by his wife Anne, daughter of Colonel Doyle of Chelmsworth Cottage, Suffolk. He was horn in 1805. Sir William married in 1820 Henrieta Georgiaua, fourth daughter of the Right Honourable Adolphus Liddel, by whom he had two sons, Willian and Oliver Beauvoir. William was with his father when he died. Of Oliver nothing has been heard for nearly thirty years. About that time he suddenly left England for America. It is supposed be left for California as the gold fever was the'i raging. The will of the late baronet has been proved, and the personalty sworn under §350,000. The two sons, William and Oliver, are appointed execeutors. The estate in Lancashire is left to tho oiler, and the rest is divided equally between the brothers The doubt as to the career of Sir William's eldes: son must now, of course, lie cleared up. The London Satirist of May 13, pirintcd a copy of an LOU. signed William Beauvoir, Jun., the eldest «on of the late baronet, and called after his father. The amount on the face of tho " I owe - you " was jjoOO. The .Satirist al*o contained an article in reference to the youthful sprigs of English aristocracy, especially in gambling, betting on horse-racing •-loosing in this sport $30,000 in one day—and winding up with the hint that this was the sort of man who might be chosen at any time, by force of family interest, to make laws for the toiling millions of Great Britain. Young Beauvoir had to fly from debt and imprisonment. He came to America in company with Professor Titus Peebles. M.R.O.S. and M.R.S.S., late instructor in metallurgy at the University of Edinburgh, on board the barque Bistorpo of the clipper line, belonging to .Messrs. Judkins and Cooke. Beauvoir landed in New York, and, after a brief career, managed to got dissipation. His whole income was exhausted. His last act was to pawn his gold watch and chain with Jolm Simpson of No. 30 Bowery, on December 2, 1858; for $l5O. Beauvoir soon saw fit to change his name to William Beaver, and in January of 1858 ho was known as "Beaver Bill," and agriculturist in Steal Valley, California. At that time he was married and had a beautiful little daughter two years old. War broke out among the Indians and Beaver Bill and his wife wore killed ; the child was spared, and lived with a tribe of Indians until shewasadopted by an actress named Mrs. Edgar Saville, in San Francisco, in January, 1803. Thereafter the child was known as Nina Saville, and became a favourite variety actress. In the meantime a correspondence looking to tho discovery of William Beauvoir was commenced between Messrs Throtlewaito and Dick, solicitors, Lincoln's Inn, London, and Messrs. Hitchcock and Van Renssalaer, attorneys and counsellors-at-law, No. 70 Broadway, New York. This correspondence resulted in the discovery of Professor Peebles, who had become a big man in tho mining regions of California, and a great "sand lot," politician at tho period. Nina Saville was creating continuous sensation in tho West, and i wherever she appeared. She had grown up to be a beautiful young woman, and '. had not a few admirers. One of these I was a person named Zeko Kilburn, who was engaged as her advance agent, and consequently was often thrown into her company. At this time a young Englishman named William Beauvoir, sea of Oliver, was travelling in America, and having seen Nina, fell in love with her at first sight. Young Beauvoir saw that Mr. Kilburn was pressing his suit in hot haste, and in order to thwart him had a low with Kilburn, during which ho tossed him into an empty barrel, and would have nailed the cover over him but for tho intervention of friends. The following letter from Nina Saville to William Beauvoir explains how matters stood between the parties ; —"New Centreville December 20, 1878. My dear Mr. Beauvoir,—l was very sorry to loooivo your letter of yesterday—very sorry—because there can only bo ouo answer that I can make—and I think you might have spared mo tho pain of saying tho word —No. You ask mo if I love you. If I did, do you think it would ho true love in me to tell you so when I know what it would cost youP Oh, indeed, you "'•lit never marry mo! In your own couutry you would uever have heard of I

me —never seen me—surely never written I me such a letter to tell mo that yon love in- and want to many me. It is not | that I am ashamed of my business or of folks around me, or ashamed that I am | proud of 1110111=—yes, proud of what they I did and suffered for one poorer than ' themselves—a little foundling out of an Indian camp. But I know the diftor- : once between you and me. You are a i great man at home—you havn never told mo how great—but I know you \ father is a rich lord, and I suppose you ! are. So now it is ended—l am going back to the line I was first in—variety ; —and with a new name. So you can never find me—l entreat you—l beg of I you—not to look for me. If you will only put your mind to it—you will find ■ it so easy to forget me —for I will not do ; you the wrong to think that you did not j mean what you wrote iu a letter or what you said that night when wesang' Annie Laurie ' together the last time. Your : sincere friend,—Nina." Olive Beauvoir writes to his son William, explaining that ; Nina is bis cousin ; that he may marry I her—in fact commands him to marry I her—which the dutiful William did on j the 30th of April, l«7i). after which he ! returned to England with his bride, the ' variety actress, leared among the J-ndiuns and now Lady Beauvior of Cholniswartb Manor Suffolk, England.