THE ROMANCE OF A LOCKET.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2444, 29 December 1892, Page 4

THE ROMANCE OF A LOCKET.

Alexander Knox and His Friends is the title of a very attractive paper in Temple Bar, full of entertaining anecdotal matter relating to the late Mr Knox, the police magistrate, and his circle. We extract the following curious little story : Rogers had been intimate with four generations of the Carrick Moores, the first being the Dr Moore who published his Journal kept in Paris during the first French Revolution. This gentleman's granddaughter told the writer only a few days since that she remembers perfectly well when the news arrived of the death of her uncle, Sir John Moore. In an interesting volume recently printed for private circulation, called '■' Recollections of an Octogenarian," Mr Carrick Moore, tells the following curious anecdote: warm friendship for my uncle (Sir John Moore). She sent me a sword and a drum when I was four years old, with a note saying, " When yon are a man come to me, and I will give you a real sword for your dear uncle's sake.' The physician who travelled with her in the East, recorded that she said to him she had never known but three really great men. They were her uncle, William Pitt, her brother, James Stanhope, and Sir John Moore. The two last were both killed in the battle of Corunna. She got a lock of the hair of each, with the coat of arms and name of each respectively. In 1814 Lady Hester determiued to live permanently in Syria, and sent for her possessions—this locket being among them. The ship containing her valuables sailed and was heard of at Cyprus ; soon after, one of those Mediterranean squalls came on, and nothing more was ever heard of ship, crew, or cargo. Thirty years elapsed, Lady Hester had long been dead, when a letter came to The Admiralty from the consul at Jaffa saying that an Arab had picked up on the beach a gold ornament with Frank characters. . . . This was the

long-lost locket; and Lord Stanhope kindly giving up his claim to it, it became Sir Graham Moore's, and is now in my possession."