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New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 69, 22 August 1874, Page 8

The English journals announce the death of Louise, Duchess of Leeds, which occurred on the Bth of April. The deceased lady was the daughter of Mr Eiohard Caton, an English merchant, who settled in Baltimore towards the end of last century, and married Mary, the eldest daugter of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, the other daughter being the late Mrs Bobert Goodloe Harper. Mr and Mrs Caton had four children, Mary married Robart Patterson, the eldest son. of the late William Patterson, father ofMme. Bonaparte, of Baltimore. With him these went to Englaud with her two sisters, Elizabeth and Louise. As the granddaughters of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, they were received into the highest circles of English society. Aiter returning to America, Mr Robert Patterson died, and his widow, again visiting England for her health, became the wife of tho Marquis of Wellesley, her sister marrying Baron Stafford, and Louise Sir Felton Harvey, Aide-de-Camp to the Duke of Wellington, upon whose death she married the eldest son of the Duke of Leeds, then Marquis of Carmarthen, who, on the death of bis father, became Duke of Leeds. The other daughter of Mr Caton married John M'Tavish a Scotch gentleman residing in Canada, who subsequently made his residence in Philadelphia. All these granddaughters of the signer of the Declaration of Independence were remarkable in their early years for distinguished carriage acd fascinating manners ; and pre-eminent in this respect among them was Lady Wellesley, one of the most beautiful women of her day. Her portrait (by Sir Thomas Lawrence) perpetuates on canvas both her grace aud sweetness. It was of her, while her husband was Viceroy ot Ireland, that the late Bishop England, when toasting the hist survivor of the Declaration of Independence, gave as his sentiment, " Charles -Carroll, of Carrolltown, — in the land from which his fathers fled in fear, his daughter's daughter reigns as queen." None of these ladies had children excepting Mrs M'Tavish of Baltimore.