. A painter of dreams, and other biographical studies. tive and probable a story of its origin ; andwhen set to the tune of Eileen Aroon, whichTenducci, the Italian singer, brought back fromIreland and sang at Ranelagh, the song foundits echo in many a faithful heart. Even RobertBurns, on being asked to write new words to theold tune, found no fault with the simple verses,although their setting he condemned roundly as acursed, cramped, out-of-the-way measure—a crinkumcrankum tune. At length Lady Carolines family could withholdtheir consent no longer, and in the Grand Magazineof Universal Intel
. A painter of dreams, and other biographical studies. tive and probable a story of its origin ; andwhen set to the tune of Eileen Aroon, whichTenducci, the Italian singer, brought back fromIreland and sang at Ranelagh, the song foundits echo in many a faithful heart. Even RobertBurns, on being asked to write new words to theold tune, found no fault with the simple verses,although their setting he condemned roundly as acursed, cramped, out-of-the-way measure—a crinkumcrankum tune. At length Lady Carolines family could withholdtheir consent no longer, and in the Grand Magazineof Universal Intelligence, February 22nd, 1758,one reads that Robert Adair Esqre. was married tothe Right Hon. the Lady Caroline Keppel. Horace Walpole, among others of the gay world,did not approve of this ending to the loversromance. In one of his letters bemoaning a m/s-alliance between a daughter of the Earl of Ilchesterand an actor named OBrien, he writes— I couldnot have believed that Lady Susan could ever havestooped so low. She may, however, stiU keep good. ELIZABETH KKllKl. (Al ^ MARl Ul- 1 A \ 1 - s F> out an cni;. m>iiig hy Jislu r a/ti r Sir Joshua Ao»>- THE ALTAR OF HYMEN 121 company and say nos numeri sunius —Lady MaryDuncan, Lady Caroline Adair and Lady BettyGallini—the shopkeepers of next age will be mightywell-born ! Shortly after the wedding Adair was made In-spector-General of Military Hospitals. Later on,the King having taken a fancy to him, he wasappointed Royal Staff-Surgeon and Surgeon ofChelsea Hospital. He lived till 1790, but LadyCaroline died long before him, at the birth of herthird child. Her son was the Rt. Hon. Sir RobertAdair, a distinguished diplomat. He was ambas-sador at Belgium and Constantinople. A fluentspeaker and fine dancer, he inherited much of hisfathers charm, and George HL used to call him the lucky Irishman. He died in 1844, at theage of eighty. The fate of Lady Elizabeth Keppel, the youngersiste
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