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No. 462, January 29, 1859.1 THE IiEAPJ R...
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^A JOURNAL DURING THE FltENCH REVOLUTION...
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for the revolutionary pack had eaten up ...
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LECTURKS ON CHRISTIAN DOGMAS. Lectures o...
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No. 462, January 29, 1859.1 The Iieapj R...
No . 462 , January 29 , 1859 . 1 THE IiEAPJ R , 1 * 1
^A Journal During The Fltench Revolution...
^ A JOURNAL DURING THE FltENCH REVOLUTION . Journal of my Life during the French Revolution . By Grace Dalrymple Elliott . K . Bentley . This book will help its readers very pleasantl y throu ghan hour or two . It may enjoy a good circulation , not'because it has much historical value , but because society , learning that it is the pTQduc tionof Kfemmegalante , whose beauty and amiability were bestowed in turn upon two of the greatest scamps the world ever saw , will expect something full flavoured . Society will be disappointed . Mr . Bentley ' s " Malo mori quam fcedarr" is a guarantee
tie Journal before us is innocuous to the public and creditable to the supposed authoress ; and here , if we judge by the looseness of the editing , the publisher ' s interest and responsibility have terminated together . ,. . u j The lady whose ashes have been thus disturbed and whose MSS . have , per fas aid -nefas ., found their way into print , was born , according to the scanty memoir appended to the text , about the year 1765 . A daughter of Hew Dalrymple , Esq ., a connex ion of the Stair family , she was educated in a French convent , and , according to the same
authority , introduced into male society at her father ' s house at the early age of fifteen . He re ^ - as he , it seems , lived apart from his wife—Miss Dalrymple had probably not the advantage of a chaperon , and she was permitted ere long to accept an offer of marriage from the elderly Sir John Elliott . Dissimilarity of tastes , disparity of age , and the absence of any real affection between this eouple , produced their not uncommon result . The bridVs exquisite loveliness , gaiety of disposition , and elegant manners brought suitors to her feet , and inanevuhour she was tempted . The antique husband
who , according to Lord Erskine ' s celebrated view of such cases , should have been the real defendant , resorted to law for redress or revenge , and procured , first , a verdict for 12 , 000 J . damages , and , subsequently , a divorce . The lady was . ' meanwhile exiled again to a convent at Paris , " and must have been eighteen or nineteen years of age when site was rer imported into England by Lord Cholmondeley , whose subsequent intimate connexion with , the then Prince of Wales ' s private affairs is a matter of his-Corv . She was soon introduced to that" royal Giovanni . An intimacy ensued which resulted in the birth of Georariana Auausta Frederica Seymour ,
afterwards Lady Bentinek , for whom the said Lord Cholmondeley stood godfather at Marylebonc Church . Mrs . Dalrymple Elliott saw jnuch of the Prince ' s Court about this time , and , among other persons , of the notorious Due de Chartres , afterwards Philippe EgaliteV who was of course a popular character in that gay and unprincipled circle . We are not informed to what extent this last acquaintance was carried during tlic stay of Orleans in England , but it appears certain that , either witli him or soon after linn , Mrs . Elliott repaired to Paris in 3786 , leaving her little one in
the care of the complaisant Cholmoudcley , The biographer tells us that she had a handsome allowance from the Prince anil 200 / . a year from her family , and ljer own Memoir leaves us clearly to infer that she was , from this period until his death , one of the numerous attaches to the person of tho Duke . He was the head of the fashionable party who wore styled , from their incorporation of every Britannic failing and peculiarity they could imitato with their national ones , " the Anglomaniacs / ' and held it , no doubt , as necessary to his position to entertain an English mistress as au English jockey . She seems to have held for a time some influence over her pusillanimous lover , but for a short time only , for , as is well known , ho was as
unstable in his amours as in cvory other pursuit . Sho pleads that had she boon able , between 1730 and 1789 , to maintain her ivacondanoy , sho would have turned it to good purpose ; and , to her credit be it said , this is well made out in the papers before us . But her counsels—which to tho obscono societ y of tho Folios Chartros smacked overmuch of British Toryism , and , from their rectitude nlono , nmat have borod Orloana to doath—wevo replaced by those of Madame do Button , with whom ho was deeply s , mitto . n , and who was , in foot , u known emissary about his person of tho Jacobiua . It was 8 uoh aa this Madame do Button and her Republican sisterhood who , by thoir conaoloss pcrsooution , orittjnaUy opened tho breaoh bohvoon tho Duke of {¦ means and Mario Antoinette , whoao fertility Ofwroa his prospoofc of tho throne . It was by such
aid that the Jacobins of 1786-89 easily counteracted the good advice of the Englishwoman—perhaps all that ever reached him—which , anomalously , his infatuation for her person compelled him to the last to hear . And it was such a faction that drove him first into fratricide and then to the guillotine . The Anglomania of 1781 had given place before the outbreak to an entirely opposite , sentiment , so violent that the native parasites of Orleans had no difficulty in organising a persecution of their English rival from which even their common patron could not shield her . He Was alike powerless to
obtain her a passport for England and to save her from domiciliary visits . Mrs . Elliott narrates her sufferings , and those of the Queen and other ladies of rank with whom she associated while under the surveillance of their tormentors , with artlessness and evident truth , and the reader will not fail to admire her heroic preservation of M . de Chansenets , the governor of the Tuileries . The cordon was , however , drawn closer and closer , and she was at last dragged before the Revolutionary tribunal at the Feuillants . The pretext was the discovery
among her papers of a letter from Sir Godfrey \ Vebster to Charles Fox , which had been entrusted to her for delivery . She defended herself with energy , and the letter was found to be complimentary to the French nation . The eloquent and amiable Vergniaud , who was one of the committee , declared her innocent , and she was liberated . But her enlargement was but temporary , for only a few weeks after she was again imprisoned— -this time as an Orleanist . She passed eighteen months in the Sainte-Pelagie , the Recollets , and the Cannes
prisons . . , During the execrable reigii of Robespierre and his minister of Terror , Fouquier-Tinville , misfortune made strange bedfellows indeed . La Subtle Gmllofine , drunk with the best blood of France , still shrieked for more . The nausea which led to the fall of the Committee of Public Safety did not set in till July , 1793 , and during June and July the prisons of Paris furnished daily so large a tale of victims that those who entered them not
only abandoned hope , but in many instances were relieved by fright ful accessions of gaiety . In Sainte-Pelagie Mrs . Elliott had compared notes with an eminent character of a former age , the notorious Madame du Barri , whose want of fortitude on the scaffold , then exceptional , our English heroine particularly notices . In the Carmes her associates were Josephine Beauharnais , General Hpche , the Duchesse d'Aiguillon , and M . and Mrae . de Custine . De Custine having dared to regret _ his father , the general previously executed for his loss . of Valenciennes , was beheaded after a very short imprisonment . On the day of his death there came in Atexandre Beauharnais , denounced for having ner » 1 r > nfr > .-1 in vaico fl «» eiprrr > nf ATnvfinon- TTe had for
some years been parted from his wife ( who was at this very time probably mistress of another ) , and their meeting was somewhat embarrassing . They were , however , quickly reconciled , aud were allowed a closet to themselves . But within a few weeks Madame de Custine , who had shown the extreme of heroism in defending her aged father-in-law before the tribunals , and who haa been inconsolable on the removal of her young husband , had sufficiently recovered her spirits to receive with comp laisauco the advances of the fickle Beauharnais . This gallant pair were restrained neither by sense of decorum , their position , the presence of Josephine , the entreaties of Mrs . Elliott , from demonstrations of passion even on tho brink of the grave . Their intriguo was soon over , for Aloxandrc was led out one morning in May with uino-mid-forty more , and
fell bravely enough -. ;—rnever saw such a scene ( snys our authoress ) aa the parting of Beauliaruals , his wife , and Madamo de Custino . I myself was much affected , for I had know . n him for years . Ho was a great friend of the popr Duo do Biron , and I had passed weeks in the sanio house with him . Ho was a vqry pleasant man , though rather a coxcomb . Ho had much talent , and his drawings wora beautiful . He took a very good likeness of mo , which ho gave to poor little Custino when ho left us . His poor wife was inconsolable for some time ; but she ¦ was a Frenchwoman , and ho hnd not boon vqry attentive to her . Tho other lady I never saw smile after his
doath . This odd party of female friends was m course of time destined to bo broken up . They were so near tho guillotino that their' looks wore shorn for tho ooromony . Josephine , as nil tho world knows , was informed' by signs from tho street that not nnothor wholesale inassaoro , but dolivoranco . was at hand ,
For The Revolutionary Pack Had Eaten Up ...
for the revolutionary pack had eaten up the fiendish , huntsman , and the torrent of blood was to be stayed . . We can imagine they were not long in suspense , for one of their party was the lovely Theresa deFontenaye , then mistress , and afterwards wife , of Tallien .. The glorious letter she wrote to him with her t > lood , Her trial being fixed for the 8 th , hinting that she or 'Robespierre must be no more on the 9 th Thermidor , is preserved in Lamartine ' s Girondins . The ferocious activity of a proper man thus inspired may be imagined , and history tells how Tallien answered the appeal .
For the sake of the fair and imaginative Theresa ^ who soon after invented in memoriam the famous jeufiesse doree , type of the recent Garde Mobile , France was unquestionably saved on the 9 th Therr midor from what Mackintosh called " the most indefatigable , searching , multiform , and omnipresent tyranny that ever existed . " Mrs . Elliott was an interesting person , but her yet more attractive sisters have taken us sadly out of our course . But we have little to add about the former but that after her happy escape she ( according to the editor ) sold property enough to discharge her debts , and lived in retirement for a while at Meudon . She mixed in good company at Paris , she
and during the Consulate renewed the intimacy had commenced with Josephine in prison . On the signature of the Treaty of Amiens , in 1801 , she was encountered , singularly enough , by another of the Prince of Wales ' confidants , Lord Malmesbury , and with him travelled to London . under the a * ssumed name of Mrs . S . t . Maur . Her arrival was announced at the Pavilion by one of the Wyndhams , who , it is averred , met her by mere chance . The news that " Mrs . Elliott , even more beautiful than ever , " was in town , brought the Prince up that night . He sent for her most affectionately ; and , " accordingly , dressed in the simplest manner , she went to Carlton House , and their old friendship was renewed . "
She staved here until 1814 , Sometimes she resided at ^ Twickenham . Her medical attendant there was Mr . ( afterwards Sir David ) pundas , then physician to the King , Tins gentleman was used , during his visits to royalty , to retail scraps of gossip lie picked up elsewhere ; and some of Mrs . Elliott's experiences found such favour that his Majesty begged she would commit t hem to writing for his perusal . She readily complied , and the MS . now printed was conveyed to him sheet by sheet as written . Mrs . Elliott returned finally to Paris in 1814 ; after which we find neither material nor necessity to continue the notice of her career we have , as it
is , somewhat patched up . She is supposed , however , to have died at a ripe age , but in what year , editor , biographer , publisher , land reviewer appear to be equally uncertain and indifferent , at Ville d'Avray . Her memoir on the French Revolution , with which alone we really have to do , is clearly the work of a talented and amiable woman . As a contribution to history it can hardly be called of value , except in so far as it helps iuhnitcsimally to clear the character of Egalit 6 , and to make out that he was even a still greater fool and tool » aud a trifle loss of a conspirator , than lias alwavs since his death been , believed . But it is curious and
interesting as showing the callosity of wretchedness nduccd bv tho B . eie : n of Terror , ancl the noble tcresting as showing the callosity of wretchedness nduccd bV tho Reign of Terror , ancl the noble qualities developed by the situation where their gorms would scarcely have boon suspected . The fragment will well repay perusal . It is nicely got up , and is embellished with good engravings from portraits of Mrs . Dalrymplo Elliott , in . the prime of her beauty , and of her daughter , Lady Charles Boutiuok , in childhood .
Lecturks On Christian Dogmas. Lectures O...
LECTURKS ON CHRISTIAN DOGMAS . Lectures on the History of Christian Dogma $ > By Dr . Augustus Neander . Edited by Dr . J . £ . Jac <> P » - Translated from the German by J . E . Byland , M . A . 2 vale . ' H . Bonn . We beliovo it wns Dr . Burton who , in his Baraptoa tieotures , preaohed before the ¦ University of Oxford iu 1 S 39 , llrat drew tho attention of the English , student to * tho labours of Noauder on Church Ilistory , and graoofully acknowledged his obligations to iiim in onnbling him to elucidate tho wso and progress of tho herosios of tho Apostolio ago . Sinoo tlion his Dof / menffosohiohtet Ins Qesohiohte dor Christ lichen iietia ' ion und Kirche , his Aposletye * sohichte , and his loom Josu , have nil boon valued aids to Church History-by theso whoso knowledge
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 29, 1859, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29011859/page/13/
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