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MURDER OF THE DUCHESS DE PRASLIN.
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- frtiatapatafolanatoxionsaisease isthePiks ! and «» Hra » rl * r J ^ -& ^ jJ ><* & anve been perraasS&y enrea by ordinary appeals to medical skill ! This , no doubt , iwises t ™*^ ** ct powerful aperients too I trlaenUyadminiStC . . iedVto 0 profesSion ; indeed , strong ^ "L ^ tfacnte ^ ufifeH ^ " ^ be ' •"' Wfi all cases rfthiscomplamt . The proprietor of the above ointment , after Sf" , " ^ t ^ w ' ^ tf « ed himself under the t * totaentofti . a KmineSts « rgeon , Mr Abernethy , was by him »*« J ^»™ S t Jf JMa , fcnd thus enjoyed it ever Stacewithontthf . jiightestretarn of the disorder , over * P modof ™ e . e ° J *?"« ° ' Jl » gwhicK time the same Aber . ' , aethian pwscri- ^ has been the means ofhealing a vast number of . ^ ratec- - ^ , attdout ofUe prtetort tircJ . es of friends , most ofvfhich cases had been nnder medical care , a & stfBW o £ them for a very con . daexableti ^ e . Abemethy ' sPUeOintmentwas intwiuced to ttepubUcby the fcrfw-tfnwnyirho had bean per-¦ « Sly hetl ' jd by its application , and siaae its introduction the feme oC tfeia omtr ^ j fcw a £ far mi ^^ . ^ till Medfcal Profession , always slow and unwilling to acknowledge tlwVirtues / in » ^^ jj ^ c not jfigpared ty themselves , *) now freely and frankl y admit that Abernethy ' s Pile Ointment is ft «« i , aTalttahle | reparation , beta aeverfailing renieay in every stageaudvarictyafthatappaUragmakidy . ^ uSerers fwmtlie piles vrill net repent giwns the ointment a trial . " Mi- . ftjfcades of cases of its efficacy might 'Serprodncea if the . nature of the complaimt dii not reader those wh » fc * ve-been cured tnwilling to publish * Br names . . - , &ldwccreredr <> ts > at 4 s . 6 « . ortti 9 q 8 iatity of three 4 s . 6 * . pots in r * e for lls ., with full directions for use , by : < kKing , ( Agenttotke Proprietor , ) No . 8 l , > apier-strejet , Hotton , ScwTovrn , loa * w , where also can be&rocured «* rj Patent MeficiHe-of tep * t « , direct ftam the original makers , with aji allowance on taking six at a time . V Be sun . tea * for "ABERSETEY'S PILE OIN $ » SNT . Thfe Public -are requested to be onttelr guard against noxiora campositioKs sold at lew prices , and to-observe that nonf ; can pessibly beigenuine , unless the name « Kisg , is prmtoion the Sovern-aent Stamp ^ affixedto'each pot . 4 s . 6 d . ** wbitais the lowest jrice the proprietor is cabled to seUitat , owingto the great expense of the Ingredients . < G 0 RNS AND BUNION-g . JPAUIiS EVERI MAMS FRIEND , ^ at « n » Md 6 j Cte * £ g « : j * { ry , 2 ft 68 i ^ , < S « , >* fl . 1 Isja sure , « j 3 ^ peeayCure for'tfcose severe aanoyoxces , 'irithout causing the least . pan or inconvenience . Unlike all " <»*« r flissaies'for Vorus , its operation is suchos to reader tb * « utfing « f Corns aKogtherunneccssary ; indeed , we mays- ' ^ the pracKce of ctttttsg Corns is at all < fenes l * ighly dangerous , and has > fecen frequently attended with lamenta jjjeeonse ^ bflnces , besMesiteliability : t «* i « crea ! ie their growth ;; it adheres * with the mosfcgentlepressure , prodaces im'instnnt * nd delight&l relief frem tottfire , aud , with perseverance in its application , entirely eradicate&ctbe S ^ st fcJSsteratcQornsaftdBunions . *< / gfirnoninls ! fcave been" received from upwstds of cne hundred Physicians and"Surgeons of'the greatest eminence , ssi pjUas'from"many Officers of both Army aad Nrny , aadnearly < oae thousand private letters from the gentry in * ° * C »! ttdcoud * nr , sweating in high terms «? ttiis valuable rciae ^ y . ' JWparetfbyJohn Fox , ia boxes at Is . ijd ., or t'tree small boxes in om for 3 s . 9 d ., and to'ba had , with full direc ** ift : foruse , ef C . KLVG . tfo . 3 l , Nanier-swcet , Eprton New Torre , London , : « rad all wholesale and retail medicine * ' asfeorsrtf town and coaatry . The gearace has . the name of-John 'Fox on'fee stamp , - ^ s . ^ d . Box cures the most *> filtirateeims . . Asfc for " Paul ' s Every K « i's Friend : " 1 » eraetb 5 ' s PileiKnftraent , Pauft Ooni PlasUr , and AberneSbj ' sPile Pewiers are soldbythe following respsetable Jerti 6 ist *« ad Dealersta Patent Medicine : — 'Barclay and Sons , ^ arringdoa streti ; Edwards , 67 , St . Foul's Church-yard ; Butler , 4 , Cheapside ; Newbery , St . tSSttVs ; SSatton , Bow Church-jard ; dotnson , 68 , CornhiU ; Sanger , 150 , Orfordstreet ; miloughby andCo ., W , Bi-OBt ' opSgiftr-street Without ; Owch , 52 , Marchmand-street , Barton-cresecnt ; Eade , 39 , 'GosweU . street ; Treut , 22 ! i , . Strand ; 'Hanniy and Co ., 63 , Oxford ^ ireet ; and retail by a 21 respectable-chemists and medicine vendors in London . 'Couizax Actsre . —Bains aad Xewsome : Mr Bnckton , TimeS'Office ; Heaton Smeeton , Allen , Hall , Keinhardt J ^ tSonSj J . Cj ^ rowne , 48 , Briggote , Thornton . 35 , Boat-lane , Denton , Garland , Hann , Bean , Harvey Haigh , ilate'Tarbottom BoUaad and Eeoaplay , Land Hoxon , C . H * y , 100 , 'Briggate , Rhodes , ( Bell and Brooke Lord , B . C . ¦ Hay . KedicalHalVieeds ; PrattJEackburn , Newby , Riemington , Hand and Wilson , Sogerapn , Stanfield , Brad-¦* Btd ; Hartley , ;! Decton , Waterhouse , Jepson . Woad , Dyer , Parker , tfennings , and Leyland , Halifax ; Smith , Elland ; ^ Horet , Cardwellj-Gell , and Smith , 'Wakelield ; Harrisea , Barnslcy ; Xoowels , Thoroe , Brook , and Spivey , Hud . < acrt £ eia ; aadsoo , KeigMej ; -I * fithouse , Reinhardt , KJrtcn , Aleook , B » ines , Burrell , Bell , Burton , Healey , Mel-- « oniFreeman ' , Pkkerinff . G « rtoa , 'Wi ! Uamson , Chapman , Hammond , Wallis , Walker , Broomhead , Noble , Foster , JHardman , Stephensori , Weir , -H ^ er and Barker , Hull ; * ipes , Keningham , Johnson , Earle , Cornwall , RoblnBon . iBrigbam . 'BBverley ; Brooks , Doszasier ; Matthews , Creaser , Drimeld ; CafB . Coole ; Millner , Pickering ; Steven-¦ MB , Whitbj ; iEo ! tun , Barashmd and Co ., Hargrove , Fisher , 'Oiley . LinBey , York ^ Maraton , Brigg , Hurst ; Robson , ^ rjnitage ; Ingoldby , Longbottoia , Lonth ; Wainwnght , Howden : ; R 9 yner , Smith , Burlington ; Horsby , Wrangham , - Jefierson ; llolton ; * Rhodes , Snaith ; CbampUy , Broomhead , Ireland , Buckall , Scarborough ; Smith , Furby , Bridling , ' ton ; Adams ^ Colton , Pallen , -8 dby ; Omblier , Market Weighton ; Fleck Marsh , Rotherbam ; Hattersley , Ball , jJOcer . 'Barton ; Brown , Gainsborough ; Gledhill , Old Delph ; Priestmay , Fox , Poutefract ; Dalby , Wetherby ; * ^ SteSer , Bedsle ; Dixon ,-Nerthallerton ; Ward , Richmond ; 'Ward , Stokesley ; F < fggltt and Thompson , Thirsk ; . 'Knkhonse , Bamard Castle ; lPease , Darlington ; Jennett , -Stockton . And by all respectable Chemists and Medicine A Vfendorg in every Market Town in England . " . VTholesale Agents : —Messrs Bolton , Blanshard and Co ., ( Druggists . Mecklegate , York .
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THE'flEEATEST-SABE OF A 5 Y MEDICIKES IN THEGLOBE . HOLLOwTFs PILLS . A Core of a Desperate Scorbutic Eruption of long -Standing . . EttracSff a letter , dattd-Wokerhamptm , tte Who / Feb . 1817 , confirmed by Mr Simpson , Stationer . To Professor HeUoway . Sa , —Having been-wonderfully restored from a state JfrreatsuffiBrfajc , iUnessv-wid debility , by the use of your -pOIs and ointment , Itfci&k It ngbt fur the sabc of others -to make my case known to yon . For the last two years I-was afflicted with , violent Scorbutic Eruption , which ¦ completely covered my chest , ana other parts of niy body , erasing such violent pain , that I can in truth say , that fat months I was not able to " get sleep fur more than a ¦ ttiy short time together . I applied here to all the principal medical men , as also to those in Birmingham , 'WWiont getting the least relief , at last I was recem-. znended . by Mr Thomas Simpson , Stationer , Marketplace , to try your pills and ointment , which I did , and I am happy to sayv that I may consider myselt as thoroughly wed ; I can now sleep all the night through , and the tpaifls in my back-a&d limbs have entirely left me . ( Signed ) Richabd IIaveix ,
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Amputati « nof Tw » Legs prevented . iM ^ mt ^ ** toteonwm , Ftiruary 19 ft , 18 i 7 , from , the JtgMj iwperfaMe Proprietor of the itoseom-• mon Journal .
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& ? a by the Proprietor , 214 , Strand , { near Tem pie Bar iAndon , and by all respcetable Tendors of Patent Hedi-• aiaa . eiron-hout the cMUted worW , in Pots ana Boxes at 2 &U d ., 2 s . 9 a .. 4 s . « d ., « b ., Ob ., and 33 s . each . There » n ^ ? nsideraUe sariogin taking the larger sizes . "' B *—Directionsforthegaidanoe ^ fpatients are afflxed TO « ach 2 ot and box .
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- ^ P WOT AJD EHBDMATIC PILLS . * ^ ggf * ***™* ** *** * Kingseliffe , Nerthamp-««™ < p . Itogselifie , January 21 . < 1 M 7 . ^ WE ,-H ts-dve years ago I fcecaoie afflicted with Rhen n , tfac Gflpt . I procured the ftest advice possible tot *"' ! £ ¦* ? " * * l beaeflt : " nd the d < K Scorn me ^ nftto go to tha Stamfgpfl Infirmary , where I cot tint te ^ welw weeks , andleftit trithoat hiving obtataed « ny fcenpfit , and all k . pe < rf relief lad vanished tamed "' * & \ » eless state of fidagg eoaSnued until a friend auvfc tfjnb-tostrr Blair's Pills . I teen lost no time Si send ti 0 St ?^ f ^ luck ^ <> f Stamford , for a box . Tndiy ftB " Voe 1 ikadtaUea that quantity I got rid of one citch I theB eat for another box , which enabled ue to ttrrm ' awaj t &B « ther ,. aad thank Gadlhite never sinw had « nch , an attack . """ " "TS * ? ? i * 68 a te C 9 ld ; * nt whenever I feel symptoms of vVtsek , I jkpse teoonrseto the pills with universal
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THE POPULAR MEDI 6 INE . The following important testimony to the efficacy of PARR'S LIFE PILLS has just beenrecehed by the Proprietors . T « MESSRS T . ROBERTS AND CO ., LONDON . Athlone , December 7 th , 1846 . Sirs , —Yon will please to send me six dazen more Parr ' s Life Fills ; I am just out . I can assuro you thoy are doing am immensity « f good ; every one who has tried them in affections of the Liver and Stomach derive a greatdealof benefit . Yours , &e ., . WlILIAU GlLCHHIST , Apothecary and Surgeon . The extraordinary properties of this medicine are thus described by an eminent physician , who says , " After par . ticular observation of the action of Parr ' s Pills I am determined in my opinion , thatihe following are their true properties : —
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TWENTY-FIFTU EDITION . Illustrated by Twenty-six Anatomical Engravings on Steel . OaFh ' jmA mqualifieations . Generalise Tncapaoitv and Impediments to Marriage . A ^ f , J 2 ' } - ecUti 2 ' enlar « ed to 196 paces , price 2 s . 6 d . ; by post , direct from the Establisum ^ nfTaB ed in postage stamps , s ° "'
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I t ' , barrenness , antt aebilittes arising fram ve- ereale ! itce ! 8 es ; has be « o demonstrated by its unTaryinr ^ gUcces ^ - t ; ioa . sands cf cases . To those persons who , nreVeftted en . tering the marned ^ .. state -by tin cor equences of early errors , it is invaluable . Price Us . per bottle , or four quantities in one for 33 s . , THE OOSCEHTRATED DE- / SMlvE . ESSENCE An anti-syphilitic remedy , for purifying tho system from venereal contamination , and is recommejided for any of the varied forms if sccondary / gymptoms , such as eruptions on the skin , blotckesonthiheadand face , enlargement of tbe throat , tonsils , nnd / uvula ; threatened destruction of the" nose , palate , be . lu action is purely detersive , anditsbenefiefcil mflu ' jnce oa tho system is undeniable ; Price Us . Had « Ss . per bottled ¦ ¦ . The 51 : cases of Syriacum or Ooncentrated Detersive Essence cnnonly be had at 19 ,. Btrners . Btrcet , Oxfordstreet , LonAon ; whereby there 1 b a' saving of W . 12 s ., and the patient is entitled t ) receive advice without a fee , whicbl advantage is applicable onlj to tliose who reinit ^ forapat&'t . ' "' "" ' ¦
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The ( excitement caused by . this shocking tragedy , has ken much increased by the publication of the Ducheas't letters to her husbaad , which reveal : the terms on which they lived together . Together the affair constitutes one of the most profoundly intereiting tragedies of real life of which it is " possible to form any conception . Our limited space Will only permit a few selections from a correspondence which has occupied a large space in the daily journals for several sue . cessivedays . On Monday , 31 st ult ., the Chancellor made a report to the Cbambar of Peers , in which he , recapitulated the leading events of the horrible affair , and thus alluded to the collection of letters written by theDuchese . « I have thought it necessary to have printed and distributed to the Peers a collection of all the proceedings on the examination , from the moment
it was commenced till that of the death of the Duke de PrasUn , followed by the prooJs of his death , and , asregu . larly as it could be acquired , the cau « e of that death . Among all the numerous prcoes verbmtx and the nume . roup interrogatories of which this collection is composed , there is not one document that does not come to tie same point—that does not with greater or less evidence prove to a demonstration tho real author of Jone of the m « t horrible acts to be found in the annals of crime . The Duchess de Praslih was murdered by her husband , to whom she had given ten . children , of whom nine are still living—to whom ahe had brought , with all the gifts of nature , those of the most cultivated mind , elevated aoul , and affectionate heart . Her illustrious origin waB equal to that of her husband . I do not speak of the magnificent fortune which she had added to his , aid of
which she was worthy in every way by tho use that she knew how to make use of it when she had the means , andbytheaetaofeharity inspired by the principles of the holy religion with which she was penetrated . This angel of goodness has fallen . WordB . would be wantiBg if I were toattempt to dsscriba to the court' the feelings inspired by the discoveries which I made during tho afflicting researches which it had ordered me to make . Itappeared te me , and my colleagues shared my opinion , that the best mode of conveying to you the ideas which I have been able only very feebly to express in this short statement , would be to place under your eyes at least a portion of the letters written by Mme . de Praslin to the very person who was so unworthy to receive them , and some of the reflections and meditations , the expression of which is contained in a small number of writings , the precions remains of the emanations of one of the purest minds ever created by God for the honour of all times
and all ages . These documents form part of the collec . tion of which I have just spoken , and which has been distributed to you . If the Duke had not been his own judge , this collection would give to those who should take the pains to read it tho means and the right of judging in their own coniciences with the equitable severity from which the remembrance of him will not escape ; and if this collection is to remain as an eternal monument of the perversity of one of the greatestcriminals that ever lived , there will arise from it , at the tame time , the consolatory reflection , that by the sido of the most furious passions of the most perverse men Providence has frequently placed in all ranks andaUclasBes the most angelic virtues , wishing thus to grant to humauity a sort of right sometimes to turn away the eye from the perversities which afflict it , and perhaps also to solicit for them a little mercy . ' IBTTEBSFEOMtHEDDCnESSTOHKB HUSBAND ( WBITTEN
IH JDHE , 1841 ) . Wherefore , my beloved , do yourefusetoletrae share your afflictions i You deprive our life of all the charms of affection ! Do you then believe , or rather do you wish to persuade yourself , thaUndependence consists in solitude ! You say that I am exigeante , because I desire to share your sorrows . You do not like me to remark that you have any . Do you then wish to become quite a . stranger to me , and for that , would it not be requisite for me to become entirel y indifferent to you ! And how could I become indifferent to the person I love best on earth ? D © you think it possible ?—would not my heart break loBg before ! You yourself are sorrowful to set me sad , and you know the reason of my sadness ; you know how it is in your power to console me , and yet you withhold those consolations . I , on the contrary , see
that you are sad ; I feel within my heart a source of the deepest love , su'Hcifat to calm and sootho all your sor . rows , and you discard me ! Am I not yeur wife , the partner of your life , she whose duty it is to share equally y « ur pleasures and your sorrows ? If you wera ill ; is it not my hand that should smoothe thy pillow ? And are not sorrows diseases of the mind—of the spirit » Wherefore , then , reject me ? You have a heart to appredate the joy 6 , the wants of a loving heart , in which to place full confidence and find relief for your sorrows . It is the violence of my manners that prevents you from placing the confidence in me . Belier » me , Theobald , four months of sorrow and repentance have chastened me ; it is to love and console you , and not to torment you , that I seek your confidence . I give you my word sever again to try to gain an ascendancy over you ; I
ant fully aware of your superior character and mind ; I oaly wish to share your life , to embellish it , and pour balm upon your wounds . You left my room became you thought that I wished to gain an ascendancy over yon . My friend , I swear onto you , in the name of my love , and in the name of yours , by all that I hold moBt saered and most dear , I only seek your love aud your confidence as you have mine . I will blindly obey you , I will no longer torment yom by jealousy , I shall never give you a word of reproach or of co »» sel . My repent , anoe is too sinoere , I have suffered too much to return to my past faults ; Wearehoth very young , Theobald . Do not condemn us both tosolitude . How ! We love each other , we are both of us pure , and shall w « live apart from each other both in body and in mind ? Do
not let your hea * C be a sufferer from a little feeling of omov * propre j I swear unto you that I only seek your affection and your confidence ; I shall bo the loving and obedient partner of yeur life , fiy friend , confidence is the marriage ef souls—their- mutual confessions are their caresses , and union , happiness and virtue are tkek traits . Bclieva me , I shall never abuBe your confidence , yeur confessions will In received in my bosom with the same mystery ani affectkm as thy caresses Take again your owaFanay * Try her but for a short time with love aadaflfectloa ; and you will find that you will be much happier than living in solitude . Yob seek a oaange , but are you really happy ? Oh ! no , you are not , with a heart like yours , and the life wo are lead . * ng . The only happiness of your wifa consists In your love and support . Turn not a deaf ear unto her en .
treaties ; ants her vows—to her repentance , for she loves you , and her whole Ufa will bo passed in love and gratitude towards you ; Youhave driven her from your bed and from your heart j could you do more if she wa » false % She spends her day a and nights in tears ; buo waits outside yoar door , but darcB not enter , for fear you should reproach her far it on the morrow . Jtfon mi , In the name of the many dear remembrances which yeubidmeiBvoke . skouldl ever have offended you , hearken to me ; give me again your confidence and your love , and open your heart to foe woman whose life is devoted to you . Oh , I will nEver abuse it . Oh , how have I effended you , my beloved , udIbbb by my suspicions and my temper , and ( when did a kind word fail to soothe me ? Give not veat to your anger—be not Inexorable . My heart is breaking . Theobald , pity ! pity oa her who loves you ! Trust your happiness to my ^ l " . 1 l I ^ Utt m ! ne to youre' * * Donot break tte heart that is beating only for jou . You who once i ° " * T . ^ mucb ' . S me - Whenyou confess tome
ra mine my lip upon your forehead-do you think that he , rti not beless thaa if pent up in your own breSt » Aat " i H ? f C 8 eUrmUtUalh 8 PP lneBSt 0 an e » Pty f ar that I wUlabuse your go odness ; « o , no I will only . hareandcon . eleyouteaU your . orrows : Butwlllyou be tot leai a man to have a loving woman to share your plea « nres and your Borrows ! Let thisunionof our , ? u * 8 Weet ajltb ^ Iove betwe ««> « s . Oh J we wold bo so happy ifyouwo « Id but try it . ' Youjwould $ ff £ iS ? ***?*» 8 md sm Vcouiance ready to follow yon wherever you liked . Perhap * after whTsu . n ^ 116 1110 "' 18310115 Of the ^ K ™ riiiss . u may nouri 8 h ia ouc breMt « *« » m kne . « w 7 i nterpret *»«¦ *<* ret www . If you Cdon » 1 V' ' cannot thlnk that J ° u ™ h t (> \« . iv . for eTer > to de P ™ ™ of mutual hap . , \ fi « n-l . &i h m short , a ,, Gloved , and we have been ^ vatad alread y so long J Soon I shall not dare to
lake WOposals , always refused , like my caresses . It not i . Mour character to make the first advances , and wa ctii > < ffl > sour Ttffo will fc « , oU tw mugfe tg make
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farther attempts , and life will then P 8 * b by , aud you will be unhappy and your wifc will foe of grief . Oh , return , return unto her . Tho following are extents from . * diary , with a lock to it found la the chamber of tine Duebeis at the Chateaude Praslin . On tho first loaf the followiag words are written : — ... 'For my husbanfl . the Duke d « Praslin ( forhimalono , ) Jan . 13 , 1842 . —Twice have the pages of this book been covered with the outpourings of a broken spirit . I burned them in a moment of despair , to efface all marks ofmy sufferings , and only show you my happy thoughts atyour return . Two years have passed , and my hopes aw destroyed for ever ; but I feel the want » f expressing to you . all the tenderness and love I have felt for you .
'Youhave taken my children from me . My ohildren ! Do you'ttoimk me capable of corrupting them ? I loved you to * well not to lovo my children , and yon have now taken them from me , to place them under the care of a giddy young person , without any religion , and whom you only know frem an eight months' acquaintance , Theobald ! Theobald ! was it not sufficient to abandon mo , without depriving me of the affection and the esteem of my children ! For five years , nearly , my pillow hna been wet with my tears , and my health has suffered from it . ' ¦ :. ¦ . Jan . 24 , 18-12 . —The duchess again complains bitterly of being deprived of her children .
1 Each day , she adds , ' adds additional sorrow to my existence . I have been calumniated , and perhaps you think me guilty , otherwise you would never have deprived me oi my children , to place them under the care of a stranger who bai asnrped my place in your house , and yet , before God , I swear I never loved any one but you . Oh , if I was not certain that your heart is for ever closed to me , I would maks a last attempt . I would throw myself atyour feet , and entreat you , in the name of your father , of your old days , ' 'of our children , of our first love , to have pity on her who has never ceased to love you . What an existence ! What a future ! With a husband and children , to be condemned to live and dis alone !' ''April 23 . —It 1 b now uorae time since I have written , and my position is now far worse than it was . Made , molieile D— is mistress of the house . What an ex . ample to the children ! A young woman of . 28 to be allowed to enter at all hours the room of a man of 37 ,
and to receive him at all houra in her own apartment Had she not the ' impertinence to tell me that she could not interfere between me nnd M . de Praslin , aa she thought he must have sufficient reasons to withdraw my children from superintendence ! ' Those reflections which I wrote down yesterday Upon a stray aheet are now singular to copy , and prove the extent of my unskilfulness . The best weapon , if I take it in ' my hand , turns and wounds myself . To-iay , per . ceiving myself angry at seeing you come out from a telea . fete with Mademoiselle D ., I thought to act mostjudiciously in flying with aut saying a word , believing that should thus avoid any scene of recrimination , aad
teatify my disapprebation gently , without risking anything . Good God ! How far was I from anticipating the frightful rage in which my uuluck y gentleness put you . Certainly , no violence could have urged you further than to follow me on the staircase , with loud insults and menacing gestures , and afterwards to come to my room and break my vases , and take from me two presea ts which I valued so much , and which you gave me when I believed you loved me so much . Perhaps you have given them to another . You have made me burn the letters—proofs , and only relica of that love . You have torn from me my children ; you have condemned me to grief for riiy present life , without leaving me a better hope for the future , and now you deprive me ef the past . * #
' All is finished ! We h ave quarrelled beyond recal . Oh , he is more than harsh , he is cruel towards me . Hew could he aequire this excess of aversion for me , whole love he knows to be so pure , so tender , so devoted f What infamous influences have been at work upon his heart , once « b good , so affectionate , so just ! He excuses h ' mself , doubtless , by telling himself that my character has become hateful and intractable . But whoso ia the fault ! Has he not dhordered all my sentiments , all my principles—does he not seize every occasion to hurt and wound me ? # # . The chamber I live in kills
ms with its bitter recollections . The sight of the staircase which I mounted en the day of marriage , so full of joy . ofluve . ofhopes . so trusting , —all this part of the chateau , which I inhabited when you loved me , when you never left me , all this makes me mad . I know not what I do or say , to ill have you treated me since you have come into possession of your magnificent , chateau . Your first word was to tell me that I was not to think myself at home . It is true you made me fine promises for the future , but how bave yon kept them ? It seems that since you have been Duke de Praslin , and possessor of the chateau , I am no longer worthy of being your wife . Since you have wished lor no more children you have bulievcd yourself freed from all sentiments of affection , from all consideration , from all regard . Was I then only a machine ! But I—I had placed all my heart , all my hope , all my happiness on our union . It was the hiBtory of my life , Far from dreading age , like so many women , I rejoiced in the anticipation of the happiness
we should have together , as having loved one another to long-in ' . talking over our old recollections—in living again in our children—in quitting together this world for a better . Alas ! wh y are you no longer religious ? My fears would not have arisen if y « u had n » t exoited them . I no longer see you amenable to any restraint of religion . For a long time you have adopted the appearance of the most disordered life ; you affect the greatest levity of manner , the greatest contempt for the blense . antes . I have seen you depart from the truth so far as to say that you have done one thing when youhave done another . Alas ! what oan I judge , except appearances , since you will not let me know the reality ? Oh , I am more unfortunate than bla . meable . If you do not wish to live sn abandoned life , as so many others , why do everything to make mo believe so ! You knew that I was of a jealous temperament ; if you lovei me , if you loved peace and union , why do all that would have been require d to excite jealousy in one the least susceptible » f it «
OND 4 TED LBTTEE FOI 7 ND IN IHE DI'Kb ' S BDREAr . You will not be surprised , sir , that after such an insult I can never consent that the person to whose ill conduct I owe it should remain under the same roof with me . You are completel y blinded towards me and towards yourself . You are doubtless free to do what suitB you ; '? utyou are aotfree to have my ( laughters brought up by a person whom I dsspise as her shameful conduct deserves . For a' long time I have sought an explanation with you ; I have done what I could to obtain it , but you refuse it . I demand , then , that yeu authorise me to travel , to aveid greaterscandals . During that time yon will rcfleet on tho course it will be suitable for you to adopt . Tho . day will ooma , Theobald , when you will return to jourself , and perceive how unjust and cruel you hava been U the mother of your children , in order to please a craokbrain who respect * nothing .
'January 24 , 1842 —Every day brings a fresh sorrow to my life . I am calumniated t * you , and yon perhaps bclieva mo guilty . Eut for that , however bitter your hatred and your vengeance fnv my bursts of passion and my jealousy , you would not have taken » n yourself to tear my children from me . Whatever may have been your abandonment of me , and your myslerioua conductfor so many years past , I have loved yoa enough to onttrtain the sweateBt illusion , to believe in a return , and evenoh ! do not laugh at my credulity—to still bolieve in youv tenderness and your fidelity . But now thai you hav « toin from mo all my ohildrtn , to gtva them an evapom , whom you scarcely know-to whom you have transferred all tha duties which I had to fulfil , all my joya , all my authovity-who has tha right to dispose of ray dearest property , my ohildren-who is the companion of my hnsbaud—who has acquired tha right of entering at hourunder
any , any circunsstaaces , into this apartment , where I , your wife , the mothe r of yosr children have no longer the right t o enter , evea when you are ill . Ok I under tha mask of an open carriage , there is mueh iakrigua , want of modesty in this parsoa , v » h » Is wasting ta religious sentiineats , aad witkwit which female virtuo is but a quicksand . This person , uidor proper control , might make a good goveraeas for the instruction of the children ; but to make of her tha mother of my children ; and I lira to sea myself condemned w ba thus replaced 1 May God forgiveyou ; as a Christian I pavdoa you . But you have raadame suffer too muo *; y * u hava snapped aannder our last ties . Thave is hatred and wntempt ia your heart towards ma . Was it- ntt en « ugh for you to Wo abandoned me , to have created a home , joys , oocn . pa ions , and interests of which I woa lgnaruat * W « it and filled my place bafore my verv « . « i I hnTfi vn '
qsf . 'WfWfflWJSK : p'Sf . 'ssftr ^ sssiTKaS s ^ ttKsa ^ sftte pity on her who has never csaned to love von nnrt » i , would .. till sacrifice k « life foryou s 2 t I ' now klw that my grief and sufferings ara odious to you , and make no impressions on your feelings . ' u . Pril u 23 'T I 8 long 8 ince l haTe ™ i"en . and my positionhas since become more and m « a patnfo . 1 Yeu aeem to have changed and put aside all external appear-Mademoiselle rei
ances . D— gns absolute . Never was a governess seen to assume eo scandalous a position . Believe me that it ia a great misfortune , a great evilfor all this Intimate and familiar oonduci with you this authority over the whole household , bhows that she is a peraon who believes that she has a right to put herself above all propriety . With he * all this is vanity , love of rule , domination , and pleasure . Reflect that a fraternal intimacy between you aud her , lookiag at your age and her position , is out of all consistenay . ^ What an example to give to young persons , to give Jo them , as a thing of course , a woman aged only 28 going and coming at all hours , and in any state of costume , to and from the chamber of a man no more than 37 , receiving him in her
own chamber , being tttMtHe with him for whole even ings , ordering furniture , directing journeys , parties of pleasure , 4 c . She has broken with her female friends In order to bringherself into greater relief , and thus on gross you entirely to herself ; always fi « Wm eanat « get rid of the children . HaB . he no ' ttKto Kto to Bay to me- ' I regret . Madame , that it U net MssihiJ :: rp « ssK- - £ ^ apr ^^ a ' fissfes
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aengible that he ha * reaioas too well founded for coming to auch a decision , formetad ' t to feclit to bean Important duty to conform to li . ' I » It possible that yomr wife , who haB ever bean bo pure , who has never loved but your children aud yourself above all things , shall be constrained to hear herself thus insulted by her to whom yen intrust to bring ap onr children , whom you have known only a few months , and of wh » m yeu spoke ill tome in the first part of that time ! You are afraid that I should corrupt y « ur children , and yet you abandon them to a person who makes a mockery of all the decencies of life , trampling them nnder her feat , who regards as superstitious all the exercises of religion ! You despise me bo much that I dare . not , repeat the expressions you made use of in telling me so , because I blamed her
manners and her arrogance . It would be better forme to approve of that which is blameuble , in order to obtain her permission for youte treat me better .. Then , indeed , should I render myself despicable , when . I submitted to purchase pleasure—even happiness bj baseness so vile . You are in such a state of irritation that you will not listen to me , and cannot comprehend me , I do not mean as you always teem to conceive , that Mademoiselle D— is your mistress In the full force of the expression , Thia supposition , on accountofyour children , is revolting to you , and you do not perceive that , in the eyes of all , her familiar relations with you , her absolute tmpire over the aouBe , my isolation , are as fully established as if she were bo openly . You have often concluded from appearances mush less decisive that thare were criminal relations between others . Cannot you , therefore , conceive my
grief at seeing my children torn from their mother , to be abandoned completely to a person who has no conception that good conduct aad virtue have their external forms , and ought never to adopt thoBe of vice ! How can I htlp being afflicted when I see them ia tho hands of a peraon who bus avowed her contempt for me by what I bave re . peated to you above , and who establishes her empire by making you hate and despise me ! Youhave always iftd to me , ' When there are suspicions , they should always be cleared up . ' But do you not find . that ahe daily engrosses your time , and abuses her power over you by using it to aggravate our differences and alienate ua more and more from each other ! Mademoiselle D— might be a very goed governess , but it is necessary she should be guided and controlled ; but not by a young man , because she is too light and inconsiderate , coquettisk and im . perious . i -.. ¦ •¦> . „ : . . ..
Tho best weapon ,, if I take it into my hand , is sure to turn upon and wound me . To-day , feeling disgust at Beeing you come from a ( ete-a-tete with Mademoiselle D— , I thought I was making a master-stroke by flying without saying a word ; thinking by this to avoid a scene , and mark my disapprobation mildly and without riik . Good God ! I was far from expecting the frightful rage into which my unfortunate mildness threw you ! Certainly no violence I could have used could have excited you fnnhrr than to pursue me oa the . staircase , with . , abusive Ianguage , uttered with loud voice and insulting gestures ; and then , afur retiring for a few . minutes into your own room , coming into mine , and breaking iny Saxon vases , my silver-gilt ewer ( aiguUre ) , or rather that of Horace , and taking away two presents to which I was much at .
tached , for you gave them me when I thought you loved so much ; my little rose plateau , and my small gilt vases . I trust you have not given them to her or to another . The other day , to punish me for having forced myself into your room , which she . can enter whenever she pleases , yoa came and broke all my otnbreHej . Today , because I fled in silence to avoid a scene , you destroyed things most precions to me , and rob me of the memorials of a love which hns been my entire happiness . You have already burnt those letters which were the sole remaining testimonies of that tenderness ; you have torn from me my children , you have condemned rae to all the miseries of life for the present , without leaving any hope of happiness for the future , and now yoa deprive me of the memorials of the past . Oh , my God ! I have loved him too much—you have struck true .
Frequently : and at thia very moment ( half-past one o'clock in the morning ) I cannot help figuring to myself that she is perhaps with him in his chamber , gessipping with him , in defiance of propriety , without being what is called his mistress . How ia it that he does not comprehend that there are many things wounding to the affections ? All Is not concentrated in one animal action , as regards the pains of the heart . lam convinced that i we were separated he would soon feel the necessity of observing strictly the proprieties of society with the governess of hie daughters . Can it be true , my God , thnt he despises me ; that he loveB mo no longer ! Sometimes I entertain doubts , and fancy that it is only a plan to correct me . But , on reflection , I cannot but remember that for five years be has daily broken more and more
with me , that I an no longer anything to him , that he has deprived me ef my rights as a mother , as mistress of his house ; that , on all occasions , my place ia assigned to ma by him . Is it a lure he has held out to rae , intimating that if I support all the severe privations he imposes upon me , without uttering a complaint , he will restore to me all my desirt s ? D ) es he imagine that he can it he wishes to do so ? Does he desire it 1 I often think he does . Could he then ? This I very much doubt . Mademoiselle D— would bring forward the bargain between them , and he would not dare to decide in my favour . And I well conceive that she has real advantages as a governess , but he thinks her superior to what she really is . He would see mo submissive , and believe me content ; he would think that the change would not be worth while , and in truth It is too certain that he has a very bad opinion of we . I have great faults , and I suffer too much from them to be ignorant of them ; but I am convinced he believes I have vices that I am not guilty of . Thii
morning , in conversing , Madame de Dolonieu , before this frightful scene , said to rae , 'Your husband haB an entire and tender devotion to you , has he not V I avoided the question , for I could not take it upon myself to say a , thing I did not think , which I knew , too wvll I could no longer boast of . He loves me no more ! But , my God , to whom I have said , ' Deprive me , if so it must be , of his lore , that only joy of my life—that life of my heartbut let him bo saved , that we may one day be reunited with our children in Thy bosom as the reward of this sacrifice '—Oh tell ms , my God , that he will love me again when he knows this—that he will not curse my memory , and my prayers will bo granted . It is so aew to me to see him give himself up to these violent fits of passion , and to which mine have never approached , that I frequently eaanot help thinking that this . violence is feigned ; inasmuch as , in general , he does not break things to pieces until after he haB reflected . God grant thnt this may be so 1 for if he be so anxious
to correotma as to purchase my cure at the price of extravnguHecs , with an air almost of Miy . / roid , then ho Btill lores me ; and jet , what hoTibla expressions of disgust ! They canaoteome from a feigned anger 1 But did he not say to me the other day , in tha presence of Berthe , and throwing to me all he had broken in » y absence , that he would d « the same every time that I broke something in his apartment ? This isaBingular idea , since I never intenionally broke anything belonging to hka . I only wished to force open the door of his chamber , at the moment he , was bolting it . He afttrwards told me coolly that he would dothesama whenever I happened to repeat the breaking . This , then , is a plan , a calculated resolution come t « in advance . Why thea should I take it for a ml act of passion ! To-day , however , I have neither said , nor broken anything . Truly , this is paying dear for a silent mark of
dissatiefactioa . I cannot conoeive how matters will be ar . ranged . 1 baow nothow to help thinking that a separutiaa would ba bast . Things ara becoming more and mora envenomed . I wish to promote his happtne 86 s ; but , as his lift is now arranged , instead of contrasting to it , I destroy it . I am suffering a thousand martyrdoms . If I were to go quite alene to Pretot , under tha pretence of sea-bathing , he would have time to leern whether bo U really more happy with the life he has arranged with Mademoiselle D— aad the children , without having me as his wife , or whether itwould be more agreeable to him t « oommenoe a now life altogether with me . Three months may be saflicicnt for this exparl . ment , and I could resign myself with the greater facility H live aloue dawn there , tkaa te retaain kare in the position la whiok 1 find aaysolf . I knew that as things are now my libsenoe weuld be rather a relief , than a » ri . ration . '
lETTER WHCnOBI DATB , F 008 » MI IBB DDKH DE PEASJ . 1 N * 8 , BBCBBTABI AT FBASM 1 T , 'Da aot believe , my dear Theobald , that I am not aware of my error when I have forgetten myself bo aa to tell you , in language too violent , what I have suffered , and what * fflicts ma still . n « waver will-grounded and reasonable my grief may bejj ought eithar to conceal it or express more oalmly tntrnatural anxiety it causes me for onr ohildren . Now things are come to this point , I aasare you it would be better tor un to separate quiatly , privately , without speaking to any one . Time brings things about ; it will one day open your ayes to the sud and deplorable influence which you have suffered to gain each ascendancy over you , such authority over onr children and your house . Let me await that moment in peace and solitude . For years past I have made vain efforts to appear calm and resigned to a state of things which I firmly believo is as injurious to ouv eldest
daughters as it is painful to myself . - Fur a long time I believed in your affection ; aad that gave me patience under my sufferings . Sow , all Illusion has ceased ; I see that I never could have occupied the plaoe I coveted in your heart , as I onoe supposed . You were for a loag time bo very kind to me , that I believed you loved me with a reciprocal affection , and that you would one das be mine ogaia . This illusien ia destroyed . If I was not able to win your affections , formerly , I cannot hope to do so new after so much trouble has sonred my temper of which I am full y awwe . My heart is still the same ' entuel , devoted to you and oar children ; but I see tha I am nothing either to you or the children . You have annulled my life ; you foroe me to be only a spectator whereas I . ught to be the second head of the familj i see a thousand thingg around me equall y ebnoxieus to my principles and my affections . I am evidently a burden t » you , and Borne of my ohildren , in appearance at least , for you are far from kn . wing their real feelings . In flue , you have made my life useless here , and yon let me feel that I am ia the way and only tolerated . I know I can do nothing to change an iota ef your determinatiOH ; I only ask you , therefore , to make such arrangements that I may not be compelled to witness tilings which I ouanot help blaming from my rery heart . You have shown in every way that you feel Beither eBte « m nor friendship for me , and that you would have onr children share your sentiments .. X wish for nothing but to let you enjoy in peace the kind , of life you have chosen , Bithout being an wroilUug ewctatw of it , I suffer too
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much here , deprived ' of everything in o ,. , ^ 5 % la the midst of those I hold dear , but who ° Wm from me by an intriguer . I cannot undeM ^ V ^ elS unhanpy life should give a relish to your n " » C » what ^ ou plea ,, but , for mercy , ^ X ^ J AlBO UNDATED # I believed mjself a portion of you . j t * that all ought to be common between U 8 and ^ to ffl » mutually . At present you have established 8 upp ° t « 4 separation between us ; we are nothi n » Coril Pletft strangers one to another . I for a lone t L ° 'S myself with illusions of a return of affection « fla tt "ed a'l the possibilities of this werld , topictUre to lti ' i Of it was a time to be passed , that you loved m 8 elftll « t all mysteries would be cleared up b y you i u ' th at and satisfactory manner ; in short , I long a * , niU | » sl dream of happiness to come with confidence tver J more with hope . At present—but let us talk ^ tili of it , happiness- is no longer in qutstlen h " Iongu must abandon the hope of your return and th ^^ * children , I must at least know what I havetot ° J My life is not supportable ; it is painful dis » r * ° . me , nnd , do notdeceive yourself , very dangfro fljl to future prospects of the children . Things etnnot ' ° " * in their present state . Therefore , reflect- « : tlir " » mat i aie iv kb at
Buppui-jou «» me least a becoml " tion , and an interest in life . Oh . ' but jOh w gl > Os i-You have arrived at tuch a point thit yOn j Wcal ( ! longer go out with your wife and your childre n v " ° being accompanied by thatperBon for whom v ttt taken from me what you gave me in the first < ia " *" av ' '"marriage / You are so much under her yoke th ° ' dare undertake nothing without her . You wo l 0 sider it wrong to leave her for a momtnt , aJf Mn * wif » , the mother of nine children , must kL yotlf alone . ' ' ' nd ^ ift LETTER , WITHOUT DAT ! , FOUND IK TBS SECEETAEI DUCHESS DE PBAS 11 N . "'
'I cannot nnderstand what are yonr views as * future of our children , nor by what princi ples v ou # your conduct , nor what is the nature of your senti '" " with respect to me . You will not under anj pretejf "" * my letters , nor accord me a serious convtHau 0 any explanation of any kind . If it be the dreai ' f" * explanation on your private conduct , you are * ron T fear that I will enter on that subject . I for a long ww £ expected , hoped for , that moment almost as mud , ! desired it , but it is now an illusion completely destroy / i too ck 8 mat
ou nave riy provca you no longer love nu and that all relations must cease between us , for met » be absurd enough to expect from you any mark of affec tion . I therefore only demand , of yoa , I swear it u ,, ! which is not refused to any woman , unless she be a ' aiOll ster of corruption ; and that is , the permission to dom ' duty towards my childreu , and to enjoy the consolation that I can find in the midst of them alone , in the c vices that I might render them , and in their tenilernes ' * tosoften the bitter regrets which wring myb ^ artat i ing lost your iiffection ; I would have given all my vw to regain your tenderness , to enjoy it again for some m ! ments , and then to die ; but I have been cowardl * « T fi « h , guilty , I admit it , in abandoning to ion ,, ' . " ail
xhnrfl nf riol , t « n » l- w rtiiMrnn ... . J " mj share of rights over our children , having p cturd 7 ft myself that this sacrifice , greater a hundred 5 aStt £ that of my life , would touch you , that you wouMmarn to me , and that you would give yourself to Z a 8 ec 2 time . But I take heaven to witness , I would nev W made a similar concession for any motive , If I hsa JJ been convinced that you would put them in rospectabU hand 3 , and that only for their instruction . Never ncr would I have willingly consented to be depri ved of all relations with my children , to no longer occtrov mv «) f with their health , with their comfort . But thit mj 2 the case . Never have I been sufficiently unnatuurt sufficiently infamous to renounce the careof iny children not to live with them d to exercise
, an no influence «*« them . You must be very blind not to sse that you are ia the hands of an intrigante . Yes , the person who is cans bleofprofitingbythe dissensions which she remarked ' between us on her arrival , ia order to increase her authority , which has completely separated us , which has totally separated a mother from her children , is profoundly immoral , and unworthy of the confidence which you place in her . A woman who accepts such a falaa position Ib the most dan jerous example for young girls she purchases authority at the price of her reputation ' , Women who make such bargains have only another step o take to loae theuwelrea in fact , as they " have alresdv lost themselves in appearance . Having had the misfor .
tune to thrust herself into a very false position , Mdlle , D . ought , if she had the sentiment of modesty or the least tact , to have reserved manners , to act becoming )? towards you ; instead of which , by her c induct , shame ' less towardB you , arrogant in the house , scandalous to me , she puts herself forward in a scandalous manner '
ALSO WITHOUT DATE , When I shall be no more , perhaps your eje 3 will be opened , and you will comprehend that she who has founded her domination b y embroiling you with the mother of your children , in accustoming you to avoid that mother , is not worthy of bringing them up You have feared the influence of your wife , who has laved yoa above all , aad you are the puppet of the caprices of that woman , who is void ef principle and sympathy . All I atk of you is , to remain what I should naturally be , your wife , your companion , the mother of our children : she
has excited you to separate yoursolf from me , to give ber my place near you , near my children , and in tbe establishment , and you have yielded it to h « r . I asked you only to give her the consideration duein everv house to a governess and you did not consider that sufficient . She has incited you to ill-treat me , to drive me from your house , to break everything in my apartment , to de . pnve me of my children , to take fro « i me all authority over them and in the house , you have yielded te her in every thing ; with a look , a sign , she makes you act and obey her . '
In the same letter she accuses the governess ofinci . ting her children to doubt her love , her intelligence , her reputation ,
IETTEB FOUND IN THE BECEETABT OF THE DSKE DE PRASUN , AT PKASIIK . «« * , m . . / , ' 'Paris , June 15 , 1 SJ 7 . My dear Theobald , —I have waited until this moment the result of tbe promises that you renewed to me , on mj return from Italy , t » change the organisation of our homo . You appear to have forgotten them , and I find myself obliged to remind you that I do not think I ought to return to Praslin except it be to re-enter on the exercise of ny rightB and to fulfil the duties ofmo . therand mistress of the household In their full . st extent . The ByBtem of governesses has always succeeded badly with as , and it is time , for the welfare of our children and the dignity of oar home , to abnndsn it . Se long as my
daughters shall not be married , I nill reside everywhere among them , I will be present at all their occupatiens , I will accompany them everywhere . All my plans are formed , ani when you Bhall bave reflected you will « rtainly find as many motives for confidence in the eduoa . tion of our daughters nnder the care of a mo ther aa under that ef a governess . Masters will supply as efcaSy at Praslia as afr Paris tho lessons of a governeis , whe has always stood in need of their assistance . I have foreseen everything , and all will be easily arrangad . My father , I know , has offtred to Mile D— an honourable pension for life . In going with it to England , her talents and her patrons will procure a becoming position more easily than at Paris . You would be wrong to bo ' disquieted with the gritf that our daughters would fee \ ; it
would be much shorter and much less profound thaptou imagine ; I have certain reasons for not doubting that . For a long time back you have expressed yourself nilb respect to the conduct of Mile . D— in a manner to leave no doubt that you hava opened yonr eyes , to a great part at least , of Its grave impropriety . What would secure her retirement in an honourable manner would be a pension from my father , guaranteed bvme , and her journoy to England , which would explain away favourably a sudden departure . By delicacy I first sought a supportsr in your family in order to open yonr eyes ; afttv having waited for the result in vala for yaaw , [ nraet « t length sabmit to the legitimate desire if ay fetter to speak to you in Use name of the veritable interests of oav children . When
you , my natural supporter , fail me , I must let aiyself be guide * by lay father . I do not doubt that when tho first enmi shall bave pasted away , you will rejoice at a crisis which will re-establish natural order in our home . If it enters into your arrangements thatMHe D shall return to Praslin to seek her things , I will wait until Bhe shall return before going there ; if they mast simply be sent to her at Paris , I will start as soon as yon please for Praslin . After all the rumours whicU have been current , I hare shown ber sufficient kindness to restore her character , as you pointed oat to me , lo so far as it depended on n » , in order to make » er t * leave with honour . I have fulfilled my task the welfare of my children , that of their establishmentwfl >
, not permit me to prolong b y resignation a state of thing " pernicious to all . Let not the fear of recrimination on these painful matters torment you . It enters into » y views as much as it does into yours not to return to them . My silence on previous circumstances , almoet the same , is a sure guarantee of . this to vou The first condition ot family life is peace and ago ' od understand . ing . That it is my object , and it will be easily obtained when no attempts shall any longer be made to separate children from their mother , and to reign by division . It is not without serious reflection , nor without the assurance that I follow the opinion of my father ,
that I have determined to adopt snoh a eerious « solution . Itwould have obtained , I am sure , tho approval of my uncle de Coigny , who is to me the representative of my mother , if I had not avoided till now to speak to him of these sad details . My wishes are , that everything Bhall be arranged between ay father , you , and myself , without the intervention of other advise "' Yon have often expressed to me , my dear Theobald , tbe deBire to see things take another face , beoause you really feal the , dlseomfort of our home ; but you always draw back . I now count on your co-operation , as in everything which concerns the happiness of our children . ( FAHur Sebastiani PsJsm *' .
TO TUB DUKB D £ PEiSLIS . ( Written in pencil , ' no data . ) You have a rare and precious talent at poiwnidff everything . While your condact influenced only tl » happiness of my life it was my duty to be silent , and * waa so . If you imagine , with your muttered wofdJ » D » yaur threats , t « make people understand that I Dbbo'C approve In publlo than in private the conduct of a P * " son whom I despise , and who does not merit your coB » fidence aor mine , you are right , for I think it a 9 cana > ( CvniM to tfte Ihinl raj ( .-J
Murder Of The Duchess De Praslin.
MURDER OF THE DUCHESS DE PRASLIN .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 11, 1847, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1435/page/2/
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