Part 35 (1/2)

The friendshi+p that subsisted between this illustrious pair is an everlasting monument that honours their sex The Queen used to say of her, that she was the only woall ”Like the blessed land of Ireland,” observed Her Majesty, ”exeerous to mankind, so was she freed by Providence from the venom by which the finest form in others is empoisoned No envy, no ambition, no desire, but to contribute to the welfare and happiness of her fellow creatures--and yet, with all these estielic qualities, she is doomed, from her virtuous attachht of that affliction, which, sooner or later, must bury us all in one co hourly”

These presenti storms were mutual

From frequent conversations with the Princesse de Lamballe, from the evidence of her letters and her private papers, and from many rehness, and from persons in her confidence, there is abundant evidence of the forebodings she constantly had of her own and the Queen's untimely end

[A very remarkable circumstance was related to me when I was at Vienna, after this horrid murder The Princess of Lobkowitz, sister to the Princesse de La her to conceal the box carefully till further notice After the riots had subsided a little in France, she was apprised that the box contained all, or the greater part, of the jewels belonging to the Princess, and had been taken froust

It is supposed that the jewels had been packed by the Princess in anticipation of her dooency or desire]

There was no friend of the Queen to who like the deference he paid to the Princesse de Lanac, the Conac, the Comte d'Artois, the duchesse de Guiche, her husband, the present Duc de Grammont, the Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt, etc, fled from Paris, he and the Queen, as if they had foreseen the awful catastrophe which was to destroy her so horribly, entreated her to leave the Court, and take refuge in Italy So also did her father-in-law, the Duc de Penthievre; but all in vain She saw her friend deprived of De Polignac, and all those near and dear to her heart, and became deaf to every solicitation

Could such constancy, which looked death in its worst forreat and estimable qualities in its possessor?

The brother-in-law of the Princesse de Lamballe, the Duc d'Orleans, was her declared enereat victims have been persecuted to the tomb, which had no sooner closed over the last than the hand of Heaven fell upon their destroyer

That Louis XVI was not the friend of this member of his fae adicide companions to expend millions to undermine the throne, and shake it to pieces under the feet of his relative, his Sovereign, the friend of his earliest youth, are of the treason, and who held the thunderbolt, but would not crush hi a throne for hie where they flattered him he would find a diadem

The Prince de Conti told me at Barcelona that the duchesse d'Orleans had assured him that, even had the Duc d'Orleans survived, he never could have attained, his object The immense sums he had lavished upon the horde of his revolutionary satellites had, previous to his death, thrown him into embarrassment The avarice of his party increased as his resources diht its own punishment in either way He must have lived suspected and miserable, had he not died But his reckless character did not desert him at the scaffold It is said that before he arrived at the Place de Greve he ate a very rich ragout, and drank a bottle of chah it

The supernumerary, the uncalled-for martyr, the last of the four devoted royal sufferers, was beheaded the following spring For this murder there could not have been the shadow of a pretext The virtues of this victim were sufficient to redeem the naland and Russia, who had already borne it, had clouded its ihteen years' imprisonment and final land, is enough to stigmatize her forever, independently of the many other acts of tyranny which stain her memory

The dethronement by Elizabeth of Russia of the innocent Prince Ivan, her near relation, while yet in the cradle, gives the Northern Empress a claim to a similar character to the British Queen]

She had never, in any way, interfered in political events Malice itself had never whispered a circumstance to her dispraise After this wanton assassination, it is scarcely to be expected that the innocent and candid looks and streah raised in humble supplication to his brutal assassins, with an eloquence which would have disarer, could have retches so much more pitiless than the most ferocious beasts of the wilderness, or saved him from their slow but sure poison, whose breath orse than the upas tree to all who caoule proof of the baleful influence of that contaminated prison, the infectious tomb of the royal oodness and a on her lips like the race, elegance, and innocent vivacity, which were the acknowledged characteristics of her beautiful inal attractions The lines of deep-seated sorrow are not easily obliterated If the sanguinary republic had not wished to obtain by exchange the Generals La Fayette, Bournonville, Laned into the hands of Austria, there is little: doubt but that, froetate only to make life a burthen, she would have been sent to share the fate of her murdered family

How can the Parisians cohness, on her return to France, by no means what they required in a Princess? Can it be wondered at that her rief should be visible when amidst the murderers of her family? It should rather be a wonder that she can at all bear the scenes in which she moves, and not abhor the very nae to herself, or those most dear to her, or of some beloved relative or friend destroyed!

Her return can only be accounted for by the spell of that all-powerful 'amor patriae', which sometimes prevails over every other influence

Before I dis to my readers to receive so one or two of the leading monsters, by whom the horrors upon which I have expatiated were occasioned

David, the fauinary tribunal which conde On this account he has been banished from France since the restoration

If any one deserved this severity, it was David It was at the expense of the Court of Louis XVI that this ungrateful being was sent to Rome, to perfect himself in his sublime art His studies finished, he was pensioned from the same patrons, and upheld as an artist by the special protection of every member of the Royal Fanified by the na of the unfortunate Louis XVI, when on trial, ”Well!

when are we to have his head dressed, a la guillotine”

At another ti deputed to visit the Temple, as one of the committee of public safety, as he held out his snuff-box before the Princesse Elizabeth, she, conceiving hewhat she had done, darting a look of contempt at her, instantly threay the snuff, and dashed the box to pieces on the floor