the world in which they are living privately | Lagarde observed, 'Ah! pour celui là, c'est as the King and the Princes of the house of un homme à ressources.' After dinner, Orleans. Even dethronement and exile sub- Fagel privately asked him what he meant mit to the conditions of the electric tele-by homme à ressources: Ah,' said he, he is graph, and circulating library press, the railroad, and the glass-house, within the walls of which there is no privacy.

till two days before she went. Peel persisted afterwards that he told me of it; but I know I never heard it, and it was not a thing to have escaped me if I had."

were alone at Walmer, occupied in reading a book, which seemed to absorb all his attention; he would afterwards remain in a musing attitude, apparently pondering on what he had read. At last he asked him what was the book that seemed to interest him so much it was 'Habershon on the Prophecies.""

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"Sunday 24th.-This morning at breakfast, the Duke was very entertaining, and told several anecdotes. I happened to mention M. de Villêle, who was minister to Louis “Tuesday, 26th.-This morning at breakXVIII. Aye,' said he, ‘Villêle in early life fast the Duke said to me, 'Did you hear was a lieutenant in the French navy, and in what happened at the wedding? meaning that situation once received a curious lesson that of the Princess Augusta of Cambridge. of English coolness. When Admiral Corn- Replying in the negative, he continued, wallis was blockading Bangalore, the French When we proceeded to the signatures, the frigate on board of which Villêle served, King of Hanover was very anxious to sign wanted to introduce some supplies, which the before Prince Albert, and when the Queen Admiral would not permit, saying, that if approached the table, he placed himself by they persisted in the attempt, he would fire her side, watching his opportunity. She upon them. The French lieutenant, think- knew very well what he was about, and just ing he would not put his threats in execu-as the Archbishop was giving her the pen, tion, made for the port, when Cornwallis im- she suddenly dodged round the table, placed mediately put his ship alongside and gave herself next to the Prince, then quickly took him such a broadside, that he struck his flag the pen from the Archbishop, signed, and at once, and said, "We are your prisoners." "No, not at all," said Cornwallis; "I am not at war with you, and have nothing further to say to you; go about your business." But this they did not choose to understand, and insisted on his taking them in tow, as a victor, which he at last complied with, and took them to the nearest French port, when he made them his bow and left them."

"He then talked of George IV. and his talent for imitation. He said, when he sent for me to form a new administration in 1828, he was then seriously ill, though he would never allow it. I found him in bed, dressed in a dirty silk jacket and turban night-cap, one as greasy as the other; for notwithstanding his coquetry about dress in public, he was extremely dirty and slovenly in private. The first words he said to me were, Arthur, the Cabinet is defunct; ' and then he began to describe the manner in which the late Ministers had taken leave of him, on giving in their resignations. This was accompanied by the most ludicrous mimicry of the voice and manner of each individual, so strikingly like, that it was quite impossible to refrain from fts of laughter.""

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gave it to Prince Albert, who also signed next, before it could be prevented. The Queen was also very anxious to give the precedence at Court to King Leopold before the King of Hanover, and she consulted me about it, and how it should be arranged. I told Her Majesty that I supposed it should be settled as we did at the Congress of Vienna. "How was that," said she, "by first arrival?" "No, Ma'am," said I, "alphabetically, and then, you know, B. comes before H." This pleased her very much, and it was done.'

The next extracts belong to a visit a month later.

"Monday, 9th.-This morning at breakfast Arbuthnot gave the account of an extensive gang of swindlers in London, who had been lately detected by the Lord Mayor, and remarked how credulous and gullible the English tradesmen were, in becoming such easy dupes to their plots and rogueries. Aye,' said the Duke, 'I remember an old Spaniard, named Escoiquez, who had lived much with Talleyrand, used to say, "On parle beaucoup de charlatans, mais il y a "The Duke said in the course of the even- beaucoup plus de dupes que d'escrocs dans ing: When I went to Oxford as Chancellor, ce monde." From thence he spoke of TalI was very much puzzled when they told me leyrand, of whom he had formerly seen a I was to make a Latin speech at the inaugu- great deal. Talleyrand once said to me, ration. Now any speech is difficult, but a "Monsieur le Duc, vous connaissez le monde, Latin one is impossible; so in this dilemma I pourriez vous m'indiquer un endroit, où un applied to my physician, as most likely from honnête homme pourroit se retirer pour vivre his prescriptions to know Latin, and he made en paix ?" I at first thought of Malta; but me a speech, which answered very well. I then I recollected the liberty of the press believe it was a very good speech, but I did there, and that would not do; and at last we not know much of the matter.' Arbuthnot both seemed to agree that England, after all, tells me that the Duke is very religious, and might be the best. It is astonishing how all thinks much on serious subjects. Some time those who have the true conservative feeling back he observed him every evening, when they | at heart look up to England as the only solid

barrier left against the spirit of innovation. | to forward him also this letter. I dined In Holland particularly, where there is much with Junot at Cintra, who received me with a good sense, all the right-thinking people are vulgar, swaggering manner, trying to imitate firmly of that opinion; and in fact it is only Napoleon, which he could not do, and at the the rogues, whose object is plunder and anar- same time never losing an opportunity of chy, that wish for our destruction.' throwing out some sly insinuation against "I told him several anecdotes of Talley- him. He talked to me a good deal about rand and Montrond, to which he listened, and Lady asked me if she was not of a very then continued: Yes, he was a very agreea- high family in England; he said she was ble companion, though not a talkative one; très grande dame, et très bonne femme, he would often remain an hour in company mais extrêmement philanthrope.' Amongst without speaking, and then would come out the eminent Portuguese who were cruelly with an epigram, which you never forgot. I treated by the French during this invasion, was one day at Madame Crawford's house in was the Count Sa. Bandiera; and he gave Paris, when some one came in and announced me dreadful accounts of the brutal excesses the death of Napoleon. It made a sort of committed in his house by the French offisensation in the room, and Madame Craw-cers who were quartered upon him, and their ford exclaimed," Ah mon Dieu! quel événe- continued drunkenness and pillage. Among ment!" Talleyrand was sitting in a corner these officers billetted upon him was the Gennear her, and very quietly replied, "Ce n'est eral Loison, who at one time was dangerously plus événement, c'est une nouvelle." I added ill, and confined to his bed; Junot one another instance. During the time of the morning sent for the unfortunate Bandiera, Directory, Talleyrand was dining with a par- and asked him how the general was going ty, with whom was Regnier, who talked much on; as he could only answer that he was of himself, and said, "Quoiqu'on en dise, je still extremely ill, Junot knitted his brow, n'ai jamais fait qu'une méchanceté de ma vie." and said, Tenez, M. Bandiera, je vous conTalleyrand coolly added, "Et quand finira-t- seille de bien prendre soin de lui; prenez elle ?" He then talked about gentlemen, bien garde qu'il se retablisse, car si le généand what constituted the character. He said ral vient à mourir dans votre maison, le dia'I always recollect that expression which has ble m'emporte si je ne vous enterre pas tout been attributed to Charles II., that he could vivant sous lui.' It may be easily supposed make a hundred noblemen, but he had not with what anxiety the poor Bandiera the power to make a single gentleman. watched the recovery of General Loison, Foreigners hardly know our definition of the who fortunately at last was restored to term; they are always inquiring "si tel ou health." tel est gentilhomme," they do not understand "When we were assembled in the drawwhat is meant by a real English gentleman."" ing-room before dinner, the Duke entered, "He began to talk of his campaigns in Por- with the proclamation issued at Dublin tugal, and said:-'I had Junot in my front Castle, to repress the Repeal Meeting at for a long time with his army. It was, I Clontarf, on the 8th inst., which he had just think, near St. Harem that we came to received from town by express. He seemed blows, and I gave him a good beating; he very much elated, and putting on his spechimself was wounded in the head. The next tacles, read the whole proclamation out loud day I sent to inquire after his health, as a les- from beginning to end, laying great stress on son of the old school, and sent also a present the words tending to overthrow the Constiof fruit, which he acknowledged a few days tution of the British Empire as by law eslater. I afterwards forwarded to him some tablished. I could see that he was much intercepted letters from his wife, who was pleased with this exercise of authority and then somewhere in the rear, and of whom it that he thought the Government had been appeared he was extremely jealous, for I dilatory in not adopting these strong measures recollect they were full of complaints, and at an earlier period. He said, We must asking him what name she should give to a now show them that we are really in earnest; child she was going to produce, but always there must be no paltering or truckling with stipulating that it should begin with an A. O'Connell; and as we are well prepared for She afterwards retired to France, when Ju- every emergency, I have no fears for the not's army was getting into a worse plight, result. Ten years of misrule in Ireland have and I intercepted another letter from her, in rendered our task more difficult, but we must which there was this remarkable expression, now bring the rascals on their knees; they 'Je me retire chez votre père en Bourgogne, give us now a fair pretext to put them down, où je dois rester quelque tems; je n'ose pas as their late placard invites the mob to asaller à Paris, car je ne sais pas dans quel sens semble in military order, and their horsemen parler à l'Empereur de votre campagne, qui to form in troops. This order probably was devient si malheureuse.' I had the attention not written by O'Connell himself, but by

some eager zealot of his party, who has thus to his neighbors. In a shop at Dover is to brought the affair to a crisis. Our procla- be seen, framed and glazed, a short note, mation is well drawn up, and avails itself of the unguarded opening which O'Connell has given us to set him at defiance.' He then turned to me and said, 'Do you know what the Pope's Nuncio, Gravina, said at Lisbon, at the time of the insurrection ?—

Pour la canaille (
Faut la mitraille.'

As he went in to dinner, he repeated the couplet two or three times."

We will leave England's great commander with a sketch of his personal appearance, and his own abridged account of his last great battle.

which he once wrote to the owner, ordering fifty yards of flannel; it is kept as a precious relic. On his return he walks again on the platform, till he enters to dress for dinner, at which he also eats with appetite, mixing meat, rice, and vegetables into a mess, which fills his plate; he drinks very little wine, and during the evening, two decanters of iced water are placed by his side, which are generally empty when he goes to bed. When when there are ladies (and when only my we were only men, he dressed in boots, but daughter) always wears shoes, silk stockings, with his star and the garter. He is exceedingly polite to all, and particularly attentive "I shall add a few details of the Duke's to women; he is la vieille cour personnifiée. daily life at Walmer. He always rises at six Although still active, yet age has made some o'clock, and walks on the platform, then havoc with his frame; his hair is quite white, returns to his room to dress, which, as I have but not scanty; he is very deaf with the left said, takes a very long time. He is remark-ear, and when left to himself, or engaged in ably neat in his appearance, always wearing a white waistcoat and trowsers, under which is a good guard of fleecy hosiery against the cold; and a blue riding coat in the morning. At ten o'clock he appears at breakfast; he seems to eat heartily, and make messes of rusks and bread in his tea, never meat or eggs. He converses the whole time, then retires, saying, 'Well, we shall dine at seven.' He remains in his room, writing letters and despatches, and making notes, some rather droll and concise, on the different letters to be answered by his secretary in his name; and Greville's hand is become so like to his, that few people can distinguish the difference. Greville showed me one from Fitzroy Somerset, with details about Ireland. note on the margin was, If I am to manage the affairs of Ireland, I had better go there myself.' About two o'clock, he generally gets on his horse, and gallops over the Downs, or, perhaps, to Dover, where he is very active in attending to his business as Warden of the Cinque Ports. He seems to be worshipped all over the country, for he is very charitable and always ready to do good.

thought, he stoops very much, and his head
seems to droop on his breast; but the instant
any subject is started that interests him, his
eye brightens, his head is raised, he puts his
hand to his right ear to catch the sound, and
enters into the argument with all the spirit,
and judgment, and penetration, which form
so striking a part of his character.
foolish woman in society once asked the
Duke to give her an account of the Battle of
Waterloo. 'Oh,' replied he, it is very
easily done. We pummelled them, they
pummelled us, and I suppose we pummelled
the hardest, so we gained the day.'

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Few coming historians of the events of the past thirty years will be satisfied without turning over the pages of this olla-podrida, spiced though it be with a condiment which gives the compound a monotonous and by no means a pleasant flavor. Few lovers of good society will regret, from the impressions of himself, unconsciously revealed by the writer of this journal, that they did not personally know Mr. Raikes.

From the Athenaeum. the distance warned the household of women that the Lesghis were in the plain and coming nearer. Old inhabitants declared that though the Lesghis had been coming from time im

Russian Princesses Prisoners in the Caucasus. Recollections of a Frenchwoman, captive to Chamyl-Les Princesses, &c.]. Collected by Edward Merlieux. (Paris, Sartorious.)

memorial they had never got so far as Tsinondale. Accordingly the ladies waited, and not until their tenantry began to run would they begin to pack up their plate and diamonds. They sent out a scout to ascertain whether there was really anything to be apprehended. During the absence of this man—

"A man who pretended to be an Armenian merchant arrived at the mansion, and asked with money, he said, and, on the point of hospitality for the night. He was travelling crossing the country, had been made so uneasy by the reported movements of the Lesghis as to have decided on turning back. The tale was probable enough, but the man's appearance, no doubt, produced a bad impression on the Princess Tchavtchavadzè, for, this man leave this place on any account. said she to her servants, You must not let Disarm him, and if he tries to escape, shoot him.' The severity of such an order was suggested by the times, but the Princess added, with her habitual kindliness, Take care of the man, and let him have supper.' The servants only attended to the last order hastened the catastrophe. of the Princess, their neglect of her first Still the Princess Tina (an old aunt) continued repeating The Lesghis will never come to Tsinondale.""

"THE only governess who had ever been up Monte Rosa" figured the other day in a musical farce. Here, in a railway shilling book, we met with something more real, more portentous, and more piquant,—a live governess, and the only one, we assume, who was ever captured by Chamyl, the romantic Circassian chief, prophet, rebel, and liberator, -a governess, moreover, who has returned from her imprisonment (with other ladies) among the beauties of his Seraglio, to tell the tale of her captivity,-a governess, to conclude, who went out from France no governess at all, but who stumbled into her place, and its consequent misfortunes and martyrdoms, by accident. Madame Drancey, it is sated in the preface, set out for Tiflis, "with the view of founding a commercial establishment there." Being disappointed, however, in attaining her object, she was induced to enter the family of the Prince David Tchavtchavadze as instructress of his elder daughters. This was at the beginning of the year 1854. In the spring the family removed to the Prince's estate at Tsinondale, a carriage journey of two days from Tiflis. Here they were joined by the Princess Varvara Orbéliani, three months before made a The next morning, in the midst of the toowidow by the death of her husband in an en- late packing up, while Madame Drancey was gagement with the Turks. This lady was hiding her letters in her stays, and putting accompanied by her young son, her niece, into her sac de nuit a French grammar and and her servants. The party, enjoying this a little pious book,-when the diamonds of villeggiatura, had not gone from Tiflis, appa- the Princess were safe in the country carrently, without being warned, half in jest riages, and while the old aunt, scared out of half in earnest, that their retreat was peril- her serenity at last, was calling to some one ously near the seat of war. Madame Dran- to hide her tea-things in the granary, the cey had been counselled by an unknown colonel on the promenade at Tiflis, not to go into the country unprovided with a private poignard of her own for defence, in case the tribes should make a stoop on their dove-cot. But the French lady was of good courage, and believed that the age, if not of abductions in general, for her abduction in particular, was past. The party had not been long at Tsinondale before the Prince David was summoned to undertake the defence of a fortress two days' journey thence. But still there seems to have been no alarm, not even when the sight of burning cornfields in

Lesghis came. The rout and the terror caused by the entry of the ravishers were as terrible as if the event had not been foreseen. A Tartar, with hideous countenance, pounced on Madame Drancey and dragged her down the granary staircase under a narrow doorway, which bruised her head desperately. At the bottom of the stairs a man in a turban stopped the way, fought with the Tartar for his prize and carried her off. He dragged her

"into the first court of the château, where [she continues] he handed me over to a couple of noukirs, who appeared to be entirely at his