The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-14 00:00:00

LAMARTINE.

Among the advertisements which figure in the
Paris papers for the last two days is one which
causes great regret in France, and will cause regret
elsewhere. M. de Lamartine, though known to us
only as one of the glories of France, and one of the
heroes of the revolution of February, has been, in
fact, one of its first victims. He is completely
ruined; and after making efforts, almost as great
as those of our own Sir Walter Scott, to save his
patrimony, it is at length to be inevitably consigned
to the auctioneer's hammer. Amongst the rentes dim-
meubles of the Paris papers is to be seen, " A rendre
la terre de Milly, appertenant a AT. de Lamartine-,"
&c. This is the place where M. de Lamartine was
born' where he passed his earliest years, and which
he has immortalised in his Confidences. At one
time it was thought that the place could be saved.
One of the principal publishers of Paris agreed to
pay off the whole of the debts affecting the property,
M. de Lamartine agreeing, in return, to supply the
publisher in question with a certain number of
volumes. The arrangement was complete, the money
was about to be paid down, when the revolution of
February occurred. The publisher offered to keep to
his bargain, but informed M. de Lamartine that in
doing so he should be irretrievably ruined, upon
which M. de Lamartine at once tors up the bond.
The debts continue as great as they were before the
revolution; while the value of the property has greatly
diminished. Creditors are clamorous, and, in short,
the place must be sold for whatever it will fetch, and
that will not be nearly the amount of the debts affect-
ing ft.—Chronicle.

[Will France consummate her ingratitude to the
greatest of all living Frenchmen by witnessing,
unmoved, the ruin of his fortunes, the sale of his
home, and the wounding of his noble and sensitive
heart by the loss of his patrimony ? We cannot
think that the nation which was saved by M. DE
LAMARTIMB in February, 1848, from the horrors
of another reign of terror, will recompense that
sublime and unparalleled act of heroism with such
miserable and dastardly indifference. We cannot
think that France will thus repay the bravest of
all her patriots, the most illustrious of
all her citizens, the most eloquent of all her
orators, the most impassioned of all her poets, the
most irreproachable of all her statesmen. No such
evidence of national turpitude would, in that event,
have ever before excited the contempt of Christendom,
as the neglect in his bitter misfortunes of the bard of
Jocelyn, the historian of the Girondists, the creator of
Raphael, the pilgrim of l' Oriente, the author of
the Confidences, the lyrist of the Meditations, and
the hero *l' February ! But we cannot believe
that France will so far disgrace herself in the
face of all Europe as to permit the classic walls of
Milly to pass into the hands of a stranger. The
English people purchased in 1847 the house of Shaks-
pere, as an expression of their homage for his memory.
Let the
People of France purchase the house of LA-
MARTINE, not only as an expression of admiration for
his genius, but as a token of gratitude for bis civism,
of respect for his probity, of tenderness for his sensi-
bility, and of sympathy for his undeserved misfortunes,
Let France act thus, and she will receive the blessings
of those thousands throughout the world who have
learnt to admire Genius, Virtue, and Patriotism, as
united in the person of ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE.—
ED. Sun.]

General Cabrera, the celebrated Spaniard, who has
just been set at liberty by the President of the French
Republic, arrived in London on Friday.
ANNIVERSARY OF THE QUEEN DOWAGER'S BlRTH-
DAY.—Yesterday the 57th anniversary of the birth of
her Majesty the Dowager Queen Adelaide was cele-
brated with the customary rejoicings. The morning
was ushered in by merry peals from the bells of the
churches of St. Martins-in-the-Fields and St. Marga-
ret's, Westminster, the royal standard being displayed
from their steeples, and also from the different public
buildings. At Bushy Park, in honour of the event, a
grand fete was
given to the rural population, who h
,
en-
joyed themselves with: variety of rustic sports. In the
evening her Majesty's tradespeople illuminated their
houses.
All the honourable
soughtpursuits of life are salutary,
provided they are r,ot soug
at the price of 'nterity and happiness,—,Elira Cook's
Journal. .
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