The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-21 00:00:00

entered at the Tribunal de Premiere Instance of Paris. It bears the
state of 1836 and is olographe, or written wholly with the testator's own
hand. niece the Duchess de Dino is instituted his general legatee.
It is sai•;l (for there are various versions) that he bequeathes to her his
man'..ion in the Rue St. Florcntin and other property, which will render
h,r very amiable daughter, now seventeen years of age, a grand parti.
'Valencay, which estate the Prince bought for a sum of 2,600,000
francs, many years ago, and which is now said to be worth 8,000,000,
goes to the Duchess de Dino's son, the Duke de Valencay; but
upon this property a sum of 800,000 froncs is secured to the Countess
de Talleyrand (who was brought up and known in the Prince's family
as Mademoiselle Charlotte) the wife of Count Alexander de Talley
rand, now Minister Plenipob ntiary at Copenhagen. The Prince had
secured long ago 500,000 francs to the Duchess d'Esclignac, the
daughter of his brother Bount Bozan de Perigord. The Duchess and
the Duke de Dino and Princess de Poix, both children of his other
brother, the recently deceased Duke Archambrult, are his natural
heirs. It would appear that the Prince's large income, into the ma-
nagement of which the Duchess de Dino had of late years introduced
much more order than had ever distinguished her uncle's domestic
economy included 100,000 francs which he had contrived to obtain
from Louis Philippe as Grand Chamberlain, although that office has
been abolished since the revolution of 1830. Such as may wonder at
Louis Philippe have contintiedeto pay the salary need but be, reminded
that the money annually voted for the secret police s:cmice is noto-
riously applied to many other purposes beSilieS the detection of plots
against the State.
To the aforementioned 'will is annexed a document, also in the
Prince's hand-writing, wherein he enters into very curious explanations
of the course pursued by him under the several Governments which
have succeeded each other since 1789. In the same paper he formally
prohibits his heirs from publishing his memoirs before thirty years
have elapsed from the day of his demise, and he enjoins them to
protest against the genuineness of any other memoirs that may appear
under his name. The memoirs he has left are said to have been de-
posited in England, and it is the son of the Duke de Valencay who
is to publish them at the appointed period. The protest which he
orders hit heirs to enter against any other publication reminds me
that twe, or three years ago the rumour was current of some member
of his household having surreptitiously made and kept a copy of his
memoirs. The Prince concludes the addition to the will by declaring
that he dies in the Roman Catholic religion, and by ex.irressing the wish
of being buried at Valencay.

The Hotel de Talleyrand wean the avert of deep sorrow, for if the
politician had many enemies, the 12-.. mate man had not a few friends.
Outside that mansion also seve:ai lament him, and none more than that
excellent lady the Viscoun.tess de Laval, mother of the late Duke Ma_
thieu de Montmorency. It was at her house that M. de Talleyrand
spent almost all his evenings. Their intimacy had resisted the most
jarring political opinions, frequent discussions, and the lapse of above
half a century.