The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-02 00:00:00

ALSO UNDATED.

"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 completely blinded towards
me, and towards yourself. You are doubtless free to
do what suits you ; hut you are not free to have my
daughters brought up by a person whom I despise 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 de-
mand, then, that you authorise me to travel, to avoid
greater scandals. During that time you will reflect
on the course it will be suitable for you to adopt.
Tne day will come, Theobald, when you will return
to yourself; and will perceive how unjust and cruel
you have been to the mother of your children, in order
to please a crackbrain who respects nothing."

LETTER 1110 M THE DUCHESS TO MADEMOISELLE DE
LUZT, WHEN AT TURIN WITH HER ELDEST
DAUGHTER.

"Preslin, Aug. 25. 1846.
" I wish not to delay a moment, my dear Made-
moiselle, in thanking you for your kind letter, which
gave me a lively pleasure, and which, so far from
thinking long, I could have wished to be double. I
got it this evening, and I will not deny that
it was time that letters had reached me, for
my head and my heart were much excited by
the long silence. I am happy, as you may guess,
to hear all you tell me-- of Isabella's happiness,
but I am mach astonished that you find no
change in her manners. There is a very marked one
in her letters. I thank you a thousand times fur the
details you have given me. . . . You say that
Louise and Berthe speak of me often with Isabella. It
is perhaps to give me pleasure that you write this; in
any case you have completely succeeded, for I
wept with joy. Once more, my dear Mademoiselle,
I thank you a thousand times from the Lottum of my
heart for your letter, which I truly' hope will not
be the last.

" SEBASTIANI PRASLIN."
TO THE SAME, WRITTEN APPARENTLY ON JANUARY
1, 1847. FOUND IN THE RESIDENCE OF MADE-

MOISELLE DE LUZY-DEBPORTES.

" It is forbidden us to retire to rest without being
reconciled with our neighbours ; reneh more, it ap-
pears to me, ought the new year to put an end to all
dissensions and obliterate all disputes. It is then
heartily that I offer you my hand, Mademoiselle, and
ask you to forget, in order that we may live well to-
gether henceforth, all the moments of pain that I have
caused you, and I promise you, also, to pass the
sponge over all the circumstances which, in mortify-
ing me, have excited me to occasion them. Every
one has his faults in this world, and I am induced to
believe it is too happy. This , ought to render us
mutually- more indulgent, and to facilitate reconcilia-
tion. lam truly convinced of your sincere and ten-
der attachment. to my children, and, believe me, that
no one is more disposed than I am to show gratitude
:Ind affection to those who have been devoted to them,
if I ahi not wounded to the heart by the thought that
they are estranging them from me. You know, as
well as I do, that it is custom which causes attachment,
especially with children. Not seeing their mlther,
she loses her place in their hearts, as in their life they
end by doubting her love, happy if at a late period
their esteem and their confiden,,T are not shaken.
Certainly this was not your object; for you must
have known that it would be-Ts-pernicious to the chil-
dren as sorrowful to the mother to destroy bonds so
sacred. From one trifle to another one comes to do
things which at first one was far from conceiving.
If, instead of irritating oneself' about faults which are
mutually confessed, we reciprocally overlook them, I
believe that every one in this world would make a
goo.' bargain. It requires only to be a good driver,
and go round the stone-heaps instead of over them;
for my part, I confess that I often cone into c,,Lision.
I had long intended to write to you to renew all our
acquaintance with the year; it is therefore with
louh!e pleasure that I have received your charming
work this evening, because it proves that you are also
willing to put an end to a state of things which I am
convinced cannot fail to be hurtful to the children, to
place yourself often in a disagreeable and false posi-
tion, and places me in one very cruel to ins, who live
isolated for so long a time from those dear affections
in the midst of which I was so happy. I anticipate
with great ardour the time when my daughters will
be grown up, and I confess I suffer much in seeing
them what they are towards me. But lam taking a
long time to say that we ought to try to abandon a
wrong course, to take another, and to beg you to re-
ceive and take up this gage of a new alliance, to
which I hope you will consent."

TO THE DUKE DE PRASLIN.
(Written-in pencil, no date.)
" You have a rare and precious talent at poisoning
ever) thing. While your conduct influenced only the
happiness of my life it was my duty to be silent, and
I was so. If you imagine with your muttered words
and your threats to make people understand that I
no more approve in public than in private the conduct
of a person whom I despise, and who does not merit
your confidence nor mine, you are right, for I think
it a scandalous shame to allow the presence. near
young people of a woman who has
proclaimed herself
RS she has done. I know well enough
herwith yolutri laifthias
occupied, but she assumes-*the attitude.
which I have the right to blame. Ido not pretend tlo
busy myself with your private conduct and affections,
hut neither menaces nor ill-treatment will prevent
my repeating, as I have a right to do, that you de-
ceive yourself in putting your children into the hands
of a woman who has no care for her reputation and
has ceased to respect herself. The system of go.
vernesses has always been unsuccessful with us. It is
time, for the safety of our children, and the dig-
nity of our rank, to change it. As long as my datigh-
ters are not married I will, reside constantly with
them. I will aid in their occupations, and I will ac-
c,impany them everywhere. All my plans are laid
down; and when you reflect on the twitter, you will
certainly find as many reasons for confidence in leav-
ing the education of our girls under the care of a
mother as under that of a governess. My father, I
know, has made an offer to Mademoiselle 1) of
an honorary annuity. On her going to England,
with this assistance, her talents and patronage will
secure her a suitable portion more easily than in Paris."
Friday IMPRESSIONS.
0 June 17, 1847.—1 must repeat hourly
tomyselfthatl have accomplished a sacred duty
toward., my daughtersin con
efforts to those of father*m consenting, to join my
to send away this woe
* LETTER
MARSHAL SERASTIANI TO THE DUKE
DE PRAMLIN, FOUND IN THE DES
paASLIN. X OF THE DUKE DE
A.onsieUT le Dac,—You have caused me
You have, attributed to want of feeling my closinggreat pain'
h.,ase to you awl your children, you are obliged my
to
render me ja mstice. I did all that was in my power to
avoid this separation which you feel so much. I took
upon myself the odious task of pretending to be ignorant
of what all Paris and the journals spoke of, and for this
generous conduct you address me in a letter of violent
and undeserved reproaches. I never mentioned the name
of Mdlle. de Luz,- to any one. lam ready to say any.
thing that may favour her interests, but be considerate
and do • not ask what is impossible. I do not iw my
duigNlN for tar of proposoisagyos VW* lot.