The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-24 00:00:00

MADAME LAFFARGE.

We extract the following from the Gazette des Tri-
bunaux :—As we have already announced, the affair of
Madame Laffarge is already decided, and unless the ap-
peal she has made to the Court of Cessation be admit-
ted, the judgment against her by default is absolutely
confirmed. They wrote to us from Tulle, on the 19th,
that all the witnesses have quitted the town. M. Brissot
Thivars has forwarded to us the following letter, dated
Guadala,xara, 17th February, with a request that we
would insert it :

"My dear Sister —lt appears that you have been
sadly tormented on my account, in the prosecution of
Madame Laffarge. Who could ever have guessed that
this woman would set up such a defence ! For my
part, I cannot conceive how any advocate could take
upon himself to bring forward such evident calum-
nies. I have no fear that lily reputation will suffer on
this account. It results from my letter, since they have
done me the honour to read it on the trial, that Mdlle.
Capelle was the inventor of an intrigue, in which she
showed- a nascent talent. As to poor Mine. de Leotaud,
she remained a long time foreign to it ; as soon as she
became acquainted with it, she immediately intreated
me to think no more about her, and craved my pardon
for having been the innocent cause of vexation to me.
During the whole of the time I passed in Africa, I never
heard the names of the two ladies mentioned, except that
that they were married, and then I was so ignorant of
the name of the husband of Marie Capelle, that I paid
little attention to the murder of M. Laffarge. Could I
imagine that matter would arise out of it to bring
me before the public ? This has given me but
little concern on my own account, but I suffer
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with sentiments of the deepest respect, without hopes,
without delusive expectations. It is so long since we
have spoken to or seen each other, that I never could
halve expected that we should be reminded of each other
in a
manner so unpleasant. Nevertheless, no persons of
understanding will suffer themselves to be deceived by
this calumny, and M. de Leotaud, as I learn from France,
conducts himself with perfect propriety towards his wife.
In this he does well, for nothing can be more worthy ofour
respect than a young woman unjustly calumniated. If
we lived in a more frank and loyal age, when the purest
sentiments were not unworthily perverted, I should
have yielded to the first dictates of my heart, and have
written to the husband of this unfortunate lady, declar-
ing that his wife was worthy of his love, and deserved
all his affection. But would he have listened to my
words ? Might he not have replied—Why do you inter-
fere? What right hare you to defend a person with whom
you have no connexion ? I therefore suffered things
to take their course, thinking any attempt at her justifi-
cation by me would do Madame de Leotaud more harm
than my silence. Circumstances speak so plain!) for
themselves, that none but people of bad faith can doubt,
and lam satisfied that my silence will be rightly con-
strued. What appearance can my asking money to in-
sure my silence have, if I had a right to claim a different
recompense ? As if love could pass away so quick, and
so far become degraded, as to barter with its object for a
bag of piastres ? This may have been believed by those
who know me not, and the contempt I have ever felt for
riches. I do not mean to say by this that Ido not wish
for money, but I love it only as it would raise me to the
rank of her I aspired to, and not that it should place be-
tween her and me the insurmountable barrier of con-
tempt. However, my ambition has been gratified in a
strange manner. I have sought :or fame, and calumny
has answered me from the depths of a dungeon, while
Poesy looked on smiling in pity.—FELIX CLAVET."

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The Constitutionnel sws :—" The Danae fri-
fgate has arrived at St. Petersburgh, where a look- out
or her has been kept up for several days. As soon
as she was descried in the offing, all the Russian
ships were dressed and fired salutes. The frigate, im-
mediately on coming in, was visited by the officers of the
Russian navy, who afterwards received those of the
Danae en board their own ships, with the utmost cor-
diality. The Emperor gave orders that the French
should be treated during their stay at St. Petersburgh
with every mark of consideration. No French ship of
war has appeared in the Baltic since January, 1828,
when a frigate was sent for M. de la Ferronays."