The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-08 00:00:00

THE COUNTESS DU CAYI4A.

. . .
PARIS, 'Mar 4.—lt may he interesting for you
to know something of the history of this lady, if you are not al.
ready sufficiently acquainted with it. I have therefore:extracted
for your use the.follewing'particulars, from the
.report of a
suit which she instituted in. 1818 against .her husband, for
a separation a tnensa a -Mara, and from a memorial drawn
up by the CounSel of her husband against the judgment of
'the-Coto' iloyak, which decreed that separation :—" Count
Achille du Cayla, her husband, emigrated-when very young,
and joined the standard of the Prince de Cond4.- Ile return-
ed to France after he saw that the efforts of the Prince were
likely to be unavailing, and in 1802 was married to Zoe Vic..
Mire Talon (the present Countess du Cayla), the daughter of
M. Talon, lieutenant civil au Chateld in 1709. The 61'1)4 of
the Talons is old in the history of the bar, and distinguished
among the Parliamentary noblesse; and the fortune which
Mademoiselle TALON brought her husband was by no means
inconsiderable. It amounted to 300,000 francs, or 12,0001.,
and as her husband's fortune was likewise considerable, they
were settled in life under very favourable circumstances...—
With the joint contributions of their families, which were both
noble and wealthy, they bought a property in the Nivernois,
worth 450,000 francs, and bought, besides, a house in Paris,
which theycontinued to occupy till the return of the King in 1814.
By this time they had several children, some of whom are alive.
The father of Count du Cayla, who emigrated at the Revolution,
returned with the. Bourbons in the capacity of first gentleman of
the Prince of Conde : and the bounty of the Prince on his re.
establishment in France, furnished apertmersts to the whole
family of Du Cayla in the palace Bourbon. There Madame
du Cala resided till near the end of 1817. In July of that
year her husband created a disturbance in the palace by his violence
of temper, which furnished both a motive fort er leaving that resi.
dence, and supplied one of the grounds of their future separation.
Madlle,Talon, at the time of her marriage, was very handsome,
very gay, and very accomplished. AVllether she gave her hus-
band grounds ofjealoasy or not, in the first years of their union,
it Would appear that jealousy was earl,' the cause of domestic dis.
cord, and that this feelingectingon a weak and irascible mind, had
deprived him of his senses. Such at least is the conclusion to
which we nkust, come, if we can believe the facts which Madame
du Cayla alleged against Win as the ground of a separation ne.
cesaary " for her personal safety. The following is the picture
which she draws of her domestic tyrant By, a sort of
oddity which belimgs to ,his character, he can find happi.
ness no where andeppeers to exist only to torment and render
miserable all titan who ought to obtain and enjoy his affections.
It is not saying too much to declare, that he is an object
of terror and alarm to every, one about him, by violence and Ins
furies,: nobody is safe against his abuse and his outrages. M.
le Compte du Cayla :teems to have laid it down as a law to him•
self to resemble nobody, With him every thing is , mania.—
Hesgoes out, ankruns about the streets; nay, gees journeys in
the night-time with: particular pleasure.He Redoes not return
home or, go to heti till four or five in the morning, and then
remains in bed till four o'clock in the afternoon. Ile sleeps on a
chair, one dirty mattress stretched upon a plan k, and in all sea-
sons keeps his windows open. He takes his meals alone, even
with trarteurs and'he cannot suffer the presence of any:person
whatever in the' room where he eats." The lady, after this pretty
portrait, exposes all her griefs in succession against her husband.
She had been carried byhim against her will from a ball, she had
been called, names by him—she had even been threatened
with personal violeneshe had been abused in letters which
he wrote.to his friends, in. which he accused her of infidelities.
On these allegetions, the Court decreed that " Zoe Victoire
aion is and shall remain separated in body and habi.
tation from Count Achille Pierre Antoine tie Bachy du
Cayla, her husband—that he. shall be prohibited from haunt.
ing or frequenting . her, and that, under such penalties AS the
Court shall fix," St.c.: Madame du Cayla is dais st.li theivife
of the Count, though living on a separate maintenance; and if
the King is to have her in a left.handed marriage, as it is **id
he wishes, he must apply. to the Pope for an indulgence,
which, after tire good deeds doing for the church in Spain,. will
not be refused.—Maelarne du Cayla is disliked by
.the. Duchess
d'Angouleme. She is .not devout enough for the tallte of her
Royal Highness and her friends; but the west ,fanatic Ultra
does not decline her services or murmur tigainittlier power.- She
plactat Peyronnet in the 'Cabinet, and,paintaina Vdiela in the
Presidency. In the lateiete Villele satins her right. hand.

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