The Sun.
London, England, 1802-02-15 00:00:00

MADAME NECKAR.

[The following Account of the early attachment of that lu-
minous and Phili,sophic Historian,' Gi s Row, to the above
justly celebrated Woman, written in a stile of nervous and
impressive eloquence by himself, will doubtless be ac-
ceptable to our Readers 3.

" I hesitate, from the apprehension of ridicule,
when I. approach the delichte subje& of my early
Love. By this word, Ido not mean the,polite at-
tention, the gallantry without hope or design,
which has originated in the spirit of Chivalry, and
is interwoven with the texture of French mrtl.ners*.
I understand by this passion, the 'union of desire,
.friendship and tenderness, as is inspired by.isin-
gle female ; which prefers her to the rest of her
sex, and which seeks her possession as the Supreme,
or the sole happiness of our being. I need not
blush at recolletting the objet of my
.choice ; and,,
•though my love was disappointed of uccess, I am-
rather proud, that I was once capable of feeling
such a-pure and exalted sentiment.
" The personal attraffions of Mad. SUSAN CUR-
Cilon were embellished by the virtues and talents
of her mind ; her fortune was humble, but her fa-
mily was respeEtable ; her mother, a native of
France, preferred her Religion to her Country.-
-'!'he profession of her father did not extinguish the
moderation and philosophy of his temper ; and he
lived contented with a small salary and laborious
• duty, in the obscure lot of Minister of Crassy, in
the' Mountains that separate the Pais de Vaud from
the County of Burgundy.'. 'ln the solitude of a se.
'questered village, he bestowed a liberal, and even
a learned education on his only daughter : she sur-
, passed his hopes, by her proficiency in the Sciences
tnd. Languages ; and in her visits to some of her re_
Rations at Lausanne, the wit, the beauty, and the
erudition-of Mad. CURCHOD, were the theme of
universal applause.
" The report of such a prodigy awakened my
curiosity, I saw and Fayed; I found her learned
without pedantry, lively in conversation,
.pure in
sentiment, and elegant in manners ; and the first
sudden emotion was fortified by the habits and
knowledge of a more familiar acquaintance. She
permitted me,to make her two or three • visits at
her father's house ; I passed some happy hours
there in the mountains of Burgundy, and-her parents
honourably encouraged the connection. - In a calm
retirement, the gay vanity of youth no longer flut-
tered in her bosom; she listened to the voice of
troth and passion, and I might presume to hope,
that I had. made some impression on a virtuous
heart. •

" At Crassy, and Lausanne, I indulged my dream
of felicity ; but on my return to England, I soon
discovered, that my father would not hear of this
strange alliance,' and that without his Constitnt, I
was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful
struggle I yielded to my fate ;7 I sighed as a lover,
I obeyed as a son. My wound. was insensibly
healed, by time, absence, and the habits of a new
life. My cure was accelerated by -a faithful report
of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the Lady her_
self, and my love subsided into friendship and
esteem.

46 The minister of Crassy.soon-afterwards died,
his stipend died with him. ; his daughter retired to
Geneva,' where,, by teaching young. Ladies, she
earned a hard subsistence for herself and her mother ;
but in her lowest distress; she maintained a spot-
less.reptitation and a dignified behaviour. A rich
banker of Paris, a Citizen of Geneva, had 'the good
fortune and good sense -to discover, and possess
this inestimable treasure ; and in the • capital of
taste and luxury, she resisted the temptations of
wealth, as she had sustained the hardships of indi-
gence. The genius of her liwband had exalted
him to the most conspicuous stations in Europe;..—
In every change of prosperity and disgrace, he re_
dined on the bosom of a faithful friend, and Mad.
CURCHOD is now the wife of M. NECKAR, who
has been the Minister, and perhaps, the Legislator
of the French Monarchy +."

The Philosophic Writer obviously means, of the Old
Schou!.

t The very important part which this Lady was consi-
dered to ad on the great Theatre of the Revolution, appears
from the following well-authenticated observation of the
infamous Ross sni ar,- than whom, however, few had
better opportunities of being thoroughly informed on the
subject. I may be, Ferhaps' accused" said he, `•in His-
tory, of having spilt too much blood—Nay, Historians may
Class me among Tyrants ; but have they not already done the
saine with the meek Louis XV I. who would still have
reigned, had he known how to punish ; and of whose.weak-
'less nothing is a stronger proof, than that two intriguing
Women, Mesdames NI ckAR Ro AND, by the Revo-
lutions of the 14th July 17159, and of the loth August 1792,
overturned I Throne within the space of four years, the foun-
dation of which was r4OO years old."

Anecdote of a Beggar.—That room wherein one
of the wives of Harry VIII. was- Sentenced to
det.:aylt..ion during the time that Bridewell Hos-
pital was the Royal Residence, is now the Court-.
rooni, where -vagabu,..l6, ike. that arc apprehended
in its precincts are tried, Bridewell being 'though
in the city) a separate jurisdidion. On each side
of its spacious fire-place is. a. wOrm.eaten crutch,
that once supported an apparently miserable cripple
scarcely able to crawl; but suspicion arising that
he was an impostor,. and
_nothing as yet being
proved to the contrary, he was sentenced to impri.
sonment and hard labour, and as a prelude to which,
a sound flogging before he left the Court. A wic-
ket about five feet high, surmounted with sharp
iron spikes closing the door-way, -was thought
sufficient to secure him while -the apparatus was get-
ting ready for his punishment, but to the utter sur-
prize of every one present, this infirm disciple of
Lazarus eluded his sentence, by suddenly springing
over the wicket and escaping his pursuers. His
crutches, which he left behind, are still shewn as a
memento of his agility. •
The Henry, Hay, of Yarmouth, is put into
Eastbolths, leaky, and will have to repair.
The Harmony, Anderson, of Kirkaldy, from
Dantze, foundered in the East Sea the z9th Nov.—
Crew saved: - •