The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-17 00:00:00

ADDRESS OF THE BERGAMESE TO
THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.

The Emperor of the French has received the fol-
lowing address, bearingl.o,7l7 signatures, from the
Province of Bergamo :
Sire,—A great and noble enterprise, worthy of
your genius, and of the generous nation which Pro-
vidence has called you to govern, being embar-
rassed by the rivalities and the interested views
of almost all the Powers of Europe, had to be
interrupted at the very moment at which the
triumph of the glorious allied armies assured it
the most complete and most brilliant success.
Although profoundly Otlicted at having seen the
failure of the. projected deliverance of our bre-
thren of Venice, to whom we are closely bound
by the communion of opinion and sufferings,
we do not the less feel, sire, the gratitude which we
owe to you for the benefits which we have obtained
from your generosity. We respect 'the grave and
powerful political reasons which, contrary to your
desire, have caused you to leave incomplete your
magnanimous enterprise, but we confide at the
same time in the prudent foresight of your Majesty.
Yes, sire, we firmly believe that the definitive con-
ditions of the treaty, which you are about to make,
will be of a nature to lessen the sufferings which
menace unfortunate Venice. We have the firm
hope that the frontiers of the kingdom which you
have aggrandised will not be deprived of their
natural defences, and that we shall not remain still
exposed to unforeseen attacks and placed in a state
of continual fear. We cannot doubt an instant that
the elements of the Confederation projected by your
generous solicitude for the future safety and inde-
pendence of Italy. will be founded on homogeneity
of principles, which, whilst assuring concord and
union, will guarantee a just and becoming share of
liberty to the populations called on to form part of
it, and will, in particular, leave intact the prudent
and liberal institutions which for two lustres have
caused the happiness of Piedmont and the glory of
our herioc sovereign. Deign, magnanimous Em-
peror, to receive with clemency and kindness these
sincere thanks, which come from the heart ; also
the expression of the wishes of a people who feel
profoundly the benefit they have received, and who
desire ardently to seize occasions of showing them-
selves worthy of the independence and the liberty
which your generosity has given them.

A YANKEE DUPED.

Speaking of the elite, reminds me of what has

just befallen a young American now in Paris, and
I will take the liberty of giving the details of the
affair. He is a gay, ardent Southerner, and left
his native city a few months since, having arrivedat the age of 21, and the full enjoyment of a large
fortune. He came to Paris with the intention of

getting into the best society. No new noblesse
would suit his refined taste. His desire was to be

on terms of delightful familiarity with the denizens
of the Faubourg St. Germain, the quartier, par
excellence, of the haute noblesse. Once in the gay
capital, he set about accomplishing his pur-
pose with decided energy. He perfected himself
in the language, and took lessons in dancing and
music. This idea grew upon him during the lapse
of time necessary to acquire these accomplishments,
and he frequently informed the persons whom he
met of his determination. At last he made the ac-
quaintance of a young man, a fellow-pupil at the
dancing academy, to whom he imparted his desir
brulant. This new acquaintance praised, the idea,
informed the young American that he war., enchanted
to hear of this resolve, and ended by promising his
aid, which was no small gain, as he Nt. as a bona fide
Count, not one of the mushroom nobility, but a per-
son whose ancestors had had the inestimable pri-

vilege of following the crazy monk to Palestine
and knocking off the heads of sundry infidels. De-
cidedly he was of the ancienne noblesse, and he
felt flattered that a Republican should evince such
a praiseworthy desire to enter the circle of society
to which the Count belonged ; nay more, he would
assist the young stranger, and at once proposed to
introduce him to his aunt the Marquise. Delighted
beyond measure at this stroke of good fortune, the
American seized his new acquaintance by the hand
and in the most grateful manner returned his
thanks, and asked the noble Count to "take a

drink." The acquaintance ripened into the
warmest friendship ; so much so, that the Count
persuaded the American to take a larger suite of
rooms, to get a fine carriage and more servants,
and proposed to his delighted friend that they
should live together. They did so for several
months, during time which the yonng stranger
paid all the bills, it being agreed that he should
do so for the first year, the Count the next. The
Southerner was duly presented to the Marquise,
whom he found to be a most charming woman, a
widow living in the Quartier St. Germain, and
having about her the evidences of wealth and
taste. She was very agreeable and kind to
tho young stranger, and took him with her to
the opera, and to call upon many of her titled
friends. She was a handsome woman, and quite
young, and, as a natural consequence, the gentle-
man was soon epris of the Marquise. He even
went so far one night as to propose marriage.
She gravely told him that she was partial to him,
but that her family would never consent to her
marrying a man without a title. He was in
despair, and hastened to tell the Count, the confi•
dant of his love. The Count was very sorry, and
really did not know what to do for his young friend,
but would try to make the Marquise relent. The
next day the Count came in, radiant and with a
smiling air. He had found out an expedient by
which the American might overcome the difficulty.
He knew a man, an agent of the Duke of Tuscany,
who had a title for sale • it was dear, but then the
Marquise was enormously rich, and loved the young
man so sincerely, that once he possessed this title
she would marry the American, even if it cost
him all his fortune. Fired with the idea of being
a noble, and espousing a Marquise, the young
Southerner rushed to the person indicated, and
asked the price of the wished-for title. Alas, it
was dear ; almost all the money he possessed was
necessary to buy it. He hesitated but having
again seen the Marquise that night at a soiree
given by her, he signed a cheque, and handed it to
the seller of the title (who, by a wonderful coinci-
dence, happened to be at the party), for the amount
asked for the parchment that was to make him the
happy possessor of a woman who, although much
older than himself, was a Marquise of the ;taut,
noblesse. He returned to his rooms that night
full of hope and champagne, and sank to slum-
ber, mumuring the name of his future spouse.
lie awoke late the next day lo find the Count
gone, having just received a letter calling him to
one of his estates in Italy. The young man
cared but little for the absence of the Count ; he
flew to meet his promised wife. Arrived at the
house, he was informed that Madame no longer
lived there ; she had left in the morning early,
without saying where she was going. Light
dawned upon the Yankee : he rushed to his banker ;
the cheque had been presented early in the morn-
ing and paid, but a few thousand francs remained
to his credit. He soon ascertained that he had been
duped—his parchment was all that remained ; and
upon opening the rouleau, he found that it was a
fine photograph of the Pont Neuf. This week the
young gentleman' goes back to the United States,
cured of his desire to associate with the noblesse,
and a poor man.
This story has a moral which may be of service
to young strangers of all nations coming to Paris.
It has been the lot of your correspondent to make
the acquaintance of a great many Americans—in
fact a couple of years I passed in the United States.
I formed a very favourable opinion of our cousins;
I consider them noble-hearted, generous, high-
minded people for the most part; of course, they
have their foibles, and perhaps the greatest of all,
these meets the eye continually in Paris. Anyone
seeing the carriages of thew ealthyAmericans in Paris
are those
would never for a moment imagine their owners to be
Republicans, belonging to a country having no order
of nobility, and where all the men of mark
who have made their own standing and reputation.
For these vehicles are the finest you see, have very
large coats ofarms on the panels, and the servants are
dressed out in the most gorgeous liveries. It really
does seem a wonder to one knowin 0. the country how
these good people came in possession of the splen-
did couronnes of The
French. when informed that Americans have nei-
ther titles nor
themselves as noble •
without such things as with
marquis, duke, or count.
them, are to inclinedthe owners of
look upon
the above described carriages and liveries as—
I leave you to imagine what.'" The magnificent coats
of arms of these Republicans are displaye. d by
them upon all occasions. They paste them in the
backs of their books, have them embroidered on
their clothes, carry immense seal rings with the
" arms" engraved thereupon most exquisitely, with
which rings they seal the most casual note they
have to write, be it to friend, stranger, tailor, or
bonnet-maker. Brother Jonathan must not be
astonished if John Bull and Crapaud shrug their
shoulders when the Yankees talk of equality and
independence, seeing as they do citizens of the
the boasted land of liberty go to any expense, or in
trigue in the meanest way, to be favoured with Pal
entree at a court ball, or to have a nobleman sit at
their dinner-table.—Lady's Newspaper.

In the issue of the South-Eastern New 41.- per
Cent. Preference Shares, created on the Ist of Septi I:nber
for the contribution of £300,000 to the Charing cross Rail-
way, it is understood that the rateable proportion in. which
they can be claimed by South-Eastern proprietors is one
£lO new preference share for every £250 ordinary st ock of
the South-Eastern Railway.