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London, England, 1830-09-20 00:00:00

MEMOIR OF PRINCE DB POLIGN4C.

The following brief sketch of the earliest scenes in the life of the
above personage, is from the pen of a French individual d rank,
intimately connected with the Polignac family. At a time when so
many misantements have been circulated, the following facts may
prove interesting s
Prince Jules de Polignac, the Ex-Premler of Prance, is one of the
two sons of the first Count de Parsec (afterwards crested Duke by
Louis XVI.); the other son, Armand, is the present Duke de Polig.
nec. The beautiful Duchess de Gulch. Grumman is their sister.
Through the influence of the Queen Made Antoinette (arising from
the partiality she had for her mother, the Duchess de Polignsc),
Mademoiselle Polignac, when only sixteen years of age, was pore
cloned and married to the Duke de Guiche, then Master of the
Horse to the Queen of France and son of the Duchess of Gram.
moot so celebrated for her beauty and her intrigues. At this pe.
riod the Duchess Diana de Polignac was first Dame d'Honneur to
the then Countess d'Artois, and, report adds, enjoyed a more
influential post in the affections of the Count d'Artois, and hence pro.
bably the report so general of the Prince de Polignac being the illegiti-
mate son of the Ex-King of France. Be this as it may, the Countess
4Artola, after she became a mother, complained to the King of the
growing neglect she experienced from her husband, arising from the In.
creasing influence of her Dame d'Honneur. The King is said to have
replied, " that a prudent wife never distinguhhed herself MN than in
keep'fitg her husband's amours under the same roof." It was from this
improper influence over the weak Count d'Artois, that the Duchess de
Polignac availed herself of every opportunity of raising berfamily from a
low station in society to the highest honours of the state. From the first
introduction to the Royal Family, the Queen, Marie Antoinette, felt the
geltdrfslpertiallty fa the Duchess de Polignac and her family ; the
occurrences of 1789,1792, and 1793, are to this day supposed
in a considerable degree to have been brought about by the fatal usfiu.
ence of the Pulignacs. The errors, indiscretions, and follies of that sus.
(animate Queen, are generally attributed.' truly or falsely, to the same
canes. The Polignac family, being totally unknown at Court until
raised and promoted to power and distinction by the Queen, naturally
excited the jealonethe ancient high aristocracy. The influence of
the Duchess de P at Court become suddenly unbounded, but her
downfal (like the subsequent one of her son) was equally sudden and
The Duchess and her family were seemly Imperlasslyean-
Ethgtotit the Cour% but to fly the country to ewe herself and them
e imminent dangers that threatened, hem the fury of an exaa.
pentad populace. In order to save her life, she divulged herself In the
dress of one other chambermaids, and mounted on die box of ha own
carriage, with the assistance of the Swedish Ambassador, Count Fes.
sun, and Pisani, the Venetian Ambassador to the Court of France, suc-
ceeded in having the country about the time of the fatal affair at
Versailles.

When at the zenith of their power a circumstance at an unexpected
nature occurred, which rendered the family of the Polignsett still more
obnoxious to the ancient Noblesse. Owing to the peeunisey ember-
resements of her husband, the Duchess de Onienne was obliged to resign
the situation of governess to the Royal children, which was immediately
filled up by the appointment of the Jhelum de P situa-
tion had never before been bold by soy but the most of the
ancient Nobility.
Jules and Armand, their two sons, were sent tojtkeir=ilColha
at Brims., and educated there, with the then
vidual, Napoleon Bonaparte. tiubsequerhem Disefani we First
Consul, and the conspiracy of Genes, sealialara, was de-
tected, these two brothers, Jules and A ivy MY lo be imp.
sited. were arrested, and confined he the donjon of Thema% the ems
In which the Ex-Premier is at present mined. Afterglow hoiphised
imprisonment, Bonaparte having aimed thole se be spend *e.a
feeling towards his farmer eonapanions at Wigs, and the smog Mee-
cession made in their favour. directed babe to me that they
the country. Bonapsete alas pardoned the Duchess de
the sister of Jules and Anima Pollens, who rinse to Paris
as a chambermaid to a Polish Primes, although a prosaibed