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ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

From the Cambrian Quarterly Magazine.
On the 2d of June last, died at Llashewydd, near Llan-
gollen, the Lady Eleanor Butler, the friend and com-
panion of Miss Punsonby, the sister of the celebrated
Speaker of the Irish Parliament. There are few, if any,
of the readers of the Cambrian who have not heard of the
Ladies of Llangollen ; perhaps a short account of whom
may not be considered uninteresting, and I know no better
authority for it than the Metuoirs of the Compteese de
Geniis, who has thrown a considerable degree of romance
around them and their abode. The Comptease states, that
while she was staying at Bury St. Edmund's, accompanied
by Mademoiselle d'Orleans, the sister of the present Duke,
she mot Lord Castlereagh, afterwards the Marquis of Lon-
donderry ; and having observed, in the course of conversa-
tion, that sh© would willingly trivel a long journey, for
the sake of. oeing two persons who hail been long united
by a sincere bond of friends hip : 4. Thou, Madam," said
he, " you should go to Llaugolleu, where you will see a
model of perfect friendship ;' and, at the Comptesse's re-
quest, he related the following memoir :
0 Lady Skase? Butter,then (Ilisis) abets twesty-aight years of
ago, was born is Dublio; au toping from the cradle. and a rich,
amiable, sod lovely heiress ; her baud was ',might by porous of the
boa families is Irslasd. bias eke very early aosounead her repot.
Esau to anaulage. This SUMP for indtpeedaste she Sever cos.
ended; yet se woman was eves more remarkable for mildness,
modesty, sad all the virtues that embellish her sex. Prom earliest
infamy she was the Imams Masi of Miss Ponsosby : by a stn.
;pier soineldenee of events, which strut their imaginations, they
wets bosh hoes at DUMB, In the salsa year, aid me the same day,
sad tbey house orphans at the same period. It was easy for them
so fancy from this that Heaven bad created them for each other,
to perform together the voyage of life. Their sensibility enabled
them to realise this ilissism. Their friendship so increased with
their age, ibis at 17 they mutually promised so preserve their li-
berty, and sever to pan frost each whet. They formed from that
muneat the pima of withdrawing from the world. and missing them-
selves for ever is the pram:odes solitude. Having heard of the
channiog landscapes of Wake, they made a secret journey thither,
is order to choose the place of retreat.
0 They arrived at Llangollen, and there found, on the summit
of a mountale, a little isolated cottage, of which the situation
seemed to them delicious : there k was that they resolved to Its
their abode. The suudiams of the young (sedges, however,
traced their asps, and brought them back to Dublin. They de.
clued that they would reefs to their muustals, as soon as they
should have attained their majority. In tau, at tweisiv-ene, is
spice of all the entreaties sad the aroments of their relatives, they
quitted Ireland for ever, and west to Llangollen. Miss Ponsonby
was sot rich, but Lady glamor possessed a coudderable fortune;
she purchased the Sale cottage of the pelmets, and the land about
the maintain, and built a house upon its site, of which the outside
is extremely simple, bet the Interior of the greatest elegance.
4 The two friends still possessed, at the foot of the MU, a mea-
dow for their lochs, a beautiful farmhouse, and a Iskehen-gardes.
Thew two extraordinary persons, both of whom possessed the most
cultivated minds. sod the most charming accomplisharests, have
lived la that solitude (or seven years (a 7U), without having slept
out of it is a single induce. Nevertheless, they are far from re-
served : they &equcmly pay visits at the neighbouring Gentlemen's
homes, and nuke, with equal politeness and kindness. travellers,
who are either essulog from or going to Ireland, and who are re-
ummended to their aunties by their old friends."
Madame and her proteg, .the young Princess, under-
took the journey to Llangollen, and they were received
with grace and cordiality. bhe saw nothing in them of
that vanity which is gratified by awakening the astonish-
ment of others : they loved each other, and lived in that spot
with so much simplicity, that wonder soon subsided into
a touching interest : every thing genuine and natural in
their manners and conversation. They possessed an ex-
cellent library of the best English, French, and Italian
authors, which afforded them an inexhaustible source of
amusement. The interior of the house was remarkable
for the beauty of its proportions : the convenient distri-
bution of the apartments, the elegance of the ornaments
and the furniture, and the beautiful views which were
visible from all the windows. The drawing-room was
adorned with charming landscapes, drawn and painted
after nature by Miss Ponsonby. Lady Eleanor was a
very good musician ; and both had filled their solitary
dwelling with embroidery, of which the work was extra-
ordinary. The Arts were cultivated with equal success
and modesty ; and you admired their productions in this
secluded spot with a feeling which you could not experi-
ence elsewhere : you were delighted to find, in that peace-
ful retreat, so mAh merit, sheltered from the attacks of
satire and of envy, and talents that, free from ostentation
and pride, never desired, in that spot, other suffrages than
those of friendship.
During the night she slept at the cottage, Madame de
Geniis heard, for the first time, a species of melody, as mys-
terious as it was new to her. She found, next morning,
that it proceeded from an instrument in England called an
" Zona* Harp," on which she beautifully remarks, " It
is natural enough that such an instrument should have

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originated in an island of storms, amid tempests, of v.
it softens the terrors."

•' I must not quit Liu's*lien," she proceeds, ■ without mr.-
dotting the pure manners of that pan of Wales: the two friers
assured us, that such i 4 their honesty, that often, when they kr:
their mosatain to walk in their neighbourhood, they left the key i-
the cottage door, and were never robbed of any thing, though
they bad a considerable quantity of silver plate and other valu-
able articles, which might easily have been carried away. The
inns of Llangollen were distinguished by the neatness peculiar tJ
England."

The death of Lady E. Butler will be felt severely by
the surrounding poor.

FRENCH PAPERS.

T
From the Messager des Chawires.
BURLIN, Just 30.

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Direct accounts (men the Russian heed quarters have been re.
esived here. They go much beyond the official bulletin in their
account of the complete rout of the Turks at Schunla. Their re.
shuns, was terrible; the disadvantage of their position..the •.
prise at finding themselves opposed to so considerable a force or. 4. •
enemy--notkieg, in abut, could discourage them a moment. No
terms can express the bravery sad obstinacy of their defence. They
did not give way till it was inspossibld for them to resist any longer.
Notwithstanding the ravages which a ferocious army has commit-
ted in the country, the invasion of which he could net hinder th,t
Russian army is perfectly well supplied with provisions. Every
is immediately repaired. AU the road. leading fromSeuthern
are covered with waggons bringing provision and ammunition for •
army. The spirit which animate, the soldiers can only be c. r.:.
pared with that which they displayed in 1119. They are full f
watUke enthusiasm and devmios to the person of the Emperor
Slistria is expected very soon to surrender. Well.intormed Officers
conceive that the occupation of that fortress by the Rus-ims ss:.l
suffice to terminate this year's campaign entirely in their fermi- ;
and a third and a fourth would probably be unnecessary to induce
the Turks to make peace. They may soon be compelled to do .o.
His Majesty the King of Prussia has again hid some fit. of fever;
but, by the express orders of his 51ajc4ty, the fetes at Co 1, r :re not
interrupted. The King's daughter, th Empress of ftossia, will
' prolong her stay in our capital beyond t time that we had hovel.
Wherever she appears she is received with most affectionate malts
' of respect, sad the people take pleasure in showing to her M_je,ty
their affection foe the King her lather. Berlin has at this mom .t:t
an appearance of gaiety which surprises all travellers, who are
equally struck with the daily progress of the fuse arts and the
highest branches of science. Such are the fruits of peace, and of
an enlightened and paternal Administration.
From the Journal du Commerce.
A letter from Rome says—" AU the tub Asitants of Imola k lee
been ezcommunicated, and they are consequently forbidden to pr.
take of the Holy Sacraments—l do not know whether that at mar.
riage is included. This proceeding against the tows of Imola i. a
result of the mien of the Pope, who has resolved to punish the
asiademessour committed sputa the furniture and the hotel of M.
Guistiviani, Archbishop of that town. All the Churches hive
been shut, and even the Cathedral is scarcely permitted to be creu ;
but this is expressly stated to be only that Ministers insy he Waiii
to console the sick and attend the dying. Undoubtedly hi. 11:11.
seas expects mock good tram this measure; but I begin to thirk
that these are in the right who say that we are not now in the
lith century. The people do not appear to be very uneasy .b..ut
the punishment. They see their fields covered with the ~t
promising harvest, and. blessing Dines Pacortiossce, *ecru to ...sit
patiently for the moineut when it shall be thought tit to rensove the
interdict pronounced against them. The itahabitants of timnama
' can no longer obtain passports to go abroad ; they are consider, d as
infected with the plague both in politics and religion. The Pope,
on ascending the Pontifical Throoe, would not include M. am-
nesty persons guilty of political crimes ; they were even positively
excluded from it. They were compared to assassins, and declared
snworthy of the Papal clemency."
From the Journal des Debats.
_ PARIS, Juke 11.

Loden from Madrid, ache 3d Inst. state that the Count d'Ofalia,
Ambassador to the Court of France, ►as left that capital on his leg
hither.

BERLIN, Jute 4.
It is said that the Emperor Nicholas has set nut, with the Grard
Duke Constantine, to the theatre of war. It is generally thought
the surrender of Silistria will signalise his arrival on the hanks of
the Danube. A report prevailed here that a treaty et alliance had
bees concluded ►etween Russia, Prussia, and France, during the
sojourn of the Emperor Nicholas at Berlin. Though little 130
at present on the subject, nothing can thence be inferred for or
against such an event ; but certainly nothing is less tieces.ary than
a treaty of alliance between Russia and Prussia, both of who.e
Sovereigns ate united by such close ties.

From the Constitutionnel.
Pasts.—lt is considered as a certainty here that M. Portant will
retire, immediately after the Session, front the Court of Cassatioo ;
and new caudidates are daily spoken of as hits successors. It is now
said that M. de Mar:ignac will pass to Foreign Affairs, and w .1
have for his successor, in the Interior, M. de lielleynsv.
Marquis de Barbacena will arrive in Paris in a few days, whe::::
he will proceed to Munich. The Viscount de Itabayans will per.
form, pro cempre. the functions of the Marquis until the arrival ..f
the Marquis de Cbroles from Rio de Janeiro. who will replies- the
latter in the service of Donna Maria. Al. de Barbacena vii,laccon,-
pany the new Empress to Brazil. A letter from Krajuva intrs-ros
us that IWO Turkish women and children have been carried dr
from Rachova by the Russians, and sent to the ..ft batik of the
Danube. This is said to be a reprisal for the abduction of a sintit r
number of Christian families front Bulgaria, on the approach 14 the
Russians. The news appears to us to require confirmation. Vt
are well aware that the Turks, who spare nothing, have driven
great number of Christian tamilies Irons Bulgaria ; but the Bosnia',
a civilised Nation, are not likely to imitate such an example.
Front the Journal des Debuts.
PARIS, JULY 12.
Now when the secrets of Cabinets are known to the people,
and what passes at conferences held at London are published at
Augsburgh. while what passes at Petersburgh is nt .de kilo% ts at
Loodess--now, when the press dors three.lourths of the work of
diplomacy, must we not expect results from the political educe:au.'
of the people, which teaches them to blame or ceusure ?
refuse them this privilege, would be to shut up from their
Has the book of their destiny. Volatility is not the characterss;te
of the polity declared by public opinion • whether it be an evil
or not, that la,* power independent of the Government, we AA tot
eternise. Has that public opinion varied which applauded the laud-
ing of English troop. in Portugal-a-which rejoiced at the departure
of Den Miguel—which was thunderstruck by his return:—and a lamb
grieved for Portugal, when the last English soldier left it—a:.l
which approved of the recall of the Ambassadors, and censured every
intrigue to spas the Throne of Portugal to an usurpation coveted
with blood et the rank of the Sovereigns of Europe? Has it or
Ihrvaad dimmed ? As to the event we must come to the sure
co lien. chile opinion was in favour of the Greeks in love,
sad prayed fee she imerference of the Governments. Deceived ins
Whip% it mitosis' with doubt the conference at which the basis
of was laid down, but which was rejected by one
. hardly adopted by another. Victorian at NAvarin, it
was at the sorrow expressed at London at the success of
the mast mama Kansan It welcomed the part taken by France
with enthusiasm, and It reckoned with pride another nation line.
rated by the arms of Prance. A Power, however, winds bas been
made colossal within these ten years, has gradually separi.ted its
cause from that of its Allies. Private bijou,' constitute for it a
right if war, and the campaign begins. Before removing the banks
of ills torrent. the extent of its overflow should be calculated. Six
mouths of sterile exertions have restored the ruble coafident., and
the public look with calmness to the future movements of Ebi eye.
The public is now returning to its favourite subject. It t. eh it ..p
only ha booms of civilisation, and it wishes to know wh.thes
nation and humanity have triumphed? Forced to tremble fur
fiseece, should the Twig vanquish, it seeks for an Ally a;min:gitt
the Muscovites, and has found one does the victory of June

In all these things there is not even the appearance of versatility.
Never was a proceeding more consecutive, and better directed to
obtain an object.
From the Courier Francais.
ENGLISH NAVAL VICTORIES.
PARIS. Joss 10.
This Journal contains a letter from the Abbe de Pride. in which
he says that he will show Ist, that since the battle of La Hogue
(157 years ago), the English have taken 138 ships of the line frost
France, while France bat only captured eight from England, and
not one of these has been captured in a regular engagement; 9d,
that from 1793 to 1814, England captured of all the maritime
nations 146 ships of the line, without mentioning small vessels
and merchant ships innumerable—moreover, the English Beets
took in the same period all the colonies they pleased ; sd, that
the French navy has been usable to protect the French colonies;
4th, that it has not been able to protect our large convoys; sth,
that it has not been able to preserve our coasts from insult—
Dieppe, Havre and Honfieur have been bombarded, and Cher.
bourgh, Lisle d'Als, and Bellide have tallest under the power of
England ; 6th, that whenever the English have been forced to re.
embark it has been by the land troops; 7th, that when there is
war against England the French ports are, blockaded, commerce
is destroyed, and the French Seem are compelled to remain in har-
bour ; Bth, that France cannot have a maritime war escept with
England, nor keep up a navy except with a *few of opposing that
of England; 9th, that a maritime coalition against England is an
absurdity ; toth, that the changes in commerce and colonial and
maritime affairs have put an end to the ancient maritime system
of France; and 11th, that is future this navy ovgbt to be regulated
by the protest state of die weal. If Prance has not the elements
of a navy equal to England, she ought not to have an inferior navy,
which only seems to enrich its opponents.

THE HONOUR OF THE FLAG.

THE EVENING STAR.

LON DON.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15.
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The state of the PRESS in this great and free country
—for so, in fact, she loves to call herself—was never so
degraded as at the present moment. This is true to so
striking a degree, that the philosophical observer of it
is tempted to fancy some unusual and peculiar causes

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at work, to produce an aggregate of such deplorable

baseness. The delinquencies of our public men, no mat-
ter how• corrupt in their nature, or more openly infraciOry
of the Constitution these delinquencies are ; their aban-
donment of the grandest political objects, for momentary
and mean expediency ; their desertion of private friends,
and their shameless effrontery of party tergiversation;

all —all these—find not only defenders, but applauders to
• the very echo. If the humiliation stopped here, it would,
one might imagine, be sufficiently deep: but there is no
foreign enormity, no far • distant plot of Machiavelian
illainy against the happiness and improvement of man,
/,i..:11 dues not find its abettors in the Press of Eng-
land. The dilaniation of Greece, left to herself so long
in leer desperate and glorious struggle ; the perfidious
and unnatural seizure of the Crown of Portugal by
a dastard and a despot. whose blood-cemented throne only
stands one hour, because of the forbearance of England—
our cowardly tampering in the East—by what prostituted
eloquence are they not vindicated, and held up as honour-
able and just acquiescences ? Our fellow countrymen are
thrown into chains and dungeons—even the press &les
not raise its voice for interference. Our flag is dishonored,
insulted—VATTEL, and other writers on international
law are quoted, not to incite to the reparation' which is
due, but to make us quietly forego it : to justify unjus-
tifiable outrage.

'flieee are not hypotheses ; they are facts, within the
observation of all. Is there, then—or is there not—

some extraordinary cause in operation, to which we
may trace this abandonment of public principle in the
public press ? • We think there is ; and that it is to be
found is the augmented indifference to political reputatidn
. .

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STUTGA RD, Jinx 5.


and consistency, manifested by our public men. it never
was so striking as at present. It is to be found, also, in the
dissociation of the great feaders of•the country, from that
organ of the national opinion—such, at least, was its
proud appellative and character thirty years ago—but
now, the organ of private prejudices, private in-
terests, and private passions. How different was the in-
fluence exercised, and enthusiasm imported by the press,
when it spoke the known sentiments of our most distin-
guished senators and patriots ! The breaking off of this
connexion between it, and the governing minds to whom
it responded faithfully, disseminating far and wide, golden
opinions among the multitude, cannot be too much de-
plored. By this discontinuance of high and pure rela-
tionship, it has come to be directed only by such
minds as chance, or the speculation of gain, have
brought into contact with it ; and these energies and
this direction are vulgar and contaminated, in pro-
portion to their comparative social removal from exalted.
station, and—by consequence—from the most authentic
sources of information and intelligence. Hence the un-
blushing vindication of Causes, which it is a disgrace to
vindicate : hence all the flagrant derelictions, which com-
pel even the most unthinking among us to ask the
question, whether public virtue and public purity ever
existed really in the human bosom ?

In another column will be found an eloquent article on
the state of parties, at this moment; or rather, we should
say, written to prove that all party is utterly extinguished.
With great deference to our able and argumentative
correspondent, we venture to think otherwise ; indeed, if
we could believe`in the extinction of such exalted asso-
ciations as are here implied, we could not hope so con&
dently as we do for the country. It is inserted, not as a
mark of our impartiality, merely, but as an earnest that
we will uphold even the Noble Duke's administration, to
the last hour that it shall be found worthy of public sup-
port. Sic---donee !

An article on the slave-trade from Savannah, dated the
Bth of June, has this day been reoeived at the North and
South American coffee-house, of which the following is a
reprint :

Captain Jacason, of the Revenue cutter Marion, arrived here
front Key West, states on unquestionable authority, the fact of a
great many vessels sailing front the Havannah for the coast of
Africa, with only two or three weeks' provisions on hoard, depend-
ing entirely for further supplies from the dUferent venels they may
fall in with, and which they will plunder. The vessels are generally
armed, and engages in the slave trade—are owned and Cured oat at
the Havannah.

An affair occurred at Key West on the 26th nlt. between Wu.
Mac Ras, district attorney, and Captain Hawing*, who formerly

commanded the Mexican brig Hermoine, in which the former was
killed. It appears that these Gentlemen had long been at variance,
arising from an illicit intercoun ebetween MAC RAZ and themife of
Captain Mamma, who loaded a double-barrelled gun, and as Mae
Ras passed the window where Hawiturs was, he fired both barrels.
Macßae fell, and expired a few hours after. MAWZlNlsurrendered
himself up to the Civil Authorities, and was sent, to the Augustine
by the Marshal.

Judging by the following intelligence from Semlin, we
may calculate on having soon to record another battle
between the Russians and Turks. The present is looked
upon as a calm before the storm. The Turks are said to
be displaying much activity- in previous preparation, and
in strengthening every point at which danger
.is appre-
hended. In the meantime the most profound tranquillity
prevails at Constantinople, and the neighbouring pro-
vinces. The subjoined article from Stutgard is interest-
ing, inasmuch as it developer the plan of a stupendous
undertaking—uniting the Rhine and the Danube, by
means of tunnels and canals :
SEMLIN, Jima 19.
?ROM TiE MISAM GAIIII7I.

With respect to the military operations of the contending make
we know here nothing more than that the Turks show great. activity
in their preparations for defence, and that large reinforcements are
seat to all points where a battle is likely to take place. In Bosnia
and Servia every thing is quiet. Accounts from Constantinople
1 say, that the most profound tranquillity prevails there also, and
that the Sultan proceeds in all his enterprises with profound judg-
ment and energy, which gained him the greatest respect, both of
his own countrymen and of foreigners. He justly deserves a place
among the great men of his age.
P.& Accounts are just received that the Russians have filled in
their attempt&to cross the Dandbe in some places. In fact, it seems
that the Turks are resolved to do their utmost.
VIENNA, Jere 3.

Metallignes, 98i; Bank Shares, 1 1 09. —Aisesseina Zeitsing July S.

It seems that the plan for uniting the Rhine and the Danube will
be carried into effect by a Paris company, which is said to have
obtained from the Governments concerned, upon certain conditions,
I.a privilege of 99 years for the accomplishment and use of the new
channel of communication. The whole detail, of the plan are not
yet made ent. In general, the following seems to be the outlines
of the project :—to make the Danube navigable from Uhn ko
Tullingen, and so into the Grand Duchy of Baden—to make a
canal through the Black Forest in Baden, through the country
about Villengen, St. George, Homburg, and Haunch, in the
valley of the Kinking ; and lastly to make the Kissing, which falls
into the Rhine near Kehl, navigable. The first part of the plan
would probably be the easiest, nor would the last part be likely to
meet with any insuperable obstacles; but the making of a canal
through the Black Forest fusing the waters of the Drug and other
rivulets) Is an undertaking which, in former times, would have been
declared impracticable. For a considerable part of the way it will
be necessary to carry the canal under ground by means of a tunnel.
The resources which modern inventions afford in the execution of
the most difficult undertaking, will not allow us to doubt of a
successful result, if the plan be judiciously formed, the executinn
entrusted to men perfectly competent, and sufficient funds be al-
way s ready for the prosecution of so costly a work.

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cur Y,*.Tvinve oTt.ocx.
The Consol market appears firm this mornios, an 4 ku the ap-
pearance of a hanker improvement—attributed to pacific isegocia-
tions going on
,in. the East by certain Ambassadors at Constanti-
nople ;'and the arrival of the French and &ebb Ambassadors, it
is expected; Will bring the matte to a speedy conclusion, by pro-
posing a suspension of kostilitiei. Consols opened this maiming at
aft Tor the Account, since which they have beet done-at 891 and
fir nest time 891.
This is kttlfug day hi the Foreign liforkef pad as yet all is going
off welt ' Rad= bonds hive beenrclime.at per; Eashequer BAN
73. 74; Brain; 8/1 I ; Buenos Ayres. 82f LS/ ; Colombian, 144
17; Mexican, 2014 ; Russian, 994 4; Potillueses 494
CITY. HALINPAtT ORE O'CLOCK.
The Canso' 4igkettlias been of .a.saor• Ihsely description this
miming than Ter squaw time eist.4od .108 illafteind'abne
bm *I"
crat. The !Wesley Market it exceetfigglypoth .wisickouteed
Wine vent of Ispeeillagon: .Csisisots.itinleveni may beilie.; 494,1
for the account. Aid 914 1 for August ailment. TbeVumails.,
slows ?archived It gsk in consols.

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