The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

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more eager to seize every opportunity of being of service
to you, and that I shall be thankful to you if you will
point out the means. I heard that you intended paying
Lady Hislop a visit, in which case I will give you a letter
to Lady Tankerville, who I am sure will do all that is in
her power to second Lady Hislop's endeavours for your
welfare. if you would like to have letters to Madame de
Flahault and Miss Elphinstone, I shall be most happy to
write them. I remember that on arriving at Praslin you
asked me to lend you a book ; I hope you will not refuse
to accept this little souvenir, which I have great pleasure
in sending you. I can only repeat, Mademoiselle, that
I shall seize every occasion to be of service to you.—S.
Praslin."

WILLS 0

THE DUKE AND

CHESS

" Two wills of the Duchess de Praslin have
been deposited in the hands of the President of the
Civil Tribunal of the Seine. One of these is dated
in 1841, and the other in 1846. In the first the duchess
speaks of her husband in the most affectionate terms. In
the second she does not, as has been erroneously stated,
give a life interest to the duke in all her property, but be-
queaths to him a part of her personal property, and a life
interest in one of her landed estates. In this last will is a
curious clause, by which she leaves her jewels to one of
her sons, with directions that they shall be sold, and the
produce invested in government funds. The dividends of
the stock thus purchased are to he invested to accumulate
till the time when this son shall be about to be married,
when the whole fund thus augmented is to be laid out in
the purchase of diamonds for his bride. On Saturday
morning the will of the Duke de Praslin was also deposited
in the bands of the President of the Civil Tribunal. This
will was in the portfolid of the duke, who, just before his
death, took care to indicate tnat circumstance. Imme-
diately after the decease of the prisoner, the portfolio was
opened, and.two wills were found, bearing date 1841 and
1843. The first is not signed, but the second, which is
the exact reproduction of it, is perfectly regular. In the
testamentary act of 1843, the Duke de Praslin, after
several liberalities made to his different children, leaves
par precipnt the chateau of Praslin de Vaux to his eldest
son. In a particular clause he engages his sons not to
contract marriage before having attained their twenty-fifth
year. There is also in the testament of 1843 a legacy, by
which the duke secures a rente of 3,000 fr. to Mdlle. de
Lu zy-Desportes, in acknowledgement of the enlightened
zeal which she had shown in the education of his
daughters "

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