The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-07-05 00:00:00

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The nacefl dfifidame Rrndener, silo has beet tail-
ed the Alistres, of the Hoty illiianre, seems to have
totally died away horn °stream Whether she Is now
e.:ticealed in the recesses of a harem, orthe dungeons
of a State prison, the Emperor Alexander, sell* head,
and prime mover of that exemplary Union, cat hest tell.
'Tither specie* of retirement may be inferred from the
character and habits of her lover, the august fraterni-
ty in tiuestion ; hut the date of Madame Krudener's
birth, which, from documents now before us, appears
Ito have taken place in 1168, we are sorry to ay, in-
clines probability to the side of the least pleasant sup-
position. 'I he last authentic accounts which Europe
has received of this celebrated lady, stated bee arrival
at Konigsberg, under• Prussian nrreeillesee, accom-
panied hy her faithful follower and Winker, "a young
and active" Orneran Virtue, of the name of Empeytas.
This took place nearly two years ago. Since then,—
whether she has been altogether absorbed in the rap-
tures of Qefetiens—(a sate of religions elevation; in
which, as a Catholic writer remarks, the worshipper
often falls fast asleep)---or whether she has been sub-
mitted to the wholesome regimen of solitary confine=
*bent, as the natural consequence of her intimacies,
legitimate and illegitimate,---not a word has escaped,
("either of or from this extraordinary enthusiast, whose
. frailties and reveries, connecting themselves with the
vrindlog-op of the French Revolution, constitute her,
perhaps, the most extraordinary phenomenon of this
class that has yet appeared,
That Madame Kredener should have had vogue in
—Ale world before the days of Voltaire, would not have
been very surprising. That she should have held an
empire over the minds of a particular sect, or of indi-
vidual adherents, even in oars, could have produced
no astonishment,—for have we not seen believers in
Joanna Sontlieute? and are there not now amongst us
rrions who would go on a pilgrimage to the island of
Saint Helena? Under the influence of predisposing
feelings man, ." the paragon of animals," will yield to
any imposition, however coarse, and swallow any ab-
se;dity, however clumsy.
It ith all these varieties of faith and practice before our
observation, we certainly should not have ventured to
atoms any astonishment if Madame Erndener had
ir:cntly made a crowd of common converts so her system
of religious ntysticisnis—for her manner., as it would
ansear from her history, are fascinating, her talents
tot.iderahle, and her doctrines of a prepossessing cast. ,
Her language carries with it evidenceof good company
,srld extensive information : her birth is respectable,
lied the pleasures and gaieties of French society before
tit • revolution, with which she was intiruste, have left
tirts of tenderness and vivacity on her disposition, that
in:er.stingly enliven the somhre hue of her devotional
deslareions. In all these respects, she has the at:ran-
t:Er of Joinna Southcote, our late English prophetess,
who was fat, vulgar, and illiterate: and therefore not
w eel so well calculated to make converts. Madame
Krudener's power of producing an impression on the
hearts of people by lace person and manner*, seems to
ltsva been, of inseif, suieient to create an euthustasfie
feeling is her favour, independently altogether of her
tenets. Even the heavy Swiss, who are almost as dif-
ti_ult to be moved as their mountains, Pounder in he-
nit", and run astray In metaphor, whenever they speak
of her. On her arrival in the canton of Solothurn, the
Editor of the " Swiss Guide," thus broke forth, at the
top of his voice:—
" Madame Krudener non- forms our reigning constel-
latioe, and she eclipses all the bard stars and !genets
of our terrestrial world. Her appearance amongst US
ii delightful, if it were only for affording to us, in the
initist of our narrow and constrained existence, aspeci-
raai, an image, for once, of noble, elegant, and liberal,
life. We owe hot gratitude for having Introduced,
ant-ngst our miserable common-places, the superior
terse of a high and well-informed mind. She does not
lire in town, but in Its immediate ririnity ; and already
has she drawn to her residence, aot only all its inha-
bitants, but ales those of all the surrounding places.
Sirs is followed like Saint John in the desert ; but it is
U 3 wonder that she is so ; fur she feeds,- at once, the
miuds, hearts, and stostuche of all who come. She
practices all the works of Christian charity, and human
meter; and is a real refuge to the sinner. Iler abode,
titerethre, is crowded with people—Disciples, spies,
beggars and egthors
A lady, thus richly aecomplished, and liberally eon-
slitting herself, was not, as the Editor says, likely to
preach to thin congregations, or to deaf ears; but that
a female should, on the strength of some eloquently ex-
pressed dreams of a religions east, involving preten-
sion to inspired prophecy, yet never incessiptent with
the utmost parity of sentiment, arrest the etiolation of
Monarchs in tie hour of victory, and sway their eoun-
ilt is surely a reenwltable fact—happen-
lig as it did, is the year 1814 of the Citriktiaa era.
lit truth, however, we 'believe to be, that the suc-
cesses of the allied arms, la that yea had rendered
several of the crowned heads of Europe fetes essiteet,
irate proper acceptation of the French phrase. Tiey
were in a triumphal fever, a duller of joy, 14 Am-
*pa nature in its happiness, es-well as 1 IttAlkienffr
l‘pase to amesecLitmk Immediately . with ',hearse.
miseibilitieeMl some of the &nerd bad pis-
rtfuely been MCP* exulted by deep
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iteassamed soft**, and buoyed, them, onward *tit
their object lei* anith a foaming tieketleeseessi that
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