The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1825-05-23
From the Literary Gazette
ITALIAN ANEGDOTE.

NAPLES, October 10
/ mentioned, my dear daughter, that |
got the particulars of a most romantic and
interesting history lately, aud only now
have found leisure To write them down for
yog.-Wh hen in public with the Narcotic
NESS of S., had seen her frequently ad
dress very pleasing, fine young woman,
whose name and rank knew, bus nothing
more and she said she wished wr should
be better acquainted with hfr lover before
She told ne her history. Was reserved,
but bad mild sober, quiet melancholy in
her manner that attracted me very much ;
and you shall now learn the cause. am
not nj liberty 10 give her full name, so you
must be satisfied with her being called
ltosalie, after her Saint. She was the
dauG liter of one Of the first houses it, this
country, and brought into the world with
every advantage, having been educated At
home, and under very amiahlr mother,
who, unfortunately, died when she was on
ly fifteen. Her father bad selected a youth
Tor her partner in life every way worthy Of
her; aud, what seldom happens,th young
people were allowed 10 form an attach
nent before marriage, by Il considerable
degree ofinlimdcy. The young Counts
mother was "A high, violent character, but
ever, she conducted herself in manner
that showed little partaIity to her future
daughter. All, however, went on tin a few
days before the marriage great and splen
did we're the preparations, and Future hap
piness appeared within their reach.
The young people as usua., We're separat
cd FOR the last two days one hardly dare
glance at the feelings with which they
parted to meet again in the happiest union +;
love and hope binding them To all future
chances against the completion vi their hap
piuess.
The evening before the marriage day,
Count P's mother came to his house,
newly prepared for his bride, and said, il
had byen resolved the marriage should
take place on that night, privately TO spare
his l,t ely Rosalle's f tIIugs, rs she shrunk
{ ON the public solemnlty, Il that all SHOULD
be ready, and al an hour she named, he
would be called for BY the father. AccOr-
dlugly, every thing was 80 arranged, aud
the young mao WAS conducted to church,
his carriage following his supposed father
in law. At the altar, which was dimly
lighted, stood his mother aud the bride,
covered by very thin silver tissue veil
aud lhp ceremony proceeded. The youth,
whose thoughts Nete fixed ON his present
happiness, and ongrosscd by the service,
distinguished 40 one, and received his wife
in full confidence. Silent she WAS, but
tranquil +; and his mother carried her home:
all the coJlege parted and he followed
to his own house, there to nngell the trea-
sur Of his heart. He found the saloon il
Illuminated, aud his brother and sister, who
on some pretcnte had been kept absent
from the ceremony, seemingly waiting IN
impatitnCe with his mother beside the
bride. The duors closed after him. and
his mother withdrew the veil,and discover
ed to him that his wife WAS beautiful
idiot, whose large estates SHE had long
coveted, and had taken this must wicked
manner of obtaiu5 for her family. The
anguish that foil ,"td brought him to the
gates of death, and the loss OF reason had
nearly been the price At which she gained
the success OF plan truly dlabOlical. Ills
sister, a most amlablr creature, sOothed
him. II last, l"to submission 10 his hard
fate, after finding no means were left 10
SIT him free. OF the mother and idiot, !
say nothing he never SAW either, ! be
Iieye from thai hour: public hatred follow
ed both, you may suppose, tho one only
could be called guiIty. Rosalle's fate,
believe, has dtann mare tears than any
vent in real life eytrdid IN Naples. Public
sroaf WAS hlo't her father, next morning.
Of their marriage, but, II was added, the
bride being yelled, her uame was not
kuonu. EHraEed, AS You may conceive,
he carried his daughter in silence to the
villa, aud there, | uuarrstaud, with more of
tenderness than might have been expected
from his Stern character, unfoIded what be
deemed Tie tTeachcry of Ter lover The
death blow Ia all happiness Was such, as
her m st interesting cuuntcnance proves,
thai Gitrrn yeara cannot eject; and Tor Il
couple or years, life seemed Grid by very
slender thread. That Young woman
should remain unmarried out of a convent,
is a thing mkGonn; and her vast posses
s,ons made Der father auXionsly desire TO
see her married, hefurc the fatal truth was
made known To her, As the sacredness at
sorrow had kept aloof all intrudcrs, and
her father resolved she should return Ia
tht world under the protection OF nus
band. How this uas brought about, may
be accounted for by those Who know the
state of soclety here. All shr desired,
when she fuund her fathers will must be
uhryed, Was IA full explanation oil her sltna
ton to the Marquis -, whom she
married.
Thus, my dear, WAS this tragedy brought
To the most trying scrue-the discovery "i
her lover, innocence, after she herself was
auplhtr's. Ihp Marquis undertook tins