The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-09-07

| ed it from me; cutting my finger and
thumb, and presenting it to my throat he
made me give up my own. We both rose;
he fell down on the other side, vomiting a
quantity of blood; thinking him dead,
took his sword and my own and went in
to the Hotel de Conde. Prince Henry de
Bourbon was not there then, but Isabelle
dc Montmorenci, his wife, and Isabelle de
Bourbon his daughter, afterwards Duchess
de Longreville, received me with great at
tention and caresses.
AS for Busc, his servant went to inform
one of his friends the state he was in.-
This gentleman conveyed him to the house
of Henry Lorraine de Horcourt, who sent
his compliments to me, and sort of a.
pology for receiving man into his house
who had fought me, but that he thought
me sufficiently generous to afford him re-
treat myself. l received this compliment
with many thanks, and sent back Buses
sword with an account OF the whole transac-
ton. Inever saw him after, for he lived on
ly six months after receiving that wound.''
| His debut as man Of gallantry, at the age
of sixteen, displays great hardness Of heart.
After winning the affections of a young per-
son, the fact of her attachment alenated his.
and he was going with his regimen to a
distant province, when the lady proposed to
accompany him as page, rather than be
left. He utterly refused her, but it ddnot
shake her design of following him; 'when,'
he says, luckily for me, she fell sick d a
lever. let my regiment go, and waited at
Guise eight days to see what would become
of her. She fell into a delirium, the physq
clan despaired of her life, and I set out for
Chamtagne.'
During the siege of Lerida, the Chevalier
de la Valerie, Marachel de camp, sent ear
ly in the morning to ask me to dine With
him, and to meet two Of my best friends,
Barbantane and Jumeaux. I accepted the
invitation, and went at seven o'clock to the
opening of the marshal's trench which was
within the walls of ruined church. AS
soon as / arrived, breakfast was served: We
had the Princes (Conde) violins: while they
were playing, Barbantane, who did not know
what to do for amusement, pulled up the
covering of tomb, and found within it d
body entire, wrapped in the grave clothes.
He brought it to US, and LIE Beteche taking
thy one hand, and he by the other, they
made it dance between them. was shock
ed at this, and told them so repeatedly, that
thought it an absurd diversion, and they q.
length replaced it in the grave.
Dinner time being arrived, we set down
TO table with the gaietv usual at such meet
ings, and repeated Thousand songs;in short
we were very merry. At the end of dinner,
the Marquis de lie Trousse, who was to re-
lieve the chevalier, came in to ask what he
was TO do the following night, but finding US
at table, said to La VALERIE, don't let me
interrupt you.' The chevalier, who was
brave, and who was not SO drunk as not to
know that he ought to show La Trousse
what he ought TO do, left US, as he said, to
, return in moment. but he did not keep his
word: for moment after one OF his people
came in, and said his master was killed. The
fact was that La Trousse affected to expose
=, himself unnecessarily, and to walk at the
: top of the trench, instead of in it. The che
Waller would not be out-done; followed his
: example, and received musket ball in his
: head
We went on with our dinner as though
nothing had happened, ESQ true is it that
IA war hardens mems hearts and destroys all
G feelings of humanity) Jumeaux did not for
J, get his own interest, but leaving us to f1nish
5 our debauch, went to ask the prince to give
q him the government Of Fleix, vacated by
! the death of the Chevalier, which he obtain
ed.'
a There are certain feelings and decencie:
u which cannot be outraged without riskine
;, the loss of all sympathy. /, was worthy O.
!. men who could find pleasure IN SO disgusting
, a spectacle, to make merry at the table O
: their friend, just as he was shot through tht
= = head, and to rise from it to solicit the place
y made vacant by his DEATH
y The memoirs continue to disclose TISSUE
y Of vice and folly, and to display the French
court with its courtesies and treachery, it
!. intrigles and cruelty. On his own part
> quarrels, duels, marriage without affection
. serviity to his superiors, and insolence T.
;, his equals. fill up the measure of his bus.
{ restless life, which was daily embittered b,
= disappointed ambition and the coldness
~ the king.
n "All his humiliations, his fattery, and hi
y crouching to the king, availed him nothing
:, He was arrested in 1865, and taken to TN
:. Bastile. After nearly dying in that prison
:. :. he was released in May, 1866, when the me
~ moir terminates"