Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-09-24
ACTORS IN TIED SCENE

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! ACTORS IN TIED SCENE
| Fhe Albany Baily Advertiser. in a series of nunn-
bers sketches the actors In the late remarkable events
I at PARIS. We de'ecred some errors and say other
painted out in thsss sketches aud Gid Therefor,
rsruSlsh them, as ve frst intended. 30 z. IL de
voted TO Pognac, late first minister and as but little
known of him. prler TO bis engaging in task SO fa
above his strength. and unfounded prejudice.
prevail against him personally VIC are induced to re,
publish that number.
| For the Albany Daily Advertiser
I VHB ACTORS IN THE SCEND-No X
I JULES De PoLiGEAC
| Polisnac Is not without bis private virtues but
hrs political education has been OF that character
which deadens the feelings toward the mass of man
kind and leaves the desire of control unchast ened
by the feelings of humanity. After having been
60 many years unhappy wanderers in foreign lands,
eyiles from the country that gave them birth the fol-
lowers of the Bourbons as well rs that family itself
would, if they had not been deficient in ordinary
prudence, have concated by kind and liberal pol
10y those vho acoueseed in their return.
The very reverse Of ibis spirit has appeared to
actuate them. They have conducted as though ga
piece of board covered with velvet" was co1sstitz,
els twice have the Bourbons attempted to carry them
off, was guaranty of tho popular favor
Phe tempest has at last broken out and the storm
bas upon their devoted heads, aud after their
utter prescription of freq principles in their own
country, they seem forced to seek safety themselves
in tho only land of all others where those principles
are the basis and support Of government
We believe the fallen minister descendant of
the famous Cardinal De Polgnac, distinguished for
his literary requirements, although by most people
suspected of being a natural son Of Charles x. He
Vas born in 1890. Ills mother was the celebrated.
Duchess de Polignuc, Governess to the children or
Louis l6th and the friend aud adviser of his un-
fortunate Queen He exile in bis youth 10
RuEsio and England. IN the latter country be wee
aid 10 Charles 9Th, when the Count d Artois he
claimed and received the Charities Of tho British
notion. fIe ne2t engaged in tho famous corfpirdey
Of Georges aud Pichegru aTnirc. The bTs' Consul.
and with HE e.o:ber tried aad found ru;ltv
Jules condemned to Imprisonment his brot nor
was doomed TO death. The court was astonished to
be1T the younger Po1GDac entreating to be substtn
ted in his more unfortunate brothers. place, and TO
receive the stroke Of the his stead. He pleaded
that bis brother Armand had wife and family de-
pendent on him for happiness and protection while
be insulated being whose life cyas ofittle con
sequence TO any With tho feelings of Damon nd
PythIas, each sought 80 The punishment Grora
the other Phe generous devotion displayed by Jules
had its effect the heart of Napoleon who cbann-
ed the senfence of death to that of Confinement
Both kept in duress, aud for many years were
the tenRDts OF different French prisons
Uhe Polignacs we're, it is asserted constantly on
gagged in the schemes Which the friends Of the Bour
bons from time to time agitated. aud Napoean him
self asserts that bis former clemeucy met with Door
return.
In 1919 they met Mt the Chateau of Csse m Pour
aiDe, the residence of NJ. DE Du5as, and rene
raj rising of the Toyalists the West and South Of
France upon the landing Of the Duke De Berri was
contemplated 1t is alleged thot they we're concern
ed in the singular plot Of Mslet; al all events they
we're suspected and put under surveillance, from
which in 914 they escaped. During The same wear
Jules joined the Count D'Artois, and was sent on
special mission to Rome. He attended Louis 18th
to Client, aud was thence dispatched to The frontiers
Of Savoy He once again fell into the hands of the
Bonapartists, and again made bis escape ~ the
Of the Bourbous he returned 70 Paris and
WIS made p91y,