Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-04-29
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE
FRANCE.

FRANCE.
The secret marriage of The Duchess Of Berry. or
the LAST Dying Speech and Confess,0"'
Life, Character and Behaviour" Of the Er-
Dynasty of the Bourbons.
To the Editor of the London Morning Chronicle.
PARIS, Feb. &c, 1885.
Sir-Do you recolIcct that beautiful passage IN
Shakspeares
s.The King is but a man, as am; the violet
smells to him as it doth to me; all his senses have
but human conditions"
OF course YOU do. and ybu will seize at once
nv meaning, and its application, when announce
TO YOU ,ha, the Duchess of Berry is enciente, and
that her pregnancy has compelled her to vow that
she il secretly married to an Italian Prince!!-
Poor human nature! Weak aud foolish humani-
ty! Alas. Alas. What mortals we are, and
what follics we perpetrate!. L'Estrange has made
us laugh with him nj the dog, Of whom he report
ed. that she would have fought furh master in
any other case, but the love Of mutton was his
weak side" The dog was vanqaished by his
love of mutton. and the Duchess OF Berry has
been conquered by her love Of an Italian Prince!
She has forgotten her sire-forgotteu her son
forgotten her daughter--forgOten her party
Forgotten her departed acknowledgements the
game she was playing, aud the struggle IN which
She was engased-forgotten the respect she o"-
ed TO herself, to her family, and to that France
which she professed to love and 10 adore-and
has Welded to the persuasions OF an Italian
Prince-was to him secretly married-and Is
| now about to be delivered Of another Dieu-
donne' in the shape, suppose, Of Henry W. or
Charles XII!
"a woman. and thence weak
| -weaknCs3 is thy excuse.
| And bell, We it.; weakness TO resist
Phli zine gold; il weakness may excuse,
What murderer, what traitor, parrioiie,
Incestuous sacrilegious, but may plead 1t!
All wickedhess is weakness
Poor Maria Caroline! 1t was but the other
Jav that we were almost deploring thy imprisun
ment. and the IS wornan'' we used as an apollo
sy even for thy offences; but to-day we should be
! be wrong did We not say
.. Non ego ilum mihi do,em esse puto, q"e dos di
citur, go .,
Sod nuJici,iam ct rudoremet seds tam cupidnem."
| Poor Maria Caroline! "The Regeat OF
Francew On, yes, of France! the mother OF
the young gentleman Of whom Chateaubrland
said, .Your son is my King!'-the widow oil the
Duke of Berry-the heroine OF the Qaolidlenne
and the Gazette de France-ths unintentional
authoress of all the late deplorabie dueis at fa'
rs--the intentional cause OF years civil war IN
Ia Vendee-is now the wife Of some Italian
Prince! whose name and whose virtues are doubt.
| less alike unknown to all but Her Royal High
ness! :,
But il we pity poor Maria Caroline, what shall
| we say to the poor. unfortunate, unhappy, wretch
ed. heart sunken. heart. bruken, disappointed wo'
become Royaists: The priests will put on sack.
| cloth and ashes! The Chouans will eat grass
and ,histles The young lads of the Revenant
will beat their swords into plough-sbares, and as
LLAMA of the Ephesians is overthrOwn, why their
craft will perish with her! We were told indeed
| that the Duchess would never marry, that she
| would be the widow Of France, that France was
her husband, her lover her father, and her friend;
but. alas the musischioes OF some Italian Count,
or sumeblack bearded Prince, have changed all her
resolutions, and the citadel Of Baye is to be the
scene Of the birth Of another "Dieu Dome" oi
the Saint Of Naples.
When any of US "low, vulgar-minded" repub'
| licans dared to have the assurance to declare,
that the Duchess was not immacula te--that her
heart was feeble and her hand tremulous; that
sb. would not remain widow for all the Crowns
in the universe, and that pleasure and dissipation
we're the elements Of her happiness and light
heartedness, 1hy, we were reP''eo 10 IN tue 'a"'
guage of Virgil. so happily translated by your no
less immortal Dryden
- Bu; first, let yawuing earth passage rend,
And let me through the dark abyss descendi
FIRST, let avenging love. with flames from high,
! Drive down this body from the neither SKYE,
| Condo mn'd with ghosts to endless night to lie,
Before break the piShted faith gave;
! No he who had my vows, shall ever have;
For whom loved on earth, worship in tie grave
Poor Royal,sts! Poor Quotidienne! Poor
Archbishop Of Paris! Poor GAZETTE de France!
There is something very humorous in their posi-
ton. Their patron saint is after all but a woman,
and that woman very weak one. The Regent
Of France is only "Signora;" and we know
not vet whether her husband be even gentle
man. So young master Henry, poor lad, is left
at the Prague with his grandfather, Charles the
Tenth, poor old gentIeman-and the only thing
to console him in his captivity, in his Legitimacy
.."...........L Legitimacy! indeed! What ass 3,
es we are to occupy ourselves With sach people,
NJ, ,,h.t uorse Than aaaes are we to allow our.