Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-07-10
LETTER FROM PARIS.

-rhe lovers Of gossip vii! find enough to cloy
moderate appetite in the subjoined article, which
is part Of the private correspondence Of the Lon
don Times.
PANS, MAY 90. The denouement o. the dra-
ma or meIo- drama of Biaye is over. The Prin.
cess Caroline Of Naples. of Bourbon blood, the SIS.
ter Of the late rcgnng King, the sister OF the King
of Spain, the niece Of Louis Philippe, the gfand.
daughter Of the Austrian Ce.ars, the mother OF
MademoiselIe de Berry d'Artos, and of the child
of the miracle, the Duke of Bordeaux, now Hen
~ V according to the reckoning ct Legitimacy,
is, after all, Madame, the Countess Hector de
Lucchesi Palli. Well, then. there is happy
mortal who has ingralted daughter on his Roy
al stock, and has shared the couch OF the Prin.
cess Regent during her Vendean excursions, but
who doubtless, is happy enough to have escaped
the di,agreeabe affair of the Chateau de Ia Pc.
niciere. We may now have guess of the ma
ture of the dreadful and irreparab,e misfortune
of which the Countess de la Rochejacqueln spoke
and dePlored
In spite of all this. doubts have arisen as to
the reality of this union declared to have taken
place between the widow Of the Duke Of Berry
with Count Hector de Lucchesi Pali. Tne pc.
ther event to the month of August, 1882. Now,
if this NJ. Lucchesi be, as are assured he 10,
the Neapolitan Charge d'Affares of the same
name at the Court OF the Hague il is certain that
NJ Lucchesi PAlII was in the month Of August
al the seat of his mission, and there is nothing to
show that there could at that time be any inter.
course between this dipIomatst and the Duchess.
But there is always something miraculous IN the
confinements of her ROYAL Highness. She has
again given to the world miracle burn child, for
which her new husband is doubtless grateful. DO
you wish to know something more OF tins W. de
Lucchesi PaIIi. husband by declaration, father
presumptve? will tell you.
Count Lucches Pal.i ut he put forward at
Baye and the Minister at the Hague be one and
the same person, Of which there seems no doubt
is man Of thirty or thereabou', and Of the mid.
die size. His features, which are pitted with
the smallpox, are Of a very common cast. His
department is grave, but affected. La general he
is altogether wanting IN dignity; there is nothing
in his manners like the man of rank, nor even
the gentleman. He passes his evenings with the
financier Ouvrard, Madame dc Rossi, formerly
Miss Snntag, and the Countess du Cayla. lie
often dimes at the table d'hOte Of the Gand Doe
len Inn.
You will easily conceive the great vexation OF
our lesItimist devotees at their Disappointment.
The INST fanatcaI Of the set take refuge in de-
NAL ut the facts, notwithstanding the most for.
nal and ndlsputable proofs NJ. de Kcrgorlay
declares that he will not believe IN the event IN.
ill he has seen and touched. He requires proof
as decisive as that given by the Duchess at the
birth of the Duke of Bordeaux, when calling her
attendants around her, and uncOVerng herself
before them. she said, Voyez il iient encore a
Z
port, and which have, know not why. made her
Royal lishness be compared to Blanche Of Cas-
tile, the mother OF 81. Louis.
You must have been amused by the proposal
OF some of our Iegltimsts to make the case OF
the prisoner at Baye subject OF legal investi-
CATION. tits not conceivable that her friends
could have wished to see her appear before pub.
lie tribunal with all the signs Of pregnancy of so
little edHyims nature. There was much bad
faith in this proposition, and our Republicans
were not more sincere when she j"ined n chorus
with the Royalsts to demand trial. What
they wanted "as something which might give
opportunity for riots. and the chance of 90 over.
throw. The Ministers, however. acted with
much prudence in allowing themselves to be
intmdated by the united cries Of the factions.
| But what is now to be donecwith the Count
less Hector lie Lucchesi Paiis 1t Is generally be-
lieved.that she will be sent uff to her own coun.
try, 10 try whether domestic happiness will there
| make her cease to regret the loss of her former
greatness. In The mean time it is inpussi.
bic but that this childbed declaration. these cir.
oumstances Of secret marriage. which seem to
be brought forward as an aiterthousht, should
not revive the suspicious which have existed res
pectins the extraordinary birth Of the Duke of
Bordeaux. Ii is not easy to reconcile the ex-
| c,,I Of tj,o f..
born daughter, whom she wishes TO nurse with
her own milk, with the little atfec ton she used
to show for son whose life was valuable TO her,
as it promised to secure to her the highest desti.
nv. II is not less difficult to explain how she
could so easily separate from him, and incur the
risk Of dapriving herself forever Of the happi.
ness of seeing him. 1t is now reported that We
shall soon have various revelations on this sub.
ject, and curiosity is more easily awakened as
the public mind has never been completely sat
Isted respecting the facts. recolect that dur.
Ing the July days certain influential persons then
said" The ssppositlous birth, so often sus
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