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THE AIGUI.ETs OF ANNE OF AIIs.rl

THE AlGULETS OF ANNE OF AUsrRIA
AsBcRET ANEcDorE
The annals Of gallantry and even no.
mantle fiction, have opened few scenes
more strangely brilliant than some of
the incidents which mark the rapid
but splendid career of that famous
Niliiers, Duke OF Buckingham, who
was the idol minister Of two monarchs.
and the victim of favouriiism.
Certain IL is, when Villiers was on
his short embassy to France, he dared
To become animpassioned love Of Anne
of Austria, the eonsort Of Louis Thir.
tecnth. The mysterious interview in
the garden at Amiens, is mystically
revealed IN the verses Of Voiture, for
poets are great tattlers in the history
OF love affairs. The Queen, ever re-
lined coquette, was herself educated
by Buckingham's personal fascination.
Deeply enamoured Of the peerless Eng.
lishman. she vcntured tn give an evi.
dence OF her devotion Of a very extra.
ordinary nature. The rival of Buck
ingham, both in love and politics, the
subdolous Richelieu, fattered his ven
geanee that by bold stroke he would
have been enabled to have exposed this
testimony Of the Queens frailty to the
eyes Of the luckless monarch, who was
already kindled by inextinsuishable
jealousies. Richelieu's extraordinary
Iatte@pt seems to have led to circum.
stances on the part Of Buckingham
which may almost render the tale
Incredible; bot when minister Of
state degsnerstes into n romantic lover,
and the honor Of tho dame de ses pen.
ses Is in jeopardy, we must recollect
that IL requires little exerlion to set in
motion all the sources OF power, and
the whole machinery Of state. The
particulars we are about to relate are
strange, but appear authentic; for they
are confirmed by a positive assertion in
the Memoirs Of the Duke de Rochefou.
'cauld. The romantic incident, which
has been preserved by q French manu-
script, is not indeed to be found among
the writers of secret memoirs in our
own country, where indeed the secret
must have been confined to the two
persOnsges, neither Of whom would
willingly have revealed il to the other;
but this did not happen at the Court of
the Louvre, where il not only ex-
cited deeper interest than at the court
Of st. James, but involved the fate,
and bafiled the designs. Of the highest
pefsOnages who were the actors in this
little drama.
The French monarch had presented
his Qusen with an uncommon present,
whose fashion and novelty at the time
were considered as the most beautiful
ornament worn. u was what the
french term des |srrcfs foieUiiieres
de diGnlDis-aigulets or points tagged
with diamonds.
On the Arrival Of buckingham, every
day was a festival. Richelleu gave a
magnificent entertainment at the gar
dens Of Ruel, the most beautiful in
France the nobility prided themselves I
on their suppers, their balls, their con.
eeris, and their masquerades. Buck I
ingham danced with ail hiss peculiar
graces the Queen honored him a. Ter
partner ia what is called q counter
dance Tor 40 we commonly cali IL, .
country dance "And in this English |
dance opportunities are continually &C I
curing 20 approach one another, 60
give aud 10 cross their hands, the eyes,
the gestures, timidity OF boldness, and
a thousand understandable things are too
intelligible, though they pass amidst
the silence IN which such spectseles 4
are performed, ont Of respect 20 the 1
public" This Frsnehman describes
our obsolete country dances 10 have
been ~ dangerous ~ were our values, ,
on their hrst Introduction.
Riebeiieu was jealousy watehlul Of