The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1846-04-10

ne voicc OF friendship, IONc, had died.
... That voice would linger there.
As when soft pllowed on her breast,
Its tunes first lulled my infant rect,
Or rose in prayer.
TnIicyrnnd---Ilis Death aud Character.
Translated from Blanc's History Of the First Ten
Years Of the Reign Of Louis Philippe.
We have described Nj. de Talley-
rand--his ostentatious vanity in evil.
But his impassibility was only a
mask. As contempt for men and
principles constituted a school in
his parlor, he did not choose to lose
the benefit of the shameful profess
sorship, ard he was careful only to
appear triumphant and scornful. At
bottom, he was uneasy, irresolute,
humble, tormented with sadness =;
parading immortality not suiting a
powerful nature, an energetic per-
verseness, he wretchedly exhausted
himself by it. Testimony long kept
secret, but unquestionably, proves
that, in the last years of his life, me-
Citation was bitterly insupportable
to him. Abandoned to himself in
the silence of the night, he fell from
the height of his Fictitious pride in
to inexpressible detection; and by
the light of lamp, which lit the SOL
itude of his vigils, he sometimes
traced lines which show the tumult
of his thoughts and the faintness Of
his spirits-lines, for instance like
these: Eighty-three years gone
What cares! What agitation! What
ill-will inspired! What vexatious
complication! And without any
other results than great moral and
physical fatigue, and a profound
feeling of despair for the future, and
disgust at the past
Thus, under his icy forehead, the
perpetual irony of his look, the calm
carriage, and the permanence of his
apparent happiness, Nj. de Talley-
rand concealed life full of struggles
and pusillanilnity. On the scene,
he made display of contempt for
virtae. But he had the cyniclsm of
wi'nedness withoutit courage. He
c.1,;%re lot believe even in his own Skep-
,;c;s,2; he had not faith even in his
own Immortality; SO that this man,
everything g" VI J fa4lss; even even in his vi
ces. an'e
If we are to believe some devout
personages, the first communion of
the daug hter of Madame de Dino,
marked the life of NJ. de Talleyrand
in strange and decisive manner ;
and he suffered himself to be touch
ed in an extraordinary degree by the
sight of the piety of a young girl
whom he tenderly loved. What is
certain, is, that Mademoiselle Pau
line de Dino was uncommonly de-
vout, and, on the part of her great
uncle, the object of kind of wor-
ship. Besides M. de Talleyrand had
weakness of character scarcely
credible 1; and no one was more fl
than he to be governed by a child
1t was on these grounds that the,
went to work, preparing that of hi
conversion.
The importance to the priests o
such a conversion, may be imagln
ed! Those among them who wer
animated by a sincere zeal for re
u ion, must have rejoiced at it, as
holy conquest; the others saw in
homage rendered to their empire
an unparalleled humiliation inAicte
on the Voltaire party, the proof, i
short, that catholicism has paramount
right overt two extremes of man
eXistence-,overb birth and over dealt
Furthermore, the former archbisho
of Paris, the cardinal Talleyrand d
Perigord, had especially recommer
ded the conversion of his nephew
nj. de Queen, whom, in his view
he DESIRED to have for his succe!
sor. ..I4
The interest of the church W;
wonderfully served by the Dutche'
of Dino. The daughter of the Duh
of Courland, and born consequent
in the vicinage of thrones, she he
long exercised the double power
wit and beauty. But one lasts To-
ger than the other; and whether 81
wished, by change of habits
grow young again, or that the a
fractions Of the too gorgeous cou
of Louis Philippe had exhausted h
aristocratic disgust, she began
sigh after the faubourg St. Germai
In vain M. Theirs and the new nj
frequently represented to her he
improbable the reconciliation wa