The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-09-27

think il a scandalous shame TO allow the pre-
sence near young people of woman who has
proclaimed herself as she has done. k,io,o
WeH enough you haze other liasons. and that is
mol 10Th her that your life is occupied, bit she as
sunies the altitude. 1t is this which have the
right TO blame. do not pretend to busy my
self with your private conduct and affections,
hut neither nenaces nor ill treatment will pre-
vent my repeating, as have right to do, that
you deceive yourself in putting yonr children
into the hands Of a woman who has no care
for her reputation, and has ceased TO respect
herself AS long as my daughters are not mar.
ried, will reside constantly with them will
aid in ll,eir occupations, and will accompany
them everywhere. .
THE DIARY RESUMED.
"IMPRzssIoEs. June II. lS47.-l must re-
peat hourly 10 myself that have accomplished
a sacred duty towards my daughters in consent
ing 10 join my efforts to those of my father 10
send away this woman. My Col! what will
be the future? How is he incensed! One
would think he was not the gully one. He
says he loves his children, and he distrusl their
mother, and he makes his mis,resses their gov
ernesses. What life he is leading; he is los.
ing all his energy. May God guide my child
zen !"
"l3h July, .lsi7.-lt is long since have
written anything, and nevertheless nothing has
changed in the interval. She will leave, they
say, when we go TO Praslin and in the mean.
time the empire she holds is most absolute
Father and children, she retains them all as 10
special bond. understand her game well
enough. il she really have swallowed all shame;
but for him, cannot explain his conduct. He
pretends that their relations are msinterpreted.
and yet he publicly proclaims the rupture with
my father, on her account. She must havs
some means by which she makes her threats
powerful over him. If he allows himself TO
be thus dominecred over and brow beaten by
at forty two, what will he be when
he grows old And yet, how love him p
Truly, believe that he only wishes to keep
Mdlle ID. (whom he has not loved for this ls
months or two years., because lie fears that il
once removed hence she would make life too
hard for him. My God what an existence!
What is curious that | am sane. Thought him so
different. Oh, he must have been So; | could
never have loved him, if he had been always
what he is!
How completely has he isolated himself!
He has not one real, serious friend. He has
no connections but those which have sprung
from his pleasures, and which have become
chains, from his weakness when he wished TO
dctach himself from them. How frghltul il is
He drugs afler him. like dog, the erigcncies Of
Women wiih Whom he has been connected And
yet how bizarre are men He has always
sacrificed, oppressed wounded, Inundated, i'll.
'reaed and abandoned me, for persons whom
he did not love. do not believe that this cal
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be desirable for our children. He will always
avoid me, because he is conscious of his wrong,
and | shall never seek him but from duty to
my children" ..". f., " x 4
WILLS OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS.
Two wills of the Duchess de Prasln were de-
posted in the hands of the President of the Civil
Tribunal of the Seine. One of thase is dated in
IeiI and the other in 1896 In the first, the
Duchess speaks of her husband in the most aifec-
tonate terms in the second she does not, as has
been enormously stated, give lfe-interestio the
Duke in all her property, but bequeaths to him
part OF her personal property, and ifc-interest in
one Of her landed estates. In this last will is q
curious clause, by which she leaves her Jewels to
of her sons with directions that they shall be
sold and the produce invested in Government
funds. The dividends of the stock thus purchased
TO be invested TO accumulate till the time hen
this son shall be married; when The whole fund,
thus augmented, is to be laid out in the purchase
Of diamonds for his bride.
The will of the Duke de Praslin was also in the
hands of the President of the Civil Tribunal TT
will was in the portfolio of the Duke, who, just
before his death, took care to indicate that r
cumstance. Immediately after the deceasc of HE
prisoner, the portfolio was opened, and two will
were found, bearing date lS4l and l843. The first
is not signed but the second, which is the exact
reproduction of it, is perfectly regular In the
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after several liberalitics made TO his different chill
dren, leaves the chateau de Prasln dc Vaux TO his
eldest son. In particular clause, he engages his
sons not to contrac, II rrogc before having attain
cd their twehty-ffth year. There is also in the
testament of 1913, legacy, by which the Duke
secures a rente of 3DODlr. TO Mdle. de Luzzy-Des-
portes, in acknowledgement Of "t the enlightened
zeal which she had shown in the education of his
daughtcrs%
That this horrible murder was committed by
the Duke de Praslin il seems foolish 10 pretend to
doubt. As TO its being deliberate murder, opin-
ions may well differ. The evidence, rs il stands,
would seem to throw as much confederation upon
ono hypothesis as the other. We consider that
the crime is sufficiently enormous, without deny
ing the wretched criminal the charitable conside-
ration that the atrociiy was not .premedtated-
The gross mode Of buchery indicates the sudden
growth of fury; for, unhappy, animal rage, not
pity, succeeds the first blow given in anger--a
blow, therefore, always TO be regarded as fatal.
We can readily conceive that letters and docu-
ments like those we have given, (athough the
emanations of deep and just sense of injury,)
must have had the effect Of Irritating the Duke de
Praslin especially if followed up by personal re-
ordinations, and these, constant and unwearicd.
On the fatal night, he must have returned about
10 o'clock, and on visiting his wife's apartment,
mutual and exciting conversation on their troubles
may have been kept up for some hours the state
of the chamber, it must be remembered, showed
that the washing, burning, and dressing, were all
hurriedy done. Had the murder been premedi-
tated, this woul hardly have been the case, per-
haps. He would have killed the Duchess as she
slept, and prepared aome plausible pretence for
fixing the crime on another. He seems, too, to
have made no preparations 10 relieve himself from
suspcion-from conviction-to fix the attention Of
the police elsewhere. D..
And thus ends the narrative, which we have
endeavored TO make perfect as possible, with
out introducing anything cxtraneous, or emitting
anything important to right understanding of the
case. To publish everything about it contained in
the voluminous pamphlets newspaper sheets &c,
issued in Paris and London, would be impossible,
were it even deemed necessary.
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