The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1848-04-29
Lady Hester Stan hopes Prediction.

Lazy HeSter Stan hopes EredlCtl0H.
The following is taken from Lamanine's
"Pilgrmage TO The Holy Land,' in 1929,
After Lady Testers reception of Lamar
Tine, she saia, not knowing even his name
''Si' down and let Us talk. e are already
| friends" SLOW my ladyr' said Lamar
| tine, loan you honor so soon with the ap-
pellalion Off friend a man whose name
ard whose life are entirely unknown to you!
rIou know not who arr.
1T is l7re,, she replied, ~ know not
what you are, according TO the world, nor
what you have done. while you lived a
mongSt mankind; but nlreadv know wFtal
you are are before God. DO not take me
for madWonan as Ihe world often calls
me liza, Cannot resist fire wish 10 open my
heart 10 you. There is a science, Al pres
emf lost in your Enrope.-a science, which,
graded in the East has never persisted hele
hut still exists uneXtinguished | possess il
j read in the siars--># Il n Il i 81 have
only seen YOU for few milures, yet You
are known TO me as well as if had lived
an age with you, Shall | reveal you TO
YOURSELF Shall predics your des'iny?' 4
r Il II 4: X
"Beheve as you think proper, you are rot
the less one OF those men whom 1 expected,
whom Providence sends to me, and who
have "A great part 10 play in the drama which
is preparing. S'ou will soon return to Eu-
rope, but it is all over with Europe France
alone has great mission TO accomplish. in
which you will participate. | do not yet
know how, but | can tell you to>nlght, if
you wish it, when have consulted your
stars. do not know the names OF ALL al
present see more than three: ! perceive
more Than four, perhaps FIVE, and who
knows perhaps still more, One of them is
certainly Mercury, which gives clearness
and color TO intelligence and speech. You
mus, be a poet. read it in your eyes and
IN the upper part of your counenance.
Lower down. you are under the empire of
wholly different and almost opposite stars.
There Is tire power apparent of energy and
action" X * x X 'Remn franks 10
God! There are few men born under more
than one star: few of whom that one is for
tune; fewer STILL whose stars, even when
favorable, is not coun,erbalanceI by the
malignant influence of an opposite planet.
You, however, have several; they all CONS
bine to serve yon. and all aid each other III
yonr favor, What is your name!' told
her. II never heard ii before said she with
the accent of trull.
Al this be it remembered took place in
September 1882, nearly sixteen years ago!
The prediction was certainly remarkable.
In the course Of this conversation Lamar-
tine makes the following remarks to Lady
Stanhope. in reply TO her expressing the
hope that he was an ariSocrat like herself:
II am neither an Aristocrat nor Democratic
have lived long enough 10 have found, Oh
examining both sides of the medal of human
nature that they are equally hollow; my
principles are as little arisocratc as the re.
verse. am man, and an exclusive adj
vocate OF any system that may tend Dim.
prove aGdperfect the whole man, whether
he be born at tire top or the foot of the So
ca scale. neither espouse the cause OF
the people, nor of The great: but that Of
mankind in general! ldonot believe that
ariStocratc or democratic institutions pos
sess the exclusive virtue of rendering hui
man nature perfect; this virtue Is only 10 be
found in divine code of morals, the fruit
Of a perfect religion, faith is the key 10 the
civilization of Ealions." r Il be-
long " n TO the patty who do not
despise their interiors in the social scale
while they respect those above them; whose
wish, be it a dream or not, il is TO raise all
men, without regard 10 the place they hold
in the arbitrary hierarchies Of politics, TO
the same degree of knowledge, of liberty,
and of moral periection.''