Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-06-05
MISCELLANY N Y.
For the Eastern Times.
Talleyrand.

The following extract from the New York
Courier, presents us with some curious facts
and traditions, which, if all true are interest.
ing.
We were aware that our long line of fishing
coast,-hardly equalled, it is. in the whole
world for maritime advantages-was prolific
of daring and of enterprise. but we had hardly
suspected it of producing of the most emf
nent and successful statesmen that has ever
appeared upon the stage of hnman action.
The circumstance of Talleyrand being in
Bath in the year 1874 or g. we have heard Col.
Dummer Sewall frequently relate, at whose
house he made some stop. 1t was then mys-
terry, as it has been since, that he should have
been induced to take SO long journey on foot
as from Boston to the eastern shores of Maine.
But if these shores were his birth h-place, the
mystery is explained, and this circumstance
may also explain the unkind treatment which
his family in France has often been accused of
inficting on him.
1t is said by Lord Holland in his Foreign
remembrances, that "Talleyrand dislIked his
residence in America after he returned to
France in 1898, but. Notwithstanding. he came
again" And Lord II. further remarks .he
had, believe, been forced into holy orders on
account of his lameness, BY his family, who, on
that account, treated him with an indifference
and unkindness shameful and shocking''-
Now, regardful as the French are of external
circumstances. this trihing deformity does not
seem to be sufficient to account for such an i'm.
questionably was and it would seem more
probable that knowledge of his low origin,
on the maternal side, was the real cause H.
TalIeyrand was, according TO established
accounts, born in Paris in 1854. He lett an
autobiography winch is TO he published in
1865, aud winch will perhaps throw some
light on The subject
y" Aereeaby 10 your desire, here
with send you the information have in re-
gard 10 the parenIaGe and birthplace OF
Charles Murice Taleyrand, Perigord.-
Which information have from The late Hon.
Edward Robbins, OF Boston, formerly Lieut..
Governor OF Massachusetts. Mr. Robbins
was gentleman of extensive information,
something of an anteqlIallan and may add
his organ OF ibquisitiveness was very prumi-
nent.
When Talleyrand was 10 Boston, in l794,
(he came To This country in 1922 he WAS in
iroduced 10 MIR. Rubblns, and they became
quite intimate. A few weeks subsequent TO
their acquaintance, Mr.. Rohnins was called
OF business 10 Mount Desert. in Maiue
where, to hs surprise, he found Tal.cyrund,
incog., aud ON questioning him in re- ard to
his business there. lie gave him an evasive
answer, and treated him very coolly during
his stay there, winch was only few days
after Mr.. RS arrival.
The strangers Cralleyrand's) visit created
considerable surprise among the few inlab-
iianrs of the place AT that time, AMI when
Mr.. K. informed them that his name was
TaIleyruud, a French gentleman OF consid-
cradle note, who had lell France on account
OF the Revoution-tlIat he had been intro
dmced 10 him in Boston, and was surprised
To fud him so shy and ind ifferent to him on
their meeting ihere-and the people were as
much so, as they had noticed sh,s strullinc
about The place without any apparent mo>
live. But some of the Older inlIaIi ants oh
served, that his lamene>s aud walk pur them
in mind of the French boy, rs they used To
call him. who was taken from that place
about the close of the French war. These
observations induced Mr.. r. to make parl,c.
ular inquiries in regard 10 The French boz,
aud they informed him that sometime pre-
vious 10 the war, n French ship of war came
into that place 10 make some repairs, and 10
wood and water for their home " ard hound
passage, and while there, the captain became
Intimate with young girl. the daughter of
fisherman then absent, which circumstance
created no little scandal among the liule So
cieiy of the fishmongers Of the place at that
time, and as they expected, in due time, the
girl had chiIi-n fine boy. 2t
The nexr year the French captain made
his appearance among them, and found the
mother and son. whom he we'll provided for
ant. made some presents 10 the grandpa
reuls which apparently made them all rec,
onciled, especially rs he promised to mart,
the girl when he should come out next year
Blu, they never saw him aguin. ''' -
When the boy was about year old, tht
mother overturned a kettle os boiling wa,e
on his feet, which so curled up his toes as /,
make him cripple for life. Some few year
after this, the mother died, and al the clos
Of the war, or about that time, a French gen
tieman. (not tho father of The chilly cam
there for the purpose Of taking the boy .