Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-10-11
sALoMoN DE CAUs IN THE PARIS BEDLAM.

/ FROM sARrAIS's MAGAZINE YoR SEPTEMBER.
very effective wood engraving Of this subject presented
the readers of the Magazine this month, is from org
nal picture by Jacques Lecueux. This painting appeared
in the Louvre s45 and the subject of general adm
ration work Of During the exhibition i, became an
object of universal attention. for the interesting history
perpeustes Of that invention discovery which has
made steam useful agent in the economy of the civil
| lized world. ea III ~ Et,ya
From private memoirs Of the French Court find that
in l64l English nobleman, Edward Somerset Marquis
Worcester, being in Paris accompanied by the celebrated
Marion Deorme, while visiting the various places Of curiosity
and interest in that great metropolis To the correspondence
of ha, lady history indebted the only authentic
Of the interview with De Csu from whom the Marquis Of
Worcester learned the theory of sesmpowe and afterwards
published il, in 1863, his discovery, in work en-
titled ga Century Of Inventions" @taAa
The following translation. of letter from MARIox De-
to the Marquis CISa MANS contains very ex-
pcit account Of the interview between DE CAUs and Won
crsrKR, and furnishes the from which LEcuREux de-
signed bis picture:
"FESRuARI 8. 1641.
and are giving the pleasures of the Court and
meeting Monsieur the Cardinal following your wish
Worcester and lead him. or rather he leads me- from ONE OBJ
OF curiosity another choosing always sades and
serious and fixing his large blue eyes ques
ther of him. he is contented with the explanations
gven and never regards objects in the light with
made together Bicee where he pretends to have
discovered man of genius in lunatic II this had
been raging mad verify believe the Marquis would have
demanded his liberty and taken him London
his folles from morning till night AS crossed the lunac
quarters and alive with fear leaned on nv
companion ugly face showed itself behind great BARS
commenced crying in broken voice, am NOT mad IhaUe
made discovery which will enrich any country that uH put
ho
simple, and what could suessits the employ
| ment OF the vapor of boiling water
81 commenced laughing.
This man. continued he sis named Solomon de Caus
lie came from Normandy four years since present the
notice of the King treatise the marvellous that
be obtained by his invention that is by propel
machines drive carriages and do aught know thou
sand other miracles The Cardinal dismissed the madman
without audience but Salomon Caus instead of being
discouraged commenced following the Cardinal
every where until he, tired Of finding him his heels aud
mporuned by his foes ordered him be shut up the
Bcetre where he has been three and half and
where have heard he cries every stranger he
not mad and that he has made wonderful discovery. He
has even written to prove this book which have
| "My Lord Worcester, who had been all attention. de-
manded the book and having read some pages in it.
sad This man is not mad and in my country, instead of
imprsonns him. they would have heaped riches and honor
| on him lead me to him.
! "They did so; but he returned sad and pensve.
He now, in truth, crazy, said he; misfortune and
captivity have deprived him of you have made him
and when threw him into that cell you shut up the
greatest genius Of the age y
After this we left and since that time the Marquis has
continually spoken of Solomon de Caus.
Farewell, my beloved and faithful Henry return soon
| left for your MARION DELoRME."
The authenticity of this letter beyond doubt and it was
found among the effects Of Henri Golfer de Ruge TEfa
Marquis de Cling Mars who, for suspected ntgues
beheaded Lyons 16i2 only year after the date
Of this interesting letter from the celebrated to whom
it was said be had been secretly married.
The artist has treated this subjec, in very mastery stye
The scene is well chosen, the grouping admirable and the
and could be improved The head of De Caus finely
conceived, contrasting noby with the expressions of
the unatics around The figures of the Marquis and his
lovely companion highly characteristic of the couy ele
gance Of that luxurious age We feel indebted NJ Lecu
reuX for the conception of such work of art the embod-
ment and execution Of which have served awaken
absorbing interesting in the mounfu story poor De Caus
We may easily believe that Richeeu denied De Caus an
audience with the king The willy Cardinal had diplomatic
schemes enough to employ all the money in his treasury
without assisting whose theory, il correct would
call for additional expenditures But find
for the incarceration of poor Solomon de Caus.
1t is difficult conceive melancholy fate than bis.
We imagine the feelings the aspirations Of Of ge
MUS Of auhofor he had already published early
the year 1915, work entitled Les Raisons des forces
oupanes dverscs machines, tout utis que lais-
antseavDg his provincial home for the great city Of Paris
filled with the enthusiasm that had sustained him
Through long days of labor, t r
And nights devoid of ease"
while he had pursued those researches and experiments which
the efforts of student What disappointment he have
endured when the naughty Cardinal refused him the
king, and laughed that treatise in which embodied
the impershabe ideas that had been carefully sed from the
harvest of thongt in which he had spent the strength and
vgor Of his entire manhood How different from the bright
promise Of bis dreams the realization Instead of OPEN
handed courtesy and generous cooperation he found epuse
and disespect In place Of chamber with bis sovereign
and interview with the congegsted of the realm, be
received cell in the Bcetre and the companonshp of mad
And this too 10 Paris-Paris that capital Of coun-
try which could that time already boast Of such
Calvin, Serveus Ramus Descares Montagne, Pascal and
Bossuet lta
We need not look to France alone national
negec, towards theories and inventions grand and mag
ncen for the comprehension of the age Fitch and Fulton
rt}@ m
THAT call, when brimmed our festal cup,
"a nations glory and her shame
|" In silent sadness up"
True pnr Government did not them into Bedlam
but il equally true that did encourage hem Was
the first named of these twins of kindred genius allowed
drag miserable existence, amid the doubts and
umees Of our own citizens Have they not left his remains
beside the Of the Ohio, with the
wild flowers above his grave requiem the sound Of
her perpetual flow Yet now though unforeseen that
neglected spot has become his appropriate resting place.
His prophecy is fulfilled Each day, each night all hours
great agoes that put shame the feet of Xerxes pass and
music with senorian voices through iron valves and charm
ing far echo with the constant chime Of passing BELLS
And poor imprisoned Salomon de Caus Does not his
memory share 10 the glory Of every invention which the
power of is applied Had be oretod one-half his
mind foresaw-the the Indian and Egyptian
seasthe rival navies regardless Of wind tide, between
Dover and Caasihe floating palaces upon broad
lyheghted car-beside the MINER far down within earths
mineral caves-bad he oretod but these then oht thew