Litchfield enquirer., 1852-09-23
Paris Correspondence ot the Boston .atlas RUE DE LA CHAUssEE. D'ANTINrl .a PARIS, Aug. 9.h, 1852.
Count d'Orsay.
The Vcnity ef Ambition - Count q O

The Tcnity ef Ambition n Count q O.. l say-- Notice of Ais life and character.
 The aristocratic birth of Count d'OrsaY opened to hiMl as right the best salons ot
 Paris. his family was generally and favora" bly, known in fashionable society, and was connected with the test familiesof France. Thus carly in life, through their common intimacy with the Duke and Duchess de Guiche, he was frequently thrown inao company with the Earl and Lady Bless l ington, who being in the meridian of their fortunes and their health, made Paris the head quarters from which they made their pleasure tours through France or through Italy, which furnished Lady Blessington themes for her charming books-The ldler in Italy, &c.. Sc. This acquaintance soon { eipened into is.imacy, and it was not very long before this intimacy vas increased by the marriage of Count Orsay to the daughter of the Earl of Blessingion. q thInk the second Lady Blessinston had no children.( They wont sevesai times to- It. ally in company. and it was through them Count d'Orsay made Byron's friendship;
 he won Byron's heart ut once, and they continued through lie warm triends.- When the Blessingto gtonSreturned ro- Eng. land, he accompanied them and made London his home. 5 ,afa
 Count d'Orsay was now an all accom- plshed ma n. onanis honao He was gifted with remarkable physical beauty--his head might have been taken for tue mole of un Apollo or an An:inous. it had such strength and sottness in it's beauty. He spoke several languag.s win elegaut ease --he was al home ln the exercise Of all ar,ns--he was prasticed in several itlstru' ments-he was a draughtsman of rare skill and ,aste-he excelled in every manly exercise. aaf 1 is one of tbe many singular character.
 is,ics of English Society, tliast the! allow
 nay, seelIas to desire n leader to assume regal powers in social circles. They de sire a king of faAllioD,a lion whose dscrecs
 are laws, who is the model of evcrything--- of manners, dress, morals, conversation . who ls empowered 10 select fashionable
 rendezvous. to dictate which promenadas.
 what drawing rooms, what theatres are
 faslI,onab!e, what danseuse and artist shall
 be applauded, W hat author shall be c0urted-
 what pa nter purchased. To go no further back, Lord ChestertleldanJ Beau N ash. ! "Beau' Bruln,nel md George w., have in
 lhls mauner ruled the soc,ety of their day. When Count d'Orsay appeared ID Eag>
 land, he was made King of Fashion by
 acclamatioD lsi tue elected elegant
 endeavor to decline so noisy success never
 50 obslinatey, his constituents wlib prove
 still more ol,s,inafe. and ha must wear the
 crown, or else abandon Enshnd.
 Count d'Orsay did not decline the title conferred on him--he was young. and he had lltasles aud ambitions of tllut ag..
 But he diffei ed--there could. indeed, be no greater difference than ths which existed between him and Brummel. He was al- ways an aristUcrat. He never had any of the insoIence, he lial none of the airs oi the rayvean He did not live on his friends,
 and make them pay his debts. bJ forc'ns
 them 10 Patronizs lis creditors. II ns gave time and paid attention 70 horses, anu
 dogs. and eqnipages, and tollet.esIn no
 made his hat the model for ali hats ouEsng
 tue season, and invented new cFaxat kaets J UT new fashions, it was that he knew fnut Ito lhe silly crowd of.IOrdIings wllu lnlssNsed him, these trifes were the seri0ue bnalnesa of life, aud that these bagateiies strongsl- | ened his posili0n more than seFlouss useful and grand deeds would have done. Ehese frivOliIies he regarded ir their PrOper lashs