New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-02-02
rha c,ouutess de Hooarma.


We find in our foreign journals some account
of the recent proceedings Of this celebrated wo-
man, whose connection with the murder of her
brother by the Count de Bocarme has given her
such worldwide notoriety. A civil process
has been Instituted against her by relative of
her family, in order to prevent her from squan-
dering her estate by her wasteful extravaganza
The case was tried at fournay on the 18th Of
December. 1t appears that the widowed Ceun-
tess, who had better conceal her unfortunate
celebrity in the. retirement Of the cloister, is
possessed by perfect monemania Of extrava-
ganee. The desire Of a splendid establishment
and playing the lady of great house, was one
OF the causes of the peeuniary embarrassment
and the act of poisoning which brought the
Count to the scaffold though it ended with the
acquittal of his wife. In less than eight years
she had run out her Inheritance, and as widow
now, has nothing but the property Of her brother
who was murdered, of which in one year she has
made way already with about third part.
After her discharge from prison in June, 1851.
she travelled wherever there was Il chance Of
making a sensation, appeared in the different
European capitals and watering places, was
three weeks in Paris, made an excursion on the
Rhine, returned to Brussels in season for the
September celebrations, where she attracted
| universal attention by the magnifcence Of her
1 dress, and took house for the winter which
had been the residence of the Spanish Minister,
| in one Of the most fashionable quarters Of the
| city.
In the spring of 1852, she passed a month
with one child and her servants at Chaudfontaine
| and Spa, and in the summer resided at Peru
welz, in the house of her unfortunate brother,
keeping UP great state with equipages, plea
sure horses, etc, and receiving frequent visits
from strangers When she went, as was her
daily custom, to the dismal spot where her
brother lost his life, she appeared on horseback,
in an Amazon's dress, an equerry accompanied
her, a. servant in livery went as an outrider, an
open Carriage followed with her children and
itheir attendant, while guard in full uniform
waited for them at the entrance 70 the chateau,
and then joined the procession. In July she
took another excursion TO Spa and the banks Oh
the Rhine, and after travelling month, re-
turned to Peruwelz, in order to be present az
the sale of the Bitremont estate, which, as she
gave it everywhere to be understood, she tn-
tended TO purchase. Still, about ll5 900 francs
of her husbands debts remain unpaid, though
!, she has used up S4 coo francs Of the property
flef by her brother, and it is calculated, that
LATTER paying the interest on the capital, and
10th r liabilities, her clear income will hardly
amount to 1000 francs. In order to protect her
Eand her children from poverty, and to spare her
family another painful spectacle, one of her re-
tlatiyes, Nj. Baugeses, has made application to
the Court to place the spendthrift under
guardianship. The decision was postponed
for eight days. leaving the public in anxious ex-
j kpectation OF the result. Whether the career OF
the Countess is caused BY insanity or folly, pre-
sents curious psychological problem.