Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-09-19
VOL. d NO. 80.
DAILY VIRGlNIAN.
Lamartine's last Visit to Count D'o,say

M. do Lnmariine hns written in one Of the
newspapers biographical and obituary notice Of
the late Duke de Grammont. In it there is an
interesting allusion to tho late celebrated Count
d'Orsay, which correspondent Of the Boston
Atlas thus translates.
''One looked in vain among this family process
sion for tho brother of the Duchess de Grammont
ravished few months before the noon Of life
from the tender. friendship of his sister. The
world has not known all 1t lost in the Count dor
say, brother-in-law of the Duke dc Grammont.--
Ilo was known only by his hereditary beauty, by
his adventures, by his talents, by his light cele
brties, which would have been excused in anoih-
Grand which possessed ecidt only because he him
self was born brilliant.
'Woe to those who shine. their faults share
the splendor of their nature. NJ. de Chateaubri
and, who has spoken of the Count d'Orsay in his
memoirs, has been bitter when he should have
been charitable for the impulse Of youth and pas
sion. Dante himself does not speak with that
hnrshness OF the fate of love; when Francesca do
Rimini has spoken, Dante does not condemn, ho
does not excuse he does not absove; he mets
cd,he pitieshe wecps. Naught but n tear should
have been given to that youth Of DOrsay. He
quilted that youth man and the man gave prom
iso Of real talents and solid qualities. These
natural qualities are less esteemed, we know, than
acquired qualities, because they cost no effort;
they certainly less meritorious, but we do not
know that they are less amable.
"Nature lias always more grace than voiiion
All was nature for n moment bowed by excess Of
wealth, became vigorously straight amid the agi
| tations OF misfor,unes and years. Yet little
| while, and France would have cherished in him
| II child prodigal of his genius. Let those who
| have not known Count d'Orsay Judge him without
| indulgence and justice, but let his friends land
| we were among them) retraco to themselves in
his person one of tho richest Injuries OF nature.
| The very faults and repentance OF his youth
made, to say, n part Of the projections OF his
manhood They gave to ohs still young physiog-
nomy that melancholy which is tho increasing
| shadow of our souvenirs on our face, as the sun
of our life sets in its West; they gave to his
mind that into gent and merciful tolerance which
| one can better bestow others, when one has
once felt for himself the pleasure and the neces-
| sity.
"When during his last and only sickness Ia
disease of the heart) visited him in his sculp-
tors studio. in that little museum, changed into
sick chamber that he might breathe his last be-
| fore tho objects Of his love, when lying on that
| bed of repose in the midst Of his paintings, his
drawings, his unfinished busts, he looked like y
statue of Antnous, which was nncolored, without
| losing line Of his beauty in the benms OF the
sun, on the eve of sinking from the sky, We could
not tire of contemplating with secret tender
ness, tho serenity not TO say the splendor OF that
| dying man. He lay under no illusions he raised
| illusions TO those who loved him TO spare them
I
| cenled his last sigh to steal away pain from his
| friends, from TINT sister. from those nieces who
we're about to weep him forever"
THE YOUNG KING OF PORTUGAL IN LOVE -
| the London correspondent of the Boston Post
furnishes the following piece of royal gossip:
| Apropos to tho Queen: lis said that she is
troubled about an affair Of the heart which has
sprung up between tho Princess Royal and the
| young King of Portugal, who is again upon
visit here; not that there is anything objeotione,
bic in tho latter either in mind morals or good
| looks that would render him an undesirable hus-
band or son in law, or in the throne he Is to I'LL
which is al an anxious mother could aspire after
for one Of her four daughters, nor that the Queen
would not gladly SEQ the Princess Royal we'll dis.
posed of in marrage--but that the young King
| Il Roman Catholic. and is thus debared from
allying himself by marriage with the heiress,
| however distant, of the British crown. Mean
while the young King has fallen violently in love
with the fair girl OF fifteen, who is not insensbe
to his merits, and let's pass no occasion, either by
presents, messages, or tokens when he is absent,
or by tender looks when present, to manifest her
sincere affection. They are not, of course, suf-
fcred to meet except in tho presence of others
| but there are numerous occasions during the
morning walks and rdes, or the steamer trips in
| the bay when the lover can manifest the senti-
lnents of his heart to the object of his pursuit. 1t
! is whispered that among tho numerous teachers
| employed to perfect the royal children in the
| knowledge of the modern languages. there is one
who is subject of his Majesty and who is devo-
| tedly attached to him, and that through him COM
| muncations have passed for long time which
never meet the august scrutiny Of the Queen.