Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-01-07
Talleyrand.

| was written towards the close OF MS HE,
by one who evidently had opportunities
for observing him under the most interest
ing circumstances:
"Talleyrand was born lame, his limbs
are fastened to his trunk by an iron appa-
ratus, on which he strikes ever and anon
his gigantic cane, to the great dismay of
those who see him for the first time AN
awe not diminished by the look of his pier
cling gray eyes, peering through his shag.
gy eyebrows, his unearthly face. marked
with deep stains, covered partly by his
shock of extraordinary hair, partly by his
enormous muslin cravat, which supports
large protruding lip drawn over his upper
lip, with cynical expression no painting
could render; add to this apparatus of ter
ror his dead silence, broken occasionally by
the most sepulchural cultural monosylla-
bles. Talleyrand's pulse, which rolls
stream of enormous volume, intermits and
pauses at every sixth beat, This he con-
stantly points out triumphantly as rest of
nature, giving him at once superiority
over other men. Thus he says all the
missing pulsations are added to the sum
total Of those of his whole life, and his
longevity and strength appear to support
this extraordinary theory. He likewise as
serts that it is this which enables him to
do without sleep. Nature. says he. sleeps
and recruits herself at every intermission
of my pulse. And indeed you see him
time after time rise at 8 o'clock in the
morning from the whist table. then return
home and often wake up one of his secre-
taries to keep him company or to talk Of
business.
cat he will go to bed, sitting nearly
bolt upright in his bed, with innumerable
night caps on his head to keep it warm, as
he said, and feed his intellect with blood,
but in fact to prevent his injuring the seat
of knowledge If he tumblss on the ground;
and he sits upright from his tendency to
apoplexy. which would no doubt seize him
if perfectly recumbent. We may fsnem
ber the newspapers stating he was found
few years ago. his head having dropped
from his pillow, so drowned in blood that
not feature was to be seen. Although he
goes to bed so late, at or 7 at latest he
wakes and sends for his attendants. He
constantly refers to the period when he was
Minister for Foreign Affairs, and when his
power to live without sleep enabled him to
90 out and seek information as well as
pleasure in society till Il or o'clock. At
that hour he returned to his office, and
read over all the letters that had arrived i'm
the day, put marginal indicati ons of the
answers to be given, and then on waking
again at read over all the letters write n
in consequence of his orders.
"When Taleyrand was engaged in the
protocols here, he used to tire out all his
younger colleagues; and full we'll we know
by experience that, at the time Of the
Quadruple treaty and on many other occa-
sions, his eyes were wide open while Lord
Palmerston slept When the storm of the
three glorieuses broke over Paris, too hap
py to escape from France, Talleyrand came
over to England One cannot refrain from
laughing on thinking how he appeared
He gave his audiences to his countrymen
in his salon in Hanover Square, with a
round hat on his head, on the front of
which was tri colored d cockade six inches
square; while tout al long on the sofas
were three young sans culottes of July he
had brought with him to give himself an
air of republicanism. Louis Philippe got
settled on his throne, the tri-colored cock
ade was torn off the round hat and thrown
into the fire, and the new born embryos of
republicanism were sent back to Paris. =
"Talleyrand, freed from all fear of the re-
public, gave vent to all his natural despo-
tism. He then had here the whole world
at his feet; all the nobility of England sought
his society with eagerness; the diplomatsts
of every nation bowed before him. Lord
Palmerston alone resisted Talleyrand, not
only in great things, but in the most trilling
and childish affairs. Talleyrand then used
to settle affairs beforehand with Lord Grey
and Lord Holland. Lord Palmerston man
aged. however, to annoy Talleyrapd. who,
tired of pickering on trifles, and doubtful
what turn affairs would take as regarded
the two parties in the State, with both of
which he wished to keep on good TERMS,
TalleyranG, we repeat, took the first oppor-
tunity of going on to leave France, from
whence he gave in his resignation. All
we shall add further is, that Talleyrand is
not man of imagination nor of invention
He never could make an extempore speech
in his life. His forte is his impassibiity
and his cool and perfect judgment. He is
very silent, and is always stimulating those
who approach him to talk on the important
subjects of the day. He will listen for
hours to the opinions of men of mediocrity,
and out of all he hears makes up those webs
in which other politicians get involved like
giddy flies. To this power of judgment
Talleyrand adds that without which neith-
er statesmen nor generals can ever succeed
namely, exceedingly good luck"
EFThe Albany Knckerbocksr cautions
four black cats that are continually serena
ding in the back shed, that there is a sau-