The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-17

The observation-disclosures
Hisl Curious Career and Remarkable
Eccentricities-The Odd Man OfIis Age.
The late Count Gurowski came to this country
from France in November 1919, and resided at
first in New York. He made his appearance at
Boston, ! think, in the latter part of $780, and
being well introduced by letters from men of
note IN Paris, was received with attention In
the highest circles of society. Among his
friends at this period were Prescott, Ticknor
Longtehow, Lowell, Parker Sumner, FELTON,,
ana Everett-the last named of whom was then
PRESIDENT OF Harvard University. The eccentric
appearance and character of the Count. of
course, excited curiosity, and gave rise TO many
idle rumors, the most popular OF which declared
him to be Russian spy, though what there was
to spy in this country, where everything is nub-
lished in the newspapers, or what the Gear
expected to learn from such an agent. nobody
undertook to explain. The phrase was a CON
venlent one, and, like many others equallv
senseless, was currently adopted because II
seemed to explain the incomprehensible: and
certainly, to the multitude, no man was ever
less intellble than Gurowski.
To those, however who cared for pre-
else information, the French and German
periodicals OF the day, in which his
nanre frequently figured, furnished sufii-
cient to determine his social and historical
status. From authentic sources it was soon
learned that he was the head of q distinguished
noble family of Poland: that he was born i'm
1905, and mad taken part In the great insurrec-
ton OF 1881 against the Russians, for which he
had been condemned to death, while his estates
| were .conisca ed and assigned to Younger
| brother, who had remained loyal to the Car,
Ii was known also that at Paris, where he had
! found refuge, he had been special favorite of
| Lafayette and of the leading republicans and
! an active member of the Polish Revolutionary
| Committee, till, in 1885, he published "La Verite
! sur Ia Russie," iu which work he maintained
that the interests of Poland and of all the
! other Slavic countries would be promoted by
! absorption into the Russian empire, and union
! under the Russian Gar. This book drew upon
! him the indignant denunciatlon of his country.
men, who retarded it as a betrayal of their
cause, and led to the revocation of his sentence
of death, and to an invitation to enter the SER
vice OF Nicholas. He accordingly went to St.
Petersburg in 1885, wnere his sister had long
| resided, personally attached to tue Em.
press, and in high favor at the imperial
court. He was employed at first in
| the private chancery OF the Emperor and
afterwards in the Department, of Public
! Instruction, in which he suggested and Intro-
| duced various measures tending to Russianize
! Poland by means OF schools and other public
institutions. He seems Tor some years to have
! been in favor and on the high road to power
! aod distinction In 1914, however, he fled from
! st. Petersburg secretly, and took refuge at the
! court OF Berlin. He was pursue I, and his eX.
| tradltlon demanded OF the Pru5slan Govern
! ment. What his oifense was | have never
| learned, but can reauIly suppose that it was
| only too free use OF hls tongue, which was at
| all times mcontrolable, ana was always In
volving him in difficulties wherever he resided
| He was quite as likely to contradict and
| snub the Gar as readily as he would the
! meanest peasant, and, for that matter, even
more readily: HIS flight from Russia caused
! good deal Of discussion in the Continental ne VS.
| papers, and it is certain that for some reason
| or other strong and pertinaciOus efforts were
| made by the Russian Government to have him
delivered up. The Gar had at that time great
| influence over the Court of Berlin, and GU
! rowsk was at length privately requested by the
Prussian Government, in friendly way, 10
relieve them OF embarrassment by Withdrawing
from the kingdom. He accordingly went to
Heidelberg, and afterwards to Munich and for
two years subsequently was a Lecturer on
Political Economy at the University OF Berne,
in Switzerland. At later period he visited
| Italy, and for year previous to his arrival in
this country had resided in Paris. Besides his
| hrst work on Pansavism, already mentioned
| he had published several Others in Frenca and
German, which had attracted considera1le
attention by the force and boldness of their
ideas, and the wide range of erudlton disDlaved
in them. Finally, it became known to those
who cared TO inquire, that one OF his brothers,
lgnatius Gurowski, was married to an infanta
OF Spain, whom I believe he had persuaded
TO elope with him; that Gurowski him
self was widower, with a son in the Rus.
sian navy, and daughter married in SwItzer-
made about his c0nfscated estates by which his
'loyal" brother had agreed to pay him slen.
der annual allowance, which was not always
punctually RENTED. ...
Such was the substance OF what was known,
or at least OF what knew and can no W recall
OF Gurowski, soon after his arrival in Boston,
sixteen years ago. He came to Massachusetts
l think, with some expectation of becoming
connected with Harvard University as a lee
iurer ori professor, and took up his residence
in Cambridge in lodgings in house on Main
street, nearly opposite the College Library In
January, 1851, he gave, at President Egerett's
house, course of lectures upon Roman jurs-
prudence OF which | have preserved the fol
lowing syllabus, printed by him in explanation
Of his urpose:-
Count de Gurowsbr proposes to give Six
Lectures upon theRoman jurisprudence, or the
Civil Law according 10 the following sylIabus.
tue history Of the principle of the Ri1ht tdas
Ipecht) as ii exists in the consciousness OF men
and OF its outward manifestation a. a law IN an
organized society; philosophical outline OF
This principle and OF its manifestations VIII
lTecede.
The philosophical and historical progress of
the notion or conception of the RiqhL through
the various moments or data of jurlsprudential
formation BY the Romans. Explanation of the
prlncipal elements and facts, ont of winch was
framed successfully the Roman law.
such are, for instance, the Ramnian, the
Sablnian, or Quirltian; their influence on the
character OF the legislation and jurisprudence
1.-The popularity and the legal meaning OF the
jus qulTlt,unl. Explanation OF some OF lts legal
rites, as those concerning matTimony, Jus man
c{pl, iR JIre cesSiO, ETC.
''The primitive Jus ciUle derived from the 1ds
qutrtiunl Point out the principal social ele-
ment on which, and through which, the Jus
prlodturn, connected with the Jus ct0lte, was
developed.
'The primitive difference between both these
two kinds OF juS
-U0ther eIaHante of the Roman Civil Law This