, 1877-11-24
The "AVISn
IS PUBLISHED
RvERy WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY.
THE END OF A GREAT A

~ SHO 49, az "a AOuLA OCdO
in coal cellar in Soho the Comte de
Lally-Tollendal. How many who read
this announcement and the narrative of
the evidence given at the inquest that
followed must have unused over the strange
ness OF this last appearance Of a great name!
We go to and fro in this world of London
Knowing not our neighbours aud unknown
OF them splendour elbows misery, and
misery splendour and we acquiesce in the
vicissltudes of life as we find them, until
suddenly a flash lights up the depths. The
Comte de Lally-Tollendal dies In a coal
cellar. A morsel Of bread given him day
by day had for some time kept him alive,
but it proved insufficient to SUI tain his
vital power. One morning he is found dead
in a filthy howell where the charity of a.
poor tailor had allowed him to sleep. So
is laid at rest the last descendant of the
restless spi it who, an hereditary subject
of England, disputed with England the
conquest of the Fast, and for his devotion
to France, unsuccessful only because it
was not supported by the power of France,
was rewarded by death on the scaffold in
Paris.
What led the last LAZY Tullendal to
return to these islands to die His great
ancestor was a victim Of the Injustice of
the age of Louis Quioze /; but his wrongs
were ackuow' edged, the sentence upon
him reversed, and some restitution done
to his fani y before the Great r voluti)n
swept away the regime under which he
suffered. The son of cur antagonist in
India, and the grandfather Of the man who
was found dead last week in Soho, obtained
the reversal of his fathers sentence lust a
century ago, and it was thought that from
that time to this Frcnchmen had not ceas-
ed to be proud OF La Iy-To lendal as one
Of those who had dared most to promote
the glory OF France. He certainly deserv-
ed to be 80 esteemed. No one ever had a
larger ambition, and no one more enprgeti.
eally strOve to realize it. His father was
one of the Irish gentlemen who accom-
panied James II. into exile, and, according
70 the law that prevailed until a few wears
since, he was himself an English subject;
but he was born in France, and his whole
lite was devoted to a struggle to overcome
the English Government of his time
We Can look back upon bis career with
unmixed admiration for It's gallantry,
though all It's efforts were directed against
the freedom and greatness of England.
The volunteer of Philipsburg came again
and again to England on secret missions
in the interest of the Chevalier, was FORE
most in the Irish Brigade at Fontenoy, aud
the same year descended with a band of
companions on Scotland and Joined the
Prince before Falkirk. Yet this was but
the beginning of his adventurous career.
1t was q dozen years later, when he was
over fifty years of age, that he carried his
warfare to another Continent, It is diff
cult for those who are acquainted with
the torpid existence of decayed Pom
dicherry and Chandernagore to dream
Of . time when French arms disputed
With England on not unequal terms
for the conquest of India ; but
: Lally-Tollendal conceived tbs, design of
driving ps from our 9eoradests in. the Eas:,
and had bic daring hsen Loyalty seconded
i 4j0ht nQt hare been unsuccessful. But
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