The Osceola times., 1880-07-10
DECAYED NOBILITY.
The Rotten House of brunswick Ends in
the French Hulks,

the French Hulss.
Paris Correspondence of the New York World
The origin of the great houses is los
in obscurity, and the end of them eaual
", but 1t is always interesting when on,
can trace them either TO their origin o
in their decline. a case which has ius
been tried in the law courts in Franc,
helps us to this in the case of one grea
European house, that Of the Duke o
Brunswick. It is not so much of a de
cline as rotting out. II ends in Tho
hulks. IL ends, it is true, only in tn,
person of an illcgitimate representative
of the royal nuke, but we must tax,
what we ind. The other dav Uric Eu.
gene Fuelle de Collin de Bar, Vicomte
de Clyry, appeared before a French Jury
on charge of robbery and general
swindling. He had been arrested in
England on an extradition warrant, and
before he went TO England he had qui-
etly relieved the landlady of the fur.
nished apartment which he occupied in
Paris of considerable quantity of her
property. He had hired the apartment
for considerable sum in the fashionable
quarter, and he no sooner obtained pos
session OF it than he broke open the
drawers containing the private effects of
the proprletress anC made off with them.
His coniederates in this transaction were
his own valet and stewart and other
"otiicers of his household" The poor
landladv had no suspicion of her lodper.
Tor he bore a noble French name and
was OF princcly origin. IIismother was
the daughter of the Duke of Brunswick.
HIS father was French gentleman of
extremely good descent. The poor lad
was born into every Species OF elegant
corruption, If that adjective can ever be
applied TO that noun. His grandfather
lived the life that every one in Paris
knows, went about painted up to the
eyebrows, and wearing a curled perr,iq,,e
whlle ms morals were even more arlif-
cially nasty than his manner of dressing.
lie installed several temporary favorites
IN his household at short intervals of
succession, and the mother of Uric de
Clvry was one of them. She was
brought up in kind of splendid Bohe-
mia. Her father took little notice of
her, being entirely cngrossed with his
notice of himself, and he made very
slender provision for her education and
training. She therefore had but little
OF this description t. transmit to her
son. In worldly goods she was almost
as badly off, for the old Duke kept a
tight hold on his purse strings. She OBJ
tained very little money from him.
though he rolled in millions; vet at the
same time, though living in his house,
she was always within sight of the great
est luxures that money could purchase.
Her lips, as 1t were, touched n river of
liquid gold, but she was still athirst.
She formed most costly and extravagant
tastes, and had nothing to crafty them
with. Her son was in this respect true
child OF his mother, and in others the
trne grandson Of the lllustrious Duke, so
that he was thoroughly well equipped
with bad qualities on both sides, and not
a single vice was wanting ior his compo-
sition. lie could not work, to beg he
was ashamed but he was not ashamed
to steal. and he lived pretty comfortably
for time in Paris on his wits and his
name. His grandfather was known to
be so rich that nobody hesitated to trust
the young fellow, and even when the
grandfather died and left all his money
away from the family to the City of Ge-
neva, there was still hope of recover
ing it by a lawsuit. In the meantime
Uric de Civry went on cheating IN the
hope that something would turn up in
the shape of a favorable decision in his
mothers suit for the recovery of the
property. He might probably after that
have turned an honest man. That was
no doubt his intention, but unfortunate
" before he turned honest he had to get
hls grandlather's money, and before he
could get his grandfather's money, he
ran short of ready cash, and was obliged
to clear out the Clothes-presses of his
landlady, as before stated. There was
hue and a cry after him, and he an
away TO England. In England he was
not idle. lie was a handsome fellow, as
may be inferred from this description OF
him as he stood in the dock the other day;
"Twenty-seven years old, elegantly
dressed, dark blue eyes, bright red lips,
white teeth, clegantIy.curled mustache'
in fact, a perfect dcad-shot in the war
fare of drawing-room and ball. With
these advantages he could work as well
in England as in Paris, and he found
means to commend himself TO the favor
of a lady of the British aristocracy, and
was living very comfortably on the
pocket money which she gave him
when the police quietly took him by
the collar. Some sort of defense had to
be made for him as he stood in the
French dock, but il was little to the pur-
pose. The whole case was proven to
the hilt. lie had become the accom-
pice of his very servants in the
most scandalous kind of robberies, and
rObberies were the least disgraceful
things in his career. He denied them
to the last, though he incidentally adj
mittcd other weaknesses which would
have been quite sufficient to hang him
in a country where lynching-law pre-
vailed. The judges sent him to prison
for three years-and thus ends the story
of a noble life.