New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-16

To his little boy Guzot sent description CT Wind
sor Castle and of grand dinner In the banGucting
hall: "On my left sat the young Queen, whom they
tried to assassinate the other day. III gay spirits
talking great DEAL laughing very often ana long
ing to laugh still more; aud filling with Der
gayety. which contrasted with the already tragica
elements in her history, this ancient cassie wInch
has witnessed the career OF all her predecessors
AT later period he wrote 10 one OF his children the
following clever description OF tie crystal faace
NV last morning in England was spent az the
CRYSTAL Palace 1t is an historical chaos In plaster
under n glass cage. 1t looks grand from OUTSIDE.
perhaps still moro strange than granii-onC SUI
il grand Within, q constant transition from We
qieantic to the paltry from the beautiful to the
ridiculOus Colossal sphinXes, as fresh as new
earthcnware, and packed as close as anchovdes s
UTnyndreds of busts. as many of unknown as OF
knoTn personages, and coupled together most
absury Gris by tho sac OF Loro rahcr op
dolls TO represent sayages of natural size and color
black red, and yellow eating. scalpihg' IiGhtnR
orouns of lions and tigers III avlarlcS OF btiilcd
birds. Noahs ark without the. oel1gc But. here
and there magnificent, charming Things. con-
pletc reproduction, in tho same dimensions Oh the
klhambra the Court of Lions and another court:
it is lovely Two Pompcian houses very correct
and very curious Us n study OF Roman habits Ana,
above all. the gardens III ironi Oh ino aacc III
narIcr italian decoration and English turf. AT
the bottom of these gardens, round ana IN great
unfinished LAKE, the Hn etc ETC.
nut together, and reproduced Ill plaster III ther
natural size, more huge and hldeOhs than one mag
ines There frog between tWeiYe I ao MnTs
to bs frightened ii she meets him az the boltom Oh
our garden Il should say park0. Whatever we may
say against the creation OF our lGI5. Hd Is oiD
Palace is a great curiosity, well worth seGin9, anu
would formerly have been Justly counted among t3'i
the wonders of the world M0rcOvcr' "ohucr thas
was constructed i'll TWO years.
The story of GuzOt's escape to England on the
fall of Louis Philippe and the establishment of the
Republic of 1913. is told in narrative from the
pen Of lis second daughter The children had pre-
ccded him to London and bis mother remained in
Paris for a time because her inifmtics made 1t i'm
possible for her to travel.
On Friday March third ut o'clock in the even
lne. NJ dc Rabaudy came to tell us that my father
had landed ut Dover il was III an Engllsh news
papef we could hardly believe IT, NJ. dc KaDauay
said that he was going to the station to wait Tor inc
arrival o the train It was Just eight years since
lie had scon my father arrive IN London as AfnbaS,
sador-we may truly say How times are changed!
praycd over ana again that God wouid
sustain MS if our hopes proved false. We scarcely
dared to trust to them; and YET the heart Is so III
clincd to believe the things it hopes for! We oat
down to dinner listening to every noise. Az
o'clock carriage stopped at the door; NJ once 1
jumped mp crying out, ierc ne vs. "S ~ o ora to-
room. tho door opcns-it is he indeed! y God
Thou only canst tell all that passed IN our heartS
during tins moment OF such happiness AZ Is seldom
Granted in life | cannot put 1t INTO words, can
not describe the instant when we found ouIieiFeS
in his arms, the remembrance Is too deeply graVeh
on NV heart iuI nc tn he able tO express IT, AS my
father said f.: "Thcrc are in life great colpcnsa-
tions: the greatest joys follow She greatest soT-
rows VIZ went on gazing at him. and crying out'
Father! father"
He looked very pale and tired he had suffered so
much. Thank Heaven his escape was very chsy
After leaving the Ministry Of the l,ft","r ahGnt
O'Clock Thursiay, twcntyfontth Nl. ONION
Ba,rot WAS just hcing brought hlihcn my iather
was hidden by Madame Duchatcl il tie room OF
FORTRESS in the Rue Nann~ua. In III" cE'hihS
Madame de Mirhel came 10 fetch INN, aud took
him To her house, she hid HIM lnci' ahd looked
after him with GnwGaricd dcYotlcl until " 'Hnrs-
day. March first, when he Irlt farls "ith ~ oc
Flc.schmain. who tool; him ~ his valet rs far rs
brussels by the Northern Railroad. When there
my father WAS ont oi danger. lie was MOI recog-
nizcd the road. although he waited a. The STA
ton in Paris for m hour and quarter The train,
which was To have started 40 l. dd not Nrt Oh MI
d quarter past =. What thanhssNh2S wo should
offer up to God!
Madame Guizot (thc mother WAS enabled to join
the family n few days later; but she lived only
fortnight after her arrival. She died." writes
Mime. Dis WIT. I'm the full possession Of her lncu-
t,es-.troug, simple and natural to the last, sup
ported by the unshaLen faith which had carried her
through SO many ria!a. and leaving to all wo knew
her the remembrance Of ulc most unaffected and
uroucstioned power Of authority. AMI Z diGuity
winch attained 10 majesty"
There are two men with whom | am ~ well
ACQUAINTED" writes NJ. Guizot from exile to n friend
in France, " ~ il had spent my life with them
Cromwell and Washington. You may be- certain
that neither the one the other would have
believed for moment in the Republic we
now havr-tho ono would have oveIihTown IL
the hther would have had nothing to
do with it, "lndccsion and impotence hc
wrote IN 1864, are the characteristics Of the
Of the prrsent day. They exhibit neither fixed
opinions strong will In anything they do. They
float and follow the course Of the stream Count
bismarck is the only man in Europe who seems to
be really ambitious, or who pcrocyercs in
a plan because no has conceived 1t and
is determined to effect it, Iie has neither good
sensc nor honesty. but be has character" For Lord
Aberdeen Lyho had dicd few years before the date
of this ctterl Guizot had not only great admira-
ton. but strong personal friendship. For Eng
lands sake" he wrote, 81 trust that the Due
dc Brogie exaggerates when lie says that
Lord Aberdeen was the last Engshman
however. he certainly was ihc last of the great po-
ltical school Of English politicians and he was the
most equitable, the kindCs the MOST argc-fn edrL
liberal and moral Of them all. And he was (which |
no one who only knew his face and manner sua- |
pectcGl tender aud modest To me he was so to an cx-
tent VIII ch il ndc5crIbaDle. II | were to live for a
thousand years hIs person and his friendship would
lie rs yIvIdy Dreaent to me as they arc now"
Guizot survived most of his dearest friends; he |
lost his eldest son. just entering mans estate, and
his second daughter happy wIic and mother |
he forgot lbs grief for the two estimabc wo-
men who contributed 80 much to the hap |
pinc,s of his earlier years, and in the latter |
part of his life the repeated wounds of death gayo
bin All adding sense of ins ;curlty and decpencd
the melancholy OF his temperament. Yet it wa, beau.
tfu TO the veteran statesman surrounded in hls
country retreat by the relnnant of the devoted and
united circle i'll which Inc had found tho Boiaco OF
his busy years, and blessed esp tally in the little
who tr0Ope at all hours INTO his study
and his chamber, and chung about hls knees. lie
died in the midsU of those he loved best among |
the living and IN The firm faith that he was about
TO ej0In those lie loved best among the dead
EXIT RELICS.