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    ELIZABETH VON BECKE. 231

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    Part Ii. Great Misfortune, Which As Rare...

    tion froni tlie more deeply interesting affairs of her' country . Governed "by il an be aristocratical a miserable oli man garch while y where the the nobilit prince y are must free almost , the

    n middle ecessar classes y nothing " , and the , peasantry enslaved , Courland was suffering more and more from each class of society being so distinctly

    rable separated from from the constant the others division , to which of prop was erty added consequent the jealousies on a insepa custom

    of equal inheritance . Eut that which raised , these evils to the highest itch in Courland was the monstrous corruption which pervaded not

    p cial only relations every branch of middle of the -class administration life . Poland , but , too even , which poisoned had a all _sovereign the _soacknow

    jurisdiction led the g Courlanders ing corresponding over was the grand to duties be arbitrated duch , and y , the assumed was tribunal at ri Warsaw ghts where without . the The cause duch of y -

    ¦ was in 1786 in a state of intense suspense , for the states had risen against each other and against the prince , and the prince against to the

    states ; complaint and counter complaint had been sent Warsaw to and be failed adjudicated to make upon thing , while clear the decisions t the foll there y of decided the quarr nothing ellers ,

    in throwing away so any much money in excep a mere sentence market . Very few the nobility had the true interest of their country at

    heart among , or were unselfish enough to desire to promote it , but the patriotic the rihts Baroness of the burg von hers Recke and was a of moder the number ation of , and the warml claims y of urged the

    g flicting nobility . parties Like and an angel addressing of peace herself she to stepped both the between prince the and con the

    states , advised , arrangement and reconciliation ; nor were her words of wisdom uttered in vain , though the grand duke , influenced by

    friend court intri of the gues princel , began house to look . However coldly upon the gentle this true influence and upri of g his ht

    wife on her return y from Berlin won back , for her sister his alienated regard , and the birth of a son and heir soon after brought

    about a reconciliation with the states also . Two changeful years passed and the over country , and then into strife the famil by the y were death again of the plunged child in into whom sorrow so

    many again political broug interests strugg ht forward les wer recommenced e cen at tred Warsaw ; for in , the no Courlan grand sooner d , duke was and it the desired remove cause his d b than wife eing

    and sister to repair thither , as soon as they had sufficiently recovered from which in princess spite the she of was shock her had still sufferings , to been in watch all so , the had the -emin blo progress _Tby om ent no of means in of . loveliness youth his lost affairs . the , Th and . attraction eir The her arrival young sister s for at ,

    Warsaw therefore caused pre a great sensation ; they met with a distinguishe period of d their reception stay to join at court the royal , and circle were of invited intimates during every the evenin whole g

    von at the Itecke palace has . recorded In the course her impressions of a correspondence of the king with , the Nicolai cour , t , Frau and

    Elizabeth Von Becke. 231

    ELIZABETH VON BECKE . 231

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 231, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/15/