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    A JOURNAL DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION . Journal of my Ufe during the French Revolution . ^ Grtcc Dslrymple Elliott . K- Bentley . This book will help its readers very pleasantly through an hour or two . It may . enjoy a good circulation , not because it has much historical value , but because society , learning that it is the production of Kfemthegalante , whose beauty and amialnlity were bestowed in turn , upon two of the greatest scamps the world ever saw , will expect something full flavoured . Society will be disappointed . Mr . Bentlev ' s " Malo mori quam foedari" is a guarantee gainst his publication of a chromqne scaridateuse ; the Journal before us is innocuous to the public and -Ju « We to tKp . sunnosed authoress : arid here , if

    we judge by the looseness of the editing , the publisher ' s interest and responsibility have terminated together . ¦ . The lady whose ashes have been thus disturbed and whose MSS . have , per fas aut lie fas , found their way into print , was born , according to the scanty memoir appended to the text , about the year 1765 . A daughter of Hew Dalrymple , Esq ., a connexion of the Stair family , she was educated in a French convent , and * according to the same authority , introduced into male society at her father ' s house at the early age of fifteen . Hereas he . it seemslived apart from his wife—Miss

    , Dalrymple had probably not the advantage of a chaperon , and she was permitted erelong to accept an offer of marriage from the elderly Sir John Elliott . Dissimilarity of tastes , disparity of agfe , and the absence of any real affection between this couple , produced their not uncommon result . The bride ' s exquisite loveliness , gaiety of disposition , and elegaut manners brought suitors to her feet , arid inanevil hour she was tempted . Tlie antique husband ¦ who , according to Lord Erskine ' s celebrated view of such cases , should have been the real defendant , resorted to law for redress or revenge , and procured , fifsfc a verdict for 12 , OOGJ . damages , aud ,

    subsequently ; a divorce . The lady was meanwhile exiled again to a convent at paris , and must have been eighteen or nineteen years of age-when she was reimported into England by Lord Gholmondeley , whose subsequent intimate connexion with the then Prince of Wales ' s private affairs is a matter of historv . She Was soon introduced to that roy ^ al Giovanni . An intimacy ensued which resulted in the birth ; of Georgiana Augusta Frederica Seymour , afterwards Lady Bentinck , for whom the said Lord Cholmondeley stood godfather at Marylebone Church . Mrs . Dalrymple Elliott saw much of the Prince ' s Court about this time , and , among other

    persons , of the notorious Due de Chart res , afterwards Philippe Egalite , who was of course a popular character in that gay and unprincipled circle . We are not informed to what extent this last acquaintance was carried during the stay of Orleans in England , but it appears certain that , either with him or soon after him , Mrs . Elliott repaired to Paris in 1786 , leaving her little one in the care of the complaisant Cholmondeley . The biographer tells us that she had a handsome allowance from the Prince and 200 / . a year from her family , and her own Memoir leaves us clearly to infer that she was , from this period until his death ,

    one of the numerous attaches to the person of the Duke . He was the head of the fashionable party who were styled , from their incorporation of every Britannic failing and peculiarity thoy could imitate with their national ones , " the Anglomaniacs , " and hold it , no doubt , as necessary to his position to entertain an English mistress o . s an English jockey . Sho seems to have held for a time some influence ovor her pusillanimous lover , but for ft short time only , for , as is well known , ho was as unstable in his amours as in every other pursuit . She pleads that had sho been able , between 1786 and 1789 , to maintain her nscendanoy , bIio would

    hove , turned it to good purpose ; and , to her cvodit bo it said , this is well mado out in the papers before us . But her oounscls— -whiolv to the obsconc flooiet y of the Folios Chartros smacked overmuch of British Toryism , and , from their rootitudo nlono , must have bored . Orleans to death—wcro replaced by thoso of Madamo do BulVon , with whom he was deeply smitten , and who was , in fact , » known emissary about his person of tho Jacobins . It was swoh as this Madame do Buffon and her Republican aiaterhood who , by t , hoir ceasoloss persecution , origmally pponod tho bvoaoh botwoen tho Duko of Orleans and Mario Antpinolte , whoso fertility barred his prospect of tho throno . It was by such

    aid that the Jacobins of 1786-89 easily counteracted the good advice of the Englishwoman— -perhaps all that ever reached him—which , anomalously , his infatuation for her person compelled him to the last to hear . And it was such a faction that drove him first into fratricide and then to the guillotine . The Anglomania of 1781 had given place before tlie outbreak to an entirely opposite sentiment , so violent that the native parasites of Orleans liad no difficulty in organising a persecution of their English rival from which even their Gommon patroa p . mild not shield her . He was alike powerless to

    obtain her a passport for England and to save her from domiciliary visits . Mrs . Elliott narrates her sufferings , and those of the Queen and other ladies of rank with whom she associated while under the surveillance of their tormentors , with arfclessness and evident truth , and the reader will not fail to admire her heroic preservation of M . de Chansenets , the governor of the Tuileries . The cordon was , however , drawn closer and closer , and she was at last dragged before the Revolutionary tribunal at the Feuillants , The pretext was the discovery

    among her papers of a letter from Sir Godfrey Webster to Charles Fox , which had been entrusted to her for delivery . She defended herself with energy , and the letter was found to be complimentary to the Trench nation . The eloquent and amiable Vergniaud , who was one of the committee , declared her mnpeent , and she was liberated . But her enlargement was but temporary , for only a few weeks after she was again imprisoncd- ^ -this time as an Orleanist . She passed eighteen months in the Sainte-Pelagie , the Recollets , and the Carmes

    prisons . During the execrable reign of Robespierre ana his minister of Terror , Fouquier-Tinville , misfor ^ tune made strange bedfellows indeed . La Sainte Guillotine , drunk ' .. ¦ with the best blood of if ranee , still shrieked for more . The nausea which , led to the fall of the Committee of Public Safety did not set in till July , 1793 , arid during June arid July the prisons of Paris furnished daily so large a tale of victims that those who entered them not

    only abandoned hope , but m many , instances were relieved by frightful accessions of gaiety . In Sainte-Pelagie Mrs . jEUiott had cornpared notes with an eminent character of a former age , the notorious Madame du Barri , whose want of fortitude on t he scaffold , then exceptional , our English heroine particularly notices . In the Cannes ^ her associates were Josephine Beauharnais , General Hoche , the Duchesse d'Aiguilkm , and M . and Mme . de Custine . De Custine having dared to regret his father , the general previously executed for his loss of Valenshort

    ciennes , was beheaded after a very imprisonment . On the day of his death there came in Alexandre Beauharnais , denounced for having neglected to raise the sic ^ c of Mayence . He had for some years been parted from his wife ( who was at this very time probably mistress of another ) , and their meeting was somewhat embarrassing . They were , however , quickly reconciled , and were allowed a closet to themselves . But within a few weeks Madame de Custine , who had shown the extreme of heroism in defending her aged father-in-law before the tribunals , and who had been inconsolable on the removal of her joung husband , had sufficiently recovered her spirits to receive with

    complaisance the advances of the fickle Beauharnais . This gallant pair were restrained neither by sense of decorum , their position , the presence of Josephine , the ontroaties of Mrs . Elliott , from demonstrations of passion even on tho brink of tho grave . Their intrigue was soon over , for Aloxandre was led oat one morning in May with nine-and-forty moro , and fell bravely enough :- — I nover saw such a scono ( says our authoress ) as tho parting of Boauharuais , his " wife , and Madamo do

    Custino . I myaolf was much affected , for I had known him for yeara . Ho was a groat friend of the poor Duo do ljiron , and I had passed weeks in tho sumo house with him . Ho was a very pleasant man , though rntltor a coxcomb . Ho hud much talent , and his drawings wore beautiful . Ho took a very good likeness of mo , which ho gave to poor little Custiue when ho left us . Ilia poor wife waa inoousolablo for Bomo time ; but she waa a Frenchwoman , and ho hud not boon very attontivo to her . Tho other lady I novor saw amilo nftor his

    death , This odd party of female friends was m course of time dostiuod to bo brokon up . Thoy wero sanenr . tho guillotine that their looks wore shorn for the oorcmoiiy . Josephine , ns nil tho world knows , vne infovmod by signs from tho stroofc that not another wholesale massacre , but doliverftnoo , was at hand ,

    for the revolutionary pack had eaten up the fiendish , huntsman , and the torrent of blood was to be stayed . We can imagine they were not long in suspense , for one of their party was the lovely Theresa de Fontenaye , then mistress , and afterwards wife , of Tallien .: The glorious letter she wrote to him with her . blood , her trial being fixed for the 8 th , hinting that she or Robespierre must be no more on the 9 th Thermidor , is preserved in

    I » amartine * s Gironditis . The ferocious activity of a proper man thus inspired may be imagined , and history tells how Tallien answered the appeal . For the sake of the fair and imaginative Theresa , who soon after invented in memoriatn the famous jeunesse done , type of the recent Garde Mobile , Prance was unquestionably saved on the 9 fch Thermidor from what Mackintosh called " the most indefatigable , searching , multiform , and omnipresent tyranny that ever existed . "

    Mrs . Elliott was an interesting person , but her yet more attractive sisters have taken us sadly out of our course . But we have little to add about the former but that after her happy escape she ( according to the editor ) sold property enough to discharge her debts , and lived in retirement for a while at Meudbri . She mixed in good company at Paris , and during the Consulate renewed the intimacy she had commenced with Josephine in prison . On the signature of the Treaty of Amiens , in 1801 . she was encountered , singularly enough , by

    another of the Prince of Wales ' s confidants , Lord Malmesbury , and with him travelled to London under the assumed name of Mrs . St . Maur . Her arrival was announced at the Pavilion by one o £ the Wyridhams , who , it is averred , met her by mere chance . The news that " Mrs . Elliott , even more beautiful than ever , " was in town , brought the Prince tip that night . He sent for her most affectionately ; and , " accordingly , dressed in the simplest mauner , she went to Carltori House , and their old friendship was renewed . "

    She stayed here until 1814 , Sometimes she resided at Twickeriham . Her medical attendant there was Mr . ( afterwards Sir David ) Dundas / then physician to the King . This gentleman was used , during his visits to royalty , to retail scraps of gossip he picked up elsewhere ; and some of Mrs . TEDibtt's experiences found such favour that his Majesty begged she would commit them to writing for his perusal . She readily complied , and the MS . now printed was conveyed to him sheet by sheet as written . Mrs . Elliott returned finally to Paris in 1814 ; after which we find neither material nor necessity to continue the notice of her career we have , as it is , somewhat patched up . She is supposed , however , to have died at a ripe age , but in what year , editor , biographer , publisher , and reviewer appear to be equally uncertain and indifferent , at " V ille d'Avray . ¦ _ _

    , . . Her memoir on the French Revolution , with , which alone we really have to do , is clearly the work of a talented and amiable woman . As a contribution to history it can hardly be called of value , except in so far as it helps infinitesimally to clear the character of Egalite ' , and to make out that he was even a still greater fool and tool , and a trifle less of a conspirator , than has always since his death been believed . But it is curious and

    interesting as showing the callosity of wretchedness induced by the Reign of Terror , aud the noble qualities developed by the situation where their germs would scaroely have been suspected . The fragment will well repay perusal . It is nicely got up , nud is embellished with good engravings from portraits of Mrs . Dalrymple Elliott , in tho prime of her beauty , and of her daughter , Lady Charles Boutiuok , in childhood .

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    LECTURES ON CHRISTIAN DOGMAS . Lectures on tho JJktory of Christian Dogmas . By Dr , Augustus Ncandor . Edited by Dr . J . / -. »? (» IH * Translated from tho Gorman by J . K Eyland , M . A . 3 vole . H . Bohn . We bolievo it was Dr . Burloii who , in his Barapton Lectures , prcaohed before tho University of Oxford iu 1 S 29 , first drew tho attention of tho English student to tho labours of Noandor on Church His * tory , and gracefully acknowledged his obligations to him iu enabling him to elucidate tho rise and progress of tho horosics of tho Apostolic age . Since thoji his Doqnwnflosohiohte , his Qeschichto der ChristUchcn . Jloliqion und Kirahe , liis 4 po $ tel # esohiohte , and his ' Uhon Jesti , have all beou valued aids to Church Hi 3 tory by these whoso knowledge

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    No . 462 , January 29 , 1859 . 1 T H E X E ADtH , 141

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 29, 1859, page 141, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2279/page/13/