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Bell's

COURT AND FASHIONABLE

MAGAZINE,

FOR AUGUST, 1814.

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A New and Improved Series.

EMBELLISHMENTS.

1. A correct PORTRAIT of NAPOLEON FRANCOIS CHARLES JOSEPH, KING OF ROME, Engraved from an Original Picture ordered to be Painted by BONAPARTE.

2. A correct View of the TEMPLE OF CONCORD, erected in the Green Park in celebration of the Peace of 1814.

3. Representation of the PAGODA erected over the Caual in St. James's Park,

4. Representation of the TEMPLE erected in the Green Park on the rejoicings for the Peace of Aix-laChapelle.

5. A beautiful WHOLE-LENGTH PORTRAIT FIGURE in a SEA-SIDE MORNING DRESS and BATHING PRESERVER.

6, A WHOLE-LENGTH PORTRAIT FIGURE in a PAMELA EVENING DRESS.

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WE have endeavoured to compensate in this Number for the omission of the Portrait in No. 58, of LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE, by giving a most expensive Portrait of BONAPARTE'S SON, as well as three other Embellishments of subjects which it is supposed cannot fail of giving universal satisfaction, as they are intended to commemorate and keep in recollection the termination of a long and møst destructive War. The rejoicings were certainly unparalleled in this country. In our next Number we shall give an accurate representation of the NAUMACHIA in Hyde Park; so that LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE will contain not only historical details of the Fetes in honour of the Peace, but Emble matical Illustrations to assist the recollection.

London: Printed by and for JOHN BELL, sole Proprietor of this Magazine, and Proprietor of the Weekly Messenger, Clare Court, Drury-Lane.

SEPTEMBER 1, 1814.

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LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE

For AUGUST, 1814.

A New and Improved Series.

The Sixty-First Number.

ANECDOTES OF ILLUSTRIOUS FEMALES.

MARY MARGARET LAMBRUN.

whom he was faithfully devoted. For me, loving both of them with ardour, 1 resolved, at the risk of my life, to avenge their

THIS Lady was born at Stirling, in || tland, and is well worthy of a place ongst the illustrious females of the four-death by yours. Every effort that I have nth century. She married, at an early made to abandon this project has only a French gentleman, named Lambrun, served to convince me, that there is no io was also in the spring of youth, and vengeance too great to be undertaken by a y both entered into the service of Mary woman, whose love has a double motive to art, Queen of Scots, whom they abso- || excite her to revenge." ely idolized. After the tragical death of Notwithstanding the emotion of Elizais unfortunate Princess, which had caused beth at this discourse, she listened attenat of the faithful Lambrun, his wife, urg- tively, and mildly replied, "You imagine, on by despair, resolved to avenge their then, you have only done your duty, and aths by a terrible crime. She dressed shewn your love to your mistress and your rself in man's attire, and took the name husband; but what do you think is my 'Anthony Spark; she then immediately duty towards you?" Madame Lambrun paired to London, armed with two loaded nobly replied, "I will tell your Majesty stols, one to kill the Queen (Elizabeth), || frankly my opinion, provided you will first he other to destroy herself, in order to say whether you ask me this question in void an ignominious death on a scaffold. quality of a Queen or a judge." Elizabeth is she energetically made her way through assured her, it was in that of a Queen. he crowd, in order to approach the Queen, "Your Majesty then ought to pardon me," who was walking in her gardens, she drop- said Madame Lambrun. "But what ased one of her pistols: the guards were surance will you give me," said the Queen, mmediately about to carry her to prison, "that you will not abuse my clemency, nor >ut Elizabeth was desirous of interrogating || undertake a second time a similar attempt?” er herself. She asked her her name, her To which Madame Lambrun made answer, country, and condition in life? Madame || "Madam, a pardon granted with so much Lambrun answered her with firmness, in precaution, is, in my opinion, no pardon at the following terms:-" Madam, my native all; therefore your Majesty may act tocountry is Scotland; and, though I wear wards me as my judge." The Queen then this habit, I am a woman: my name is turned to some of the members of her Mary Margaret Lambrun. For several privy council, and said, "Thirty-three years I was employed about the person of years have I been on the throne, but I never the royal Mary, whom you have unjustly remember yet to have received such a lesput to death; and by her death you have son. Go," added she, "I grant you my caused that of my husband, who could not entire pardon, without any condition."survive the loss of his innocent mistress, to || Madame Lambrun fell at her Majesty's

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feet, begging the Queen to add to her clemency by allowing her to pass in safety to the French coast. Elizabeth willingly granted her request, in which she found a singular combination of prudence and wisdom.

CHARLOTTE CHRISTIANA SOPHIA, PRIN

CESS OF WOLFENBUTEL.

SHE was the wife of the Czarowitz,

Alexis, the son of the Czar Peter I. born in 1694. Beautiful, lovely, and virtuous, this Princess was hated by her husband,

who was a man of most ferocious manners: three times he attempted to poison her, but she was saved by antidotes.

The Countess of Koningsmark, the mother of Marshal Saxe, seeing the life of the Princess in danger, in order to save her, wrote to her husband, who was then dwelling at one of his castles, that the Princess and her children were dead; and the Prince desired they might be buried without delay. The Princess then, under the|| habit of one of the lower order of the people, accompanied by an old German servant, who passed for her father, set off for Paris, in order to embark at one of the ports for Louisiana.

Some time after the Gazette announced the death of the Czarowitz, in 1719; but his widow preferred the quiet of an obscure station to all that ambition could offer. She only required of D'Aubant, a French gentleman, on whose heart her beauty and virtues had made an indelible impression, the most inviolable secresy: he was young and amiable; and the old servant dying soon after, the Princess gave him her hand, as a male protector was absolutely requisite in her forlorn situation.

They lived for ten years in that happy mediocrity which is sufficient to content two hearts tenderly united, when the husband was attacked with a complaint which rendered it indispensable for him to seek medical aid in France, and his wife accompanied him, took care of him during his sickness; and D'Aubant, on his recovery, solicited for employment, and obtained the majority of the Isle of Bourbon.

were there seated on a bench, and were conversing together in the German language, that the standers-by might not understand them, Marshal Saxe passed by, and hearing two females speaking in his native language, he stopped to consider them: but what was his surprise at seeing the Princess. "How, Madam!" said he, can it be possible?" She did not give him time to say any more, but rising up, and taking him on one side, related to him which he profoundly kept, till one day, as her history, enjoining him to secresy; he called to pay her a visit, he found she had departed with her husband for the Isle of Bourbon.

While the husband was thus soliciting,|| the wife frequently took her daughter an airing in the Thuilleries. One day, as they

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ANNE CLARGES, DUCHESS OF ALBEMARLE.

THIS Lady, who was raised by the gra titude of her lover, General Monk, to the rank of his Duchess, at the restoration of Charles II. was the daughter of a blacksmith, and of a woman who gained her livelihood by shaving for a penny in the narrow part of Drury-lane, in the precincts of St. Giles's, and on whom was composed a ballad, with the following chorus:

"Did you ever hear the like,
"Did you ever hear the same,
"About a female barber

"That liv'd in Drury-lane?" Though the manners are generally said to be formed in early life, yet Anne was benevolent, kind, and her understanding of that superior cast which caused her husband, from his very first connexion with her, to consult her on affairs of the highest importance. When a milliner, a trade to

death and certain poverty hung over him. When his prospects brightened, and a certainty of future honour promised to be his lot, the chaplain of the Tower united them in marriage, though the mistress of his

which she was assisting as a journeywoman, Monk had frequently seen her; and when he was confined in the Tower, the love she had entertained for him prompted her to ollow him thither. Here she washed for him, went on his errands, first in the cha-choice was neither handsome nor graceful,

racter of a boy, but afterwards she confessed to him her sex, and the motives which had induced her to follow him: and this confession was made when the hard gripe of poverty and distress pinched him severely, and she had nothing to hope but from the self-applause of her affectionate heart.

and was particularly slovenly in her dress.

To this woman the great General Monk observed, after his marriage, the most implicit obedience, and was installed, without redemption, amongst the list of those husbands who are honoured with the title of hen-pecked. Hasty in temper, her anger, when he offended her, knew no bounds; and as she was mistress of all the low elo

She applied herself in all her leisure hours to her business, and with her hard-quence which she had learned from her gained earnings assisted the General. Gratitude on his part soon ripened into love; but, possessed of equal greatness of mind, he made her no offers, while threatened || her.

associates in her youth, she would discharge a volley of curses on her domestics, or on any one who chanced to neglect or affront

CHARACTERS OF CELEBRATED FRENCH WOMEN.

MADAME D'EPINAY.

LOUISE FLORENCE PETRONILLE, the widow of M. L'Alive d'Epinay, was the daughter of a man of distinguished birth, who, having lost his life in the field of honour, left his daughter but a very slender fortune as a reward, however, for her father's services, she was given in marriage | to one of the richest men belonging to the finance; and she passed the first years of her entry into the great world, in the midst of opulence, and surrounded by all those illusive pleasures with which Paris abounds. It was during the most brilliant days of her youth and fortune, that she became acquainted with Rousseau: who, according to his usual propensity with all the lovely females of his acquaintance, thought proper to fall in love with Madame d'Epinay, yet, though loaded by her with benefits, he has not failed, ungratefully, to calumniate her in his confessions.

Young, rich, beautiful, and interesting, the grandeur of her soul was united to her most ardent efforts to repair the errors of a frivolous education; and soon the rare virtues she possessed, gained her that esteem she enjoyed to the most advanced age of life. The most known qualifications in her character, were an unshaken constancy, and

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a decided resolution to conquer every prevailing weakness, though endowed with the most lively sensibility: and this fortitude strengthened her to endure a long series of grief and sufferings.

For ten years she was afflicted with the most excruciating pangs, and only able to support them by the continual use of opium: she might, as one may say, live and die again by intervals; and in those wherein she breathed from her agonies, she fulfilled the most active duties of the mother and the friend. In the midst of an existence, as fragile as it was painful, she was known

to conduct all the affairs of herself and her children; to render service to every one, who was happy enough to approach her; to interest herself energetically, about all that was passing in the world, in arts and literature, to educate her grand-daughter, as if she had been her sole care; write the best works that were ever penned for the use of young people; work tapestry, write songs, receive her friends, correspond with them, and not fail for one single day to perform, with care, the duties of her toilette. It seemed as if, conscious that she died daily, she sought to snatch from death a part of his prey.

Her feelings were exquisite, yet deep and

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