Lausanne.
After all, there is more sympathy in this world than we would suppose,
and it is something to find that, in the turmoil and angry war of
opinion and interest, nations as well as parties can lay down their
weapons for a time, and offer one general and sincere tribute to genius.
In these exciting times, we hear of revolutions in Spain and Portugal,
deaths of crowned men, with indifference, but a shock as astounding as
that of an earthquake in the city of Peru was felt throughout Europe
when the numerous periodicals spread the unexpected intelligence that
the gifted Malibran was no more, that in the fulness of her talent and
her beauty, just commencing the harvest ripe and abundant, produced by
years of unremitting labour, in which art had to perfect nature, she had
been called away to the silent tomb, and that voice which has
electrified so many thousands was mute for ever. Poor Malibran! she had
had but a niggard portion of happiness in this world, although she
procured so much pleasure to others. A brutal father, from whom she
received but blows, who sold her to a dotard, who would have sold her
again would she have consented! until her late marriage, toiling for
others, without one object in the world on whom to throw her warm
affections. I remember one day when we were talking of seasickness, I
observed that the best remedy was beating the sufferer: she shook her
head.
"No," said she; "that will not cure it, or surely I should have been
cured when I crossed the Atlantic with my father."
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