Carlisle Journal November 30, 1855 Obituaries

Obituaries

OBITUARY OF NOTABLE PERSONS. DEATH OF LADY EMMELINE STUART WORTLEY. LADY EMMELINE STUART WORTLEY died at Beyrout on the night of the 29th of October.  On the 1st of May, while riding in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem, her ladyship had the misfortune to have her leg fractured by the kick of a horse.  Notwithstanding, however, the weakened state of her constitution, she undertook a journey from Beyrout to Aleppo, returning by an unfrequented road across Lebanon to the former place.  She reached Beyrout on the 26th of October, but in spite of the unremitting attentions of DR. SAQUET, the French government physician, and two other medical gentlemen, her frame was so weakened and exhausted by the excessive fatigue of the journey, that she gradually sank.  We are glad to hear that her ladyship's daughter, MISS STUART WORTLEY, who was also very unwell, having been attacked by intermittent fever, is considered out of all danger.  "Times" ========================================================== COUNT MOLE. A great sensation is caused here by the death of COUNT MOLE, which took place most unexpectedly at his residence of Champlatreux on Monday.  He was at the table with all his family around him, and had never been in better spirits.  All at once, he experienced a sort of hiccough, turned pale, and his head bent down towards his breast.  He had still force sufficient to rise from table, and leaning on the arm of his son-in-law, M. de la FESTE, to retire to his own room.  His private physician, who was in the house, was called, the cure of the village sent for, MADAME de la FESTE (COUNT MOLES daughter), and her daughter, the youthful DUCHESSE d'AYEN, summoned, and having in an audible tone given his blessing to his family, and received the aid of religion from the cure, the veteran statesman calmly breathed his last.  M. MOLE was one of the most remarkable men in France.  Heir to the illustrious name LOUIS MATHIEN, a boy of 13, in 1793, without resources of fortune of any kind (all having been confiscated), began to work his own way up to distinction, which he rapidly gained.  In 1806, he published a book entitled "Essais de morale et de politique", which drew upon him the attention of the first NAPOLEON.  During the empire he had his immense family possessions restored to him, and became, step by step, prefet, councillor of state, general director of the 'ponts et chaussees', and at last grand judge.  During the first restoration he was nothing;  during the hundred days he was made a peer of France;  and under LOUIS XVIII, he became minister of marine.  From 1825 to 1830, he, who had been a sincere royalist, swelled the ranks of the opposition against CHARLE X., and was LOUIS PHILIPPE's first minister for foreign affairs.  Three several times he occupied this post, during the reign of the Orleans branch, and always evinced the very highest order of statesmanlike talents and aptitudes. ========================================================== ADMIRAL BRUAT. The news of the sudden death of ADMIRAL BRUAT cast a gloom over Paris on Monday.  ADMIRAL BRUAT was but 59 years of age, and no French Admiral enjoyed a higher reputation.  ADMIRAL BRUAT was an Alsatian having been born at Colmar on May 26, 1796.  He was educated at the naval school of Brest, and in 1815 he entered the navy as an aspirant of the first class.  In 1827 he became a lieutenant de vaisseau, and with that rank was in command of the Adventure brig at the blockade of Algiers.  The brig ran aground, and LIEUTENANT BRUAT being made prisoner with his crew, was confined in an Algerian prison until the taking of the city by the French some weeks afterwards.  When the fleet returned to Toulon, he was, as a matter of form, tried by a court-martial for the loss of his ship, and was honourably acquitted.  The next year he was promoted to the rank of captain de fregate, and after successively commanding the Iena and Triton, he was sent, in 1843, as a captain de vaisseau to the Marguesas Islands, with the mission to establish the French protectorate there.  At that time he received a commission as governor of the French establishments in the Ocean.  His administration in the colonies obtained the warm approval of his government.  In 1848, when he was a rear-admiral, GENERAL CAVAIGNAC confided to him the maritime prefecture of Toulon, which post he exchanged in the same year for that of commander of the naval station of the Antilles;  and in March 1849, he was appointed by LOUIS NAPOLEON governor-general of the Antilles.  Having returned to France, he was in 1852, nominated a member of the council of the Admiralty.  In June 1853, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Ocean squadron;  and, in 1854, he became (under ADMIRAL HAMELIN) second in command of the French fleet in the Black Sea.  The part that he took in the first bombardment of Sebastopel, on October 17, 1854, as well as his subsequent career when he succeeded ADMIRAL HAMELIN in the chief command, must be as well known in England as in France.  One rumour attributes his death to cholera, and another to violent attack of gout. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

 

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