Supplementary Obituary. 
contemplate that countenance, where taste 
and benevolence had fixed their mingled 
and indelible characters, or witness the 
elegant urbanity of his deportment, and 
confound him, for an instant, with the 
Marats and the Heberts, who disgraced 
even the darkest period of sanguinary 
anarchy. But, that he was republican in 
his principles, can be as little called in 
question. His attachment to Napoleon 
(with all his faults, the most munificent 
patron of arts, intellect and science, of the 
modern world) veiled, in some degree, those 
principles, but did not suppress the senti- 
ment. That attachment, however, was 
ardent, and even enthusiastic; and it was 
evident, from the manner in which the 
respective names were mentioned by him, 
and by the very furniture of his apartments, 
and the disposition of the respective objects 
in his cabinet (the station, merely upon a 
table in an ante-room, yielded to a solitary 
moveable bust of the King, and the con- 
spicuous places assigned to the numerous 
representations and memorials of His Ma- 
jesty the Emperor among the choicest rarities 
of his collection), that, in the year 1814, 
while Louis was nominally, as one may say, 
upon the throne, Denon regarded, with the 
sanguine hopes of personal attachment, the 
state of things as an interregnum, not a 
permanent revolution ; and looked forward, 
with confident anticipation, to the return of 
Napoleon, and the restoration, under some 
modifications, of the Imperial government. 
._ Nor was Denon, even among those in 
high official station, in the department of 
the arts especially, peculiar in this respect. 
It was curious to hear another official cha- 
racter, then at the head of the architectural 
department, say, with discriminative em- 
phasis, “‘ I held this office before the Revo- 
lution—I held it under the Republic—I 
held it under His Majesty the Emperor !— 
and now—(dropping his voice to the careless 
slightness almost of contempt|—I hold it 
under the King.” 
Neither did Denon, when, four years 
afterwards, we visited him again, when the 
throne of the Bourbons had become firmly 
established by the disasters of Waterloo, 
the force of foreign bayonets, and the firm- 
knit alliance of the despotisms of Europe, 
appear, in the least, to have changed his 
sentiments, with the extinction of his hopes. 
The arrangements of his cabinet, and the 
expression of his voice and of his eye, in 
eyery reference to every memorial in his 
collection, still shewed, that Napoleon on 
the rock of exile and captivity, was more to 
him than the Bourbons ow their force- 
established throne. } 
THE BARONESS VALERIE DE KRUDENER. 
The Baroness Valerie de Krudener, an 
illuminée of the nineteenth century, was, 
perhaps, formed to become one of the most 
useful and distinguished women of the age,. 
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had she not given herself up to mystical 
and religious enthusiasm, whieh covered 
with ridicule the most amiable gifts, and 
the most remarkable faculties of the mind. 
She was the daughter of Count de Wit- 
tenkoff, governor of Riga, and great-grand- 
daughter of the celebrated Marshal Munich. 
She was born in 1765. She possessed ar 
enchanting countenance, an elegant and 
ready wit, with flexible features, which al- 
Ways expressed mind and sentiment. She 
was of the middle stature, beautifully form- 
ed; and her blue eyes displayed serenity, 
with animation. Her brown hair fell in 
ringlets on her shoulders, and there was 
something in her person and manner sin- 
gular and striking. She was ambassadress 
at Berlin in 1798. Idolized in the circle 
of fashion, her rank, her wit, her quali- 
ties, rendered her one of the first women in 
Europe. Her charms inspired her hus- 
band’s secretary of legation with a fatal pas- 
sion. The Baron was then Russian am- 
bassador at Venice. This rendered her 
name still more celebrated ; and she wrote 
a delightful novel, in which she relates, 
with the deepest sensibility, the fate of the 
unfortunate young man who committed 
suicide for her; which served to fix the 
attention of Europe on the heroine. This 
work, intituled Valerie (her christian name} 
is written with an enthusiasm, and in @ 
vein, announcing an ardent and disturb- 
ed mind, that would seek, beyond the 
sphere of common ideas and reasonable 
thoughts, a purer atmosphere. At the 
commencement of the revolution, Ma- 
dame K. visited and resided in the south 
of France, with her daughter-in-law, Sophia 
de Krudener (since married toa Spaniard), 
and her two children. A year after, she 
returned to Germany, and from that period 
to 1805 or 1806, history is silent respecting 
her. At that epoch she appeared again ow 
the scene, not as the brilliant Prussian 
ambassadress, but as the penitent Magda- 
lene. She now conceived herself to be a 
messenger of the Almighty, and possessed 
of an irresistible calling; The vase of per- 
fume was broken; she forgot distinctions, 
friendships, and all the vanities of the 
world ; she wept over mankind, their 
errors, and even her own youth. She had 
been a widow for some years, and she 
divided her time between her mother and 
those works of charity of which she was 
prodigal, and which soon drew upon her 
the suspicions of government. A great 
number of persons in distress, to whom she 
gave an asylum, and provided for all their 
wants, followed her wherever she went. 
Valerie stated her mission to be to esta~ 
blish the reign of Christ on earth : and this 
she pursued with an ardent perseverance 
and ultra-evangelical zeal. However, the 
monarelis of the earth were displeased with 
this street-teaching. Dismissed with rude- 
ness from the states of the King of Wir- 
temburgh, she found hospitality for herself, 
and 
