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and her company of the faithful, in the do- 
mains of the Elector of Baden. By degrees, 
she became herself one of the powers of 
Europe. The cabinets of princes leagued 
against her predictions, and she marched 
from kingdom to kingdom, by means of 
negociations ; for it was not eyery state 
that would admit this tmpertum in imperio. 
The events, of the earth followed their 
course, and Napoleon fell. Valerie con- 
sidered this a propitious moment for the 
conversion of mankind, which she had so 
courageously undertaken. ‘To Paris she 
followed the Emperor Alexander, whom 
she called The Lord’s Anointed, and whom 
she seriously believed chosen by heaven to 
be the regenerator of the world: there, 
giving herself up entirely to the delirium of 
her disordered imagination, she left no 
means untried to make proselytes. In 
mystic conferences, in which a young Gene- 
vese, named Empeytas, seconded her, she 
explained the ancient prophecies, and those 
of the north, and called to her aid visions, 
voices from heaven, and day-dreams and 
night-dreams. 
The powers of the earth went three 
times a-week to. these theurgic and mystes 
rious assemblages, where the purple of the 
autocrat of the north humbled itself before 
the words of this extraordinary woman. 
Public opinion has long assigned to Ma- 
dame Krudener the religious ceremony of 
the Camp of Virtue, and the Holy Alli- 
ance —-as. productions of her fervent 
brain; and no one has attempted to con- 
tradict the public voice. Subject herself 
to the empire of that glowing faith, to 
which she easily converted all who heard 
her without distrust, this woman, whom 
we cannot blame without pitying, and on 
whom the philosopher looks with more 
compassion than surprise, very frequently 
fancied herself transported into the regions , 
of death and eternal life, and that there she 
held converse with the angels: thus, after 
the death of young Labedoyére (to whose 
sorrows, previous to his execution, she paid, 
the tribute of abundant weeping), she shed 
tears of joy; she had seen him, she said, 
clothed with celestial glory—she had spoken 
tohim, andhe hadanswered, ‘‘ lam happy!” 
David (by this name she designated the 
Lord’s anointed, the Emperor Alexander) 
quitted Paris, and she followed him. From 
this period, her life was a series of trials 
and tribulations, which she received as 
gifts from heaven. 
. Her friends in. Germany had forgotten 
her ; her faithful flock had abandoned their 
leader. She was forbidden to enter France; 
she wandered from one Swiss canton to 
another, tormented and persecuted by the 
magistrates, who would let her have no 
rest. At length, the, canton of Argovie 
offered her an asylum: aided by M. Em- 
peytas, she preached a long time at Arau 
and its vicinity; thousands of the faithful . 
hastened from the borders of the lakes and 
mountains, to eat the bread of life from the 
hands of the founder of the new worship. 
The prophetess, standing on a_ hillock, 
preached for five or six hours together, in 
the open air; and these long improvisa- 
tions, these long journies, the absence of 
sleep and the want of food, had no effect on 
the health of Valerie. ‘‘ Behold me,” she 
would say, “am I not in my own person 
a perpetual miracle !”’ 
Valerie, catechizing the sovereigns,: the - 
great, the sinners of the earth, and the poor 
of the nineteenth century, offs a parallel . 
to Virgil’s Pythonissa. Unfortunately for 
the Baroness de Krudener, human laws - 
‘declared themselves in direct opposition to « 
the divine laws announced by: the. prophe- 
tess. The flock was dispersed, the oracles 
of the humble Pythonissa were déclared 
seditious, and she was obliged to return to 
her own country. | 
Here she languished under an interdic- s 
tion from her guardian friend and disciple, 
** David,”’ to teach or preach; her followers . 
no longer were permitted to form a body ; 
and, as the flame of fanaticism, like every 
other flame, requires constant feeding, her 
followers fell away, and, no doubt, relapsed 
into the ‘‘ sinfulness of sin,” and she was: 
suffered to expire in the Crimea, almost 
alone and forgotten, in the month of Jany- 
ary last. To Madame Krudener is owing, 
it is said, the conversion of M. Benjamin 
de Constant. Such was the awe her words 
sometimes inspired, that her hearers, and 
M. Benjamin de Constant with the rest, 
fell flat on their faces in her presence. 
SIGNOR POLI. 
- Died at Naples, on the 7th April, G 
Saverio Poli, a man of considerable, emi- 
nence in the literary world—Director of 
the Military Academy of Naples, Fellow of 
the Royal Scciety of London, and of several 
other learned bodies. . He was» formerly 
tutor to his Majesty the present King of 
Naples, who always treated him with the 
greatest respect and affection. His Majesty 
visited him but a short time before his 
death, and honored him by writing to him 
a most affectionate letter on his aecession 
to the throne. Signor Poli was» born at 
Molfetta in 1746, and studied in the Uni- 
versity of Padua: he was the friend of 
Morgagni, Facciolati, Polemi, Arduino, 
Valsecehi, and other eminent men. He 
was sent by the government to travel in. 
Germany, France, and England, chiefly, for 
the purpose of viewing the imprmoteg ma- 
chinery in those countries. : Among his 
works are his Natyral Philosophy, which 
has gone through ten .editions, and his 
Treatise on Testacea, in two parts; a 
third is not published, but, we understand, 
is ready for the press. ‘The funeral was 
conducted with great splendour,.and Abbé 
Scolli delivered a very handsome and: affect- 
ing discourse. on the occasion. : wigas 
