This, however, brought him in such high favour at Vienna, that he was created chamberlain at the Austrian court, and he has always been treated by the Austrians with great regard. He is very clever, but so aristocratic in his predilections, that he would consider himself a criminal if his lips could pronoimce the name of a commoner. He always says, " I have seen Prince, Marquis, Count,* or Baron so and so;" and as he is a rigid Catholic, he hears mass every day, often confesses, speaks frequently of religion and God, kneels for half an hour on rising in the morning and going to bed; he may be, and probably is, very honest and very good, but he yet has an unfortunate countenance which seldom pleases. However, he is not answerable for his countenance. The general used to call him Fafenschtein, on account of his German predilections. He was in 1843 residing in England, and is acquainted with the Earl of Chesterfield. He has money in the funds and a small landed estate. His youngest brother Augustus, married the late Countess Jane Krasinska, the heiress of Krasne, the nest of Krasinski's family in the district of Plotsk, fifty-six English miles north of Warsaw. After his marriage he left Gallicia, and settled in the Russian kingdom of Poland. He is extremely clever, an inveterate jester, and owes his whole fortune principally to General Count Vincent Krasinski, with whom he has frequent misunderstandings; their tongues meet each other, at times, like two razors, and they do not seem to be always on intimate terms, though several reconciliations have taken place, and the usual form of poUteness is still kept between them. They fully acknowledge, however, their mutual abilities. Whenever the general intended to jest too much, a la Frederick the Great, with Augustus, he met such cutting rebukes, and such a stout resistance, that like a skilful tactician, he observed only his adversary's movements, without hurting him. The latter is a great lawyer, and defies the best of them. His age is about fifty, he is strongly marked with small pox, and has an aquiline nose. He was in the war with Russia, in 1831, an aide-de-camp of the General-in-Chief, Skrzynecki, now in Belgium, and fought nobly at Ostrolenka, where he was wounded and decorated* An Ukrainian valet of General Count Iasinski called him "Raboy jMudry Panicz, that is, a crafty, spotted, young lord." This sobriquet excited mucli mirth, and will remain with him for life; he comes to the point in all questions, and laughs at the poetry of life. His estates are Krasne, Golow, Adamow; the two latter are in Podlassia; he has a son thirteen years of age, and two sisters, one, Cordula, "married to the late Count Fredro, and the other married to lablonowski. The former visited London recently.
The head of the third branch is Count Stanislaus Krasinski, with his Wo brothers, Charles and Adam. He is now about thirty-seven years of age, six feet high, proportion ably stout, has dark hair, hazel eyes, and is a fine man; he held a commission in the Polish army in the last war with Russia, in 1831; distinguished himself by his gallantry, charged boldly a large square of llussian infantry with a half squadron of cavalry, and received sixteen bayonet wounds; a book put under his coat saved his life. He married after the war. Princess lablonowska, a lady of superior knowledge and amiable disposition, and has several daughters by her; they are very happy with each other. He has strong common sense, a good deal of tact (easily kept with wealth), and is a man of noted principles of honour, and a certain ability in managing his estates. His principal seats are Zegrze, near Warsaw, and Sterdynia, in Podlassia, in the Russian kingdom of Poland; his wife brought him also some estates in the Polish Ukraine. His second brother, Charles, is inferior to him in point of bodily strength and manly qualities; he married Countess Lubinska, and without speaking to her one single word, a year after his marriage, having heard of some fine paintings at Rome, suddenly left his wife and set out for Italy; and when she with tears and lamentations inquired what had become of him, she found a letter on her table, in which he advised her not to distress her mind, and to do during his absence what she thought best for herself, because he should soon return, and he never ceased to like and esteem her; he actually returned in a few months, and the only motive of his sudden departure was, it is said, a trial of his wife's attachment and his love of the fine arts. His youngest brother, Adam, is about twenty- six years of age, married Countess Mycielska, (a Gallician lady, of high birth and noble feelings) and resembles in many respects his eldest brother, Stanislaus. Their estates are Radzieiowitze, Krasnosielc, a palace at Warsaw, and a mansion at Cracow.