Valentin Ladislas, comte ESTERHAZY (1740-1805) colonel of hussars in the French service, close to Marie-Antoinette, emigrated with the Princes. L.A.S. (initials), Lancut March 26, 1805, to a marquis; 2 1/2 pages in-4 filled with small handwriting. Emigration. He has learned that the Marquis is no longer in Brünn and intends to settle in Vienna. He speaks of various people, including M. de Calonne... "the horrors that are happening in France give way to the times of Robespierre, only because they are less public. This order of things will undoubtedly change one day; but I fear not to see a change for the better, because in politics as in geometry, there is only one straight line to reach a given goal, and there are a hundred thousand curves, and as long as I do not see, the king recognized by the Parisians, and the usurpation declared, I will always see taking oblique paths, which in supposing that they arrive at the goal, will come there only very slowly"... Etc.