circumstance; and, commending herself to the care of her heavenly Father, she composed herself to rest, and soon fell soundly asleep. came, with a thrill more nearly approaching terror than she had before experienced, instinctively conscious that she was no longer alone. Resolutely How long she had slept she could not tell, when determined, however, not to yield to feelings of she was awoke by what seemed to her the confused alarm, Anna said, in a firm, unfaltering voice, sounds of song and merriment. So deep had been "Whoever or whatever you are that thus disturb her sleep, that it was some time before she could my repose and intrude upon my privacy, show rouse herself to a recollection of her situation. yourself, and name your errand, if you want anyWhen, however, she had done so, she raised her- thing from me; if not, begone, for your attempts self in bed, and listened; all was silent, save that to terrify me are vain. I fear you not." The only the night, having become rather gusty, the wind at answer returned was a low laugh; and where the intervals swept moaningly round the deserted man- moonlight streamed in through the partly-drawn sion. The fire was almost out, but the candle in window-curtain, there stood a frightfully grotesque the lantern which stood by her bedside shed a fee- figure. Its body, as well as Anna could distinble light upon the oaken floor; and the moon, guish, resembled that of a beast, but the head, face, though occasionally overcast, was still high in the and shoulders, were those of a human being; the heavens. Readily concluding the disturbance to former, being decorated with a horn over each have been wholly imaginary, the result of the im- shaggy eyebrow. It stood upon all fours, but the pression made by her waking thoughts upon her front legs were longer than those behind, and tersleeping fancies, Anna composed herself again to minated in claws like a bird. Round its neck an sleep; but scarcely had she lain down, when the iron chain was hung, which, as it now slowly adsame sounds, low at first, but gradually becoming vanced, sometimes in the light, and sometimes in louder and more distinct, broke in upon the silence. the shade, it rattled menacingly. The sight of this The noise appeared to her to proceed from a dis- creature, far from increasing Anna's alarm, contant part of the house, and came with a kind of siderably diminished it, and she lay perfectly quiet, muffled sound, as though doors of some thickness steadily watching its movements, until it came intervened. Peals of laughter, bursts of applause, within an arm's length of her, when, suddenly snatches of song, crashing of glass, mingled in wild springing forward, she seized hold of it with a firm confusion. Higher and higher grew the mirth, grasp, exclaiming, "This is no spirit, for here is louder and louder swelled the tumult, until, when flesh and bone like myself." Apparently, the the uproar appeared to have reached its height, ghost being composed of too solid materials to melt there was a pause-a silence as profound as it was in air, had no other resource than to oppose sudden and appalling. Then there rang through strength to strength, for it struggled vigorously, the wide deserted halls and chambers a shrill, de- and with some difficulty succeeded in freeing itself spairing shriek, whilst far and near, above, below, from Anna's hold. No sooner was it at liberty, around, rose mocking and insulting laughter. than it made for the door with as much speed as Dauntless as Anna was, and firm as was her reli- its various encumbrances would allow; and Anna, ance on the protection of Heaven, it would perhaps now completely roused, and forgetting all prudenbe too much to say that she felt no quickening of tial considerations in the excitement of the moment, the pulse, no flutterings and throbbings of the heart hastily put on a few articles of clothing, and, throwas she listened. But surprise, and a strong desire ing her cloak around her, seized her lantern and to penetrate the mystery, greatly preponderated followed. The ghost had, however, gained so over any feelings of alarm, and her first impulse much in advance of her, that it was with some difwas immediately to endeavor to find her way to the ficulty she could decide which way to turn, but, scene of the disturbance. But a monent's consid-guided by the clanking of the chain, she went eration showed her how foolish and imprudent this boldly along a wide stone passage, and through would be, totally unacquainted as she was with the several rooms, opening one out of another, until, just house, and with no better light than the feeble as she was again within sight, and almost within glimmer of her lantern. If it was the work of de- reach of the object of her pursuit, it suddenly disapsigning persons, such a step would be but to ex-peared: and Anna, in her eagerness, springing pose herself to danger, whilst, if the effect of supernatural agency, she could neither learn what they wished to conceal, nor shun what they chose to reveal. She therefore decided upon passively awaiting the result of her adventure. As these thoughts passed rapidly through her mind, the noise subsided, the laughter became fainter and fainter: until at length it died away, seemingly lost in the distance, and silence once more reigned around. After the lapse of a short interval, this was again broken by a noise resembling the rattling and clanking of a chain dragged heavily along, which seemed to approach by slow degrees towards her apartment, and as gradually receded; then again approached, and again receded; and so on several times, but each time coming nearer than before; until at length it paused beside that door of her room which Anna had been unable to open. Cautiously raising her head from the pillow, Anna endeavored, with fixed and strained look, to pierce the darkness in which that part of the room was enveloped; but though she could not distinguish anything, and though no sound was made, she be quickly forward, was herself the next moment precipitated through an opening in the floor, in her fall breaking her lantern. Fortunately she alighted on a heap of straw, or the consequences might have been fatal. As it was, though bruised and stunned by her sudden descent, she did not entirely lose consciousness, but was sensible of a confused murmur of voices near her; and as her perceptions became clearer, she was aware that the tones, though low, were earnest and angry, and that she herself was the subject of conversation. "I tell you it is the only thing to be done; so what's the use of talking about it, you fool;" were the first words she distinguished. "But," interrupted another voice, evidently a woman's, "would it not be better to wait and see?" "Death and fury, wait and see what?" fiercely exclaimed the first speaker. "If she's dead, it 'll do her no harm; and if she is n't, the sooner a stopper 's put in her mouth the better." Completely roused from her stupor by the danger with which she was threatened, Anna opened her eyes, and perceived that she was in a large vaulted cellar, at one end of which was a 66 small heated furnace. Scattered about the floor, |tion and astonishment. At length one of them, and on rudely-constructed work-benches, as though who appeared to take the lead, addressing his the persons using them had hastily abandoned their companions, said, "The woman has spoken well, employment, were many curious-looking tools and and there is reason in what she says. It is true machines, together with heaps of metal of different enough that murder will out; and though she is sizes, and in different stages of manufacture, from a stranger, she was known to come here. Her the merely moulded shape to the finished shilling disappearance might excite suspicion, suspicion or guinea. Some half-dozen or eight men and would lead to inquiries, inquiries to search, and women were grouped together, amongst whom she then all would be up with us; besides, a few weeks recognized the ghost, not quite divested of his mas- will see us clear of this place, if we have Inck, querade dress. In a single glance Anna perceived and I think we may trust her so long." Then all this, and it needed no conjuror to tell her that turning to Anna, he continued, "You have a spirit she had fallen into the hands of a gang of coiners. of your own, and I like you the better, and would Fully sensible of the peril of her situation, her trust you the sooner for it; none but fools rely on extraordinary courage did not forsake her; for the word of a coward, but one who dare speak the Anna, though somewhat peculiar in her religious honest truth, without fear or favor, when in peril opinions, was perfectly sincere, and even at this of life, is not likely break faith, I think; so you awful moment felt unshaken confidence in the pro- shall go free, on condition that you take a solemn tecting care of Providence. Though a foreigner, oath not to reveal to any one the events of this she possessed great command of the English lan- night until six months have passed; by that time guage, and her style, notwithstanding its singular- we shall have quitted not only this neighborhood, ity and quaintness, was well calculated to overawe but the country, and," he added with a laugh, the rude and lawless band into whose hands she" the ghost that has kept all the men in had fallen. With a calm and steady gaze she met quaking after dark, like a pack of frightened chilthe eye of the ruffian, who brandished his weapon dren, will be laid forever. Have I said well, my before her and said "I pray you, do not commit comrades?" There was a general murmur of this great wickedness, nor shed the blood of a help- assent, and the man continued, "Recollect, then, less woman, who has never injured you." "Oh, that if you break your oath, your life will be the come," interrupted the man in a surly tone, "let's forfeit: we have means to ascertain and punish have none of that gammon, for it'll be of no use. treachery; and should you attempt foul play, you If folks will meddle in other folks' concerns, they can no more escape our vengeance than here in must take the consequences; we 're not such fools this lonely place you can resist our power. Will as to put the rope round our own necks, I can tell you swear, by all you hold most dear and sacred, you." Nay, but hear what I have to say," re- to keep our secret inviolable for the time agreed?" peated Anna, eluding the man's grasp as he en- To this proposition Anna, as will be readily bedeavored to seize hold of her; my coming here lieved, joyfully assented, and being conducted by was no fault of my own, and I promise not to be- her strange acquaintances back to her sleeping tray you." "Oh, aye, a likely tale," said the apartment, she most gladly, when morning dawned, man with a brutal laugh. "We're all for our- bade adieu to the scene of her singular and alarmselves in this world, and no mistake; so we shall ing adventure, On arriving at the clergyman's just put you where you can tell no tales, old girl." house, she was not sorry to find but few of the "Stop; hear what she has to say you shall; you family stirring, as she naturally wished to avoid must," cried a young woman who started up from much questioning. In answer to the inquiries a table at the farther end of the cellar, at which which were made as to how she had passed the she had been seated, with her face buried in her night, she said that she had been much annoyed hands, during the foregoing colloquy. "I tell and disturbed; and though she avoided entering you, Jack," she continued, advancing into the into particulars, she strongly advised that no one midst of the group, and laying her hand on the should be permitted to try a similar experiment, man's arm, 66 you shan't touch that woman; you assuring them that she believed few could pass won't; I know you won't. Bad enough you are through what she had done without sustaining -we all are, God knows-but there's no blood severe, if not permanent injury from it. Having upon our hands yet; and," added she, lowering thus, as far as lay in her power, acquitted her conher voice, "blood will speak, you know-remem- science, she pursued her journey. In a few days ber." The man's countenance fell as the girl ut- she arrived at home; but it was not until several tered the last words; he relaxed his hold of the months over the time specified had elapsed, that knife; and Anna, taking advantage of his indeci- she related the adventure to me, in order to show sion, and the relenting expression she thought she how little dependence is to be placed on the stories read in the dark faces round her, related her sim- told of ghosts and haunted houses. As Dutch ple story, dwelling particularly upon the danger Anna said, "Evil men have generally more to do the coiners would incur were she missing, and with such stories than evil spirits, and, after all, their security in case she was allowed to proceed it is possible to give a certain gentleman and his on her journey, after seeing her friend the clergy-agents more than their due." man. Taking courage from the attention of her hearers, she even ventured to remonstrate with them upon their dangerous mode of life, and entreated them to abandon it, and seek their subsistence honestly. Rome, are finding their way into Greece. The first ATHENIAN RAILWAY.-Railways, proscribed at meeting of the promoters of the Athenian railway had taken place, when the chief judge of Areopagus (MasThere was a pause of some minutes after Anna son) attended, and, in a luminous harangue of enceased speaking, during which the coiners ex-couragement, pledged his influence with the Greek changed with each other looks of mingled admira-Parliament and King Otho in support of the project. From Chambers' Journal. PHYSIOLOGY OF GENIUS. of face; "but the penetration and intelligence of his eye bespoke the man of genius and of the world." Shelley's eyes were noted for their IT is noticed by a writer who was present at beauty. Otway had a thoughtful, speaking eye. a meeting of the British Association, that one fea- Sir Humphrey Davy had "a glowing eye, the ture was nearly universal among the philosophers finest and brightest," says Lockhart, "that ever I there assembled; namely, a certain expansion of saw." Colley Cibber's eyes were small, but all the head, which habit teaches us to connect on vivacity and sparkle. When reciting any great all occasions with superior intellect. This is an deed, Sir Walter Scott's eyes, and his whole observation which we have often made at the meet- countenance, would kindle with a congenial exings of learned societies; and we have further re-pression. A native of Weimar, describing Goethe, marked, that the fact is more frequently to be says, "his eyes were like two lights." Hazlitt noticed among men of science-as naturalists, ex- had an expressive eye. Coleridge's greenish-grey perimental chemests, &c.-than among purely lite- eyes were very quick, yet steady and penetrating. rary men. Whatever may be said of the internal Audubon, speaking of Bewick, says he had " capacity, thickness of skull is, we apprehend, no large head, with fine sparkling eyes, placed farmark of mind either way. That of Buchanan is said ther apart than those of any other man that I have to have been as thin as paper. On the other hand, ever seen." To draw a phrenological inference the brain-case of Porson, the first Greek scholar of from his observation, it may be concluded that Bemodern times, was discovered to be exceedingly wick possessed, in a most wonderful degree, the thick. Gall, on being required to reconcile Por- organ of form, which is indicated by the breadth, son's tenacious memory with so thick a receptacle between the eyes, or, which is the same thing, by for it, is said to have replied "I have nothing to the breadth of the bridge of the nose. The same do with how the ideas got into such a skull; but peculiarity is observable in a celebrated living once in, I will defy them ever to get out again." author, Mr. Thomas Carlyle, whose eyes are placed at an unusual distance apart, and their spiritual intensity of expression is extraordinary, being only equalled in this respect by those of Leigh Hunt, which are singularly fine and expressive, tinged with a watchfulness and melancholy which persecution has put into them, but without dimming the cheerfulness with which the heart and mind ever light them up. If there be any feature in which genius always shows itself, it is the eye, which has been aptly I called the index of the soul. "We have seen," says Mr. Jerdan, "every other part of the human face divine without indications of the spirit within -the mouth which spoke not of the talent possessed, and the brow that indicated no powers of the capacious mind-but we never knew a superior nature which the eye did not proclaim." The Greeks and all the Oriental nations regarded the brightness of the eye as a supernatural sign. The emerald eyes of their gods shone with a mysterious splendor through the gloom of the Adytum. Availing themselves of this prevalent belief, imposters have sought to deceive men by an assumed lustre of countenance. Dr. Leyden tells us that Ibn Makna, the founder of the Maknayah sect, hid himself from the public gaze, and covered his features with a veil; asserting that no eye could endure the glory of his countenance. To support this deception, he prepared some burning mirrors, placing them in such a situation that the rays fell upon the faces of those who approached him. Having taken these precautions, he uncovered his face, and directing his votaries to draw nigh, the foremost were struck by the burning rays, and retired exclaiming, "We cannot look upon him, but he gazes upon us. Many tender and beautiful things have been said of eyes; yet how inferior to the sweet things uttered by themselves! A full eye seems to have been esteemed the most expressive. Such was the eye that enchained the soul of Pericles. The American writer Haliburton declares he would not give a piece of tobacco for the nose, except to tell when a dinner is good; nor a farthing for the mouth, except as a kennel for the tongue; but the eye-"study that," says he, "and you will read any man's heart as plain as a book." Galileo's eyes were remarkably penetrating; so were those of Linnæus, which were hazel, and possessed that exquisite power of vision which naturalists are generally noted for. Alexander Wilson's eyes were quick, sharp, and intelligent, especially when he was engaged in conversation. This ornithologist visited, when in New York, the celebrated Thomas Paine, author of the "Rights of Man," and describes him as possessing a Bardolph kind | Many authors have been remarkable for excessive mildness of countenance. This was the case with Milton. In some very touching and affectionate verses, Spenser has recorded the gentle benignity of Sir Philip Sidney's countenance, which formed the correct index of his temper. His voice was so sweet and agreeable, that by one of his contemporaries he is styled nectar-tongued Sidney. The countenance of Kirke White was rendered particularly interesting by an air of great humility and patience. Byron says nothing is so characteristic of good birth as the smallness of the hands. We believe, however, that small hands are not nearly so common among noblemen, especially those who are addicted to active field-sports, as among authors, whose fists are rarely employed in any other work but holding the pen, and therefore do not attain to a large and muscular development. Miss Costello, describing Jasmin, the poetical barber, not only notices his "black sparkling eyes, of intense expression," but "his handsome hands." Mozart, though not vain of having written the "Requiem," was rather conceited about the proportion of his hands and feet. Ugo Foscolo has left us a circumstantial and rather flattering description of himself, written in Italian, from which the following is translated :— A furrowed brow, intent and deep sunk eyes, Fair hair, lean cheeks, are mine, and aspect bold; Most pensive-all unmoved by hope or fear: PLAGUE OF GRASSHOPPERS.-Captain Hager, of the bark Marcella, brought home a preserved grasshopper, of the size of a man's thumb, as a sample of an immense field through which he sailed for five days. He fell in with the field off the Western Islands, and the presumption was, that they were blown off from Africa. The water was heavily crusted with them, the grasshoppers filling the surface to the depth of some inches, and extending in the course of the bark for 400 miles. -Hong Kong Register. laughing at the singular error of his visitor, "2,000 dollars." This our merchant thought would appear to the Chinese rather a high figure, but he was mistaken. "Well," said the mandarin, taking out his book with an air of business, "spose you give her to me, I give you 5,000 dollars." It is difficult to say whether the young merchant was more amazed or amused, but the grave air of the Chinaman convinced him that he was in earnest, and he was compelled, therefore, to refuse the offer with as much placidity as he could assume. The mandarin was, however, pressing, and went as high as 7,000 dollars. The merchant, who had no previous notion of the value of the commodity which he had taken out Englishmen never sold their wives after they once with him, was compelled at length to declare that came into their possession, an assertion which the Chinaman was slow to believe. The merchant afterwards had a hearty laugh with his young wife, when he told her that he had just discovered her full value, as the mandarin had offered him 7,000 dollars for her.-Liverpool Albion. MAPS IN RELIEF.-An ingenious work of art and science, by M. Sené, a citizen of Geneva, is exhibiting in Paris-and about to be inspected by a committee of the Academy of Sciences. This work rep- AMERICA has lost one of her greatest men, in the resents, by means of sculpture in wood, the chain of person of the celebrated jurist, Judge Story; who died Mont Blanc and its neighboring mountains, on a at Boston, on the 10th September last. Judge Story superficies of 25 square metres;-the lengths being is well known, not in England only, but in every given on a scale of 1 in 10,000 and the altitudes of part of Europe, by his Commentaries on the Constitution I in 6,000-and the forms and colors of their many of the United States, his Treatise on the Conflict of peaks, all their glaciers, valleys, water-courses, châ-Laws, and other legal works of the highest reputalets, and even their firs (no less than 500,000 of tion. In his native country he was more than an which are represented) being rendered with a fideli- author: as one of the Judges of the Supreme Court ty that constitutes, it is said, a complete illusion. of the United States for no less than thirty-four years, The effect attained is pleasantly described by the he had a large and important share in the adminisMoniteur des Arts" In the compass of an hour, tration of justice; and he also discharged the duties how charming a journey may be made under the of a Professor of Law in Harvard University. Mr. guidance of M. Sené, around this relief! You ar- Story was born in 1779; graduated at Harvard Unirive at Chamouny, by Saint-Martin, or by the Baths versity in 1798; and, while yet young, entered into the of Saint-Gervais, and alight at the Priory. After practice of the law. He was for a short time a memhaving taken a general view of the valley, you ber of the Massachusetts Legislature: in 1811 he mount successively from station to station-visit the was appointed, by President Madison, one of the JusMer-de-glace-pass, if you will, the Col du Géant-tices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the United climb Mont Blanc-nay, look down even on this States; and as a member of the Massachusetts Con"Monarch of Mountains," by ascending a gallery vention, in 1820, he rendered important assistance in which is erected at a little distance. The ascent revising the constitution of that State. He was in completed, you make what is called the tour of Mont early life the fellow student of Channing; whose Blanc;-arrived at Martigny, passing by the Col du death alone closed their friendship.-Spectator. Bonhomme, the Col de la Seigue, the Allée Blanche Courmayeur, the hospital of Saint Bernard, the Val Ferret, or the Val d'Entremour. And, finally, from Martigny, you return to Chamouny, either by the Tête Noire, or by the Col de Balme-and reach Geneva, by the Col d'Anterne-without fatigue and without danger-without cloud and without rains-and at the small outlay of two francs!" This cane is extremely THE SOUTH AMERICAN BAMBOO.-The guadua, or South American bamboo, abounds in many of the tropical parts of that continent, forming rather large groves along the banks of the rivers. This is a gigantic species of cane, growing to the height of ninety feet, and frequently even more, with a beautiful feathery appearance. The upper part bends TRANSIT OF TRAVELLERS.-The "Journal des De-der branches, which spring from the joints, and bear gracefully downward, and is covered with long slenbats" publishes the following_returns of the movements of passengers between England and the Conti-useful for the purpose of building houses and very small light leaves. nent, and vice versa, during the first nine months of the bridges, as well as for fencing plantations, and surpresent year:-Boulogne, 55,637 passengers; Ostend, rounding the corrals or cattle pens, as it resists the 23,701; Havre, 15.490; Calais, 12,603; Dieppe, weather for many years. The thickest parts serve 9,505; Antwerp, 5,589; total, 122,528 passengers. for beams, posts, and rafters. They are also formed into broad planks, by being split open longitudinally with an axe, and spread out, by cutting through the alternate joints at sufficient distances to allow of their hanging together. In this state they answer very well for roofing and for flooring the upper story, which is that which is generally inhabited in the marshy districts. The guadua also serves for making bedsteads, tables, and benches, which are both light and neat. The walls of the houses are made of the small branches, tied closely together, fastened with thin thongs of raw hide, and plastered over with clay. The thickest canes being frequently eight or nine inches in diameter, are made into buckets, by cutting off joints for that purpose. Small barrels are also made in the same way. The guadua is also in great demand for building bridges across the narrow rivers in the plains.-W. Wittich. THE MANDARIN AND THE ENGLISH LADY.-The degraded position of the females in China is well known. Nothing astonishes the Chinamen who visit our merchants at Hong-kong so much as the deference which is paid by our countrymen to their ladies, and the position which the latter are permitted to hold in society. The very servants express their disgust at seeing our ladies permitted to sit at table with their lords, and wonder how men can so far forget their dignity. A young English merchant recently took his youthful wife with him to Hong-kong, where the couple were visited by a wealthy mandarin. The latter regarded the lady attentively, and seemed to dwell with delight on her movements. When she at length left the apartment, he said to the husband, in his imperfect English, "What you give for that wifey wife yours?" "Oh," replied the husband, From Chambers' Journal. THE DUKE OF NORMANDY-A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE. THE Continental journals announce that, on the 10th of last August, there died at Delft, in Holland, Charles Louis, known as the " Duke of Normandy." This individual presented one of those extraordinary instances of doubtful identity which we find scattered over ancient and modern biography. The mystery of his birth has not been cleared up by his death, and continues as impenetrable as that of the celebrated Man with the Iron Mask. informed part of the community were firmly convinced that Louis XVII. was dead and buried; and from that time till very lately, the belief was never effectually disturbed. Taking advantage of the. doubt, several impostors made their appearance, claiming to be the prince. The first of these was one Hervagaut, who, when discovered to be a tailor's son, was condemned in 1802 to four years' imprisonment. In 1818, Mathurin Bruneau, a shoemaker, tried the same trick; but failing, was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. In short, no fewer than fifteen impostors have been enumerated; all of whom pretended to be the wretched young prince, returned from exile after escaping from the Temple. The latest claimant is the subject of the present notice; and so startlingly do some of the circumstances of his career coincide with the short history of the son of Louis XVI., that many well-informed persons really believe he was the person he represented himself to be. the allies had seated the Bourbons on the throne in the person of Louis XVIII., brother to Louis XVI., and uncle to his latest predecessor, Charles X. had succeeded, and was driven from the throne by the revolution of 1830, which seated Louis Philippe on it in his stead. All these events had taken place when the story of the so-called Duke of Normandy commences. It is well known that, in 1791, Louis XVI. of France was overtaken during his attempted flight from France at Varennes, and afterwards dragged to the prison of the Temple. He was accompanied by his family, which consisted of his wife, Marie Antoinette, his sister, daughter, and his only son, the dauphin of France. On the 21st January, Between the termination of Charles Louis' im1793, the unfortunate monarch was beheaded; and prisonment by death or otherwise, and the appearhis son still a prisoner, was partially acknowledged ance of this individual on the scene, it may be as Louis XVII., though only in the minth year of necessary to remind the reader that several revohis age. This was but a mockery, for his cap-lutions and counter-revolutions had swept over tivity only became the more close and cruel. He France. Napoleon's career had begun and ended: was separated from his mother, and handed over to the custody of one Simon, a ferocious cobbler, and his wife, who, besides practising all sorts of external cruelties on him, tried every means to demoralize his mind. When this ruffian was promoted to a seat in the "Commune," (a kind of common council,) the royal prisoner's hardships increased. He was shut up in a room, rendered totally dark both night and day. In this he was kept for a whole year, without once being allowed to leave it neither was his body or bed linen changed during that time. The filth, stench, and vermin amidst which the child dragged on his existence, at length, it is said, terminated it. On the eve of death, his persecutors sent the physician Dessault to see if his life could be prolonged by better treatment; but the doctor's reply was that it was too late nothing could save him; and his demise was announced to have taken place on the 8th of June, 1795, at the age of ten years and two months. The national convention, which then managed the public affairs, appointed a commission to verify the event, and the body was opened by two surgeons, named Pelletan and Dumangin. In speaking of the remains, they describe them as a corpse represented to us as that of Charles Louis." The doctor, Pelletan, took out the heart, and preserved it in spirits of wine; which he gave to the deceased's sister when she had married the Duke D'Angoulême. The rest of the body was huddled with other corpses into a common grave in the cemetery of the parish of St. Margaret; so that, at the restoration of the Bourbons, in 1815, when Louis XVIII. desired that the remains of his predecessor should be disentombed, they could not be distinguished. 66 On an unusually hot evening for the season-an early day in the May of 1832-a man covered with dust, and who appeared to be borne down with fatigue, entered Paris through the barrier d'Italie. Still, he traversed the Boulevard de l'Hôpital with a firm step, being a fine well-made man, apparently about forty-eight years old. On arriving at the bridge of Austerlitz, he crossed to the toll-bar at the farther extremity, and was accosted by the keeper, an invalid soldier, who demanded the toll. Upon this he made a sign that he did not understand French; but, on the other pulling out a sous piece, to intimate the nature of his demand, the stranger shook his head, heaved a deep sigh, and, after some hesitation, drew forth a fine handkerchief, which he threw towards the toll-keeper, and hastened away in the direction of the Boulevard Bourbon, to Père la Chaise. He got within the gates just before they were closed for the night, and concealing himself amongst the tombs and bushes, escaped the notice of the watchmen. It was thus that the stranger passed his first night in Paris. The day was far advanced when he was found, too much overcome by hunger and fatigue to rise. A gentleman accidentally passing, observed and pitied his condition. After supplying him with some food, he recommended him to solicit the The equivocal wording of the medical report, assistance of a benevolent lady whom he named, aided by other suspicions, caused an idea to gain as she was known far and near for her readiness to extensive currency that a dead child had been sub-help foreigners in distress; besides, she spoke the stituted for the royal infant; and that he had escaped from his jailers by a well-laid plan, carried out by his partizans. This notion was so prevalent, that we find, amongst the records of the convention, a decree dated June 14, 1795-only six days after the date fixed as that of the young king's death-ordering him to be sought for along all the roads of the kingdom. However, the better German language fluently, the only one the wornout traveller understood. Acting upon this advice, he repaired to the generous Comtesse de R.'s residence, at No. 16, Rue Richer. She was a lady well strieken in years, and preserved an enthusiastic veneration for the Bourbon branch of the royal family, having been femme de chambre to the son of Louis XVI. When the wretched way |