The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-08 00:00:00

A VERY STRANGE STORY.
(From the Pali Mall Gazelle)

About ten days ago a Framinutes, Monsieur M—, sr.
rived at heath:es anu dent/Wed nu Andhra,. of the Empress
Eugeuie. As Ms name was not known to tier id,e,ty, the
request WM refused. Foiled in Gee attempt, 31 radeur
crintriv..d to fall in with the Prince Imperial In one
of hU erally walks. lie professed meat devotion to the
Napoleonic cause, and It will siderite tra one that tie Prince
should eater readily into conversation with ice whom he
believed to have been driven front France by Isis devotion to
tie Imperial dynsaty. These walks sore repeated several
days, and itt the end Si— asked the Prince to make him •
present of one of Ws photographs, with the adilitianal dialing-
lion el the Prime's oan aittom.aph appetided. This natural
request was at once acceded to, with the kindly god-nature
which •p,,ears tubes tart of the young exde's disposition. The
photograph obtained, al— nppeared no more In the mmn-
leg walks. It has since appeared that on leaving itastings
M— merle his any to the German army before Mete and
ordained a pass through the lines Into the heleagured cite.
It teems that unsung the Generals associated with Maralud
Barattue in the defence of that fortress there was one Gene-
ral B—, who La I, se we welt known In the PU1154411
army, distiegnerad himself by his seal and letelligence
It carrying on the sidlaut reafriArace to the enemy
which has already w n the admiration as well as
the testonialiment of both natiora. Arrived in Metz
Is woe to this Gerapal so valuable for tee
safety of the Fetch garrison, that Si— at mice Addressed
himse!f. Ile told Grateral B— that he lied come as a Ines-
sebger ti him from the Express Eugtnle, and as ids ere-
dentists he pr,-eented the photograph et her sou with the
sigueture atteches. Ile /Weil that the Enterers desired
the immedi.de presence of General 1:---In England, that
eke had a special minion to intrust to him, on the sue rassful
Issue Of which the future of the war would m duly de-
pend, and that tier MAJesty d Lred not put It In writing
. lest it should flll into the hands of the enemy. General
Ll— at once obeyed the comnottnls 1 the Empress, and,
as he thouget, with difficulty ; but, as the story reaches us.
It would norm to have been with the connivance of the
Prussian authorities that he got through the rates of the
besiegers, and, orating the beat of ids way to Ems.
land, arrived a few days since at Courant Place near Cried-
rause where tee Empress is now residing The surprise of
the Empreis leu,,enie at seeing the Genteel was very great,
ad, after a few words of esplanati, n, it was discovered
1 that Gement C—hat been the victim of a very novel, if not
very creditable, ewe de puree, ey which the gellrat atm)! of
. Metz had In-en deprived of the services of one In whom, on
I nee 'lot of his gallantry and intelliserace, they bed reposed
to meat perfect conedence by the last accounts that
reached us the gallant General was still Is England trying to
stemma he ieturat to his comrades, bathe will probably not
fled the Imperil' photograph such a go,nt peas through the
Pruesian lines for him Ma time as It proved far the enter-
prising el— but week.