The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-04 00:00:00

"LE COLLIER DE LA REINA^

The Civil Tribunal of the Seine has just been en-
wed depiaoa sittings in trying an action brought by the
LthreraPridneel4; D6de wßobillikatiP creditor of
Car?"' dire Dal reftpd. Raban'tatird&g the
iast
of
Moses Charlotte de Robs-Rochefort, the WOW, re=
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diary legatee and executrix, for the recovery or il1R! •
amounting, with interest, to shove two millions of Irma.
The debts in question originated in the purchase by the
cardinal of the celebrated diamond necklace as a present
for Queen Antoinette, which occasioned so much sosadal
in the latter years of Louie XVl.'s reign. Thecireunistaise
are briefly as follow:—Towards the close of 1784, Dahmer
sod Buseenees, jostles to the King, made a magnificent
sales of liallaele, estimated to be worth 1,600,000 f.,
which all the greet ladies of the suit were
anxious to poses The necklace was odfeved to Qom°
Atalanta, who declined to purchase it on account of he high
price. At the time Cardinal de Rohs was in disgrace at
court, aid the Countess de Lemotte peesnaded him that if
he could purchase the necklace for the Qoeem it would insure
his return to favour, aid that the mosey would ultimately
be refunded to him. On the 24th January, 1786, the
audios! went to the jewellers, examined the necklace, and
said that he was aathorined to purchase it for a high person.
age whom he could not then name. Some days later he
returned and purchased the necklace for 1,600,0001 r. in the
Queen's name, sod sassed the sedition' cif payment lie
took the necklace away with him, end os the LtFebruary
pee it to the Countess de Lista, who was to convey it to
the Queen, but her Majesty never received it; and what
became of it has ever since remained a mystery. The fraud
was discovered is the following Aignstt,, and the cardinal,
the Countess de Lamotte, Count and others
spewed to he socesplioss, were arrested sad meet to the
Beetle. The prisoners were tried in December, and all ac-
quitted except the Countess de Lamette, who was coo-
demued to be fogged, branded with s hot SW, and im-
prisoned for MP. Meanwhile the cardinal had made
a meats to pay the jewellers from his own resources,, by
transferring to them the greeter part of the income of lb
eoclesistical hesitate ; and special_ ty of the abbey
St. Wart. which produced 225,,00M. a year.
time after MM. Roamer and Besieges, who owed M.
Nicholas Davila, the King's seeretary„9lll,6o2 lions, as.
signed to him the revenues of the above-named abbey for
the extinction of their debt. But before soy payment had
been made, the French Revolution occurred, and all church
property was transferred to the nation. The cardinal,
Wag forced to leave Frame, went to Ettenbeim, on the
right bank of the Rhine, a dependence of his bishopsis of
Strasburg, lyiag beyond the French frontier. Owing to
these events, and the failure of MM. Balser and Bosesnese.
M. Devine n received any part of he mosey. Thecardnatt
dad at Ettenheim, is the year 1803, aerie(a will,
in which he made the Princess Charlotte de
Robsßochefort his residuary legatee, and she accepted
adinioistration of the estate on condition that she should not
be held respoesilde to the creditors for any deficiency that
might exist. At the tiros of his decease the cardinal pos-
sessed landed property in Bolen and personal property to a
considerable amost, part of which wee money lent to his
relatives, the Prince sad Princess de GuitneSe and the
Duke de Asthma. which the princess selected to re-
cover, and it was oomesquently lost. The princess sold the
lands in Bailee sod divided the proceeds among a few
favoured creditors, but Devine obtained little or nothing.
After the restoration, when the property remaining un-
sold was returned to its former owners or their
heirs, and an indemnity was also utecl for what
had been sold, the princes aoeording to the state-
ment of the plaintiff's counsel, selected the interests of the
creditors by omitting to recover the sums due to the ear-
dinars estate, especially !those owing from the Gueznenie
family. For this neglect of her duty as executrix, the
learned counsel maintained that the prism was ration-
@ibis in the perms of her hairs, Notwithstanding
the eoeditions under which she had under-
taken to administer to the cardinal's will. Per the de-
fence it was argued that the cardinal's estate bad bees
properly administered by the prime's, that the plaintiffs
had received the mane share se the other creditors, and
that they had no clefs es the &dentists in the present
action. The Tribusalisk this view, of the cue and socord-
fatly rejected the &mad with costa.

Tim enamels. Futzr.—On Wednesday there was
bright sad warn sunshine all day nog, cad the visitors to
the leek were SOBISTOUL though Parboils wet me much SS as
wee exported. As at Leith and .newheee,_ the visitors
@bowed a favour for the Black Priem sad Warrior, which
vessels were crowded from morning till night. There were
by for too moray steamers, however, waiting for the money.
mom of pusengess to sad from the vane* and the unmet
coefedou prevailed at the steamboat wry from the quarrel•
amoopt the serious steamboat masters for berths at the
quay ; and in their beating about for possogres for thou I
respective vessels, Noma names took place eausuag greet
amusement to the onlookers. In are or two ialt
steamers bad their Topes out by the oppoition partisZrel
were harked wet of their phew by others wowed Le be-
tween then sad the quay. Bernal of the river steamers
did not get a trip to the Best at all. Last night, at six
o'clock, Provost Grieve entertained the admiral and prin-
cipal *Mows of Um ships, and a few of the more loin.
astral townonee and iineikocirlag pate, to dinner at his
Laveto residers*. liliorwitim.bouse, which was followed
ball, to which a West thole of ladies were Welted.
A the grand bell in the New Tows-hell
comes off. The interior of the huddle/ has bees tastefully
adorned with evergreens, lags, sod pa devices, and the
sew wipperrows hes se got up in • townie' style. Ia
the coarse of the day the Lord Provost of Olsegow, mono-
end by emerald the magistrates, paid a visit to Admiral
and invited him sad the diem of the Benito dieser
is the Galleries en Friday (to-morrow)
The levitation was oordialltiereed. We natterstaed that
the medical faculty of w have Invited the medical
cams of the Beet to dine wi them on latardayerealas.—
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