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MAMMOTH AND BONAPARTE.
S.ADLER's WELLS.
Under the Patronage of
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS TILE. DUKE OF CLARENCE.
MAMMOTH and BONAPARTE (written by
C. MINN, jnn.) having received the most unbound-
ed Applause from .crowded Audiences will repeated every
Evening this Week, by Mr. TOWNSEND, in addition to
The other favourite Entertiiiimevita.

EARLE',

ICE OF BOUILLON.
As the case of this Officer has been more than
once reared to in the course of the discussions in
Parliamdit respeCting the conduift ofFrance towards
tiiis Country, and the many strong causes which
that has furnished for Lite present war, we think it
cannot but prove interesting ski the Public to have
laid before them the very extraordinary proceedings
which took place at Paris in September last towards
this Personage, a British Subject, and a Captain in
the Royal :Navy. The following trerticulars are
taken from a• Mcmcir drawn out by the Duke
self, for the infoinution of His Majesty's Ministers,
and the satisfaction of his persona, friends. It has
been confined for some months to a very few hands;
hut a* the treatment which he received is a National
Concern, there seems no reason now to exist why
the essrlous circumstances which befel the Duke,
from the tyranny and insolence of the Consular Go-
vernment, should nes be made public.
ag After the Definitive Treaty of Amiens was
ratified, lie (the Duke de Bouillon) solicited, and
obtained permission to go to Paris, tc consult pro-
per persons respeding the prosecution of his claims
to the immense Estates of the House of Bouillon,.
and, endeavour to recover some of that property,
the inheritance of which had been solemnly entailed
upon him. He accordingly provided himself with
the issue' Passports from the Secretary of State for
tl e. Foreign 13epartment, which he got, as a further
p• :elation, countersigned by M. Otto, the Charge
d. e Afraires of the Republic, here. Thus provided,
well the addition of a letter of introdu.lion to
Diie. Merry, from Lord Hawkesbury's Office, be
larded in Normandy, accompanied by a friend
and his two servants, and proceeded directly to
Paris; ading with that circumspection (and having
recommended the same to those with him) which
prudence seemed more particularly to prescribe to an
Officer, whose services might perhaps not have
escaped the notice of a Government from whom he
was about to claim justice, with resped to his
rights. He reached Paris on the 2eth August last,
and immediately occupied himself in putting hie
claims in a train to be submitted to the decision of
the French Government. • His leisure hduts were
employed in viewing the Louvre, aivi the rich col-
ledions it has lately received. He had visited the
1 Thuilleries, to view the parade of t.bintidi, but
had declined presentatien, from motives for which
his friends will, he trusts, do him justice. He
I mentions this the more particularly, as he has since
bOen given to understand, that visiting the Thud-
'cries, indeed Paris, without the ceremonial of pre-
sentation, and humiliation before the Consul, is
interpreted as a disresped, which certainly was far
lifrom being intended. He had a leisure hour, and
74 curiosity to satisfy himself respecting their much
Lspolten of military exhibition, , the parade of Quin-
todi and he was told that he might innocently sa-
tisfy his curiosity, by presenting himself as an
English Officer in his uniform, and retiring when lie
was gratified, which was all that he did. He was,
however, on the morning of• the 7th September,
about seven o'clock, surprized in his bed at the
' Hotel de Rome (Fauxbourg St. Germain), where
he lodged, by a number of ferocious-looking men,
, whom upon explanation he found to be sbires, or
pet sons of the Police, headed by a Commissary and
two exempts, who set about rifling his room, sedu-
lously collecting every scrap of paper, and prying
into the most- private Corners, rudely summoning
him to attend them to the tklinister of the Police
(the Ex-Priest Fouche), who desired to see him
immediately, scarcely allowing him to put on his
clothes, or the horses to be put to the job-carriage.
he used. He, however, hurried him and after
ser.ding his servant to announce this unpleasant
event-to Mr. Maker, whose hotel was within two
doors, he proceeded with an exempt of the Police
in the carriage with him, And eight or ten shires, or
offieers, attending on foot, with the Commissary
who had made notes of the arrest, and who carried
the private papers. Arrived at the hureau de la
Police-General, he was escorted up to the very top
of the house, into a sort of anti-room, or garret,
in which were five or six employee; or runners of
• the vilest appearance, that kept going in and out
every moment. About an hour after his first in.
troduCtion to this place, he was shewu into an office
in another part of the building, where sat a
M. Desmarets, Secretary to the Minister Fouche,
who said he was charged by his principal to ask
him a few questions; whichl were answered by
asking a leading one, as to what motive might be
ascribed the violation of the laws of hospitality,
hr at that moment experienced, and had suf-
fered in the hotel where he lodged ? The Se-
cretary's reply was, that the Mini§ter had a tt pre-
vention," (prejudice), a great " preventioneagainst
the subject of this Memoir, for his services dur-
ing the war • and sought to preveil upon him to
avow that Mr. Pitt bad determined to wage a war
of extermination in the bosom of France ; that Mr.
Windham had planned it ; and that the Captain, by
the influence of his name, as Duke of Bpuillon, and
his connections in the western penances, had, di-
reaed its execution to the utmost of his power, and
the great detriment of the interests of the Republic..
To this he replied, that lie conceived the Treaty of
Amiens terminated all discussions of the kind : he
had no explanations to give, of any part of his con-=1
dud antecedent to that epoch ; but disdained to ane;
swer to such unqualified accusations as were made,
with the most odious and insulting epithets ageing.:
Messrs. Pitt and Windham, whose confidential!
agent they accused him of being. He professed'
readiness 'to answer to fails, but deelieee -

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" prevention:" (prejudices), which be could .
think to be seriously the cause of the cruel insult h
arrienced. After about an hour's discussion with
M. Desnutrets, he was remanded to the same
place
he had quitted, still more vilely attended
in the morning. He obtained leave to address
er to Mr. Merry. stating his then painful sftua-
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mareta informed him, he would be called before the
" Magistrat du guartier," to answer to these 44 pre-
ventions" of M. Fouchc, for,whom he patiently wait-
ed till two o'clock. When called .before him,
who was likewise an ex-priest, of the name of Fars,.
del, he was ushered through the public hall of the
building where two Emigres, who had been under
the Duke's orders in Jersey, were waiting, to see and
identify him, if necessary, as the person who had
commanded the naval department in that island,
during the war, and had been the means of such
mischief, as they pretended, to the Republic. To
M. P.:irides questions, which he observed were
written, and of the same tendency, as those of M.
Desmarets, he answered in monosyllables, conceiv-
ing it the only way "prejudices" were to be treated.
M. Faridel kept him near an hour, but let it escape
him, that he did not see the rni,tive, or " but" of
the detention ; and the Captain was concluded into
the midst of the same vile assemblage he had before'
been amongst. Here, one a little more decent than
the rest, got a superior to come in, :sort of come
missary, who told Mm the Ministes Touche, was
going to Malmaison, to take the Consul's commands
upon his detention ; such importance did they .afe
feet to attach to what the magistrate appeared not
to comprehend. The tedious long day was drawing'
to a close, when Mr. Merry sent a message by a ser-
vant, desiring to he informed where the prisoner wet
to be Conveyed, if removed from his then situation ,1
a circumstance which he had been in the hope he
would have been informed of by Mr. Merry; but see•
ing no pros eel of immediate release, he obtained,
by means of his servant, who was allow ed to wait
without, a cup of coffee, the,first refreshment he Lad
had that day. M. Fouche was in andeout of the
hotel several times in the couree of the thy, but did
not deign to occupy himself an instant evith the
situation of the subject of this Memoir.
" An English oMcer's liberty, unjustly violated,
was not of sufficient moment to command a minute
of the attention of an ex-monk, wallowing in luxury
and pride. He did not, as his Commissary (who
perhaps was employed to deceive),. had said,
.go to
to Malmaison, but went to dine with the Consul
Cambaceres ; -and at ten o'clock, the same person
who had mentioned at first his going to the First
Consul, came in and told the prisoner, that from
Cambaceres' dinner the Minister had gone to the
Opera ; he therefore must quietly go to the Temple
for the night. The Captain offered to pay for a
room in the Police till morning, which was refused
him ; and an exempt entered, who, with two steins,
conduaed their prisoner down to the court-yard,
where a fiacre was waiting, into which they entered,
and proceeded to the Temple, within whose awful
and blood-stained gate he was received about eleven
o'clock, and ushered through three or four heavily"'
ironed wickets, to the Gse e, where his appearance
was minutely detailed and registered; after which be
was conduaed to the keep, or. lower of the Temples
through as maily more iron doors as he had alreadjr
passed, to the apartments that had been occupied by
the late unfortunate Royal Family, in the anti-room
of which, he was shocked by the appearance of a rude
ferocious half-naked figure, partly rolled in a blanker,
and laying on a straw bag. It reared itself half
up, as if disturbed by the grating of the iron door!
on their hinges, and muttered in a low and hollow
tone of voice, " qllOll dose . use native viaime ! est ee
que cola ne.finira jamniz." The hideous asped of this
pale and wan figure excited terror, and may partly
be conceived by those who have minutely examined
the late Sir Joshua Reynolds's famous pielare of
Ugulini. The Captain hastened through this tlise
mal dungeon. to an inner room, to which he vile
shewn, and which had been occupied by the virtu-
ous and beautiful Princess Eheabeth.• '
his complaints, which, perhaps,_ might have Liken'
just,. as ee is persuaded that all that a prison Mrs of
horrors, was found here; but the recollednieee of
what virtue and grandeur these melancholy walls
had within the few last fleeting years contained,
silenced every selfish reileaion. Here he was depd-
sited by his rough guide, who invited him to pay
for the candle he left him, and proffrred him ht!
services. He bribed this garcon to procure 'him
some simple refreshment from without, Simple he
required it to be, for he had been cautioned, as he
came down the stairs of the Police to proceed to the
Tempe, to beware of what he ate and drank in the •
abOdo he was going to : " Le sage entend ei demi moo
On y debite des ragouts bleier!. I," was added, and
it was understood as a friemily hint.
" Tempered by the liberality of his new guest,
the chamberlain, as the turnkey was called, return-
, ed with bread and 4 cold fowl, with an uncorked ';
bottle of wine from without, which refreshment had
'become necessary to nature, now almost exhausted;
and after significantly pointing to a seraw bag and
filthy prison blanket, added, " wad* ou vow
pest-
ve7, relater," and was retiring, when, upon inquiry
who the wretch apparently suffering; in the anti-
room was, he replied by shrugging his shoulders,
and added in a whispee, "cest rus snouton
_firmer b.. n
ware pale," and left the subje& of this Memoir to
his refledions. Imagination soon presented bins
with the scenes, the melancholy scenes, those silcnt
walls had compassed. How, therefore, could he
complain ? Ile passed the night leaning on a peek.,
or stove, that lied been placed in the centre of the
Amin, musing eon the extraordinary .cruelty of his
situation, patiently and calmly waiting
.the official
interference of His Majeety!s elditsister
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