The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-29 00:00:00

A PARISIAN ADVENTURE.

(From the Gazette des Tribunaux.)
Boulanger, an honest country farmer from Normandy,
was not long since robbed of a thousand francs, in what the
French journalists call the American fashion. It is the
same as the well-known trick played here upon countrymen,
by means of substituting farthings for sovereigns in the fob
of the dupe, who is recommended by an apparently simple
countryman, like himself, to take the precaution, in order
to secure his property from the rogues of Paris. A few
days since he met in Paris with a similar swindler, who had
duped him oat of Lis property, and being a powerful man,
he Immediately seized him by the collar, and dragged him,
in spite of his resistance, before M. Monier, the Chief
Commissioner of Police for the district. He exhibited
great penitence and sorrow on his examination, and on
being required to state his name, refused, alleging that he
was connected with a distinguished family, which he did
not wish to disgrace by the avowal of his bad conduct ; he
told the Commissioner, however, he had no objection to
give him Lis name privately. M. Monier, thrown off his
guard by the penitence of the culprit, assented to the pro-
priety of the plea, and ordered him to be temporarily con-
veyed back to the Parisian House of Correction, under the
guard of a police constable. On ascending the steps of the
coach that was to convey him back, he suddenly turned
round, knocked down the constable, and made his escape.
The constable, as soon as he recovered from the blow, got
up and pursued the fugitive. At last, after a long chase,
he overtook him, Just as he was darting up a narrow stair-
case in the Rue Amelot. There a new struggle between
the officer and fugitive ensued. The officer brought him
down with a cut of his sabre on the side of the head, but
he again escaped, and it was not until he severed the ten-
dons of his leg by another cut, that he was enabled to cap-
ture his evasive prisoner. Being re-conducted before
M. lionier, his committal was made out ; but in conse-
quence of his severe wounds he was sent to the hospital of
the prison. Ile had not been there long, however, before
he contrived to change his dress for that of a guyan de
cuisine in the hospital, and by the aid of that, be contrived
to make his escape, and has not yet been re-captured.

VALUABLE RELICS.—There are no less than
300 persons in England who boast themselves to be the pos-
sessors of the identical pen with which, in 1814, Napoleon
signed his first act of abdication. Each of these 300 virtuosi
has a written certificate from the Castellan of Fontainbleau
that his and no other is the goose-quill with which Napoleon
made the most irnpor ant scratch of his whole lire. These
300 Englishmen are like the three sons in Lessing's " Na-
than the Wise," each thinks he has the genuine talisman, and
each is equally deceived. The Cmtellun of Fontainbleau, an
invalid of the. Old Guard, religiously preserves the real pen
of abdication as a relic of his Emperor; but he has sold for
good round sums to the curiosity-craving islanders the old
stumps with which his wife registers the names of all the silly
gulls who endeavour, under the rose, to persnade him to part'
with the memorable pen.