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

THE ROHAN NECKLACE,

The Civil Tribunal of the Seine has just been engaged
during six sittings in trying an action brought by the heirs
of M. Deville, a creditor of Cardinal do Rohan, against the
Princes de Rohan-Rochefort, as representatives of the
Princess Charlotte de Rohan-Rochefort, the Cardinal's re-
siduary legatee and executrix, for the recovery of sums
amounting, with interest, to above 2,000,0001. The debts
in question originated in the purchase by the Cardinal of
the celebrated diamond necklace as a present for Queen An-
toinette, which occasioned so much scandal in the latter
years of Louis XVl.'s reign. The circumstances are briefly
as follows :—Towards the close of 1784, Boehmer and Boa-
sanges)ewellers to the King, made a magnificent necklace
of brilliants, estimated to be worth 1,600,0001., which all the
great ladies of the Court were anxious to possess. The
necklace was offered to Queen Antoinette, who declined to
purchase it on account of its high price. At that time Car-
dinal de Rohan was in disgrace at Court, and the Countess
de Lamotte persuaded him that if he could purchase the
necklace for the Queen it would insure his return to favour,
and that the money would ultimately be refunded to him.
On the 24th of January, 1785, the Cardinal went to the
jewellers, examined the necklace, and said that he was autho-
rised to purchase it for a high personage whom he could not
then name, Some days later he returned and purchased the
necklace for 1,600,000 f. in the Queen's name, and arranged
the conditions of payment. He took the necklace away with
him, and on the Ist February gave it to tho Countess do
Lamotte, who was to convey it to the Queen, but her Ma-
jesty never received it, and what became of it has ever since
remained a mystery. The fraud was discovered in the fol-
lowing August, and the Cardinal, the Countess de Lamotte,
Count Cagliostro, and others supposed to be accomplices,
were arrested and sent to the Bastille. The prisoners were
tried in December, and all acquitted except the Countess de
Lamotte, who was condemned to be flogged, branded with a
hot iron, and imprisoned for life. Meanwhile the Cardinal
had made arrangements to pay the jeweller from his own re-
sources by transferring to them the greater part of the in-
come of his ecclesiastical benefices, and especially of the ab-
bey of St. Waast, which produced 225,000 t. a year. Some
time after Mlll.l3cehmer and B ossang es, who owed M. Nicho-
las-Deville, the king's secretary, 900,602 livres, asigned to
him the revenues of the above-named abbey for the extinc-
tion of their debt. But before any payment had been made
the French Revolution occurred, and all Church property
was transferred to the nation. The Cardinal, being forced to
leave France, went to Ettenheim, on the right bank of the
Rhine, a dependence of his bishopric of Strasburg, lying
beyond the French frontier. Owing to these events, and
the failure of MM. Bcehmer and Bossanges, M. Deville
never received any part of his money. The Cardinal died
at Ettenheim, in the year 1803, leaving a will, in which he
made the Princess Charlotte de Rohan-Rochefurt his resi-
duary legatee, and she accepted administration of the estate
on condition that she should not be held responsible to the
creditors for any deficiency that might exist. At the time
of his decease the Cardinal possessed landed property in
Baden, and personal property to a considerable amount, part
of which was money lent to his relatives, the Prince and
Princess de Guemenee, and the Duke de Montbazon,whieh
the Princess neglected to recover, and it was consequently
lost. The Princess sold the lands in Baden and divided
the proceeds among a few favoured creditors, but Deville
obtained little or nothing. After the Restoration, when the
property remaining unsold was returned to its former owners
or their heirs, and an indemnity was also granted fur what
had been sold, the Princess, according to the statement of
the plaintiff's course], neglected the interests of the credi-
tors by omitting to recover the sums due to the Cardinal's
estate, especially those owing from the G1:71::ee
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For this neglect of her duty executrix, the
eel maintained that the Princess was responsible in the per-
sons of her heirs, notwithstanding the conditions under
which she had undertaken to administer to the Cardinal's
will. For the defence it was argued that the Cardinal's
estate had been properly administered by the Princess, that
the plaintiffs had received the same share as the other cre-
ditors, and that they had uo claim on the defendants in the
present action. The tribunal took this view of the case,
and accordingly rejected the plaintiffs' demand with coats.

Accounts from Warsaw slate that thP harvest
this year is most abundant, but that the want of hands to
get it in is much felt. The produce of the crops will be
sufficient for every want until next year's crops.

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Canal' I,2LDIEN

HER MAJESTY.

The Queen in Germany.

On Monday afternoon the King of Prussia, 0
his return from Baden-Baden, arrived at Cobourg
by special train from Lichtenfels, and immediately
proceeded to Rosenau on a visit to her Majesty the
Queen. His Majesty only remained at Rosenau
two hours, and at eight o'clock left the Coburg
Railway Station by special train for Eisenach,
whence he travelled to Berlin by the night train.
The King was accompanied by M. Bismark
Sehonhausen, the President of the Prussian Cabinet,
who did not proceed to Rosenau with the King►
but remained in Coburg. He, however, continued
thejGurney to the Prussian capital with his :Majesty.
The news of the expected visit of the King Of
Prussia was not known in Coburg till .Monday
morning, but it was soon circulated in the town,
and on the arrival of the royal special a considerable
crowd had assembled at the station. During 1118
short absence of the King at Rosenau, the curious
Coburgers had full opportunity to see the famous
Prussian Minister, whom they apparently regarded
with great interest.

The Emperor has, the Patric states, accepted the
Grand Cross of the restored Mexican Order of Notre Dame
de Guadaloupe.
The Duke of Newcastle left town early in the
week for Clumber, Notts, on his way to Scotland.

The Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort and Lady
Edith Somerset will return to town on Monday next.

The Marquis of Tullibardine has arrived at
Dunkeld, N. 8., from Canada, where his lordship had been
doing duty with the Scots Fusilier Guards. The noble
and gallant marquis-has returned home sooner than was
expected, owing ter the precarima state of the Duke of
Athole.

The Earl and Countess of Yarborough are pro-
longing their visit to the Earl and Countess of Eglinton at
Eglinton Castle. Ayrshire.
The Earl and Countess of Rosse have arrived at
Brighton from the Continent, to pass a few months there,
as usual, beforo taking up their residence for the winter at
their seat in Ireland.

Viscount and Viscountess Ingestre and famill
are prolonging their sojourn at Brighton.
Lord Londesborough is expected to arrive at
Grimston Park, Yorkshire, on Saturday next, from his
shooting quarters in Scotland.

The Hon. Frederick and Lady Elizabeth Villiers
have left Osterley Park, near Southall, where they have
been visiting the Countess•(Dowager) of Jersey, for Selby
Hall, their seat in Northamptonshire.
Sir Edwin Landseer left town on Wednesday for
Scotland, to pass a few weeks in the Highlands.

LAMARTINE'S NEW LOVE STORY, " Fior d'Alizat"
says a Saturday Reviewer, is the history of a girl
in the neighbourhood of Lucca, with whom and who
family the author states himself to have been acquainted.
He describes her childish grace and virgin modesty as 011°
bent like a Madonna over a little infant that the poet COng
not have believed to have been her own. An aged womall
in a neighbouring cottage and a blind old man tell the way'

derer who this lovely young mother is, and all the Woe°
she has experienced. She was brought up with a cousin
who was as innocent and as simple as herself. The childrell.

played together from the cradle, and picked up sticks and
chesnuts together, and tended the same goats and kids on
the hill-side. At last, one evil day, when Fior d'Aliza was
twelve years old, a fierce ruffian saw her, and loved th°
pretty child, and determined she should grew up to be bit;
wife. So, like all ruffians in poetry, he set to work to Nit,
the family whose daughter he meant to appropriate. 116
got a lawyer, even more vicious and devilish than himself?
to set up a fictitious claim, and take away from them Wa"
fourths of their little property. But they were good, 11005
creatures, and acquiesced in the poverty sent them. So
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something more was to De done that they might be brotOr
into the frame of mind in which they would part with tliel
darling. It had been arranged that a groat chesnut trey
from which the family derived their principal support,shall
belong partly to them and partly to the fictitious clairaall
invented by the wily lawyer. Only the boughs that
looked to the south were the property of the friends (P'
Fior d'Aliza. But a lawyer who can make successful
claims in this easy sort of way can also make law at his
pleasure; and he asserted that his clients had a right at
any time to three .fourths at least, or perhaps the whole, a
the trunk of the tree, and he sent his myrmidons to cut this
trunk down. Stung by this insult to the beloved and
sacred tree, and by the prospect of utter destitution
pending over his family, Hyeronimo, Fior d'Aliza's Play'
mate, rushed at the wood-cutters, and drove them off wit)"
an axe. And soon a fresh attack and a new insult drove
him to another and a more fatal deed of violence. Till
goats of Fior d'Aliza strayed into the maize of the stir Pose'
owners of what had been the land of her friends, and Wer°
instantly shot by some watchful policemen stationed there.
Hyeronimo seized a gun, fired it at hazard into the maize,
and killed the sergeant of the police. He was instantly
arrested, and carried off to Lucca. But Fior d'Alizat
though hardly more than a child, determined to follow bin,'
and rescue him if possible. She dressed as a boy, and
taking a musical instrument with her, set off on herjourneY•
Fortunately she was taken up at once by a wedding party'
going to Lucca, and in want of a musician. Still more
fortunately, this wedding party came from the household
of the keeper of the very prison in which Hyeronimo was
confined; and most fortunately of all, this keeper happened
to be in want of an assistant, and he appointed Fior d'Aliza
on the spot to the vacant place. She had thus constant
access to her friend, whom a common misery turned at
once into her lover. A kindly priest, entrusted with their
secret, managed to marry them in the chapel frequented
by condemned prisoners, and then, on the morning of
the execution to which Hyeronimo had been sentenced,
Fior d'Aliza opened a way for her lover to leave the prison?
and herself took his place. She was led out to execution,
and was on the point of being shot when her sex was die-
covered. The Duchess of Lucca steps in as the kindly
deity of the story, pities and helps Fior d'A_Ziza, and gets
the sentence of Hyeronimo, who gives himself up on seeing
Fior d'Aliza's danger, commuted into two years' imprison'
ment. The period of his sentence happened to expire on
the very day when the wandering poet heard the story told
him, and the tale ends with the wild joy of the couple thug
restored to each other, and with the triumph of the old
people blest with this sweet reunion, and also with 00
restitution of their property, which the wicked lawyer is of
course obliged to give up.

PRESIDENT LINCOLN.—A Washington corres°
pondent of the New York Times writes—" I see
the President almost every day, as I happen to live where
he passes to or from his lodgings out of town. Mr. Lincoln
never reposes at the White-house during the hot season, but
has quarters at a healthy location, some three miles north
of the city, the Soldiers' Home, a United States benevolent
establishment. I saw him this morning about halt:-past S
coming in to business, riding on Vermont-avenue. near Ie
street. The sight is a significant one. He always has
company of 25 or 30 cavalry, with sabres drawn, at id held
upright over their shoulders. The party makes no great
show in uniforms or horses. Mr. Lincoln generally rides a
good-sized easy-going grey horse, is dressed in black, some-
what rusty and dusty ; wears a black stiff hat, anal luolts
about as ordinary in attire, &e., as the commonest r aan.
lieutenant, with yellow straps, rides at his left, and follow-
ing behind, two by two, come the cavalry men im their'
yellow-striped jackets. They are generally going at a slog
trot, as that is the pace set them by the dignitary tl Ley wait
upon. The sabres and accoutrements clank, and the entirely'
unornamental cortege trots slowly towards Lafayette. s quare.
It arouses no sensation ; only some curious stranger stops
and gazes. I saw very plainly the President's dark brown
face, with the deep curt lines, the eyes always to me with
deep latent sadness in the expression. Sometimes he comers
and goes in an open barouche. The cavalry always .accour
him with drawn sabres. Sometimes one of his sons,
a boy of 10 or 12, accompanies him, riding at his right 011
pang
a pony. ''

WRECK OF THE BARON 08Y STEAM-VESSEL 11l
THE
THANES.—Yesterday afternoon, about half-
past 12 o'clock, the iron paddle steamship Baron Osy we°,
proceeding up the river, laden with passengers and g enerto
' merchandise Iron; Antwerp, and when in Limehouseereacb,
nearly opposite the Commercial-dock pier, a small craft Was
somewhat in the way, and the steamer diverged towards the
Middlesex shore, when the face part of her keel etruc
heavily up
on a hard substance, breaking her iron plates,
and causing the water to rush into her foie cabin and
ma-
chine room, immediately atter she struck the vessel turned
round, and her stem rapidly sunk. The utmost alarm pre-
vailed amongst upwards of 100 passengers who were ea
board, but fortunately the Naiad, -Woolwich steamer, Capt.
Robinson, came near at the time on her up passage, nl'a
the captain having witnessed the accident, promptly landed
the whole of the Naiad's passengers at the Commercial-dock
pier, to continue their journey by the next boat, and went
to the assistance of the Baron Osy. The whole of the ptiB-
- of the latter vessel and a large amount of luggage
were rapidly transferred to the Naiad, and conveyed to the
St. Katharine's docks, the Naiad immediately returning
with a numerous body of man to assist in removing toe
cargo front the wreck. At 8 o'clock last evening the Baron
Osy had been secured in the position where she now re-
mains. Her fore cabin, engine-rooms, &e., are entirely under
water, and a considerable amount of property is still in the
vessel, the stern of which has been well lightened, and sb
is surrounded by barges, &c,, and guarded by the I'harn,es
police, the wreak having been taken possession of by the
Thames Conservancy,

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