The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-27 00:00:00

(Signed)

" MAIIGART."

On February 28th, 1852, I arrived in Paris from
Italy, with a passport en reyle, and on March 16th I
received a letter from Count Roguet, aide-de-camp of
the Prince President, in which he announced to me, by
order of the President, that I should have an audience
•n March 18th, at the palace of the Elys6e, and that
this letter would serve me for introduction. After this
audience, I made a request, full of details, about my
heritage which I claimed in France, which I sent to
Count Roguet, for him to remit to the President of the
Republic. Here is the reply of Count Roguet :
" Palais de l'Elysee, March 25, 1852.
" To his Highness the Prince Alexandre de Gonzaga.
" Prince,—l hastened to place before the Prince Presi-
dent the note which you did me the honour to address to
me on March 24. lam happy in having the opportunity
of showing the pleasure I feel in serving you, and beg you
will consider me quite at your service.
" I am your Highness's most humble servant,
" Le General de division Aide-de-camp, &c.,
(Signed) " COUNT ROGUET."

Since then I have constantly had communications
with General Count Roguet. The spies and agents of
Orleans and of Austria had carefully observed my pro-
ceedings at the Palais de l'Elysee, without my having
observed it. On May sth of the same year, I received
the order of the police to quit France, without giving
me a reason. I went the same day to General Count
Roguet to ask him if this was by the order of the Presi-
dent, or if it was with his knowledge. He replied that
it was the first he had heard of it, and that the Presi-
dent knew nothing of it ; but he promised me to speak
to him of it, and in waiting he told me that I might re-
main in Paris without uneasiness, Having his word I
remained. On July 23d of the same year, at the time
when the President was at Strasburg, the agents of
police came to my house with the excuse of making a
search to see if I had any arms or ammunition con-
cealed. Not finding any, they took from me the
legalised copies of my documents, and the copy of my
request to the Prince President on the subject of Charle-
ville. Then they ordered me to follow them to the pre-
fecture of police, and there they arrested me on the charge
of being a prince without a principality, of distributing
decorations, of making protestations on the subject of
sovereignties in Italy that Austria possesses, and
of reclaiming proprietaries in France belonging
to the Duke d'Aumale. The *agents of police
who arrested me were the very same who came to
me in 1845 to look over my papers. Every one
knows that the police have two journals at their
command for the purpose of defamation ; they are the
Gazette des Tribuneaux and the Droit. From this pe-
riod I can affirm that certain persons in the Administra-
tion gave the immoral and sad spectacle of their in-
famy during my confinement. Everywhere menaces,
seductions, and denunciations, and intimidations of
every sort ; calumnies, sometimes stupid and oftentimes
ignoble, emanated from men who were cowardly and
vile. All the subordinates and spies were on the alert ;
for the rest, the public will he able to judge to what
point the scandals and intrigues of this trial were car-
ried in Paris. I will here cite three among the worst
of the intrigues. First of all, Stankiewiz, an old Polish
priest, declared that he had known me. For his
having given this testimony they menaced him until
he retracted it, even going so far as to take away
the subsidy he received from the police as a refugee.
Secondly, a Polish officer, Chruielinski, who also de-
clared before a public meeting at Paris that he had
known me in 1827, and other years, and constantly cor-
responded with me besides. For this evidence he was
arrested and put in prison, until he had retracted what
he bad said in my favour. Finally, they made several
' attempts to persuade my wife, an English lady, to aban-
don me to them, by offering her as much money as she
desired. This proposition was renewed a few days be-
fore my liberation. Like a true English lady she was
indignant at the wickedness of this proposition.
An examination took place, which lasted for six
months, during which time I remained a prisoner at
the prison of Mazas. During this time a certain ex-
amining magistrate, named Brault, wrote to all the
diplomatic agents, to all the Governments of Europe, to
the police of Austria and France, who, for the most
part, are still attached to the Orleans family, to endea-
vour to establish by false reports that lam not the
Prince Alexandre de Gonzaga. This anxiety, whose
minuteness is without precedent, proved nothing
except his bad intentions.
On the day of the trial they condemned me on the
simple declaration of some Polish refugees, ex-officers
who receive the subsidies of the police, who said they had
not known me in the Polish army, although I produced,
through my advocate, M. Avoud, all the papers relating
to my family, my genealogy, my certificate of birth and
of baptism, and my proofs of military service, and the
attestation of Baron Walchter, the Minister of Wurtem-
burg, on my naturalisation of 1833 at Stuttgard, and
the attestation of General Trezel, in which he declares
that, in 1840, in his position as Director-General of the
War department, he wrote to me, by superior orders,
offering me the rank of Colonel in the foreign legion in
Africa. I also produced the attestation of General de
Lamarre, who declared that, "in 1850, at Rome, he had
been witness that the Commander of the Staff, Corbet,
recognised the Prince Alexandre of Gonzaga, whom he
had known on the staff of Marshal Ney in 1813." Ge-
neral, BUOY also declared that he had known me in the