The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-15 00:00:00

MEMOIRS OF FOUCIIE.

( From the Journal des Derbats. )
TRIBUNAL DE PREMIERE INSTANCE.
IN THE MATTER OF TIIE MEMOIRS OF FOUCHE.
The cause between the eldest son and the
other children of the Duke d'Otranto and Messrs.
Lerouge aud Lefevre, first and second Editors of
the Memoirs attributed to this person, was heard
to-day.
M. Gauthier Menars, assisted by M. Amedee
Boivin, stated for the inheritors of the Duke
d'Otranto, that the Memoirs put forth wore
without their knowledge, without authority on
their part, and that they formally disavowed
them. Acting on this disavowal, it was de-
manded that the pretended Memoirs, together
with the plates from which the impression had
been made, should be given up, and that the heirs
should be permitted to seize them wherever they
might be found ; consequently, he requested
the Court, to forbid Messrs. Lerouge and Le-
fevre to reprint it, and likewise not to print
the second part, and he applied for 10,000
francs damages, as well as permission to publish
MO copies of the injunction. Lerouge was the
Editor, and Lefevre the printer of a work called
44 Memoires de J. Fouche, Duc d'Otranto, ancien
Ministre de la Police Generale." The editor of
this work had used all manner of artifices to prove
that it was really the work that it pretended to
be. In the course of the work were notes, pre-
tending to be those of the editor, contradicting
the statement of the author. The preface, as
well as the body of the work, attributed to the
Duke d'Otranto, was formed with the same view ;
these tricks had had such success that the first
edition was speedily sold, and a second was ac-
tually in the press. Advantage had thus been
taken of the vacation of the Court. Such a pro-
ceeding may furnish ample matter for scandal. I
will not set the example, said the Advocate, and
I will reduce the question to a dilemma. Either
the Memoirs are apocryphal, as we say, or they
are really the production of the Duke of Otranto,
and then they cannot be published to the in-
jury of the heirs until a lapse of 20 years. It
will not be asserted that a manuscript, or
any species of literary property, can be transmitted
without any formality whatever. Such a
transmission can only be made by written autho-
rity. In fact, however, the writing is apocryphal.
The Duke of Otranto left no Memoirs, and he
did this from reasons which he communicated to
his children. If he had left, Memoirs, his chil-
-1 dren, for the same reasons, would not allow them
to be published. The disavowal is of so much
more importance, because in the second part of the
Memoirs there is, under the name of the Duke
of Otranto, the following advertisement :—" It
Is in tl►e same spirit of sincerity, that the second
part of these Memoirs is prepared, but I do not
conceal that the period is more delicate and more
thorny." NVhat an ample harvest of calumnies
does this announce ! This must be prevented.
Let M. Lerouge compose, or cause to be com-
posed, seditious writings—let him distribute
poison ; but let it be at his own risk and danger.
Let him publish these works under his name, and
he alone will be responsible for all evil attached
to the publication. The heirs of the Duke of
Otranto 'mean to give the damages to the poor.
This cause is to be resumed on the 18th De.
cern ber.

(Frow the LONDON CAZETTE, Dec.l4.)

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

E. Wroots and J. Adkini; Great 'richfield-street, Maryle-
bone, linen-drapers.
ILINKRUP'fCY ENLARGED.

N. Wrinkles, senior, and R. Winkles, junior, Colebrook.
row, Islington, coal.merchants, from Dee. 25, to Jan. 8, at
ten, at the Court of Commissioners.
BANKRUPTS.

G. Wynne, Stafford, shoe-manufacturer, to surrender Dec:
27, 28, and Jan. 26, at eleven, at the Unice of Messrs. Keen,
Stafford. Attornles, Messrs. Williams and White, Lincoln's-
Inn ; and Messrs. Keen, Stafford.
J. Lawson, Nottingham, hosier Dec. 24, Jan. 1 and 25, at
eleven, at the Punch Bowl, Nottingham. Attornies, Messrs.
Long and Austen, Gray's-Inn ; and Mr. Henry Percy, 'Not-
..
tingham.
. o..Rolfes, Fenchurch.street, broker, Dec. 13, at ten,
Dec. 24, at twelve, and Jan. 25,'at ten, at the Court of Corn.
miSsioners. Attornies, Messrs. Dennet, Greaves, liaxendale,
and Tatham, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
H. Clarke, Agnes-place, Waterloo-road, Surrey, coal-trier-
chant, Dec.l
8; 28, and Jan. 25, at eleven, at the Court of
Commissioners. Attorney,, Mr. F. Dickies, Queen-street,
Cheapside.
S. Arrowsmith, Salford, Lancashire, innkeeper, Dec. 21, 28,
and Jan. 25, at one. at the Star Inn, Manchester. Attornies,
Messrs. Milne and Parry, Temple; and .Mr. Redhead, Man.
cheater.
P. Wilson, Gibson-street, Lambeth-marsh,. carpenter, Dec.
18 and 21, at eleven, and Jan. 25, at twelve, at the Court of
Com Missioners. Attornies, Alessra. R. and J. Patten, Hat-
ton-garden.
DIVIDENDS.
Jan. 5. W. Bolton, Banbury, Oxfordshire, and T. Bolton,
Grimsbury, Northamptonshire, coal-merchants-Jan. 15, S.
Salmon, Regent-street, stationer-Jan. 4, T. NVakenien, Fleet.
market, stationer-Jan. 4; T. Atkinson, Ludgate-hill, cabinet-
maker-Jan. 4, J. Dicks, London-street. Tottenham-court-road,
carpenter-Dec. 10, G. H. Browne, • John-street, Bedford-row,
scrivener-Jan. W. Murray, Palt-mall-court,
18, W. Cleghorn, Itatcliffe-highWay, cheesenionger-Jan.
11, L. Williams, Fenchurch.strect, Merchant-Jan. 15,
J. Carver and \V. Peet, Basinghall-street, merchants-
Jun. 6, J. Lingard, Manchester, merchant:-Jan. 7, J. Piercy
and R. Saunders,: 'Birmingham, edge-tool-makers--Jan. 4, T.
C. Lewis and-C. Bevan, High Holborn, linen-drapers-Jan. 4,
R. Simpson, Crown-court, Threadneedle-street, merchant -
Jan. 13, J. Bainbridge, Queen-street, Cheapside, woollen.
,draper=-;lad. 4, C. Brown, Dundee, merchant-Jart. 14,, J.
Benson, Lancaster; linen-draper-Jan. 7, J. Mortimer, Check:
beacon, Yorkshire, merchant-Jan. 25, 1. Orme, sen. Notting-
ham, OilverAmith-Jan. 7, F. Falkner, Manchester, warehouse.
man-Jan: 20, J. Bowrnar, Goltho, Lincolnshire, farmer.