The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-21 00:00:00

VIENNA, JaN. I.—Theexcrteinentoccasiened by the I
visit of the Emperor of Russia having now subsi led,
and the various cancans, political and anecdotical,
either founded on truth or due to mere invention, upon
the subj. ct, even down to the jokes of those established
wits of Vienna. the bootmakers' boys, having been al-
ready declared " stale, flat, and unprofitable," the at-
tention of the newsmongering world has been attracted
to a fresh topic of conversation—one relating- to a sub-
ject so full of strange mystery and conjecture, as to
form a romance of real life, which, if it lacks entirely
the ingredients in such tales—the love and assassination,
and developement of human passions—is none the less
full of interest and wonder—a tale almost incredible,
were not the details, as far as established facts are con-
cerned, not only warranted by the most uudoubted au•
thority, but matters of notorious publicity.
To tell the tale, however, I must begin ab ore, and re-
late how a certain young Ilungarian of Presburg, not
overburdened, it would seem, either with sense or talent,
or even other advantages, moral or physical, of the name
of Bukey, was some months since requested by a great
aunt, the widow of a well-known advocate of the same
city, to seek some family papers deposited in a garret
in her house. During his search fir these matters,
his attention, as it seems, was called by a friend
who accompanied him—for his own powers of
perception upon the subject do not appear to have
been great—to certain documents which fe'l under
their hands concerning persons of the highest rank in
foreign countries. Roused to a sense of a certain im-
portance to be attached to these papers, young 6i:sky
takes possession of them ; and one set of papers is sent
to his Majesty the King of the French. Of some im-
portance they certainly must have been ; for the offer of
a recompense in money for their being dispatched to
Paris having been rejected by the young man, the Order
of the Legion d'Honneur is bestowed upon him by Louis
Philippe, and an invitation made to him by his Majesty
to become his guest, if he should ever wish to visit
Paris, and to have all the expenses of his journey paid.
The contents of another set of papers are coinmuni-
cated to the families of the reigning houses of Baden,
Lucca, and Tuscany, and this communication also has
its value, for similar offers of pecuniary recompense
from these various powers having been alike refused,
orders from each of these countries are also bestowed
upon the discoverer of the documents ; a gold snuff-
box, enriched with diamonds, is added by the Grand
Duchess of Baden ; and behold the young nameless un-
considered advocate now parading the streets of his na-
tive town with four decorations dangling at his button-
hole. To what the contents of these important
papers may have related is the subject only of conjec-
ture, or, at most, of vague rumour. Those appertaining
to the family of Orleans are said to have been letters
written by the famous Philippe Egan* the father of the
present King of the French, to an Austrian Minister,
during the times of the French Republic; but what is
theirimportance as regards the family at the present
day, can only be dimly divined. Those concerning the
other ducal houses:already mentioned have received from
rumour quite another signification, and are supposed
to refer to estates in Hungary, to which these families
have a claim, una l now ignored or forgotten by
them, though what tie of relationship or affinity does
not at all appear, and which, sold in troublous times for
a mere trifle, and now of immeasurably greater worth,
may, according to the tenor of Hungarian law, be re-
claimed at the price of the original sale, by the descend-
ants of the parties who originally possessed and sold
them. The value however of such a discovery, if this
conjecture be true, is more evident than us the previ-
ous case. How these papers, of so different and strange
a nature, fell into the hands of the Presburg advocate in
whose house they have been found so many years after-
wards, must necessarily be obscure ; but here again ru-
mour supplies the place of more authentic information,
and we are told that originally in the possession of a
well known Austrian Minister, they were placed by him
in the hands of the depository at Presburg for security
and secrecy during the time of the invasion of Austria
by the French under Napoleon, and that, afterwards
reclaimed, they were denied by the advocate ever to
have been in his possession, though for what reason
must again remain a mystery. The tale, however, is
not yet done—the most extraordinary is still to come.
Searching still further, emboldened by his discoveries,
young Bulky stumbles some time afterwards upon
papers nearly concerning the house of Austria. Armed
with these documents, he came about two months since
to Vienna, and there, as a recompense for his discovery,
boldly demands the honour of being nominated chamber-
lain to the emperor—a distinction only bestowed upon
persons able to prove their pure and unalloyed descent
from ancestors of Heaven knows how many degrees,
and make what is called their ahnenprobe, and
ahnenprobe young Buky can make none, for his
father was a bourgeois advocate, his mother
a butcher's daughter. What these last docu-
ments may contain none as yet know. Rumour is
silent, and even conjecture holds its tongue in Austria.
But the certain fact exist that the young unknown advo-
cate has been granted his bold demand, and now dons
the uniform of the Emperor's chamberlain, and sports
the significative two golden buttons, supposed to sup-
port the key emblematic of his office, on the back of his
coat. However strange may be the adventures of
Master Bay of Presburg—however incomprehensible
his fortunes, the tale is true and warranted. The moral
of it may be that some peeple are bore with golden
spoons in their mouths—perhaps to stop them Tunes