The Sun.
London, England, 1803-06-08 00:00:00

fit DukE g'rlbintiolf‘"

As the Case of this Officer haS.,been Mere than
once referred to the course of the discussions in
Parliament respecting the condud of France towards
this Country, and the many strong causes which
that has furnished for the present War,' we think it
cannot but prove :interesting to the Public to have
laid before them the very extraordinary proceedings
which took place at Paris in September last towards
this Personage, A British Subjett, and a -Captain in
the Royal Navy. The following particulars are:
taken froM a Memoir drawn out by the Duke him.:
self,' for the informatinn of HIS Majesty's Ministers,
and .the satisfaftion of his personal friends. It has
been confined for. some months to a
.vety few hands ;
but as the treatment which he received is a National
Concern, there seems no reason now to exist why
the curious circumstances which befel the Duke,
from the tyranny and insolence of the Consular
GovernMent, should not be made public.

" After the Definitive Treaty of Amiens was
ratified, he (the Doke de 800 t rrots) solicited, and
obtained permission to go to Parts, to consult pro.
per' persons' respelling the prosecution of his claims
to the immense Estates of the House of BOUILLON,
and 'endeavour to recover some of that property,
the inheritance of which had been solemnly entailed
upon him. He accordingly provided himself with
.the usual Passports:froin the Secretary_ of State for
the Foreign Department, which lie got,, as a further
precaution, countersigned by M. Orro, the Charge
des 'Affaires of the Republic, here. Thus pro
vided, with the addition of a Letter of inttoduetion
to Mt. MERRY, from Lord HAWKES 8 ITOCS Office,
he 'landed in Normandy, accompanied by a friend
and his two servants,' and 'proceeded direaly to
Paris ; acting with that circumspection (Anil having •
recommender the same fo those with him) which
prudences.eemed more particularly to prescribe to an
'Officer, whose services might pethaps not have
escaped. the notice of a Government froM whom he
• was about to claim justice, with respea to his
rights. He reached Paris on the 28th August last,
and immediately occupied himself in putting his
claims in a'train to be submitted to the decision of
-the French Government. His 'leisure hours were
,employed in viewing the Louvre, and the rich
collations it has lately received. -He had visited
the Thuilleries, to view.the parade 'of Quintidi,
but had
,declined Presentation,' from motives for
Which hislriends will,, he trusts, do him justice.
He mentions this the more pakicularly, as he has
since been' given so understand, that visiting the
.Thuilleriea, indeed Paris, without the ceremonial
of presentation, and humiliatiott before the Consul,
is interpreted. as 14. disrespect, which certainly was
far front being intended. He had a leisure hour,
and. a coritlsity to satisfy himself respeCting their
much spoken of military exhibition, the parade of
Quintidi and he was told that he might innocently
satisfy his curicisicy, by presenting himself as an
Englisli Officer in .his uniform, and retiring when
he wasgratified, which was all that he did. He was,
however, on the morning of the 7th September,
abodt seven o'clock, surprized in his bed at the
Hotel de Rome •
,(Fauxbourg St. Germain), where
he lodged, by a number of ferocious-looking men,
whom, upon explanation, he found ttate'stiites, or
persons of the police, headed by a Commissary and
two exempts; who secabout rifling his room, sedu-
lously collecting every scrap of paper, and prying
into the most private, cornets, rudely summoning
him r to' attend them to the Minister of the Police
(the Ex-Priest Foircita), who desired to see him
immediately, scarcely allowing him to put on his
clothes, or the horses to be pot to the job-car-
riage, he used. Heillowever, hurried himself, and'
after,sending his tervant to announce this unpleasant
event to Mr. MERRY, whose, hotel was within two
doori, •he proceeded, with an exempt of the Police
in the carriage with him, and eight or ten sbireS, or
officers, attending. on foot, with the Commissary
who had made notes of the arrest, and who carried
the
,private papers... Arrived at the .bureau de la
'Police-General, he Was .escorted up to the very
top of the house,, into alert of anti-room, or gar-
'ret, in 'which were five or six employez, or run-
ners,,of the vilest appearance, that kept going in
. and out every moment. About an hour after ,his
fist introduttion to: this place, he was shewn into
an office in another part of the building, where
sat a M. DISMARIITSi. Secretary' to the Minister
Fouctiv,, who' said he was charged by his princi-
pal to ask him a few questions; which ,were an.
swered by asking 'a leading one, us, to what.ill9-
titre might .he ascribed, the violation of the laws
of hospitality he at tbat moment experienced, and
bad suffered, in the hotel where he lodged ? The
Secretary's reply, was, that the Minister had a
prevention-"lprejudice), a great 11. prevention,"
against the. Siibjeet of this Memoir, for his services
during the War- and sought to prevail upon him
io, avow that illr. PITT had determined to wage
a war of extermination in the bosom of. Ftance ;
that Mr. WINDiIAI4I had planned, it and that the
Captain, by the influence of his mime, as' Duke
of BOUILLON, and his connexions in the Western
Provinces, had ditetted 'its execution to the ut.
must of his power, and the great detriment of
the interests, of the Republic. To this he :re-
plied, that lie conceived the Treaty of Amiens
terminated all discussions Of the kind : he had
.no
explanations >to give, of any , part of his conduit
antecedent to that epoch; butdisdained,ta answer
to such unqualified accusations, as were made with'.
the most odious and insulting epithets against M.
M..PITT and Wrivotia,m,twhose confidential agent
they accused him olbeing.• He professed_ his readi.
nest to answer to fads, but declined combating
preventions" (prejudices), which. he could tiut,
think to bit seriously the cause of -the cruel.insult
he experienced. After about, an hour's discussion
with" this M. Di'MAI;EV, he. was reminded to
the same vile place he 'had' quitted, 'still , more
vilely attended than in the morning. He obtained
• leave to address a Letter to Mr. MattßY, stating
his then painful situation, which,. notwithstanding
M. DES'lvlAlliTij promise, he since found was never
'delivered. M. DE,NIAItIiTS informed him he would
.'_be called before the “.MagiStratdu quarrier," to
answer to these " preventions" of M*. Foucnr,
for whom he patiently' waited till two o'clock.
When calla lociorc WA, who was likewi4e an Ix.

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.the name. ,r;; AR tur 1., he .was ushered
through the 'public hall of the building, St,liere two
WhOliad been tender- the Doke's orders in
jersey, .were waiting, to 'see-.and ideutify him, if
necessary, as the person whit had coal:T.1,61(10 the
,Naval Department in that Island during- the Wat,
and had. been the meant of such Mischief, as they
pretended, to', the. Republic... To M,
DEL% questions, whiCh. lie observed. were writ:
tali and of the same atenderiey as thosd of M.:
Dastaaarrs, he :answered }iii 'monosyllables, :con-,
'eefving' it the only way " prejudices". were
to be treated, M. Faatost; kept , hirO near
.an
hotir, but let it escape him, that he- did'not see.
the motive or. " but" 'of the' detention;. and
.the
Captain was cooduded into the midst of the same
vile assemblage he had before been•amungst. Here,,
one a little more decent than the iestagot a 'supe-
rior to come in, a sort of Commiaairy, Who toida
him the Minister FOUCHE was going to Malmairon,
to take the Consul's conimands 'upon his detention
such importance. did they aired to attach to what
the Magistrate appeared not to comprehend, The
tedious long day was drawing to-a close, when Mr.
MERRY sent a message by a servant, deSiring to be
informed where the Prisoner was to be conveyed; if
removed from his theri situation ; a circumstance'
which he had been in the hope he would have been
infoimed of by Mr. R R Y4' ; but seeing, no pros.
pen of immediate release, he obtained, by means of
his servant, :who was albswed• to wair withotit, a
cup olcoTee, the first refreshment he had had that'`
day. M. FUU,CHE was in and out of' the hotel se.
veraliimes in' the comae of die day, .but did not
&iv' to occupy, hims if an instant with the aitua.
tion of the Subject of this Memoir. '
" An English Officer's liberty, enjastly violated!,
was .nut of sufficietit Moment' re command' a mi.
Tarte of the attention of an Ex-monk wallowing
in • luxury .and pride. He did not, as his Com.
missary (who perhaps was employed to deceive)„
had said, go to Malmaison,, but went to dine with
the Consul CAiADAC F RES ; and at ten o'clock, the
same person who had mentioned at first his going .
to the First Consul, came in and' told the Prisoner,
that from C4MBACERES' dinner the !Viols-ter had
gone to the Opera 3, he therefore must quietly go to.
the Temple for the.night. The Captain offered to
pay for a room in the Police till morning, which
was refused him ; and an exempt entered, who,
with two sbires, concluded their Prisoner down •
to the Court-yard, where a .fiacre was wining, into
which they entered, and proceeded to the Temple,
within whose awful and bloOd-stainel gate he was
received. about eleven o'clock, and wliered through
three or four heavily-ironed wicketa, to the Geefe,_
where his appearance was minutely detailed, and
registered ; alter which he was conducted to the
keep, -or tower of the Temple, throtigh as many
more iron doors as he had already passed, to the •
apartments that had been occupied by the late on.
fbrtunate Royal Family, in the anti-rooms:if which,
he was shocked by. the appearance of a rude, fero.
cious half naked figure, partly, rolled in a.blanket,
and laying on a straw bag. 'lt reared itself 'half
up, as if disturbed by the grating of the iron doors
on their hinges, and muttered in a low and hollow
tone of. voices " gnol done une afitre, vic7inis! est
ce que trio err gotta joenait." The hideous as.
pct of this pale and wan figure excited . terror,
and -may partly be conceived by those who have
minutely examined the late Sir jOSHII A RE Y.
NOLDtea famous piaure of Uoot. tar t. The Captain
hastened through this dismal dungeon to an inner
room, to which he was shewn, and which had been
occupied. by the virtuousaand beautiful Pea N.C. ESS
ELIZABETH. He stifled his complaints, which,
perhaps, might have been just,, as he. is persuaded
that all that a prison has of horrors, was found here ;
but the reColledion of what virtue and grandeur mese
melancholy walls had within the few last fleeting years
contained, silegced every selfish refleCtion. Here he
Was deposited by his rough guide, who invited him,
to pay for the candle he left him, and proffered him,
his services. He bribed this garcon to procure. him
some simple refreslunent from withoOt.7 Simple he
requited it to be, for he .had been cautioned, as he
came down the stairs of tho POlice to proceed to the
Temples to beware of whiit he ate and drank in the
abode he was going to : " Le inge: entend a demi
mot"—" On y debut do reisoti Italiems,l! was
added, and it was understood as a friendly hint.
" Tempted by the liberality of his new guest,
the chamberlain, us the turnkey was called, return.
ed with bread and a cold fowl, with an uncorked
bottle of vine from withimt, which refreslownt had
become necessary to nature, now almost exhausted ;
aod'after significantly pointing to
.a straw bag and
'filthy prison' blanket,. added; 1' voila
,ou vans pou-
vez reposer," and was 'retttinga when, upon inquiry
who the wretch apparently -sufferin4 in the anti.
room was, he replied by shruggiug• his shoulders,
and added in a whisper, "cm un'mouton firmer biro
Totre parer,” and left the subjettof this .Memoir to
his attledions. Imagination soon- presented Rini
'with 'the scenes, the melancholy scenes those ailetit
walls had compassed,..lJe w, therefore, 'could be
complain ? He passed the,night leaning obi poele,
or stove, that had been placed in the centre of the
room, musing 'on the extraordinary cruelty of his
situation, patiently and calmly waiting the official
interference.of His Majesty's 'Minister Plenipaten,
tiary, whet, he had •no doubt., would, with the dig.
nity .becoming 'His Majesty's Representative, clattrx
and rescue from the jaws of despotic granny an
English ()nicer, who could riot on any erntMtl bc'
aCCUSCiI'.of crime, unless that of being op En lush.
man was allowed to 7 be one. As he .feud ,not been
orderedent,he
ie w
'' assas
iisiteret," thatis, tinder confine.
m
the morning permitted to take the
air, theaort of court,,.called the Garden,' thit stir_.
rounded the keep. In this vviilk he met it:person
'he had softie knowledge of before,,'M'. F. etc i 4 a, the
cele4rtted boileseller of Neuchatel, who a as con.
fined ft,r having been conneCtod with a Itareuth
—.Correspondence, and who explained Oa hint what
was meant by a tamatiloa," who is a villain this.
goirted, put in the way of those who are detained
upon slight pretexts, w endeavour, by exciting cam-
miserrition for apparent ill.treatment, to betray the
innocent into some strong expressions of indigia.
thin against of 'the cruelty,
tghieveSillitekt: authors
need titt:relly for Intrber pt-osecotton,
universal usage in all the hoases of detention,
• •11,
yv:,. convey t idea of the reitabh prietice of the

Larieuiar GO:we:natant; .; When the aut jed of tni
Memoit eipressed l is indignation to the concierge;
or keeper of the `temple,for 014 cruel
he.ingenuOusiy pie ded the obligations lie is under
by his instrtittions ; and it the intervention of the
cafiaintial Lawyer who had undertaken the care
of the Duke's prig/ate concerns, the " moiaor was
removed 'tai. another part of the keey ; and .liy the
firmneis of the•same ftiend, decent bedding and re.
freshment were all Owed to be brought into' the Fri.
son frorri without. 'He was alSit allowed, on the
third day, to- be attended by his 'servant, upon c.un. •
dititin; liciweveil-Of the latter being Onsidered as "'a
'Prisoner likewise. At the moment, on the morning
of the 9th September, when the wickets were opened'
he hoped for hip release—they were only unbolted
for the' admission of the friend who hdd accompanied
him to Paris; and cameo there as ignorant as
himself, of even thc'prohable cause of the detention
of either of them. 'lt appeared that Mr. Mr!. VS
representation and remonstrance to the Minalster for
Foreign Affiirs, Citizen TAGLEYR:AND, remained
without answer—a disrespect to the Representative
of His Mister, and Country, that the SulijeClof this
Memoir freely confessed, gave hiM More pain than
even his own cruel situation did, as he was eon.
tident that would be of short duration, although he
i!ad not-the satisfaftinri to'obtain intimation of even
the probable cause for his-detention, other than the
idle ptetext suggested in_ M. convert
sation.

" This state'' of uncertainty Continuel until the.
zth, in the morning, when the keeper Of the trip!e
brought the glad tidings of liberation, with
dons to call at the bureitu de 1.4 Police tie next day
at noon, for their papers, This they did, ai pre.
scribed, and had an interview with M. DEsNfoirrs,
who much urged theSubjed of this Memoir' to write
to the Minister,' and state that M. PurT and
H WINDAM 'hacieng-gcd him to employ all tiitjusti.
fiable means of' destruction against the RepUblic—iri
abort, to avow all the infernal ploo their black minds
presented,to, their troubled imaginations. This he
indignantly- spurned at, and absolutely declined
entering into any sort of correspondence 'with M.
FouctiE. The following day they were'called, by
a note from the Prefeet Dosors, to the bureau de la
Prefeaure-Generale dc'la Police, and had each a Pass,
pirt delivered to. them, very equiiocally _worded,
tending to expose them to every sort of embarrass,- • ,
Ment in their progress through the country; which.
they were commanded to depart from, atilt to•letiva
the territory of the Republicin twenty.four
which all who know Paris, the Joads, and •rate of
posting, will readily agree to be a physical impossi.
bility. On the day of their departure, they were
provided with. proper Passports from-Bis•Majtaty'a
Minister Plenipotentiary, that -of lord HAwittia,
}MAY having been taken away, Those of Mr.
RYweie countersigned by the Minister TA,
LEYRAtib., The Subjeet of thii Memoir, with
great satisfaftion, ordered post horses, and left his
interests and fortune to be pntsued by agents, ru
Whom he was obliged to confide them; having thus
unjustifiably, as he haS. stated it for the private
satisfaaion of his rriends,•been expelled like an out,
cast, from a country Which he had respected, as at
peace' with -his oWn, after the publication, of the
Treaty concluded at Amiens, under Which he had
conceived himself. entitled to proteetion, as .tvery
other Englishman. And he perhaps would not have
complained of the insult lie has experienced, if idlh
(urin,ity or pleasure had been the motive of life
excursion."

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