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LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1828.

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ficulty, as I was almost benumbed. with cold, and
my strength.nearly exhausta 'Once beyond the
City, I took to land, and ran across the fields as
quickly as my clothes, heavy with water, would
let the. .About four o'clect. in .the morning I
reached the villan of Blangy, where, at a baker's
I dried my clothes, and took some • refreshment.
I then resumed my flight, and did not stop till I
arrived at Duisons, where the artillery uniform
was tol.ie left for me at the house of the widow
of one of my friends. Having got it, I repaired
to Hersin, where one of my cousins lived. In
his house I remained concealed some days, till,
learning that the gendarnies were in the neigh-
bourhood, and in pursuit of mr, I resolved to
decanip, and.makethe best of my way to Paris,
the only safe place• of refuge. To, do this with
••
stdety, it was necessary to avoid the high roads;
SO my cousin, to whOM every hy;path in the
country was known, took me in his,osier cart.—
' With.his local knowledge, ;.and my military uni-
form, I felt pretty confident, so that it was not
With. any great alarm. that I saw, on reaching
.Pont du Gy; eight horses, belonging to.gen-
,darmes at the door of ,an ,auberge.
.1 willingly
confess that ,I should kave preferred not encoun-
tethig these gentlemen, but, as it was prudent
not to. show any wish to avoid them, we drove
up to the auberge.; My cousin got out of the
cart, entered the -house, and asked for some re-
freAment. He had sooner enteredthan one
of the gendarmes said to him, Is it your cousin
Vidocq that you have got in the cart ?' Pro
hably,' replied he ; laughing; you had better
go and see.' One of. the gendarmes did, in
fact, approach the cart, but, on perceiving
my uniform, he touched his" hat and retired, say-
ing; I salute yon, Captain.' As the gendarmes,
were riding off, my-cousin said to them, Good
journey to you ; if you catch him you will write
me word.' We knoW,'• replied the serjeaut
where the hare lies'; by this hour to-morrow
he will be in the strong-box.' We continued
our route without, any ;further interruption till
we reacheki. Beaumont, when we were obliged to
make a halt to give the horse some rest,' after
having travelled-85 leagues in a day and a half.
In the auberge where we stopped, I was not
little alarmed at seeing a Quarter-master of
Gendarme's go 'tip' to a Captain of Dragoons
who happened to be there, and ask him to show
his papers. Fearing lest .he might make the
same demand of me, I went up to him, and
asked why he had 'acted thus towardS an officer.
I asked to see his furlough,' said he, because
every unwounded and healthy officer should now
be with the army.' (We were then at war with
PrOssia.) -You are right, my -.friend,' I ob-
served, France is not. the • place for an officer
who is able to serve his country,' at the same
time glancing at my own arm, which I wore in a
sling. But fearing that he might still take it into
his heed to see also was en regle, I invited
him to dine with me. Wring the repast I got
-so :much into hig confidence, that he made me
promise to interest myself, when I reached Paris,
in procuring him a change of quarters. I, .of
course, assured him than all my influence Should
be made use of,to fuither his wishes. In the
joy of thus so opportunely finding a patron, he
began to utter these phrases without be-
ginning, middle, dr end, which are the int-
mediate precursors of drnnkenness. At
this• monient'a gendarme entered and hand-
ed hini a despatch; which, after vainly en-
deavouring to decipher, he put into my haiids,
'requesting that I would read it for him. On
opening it, the first words•that presented them-,
selves were Brigade dArras. After which fol-
lowed an account of My flight, with a description
of my person, disguise,-&c. This description:l
of course took care completely to change, in the
reading, and was•off at five the next morning.
long before the fumes of the night's debauch had
.quitted the Quartermaster's head, and left him
sufficient clear-sightedness to , discover the !pis-
fake."—Vidocq gets safe
.to
.Paris, where he
makes the acquaintance of Madame de B—,
who, to make use of his '66 expression,' has
held, ever since, thefirst rank in the affections of
his 'life. With this woman, and Under the name
of Jaquelin, he frequents the Airs at a short
distance from Paris, as a travelling mercer, and
is,' according to his own account, in a way of
doing well, Ands in an honest way, when the po-
lice are again upon his track, and he. is obliged
to take refuge in the capital. After some time
we find him established as a merchant-tailor, in
:the 'Cour St.*Martin, where, for eight months,
his; mother, and Annette (Madame
'enjoy- undistnrbed. • tranquillity. His business
was prospering, and he was in the high road to
fortune,: when his tribulation again commenced.
"One morning a porter came intomyshop,arid
told me that a person wished to see me on par-,
titular business at a public-house. in the Rue
.Aumaire. I went thither, and was conducted
into a private room, where I found two escaped
convicts. .One of them, named Blondy, said
to me—' We have, been here for the last
ten days, and are now
withotit a sous,—
We ycsterday saw you in a shop which, we
learned, belonged to you. We have now nothing
to fear, as we know you to be a man who
would not see your comrades in distress.'" Be-
sides'being obliged to .supply these two villains
with various sums of 'money,- from time to tune,
he is 'also (being so much in their power) forced
to beceine the receiver and 'vender of the pro-
duce of their fobberiev. To acid to his embar-
rassment, his wife, from whom he had been di-
vorced, and who had married another man, ar-
rives in Paris, with her uncle and various nephews
and nieces, all of whom he it obliged to support
upon pain of being denounced by them. Of his
situation at this period he-,gives a frightful dc..
scription Behold me now a receiver ofstOlen
.goods. I was criminal against my will ; but still
was criminal, having lent myself to the criine.
It would he difficult to imagine a hell more
dreadful than that in which I lived. Incessantly
agitated by remorse and fear, at every moment
"
of' the day and night I was upon the qzti alive.l
could neither sleep nor cat, nor attend to :my
affairs— y ever tl •
„. was odious to me. After
remaining in.this state of torment for some time,
he resolves to put an end to it by offering to dis-
cover to 'the police the retreats of several escaped
convicts, on condition of his being allowed to
lire umnolested in Paris. This proposition is
not accepted by M. Henry, one of the chief of
the police.; who, however, 'permits Vidoeq to
quit his presence' without asking his name. Pe-
'nOtinettli some time After, by me of his ex-wife's