The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-26 00:00:00

MATTBRRUIL.

The Biography of Living Persons contains the following
particulars relative to the individual who made so violent
an attack on Prince Talleyrami at St. Denis.
Marie Arnaud Guerry de Maubreuil was bora in Brit-
tany, about „the year 1780. After making many campaigns
in the French armies, he went into the service of Jerome
Buonaparte, then King of Westphalia.
He was in Paris at the period when the Allies entered
it in 1814. He traversed the Boulevards, declaiming with
extreme violence against the usurper ; some days after-
wards, he said he was charged with a mission to get back
the diamonds of the Crown, which had been carried off
by the Buonaparte family. On the route to Fountainbleau
he met the Princess of Wurtemburg, the wife of Jerome.
He detained her carriages, and seized a number of chests,
containing articles of value. The Royal Government or-
dered them to be restored to this Princess, but a box of
great value was not to found.
M. de Maubreuil was immediately arrested, and brought
before the tribunal of the Seine, which declared itself to be
incompetent to take cognizance of the charge.
He was set at liberty, but again arrested during the hun-
dred days, when he published a libellous memoir against
the Royal Government. Suddenly the doors of his pri-
son were thrown open, and he hastened to Brussels, under
a false name, but was recognized and arrested as a person
suspected of intending to attempt the life of Louis XVIII.
He was conducted to Ghent, where he attempted suicide
in prison, but was prevented from carrying his design into
effect, and carried to Aix-la-Chapelle, to be given up to the
Prussians. He escaped on the road, and arrived in Paris
at the moment of the second restoration.

In June, 1816, he was arrested once more, being accused
of having plotted to carry off the Princes in the environs
of St. Cloud. In August, 1817, he was brought before
the Correctional Police for the seizure of the diamonds of
the Princess of Wurtemberg. That tribunal declared
itself incompetent. M. de Maubreuil was then sent back
to the Royal Court. He pleaded there his own cause, but
like a man of unsound mind; and, at the same time, he
addressed a note to all the Ambassadors, insulting their
respective sovereigns.
The Court of Cassation sent him back to the Royal
Court at Rouen, and afterwards before that of Douay.
At the moment when the sentence was to be pronounced,
he escaped-from prison for the fourth time. He went to
Belgium, and thence to England. The Court of Douay
condemned him for contumacy, to five years' imprison-
ment, and a fine of 500 francs.

Prince Talleyrand is nearly recovered. He has been
thrice bled, but has not been confined to his bed a single
hour longer than the ordinary habits of his life rendered
necessary. More than a hundred carriages have appeared
at his door in the course of the morning.
It would appear, that Maubreuil printed a memorial
shout six weeks ago, respecting his transactions with the
Provisional Government in 1814, and the persecutions to
which he says he has been subjected in consequence of
undertaking their guilty commission. This memorial was
suppressed, but not prosecuted, the police wishing rather
to avoid the publication of the scandal than to punish the
calumnies of the libellist. He was, however, told that he
must leave Paris as a condition of his impunity, and he
received his passports for any other part of France. His
appearance at St. Denis on Saturday was therefore a sur-
prise to those who knew his late history, and has, it is said,
compromised a little the vigilance or honesty of the Director
of Police.