Star.
London, England, 1803-06-09 00:00:00

7NE DUKE OF BOUILLON.

As the cafe of this Oleer has been mom than once referred to in
the murk of the dirmiloss in Partimsant refpodling theleollshe
of France towards this country. mad the many &mg cadet
which that has fur:diked for the penicat war, we think it comet
but prove itre.ciling to the public to have laid before them the
very extraordinary prors which took place at Part is
September lak towardls this perfemage, a BMA' fublca, and a
Captain is the Revd Navy. The following particulars are
Saes front a hicsasiadcawn out by the Duke Isindelf. fee the
informatics of bie Majcity's Misifters, and the fatiafaellon of
his perfanal Mends. It has been embed for fawn months to
a very few bands ; but as the treatment which he received Is a
National Concern, there keens us rearm sow to 'sift why the
curious cite-magma which Wed the Doke, knee the tyranny
and infolense of the Coutulas Gommarnass„ flionld not be made
public.

4, After the Definitive Treaty of Amiens was ra-
tified, he (the Duke de Bouillon) foliciteJ, and ob-
tained ,permiffinn to go to Paris, to coolish proper
perfons refpeCting the profecutiou of his claims to the
immenfe elates of the Hoare of Bouillon, and endea-
vour to recover tome of that property, the inheri-
tance of which had been folemnly entailed upon him.
He accordingly provided himfelf with the ufual
ports from the Secretary of State for the Foreign De-
partment, which he got, as a further precaution,
counterfigned by M. Otto, the Charged' Affaires of
the Republic, here. Thus provided, with the addi-
tion of a letter of introdultion to Mr. Merry, from
Lind Hawkelbury's Office, he landed in Normandy,
accompanied by a friend and his two fervent% and
proceeded directly to Paris; ;Laing with that cit.-
eumfpation (and having recommended the fame to
thole with him) which prudence feemed more parti.
cularly to prefcribe to an officer, whole fervices
might perhaps not have efcaped the notice of a Go-
vernment from whom he was about to claim jullice,
with refpett to his rights. He reached Paris on the
38th Auguft loft, and immediately occupied him-
felf in putting his claims in a train to be fubmit ed
to the decifion of she French Government. His lei-
fare hours were employed in viewing the Louvre,
and the rich colleßions it had lately received. He
had vifited the Tbuilleries, to view the parade of
Qiiintidi. but had declined prefentation, from mo-
tives for which his friends, will, he wills, do him
j ill ce. He mentions this the more particularly. as
he has fince been given to underffand. that vifiting
the Thuilleries, indeed Paris, without the ceremont.
al of prefentation. and humiliation before the Con.
fel, is iaterpnted as a diked-peek which cataialy

was far from being intended. He had a leifure
hour, and a curiofity to fatisfy himfelf refpeaing
their muchfpoken of milifary.exhibition, the parade of
ttintidi : and he was told that he might innocently
fansfy his curiofity, by piefenting himfelf as an
Englift Officer in his uniform, and retiring when he
was gratified, which was all that he did. He was,
however, on the morning of/ht./7th September, about
feven o'clock, furprized in .his bed at the Hotel de
Rome (Fauxbourg St. Germain). where he lodged,
by a number or ferocious-looking men,
,whom upon
explanation he found to befiiret, or peifons of the
Police, headed by a Commiffary, and two exempts,
who let about rifling his room, feduloufly colleting
every (crap of paper, and prying into the molt pn-
vate corners, rudely fummoning him to attend them
to the Minifter of the Police (the Ex-Prieft Fouche)
who defined to fee hint 'immediately, fcarcely allow-
ing him to put on his clothes, or the horfes to be put
to the job•carriage he ufed. He, however, hurried
himfelf, and after fending his fervant to announce
this unpleafant event t. Mr. Merry, whole hotel
was within two doors, he proceeded with an exempt
of the Police in the carriage with him, andi eight or
ten Aires, or officers, attending on foot, with the
Commilfary who had made notes of the melt, and
who carried the private papers. Arrived at the
bureau de la Police-General, he was escorted up to
the very top of the bottle, into a fort of anti-room or
garret, in which were five or fix employe:, or run-
ners of the vileft appearance, that 'kept going in and
oat every moment. About an hour after his fiat in-
troduCtion to this place, he was (hewn Into an office
in another part of thehullding, where fat a M. Def-
marets, Secretary to' he Minifter Pouche,-whis hid
he•was Charged by his principal to a& him a few
queflions ; which were anfwered by afking a leading
one, as to what motive might be afcribed the viola-
tion of the laws' of hofpitality, he at that moment
experienced, and had Coffered in the hotel where he
lodged ? The Secretary's reply was, that the Mini-
Ber had a 44, prevention, (prejudice), a great 44 pre-
vention," againft the fubjeft of this Memoir, for his
Cervices during the war • and fought to prevail upon
Marto avow that Mr. Pitt had determined to wage a
'war of extermination in the bofom of France ; that
Mr. Windham had planned it; and that the Cap.
tain, by the influence of his name, as Duke of Bouil-
lon, and his connexions in the weftern provinces,
had direaed its execution to the utraoft of his power,
and the great detriment of the interefts of the Re-
public. To this he replied, that he conceived the
Treaty of Amiens terminated all difcuffions of the
kind : be had no explanations to give, of any part
of his condo& antecedent to that epoch ; but dif-
dallied to anfwer to fuch unqualified accufations as
*nit made with the molt odious and intuiting epithets
ugainft Mars. Pitt and Windham, whofe confidential
agent they at:cured him of being. He profeffed his
readinefs to anfwer to fats, but declined combating
preventions" (prejudices), which he could not
think to be ferioufly the cattle of the cruel insult he
experienced. After about an hour's difcuffion with
this M. Deviants, he was remanded to the fame
vile place he had quitted; fill more vilely attended
titan in the morning. He obtained leave to addrefs
a letter to Mr. Merry, Rating his then painful fitua-
don, which, notwithftanding M. Defmaret's pro-
mite, he fine found was never delivered. M. Def-
marets informed him, he would be called before the
" Meerut 4 qualm" to anfwer to there ss Fenn
tions' of M..Fouelte, for whom he patiently waited
till two o'clock, When called before him, who was
likewife an ex-prieft, of the name of Faridel, he was
, uttered through the public hall of the building,where
two Emigres, who had been under the Duke's orders
in Jersey, were waiting to fee and identify him, if
necessary, as the perfon who had commanded the na-
val department in that ifland during the war, and
had been the means of fuch rinifchief, as they pre-
tended, to the Republic. To M. Faridersqueftions,
which he obferved were written, and of the fame
tendency as thofe of M. Dcfmarets, he anfwered
in monofyllables, conceiving it the only way preju-
dices" were to be treated. 11.-Faridel kept him near
an hour, but let it efcape him, that he did not fee the
motive, or 4, butt" of the detention ; and the Cap-
tain was condu&ed into the midft of the fame vile
affemblage he had before been amonpf. Here, one
a little more decent than the rest, got a fuperior to
come in, a fort of commissary, who told him the Mi-
;sifter Fouche was going to Mali tatioa. to take the
Conful's commands upon his detention; fuch im-
portance did they affea to attach to what the Magi-
Itrate appeared not to comprehend. The tedious long
day was drawing to a dee, when Mr. Merry fent a
Melfage by a fervant, defiring to be informed where
the prifoner was to be conveyed, if removed from his
then &natio°, a circumaance which be ha I been in
the hope he would have been informed of by Mr.
Merry ; but feeing no profpelt of immediate releafe,
he obtained, by means of his fervant, who was al-
lowed to wait without, a cap of coffee, the firft re-
frefhment he had had that day. M. Fouche was in
and out of the hotel several times in the course of
the day, but did not deign to occupy himfelf ;n in-
Rant with the situation of the fubjea of this Memoir.
" An Englith Officer's liberty, unjuftly violated,
was not of sufficient moment to command a minute
of the attention of an ex-monk, wallowing in luxury
and pride. He did not, as his Commiffw•y (who,
perhaps, was employed to deceive) had Paid, go to
Malmaifoo, but went to dine with the Conful Calg•
SACIRIS ; and at ten o'clock, the fame perfon, who
had mentioned at firft his going to the Four
Cosset, came in and told the profaner, that from
CANIACPRIII. dinner the Minifter had gone to the
Opera; he therefore mull quietly go to the Temple
foi the night. The Captain offered to pay for a
room in the Police till morning, which was refuted
him ; and an exempt entered, who, with two (hires,
conduced their prifoner down to the court-yard,
where a fiaere was waiting, into which they entered,
and proceeded to the Temple, within whole awful
and blooddiained gate he was received about eleven
o'clock, and allured thrtsui three or four heavily-
ironed wickets, to the G , where his appearance
was minutely detailed an regifterted; after which he
was conduaed to the keep, or tower of the Temple,
through as many more iron, doors as he had already
I paid; to the apartments that Lad been occupied by
the late Unfortunate Royal Family, in the anti-room
of which he was flocked by the appearance of a rude,
ferocious, half-naked partly rolled io a blanket,
. and laying oa a Irwin. It reared itfelf half up,
as if &Ruched by the ratios ,thr Ina doors on

their hinges, and muttered in a low and hollow tone
of voice, .. quoi done wne mitre viaime ! rfi ce gee alw we
fnira jamais." The hideous afpea of this pale at d
wan figure excited terror, and may partly be con-
ceived by thole who have minutely examined the late
Sir Jofhua Reynolds's famous picture of Ugolini.—
The Captain lidiened through this difmal dungeon
to an inner room, to which he was (hewn, and which
had been occupied by the virtuous and beautiful
Princefs Elizabeth. He Rifled his complaints, which,
perhaps, might have been jolt, as he is perfuaded
that all that a prifon has of horrors, was found her. ;
but the recolleCtion of what virtue and grandeur their
melancholy walls had within the few left fleeting
years contained, filenced every felfifh refiedion.—
Here he was depofited by his rough guide, who in-
vited him to pay for the candle he left him, and prof-
fered him his ferried. He bribed this eras to pro-
cure him Tome Pimple refreflattent from without...
Simple he required it to be, foi he had been cautioned,
as he came down the flairs of the Police to proceed
to the Temple, to beware of what he ate and drank
in the abode he was going to—" Le fags tames; Idi skew
mot"—" On, &UP Jet ragouts Italiesu,' was added, and
it was underftood as a friendly hint.
" Tempered by the liberality of Isis new guell, the
chamberlain, as the turnkey was called, returned
with bread and a cold fowl, with an uncorked bottle
of wine from without, which refrethment had become
necelfary to nature, now almott exhaufted ; and after
tignificantly pointing to a straw bag and filthy prifon
blanket, added, "vs/kr ou vourplueez etpclir, and was
retiring, when, upon inquiry who the wretch 'ap-
parently Coffering in the anti-room was, he replied
by Ihrugging his thoulders, and added in a whifper,
sl,effl on moutow,f ;.mer lint votre porte," and left the tub.
jet of this Memoir to his reileitions. Imagination
Loon prefented him with the fcenes, the melancholy
fcenes, thofe tilent walls had com palf,d. How, there.
fore, could he complain ? He paired the night leaning
on a poele, or Rove, that had been placed * the
centre of the room, muffing on the extraordinary
cruelty of his fituation, patiently and calmly waitjug
the official interference of his Majefty's Minifter Ple-
nipotentiary, who, he had no doubt, would, with the
dignity becoming his Majefty's Reprekntative, claim
and refcue from the jaws of defpotic tyranny an Eng.
In Officer, who could not on any ground benceited
of a crime, unlefs that of being an Eagliflunimmvaa
allowed to be one. Ache had not been ordered 16. co
ferret," that is under clofe confinement, he oasis the
morning permitted to take the air, in the for oEcourt,
called the Garden, that furrounded the keep. In, this
walk he met a perfon he had fome knowledge of be-.
fore, M. Fouche, the celebrated bookfeller of Neuf-.
chatel, who was confined for having been conneeted
with a Bareuth Correfpondence, and who explained
to him what was meant by a “ westion," who is a
villain difguifed, put in the way of theffe who ate
detained' upon flight pretexts, to endeedmr, by ex-
citing commiferation for apparent ill-treateient, to,
betray the innocent into Come *mug exprefaas 4
indignation againft the fuppofed authors of theentel.
ty, and thereby give a hold for further profecutios.
This univerfal utage in all the hotifes of detentim, will
convey an idea of the equitable prattice of the Con-
futer Government. When the fubjeff of this Memoir
espreired his indignation to the concierges or keeper ,
.of the Temple. for this cruel illiberality, he harm..
oufly pleaded the obligations he war under by his in.
ftruffions • and at the intervention of the colifidettisi
lawyer wins had undertalea the tare of the Duets at
vale concern, did" mortal" was removed to another
part of the keep; and by the firmnefs of the fain
friend. decent bedding and reibefisinent were alkowe4
to be brought into the" prifon from Milian. He was
alto allowed, on the third day, to be sanded by hie
(errant, upon condition, however, of the latter being
confidered as a prifoner likewife, At the laciabiat.
on the morning of the 9th Septeseber, when the i
wickets were opened, he hoped for hi tolidot they, I
were only unbolted for the Waifs= of the friend
who had accompanied him to Paris, and edM came
there as ignorant as himfelf, of even the probable
mute of the detention of either oldies, It appeared
that gr. Merry's reprefentatio* mid reminfininee to
the Minifter for Foreign Alin, Cies WI Talleyrin4t
remained without aorwert—a difiefpal to the Repra.
tentative of his Mailer, and country, that the 100*
of this Memoir freely confeffed, gave him mom pain
than even his own cruel fituation did, as he was each
fident that would be pf (hod duration, althoogls ha I
had not the fatisfaition to obtain intimation of even
the probable caufe for his detention, other than the
idle pretext fuggelled in M. Definarete ccutverfation, •
" This Rate of uncertainty continued until the
: 2th, in the morning, when the keeper of the Temple
brought the glad tidings of liberation, with diredione
to call at the boreal; de la Police the neat day at!
noon, for their papers. This they did, as prefetibede
and had in interview with M. Define:is, lilal
much urged the fubjeCt of this Memoir to writs til
the Miniller, and Rate that Meilis. Pitt and Wind.;
ham bad engaged him to employ ell unjtiffifiable!
' means of deft:alien againft the Republic—in (bort,'
to avow all the infernal plots their black mints prp.
fenced to their troubled imaginations. This he ilw
dignantly fporneit at, and abfolutely declined enter,l
in into
wareinto any fart of comifpopdence with M. Fouchr.l.l
The following day they called, by a note from'
the Prefer Dubois, to the bursas de la Profeatirai
Generale de la Police, aqd bad each
zi a fport deli-
vered
woa
to them, very equivocally . tending to
eapofe them to every fort of stall eta in their
progrefs through the country, which they were com-
manded to depart from. and to leave the territory of
the Republic in 24 hours, which all who know Paris,
the roads, and rate of ?offing, will reedlly agree to
be a phyfical impoffibility. On the day of their de-
parture, they were provided with paler paffports
from his Majeßy's Miniller Plenipotentiary. that of
Lord Hawketbury having been taken away. TINA
, of Mr. Merry well coanterfigned by. the Mailer
Talleyrand. The fobjea of this Memoir. with great
, &Lida:lion, ordered polt-borfes. fad Isft his inters&
and fortune to be purfued by spots to ethos heats
obliged to confide them ; having doss nolgtifsablyp
as he has fisted it for the private fatisfadson of his
friends, beet) expelled like au outcaft, from a mitatry
which he had refpoffed, as at peace with his own,
after the publication of the Treat concluded at
1 Antiens,undee which he had conceived hindelf entitled
, to protation as every other Rogliiiinan. And Fe,
perhaps wooid not have complained 6f the lark he
has experienced. if idle estriofity or plosion 44 b*
1 the motive of his excariato!

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH. JUNE 4.
PTZVS ANDOTHWILS DUNIL.
Mr. Gases Rated that this adlion was brought by
the plain: ills, who are Bankers in London, against the
dcferiata, ',Noires fumy for Mr. Ironton, who was
Banker at Pontefraa, to recover the amount of a
hind for tool. which was given fo long ago as the
y.:ar t7tty. The defendant bad pleaded this bond
was not his deed, although in his antWer in Chancery
(tot this bufinefs was in that Court) he had fully ad
mined it. There were two fubleribing witneffea to
this bond, but they could not be found, and there-
fore Ms. Gibbs propofed to read the defendant's an-
fwer in Chancery, in order to prove that the bond
wise executed by him ie laid every (catch had been
made after the thbferibing wituelfes, and they had
nut hewn able to find them.
After fornindutillance hadbeen produced, it appear-
e 1 that due diligioce had not been Med to find out
theft witnejes, and Lord Ectimatutoucia obferv.
cd, that unlefs they wik dead, or refiding in Come
foreign country, he could not difpenfe with their lib-
fence. A fubfcribing witnefs might prove fifty things;
he might prove that the defendant was drunk when
be executed the bond. which would be an aufwer to
the 'taloa on a plea of nos ;ft radium.
Plaintiff nonfuited.
roars' v. ASTLIT.
Mr. Gaaaow /Fated, that the plaintiff is a liable-
keeper at Oxford, and the defendant a Gentleman of
large fortune, who was a member of that Univerfity.
This stilton was brought for the hire of a curricle and
boric: during a long vacation. The contrail was for
four months ; but the horfes and curricle were fent
back about a month before the time expired, and
therefore the demand was only for three months, at
three guineas a week. There was likewife the ex-
pence of converting a phaeton into a curricle, to fuit
the title of this Gentleman, and for which he pro-
sailed to pay. The Learned Counfel laid. he was
oae of the hall men in the world, and the leaß inte.
retied to encourage the extravagance of young men
at Oxford. But the defendant Chewed the plain-
tiff a letter, purporting to come from his mother, de-
filing that he might hire fuck a curl isle ; and he would
not fuppore that the defendant, or any other Gentle-
man, would have reprefented that filth a letter had
come from her, if it had not. She is a Lady of large
tornine,.living at Dunkenfield Lodge, in the neigh-
bourhnod of Mancheßer. It was to be prefurned
there horfes were tolerably well exercifed during the
time this Gentleman had them. The defendant was
an infant at the time of this biting ; and, its order to
maintain this ablion, he mull rove the defendant
made a prontife to pay fubfequtnt to his attaining the
age of twenty-one ; for be was afraid his Lordfhip
would hold this was nut a necelfary. He fhould call
a . young Gentleman, Mr. Horn(by, the fon of the
Profane of) Atironotny, who was a friend of the
defendant, and who accompanied him in this curricle.
Mr. 1-lornflay was called ; fait!, he did not know
that Mr. Afkley intimated to Mr. Fotler that it was
with his mother's approbation he was is take down a
curricle to Dunkenfield Lodge during the long Va-
cation in 113 co. lie did not know what he. the de-
fendant. was to pay for it ; but did not think three
guineas a week would be unreafonable. He remem.
bend Mr. Miley coming to the Star at Oxford in
left July. It was about the ad of July when he pro-
maid to pay Mr. Fofter at Chrißmas next. He was
sot Oen of age. Mr. Foßer ailed him for sot.
It was proved by another witnefs, that the defen-
dant was born in July 17, 1781 and confequently
was not of age on the ad of July, i Soz, when he
made that proonfe.
Mr. °ARROW laid, that although this curricle could
not be coolideted as a necelfary. if this Gentleman
and his friend bad been going to take a fhort trip
from Oxford, and immediately to return again ; but
he fubmitted it made a difference when he was leav-
ing College, aitstasing home to (peed the long va,ca-•
lion with his r.
Lord ELLIZIIOROVON.—" I fhould bold if one
Gentleman even in his condition were to hire a poll-
elude to go home from the Univerfity, I fbould bold
that was not a neceffery ; there is abundance of good',
Rage coaches coming and going through all parts of
England. Ido not know that I fhould go fo far as
a very learned Judge, who held that wise was not a
neceffary : one dozen a quarter, or every half year.
perhaps might be permitted. I might draw the
line in that way; but the Univerfity is a place of
edticat ion. and ought not to be made a fceue of re-
velry."
Mr. Easels*, leading Counfel for,the Defendant,
oblerved. that his client was a gentleman of very
confiderable fortune, and a man of a very honourable
mind. and certainly never would have defended that
mains', hut for the manner in which he was treated
by the Plaintiff. He hired this curricle at a time
when he could not enter into a contrail except for
necelfaries, and the law enabled him to refill the per-
tOrmance of it. Tittle harks were worth about al.
se piece. and fur the ufe of them for three months this
stable-keeper had the modetty to of r 371. His client'
carried with him the Con of the Proteffor of Miro
massy, and if he had carried his father he never could
have had a finer opportunity of making celellial oh-
[creations on the road, for theft horfes very often
deadlier& and In one pothible CAe perhaps this
cornett with dale !wefts might have been sonfidered
sts a necelfary ; as few indance, if the Defendant had ,
been in a had Rate of health. and his phytician had
l
3:commended exercife to him. to place him in this
cookie would have been the very thing, as theft
liorles required Co much flogging to get diem 011.-.-
1111.11 Gentleman had bees imputed upon. but of his
own accord he had no doubt would pay the
Rable-
keeper what was resfonable.
Lord ELLIPIIIMIQVGH.44 The law affords a
Iliad to young men, to protea them againit the ef-
sorts of their own imprudence; and the law has (aid,
that nn iatant Mall be answerable except for neceffe-
Tics ; but if after a man attains the age of a at, he
makes a deliberate promife that he will pay the debt,
he t tins then capable of eitercifing a diferetion, &Al
be bound by that promife. The giving buries and
Carriages, and filch things as thefe. to young men, on
credit, is aseA ntikbievoust it is enough to let them
have them fur ready money; it them to all
places of plraftwe. to races, and other fcenes of diffi-
• nines in the oeighlsos'' d, and it the ruin 01. place.
I if toatuaid.

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31.1141 8.-...SWSH v. WARD.
This was an aElion of trefpafs and falfe insprifon-
rent. The Plaintiff is an attorney's clerk, and the
Defendant the keeper of the Cuck Tavern near Tem.
plc-Bar. It appeared in evideace that on the night
of Saturday the 3d of July tall, the Plaintiff and a
number of other young men were in the Defendant's
houfe drinking together. Between twelve and one
there was a good deal of tinging, but. to this no'ob-
jeltion was *ade. About two the company.hreke
up, and the Plintiff got into a difpute with the win .
tcr about the amount of his reckoning. After a good
deal of altercation between them, they appealed to
the Defendant, who Paid, !I.lt is a matter of no bast
portance to me, the waiter is refponlible for the li-
quor ferved out to him ; hut. I will tell you, Mr:
Ewen, that I would take the waiter's word as Coon
as your's; and I moreover tal you, that I think you
a very troublefome idiom, and that I have no &fire
to have any more of your company here." The
Plaintiff replied-4, You have not the manners of a
hil, Sir—your bar proteas you : bit come out and
I will teach you how to behave to your cultorners."
A great deal of bad language having paned between
them, Mr. Ward went out fora. watchman, with
whom be gave Mr. Ewen in charge. He laid, that
if Mr. Eisen would make an apology, he might go
about his Winds. Mr. E. denied that he had dons
any thing amifs, and refuted to make any conceffion.
He was accordingly taken to the watch-houfe, and
afterwards font by the conflable of the night to dip
Giltfpur-greet Compeer. There be remained till
Sunday at noon, when he was admitted to bail. On
b:ing taken to Guildhall on Monday, the Sitting Al-
el.trinan Paid, that there appeared nothing againahjm
. n 1 diftniffed the complaint.
After the fecond witnefs had been examined, Lord'
ELLANDOIROUGH recommended that the Jury fhotild
be withdrawn. The plea of riotous be avour was
made out, and the requeff, that the Defendant would
leave the bar, was evidently a challenge and breach.
of the peace.
The Conde' for the Plaintiff, after a good deal d
hefitation, at length contented. Thus no verdia was,
given, and each party will pay his own expenses. „,
The number of caufes in the paper is very great s•
hut fo anxious is Lord Ext. Eatiattouon to gat through,
with them, that after fitting from nine in the morn-
ing till forty minutes pall four in the afternoon, hi
was with difficulty diffuaded by the Counfel from
going on to another trial.