Delaware State journal, advertiser and star. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1832-1833, 1833-07-16
of MY. Courier q knqulrer.
The HAGUE, 18th May.

To the Editor.-The choice of husband
by the Duchess de Berri, has excited as you.
will readily believe more lively sensation
in this our village capital, than perhaps in
any other part Of the world. 1t was in the
month of january 1882, that the putative Ia
ther OF this last born scion Of legitimacy; ar
rived at the Hague as the diplomatic repre-
sentative of the court Of the Two Sicilies, and
here he remained without a days intermis-
sion until the beginning of the present month,
when he left us with all his blushing honors
thick upon him to assume the tardy possess
sion Of his martial rights and claim the pri-
vileges of his pseudo paternity.
Lest there should be any question about the
completeness of the alibi, it may be as well
to be little more circumstantial as to his
Excellency's "wherabout" It was then in
Achter de Stall STRAIT at the house of Myn-
heer Wouters, we'll known lodging house
keeper at the Hague, that the gallant count
took up his residence towards the beginning
of February, in the year eighteen hundred
and thirty-Two. In these lodgings he re-
manned until the beginning of November last,
without having ever been known to be absent
for single night.
During the nine months in question the
house of Mynheer Wouters was also occupied
|by a lady distinguished in the annals OF gale
lty as having inspired more than one indivi-
dual of note with sentlments of the tenderest
description, beginning with Savary Duke of
Rovgo, then Minister of Police under Napo-
leon, and the Emperor's Aid.de-camp, and
ending-no not ending. with his most Chris
tian Majesty King Louis lie Desire, who con-
ferred on her the title of his Tabatiere.
J The Neapolitan legation was moved in the
month November last, from Achter de Stall
STRAIT to the place or square called thepiien
where the Count Immediately took up his re-
! sidence, and it was remarked that on the
same day the Countess du Cayla took also hei
leave of Mynheer Wouter's although severa
months of her term were still to run, and in
stalled herself very quietly at the house
!, the Apothecary, next door the Sicilian LIE
cation, where she also remained until tn
beginning of the present month, when tn
4 good people of The Hague had to console
themselves as they best could for the loss O
two such important personages. by thou
:, sand conjectures on the cause OF their disap
pearance, and now or then charitable re
mark on the circumstance of their having sc
!. out together in the same post chaise. 1t h
:. had not in case of need documentary evidenc
!, in his hortefeuiHe or willing witness in tn
J person of his comhagnon du voyage to prov
: beyond all question that he could not posslbl
;. have participated in the political offences IL
! for which the Duches de Berri is now pr
~ Isoner at Blaye, there would have been some
=. thing like knight errantry in his ventura
- within the grasp OF the French Attorney u
- neral. His alibi however is perfect, and
y need were the whole population of the II igu
~ from the Majesty of Holland to the kitch
maid of Mynheer Wouter, may be cited
establish it.