Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-04-01

sent, entertains very little hope of its recovery.
An operation is to take place. in the spring.
ITALY.
Several arrests had taken place in Rome but
they are merely precautionary-to guardagainst
troubles during the Carnival.
SWEDEN.
A Stockholm Journal of the 21st Jan, pro-
claims that capital the most prosperous in Eu-
rope. and congratulates the King of Sweden on
his having relieved the country from the bur-
den of foreign debt.
HOLLAND.
PARIS, Feb. 12.-On the 18th of next month,
Constant Polari alias Carrara, the person &C
cused of having stolen the diamonds OF the
Princess of Orange, will be brought to trial be-
fore the Court of Assizes for South Holland. A
Dutch Journal gives the following curious de
tails relating to this affair:-"A -Frenchman
named Roumage, in 1881, was the person VINO
denounced Carrara as being in possession OF
the diamonds. This denunciation was mace 10
the Ambassador of the Netherlands at New
York. where Polari had recently arrived with
his mistress Susan Blanche. Roumage had pre-
yiouslv informed the custom house oflcers at
New York, that Polari had introduced INTO the
country a quantity of diamonds without paying
the duties, and he was arrested.
Several of the diamonds were found upon
him. Polari, hearing that his mistress had
made a revelation, confessed, after much hesi-
tation, that he knew the diamonds belonged TO
the Princess Of Orange, but affirmed, that he
was not the person who had stolen them. ou-
san Blanche also made known that he had buried
in the %environs of Brussels a pot, containing Sc
veral objects of value, together with all the gold
and silver in which the diamonds had been set.
Roumage, in league with Susan Blanche, al
ter having BETRAYED Polari, thought OF his own
interest. He learnt from this woman, that some
of the DIAMONDS were also buried in a wood,
near New York; he went there TO draw tnenl
from their place of concealment, and embarked
for England, followed by his accomplish, alter
having, at the same time, given over TO the
Plenipotentiary of the Netherlands, a small por-
ton of the articles taken out of the ground,
probably to inspire more confidence, ana TO oD-
tain more easily the reward promised to who
ever might discover the authors OF the robbery.
Some time afterwards, Roumage and Susan
Blanche were arrested at Liverpool, and the ar
ticles seized upon them were given over to the
Dutch Consul in that city, who sent them to the
Hague, where they were recognized to have
formed a part of the diamonds stolen from the
Princess Of Orange. The Dutch Government
also cOntrived to get possession OF the IRON pot
buried near Brussels, in which all the settings OF
the diamonds was found, as well as several ca
meos, and other precious stones. BY means OF
these settings, it was easy to prove to the Go
yernment Of the United States, that the dia-
monds seized by the officers there formed a part
of those stolen from the Palace of the Prince of
Orange, and they were given up Immediately to
the Dutch Agent at New York. Polari had come
to Brussels in 1927, having left Lyons in conse-
quence of bankruptcy.
He pretends that when walking in the woods
in the month of November, 1929, he saw three
persons concealing something in the earth; he
went there at night, and thus became possessor
of what he afterwards discovered to be the dia-
monds of the Princess of Orange. Polari is 90
years, old, and born at Wick, in the Swiss can
ton of Tessin. He was formerly a tanner. His
features are disagreeable and repelling. 1t is
with the utmost repugnance that he speaks OF
the robbery, and particularly of the treachery of
Susan Rlanche."