New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-12-30

Provence, nterWard LOUIS lfhN AMI tAhng hih as
represented by Mr. Hanson,-s man who would not
reco from any crime to secure lie objects-we are at
loss to understand why the Sa1t ser having in his
hands all the threads of consp sey Involving and con-
Trolling the fate Of the Dauphin, and after having
ordered the poisoning OF Dessau should not have gone
step further and destroyed the chill The deed
might easily have been imputed to the rulers of that
epoch while the boys transportation to America, how
ever secretly might be carried out could never offer
the same security Certainly man, who had deter
mined to destroy his kinsman morally would have bad
no scruples agsins. doing it de faefo. The Coun;
must have had fresh in memory the terrible phrase
with which one of the Judges Of Louis XVI backed
his decisive vote " Death, Is tie dead DO not
I. r,tKrnr Thus bis rights 10 the crown would have
been incontestiby confirmed. Moreover, when once
on the throne it was the interest Of the cunning Louis
XVIII to destroy all doub. about the existence Of his
uephew and to cut of any possibility imposition on
the public credu'ity by eventual protendcrs Funerals,
monuuents and other official manifestations offered the
easy ways and means of attaining This object if there
had existed any need orit Butthey were not needed
Pubc opinion even among the ultra legtiulists, was
not in the slightest degree agtaed upon the subject
and we may fairly conclude that both Louis XVllI and
public opinion were right.
II is not for the first time m history,
that in consequence of national or dynastc revolu'
lions, public sensibity and crcdulity are work
ed upon by tales Of miraculous preserVa'lons'
substitutions escapes resurectiOns aud other dra-
matte absurdties Naundorf, RichemObt and Mr..
Williams are not the first Individuals TO labor under
such Authorizations or TO atfact around them small
sect Of weak-mndcd believers or schemng adyen-
tuIers BY men Of sound understanding such apPari-
tons have always been treated al mpotures, and TINS
would no doubt have been the tate Of the new candl-
date to the Bourbon family, If he he bal ever ap-
preached the stern Duchess o. Angoueme. Ga no
better ground repcse the proofs drawn from physolo
gy and psychology. MT Hanson yisiSly dites when
he dwes on the elevated attributes personal bearing
and character of the French royal family. In this 70
spect lie is worthy greatest believer in their
divine rights and peculiar We once happened to
sec Mr. Williams and some ,liian warriors within she
same half hour and found great similitude in the
quiet. stately and royal deueanoy ofboth. The argu-
ment from Mr. Willams's ir,ied resemblance to the
Bourbons is worthless. We ese assured BY al impar-
tial and perfectly Trustworthy ncss who il acluaut-
ed personally with various members Of all the branches
of the Bourbons and who declares that there are no
such striking features of resemblance The nose Is
generally considered to be in as well as in tAmi'
lies the least variable and devotng feature Thus we
have q Grecjan Roman, andto descend the scale
peculiar Bourbon nose Of which, however Mr. VIII
lia.ns is not pOssessor
The mental qualities attributed to him as being those
with which Dauphin would have been endowed do
honor TO the loyal feelings of Nj Hanson; so doesa og
eel deduction page 2l5 where the boy, in New
England school reveals eafly maturity Ofudgment
But this boy, Who according to tic assertion of our
autl Or was at that time between Is aud 10 years Of
age, from to II in sate Of iiocy, from which
have TO infer that this early maturity acquired
in his infancy. Still less fecitOus is the inference
drawn from the high military spirit and capacity shown
by MI Williams in the Of 1912, which would point
to an Indian rather than 10 Bourbon origin The
Bourbon family, since its founder, Henry IV-with
the exception of the great deprived history
of the possibility of recOrdig military hero among
its French, Spanish and Neapotan offspring
The much talked of dea.hbel confession Of Bellan-
GER the principal actor IL this tragcomedy, well as
other documents, which we're said to have been dis
covered at New. Orleans, does vt come to daylight in
this volume. Iustead % il, tho public is gratifed
with suggestive affidavit, taxing to the utmost the
memory of an old lady Uncomfortable responsibility,
but of very adventurous life, whose vicis5itudes
placed her for short time in the household Of the ex
lies at Hoyrood. Without casting a shadow Of doubt
on the veraciy Of Mrs Brown, obliged TO sug
gest some uncertainty as to the degree of intimacy
which she could have enjoyed there. The wife of
Secretary is not so easily admitted into the family Cir
Gle of people ike the BourbOns Besides the Duchess
of AngOuleme was never communicative nor wont to
unbend, and strange must have been the attraction
which could led her to do so to a stranger and an in
ferior who had been the widow Of Republicans
qualification which always made the Duchess shudder
with Disgust 1t is absolutely impossible that an init
macy should have existed between them which could
have led her to communicate TO Mrs. Brown the deep
est secrets OF her heart her life and her family Mrs
Brown u.s. herself not who spoke to her about the
Bellanger story. The hearsays of Mrs. Chamberlain,
added in confirmation, bear the stamp of antichsmber
well as in royal dwellings and everybody knows their
worth. History does not resort to such sources to
gather her proofs
The mystery Of the interview between the Prince de
JOinye ard Mr.. Williams is no more clearly elucda-
ted than il was before. On the one side have
serton on the other DegatiOn The assertions set
OF with mprobabites 30 ably exposed by Gen. Cass-
the negatiOn is supportedby common sense As vivid
ly as the hstoriogpher m describe the struggle be-
tween truth and alsehood in the conscience Of join
VILE still the word of tie is at least good as that
Of the other and the character Of JOinyle 10 re-
spected even by bitter enemies The suggestion
is but natural that if the journey Of the Prince was
secret mission, he would have been careful in not
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