Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-05-04
DAILY EVENING STAR.
DISCRACsFUL DISCLOSURES.

"a Nine. D had at Paris, some
years ago, some disagreeable relations
with the authorities, who accused her of
having committed the offence which
French law describes as exciting to the
debauchery of girls under age. She &C
cordingly deemed it right 10 cross the
channel, and to establish house of ILL
fame, on an aristocratic footing. II
amongst our neighbors the conduct OF
families is justly cited as a model, many
persons make up for domestic constraint
by eccentricities almost unknown to our
countrymen. For these gentlemen,
bidseS there are, at the West End, harems,
in which even the respect due to children
is not observed. The supply of these
abominable establishments is the object
of numerous speculations. Every house
of this kind has its correspondents, its
agents, and its travellers abroad, who
receive fixed salaries, and are allowed
commissions more or less large according
t. the Importance of their services.
1t is ordinarily by advertisements in
the " Petites Affiches" or the newspapers
that these persons commence their oper-
atoms. They advertise for very young
girls to travel With lady, or to be sent
abroad as femEteS de chambre, or as shop
girls, with good salaries. They offer to
the parents or friends of the girls what
appear the best guarantees and they
promise that their moral, as well as their
material welfare, shall be strictly attend
cd to. They even affect great plety. and
require that proofs shall be given them
that the girls havebeen virtuously brought
up, far from all dangerous temptation
For all questions put to them they are
prepared with an answer, and they fire.
quently make use of the most honorable
names. When they have obtained the
consent of the parents or guardians, they
make them accept sum of money, and
retire with their prey. If by chance
these means should not, however cleverly
employed, succeed, reco urse is had to
abduction and violence. Owing to the
talent with which she chose her agents,
and to the knowledge she had of Partisan
manners and customs, Madame D
was able to satisfy all the phantasies oi
the gentry and nobility, and acquired in
short time large fortune. One of her
principal agents was sort of Proteus,
who played all parts, and assumed all
disgulses he even at times appeared as
ma old man.
The English papers recently announced
the arrest of this person, accused of hav-
ing carried off from Belgium girl of
fourteen, of rare beauty, and belonging
TO highly respectable family. Details
were given Of the manner in which she
was given up t. a licentious nobleman,
and of the violence exercised on her. A
great number of similar facts having oc-
CURED, the English tribunal, which was
charged with the investigation of the case
had reason to think that he had exercised
his Infamous traffic in France. 1t accor.
1ingly begged of the Prefecture Of Police
to cause researches to be made on the sub.
ject. A commissary of police was in.
structed with the task, and he ascertained
that a considerable number of Young
girls, especially Of the working class, had
been victims of H, and his accom-.
plices, and had been sent to the establish
ment of Madame D, in London
Several of these captives succeeded in es
Gaping from their fIightful prison, and
came back TO Paris; but sentiment easy
| to understand prevented them from max.
ing any complaint, and they endeavorec
to find in assiduous labor the forgetfulnes
of fatal past. All these facts have beer
transmitted to London, and will b
added to the documents i'm the case
which will expose one of the most melan
choly features of our civilization. Par,
Paper.