Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-10-07

that he will ''tako it as an act of favor five
will s'throw a little light on the subject Of Rev.
Eleazer Williams claim to the French throne"
He states that he has often heard the question
repeated "Have we a Bourbon amongst us2" and
has heard much of the pretensions of the Rev.
gentleman, but never rightly understood upon
what his pretensions were based. We take
pleasure in gratifying our friend, and giving
| what little information we have on the subject,
especially as many ofour readers will participate
/ in the interest he has shown.
Mr. Williams died short time ago, and, of
course, We will hear no more of his claims. He
pretended that he was the yc0l French Dauphin
| tho son of Louis XVI-and traced his title
to that distinction as follows. At the time the
Louis (the same King that assisted US in our
Revolutionary war; was beheaded, in 1918, the
Dauphin was under the care and education of
the Queen, Maria Antoinette. Her various
plans of escaping with him,-which she was
anxious to do,-being frustrated, with difficulty
it was resolved by the enemies of royalty to
separate them. Accordingly the young Dau-
phin was delivered into the custody Oft the agents
of Robespierre, with instructions that he should
not be put to death, but that he should be got
rid of in some manner He was then about
eight or nine years age and was treated with
great severity by his keeper-one Simon. On
one occasion Simon struck him blow over the
left eye that left deep scar. Under this treat
ment he fell ill-and, as the account differing
from Williams has it, died.
According to the other account, however, af-
ter he grew ILL., he was placed in the charge of
two physicians, who, secretly incIiniug to loyal
ism, projected and executed his escape.
NJ. Belanger, who died some ten years after,
at New Orleans, on his death bed, declared that
in 1895 he brought the Dauphin from Paris to
0~"ada, and there committed him to the care of
an Indian Chief, named WlIHams III 1Too
Nathaniel Ely, of Longmeadow, Mass, requested
two persons, going on tour to Canada, to pro-
cure ten of the descendants of John Williams,
clergyman of Massachusetts who had been
taken prisoner in 1904, to be educated by him..
Accordingly Eleuzer and John Williams were
brought to Longmeadow.
Now for Eleazer's claim that he is the identi-
cal Dauphin brought over by Belanger.
| In 1906 an Indian trader of Albany encamped
on Lake George, and while there French gcn-
tlcmGn came among the Indians, having with
him French boy about ten gears old. After
remaining some time in the camp he left the boy
with an Indian CHIEF, afterwards the reputed
father Of Bleaser. The historical account of
the Dauphin is, that under the harsh treatment
of Simon, he became deranged, and the trader
states that the boy seen by him was evidently
deranged at the time he saw him. Elcazer him
self, man of strict truth, says that from 1895
/ frN30 hs,yT
anything prior to the time he came to Long
meadow, except that he had distinct outlines of
great buildings, military array, &C., and of a
monster constantly menacing him. (such was
Simon.)
At the time he came to Longmeadow, Eeazer
was about fourteen years old, which corresponds
with the actual age of the Dauphin, at that time
There is also pretty good proof that the Chief
from whom Eleazer was obtained, was not in
fact, his father. The record of births in the
family of the Chief kept by priest, gives no
account of Eleazer's birth, but in fact shows it
to have been next to impossible that he should
have been the Chiefs son.
There is said not to have been the least indi-
cation of Indian blood about him, but on the
contrary his whole person and cOuntenance, de-
noted the FTenchman. 1t is said that his fea,
tnrcs were decidedly those of the Austrian flmi.
ly, and those who had seen Louis the Sixteenth,
say that the fumily resemblance between them
was marked and distinct.
Such, We have briefly gathered it from
several disconnected accounts, is the history of
Mr.. Williams CLAIM as the Dauphin. Poor
EIeazer was, no doubt, honest in the belief of
his royal claims Nothing, until death, could
ever persuade him to relinquish them, and it is
actually true that oycrtures were, at one time,
made to him, by the Prince De Joinvir, in or
der to silence his pretension. Eleazer spurned
them with scorn and SHIELD out to the last that he
was entitled to the French throne
ssThe mystery connected with the death of Louis
son and the FEASIBILITY of Villains story,
have been sufficient to convince some of the
business of his pretcnsons Whether he should
have been King of France or not, certain it is,
that many worse man than Eleazer has sat
upon the French throne.
To SEE the effect of ones surroundings, saws
the Philadelphia Gazette, look at the represen-
tatiye of the central fowery land, who sells ci-
garS the sidewalk, near the custom bonse