The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-05-28

!. = Ia shc al for in this country there
-, L., two ways to 90 begging, either a.
O.. .n hnrch door or in coach and pair.
T ~ resuits of that visit were memoraoie
:, al history. The Cardinal, himself
,roa;cate and an adventurer in ms way,
was completely subdued by the grace ana
address of the fair supplicant. 1t IL Ger
tain. from collection of letters rom nun
10 the Lamotte, which were luckily ac
stroyed by Beugnot after nus arrest, .'a'
he was madly in love with her; ana rom
that moment her progress IN 'he pain OF
vice, guilt, and success, was RAPID. ohe
therefore smilingly informed her friend
BeuCnot (still at the Cadran Ble't) that he
could no longer be of any use to her. But
in this she was mistaken. For time,
however, he withdrew from her society,
and she transferred her operations to Yer
sailles, where she succeededjn making the
acquaintance of persons about the Court
who had already practiced on the Queen
II soon became evident that she had made
her fortune and lost her character ou'
with singular impudcnce she and neI nus,
band came back to pay visit TO thelr oiG
friends at Bar -Aube (who received
them at first very colby with splendln
eouinace. a prolusion of money, ana all
tbe Injury of a great lady-accessories
which speedily led people to take more
favorable view of their condition.
Madame de Lamotte's house in Paris IN
the following year was not less briilian'
and agreeable: and there Beugnot, at ms
own request, met Cagliostro-a WORTHY
,,,,bor of such q company.
The great mountebank seemed cut IN
tho very mould of Signor 7mtdno the
Dnlcamara of that day. on the ltaiian
s,ace-short. stout, olive-colored, with
60 half ont of his head, and broad,
,vrn.d-un nose. He wore that day an
;ron.oray. ngle-breasted coat emorolder-
nd with gold. a scarlet waiStcoat with rlch
lace. red brooches, his sword under the
tails of his coat, and broad hat with
white fredericksburg very Ike those
and tooth-drawers VINO per-
form at fairs. But Cag!iostro raised the
character of his dress by his lace RULES,
sparkling rings, and shoe-buckles looking
very much like diamonds. | still looked
askance at him, hardly knowing what he
was like. but, in spite of myself, the whole
asnect of the man had something I'M
nosinr about it, and | wanted to hear HIM
talk. His language was strange m'sh-
mash of Italian and French, with hume
rous quotations, which he gave US to under
stand were Arabic, but which he dld not
translate. He alone talked-he could
toncb on as many subjects as he pleased,
as nobody else had anything TO say aoou,
them. Every moment he looked round
the table, and begged to know II he was
understood: at which everybody round
the table bowed assent. When he began
suhiect he raised his voice as if he were
insured. and then dropped into tone OF
galiantrv and ludicrouS compliment. This
lasted all supper-time but all | under
stood was that the hero had been talking
of the sky, the stars, the Grand Arcanum,
Memphis, the hierophant, transcendental
chemistry, giants, big beasts; of a city
bigger than Paris in the interior of Africa,
where he had numerous correspondents
Of our ignorance of a thousand things
which he had at his fingers ends; and OF
The charms of Madame de Lamotte, whom
he called his dove, his gazelle, his swan,
etc. After supper, he honored me with
round of questions; but, as / contented
myself with humbly expressing my own
ignorance, | was afterwards assured by
Madame de Lamotte that he had conceived
the most favorable impression OF my per-
son and my attainments. ;.
A more ilustrious victim than the Cardi-
nal de Rohan was threatened by THESE
and by curious accident
Raugnot was again thrown into Madame dc
! ,amotte's company at a most decisive mo-
ment. He had gone to call one evening
on a person from his own province whom
Madame de Lamotte had made her COM
panion. That lady herself was out, but
as the evening wore away she returned, ac-
by her husband, her secretary,
and a remarkably handsome, well-grown
girl of about twenty-five. They were all
in the highest spirits, the unknown beauty
as well as the rest and as supper was
served and the wine went round, she be-
came noisy. Villette (the secretary said
that "it was not true that people were
always betrayed by themselves; that
everybody betrayed you; and that"
Here Madame de Lamotte, near whom he
was sitting, put her hand on his mouth
and exclaimed, "IIush M. Beugnot is
TOO honest man to hear our secrets"
The conversation thus interrupted, Beug-
not was sent home in Madame de Lamotte's
carriage, accompanied by the tall young
lady, whom he dropped on his way at the
Rue de Clery. That young lady was
Madcmoiselle Olivia, who had personated
the Queen in the scene when she gave a
rose to the Cardinal in the bosquet de
Versailles. The trick had been played
that very evening, and by this strange &C
cident Beugnot had Supped with the &C
tors. From that moment the myStitication
of the Cardinal was complete, and the
Diamond Necklace was in the grasp Of the
gang.
PRISON LIFE DURING THE REVOLUTION.
Beugnot passed the worst days Of the
Revolution in prison, and gives some Gu
riouS sketches of prison hte. Here is a
little fresh matter:
The women's quarter in the Concierge
re exhibited, even more than that occu-
pied by the men, all the varied emotions
Of that extraordinary time. \ corridor
was common in the daytime to both sexes,
and here there was as much dressing, talk
ing, flirting, and love-making as in the sa-
Ions of Paris. Most of the women con-
trived to change their dress three times a
do ,hpnrh ~, bn ;p+n rgtn,