Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-10-07


tory which he regarded as final, sent adritt
the former companion Of his joys. She,
however, although she might have winked
at his infdelity, had it been softened by
the promised salve, had no notion Of losing
at once her money reward and her husband.
Possibly the Hollands and the Tardivis got
wind of her anger, and turned it to their
own account for at the very same time
that they took the only stop now open to
them-an appeal to the Privy Council to
reverse the sentence-Honorade accused
the traitor of bigamy. That done, she
disappeared, her,wisest plan; for the Court
of AK, smitten on the cheek by her claim
to be the new De Caille's wife, implying
that he and Pierre Mege were one and the
same, ordered her to be arrested and put
in prison.
The Kings Privy Council had not, like
the present Court of Cessation in France,
a definite power and jurisdiction. Favor
availed more with it than justice. In this
case it vas considerably influenced by a
diplomatic incident occasioned by the con-
temptuo1s disregard with which the Tribu
nal of Toulon and the Court of AK had
treated legal documents duly authenticated
in Switzerland The result arrived at.
March, 1712, was, summarily, that the
soldier of marines was not Isaac lie Brun
de Castellane; that he was forbidden
lenceforth to assume that title and quail
Y, or to trouble the said LIE Gouches and
Eardivis in the possession and enjoyment
# the goods left by the said Scipion lie
5run and Judith lie Gouche, under pain of
fine of 1000 livres that the said Pierre
Iege, called in the suit the soldier of
marines, be taken bodily and conducted to
tie prisons of the Conciergerie du Pal
an, to be heard and interrogated con-
cening the facts touching the crime Of
bi:amy.
Poor Magdelaine Serry, the victim of
he- parents greed, sent in a demurrer to
this decree, supported by the arguments
of able counsel but it availed her moth
ing, except to delay Mege's trial for
bigsmy. He was greatly surprised at be-
ing caught in that way, for. he tancied
himself safe from all attacks, except those
which concerned his imposture. And he
cheated Justice, after all, by dying in pris
on before sentence could be pronounced
upon him.
Gayot de Pitaval, who followed and re-
ported the long lawsuit, if not clearly,
and concisely at least with good sense, had
occasion to visit Mege in prison. lie had
with him there long conversation, the
details of which, unfortunately, he has not
given He contents himself with simply
stating that he twisted himself into a
hundred shapes, in order to get at the
bottom Of the rogue but that the latter,
more slippery than an eel, avoided every
admission that could compromise himself.
e. All that | could discover he adds, 'was
that he was gifted with extraordinary
cunning, hiding itself under apparent
\ detailed description of Meges person,
drawn up bymedical and surgical experts,to
ascertain what resemblance he might have
to any Of the De Caille family, does not
convey the impression that either Hon
GRADE or Mademoiselle Serry need have
been inconsoiable for his loss:
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sion of countenance dull white, colorless,
and palid skin Socratic nose thin lips,
the lower one protruding pointed chin
very seanty beard watery lack lustre eyes,
approaching nearer to olive-green than to
any other color besides sundry other cor
poreal pecularities much too curious to
mention.
What was most strange, and what must
nave been most displeasing to behold, was
hat one-half of his face (and, indeed, ,ofh his
person generally)was dissimilar to the 9TH
er half; one nostril was larger than the
other; one cheekbone (both high higher
han the other zone eyebrow garnished with
vice as many hairs as the other