The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-18

fame shaken and trembling, as If a
paralysis had seized him. 1 thought 1t
had. 1exclaImed, "What is the mat
ter ?" and rose quickly to rouse him;
for no answer came. It was a minute
| or two before he could speak. But with
great effort he raised his hand, and,
| poiuting TO one of the wood cut por-
traits, at the bottom of the page, said,
in hollow voice and with great dith-
Guilty of utterance:
THAT image has haunted me day
and night, as long as can remember.
IT'S the horrid vision of my dreams.
What Is it (? Who is it," sf
ST looked on. There was no name on
the page. On turning the leaf. read
that this number was the "Portrait of
Simon, 'tto whose care the Dauphin of
France, son of Louis XVI and Marie
Autoinette was committed in the prison
of the temple.
ST shut the book for while it was
open Williams gaZed at The picture as
If fascinated. while overwhelmed with
unutterRble horror.
'Some time elapsed before he recov-
cred his equanimity. And then, for
the first time, talked with him on the
rumor of his birth and parentsge. he
told me that the Prince de JoinvilIe
bad visited him at Green Bay las Mr..
Hanson afterward relatedl, and also
that the surgeon Ito whom, at his re-
scrotula upon the leg) said TO him:
".l fon diem You have rights which
you know not of" and then suddenly
checked himself"
DIR. Yinton came to the following con-
clusion IN relation TO this matter:
but the conclusion to which my
thoughts have arrived, after due con-
siderat!on, ia simply this, that it was
the Soul, through Memory, bearing
witness to Itself, affirming the identity
| of Williams and the Dauphin.
The next interesting statement which
DR.. Vinton makes, is as follows: ION
the first Sunday in February, 1858,
Rev. Mr.. Williams assisted DR.. Vinton
in the Holy Communion in Grace
Church, Brooklyn Heights. As there
was some desire to see Mr.. Williams
DR.. Yinton "scrupulously withheld,
even from every member of his family,
any hint of the expectation of his COM
ing" DIR. Vinton says:
"On the following Monday morning
an esteemed parishioner, German
gentleman OF high standing. called on
me in my study to ask who he was
that offlciated with me on yesterday
morning.
IT replied that it was the Rev. Elenzer
Williams"
"He then said that there happened
to be in his pew, as his guest, his royal
Highness, Prince Paul William, Duke
of Wurtemberg, cousin to the present
King of Wurtemburg and to the Car
Nicholas, travelling in this country un-
der the title OF General Count Heiden-
helm; who, when, Mr.. Williams walked
| across the chancel. asked my parish
Toner, Mr.. RI, who is that? Who
is that man2 1t is so! If thereis any
thing in family likeness, he is Bour-
| bon y"
know who it was. But the Duke could
not be quiet, but said, 1T is so! He is
a Bourbon, no doubt. He is the image
of Charles X
"Mr. R went on 10 relate the
excitement Of the Duke during the
whole OF the divine service, and how,
at dinner that day, he resumed the
theme, with many particulars in the
story of the DauphiE.
"Among these recollect few stri-
king points. viz: That Charles x. WAS
very like Louis XVI; that Prince Tai
| leVTand knew all about the abduction
of the Dauphin, which was connived at
| by the authorities of France; and when
his memoirs should be published (if
there were no suppression OF facts the
| world would know of ii too;-thaL the
Jesuits knew all about il; and If Will
liams had been Roman Catholic Sup
posing him to be the Dauphin,) he
would have been in France long ago;
that Robespierre and Count de Prov.
ence afterwards Louis AVIlI.) were
mutually interested in procuring the
abduction of the Dauphin (inasmuch as
he would not die a natural death under
extreme cruelty: Robspierre, because
he wished that the revolution should
maintain the reputation of a political
revolution, and not be damaged by the
imputaIion of being war against chill
dren; the Count de Provence, because
the Dauphin, as Louis XVII, would
l.. E,fe 80
the crown;-that ChateaubriRnd would
not take the oath of allegiance to Louis
XVIII, on the ground that Louis
XVII. was yet alive and in America;
and that Chateaubriand's journey to
America had for its object, among 9TH
ers, to discover the lost DauPhin; that
Count D'Artois-afterward Charles x.
would not swear allegiance to his
brother until very late (when his own
succession was in prospect), because of
his scruples as Legitimist, and his al
legiance to his nephew.
"These circumstances, and others
quite as remarkable, were the disclo-
been the staple of the conversation of
the Duke on that Sunday afternoon,
after he had a vision of EieaZer Will
liams."
DIR. vinton backs upthese statements
with documentary evidence, which the
pains to say he has carefully verified
with the original" etc. This is the
evidence which has been withheld from
the public until the present time, at the
earnest request of his Royal Highness.
Prince Paul William, Duke Wurtem-
berg, etc. DIR. Vinton says:
IL have preserved this documentary
evidence for fifteen years, as 'cnriosi-
| ty of history But the time is come to
publish il. In that short space of time
| Mr.. Williams has died, the Duke of
wurtemberg has died, the kingdom of
| Wurtemberg is abolished, and public
faith in legitimate kings is dead and
buried"
The next point which DIR. vinton
makes in this interesting story is as
follows:
"In the summer of 1858 Mr.. Hanson
called on me in Brooklyn, where was
then settled, to acquaint me with what
promised 10 bea singular confirmation
| of his theory, as published in the March
| and April numbers of the Magazine
| through the testimony, he said, OF Ske-
nonoough, very old Indian chief of
| the Oneida tribe, who had known Will
liams when he was a boy of ten or
| twelve years of age, having been pres
ent when two Frenchmen gave him
into the custody OF the elder Williams.
in 1875, at Ticonderoga; and who would
testify that EleaZer Williams was of
French birth, for the reason that he had
talked Nth him in the French language at
that time. Moreover, the old Indian af-
tirmed that civilians was recorded in
the census of the Six Nations as a
Frencman adopted by the st. Regis
tribe, and transferred 10 the Oneidas;''
| with many other particulars of great