New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-07

that M Chasies. by no means abashed at the
reception his first batch OF m mar SarS;'
hood. " to produce another set Of letters pre-.
tending to be written by Milton des snd hs
the great English poets visit 10 1s of his scen
tifo views These letters were gravey intronut Gu
to the British public by Prof Owen through t foT
TIE TRIBUSE. Prof Owen did not, it is true, give
full credence to this pretended discovery, uV Won
did he say distinctly that he did not believe o beS;
will remember perhaps The TRIBUNE du nov be 30
tate to say that on that subject there could Ge no
doubt whatever and that NJ. Chasles haa o sUd
greatly deceived and that he owed II 10 ,roo from
whence he received this prOfuse supply OIL 0iiRa
manuscripts NJ. Chasles had always steau,iy rU
fused to do this and it must be added t fe anthem
ITCHY of the documents which he gave 10 to ~.
But now. alas he has come 70 gr'e H.. h aa0
arrested at M Cbasess request and has confessed his
sins. He owns to having forged upward OF $500 49,
scraps and letters since the year 1901 at Wncn r o
he first introduced himself to the nOtce Oh NJ. Oao
les as an export in old manuscripts tue ioas .1
which NJ Chasles gives for refusing so persistenty
to say whence he procured these Moo 3D. tna. nU VIA
afraid if once the mine should be known there would
result such seepe-chase OF amateurs that tne price
of the papers would be run up beyond Tie power OF
| French purses to compete for them. We may fancy
the fear of Frenchmen, too, lest perfdious Albion
shOud get possession of oil the proofs of her great
rivals claims to the invention of graytationl New
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discord betwecd two powers who stand in no hesd
| Of proy0cations to dislike ono another. AS for NJ
Chasles he is miracle Of credulity, for, although
his man has confessed his guilt and Is actually under
dipped by him to the amount of 10000 francs, he
| still believes that some of tho documents
are genuinel HO declares that the collection
contained vast number OF pieces that
had nothing whatever to do with the PascalNewton
question: among others he speaks of numerous pieces
| Of poetry by Dante, Reno of AnJou. Boccacclo'
Petrarch and his Laura Cl6mence lsaure. ViiileIs'
Charles dOrleans, etc. also letters by royal hands,
sneh as Phip Augustus. ST. Louis Philippe 10 Bel,
Charles w. Charles VI, Charles VII, others of Agnes
o oDio How Howl them, exclaimed NJ Chasles to his
fellow-members of the Academy, could me same me
man have composed all theSeT Nor were these AZ,
the treasures that this wonderful man brought forth
| to TEMPT the all-beeving NJ Chasles. There were
| few letters and numerous notes by julius Caesar,
the Roman EmperOrs, the Apostles, st. Jerome, ST.
Augustin, Gregory of Tours, several Nof9Vlngaiii
| Kings Charlemagne-a great many OF these last, ana
more besides by other famous men! III Is fortunate
| for NJ Chasles that his fellow academiclans were
less ostTichko in their intellectual Questions than
he. If NJ. Faugere NJ. LIE Verrier NJ Cow ana others
| cad not persstently opposed tho acceptance oI
| these documents as genuine, there IS no knowing
| how long NJ Chases would have continued " Dc inc
| dupe of this INSCRIPTIONS llar
curious story has como to my ears, from source
that il by no means irresponsible, to the effect that
Prince Napoleohs claims to the regency in case, as
now likely that regency Is estaDisheu mex ~
| March, when the Prince Imperial reaches inc ago Vi
H. are supported by the consent oil Louis apoleol,
| who sees what all tho world sees, that Eugene ;
| regency would never be consented to by the French
people. To this end, he has just paid Prince Napo,
| Icons debts on condition that he will be satlsied
| with the regency, and not make a strike for the
throne itself repeat tins story is not stroeT III.
can be no harm in recording il. IL IS straw, but,
Just now, We are all watching straws. &C.