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A CONSPIRACY.
An Amusing Panic I'm a French
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An Amusing Panic I'm French
Church.
CORRESPONDENCE of the New York Post.1 a
One day Louis XVIII went to a reli-
gious ceremony at the church of st;
German del'Auxerrois, which was to be
celebrated with q grand Accompaniment
of organs, choruses, and military music.
To do honor to his august visitor, the
cure had prepared an eloquent address,
which he began to declaim as soon as the
King had stepped from his carriage.
Now, His Majesty's gouty legs were i'll
adapted to standing for any length OF
time, so, after a few moments, he
turned to his nephew and whispered:
"Too long. Berri," The Duke bowed,
made sign to the leader Of the orches-
ira, and, in the middle of sonorous
phrase of ecclesiastical bombast, the
church suddenly rang with the roll of
drums and the clang of trumpets and
cvmbals. The poor cure stopped short,
dumbfounded at the Interruption, the
King bowed graciously,as ifitAwas all
over, nodded his thanks to the Duke OF
Berri, and took his seat
There was a moments silence, and
then man wearing cassock and a sur
plice ran hurriedly from the sacristy, and
knelt before the grand altar. AS he did
so a loud clash of steel was'heard, and a
saber, hitherto concealed beneath his
vestments, fell upon the marble pave
ment. gt84&ANLW NNA WIA
The stranger very quietly picked up
his weapon, concealing it again under
the cassock, and took his seat inYthe
chair. where be- affected to DE busy in
chanting the psalms. But the incident
had been remarked by everybody, the
report spread through the church that a
man disguised as priest had attempted
to assassinate the King, and he was i'm
mediately seized by the genddrmes, dis
armed and dragged into the sacristy TO
be cross-examined By the Commissary
of Police -,
"Does this saber belong to your
asked the magistrate, adding, as the. cul-
prit aflsweredin the affirmative; Write
that he confesses the fact. What's your
occupation?" 49, "a NJ
II am a musician.NY e-{au10N
y Don't trife with Justice. Why were
you dressed in a surplice"
In order to serve at mass.
Indeed. Was it to serve at mass that
YOU carried saber hidden beneath your
clothes?
" i wore q saber because | am from
bone PLAYER in the National Guard, and
also belong to the choir. When the
King came in we were ordered to begin.
/ had no time to change my dress, and
so slipped my cassock over my uniform.
That all
Louis XVIII was the first. to laugh at
this explanation, which changed into a
truculent assassin an inoffenslve musi-
clan, who, some years afterward, acquired
great celebrity as Chollet the tenor, for
whom Auber wrote the leading part in
his well-known opera of Era Diavolo. y
Apropos of conspirators, another anec-
dote is told, which has at least the merit
of being of recent date. The famous
Trabuceo, who was accused of participa-
ton in a plot against the life of Napo-
leon III, but was acquitted on the plea
of insufficient testimony, was advertised
last week to play a cornet solo at great
popular concert in the Florentini Thea
ter at Naples
The house was filed from pit to dome.
Trabucco made his appearance; bowed,
raised the horn to his lips and emitted
series of the most frightful discords. The
audience hissed and howled, but Trabuc-
co, nothing daunted, continued his
cacophony until the signs of disappro-
val became so violent that the police
uniforms began to appear in different
parts of the theater. Then he stopped,
advanced TO the footlights, and waving
his instrument gracefully, said: None
of you came here TO listen to my play
ing; you wanted to see conspiratori
look at me then well, for | am the mani
4 foH minutes. afterward M. 'Irabucco
was in jaiI. .l...,,,-.5,,lt