Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-06-02

person; mt least ID Estrades knew that Mat
thioiy sad obtained tor them the Dukss &
signature. and that he knew where they
were. On the 2Sth of April y despatch was
forwarded to him from Paris. in which
Louis tells him that. as he believes himself
able to make away with Matthioly without
creating. any stir, the King desires him to
carry out his plan and convey the prisoner
to Piguerol, taking care that no one knows
who he is.
Before this despatch was received Mat
thioly was already a prisoner. With con-
summate subtlety DEstrades had brought
the Italian within his tolls, and 10y holding
out To him the replenishment of his enpty
purse entrapped him to an interview with
Catinat, who had been designated to COM
mand the garrison to be placed in posses
sion Of Casal. But the documents thus
eagerly sought for We're not found on the
person OF the prisoner. Matthioly lad
placed them IN the keeping of his father;
but the threats of torture or death, If he
persisted in withholding them, extortsd
from him letter in which he begged his
father TO forward to him all the papers by
the hand of the bearer, the very Giuliani
who had FIRST opened negotiations between
DEstrades and his future victim. One act
Of the drama was thus played ont Louis.
N pere nptory terms demanded at Madrid
the release of the Baron of Asfeld. The
Court of Savoy was in completely with him,
and he took care that no tidi6lngs from
Matthioly should ever reach Venice The
report was spread that he had died acci-
dentaily ON his way to Pignerol, where ne
stiIl lived under the rigid guardianship OF
Stint Mars. The Duke of Mantna showed
no sorrow at being rid of his old adviser
seemingly preferred French protection to
Italian freedom. The father Of the ssatrs-
man Thus torn from the world fingered
through the miserable remnant of his life
at Psdua. His wife, believing herself "A
widow. took the veil in q convent at Bolo-
ena, and in the genealogical tree of the
family that place which should haye re-
ceivcd the date of Ercole Matthioly's death
remained blank.
OF the prisoners thus brought to exiles
under a strong escort, and with circum-
stances of peculiar precaution, Nj. Topin
holds that Matthioly was undoubtedly one.
He is expressly called the old prisoner of
Siint-Mars.
Certainly it is not easy to resist the con-
cInsion that this prisoner must have been
sIatthioly. If it be admitted, the mystery
is at IN end. Tn March, 1893, Barbezieux
expresses 70 SAINT MARS tne pleasure WHICH
his aceep.snce of the Governorship of the
Bastil,e has given to the king That the
prisoner so Brought To the Bastile was the
the prisoner who died five years later, and
whose name wss entered on the registers of
the church OF st. Pauis as Mnrchiaiy, has
never been called into question. The name
itself, it can scarcely be denied. is that of
the unfortunate statesman Of Mantua- 1t
is often found under the form Marthioly
in TIE dispatches of L0uyois: il is also
written Matioli. Matheoli. Maihiali. and i'm
other ways. In short, little weight in the
way of argument can be attached to the
mode of writing names. it may almost be
said, in any historical age. Nor can more
stress, NJ. Topin urges, be laid ON the al
legged imprudeTsce of thus placing his name
ON public register almost at the very mo-
ment when Matthioly's old master, the
Duke of Mantua. entered Paris, to be bril-
liantly entertained at the Luxembourg. :
The feelings of Duke Charles lad been ex-
pressed with sufficient clearness. and 1T is
more than likelyt that Louis may have given
him, not without a certain satisfaction, the
tidiugs that there was no longer need even
to guard the man who had once made him
self Troublesome to them.