The New York herald., 1879-09-30
FRENCH CAvAGNARIS.

A RECORD OF SOME OF THE VICTIMS OF DIPLo-
MACY--MAssAcREs AND INSULTS TO THE
REPRESENTATIVES, OF FRANCE IN FOREIGN
COUNTRIES.
Paris Correspondence Of the Pan Mall Gazettel
The disaster at Cabul which has aroused great
deal OF sympathy here. reminds people that French
diplomacy also has had its victims. In the days Of
Louis XIV. when the Due do Crequi Ambassa-
dor at Rome. the Pope's Corsicau guard made an
attack his servants. killed one and wounded sew
eral others. The French King Immediately marched
troops to the frontier. and tho frghted Ponti
sonted to dsband his Corsicans to exile his
Maria Chigi; to send his nephew the Cardinal to
apologize and to raise q monument in Rome
cording the offence and the reparation. century
later another outrage perpetrsted In Rome
French representative--on Hugon de Basseville-
who had been sent thither a mission by the Am
bassador at Naples in 1892. Nothing would suit
Bassevile but to drive up and down tho Corso in
open carriage. his own hat and his horses heads
being decorated with tricolor ribbons. The result
was an smet1te during which Basseville wounded
by a soldier. after being dragged some distance
war between France and the Holy See, which only
terminated with the Treaty Of Tolentino. few
ending in the death Of General Duphot. who was on
the staff OF the French Ambassador, Joseph Bona
parte. The Ambassador Immediately left the city.
which shortly afterward occupied by French
army corps commanded by Berthier. who pro-
claimed the Roman Republic In the same year
three plenipotentiaries who had been sent by
the Directory to the Congress of Radstadt at
tackled on leaving the city by some Austrian hussars
The citizens Robertjot and BONNER were killed out
right, and Jean Debry desperately wounded
Although the Directory threatened vengeance this
crime remained unpunished; for Bonapsrte was in
nttie later the citizens De SSmonville and Maret
who were passing through Austria on their road
the second Naples. arrested and thrown into
prison, where they remained for thirty months
when they exchanged for the daughter Of Louis
XVI. Citizen Maret afterward served Napoleon as
Foreign Minister, and became better known as
Due dc Bassano. Bernadotte, too. who had been
sent as ambassador to Vienna. got into trouble
On Austrian fete day he dressed the
embassy with tricolored flags. and in spite Of the
efforts of the police his palace sacked and his
flags burned in the public square, Protected by u
strong escort he left Venns thinking the Directory
would at declare war; but the Directory had
other matters in hand. and the matter was amicably
arranged ut Salzburg.
About the same period. war having broken out
was flung into prison. and there remained for the
space Of three years. similar fate at the time
overlook Jean Bon st. Andre. who was seized and
imprisoned by the Dey OF Algiers The Amti-Jdcobis
makes out that the head OF this conventionalst was
cut off at Tunis. and that he was succeeded by
WE We ,,sa hear II. the Fl French sa;a, Dirssser. L
He dislikes Jean Bon,
They have sent him BernadOttc
Bernadotte did not go to North Africa: and Jean
Bon st. Andre, who commenced lite q Protestant
clergyman, then sat in the Convention, and fought
the English at sea, lived to Napoleon for many
years prefect. There some other instances
of French representatives having been i'll treated
The Marquis de la Chatardie imprisoned In
Russia in the time Of the Empress Elizabeth for
spiracy but notice was taken of this affair.
the Ambassador had not presented his credentials.
Frederick the Great also treated the Marquis de
Fragne in the same way; but the Marquis was
garded rather the lover Of the Princess Of Anhal
Zerbzt. mother Of Catharine IL Of Russia than
envoy. 1t is recorded, too that in the days Of
Francis l., and when that monarch concluded q
treaty with the Turks SO to strengthen
his hand against Charles ", NJ de- Rincon.
accredited to Soliman H., made away
with at the instigation Of the Emperor. But this
affair has always remained somewhat obscure. The
French have generally respected the persons Of
bassadors, but under the Regency the Prince de Gel
lemarrc the Spanish Ambassador) conspired SO
boldly that the Duke of Orleans had him arrested
and imprisoned ut Bos. It Is true that at the
time the Due de Saint Afghan. French Ambassador
at Madrid, engaged in conspiracy to overthrow
Philip v. and Cardinal Alberoni but the Duke left
Spain before his intrgues were discovered. Under
the Restoration tap OF fan applied to the cheek
OF the French Minister resulted in the deposition Of
the Dey OF Agiers and the addition to France of o
splendid colony. The last tragedy of . diplomatic
nature. far France Is concerned occurred q
short while ago at Salonica, where the French and
German consuls were massacred by infuriated
crowd