Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-18

Lovers of what is strange and romantic in
real lie are pressing round the master
builder, who has contracted to clear away
the ruins of the Tuileries. They want him
TO take measures TO prevent mysterious
casket, deposited in hiding place in the
walls, from being carried away in the rub
bish. The depositor was, according to Mile.
Amelie de Bourbon, eldest daughter of
Louis XVII, Louis XVI; and this lady,
in the department of La Vienne, asserts
that she hesrd of the deposit being made
from her father. He had seen, as boy, the
Inflated king hiding away the casket,
which was filled With money, precious Jew
els and papers. "Amelie de Bourbon"
otherwise Mile. Nsundorf, has written to a
newspaper to ask whether the discovery of
this treasure would not justify the claim
made by her family to assume the foremost
places in the royal house Of France? 1t
would strengthen it, no doubt. But the
number of credulous persous who be-
lieve in what is unfindable go daily 10
the Tuileries TO watch the removal of the
demolished walls into carts. They stem to
have communicated their illusion 10 the
navvies engaged in the work of demolition.
These men carefully break up the large
blocks of masonry. Whenever a stone or
lump of wood resembling a casket appears
they pounce upon it. Mile. Amelie de Bour.
bon, in vouching for the existence of hid
den treasure, reminds the world that M.
Jules Favre and William ii of Holland
believed implicitly in her father, ana that
by order of the Dutch potentates his claim
wss asserted on the tomb erected over
him. She asks whether the credence
they attached to his story is not a
proof that it is true? 1t certainly is
not. The late King of the Netherlands de-
tested Louis Philippe because be helped the
Belgians 10 throw off the Dutch yoke; and
his vile, Anna Psulowna, detesied the elder
branch because, after ripe considerable
Louis XVIII, and TsIleyrsnd agreed that
she should not be the wife of the Due de
Berri, TO whom she had been offered. 1t is,
indeed, probable that she started Naundorfi
TO annoy the royal house which declined to
admit her 10 membership with it. Amelie
de Bourbon speaks of the jewels
locked up in the casket as hav-
ing belonged TO Marie Artoinuette.
She proves loo much here. There
was a minute inventory furnished OF the par.
apherDalia of that queen TO the revolution
airy government. When Nine. Royale wss
liberated and sent 10 Austria these personal
effects were given 10 the Austrian envoy,
who negotiated the conditions OF her release.
They included large number of diamonds
and other valuable jewels, which the prin-
cess eventually left TO the Count de Cham
bord. He brought them TO the hammer.
The price they fetched rendered him quite
independent of his wife in point of fortune.
Nevertheless a mystery hangs over the fate
of Louis XVII. There is no legal or other
proof of any value that he was the boy
who died in the Temple in 1895 in q s ate of
idiotcy, while there ia good deal of circum-
stantisl evidence to establish that a SUPPOSE
tious dsuphin was shown 10 the electors who
were called in to make the autopsy and draw
up neurological certificate. One of these
medical men wac II. Dumangin, father Of
Gambetta's old and devoted secretary. He
refused 10 certify that the scrofulous body he
examined was that of the dauphin. He had
found a corpse which the municipal off
GERS nous ont dit etre eeiui du fs du defunt Louis
Cdpet augIei enfant Us dOnnaient des
SONS depuis guetques jourS." "lf the Holy
House is not al Loretto, where is it?'
French missionary once VIGOROUSLY asked.
Amelie de Bourbon puts similar question.
"It Louis XVII was not my father, under
what name did that king hide HIMSELF"
MyStere! The true ineognito of the rightful
heir will probably be TO the end OF time
introupotie, Ike the cssket.