The Sun. — 1810-05-29 (London, England)

CHEVALIER D'EON.  The late,Chevalier D'EoN, during the early pe-. riod of his residence in this country, was nistin_ guisbed by the conciliating urbanity and polished elegance of his minuets. It is well known that he :had many opportunities of forming matrimonial connections in this country, whiCh would at once have raised him into affluence, but on all such occasion's he abruptly quitted the family w.:,en the opportunity presented itself. A circumstance of this kind happened in the family of a nobleman at whose seat he was to have remained some time upon a visit. ,1 The dAghter had conceived a strong attachment to the Chevalier, and the father had, intimated to him that he had no objedion to an union between them. The CheValier, the next morning, quitted -the house very early,- without taking a formai leave, and as other circumstances of the same nature are known to have occurred, it ,is by no means improbable • that the suspicious should base arisen which -hisdeath has so effectually removed. During the de, clioing years of the Chevalier, he was certainly not distinguished for that courteous affability and easy . elegance of manners which had marked his earlier days.; but, on the contrary, a negligent roughness- generaliy charaelerized his depoviment, which seemed to be the .result .of a misanthropic spirit, produced 'by disappointments and Vexations. He , was, however, full of anecdotes, and, not unwiiling to impart them. He was well acquainted with must of the charatters who figured on the grearpolitical stage of Europe for the last half century. His reflections. were distinguished for shrewdness and a deep knowledge of-mankind. It is, lamentable , that a person so gifted, so well qualified to make a figure in' society, and who might reasonably have ,expeded to terminate his career iri affluence and honour, was obliged to expose himself in public in the quality of a fencing-master, after having lived' with charaders of the -higheat: rank, talents, and . learning, respected for his knowledge and It is said that he had written a history of all his transactions with the'Court of France, previous •to the revolution, but was induced to suppress the publication by a promise of pecuniary support. Though the 'mystery respecting his sex is at , length revealed, it is still difficult to conceive the reason that induced him to assume the female elmrattier and attire, unless, indeed; upon the supposition that he was concerned in the plot to excite doubts on the subject, in order, to share in the profits of public credulity. He was a man of spirit. He fought a duel in Russia, _in which he concluded.' himself very well. He was, however,' not digtinguished for his stria regard to veracity. •He basely accused the Count de GuERCHY, a most respetable nobleman, who matried a sister of the late Lord HARCOURT, of • being employed, by the French Court to get him kidnapped or murdered ; 'and, though it clearly appeared that no such scheme had been devised, the-Count'sunk under the imputation, and died soon after his return to France. A paragraph which appeared in the public prints, of this country, announcing that a man had codesised o_a his death-bed that he was one of 'the agents in this alleged . plot, was tweed to D'EoN, and was a mere inventio4.l of his own, in order to give some , colour to his former 'story, which had brought considerhle discredit on his charader. In short, D'EoN was well fitted to ad the part of an impostor upon the stage of life, though he possessed abilities and attainments which qualified him for a' station in which he might deservedly have accquired the reaped of mankind.  The officers of the Implacable have contradi6ted the report, that the Baron de KOLLI, stated to have been charged by the British Government to attempt the escape of