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XIV. relates the following anedote:— " The wife of the Marshal de Villars is running after the Count de Toulouse. My son (the Regent) it also in her good graces, and is not a whit more discreet. Marshal de Villars came one day to see me ; and, as he pretends to understand medals, he asked to see mine. Baudelot, who is a very honest end clever man, and in whose keeping - ' they are, was derived to chew them ;he is not the most cautious man in the world, and is very little acquainted A letter from Mareeilles mentiens, that an inhabitant of with what is going on at Court. He had written a distal city, having fai:en dangerously ill, wished to make his , sertatien upon one of my medals, in which he proved, will, and declared his intention of leaving 400 francs to the' against the opinion of other learned men, that the horned poor, and thereat &ibis property to his nephew. The bat- I head which it displayed was that of Pan, and not of tfr hawing left the house, to accompany the doctor part of Jupiter Ammon. Honest Baudelot, to display his crudi-11 Ws way home found his uncle dead on his return, and tion, said to the Marshal—' Ah, Itlonseigneur, this is one learnt that the' curate had taken away several bags of mo- of the finest medals that Madame possesses; it is the nev, to the amount of 6,000 francs, .o the parsonage. On triumph of Cornificitts; he has, you see. all sorts of the heir demanding the restitution, the curate acknow- horns. lie was like you, Sir, a great General ; he wears' !edged he had taken the money away, but declared that the the horns of Juno and Faunua. Cornificius was, as you defunct had verbally ordered him to take the sum in goes- probably well know, Sir, a very able General.' Here I lion, and distribute the same among the poor ; but the ne- interrufted him. Let us pass on,' I said, 'to the other phew refuted this allegation by. producing the will of the medal; if you stop in this manner at each, you will not' deceased, r bich fixed his donation at 400 francs. Such is have time to chew the whole; but lie, full of his subject, the preseer. state of the case ; the procurator of the King returned to it. Ah, Madame !' He went on, this is has the *fair in hand. We know that possession is, at- worthy of more attention than perhaps any other; Conticording to a vulgar adage, nine points of the law ;and ileitis is, indeed, one of the most rare medals in the world. when tnose points are in possession of the church • • • •. Look at it, Madame ; I beg you to observe it narrowly ;1 '-Journal du Cearewa,r.-e. here, you ace, is Juno crowned, and she is also crowning Ott the nights of the 13th and 14th of this month, some this great General.' All that I could say to him was not robbers entered the cottage of a man named Bodin, living sufficient to prevent Baudelot talking to the Marshal, in the hamlet of Vennelles, in the canton of Valencay, of horns; Monseigneur,' he said, is well vt caed in all who, after knocking out the brains of the poor man with there matters, and I want hint to see that I am right in the iron dogs of the tire-place, robbed the house of between insisting that these horns arc those of Faustus, not those of 7 and 14,000 francs. A child of nine years owes its life to Jupiter Ammon: All the people who were in the Chainbeing sound asleep during the murder. The gendarmes her with difficulty refrained from bursting into a loud are in search of the assassins. laugh. If the plan had been laid for the purpose, it could The celebrated demesne of Piercelield is again likely to not have succeeded better. When the Marshal had gone, pee* into the hands of a new proprietor. Mr. iVeele has, I too indulged myself in the laugh. It was with great or is on the point of disposing cf it to the Hon. Mr. Pon- difficulty that I could make Baudelot understand that he nenhy.—/rish had done wrong,"  use were some ceermed Members who were for aeeeptirg of the !loyal propositions with modifications, but they up their personal opinions, and thus a resolution was taken intously. which %%01 be remarkable in the annals of European