MEMOIRS OF MONSIEUR CLAUDE.

Chief of Police under the Second Empire. TRANSLATED BY MARY NEAL SHERWOOD. ♦ CHAPTER XXI. THE THERK CELLS OF LA ROQUETTE. While I was exercising, in consequence of the attempt of Orsioi, my delicate and perilous fuuc'ions as Chief of Police, I was of course obliged to b3 present at the last hours of the condemned. 1 ceaselessly trod the Calvary which leads the condemned from the Conciergerie to La Roquette—from the court-room to the scaffold. ~ , I and the Abbd Crozes-the most excel lent priest attached to this prison—were the devoted guardians of ihe condemned. It was his duty to reconcile them with justice. One can state with certainty that the condemned belong to tbeir companions, from whom they will not be separated again while they live: the priest, the chief of police, and the executioner. The prison of La Roquette is the last baiting-place of tha condemned before they monnt the steps of the scaffold. This prison is situated iv the dreariest part of Paris, near P6 c Lachaise. La Roquette, overlooked by a cemetery, isanother cemetery,where those condemned ttcdeuth are buried alive. The two prisons on the square face each o'hei. One ia the house of correction for juvenile delinquents, where those who bave taken their first steps in crime are detained, and tbe other is-whet c those criminals are placed whose lives are to be the forfeit of their crimes. . On fete days, when the populace of Pans go to PtSre Lachaise.or to the square to wit ness an execution, it is almost impossible to believe tbat they come to visit the dead or witness the last stinggles 'of a fellow creature. The crowd at such limes is really appal liflg. It i 9, moreover, in excellent spirits, ana manifests as much pleasure .as curiosity. When there is no execution on the square, its calm and solitude are disturbed only by a passing hearse or by a sentinel who paces before the door of the prison. The gray walls of La Roqnette are as sad as those of Mazas. It has four distinct buildings—on the east and the west are the workshops and cells, in the rear are the infirmary and the chapel, and in front the rooms sacred to the Administration. |

At La Koquette the prisoner is not con demned to solitary coniioement; he works and takes his exercise with the others. ■The inhabitants of this prison all wear a brown costume. They live and work in the two buildings cm the east and west.' ; These buildings cmai-t of three stories; tbe rez de chausdes are occupied by immense work shops which ara nut however, large enough for the occupants. The other floors are occupied by cells, in each of which is a large window, or, rather, a very lnrga window is divided by the partition wall, which docs not reach to the ceiling. As at Mazas. in the cells of tho3e con demned to solitary confinement all is so arranged that the prisoner may be seen by the guard at any time he chooses. The guard's room is 110 larger, nor is it more luxurious than the cells of the con demned, the principal furniture being a bed and a chair.

At dawn tbe prisoners leave their cells. They descend in rank and file, under the management of a Brigadier, who is also,'a prisoner. This Brigadier wears, in order to distinguish him from the others, a gi ecu braid. He leads his brigade each morning to the workshop where it belongs, and which coiresponds with the number of his section. _ '■ Behind- the workshops Is° ths chapel, which presents a cold uniformity which ia quite in harmony with the other portions of the building. The interior is furnished with rows of benches; on each side is a gallery. Un the lelt is a email closed-in lose; it is here that the condemned to death are allowed (o hear ma3S. The remainder of the gallery Is iotended for convalescents. The, olhisr gallery opposite is for the officers of the

prison. The veaerable Abbe* Crozes, the piiest of La Roquette, superintends himself the modest decoration of his altar. It is with pride that the Abbe shows the chapel to his vitltors, and points to * the Byzantine arabesques on the wall, designed and accomplished by one of his " children ;" for to this evangelical priest all the prisoners are his children. j There is a courtyard and a garden in the rear of the chapel, and it is here that the sick take air and exercise. It is here that the condemned watch the leaf-buds swelling in the spring sunshine, or the dead leaves falling from tbe trees. This courtyard, built in arcade;, recalls the a-ch tec ure of a modern convent, being built on the model of the arcad- s of the JKu< de X roll, in .Roman architecture, rendered in its simplest form. At the right of tb/se arcades' is an arched door, fastened vy enormous iion bol'a. - This door attracts the attention, haunts the memory and imagination. It actually speak?.' It is the door of " the three cells " —the door of the condemned to death

The entrance to the three cells baa no thing appallingjin it, however, when once this heavy door has creaked on its hinges. It is inundated with light, as are the cells, both day and night. Darkness is a refuge for despair and pain; and thi3 pitiless day, lighting up eVery crevice, is only another martyrdom, j Of the three cells, only one is usually occupied. Durhig the Orsini affair they were all filled, being tenanted by Orsini's refractory lieutenants, Fieri and Rndio. As a inle, it is the cell on the left which opens to receive the condemned. It is a loom of the usual size, and thoroughly lighted by a large square window. Below this window is a wooden table; opposite the.door an iron bedstead; on tke other side a stove, three chairs, and a small table! On these three chairs sit the condemned, toe watchman, and a soldier. I'he soldier: and the watchman are changed every two hours; the soldier is unarmed, and has not even a penknife in his pocket-^-ihis being the rule, r As soon as sentence is pronounced the condemned is never released fronr a strait jacket, which i« a linen bag, coming half way down bis bedy, Each sleeve i 3 sewed •up at tbe ends to prevent the hands coming put and ttraps preclude: all possibility of. making'a movement. This strait-jacket! reduces the condemned to the condition' of an automaton.

The fre? exercise of his facultl a. as well as his limb?, seems to be denied him. He ha* existed in. this way sinca the carriage left him at the great door of La roquette.

Vergor, Collignoa, L i Pommerai*, Oreini,' Pieri, Lenia're, Avinain, Tjoppmann, I have seen in the same condition, and all have been more or leas crushed by thi ir con demnation and by this unnecessary confine menr, the terrible prologue to tbe walk to tho scaffold. ' ; ' The scaff Id! This is the haunting thought that tortures the prisoner, waking or seeping, and deprives him of nil en ergy. . - ' .Some sninll indulgences are accorded. At meal times the right sleeve is opened and the prisoner is allowed to feed himse'f •with the assistance of a wooden Spoon, his food being previously cut up for him. This food is a double ration,; while the other prisoners at La Roquette have wine and meat only Thursdays and Sundays, the condemned, by a privilege which no one envies them,'has a right to the fifth part of a quart of wine at each meal, and to roast beef da'ly. He cm write, also, and smoke. A bell placed near tne door make' known through the guari the desireß of tha' con demned. In this cell tbe condemned issues hi* orders and his guards obey. Jhey are ordered nev<rr to contradict him in tbe conversations they hold with him, from the moment he rises until they undress and put him to bed, as if he weie a child.

This cell is opened only to the nearest re'ations, but the priest visits it every day; he bas a key which admits him at all hoars. - - • ■ .-.:■-'■;■ "'■ '■

; During all the time that I was Chief of Police, I rarely «aw a prisoner refuse the consolations offered by the Abbe Crozes, whose pectle face, surrounded by snowy hair, his divine expression and tender yqrdß, seemed to have been borrowed from the-acgej o)f iner,cy. ... -'*... The'coarsest natures, and the most de praved, melted under his indefatigable devotion; they have been moved by the and patience ©f the priest who

has so mauy times supported the faltering footsteps of ciiminais to the scaffold. At one o'clock tas condemned leaves his cell to walk in the courtyard of the infir mary. The fick are biddeu to depart when they see him coming, between his two escorts.

Never do the prisoners of La Roquette come in contact with the condemned.; the time for exercise, and tue hour for his exe cution, are a* immutable as the laws of the Medes and Persians. Oa the day of exe cution the shutters of the windows^ are hermetically closed, in order tba.t neither the critniuil nor hu dismal cortege shall be seen, and uo prisoner is allowed to leave his cell. After passing through tbo door of which we spoke, and down the arcades, the pri soner reaches a staircase, whose spiral turns recall the architecture of the Middle Ages. This is a frightful jouraey I These stairs seem to have been built to recall the most barbarous epochs. Its steps are so high that they must be torture to the un happy creatures, whose limbs totter under them with fright. How many times have those steps been (rod by the condemned ? After this staircase comes a corridor; this he passes through and reaches the room called the Di-por. It is here that ha toilet is made for the scaffold, as has been dons for thirty years.

Ah ! "If thoic walla cou'd speak 1 As soon as the condemned has left his cell to enter this room, he belongs no lon ger to the Director of the Piison, but to the executioner.

"Monsieur de Paris" Lolik an order which makes him absolute master of his charge. In virtue of this order, the execu tioner presents himself to the Director, and receives the criminal from him.

When the executioner goea up to the condemned, who stands w.th the prie3ta and hia guards, Monsieur dv Paris addres ses him Uy name.

Generally, the condemned makes no reply. The executioner lays hi 3 liand on the shoulder of Lv victim and says solemnly: " Yoirare mine in the name of the Lsw!"

The execu'ioner sign 3 a receipt which the Director hands him, while the condemned man is made ready to accompany him to the scaffold.

A very simple expedient has been adop ted to replace the straight jacket, which is now removed. The hands of the condmned are tied behind his back, bis feet are fas tened together by a chain long enough for him to walk, and another chain is fastened from his wrists to his ankles.

Tha condemned, in this way, i 3 eaabled ;o stand perfectly erect.

On leaving tbis loom, wh»n these changes ate made, the condemned has but a few more steps to tike.

The doors creak, fly op;n, and the quiver ing criminal sees the guillotine befoee him. The criminal is placed on the platform above, where gleams the gigantic kuife, which, by the aid oE springs, falls at; a touch from the execu'ioner, and jmtice is done 1

The feeling ia ao s'rong as regards the executioner hircuclf touching this spring that, were he t) be sudden'y struck down by apoplexy during the exercise of his function-, Ms assistants CJuld not tiuHi his work-another executioner must be summoned.

- i be principa loriniimls who have left one or tha other of thi-se thies cell 3 have left at La Koquette some memories which I have gatbeted up. Verier declaimed all day and all night to his guards fragments of his unpub'ished works. L? Pommerais lectured on hygiene, arid gave them medical advice gratis—advice which, by reason of his an tecedents, they were not inclined ts follow. The stout and cynical Collignon jested all day long.

Orsini, however, -preserved a mournful si!e-.ce, <3i>tiu ting the very walla of hi 3 c;ll, behind which Lagiaige and his mfin often listened to the conversations of the regicides with their guards. Pieri, Orsini's complice with Kudio in the affair of the bombs on the 14th of Janua'y, 1858, was, however, as talkative a* Or.'im was taciturn. He tried to keep up his courage by sing-

iog. If the police bad cot been put off the track by the London and by the Italian women employed as s) ies, who assisted Orsini and Mazzini, Fieri, whom I had long known of through Mme. X——, his victim, would have been the first to still his companions. In the detailed account of the castastrope of January 14th, 1858, when I took a con spicuous part in the arrest of Pieri tbe con duct of this regicide is fully described. as to Orsini, his role would have remai ned a mystery but for tbe foreign women— the spies and mistresses of Napoleon ILL, who, while responding to his passion, con» spired against his life with Orsini and Mazzini, with Prussia and Italy, 1 It was these women who routed the police at the moment when the horrible at tempt at the opera impsriled the lives of the Emperor and Empress, and inundated the Rue de Pillefrer with blood -striking down and worn?n and children, seldier.s and bourgeois, and immolating at least five hun dred persons. ; | To the role that I filled in this affair was due my elevation to the position of Chief cf Police, aft'r the di'grace of the principal agent 3of tbe Prefacture and of the Prefect himself. CHAPTER XIII. .J January 14tb, 1858. ONE morning, three days before the even ing of the attack of Janlury 14th, which caused one of the mrst frightful catastrophes ever dreamed of by a conspirator, I recei ved Mme. X , tbe spy from the chateau, secretly in my cabinet, ', She seemed to be in tbe greatest state of excitement, her voice was trembling, and she was deadly pale. i That she had now»come to me showed that there was something of grave import ance, for she was well aware that F knew all that had taken place. ' "My [friend," she said, as she threw herself into a chair, "I am in despair} The Emperor is the mo3t imprudent man in the world These foreign women who come here he trusts too much I You-kuoW my little house in Auteuil ?" she continued,' "It brought me ill luck, I am sure, and I am now inclined to believe that it is.un* lucky foranyene who lives in it." - . "1 do not understand you, madame," I answered, with a cold reserve, which was inthe strongest possible contrast to.her impetuous friendly tone. Mme. X in her excitement did not' even notice my coolness. She continued breathlessly, •? t!f cou:se you do not; you are hot even aware that for tbe last few, months the Emperor has bad this Tittle bouse of mine. He has bsen received there in succession by an English woman and two Italian', one a duchess and the other a princess. These women, 1 know, belong to Mazzim'f band, wheth»r thoy are prin cesses or not." > _ I asked Mme. X-—, io some excite ment myself, what hi-r retsom were for believing these women to be sp;es. X "Id-) not believe," she, answered j "I know, if I had only presumptions to go upon, only supposi ions to guide me, I should not have come to sco you. If the ceftteati, through the influence of these Eoglish and Italians, were not deaf to my revelations ai.d appeal, I should not be here I have no other hope now than in your iote'ligence, my dear Claude : I appeal to you to open the eyes of the Minister of the Interior, of the Prefect of the Seine, of the Prefect of Police, who will not lift a finger lo remove the dangerous entourage by which tbe Emperor has sur'rouaded himself." _■ .

1, by this time, bad become quite as ex cited ias Mine. X — berSelf. She had pointed out to me a danger to which I had been blind. The excess of zeal shown by Mme.X — had saused me lo realize, a pot wbich, for their own security, my chiefs had not chosen to see, lest they shouldja!tract vengeance upon themselves, I answered Mme. X-— somewhat brus quely : " If the Mioift ra, if my superiors, have not chosen to believe you should not expect me to do so ?" "But," she an-werrd, with despairing vehemence,-" I have tiia evidence."

" Prove your w«rds, if you please." "ifou know llii- Pieri, who<e real name was iot Piercy, but Pi:ri? Well, he's in Paris to-day. !"■ "Wbat does, that prove?", • : "I saw him go <J«t of my house at Auteuil," she replied, impatiently. ," I saw him with my own eyes; it w-<s dark, but 1 knew him instantly ; t;e had just left the Italian Princess, \vho»i bis Majesty.often f>bes to see, although the whole Court, with the exception of our S'lvcrt-ign, knows that this 'woman is the mistress of a man.nameel Orsini, and this man is Mazzini's ; lieuten ant."- ' ': : "

"But 1 really can't see why you should suppose that this -Piercy or Pieri, whom you certainly have a right to bate, comes to France and goes to see the miatreßs of his Majesty, only to plot against our sovereign. 1 Now, I in my tarn will tell you something whiph destroys your supposition, This con

fidence I have from Lagrange, chief of the Political Division at the Prefecture. This is it • •' The Emperor is reconciled with Mazzini, and mßre than that, France will probably feel the effect of this reconciliation by a war with Austria. Why do you insist, then, tbat tbese Italian Internationalists continue to send regicides or conspirators against our Sovereign, when in reality they are thinking only of the independence of their country ?"

"Ah!" cried Mnie. X , still more impatiently. " How stupid you all are at the Prefecture. I am not astonished that your Pieri is allowed to do as he pleases here—nor that the life of the Kmperor is no safer than that of the rabbit on the plain. Know, then, that since the reconciliation of Mazzini with the Emperor, that his party is mote iutious than everagainst Napoleon. This very day Orsioi and Pieri have been warned not to become the dupes of the Emperor by thia ne>v reconciliation." It was my turn to be alarmed at this un expected revelation. " But, niadame," I cried, " lidw can you know.these things?" "From the wife of this Piercy," she ro plied, " who, let me asain tell you, is not Darned Piercy, but Pieri. This woman lives in the Rue dv Ohanip-d'Asilc at Montronge. You see that 1 know what 1 am saying, and you will also remember that sicce I Buffered that deadly insult at the hands of this man I have left no stone un turned to find kirn, and keep informed in regard to his movements. After I saw him leave my house at Auteuil, I have had him followed night aad day. I learned that he left London on the Bth of January. I knew that lie did not live with his wife at Montronge, and have discovered that he is at the H6tel France, under the name of Joseph Andr<s Piercy." " But why," I said, as I noted down this addteas, " Why did you not have this man arrested ? He has no right to bo in France."

"Simply," she replied, "because I wished to tiud out why he was in Paris. 1 made the acquaintance of his wife, and have discovered all I wish to know. This Pieri has been sent by the society in Lon don, presided over by Lsdru-Rollin, to assassinate the Emperor. He has with him two persons, one ot whom is known under an English name, and the other is Oisini, Mazzini'a lieutenant. I know this fioiu Pieri's wife."

"Bat," I objected, "if tbis plot really existed, i 3 it at all likely that the wife of one of the conspirators would go about and talk of a conspiracy which might, send her husband to the scaffold ? Is this in the smallest degree probable ?" " It would, be very probable," she replied angrily, "if this Pieri, if this conspirator, not having the courage to betray his accomplices himself, made use of his wife as an agent—thus hoping to save his neck from the guillotine. And this is precisely his case."

"My dear child,"l said, cutting shott this conversation, " I am inclined to believe that when you set this woman's tongue wagging it was with the hope of gratifying jour personal vengeance, lam compelled to believe, until I have further information, that the Minister and my superiors are right in not acting on your advice, How ever, I will note down what you say, andl will find out what I can about this Piercy." "Ahl" she said, as she swept out of my room disdainfully, "you think I am in fluenced simply by my personal dislike of this man. You are like all the others. Not withstanding the details I havo given you, you will not believe that his Majesty is any in danger. Very well, you will see." A nd shewentout. I admit that I was disturbed and shaken, in spite of my denials, by the conviction in the face and manner of Mme-X —. My strongest reason for not attaching more im po tance to her statement was that I knew her personal hatred against this Piercy^ her former prosecutor. Nevertheless, the precision of her details corresponded with tbe information received by the Paris police from that of London. M. LagTange had, in fact, been advised of Orsini's departure from London with three Mazzinists. But neither the Minis ter of the Interior nor the Prefect of Police had given any orders to prevent the conse quences of ibis new irruption of delegates from the Socialists. Ie was clear the danger was not great, or else some marvellous influence protected the enemies of the Emperor. Of course it was impossible for me, with out the support of these two Ministers, to take any steps. I therefore contented myself, after my conversation with Mmc X , with embodying it in a report. It remained unnoticed at the Prefecture. Several days later this report brought »ie on a stage where a most horrible tragedy had bfen enacted—a tragedy which neither the Emperor nor his Ministers bad prevented, because only a woman had warned them. Before revealing all the Orsini bombs, I muse relate as briefly as possible the details of this horrible affair, and tell how I succeeded in putting my hand on one of tbe minor accomplices, thanks to the reve lations made by Mme. X . It was only two days after the visit of this lady, and two days after I had sent in my report, that Paris shuddered with horror at the catistrophe which had taken place under the peristyle of the Opera House. It wss the evening ot the 11th cf January, 1858, the Emperor and Empress were on their way to the Grand Opera, whe'o the more distinguished and brilliant numbers of Parisian society were momentarily await ing them. The Due de SaxCobourg Gotha, theß on a visit to the Court had preceded their Majesties. An immense crowd was gathered to watch them leave their carriages. There were a number of policeman scattered through the crowd; am ng them the famous Alessandri, whose especial duty it was to watch over the safety of the Emperor; The Government had begun to feel some little anjtfety in consequence of a new manifesto of Mazzini, which had appeared in a Genoa Journal, called " Italian del Papolo"; for each manifesto was the signal, apparently, of new plots and new dangers. There were rumors of infernal machines, and it was said agents fiom London were in Brussels, on their way to Paris.

If precautions were not fully taken by the Government at this time, it was not the fault of the subalterns at the Prefec ture. It was under these circumstances that on Thursday, the 14th of January, their Majesties annoanced their intention of being present at the opera. The programme for the evening's enter-, tainment, organised ' as a benefit for Massol, who was about to retire from-the strge, consisted of three acts of "Marie Tudor," which JBUtorl, wa9 to play, and a sce>:e from " La Muette."

The front of the theatre was brilliantly il'umiaated, the house was crowded with the cream of fociety, and without the street was packed with the people. At half p st eight the Imperial cortege viba signaled. It was coming at a fast trot down the boulevard.

There were three carriages with the Emperor's arm», under the escort of the Lancers of tbe Guard, commanded by a lieutenant, who rode near tbe right door of the Imperial carriage, and by a marshal of the household on the lift door.

Just a? this carriage, wbich was tho last, reached the peristyle of the Opera House, the two otheis, which had preceded it, occupied by the cbamberlaius and officers of the palace, had entered the vaulted pa'sage which led to the wing tint had been constructed for the use_ of their Majesties, from which, by a private stair case, they reached their logs. With their Maje»ties went General Roquet, in the same carriage, It drew np a little as it reached the vaulted pas-rage, and at this moment a tremendous c-xpiosioo was heard—murderous projectiles were Iflying iv every direction. Two more ex plosions followed the first. These extin guished the gas, and in a moment there was extreme darkness.

The crash of glass was heard, the snort ing and trampling of terrified horse?, the agonizing shrieks of the wounded, and the groans of the dying. During these three explosions, the Empe ror's carriage was in a cloud of fire and irou ; it seemed as if it r Be from the pave ment and fell on the living rampart sur roundiog the Kmperor, the £mpress and Geoeral Koguet. The borses of the mounted escort trampled on the wounded and the dying. The iron roof of the peristyle rattled uuder this ter rible hail, while ih« windows of the oppo site houses responded with the same deafen ing noise of shattered glass. 'flic catastrophe of the 14th of January, of which I had been warned by Mme. X , was accomplished. Standing among the crowd on tho side walk, the murderers had thrown these •three bomb-shells, which had caused all this destruction. Jt was a moat terrible scone. Blood ran in rivers over the sidewalks, and the walls j

were spattered with it. Frightened offi cials wete crowding around tl)o carriage of their Sovereign, to satisfy theitmolveH with their own eyes, that tho Jimpeior wns unin jured. The first bomb had hardly burst, than the second exploded under the very feet cf tbc horses attached to the Imperial couch. If tho panels had not baeu lined with sheet iron they would hive beou riddled through and through. At the first explosion, the Hmperor started to leave the carriage by the door on the right, and seek shelter in the Opera House. Unable, however, to open the door, ho and the Empress, half stunned, awaited tho end,

The Umporor's hat was pierced by a pro jectile that crazed hia cbeek and indicted a very in significant wound. The limpress had a tiny scratch on hor temple. As to General riogiigt, he received a wound, tho serious nature of which was not discovered until later.

Matdly had the last ejcplosioa died away, than a man with a scarred and mutilated tace thrust his head into the coach. The dress of the Empress waa Btained with bis blood. Was this one of tho conspirators who wished to ascertain if his work were accomplished ? But hia voice quickly re assured their Majesties—it was Alessandri, tho most faithful of agents, who threw him self in front of the Emperor to protect him with his holy. Presently M. Lanat, tho detective of the police staff of tho Opera House, made his appearance; M. Bchert, another official, and then Koyer and Gustavo Vaiiz, manager of tbo opera. Then tho Emperor and Empress left the coach, assisted by General jßoguet, who was seriously injured. They advanced very slowly to the Controller's door. The robe of the Empress was stained with blood, She left be hind hor dead and wounded to the number ot gne hundred and sixty. The Emperor's coachman and three footmen were badly wounded ; also two of the Guard of Lanceri, one of whom stood firmly at hi» post. When the officer in command asked his men if any anioug them was hurt, this man lifted his band audsaid :

"lain, s!r." Then he stopped, gasped for breath, and fell fainting in the nruH; of his comrades. He died a few minutes later.

A. fow minutes before the "first ex plosion," officer Hubert, of tha police, met, at the corner of ihe Kuss le Peletier and Kossini, a man in whom he recognised Pieri. It was tlsis same man that the Minister of Franco, at Brussels, had stated, according to my report, as having arrived in Paris, 9th of January, with the intention of assassinating tbe Km pjror. Pieri was immediately arrested, and sent to the stat'on-house. There he was searched, and on bis person was found a fivc-barreloii revolver, a dagger, a note oa the Bank of England, and a small metal cylinder, which might have been sorna infernal machine, for Pieri said Lustily :

" Take care, now ! look out what you do, for that littla thing might do a great deal of mischief."

Ilobert arrcstsd Pieri some five minutes before tbe explosion. Although Hfcbsrt was bit by somo frag ments of piojettiles, he_ was able to make his report upon hia important capture. That he held one of the assassins, arrested oofore be could t«K« part in the crime, was very certain. It was through my report, for which I was indebted to Mine. X , that tbe police were enabled to find tho track of Pieri's accomplices—Onini, Gomez and Rudio,

It wai not midnight when I received an order to go to the BOtel de France, No. 192 Rue Montmartre, where Pieri had said— which statement agreed with my denun ciation—that he resided with another indi vidual.

As I have never been a boaster, _ and shrink from being co considered, I think it best |to copy the report which I drew up. This will bqow how I discovered ono ol tha individuals, Pieri's companion, who had himself, under the name of Piercy, been ar rested by Hdbeit The events which led to the imprison ment ol Orsini, who was protected by one of the mistresses of Napoleon, are so roman tic that they seem improbable. I shall take pain?, howover, to furnish the proofs of the guilt of these Italian mur derers. This is tho paper I drew up for the Prefect.

"1858, January 15tb, at one o'clock in the morning: "The undesigned, Commissary of Police, herewith states on oatb, that in consequence of an attempt that evening on the life of the Emperor, he, with assis tants went to 132 Hotel de France, in tbc Rug MoDtmartre, to the room of a man who called himself Piercy, and who was ar. rested almost (at the moment of the crime and neat the spot where it took place. That here we examined Madame Briou, who kept this hotel, and informed her of the reason of onr visit. We examined her in regard to a certain individual, she said she did not know any such name ; and on look ing at her book, we did not find it there. I then examined tho other people in the hotel, who called themselves Andrdas and Da Silva, who occupied at night one cham ber, in which there were two beds. These people thgnghUhat ono of tbo«e two might be the Piercy we sought. We went up to this room, No ; 50, and thero found the other, who called himself Jose Antonio Da Silva. thirty yeirs of nge, without profes> Rion, and born at Lisbon. We then searched the room occupied by Da Silva, and in his praseDce mado a list of such articles as we discovered :

" First. —ln a commode, which we forced open, wrapped in the soiled clothes of his companion, as stated by Da.Silva, we found a five-barreled revolver of Euglish mma facture, loaded and capped. "Second.— ln the same commode, and also wrapped in soiled linen, was a small dagger, with an ebony handle. " Third.— Ina!secretary in the same room, almost foraed by us, wo found an oak case, a plaia copper box, which wo supposed con tained arms, and which Da Silva said he had never before seen.

"Fourth.— In the same place was a second box precisely similar in appeatance; this, too, the eaid Da Silva professed never to have seen,

" Fifth.—la a travelling-bap, apparently belonging to the same individual, was a square lead box, which we know must con ttin gunpowder. " Sixth —In the same bag was a vest of red flannel, which seemed to ua to have been intended as a signal under certain cir cumstances.

"Seventh, —A band of canvas, on which was embroided, in red and gresn silk, this inscription: 'I do love yon, papa.' This was trimmed with two ribbon?, one green and the other red.

" Eight.—la the same bag was a German pawport, dated Dussoidorf and made out For Joseph-Andrdas Piercy, vistd last at Birmingham; this faot established the identity between the person named ia the passport and the man who had registered, himself at the H&tel de France under' the name of Andidas.

"Ninth.— Inanothei bag, which afore named Da Silva slated to us belonged to himself, was a square box coptaining a rose-coloured powder a hare's foot, and a bit of soft flannel. The said Da Silvu could not explain the use to be made of those articles, but they seemed to us very suspicious. •' Tenth. —A commemorative madal, bear ing the date 1856, pierced with nine holes —these, too, we looked upon os demanding future explanation, " Eleventh. —A porl.rait of a mm—a daguerreotype. •• Twelfth.— A little canvas band, bearing the inscription " Remember me," embroidod in green silk. "iThirtcenth,—Oa the person of tbe said Da fcilva was a passport made out by the Portuguese Consul, at London, in the name of Jose-Antonio Da Silva vised in the latter city on the 7th of January, two notes written m lead-pencil, and on two bits of paptr were coats of arms. " Fourteenth.— A Bmall portemonnaie, or portfolio, in brown morocco, containing the sum of two hundred and seventy francs in gild Aud one silver piece of five francs. "We seized all tbcaa articles. We then examined Madame1 Briou's police-book, and f mm ths following entries :

'• Andrdae, Joseph, 45 years of age, without profession; born at Birmingham, and on his way from Prussia, bearer of a passport from Dus;g' dorf, dated February Stb, 1857. Euteied January 7th, 1858. "Ea Silva (Jose-Antonio), 30 years of ago, bora at Lisbon, Portagul; coining from Kio Janeiro, January, 1557. Entered January 12th. "Prom information received from toe people of the hotel, we learned that a man named Swing (Peter), arrived at the hotel the tame day that the said Andreas was first seen thore—tbat is to say, on January 7th, and that ho left again on the 12th of the samo month; that he returned twice to visit the same Andr<siiß, onco on the 13tb, and yoatorday morning, tho 14th, Ibis

last time he was on horseback, and after conferring a very short time with his com rade, he departed. 'Filially, on the 12 h of Jaou&ry, tho man Da Siiva took up hh abode iv tho chamber of his friend.

" We hrcwith state all that is known of this person Swing : "A papor-haogerfrorn London, born and educated there. He stated that he had been requested by a friend to take the second bed in the room he bad vacated.

"When questioned as to how he had em ployed his time on the 14th ot January (yosterdav), Da Silva replied that tbey ha 3 left tho hotel together about noon and separated outside the door, and didnotmect again until six in tho evening, when they parted almost immediately. Da Silva said lie could give no information as to how his companion had spent tho day nor tbe evening, he himself having gone to his room at eight o'clock. The undersigned, thinking that tho aforesaid Da Silva was an accomplice of the man Piercy. arrested him and touk him to the depot of the Pie facture. "Signed) CiAUDB." While I was making this arrest at the H6tel do France, a certain man, Diot by name-a waiter io tbe restaurant Broggi, situated opposite tbe Opera House found a pistol under an elagere ; by ihe side of the ctagere was a man apparently iv great pain. This mau was named Swincy, nnd claimed to be the servant of au Kngli-hmao, M Allsop, residing No. 10 Rue Monthabor. The true namo of Swincy was Gomez, aud Allsop was Orrini. Tho representation at tho Opera House was not over when t'te police had arrested ovety actor iv this bioody dratnu. While tho Emperor appeared to follow with oalm interest all that was enacted oa tho stage, frequent bursts of applause Interrupting tho performance, tho officers gave us our ordets. .Napoleon 111. soon informed us that this conspiracy was managed by the Italian Carbonari, with whom he had been con nected since 1838. How could ono of Mozzim's lieutenants, Orsini, be s:nt from London to assassinate nn Emperor who was on excellcut term« with tho supremo head of tho Carbonari? Was there a split then nmong these plotcers ? had tbe Carbonari no mote faith in hU oalh than bad the cbien of tbe democracy in Franco, when ho sworo fidelity to the Republic 1 This iwas tho mysterious point in this frightful tragedy, a point which ray next cbapterinay throw some light upon. (To be continutd.)

BLAIR ATHOL'S DERBY.

An Unwritten Page of Turf History. Thb following strange story iv connection with one of the moit famous racs ever run over tbe historic downs at Epsom is told by Mr Corbettof the "Sporting Times :"— " When General Peel won the Two Thousand, Jackson and Steel, the leviathan bookmakers who invariably followed the fortunes of lord Glasgow and Tom Daw son, won a great stake, aud they also stood very htavily en the horse far the Derby, for which they had taken ail the long prices, Tho agreement between tho confederates was that Dlair Athol, whom, in reality, Jacks >n owned, should not run for the Derby, to tint the way might be cleared for General Pee). Jackson, howovor, had neither tho c>ol mind, calm judgment, nor firm purpose cf St:ol, and was kcipuble of great entei prises. His confederate fearing that if Jackson went to tho Newmatket betting (rooms, elated as he win on the night of the Two Thousand, bo would com mit some act of folly, begged of bi,n not to leave his lodgings, which were over a china shop iv the High-street. Jackson consented, provided Steel and his partner would come and sit with him, as he could not boar to be alone. They remained with him till neatly midnight, and when all was, as they thought, safe they left. Crossing the toad tbey met someone they knew, and presently Pcech, looking round saw Jackson skulking under a window so as to escape observation, on his way to tho White Hart. Steel utteied an expression of disgust and deter mined to wash his bands of such a weak confedcato. Jnckeon wfiut to tbe VVhito Heart, gbt drunk, and being banteied about Blair Athol backed him to win some thou sands, and as there was no getting out the horse was obliged to run. lie was saddled at Tottenham Corner, and galloped down course, led by Caller Ou. In tbe race Scneral Peel overpowered bis jockey, and taking the load at the mile post made play at a terrific pace. Blair Athol, not being used to a racecourse, did not understand the busines?, and for a long way ho ran very green. Warming to lr's work, however, he overhauled General l'o;lat tho Grand Stand, and clearing him in a few strides, gained a most billiant victory, while Jackion and Steel netted only about a fifth of what they would have won if he had not started. The scheme, as told us by ono of the princi pal actors, was this : We hod won a hatful of money on General Peel for the Two Thousand, aad wo stood a raker for the Derby. Thi«, of course, we should have won had Blair Athol not run. General Peel having won the Two Thousand ani Derby in a canter, people would havo said lie was one of the biggest wonders ever known, and bo would have becu an eveu money chance for (heSt. Leger. We should have 'laid' him all tho summer, aud we should have had Blair Athol to ourselves, as, after not runniug In tho Derby, the public wonld not have stood him, mote particularly in face of General Peel. We should then have begun our commission at about 60 to 1, and cleared the Ring out of every shilling tbey hail, and won more at one coup than any dozen men had dono previouily. All this was upset through Jackson getting drunk at the White Hart."

English Diamond Thieves in Paris.

PAHis, August 27.—The case of two Eng lish [rogues, Fnlton and Watson, came on fer bearing yesterday. It Was they who, lait winter, stole from a jeweller, Mme. Chauvet, in tbe Rue dcs Capucines, dia monds to the valne of 235,090 francs. The robbery wai porp?tratcd in the following daring fashion : A man calling himself Colonel Gaston. presented biro&elt ia Mme. Chauvet's shop, and requested to be shown mrao diadem diamond nccklacu, &c. ilis manners were so good and his manners were so ele gantly correct iv every respect that the marchantc had no hesitation iv fpreading before h^r customer her most valuable gems. Of these tho swindler made a lavish choice, and asked Mme. Chauvat to place tbein in a little black hand bag he had brought on put pose. In payment tho pretended Colonel offered a cheque on a foreign bank, which was re fused. " Wait a moment," cried tho black leg. "I will get it changed at tho bank and bring you notes. Keep tho hand bag; I shall b j bach directly." So saying he dis appeared. rtlninst immediately he had left the shop a reapectably-dresaed woman entered and requested to be shown a certain ring in the shop window. While Mme. Chauvet was occupied in get'iog the riog the " Colonel's " accomplice succeeded in adroitly substitut ing an absolutely similar hand-bag for the ono left on the counter. This done, she quickly chose her ling and left. When evening came without her customer returDias, Mmn, Chauvet opened the bag —which she thought was tbe same one that "the Colonel" had left—and discovered that she had been robbed. When Fulton and Watson were arrested in Belgium for other diamond robberies, several of the stones stolen from Mmc, Chauvet were found in their possession. Fulton was yesterday sentencod 'to four, and Wateon, the pretended Colonel, to five years' imprisonment.—Prom the London "Standaid."

Babylonian Boundary Stones Discovered.

FEOM the neighbourhood of Babylon the British Mussurn has la'ely received three important and beautiful boundary stones, Xhev are covered with inscriptions, biero- Rlyphs, and human figures. On the first appours toe name of Meli-Sikhu, a Baby. lonian king, who reign td nearly one thousand two hundred years before tJie Christian era. The secmd bears the name of Nabu-Kain-abli, also a Babylonian king, but one of whom no record has yet lseeu .'o'.ind, either in the cuneiform documents or in th.c classics, but from the style of the writing on the alone it is inferred that he lived in the early half of the seventh cen tury B. C. Most interesting of all the stones is the third, It lya been engraved with great care, and one is entirely covered with zodiacal signs. It was set up fey order of Nebuchadnezzar as a memorial of the taking back of a piece of land from tho Elanutes and its vofftoration to the country of Akk&d,

The Bishop of Melbourne On Church Lotteries.

Dr Mooruouse, Bishop of Melbourne, has defined the diffeience between lotteries for charitable purposes and the Melbourne Cup lotteries, fle said lately, in a conversation at Hamilton, Victoiia, "that he regarded bazaar raffles, wben straightforwardly aud honestly conducted, as an embodiment of the principle of ' co-operative purchase' superadded to the principle of ' determina tion by lot,' both of which operations were perfectly harmless and legitimate. A number of persons combined together to purcha'O an article^ there was nothing wrong in thut. Having subuc-ibed enough money to purchase it, they next proceeded to detormino by lot which of them should on joy tho possession of that a'ticln. and this was a mode of deciding quite in accord ance with Scripture precedent, as wilntss tho case of Matthias, Some of the Bishop's hearers asked him whether sweeps on the Melbourne Cup, or other ventures recog nised us gambliag, could not be justified by the same process of ratiocination ; but ttio Bishop distinctly answered ' No,' and proceeded to show tho diilerenee. Said his Lordship, there 13 ro consideration given by the gambler. Thu man who risks his money in that way expects to win yours, and vice versa, without anything being given in roturu, whereas ia a bazaar rofllo, every owner of a ticket liulda a beneficial interest iv their common property, which U actually purchased. As everyone cannot ba iho possessor of the article, it ia nt-ces sary to determine who shall take it, and there is no fairer wuy of deciding than uy casting lots. Tho Bishop was next re mind, d that certain bettiu" men averred that the principle of fire and life assurance was nothing but gambling, os a company would bet any of their customers 1000 to 5 that his house was nut burnt down during the eusuing twelve months, or longer odds that he would not die during the gauio or any other period. Dr Moorhouso mot the argument by saying that people who paid lire or life insurances had a beneficial interest in tho transaction. They were protocted against loss by fire, and so re ceived value tor their payments ; the nmouut of their life policy was paid to their representatives, and tho premiums^ re sembled to many instalments lodged in a savings bask, to be afterwards returned with interest, Dr Moorhouse said thut it was a voiy common trick to bracket together a number of things that had no rcalcennoction or analogy one with another, and this was the only way he could account for some people's objections to bazaar raffling. The process, however, was entirely different from gambling ; and the fact that gamblin? was undertaken with a selfish object, whilst baitaar rallies we:o got up for purposes wholly unselfish, also constituted a great distinction."

The Salvation Army.

CABDIHAL MANNIXCI OBJECTS TO SOME OF

THEIR CUSTOMS. A guave objection is to be found in the practice of what is called " tho training of converts." ''Tne moment any man, woman, or child professes to Lave received remis sion of tins, we require them to stand up and tell the audience." In this wo must believe spirituil dangers of tho most peri lous kind to be inevitable. First, each ouo is to bo the judge of hia own state; next, he is tv mako instant and public profession of it. Against those who resolve the cer tainty of their aduption as soas of God iuto their o*u inward consciousness, even Luther said, "I rest my adoption not on my own assurance, but upon tho act of Gud in my baptism." This is building on the rock, the other is building on the sand. If the Jnlvation Array build* its work on such foundations, how can it s'anii ? There is no form of deception or self-deception which this does not invite. Tiny who know lcist of themselves, of the slnlulness of sio, and of tha sanclity of God, would be amnng the first to believe iv their own salvation. If thero ba any warning in God's Word more constant and more ur gent than another it is humility and self mistiust. The mst.uit public profession — that is, the Colling of all eyes aud ears and attention upon tliemsvlvc, n the last thing tbnt the Spirit of God, in any record of Holy Scripture, compels or warrants. The ruing up of anyone in the midst of n con gregation, with such a profession, sccniH like. " God, I thmik Thee that now lam not as other men arc ; not even as them ■ aronnd mo." This, 6urely ia not tha voice of humility, nor could uny humility long endura such a training. If it be said tlmt such public profession be an net of thnnks givint;, wo must answer tuat the best thanksgiving is the humblest. If it be s ■id that it is a humiliation, we must answer asaiu that sulf-impa-cd humiliation!) :ir. tho most subtle of all snares It may 1 c that a person of mature rxpeiiancc iv the spiritual life may, without self-conscious ness, lay open hit> llfo and state in public, But that men, women, and children, kucel ing in tbe front row of a public tncetiug should at the outset of their convention Ml the audience the work of God in tutir souls wi'hout danger to humility, aincerity or reality, is contrary to the spiritual ex perienco of tho world. This ob'.orvation extends to the usa^o of making Iho "tnved" put aa S or some tuch sign upon their collar. Believing the last danger of the spiritual life to be what is called "The Storm iv the Harbour"—that is, spiiitual complacency springing from solf-consciou-1 ness and self-contemplation, which wracks even those who have esmpsd from the perils of the deep into tbo port of safaly— we must look with great fear upon a sys'.em which systematically Cillsout into activity tbe self-complacency latent in all men, and trains it by an elaborate external discip line. Such was not the training of the fiist disciple?, or of the early Christians, or of tho conf ssors and martyrs of any nge, whether iv persecution or in peace. Humil ity, sorrow for sin, conversion to God, like the frost and the dew and the light, work silently and with a Divine power. An old wrjtor says: "Ira ost, non gratia, cum quig ( —cupcr ventum nullos habens radices in eelitate virtntum." The history of the church is full of examplos cf conver sion which have no roots, or such only as aro in flesh and blood. They have been most prolific and self-proclaimed, but the least fruitful and the least abiding. If this be true within the unity of the Catholic Church and under the strong guidance of its discipline, what may we look for among those who are outsi c of its shelter and choose their own guides and their own way ? '

The Murder of James I. of Scot land.

A DARK tragedy occurred at the Blackfriars Monastery, in the town of Perth. Thither —for it served on occasion* as the Royal residence—James I. of Scotland bad cane to kcip his Christmas". He had made, by Ma efforts to diminish the power of his unruly nobility and to establish the suprsme authority of the Crown, dangeroaß enemies amongst thoso of high birtb. A conspiracy had been formed, .iv which tome of his own re'a'ion3 were taking an active part. The Earl of Atholo, his uncle, and Sir Robert Stewart, grandaou ot the same, chamberlain of the Court, wero leading spirits ia the plot. Suddenly, on tia night of February 21st, a strong party from the Highlands arrived at the- monastery gate, and was admitted by the fuithless chamberlain. The king was about to retire to rest, but the queen and her ladies-in-waiting woie still in the apartmeni, The alarm was raised as the murderers approached. Tho bolt had been removod from the door ; but tradition relates that a young lady, Katherine Doug la9, reckless of herself, thiust her arm through the staple, and attempted to shield her sovereign. Only a day or two before there would have been a chance of escape for a trap-door led down into a subterranean vault which communicated with the ex terior ; but unfortunately the opening had just been walled up by the king's order, because tho balls, as ho was playing at t?nnis, had rolled through it and been lost. The door was soon forced ; bat far awhile the king, who had descended into the vault, eluded notice, and the assassins even qnitted the room to seek for him elsewhere. In the hope of escaping some other way, he ■was being helpel back into the room when they returned. Two of tlio band leaped down into the vnult, but the king, though unarmed, defended himself bravrly; and it was not till Grahame, the chief con spirator, came him'elf lo their aid, that he fell piercad by many wounds. The murderers escaped for a time to the Highlands, but tho popular teoling was strong a;»ain=t them; the widowed queen aroused the Parliament to avi-ngs her husband's death, and the traitors were hunted down iv the mountains and brought to justice. In those days death alone was not considered a sufficient penalty for an atrocious crime, Athole, Grabame, and Stewart, were executed at Edinburgh. The last, as youngest and least guilty, was only hanged and quartered; the other two were slowly done to death by horrible tor. tures. Regicide was a dangerous pastime. in those drys,

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, DECEMBER 2, 1882



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