



Produced by David Widger








THE MEMOIRS
OF
JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT

1725-1798



THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS.

[Transcriber's Note: These memoires were not written for children, they may outrage readers also offended by Chaucer, La Fontaine, Rabelais and The Old Testament. D.W.]



CONTENTS



ENLARGE TO FULL SIZE
VOLUME 6 -- SPANISH PASSIONS


EPISODE 26 -- SPAIN

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI


EPISODE 27 -- EXPELLED FROM SPAIN

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII


EPISODE 28 -- RETURN TO ROME

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII


EPISODE 29 -- FLORENCE TO TRIESTE

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

CHAPTER XXII


EPISODE 30 -- OLD AGE AND DEATH OF CASANOVA


APPENDIX AND SUPPLEMENT


PART THE FIRST -- VENICE 1774-1782

I -- CASANOVA'S RETURN TO VENICE

II -- RELATIONS WITH THE INQUISITORS

III -- FRANCESCA BUSCHINI

IV -- PUBLICATIONS

V -- MLLE---- X----... C----... V----...

VI -- LAST DAYS AT VENICE


PART THE SECOND -- VIENNA-PARIS

I -- 1783-1785

II -- PARIS

III -- VIENNA

IV -- LETTERS FROM FRANCESCA

V -- LAST DAYS AT VIENNA


PART THE THIRD -- DUX -- 1786-1798

I -- THE CASTLE AT DUX

II -- LETTERS FROM FRANCESCA

III -- CORRESPONDENCE AND ACTIVITIES

IV -- CORRESPONDENCE WITH JEAN-FERDINAND OPIZ

V -- PUBLICATIONS

VI -- SUMMARY of MY LIFE

VII -- LAST DAYS AT DUX









VOLUME 6 -- SPANISH PASSIONS,



EPISODE 26 -- SPAIN



CHAPTER I


     I Am Ordered to Leave Vienna--The Empress Moderates but Does
     Not Annul the Order--Zavoiski at Munich--My Stay at
     Augsburg--Gasconnade at Louisburg--The Cologne Newspaper--
     My Arrival at Aix-la-Chapelle

 The greatest mistake a man that punishes a knave can commit is to leave the said rogue alive, for he is certain to take vengeance. If I had had my sword in the den of thieves, I should no doubt have defended myself, but it would have gone ill with me, three against one, and I should probably have been cut to pieces, while the murderers would have escaped unpunished.

At eight o'clock Campioni came to see me in my bed, and was astonished at my adventure. Without troubling himself to compassionate me, we both began to think how we could get back my purse; but we came to the conclusion that it would be impossible, as I had nothing more than my mere assertion to prove the case. In spite of that, however, I wrote out the whole story, beginning with the girl who recited the Latin verses. I intended to bring the document before the police; however, I had not time to do so.

I was just sitting down to dinner, when an agent of the police came and gave me an order to go and speak to Count Schrotembach, the Statthalter. I told him to instruct my coachman, who was waiting at the door, and that I would follow him shortly.

When I called on the Statthalter, I found him to be a thick-set individual; he was standing up, and surrounded by men who seemed ready to execute his orders. When he saw me, he shewed me a watch, and requested me to note the hour.

"I see it."

"If you are at Vienna at that time to-morrow I shall have you expelled from the city."

"Why do you give me such an unjust order?"

"In the first place, I am not here to give you accounts or reasons for my actions. However, I may tell you that you are expelled for playing at games of chance, which are forbidden by the laws under pain of the galleys. Do you recognize that purse and these cards?"

I did not know the cards, but I knew the purse which had been stolen from me. I was in a terrible rage, and I only replied by presenting the magistrate with the truthful narrative of what had happened to me. He read it, and then said with a laugh that I was well known to be a man of parts, that my character was known, that I had been expelled from Warsaw, and that as for the document before him he judged it to be a pack of lies, since in his opinion it was altogether