and one, the youngest, fell in battle. The body of the brave boy was sent by his proud though afflicted father to France, to be laid in his native earth; but orders were immediately forwarded to Toulon, by the insolent and intoxicated cabinet of journalists, to search the coffin, under the pretence that the father, a peer of France and a marshal of France, had concealed treasure in the shroud of his child, — as if M. de Bourmont was a M. Thiers!

All must remember the calumnies which were daily promulgated about the embezzlements of M. de Bourmont. They served their purpose — calumnies of a day! The conqueror of Algiers was refused even a passage in one of the ships recently under his command. He departed from the scene of his glory in an Austrian merchantman, bearing with him only the embalmed heart of his son. In a short time it was announced to all Europe that this hallowed urn contained the chief treasures of the Casauba. A commission of enquiry was at length resolved upon at Paris, in deference to the commands of the inventors of these very calumnies, the journalists, who looked forward to a long prospective of patriotic jobs in the commissionerships. A commissionership of enquiry! All the bankrupts of Paris pricked up

their ears at the prospect of investigating the treasures of the Dey. But, unfortunately, ere they could be appointed, arrived a report of the new commander-in-chief, General Clausel, vindi, cating the outraged honour of his predecessor, and declaring that a scrupulous inventory of the treasures of the Casauba had been drawn up, previous to the entrance of M. Bourmont, and that all these treasures remained untouched at his departure. The truth is, that, far from being influenced by mercenary views, Bourmont having been permitted by Charles X. to expend a sum of two millions of francs as secret service money, and only a thirtieth part of this sum being found sufficient, the Marshal handed over the surplus to the treasury. In return for this faithful and conscientious discharge of his trust, the French Government decided that he was not entitled to his pay as a marshal of France, or his pension as a peer; and M. de Bourmont and his family at this moment are in absolute want!

The present Governor of Algiers is M. Savary, the Duke of Rovigo, a gentleman who since the restoration has ever been intriguing with every party, but especially the party in power. M. Savary was as willing as Marshal Soult himself to carry a taper in the holy processions, — the re

publican Marshal Soult, who now, in the excess of his philosophy, is ready to knock down the Jesuits with his baton. But it must be understood, only for the nonce. It was no lack of zeal that deprived the Duke of Rovigo of the enviable situation of the more fortunate M. Dupin, when he paid his well-known visit that he now explains, to the magnificent College of St. Acheul, and passed some happy hours with the learned Jesuits who directed it. M. Dupin was then remarkable for the unction with which he even supported the Catafalque, a crime which "the Liberals" have never forgiven; but at that time the Jesuits were in fashion, and the revolutionary friend of the present Lord Chancellor of England was actually half a courtier, and willing to become a whole one. But let us not forget M. de Rovigo. In all periods of popular excitement, it was ever observed that the former Minister of Police always took advantage of the crisis to make his approaches to the Court, and induce them, by his projects for a strong government, proffered through the medium of some obscure agent, to forget his disastrous and contemptible career. And so it happened, that, by the means of some confidential person about the Duke de Polignac, the brother of the Minister, M. de Savary contrived to lay before the

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President of the Council his plan "to crush the press and the faction." But will it be believed, that as soon as the Duke of Rovigo, by the babbling of some indiscreet courtier, caught a hint that there was a chance of the Ordonnances appearing, this loyal man instantly posted off to Italy, to the Napoleon family, as the harbinger of happier days; assuring them that by his advice and encouragement Ordonnances were about to be promulgated that must overturn the Government, and that every thing would soon be ready for the restoration of Napoleon II. In the midst of their mutual congratulations, news arrived of the events of July; and the trusty Rovigo found, to his surprise, that the crown had fallen upon the head, not of Napoleon II., but of LouisPhilippe I. In this predicament, his Grace induced the family of Napoleon to accredit him as their agent in the prosecution of their old pecuniary claims upon the French Government; and having obtained these powers, he returned to Paris, where, passing himself off as their political, instead of private agent, it may easily be conceived what a favourable position he placed himself in with regard to the weakly established government of Orleans. Nothing was spared to keep this honest fellow quiet. M. de Rovigo might

be found in every ministerial antechamber, with a petition for himself and friends, that seldom failed. Ay! it is said, one morning, during the subsequent riots, when it was supposed that the throne of Louis-Philippe might not complete even its hundred days, that the Duke of Rovigo by mistake, owing probably to a fog, found himself in the apartment of the reputed leader of the republican party, with a project for an instant republic. But this must be an error; I would as soon believe that at a later period,-when strong rumours were rife that the real proprietors of the Crown might yet have a chance, and that the Great Powers had resolved to interfere, I would as soon believe that the same Duke of Rovigo sent over an agent to England with a project for the invasion of his "beautiful France," and a suggestion that the advanced guard should be formed by the Prussians; I would as soon believe that, when it was very obvious that Charles X. would place no confidence in Duke Savary, and refused to accredit him to the King of Prussia, that the agent of this worthy waylaid the Duchess de Berri at Bath, and stipulated, that in case his principal succeeded in establishing her as Regent for Henry the Fifth, that his Grace should be one of her council. It is delightful to be promised