might stay behind. The woman replied immediately, and without he sitation that my mother did quite right to escape; that she had borne her misery too long, and that for her own part she was ready to leave her husband, and follow my mother wherever she should go.” My mother was very much affected by this expression of attachment: she then went down to her own room, to receive Monsieur and Madame, who had come as usual to sup with my father. Monseiur was acquainted with the intended journey; when he got home he went to bed as usual, but he got up again immediately, and set off with M. D'Avaray, a young gen tleman who carried him through all the difficulties of his journey, and who is still with him.

As for Madame, she knew nothing of the Journey; it was early when she was in bed that Mad. Gourbillon, who was her reader, came and told her she was desired by the Queen and Monsieur to assist her in escaping out of France.

Monsieur and Madame met at a poste on the road; but they took care not to shew that they knew one another, and they arrived safely at Bruxelles.

My brother was wakened by my mother, and Mad. Tourzel brought him down to my mother's apartment where I also came: there we found one of the body guard, called M. de Malden, who was to assist our departure. My mother came in and out several times to see us. They dressed my brother as a little girl: he looked beautiful, but was so sleepy, that he would not stand, and did not knew what we were all about. I asked him what he thought we were going to do; he answered, “I suppose to act a play since we have all got these odd dresses."

At half past ten, when we were all ready, my mother herself conducted us to the carriage in the middle of the court; which was exposing herself to great risk. Mad. de Tourzel, my brother, and I got into the carriage. M. de Terzen was the coachman. To deceive any one that might follow us, we drove about several streets; at last we returned to the little Carousel, which is close to the Thiulleries. My brother was fast asleep in the bottom of the carriage, under the petticoats of Mad. de Tourzel. We saw M. de la Fayette go by, he had been at my fathers coucher. There we remained waiting a full hour, ignorant of what was going on; never did time appear so tedious!

Mad. de Tourzel was to travel under the name of the Baroness de Korff: my brother and I were to be her two daughters, under the names of Amelia and Aglaë; my mother was to be Mad Rocher our governess; my aunt a female companion, called Rosalie, and my father was to be our valet de Chambre, under the name of Durand.

At last, after waiting a long hour, I observed a woman loitering about the carriage. I was afraid that we should be discovered; but I was made easy by seeing our coachman open the carriage door, and that the woman was my aunt; she had escaped alone, with one of her own attendants. In stepping into the carriage she trod on my brother who was lying on the bottom of it, and he had the courage not to cry

out.

My aunt told us that all was quiet, and that my father and mother would be with us presently. My father, indeed, arrived very soon after, and then my mother, with one of the body guards who was to accompany

us.

We then proceeded, and reached the barrier without any event; there a travelling carriage had been prepared for us, but M. de Terzen did not know where it was, so that we were obliged to wait a long while,

and my father even got out to look for it, which alarmed us very much: at last M. de Terzen found the other carriage, and we got into it. M. de T. took leave of my father and made his escape.

The three gentlemen of the body guard were Mess. de Malden, de Monstier, and Valosi: the last acted as courier, the other two as servants, one on horse-back, and the other on the front of the carriage. They had taken false names: the first was called St. John; the second Melchior; the last Francis. The two waiting women, who had set off long before us, met us at Bardy in a little carriage, and we all proceeded on our journey; day beginning to dawn.

During the morning nothing particular occurred, except that about ten leagues from Paris, we observed a man on horse-back, who seemed to follow the carriage: at Etoges we thought we were known. At 4 o'clock we passed through Chalons-sur-Marne, a large town; there we were certainly known. Several persons thanked God for the pleasure of having seen the King, and expressed their anxiety for his escape.

At the next post to Chalons we were to find some cavalry to escort the carriage to Montmedi; but when we arrived we found nobody. We waited in the hopes of finding these troops until 8 o'clock.

At the close of the day, we passed through Clermont: there, indeed, there were troops; but the village was in a state of commotion, and they would not suffer the cavalry to march. An officer recognised my father and coming close to the carriage whispered to him that he was betrayed. Here we also saw Mr. Charles de Damas, but he could do

nothing for us.

We however, continued our Journey; night was come on and notwithstanding all our agitation and anxiety every one in the carriage fell asleep. We were awakened by a dreadful jolt, and at the same moment they came to tell us that they did not know what had become of the courier who preceded the carriage. Judge of our terror; we thought we were discovered and taken. We were now at the entrance of the village of Varennes which contains scarce a hundred houses; there is in this place no regular post, and travellers generally have horses sent from the west post in advance. They had taken this precaution for us, but the horses had been unfortunately placed near the castle, at the other side of the river, and at the other end of the town, and no one with us knew where to find them.

At last our courier came back, bringing with him a man whom he believed to be in the secret, but who, I suppose was a spy of La Fayette's he came to the carriage door in a night cap and bed-gown. He almost threw himself into the carriage, and told us he had a great secret but that he would not tell it. Madame de Tourzel asked him if he knew Mad. de Korff, he answered, No! And from that moment I never again saw or heard of this person.

After a great deal of trouble the postillions were persuaded that the horses were waiting at the castle, and they proceeded that way, but slowly. When we got into the village, we heard alarming shouts of stop! stop! The postillions were seized, and in a moment the carriage was surrounded by a great crowd, some with arms, and some with lights. They asked who who we were; we answered Madame de Korff and her family. They thurst their lights into the carriage, close to my father's face, and insisted upon our alighting: we answered that we would not; that we were common travellers, had a right to get on: they repeated their orders to alight, on pain of being

put to death, and at that moment all their guns were levelled at the carriage. We then alighted, and in crossing the street, six mounted dragoons passed us, but unfortunately they had no officer with them; if there had been, six resolute men, would have intimidated them all, and might have saved the King."

Memoirs of the BARON DE KOLLI, relative to his Secret Mission in 1810, for liberating Ferdinand VII. King of Spain, from captivity at Valencay, written by himself, to which are added Memoirs of the Queen of Etruria, written by herself,-London, Treutzel and Wurtz, Treutzel, Jun. and Richter-30, Soho Square.

Every thing which tends to throw light upon the secret movements of rival governments, and to develope the intrigues of states, cannot fail to be interesting to an enquiring mind. Though deficient in literary merit, in this point of view, as well as in some others the Memoirs of the Baron De KOLLI are of considerable value. The style is bad, tedious and brief like that devised of old by the Athenian Artizans in the lamentable tragedy of young Pyramus; but the incidents are striking, involving much of the desperate enterprize, the intrigues of courts and a long captivity. In the hands of a skilful novelist, the Baron's eventful life might be worked into a narrative of commanding interest, whereas it is at present only a dry sketch, a confused account of extraordinary circumstances, with nothing to recommend it, save the truth of the occurrences, which it professes to record. Of the accuracy of the work, there can be no doubt. De Kolli's assertions are backed by so many official documents, from the Spanish, French, and British authorities, that the authenticity of his memoirs cannot be disputed. We are informed by the English Editor, that they formed originally only a diplomatic note, addressed to the different courts of Europe, and we may readily presume, that the object of the publication was the obtainment of some compensation and reward, for the hopes, dangers and miseries which he sustained, in his endeavour to serve the cause of Legiti

macy. There are few amid that extensive class, the politicians of Great Britain, who are unacquainted with the attempt, made by the Baron De Kolli, to procure the liberation of Ferdinand, VII. in 1809, from his unjustifiable captivity at Valencay. The undertaking, aided in the most earnest and efficient manner by the British Government, failed through the extreme vigiJance of the French Police, and a trifling degree of indiscretion on the part of the Baron, who appears to have been more zealous than prudent-a man well adapt. ed by his mental abilities to contrive an admirable plan, and calculated from his personal courage, and enterprizing spirit, for the performance of any actions, requiring undaunted valour, and fearless daring, but totally incapable of conducting and sustaining a scheme of deep laid policy, which depended upon caution, consistency, and ready dexterity in parrying, and eluding the superior vigilance of a jealous government. Accordingly injudicious in the choice of his confidantes, frequently the dupe of professed friends, who approached him only to ensnare, and by a note taken from O'Meara's Voice from St. Helena, (and appended to the memoirs, as an auxiliary proof of the correctness of the statement, as far as it regards the main facts), we learn that Napoleon in speaking of Kolli's attempt, said, that "he, Kolli, was discovered by the police, by his always drinking a bottle of the best wine, which so ill corresponded with his dress and apparent poverty, that it excited a suspicion amongst some of the spies, and he was arrested, searched, and his papers taken from him." Nevertheless though it failed, and that owing in a great measure to the Baron's imprudence," the plot was a good plot, as ever was laid; full of expectation; an excellent plot." De Kolli was provided by the British Government with all appliances and means to boot, for the success of his undertaking. A squadron was fitted out formed of two vessels, the Implacable and the Disdainful, together with a brig and a schooner, under the command of Admiral Sir Georgé Cockburn, destined to convey De

Kolli to the bay of Quiberon, and to remain in waiting to receive the King Ferdinand the VII. The Baron repaired on board, and Albert, and a coadjutor in the grand design brought dispatches from Lord Wellesley, immediately before the fleet sailed. They consisted,

1st-of a letter from the Marquis Wellesly to me 2d-copy of a latter from King George III. to King Ferdinand VII. 3danother letter in French from the same to the same 4th-a letter of King Charles IV. to his Britannic Majesty, written in 1802 on occasion of the marriage of the Prince of Asturias with Marie Antoinette, Princess of Naples. Albert was also the bearer of a packet addressed to me, containing diamonds to the amount of 200,800 francs for my private emoluments, and the first expences of my Mission; for the more considerable disbursements which were likely to follow, an unlimited credit had been opened for King Ferdinand at a Paris bankers. I was provided with seals and cyphers of the secretaryships of state, and of Buonaparte's Government, French passports, femilles de route, orders of the ministers of war, and marine, &c. &c. all things quite indispensable for the success of such an interprize."

The British ministry were not to blame in trusting De Kolli as an efficient agent in an employment of so much consequence, difficulty, and danger, for he had already been engaged in secret Missions in different parts of Europe, and the manner, in which he contrived to pass through Holland, and join the British fleet off Walcheren, must have impressed them with exceedingly favourable ideas of his spirit and sagacity, and the Baron's very honourable conduct, in refusing to make disclosures after his imprisonment, which would have ensured his release, justifies them in their choice, and proves him to have been a man of principle, well worthy of the confidence reposed in him. As we have freely spoken concerning the indiscretion of our hero, we feel ourselves compelled to insert the particulars of an enterprize, which redounds highly to his credit. On his arrival at the coast of Holland, he engaged with the master of a small felacca to take him to the English fleet. A French privateer and a Dutch frigate entirely interrupted the communication.

"We came to an agreement; the felacca, although anchored at the point of Gorée under the cannon of a redoubt in sight of the frigate, and within pistol shot of the privateer, was to set sail the same evening. Under that impression, we immediately repaired on board. All night