the hospital of the convicts at Marseilles; his disease still preyed on the remains of a ruined constitution, but his sufferings were lengthened out beyond what his weakness seemed to promise. It was near four months after his arrival at Marseilles, that being totally exhausted, he felt his last moments approach, and desired to receive the sacraments; before they were administered to him, he solemnly declared, as he hoped to be received into the presence of the Searcher of hearts, that he was innocent of the crime laid to his charge; that he forgave his inexorable prosecutor and his partial judge, and felt no other regret in quitting the world, than that of leaving his wife and child exposed to the miseries of poverty, and the disgrace of his imputed crime: but he trusted his vindication to God, who had, he said, lent him fortitude to endure the sufferings he had not deserved; and, after having received the eucharist with piety and composure, he expired-a martyr to unjust suspicion, and hasty or malicious judgment.

He had been dead only a few weeks, when several persons, who had known him, received anonymous letters; the letters signified, that the person who wrote them, was on the point of hiding himself in a convent the rest of his life; but before he did so, his conscience obliged him to inform whom it might concern, that the Sieur d'Anglade was innocent of the robbery committed in the apartments of the Count Montgomery; that the perpetrators were one Vincent Belestre, the son of a tanner of Mans; and a priest named Gagnard, a native also of Mans, who had been the Count's almoner. The letters added, that a woman of the name of De la Comble could give light into the whole affair. One of these letters was sent to the Countess de Montgomery, who, however, had not generosity enough to show it; but the Sieur Roysillon, and some others who had received at the same time the same kind of letters, determined to inquire into the affair: while the friends of the Count de Montgomery, who began to apprehend that he would be disagreeably situated if his prosecution of d'Anglade should be found unjust, pretended to discover that these letters were dictated by Madame d'Anglade; who hoped by this artifice to deliver her husband's memory from the odium which rested on it, and herself and her

child from the dungeon in which they were still confined. An inquiry was set on foot after Belestre and Gagnard, who had some time before quitted the Count's service. It was found that Belestre was a consummate villain, who had in the early part of his life been engaged in an assassination, for which he was obliged to fly from his native place; that he had been a soldier; had killed his sergeant in a quarrel, and deserted; then returning to his own country, had been a wandering vagabond, going by different names, and practising every species of roguery: that he had sometimes been a beggar, and sometimes a bully about the streets of Paris, but always much acquainted and connected with Gagnard, his countryman; and that suddenly from the lowest indigence, he had appeared to be in affluence; had bought himself rich clothes, had shown various sums of money, and had purchased an estate near Mans, for which he had paid between nine and ten thousand livres.

Gagnard, who was the son of the jailer of Mans, had come to Paris without either clothes or money, and had subsisted on charity, or by saying masses at St. Esprit, by which he hardly gained enough to keep him alive; when the Count de Montgomery took him. It was impossible what he got in his service, as wages, could enrich him: yet, immediately after quitting it, he was seen clothed neatly in his clerical habit; his expenses for his entertainments were excessive: he had plenty of money in his pocket; and had taken a woman out of the streets, whom he had established in handsome lodgings, and clothed with the greatest profusion of finery. These observations alone, had they been made in time, were sufficient to have opened the way to a discovery, which might have saved the life and, redeemed the honor of the unfortunate d'Anglade. Late as it was, justice was now ready to overtake them, and the hand of Providence itself seemed to assist. Gagnard, being in a tavern in the street St. Andre des Arcs, was present at a quarrel wherein a man was killed; he was sent to prison, with the rest of the people in the house; and about the same time, a man who had been robbed and cheated by Belestre, near three years before, met him, watched him to his lodgings, and put him into the hands

of the Marechaussee. These two wretches being thus in the hands of justice, for other crimes, underwent an examination relative to the robbery of the Count de Montgomery; they betrayed themselves by inconsistent answers. Their accomplices were apprehended; and the whole affair now appeared so clear, that it was only astonishing how the criminals could have been mistaken.

The guardians of Constantia Guillemot, the daughter of d'Anglade, now desired to be admitted parties in the suit, on behalf of their ward; that the guilt of Belestre and Gagnard might be proved, and the memory of Monsieur d'Anglade and the character of his widow, justified; as well as that she might, by fixing the guilt on those who were really culpable, obtain restitution of her father's effects, and amends from the Count de Montgomery. She became, through her guardian, prosecutrix of the two vil lains; the principal witness against whom was a man called the Abbe de Fontpierre, who had belonged to the association of thieves of which Belestre was a member. This man said that he had written the anonymous letters which led to the discovery; for that, after the death of d'Ang lade, his conscience reproached him with being privy to so enormous a crime. He swore that Belestre had obtained from Gagnard the impressions of the Count's keys in wax, by which means he had others made, that opened the locks. He said, that soon after the condemnation of d'Anglade to the galleys he was in a room adjoining to one where Belestre and Gagnard were drinking and feasting; that he heard the former say to the latter, "come my friend, let us drink and enjoy ourselves, while this fine fellow, this Marquis d'Anglade, is at the galleys." To which Gagnard replied, with a sigh, "Poor man, I cannot help being sorry for him; he was a good kind of a man, and was always very civil and obliging to me." Belestre then exclaimed with a laugh, "Sorry! what, sorry for a man who has secured us from suspicion, and made our fortune." Much other discourse of the same kind he repeated. And De la Comble deposed that Belestre had shown her great sums of money, and a beautiful pearl necklace; and when she asked him where he got all this? he answered, that he had won it at play. These, and many other circumstances related by

this woman, confirmed his guilt beyond a doubt. In his pocket were found a Gazette of Holland, in which he had (it was supposed) caused it to be inserted, that the men who had been guilty of the robbery, for which the Sieur d'Anglade had been condemned, were executed for some other crime at Orleans-hoping by this means to stop any farther inquiry. A letter was also found on him from Gagnard, which advised him of the rumors which were spread from the anonymous letters; and desiring him to find some means to quiet or get rid of the Abbe Fontpierre. The proof of the criminality of these two men being fully established, they were condemned to death; and, being previously made to undergo the question ordinary and extraordinary, they confessed, Gagnard upon the rack, and Belestre at the place of execution, that they had committed the robbery. Gagnard declared, that if the lieutenant of the police had pressed him with questions the day that d'Anglade and his wife were taken up, he was in such confusion, he should have confessed all.

These infamous men having suffered the punishment of their crime, Constantia Guillemot d'Anglade continued to prosecute the suit against the Count de Montgomery, for the unjust accusation he had made; who endeavored, by the chicane which his fortune gave him the power to command, to evade the restitution: at length, after a very long process, the court decided-that the Count de Montgomery should restore to the widow and daughter of d'Anglade, the sum which their effects, and all their property that was seized, had produced-that he should farther pay them a certain sum, as amends for the damages and injuries they had sustained, and that their condemnation should be erased, and their honors restored; which, though it was all the reparation that could now be made them, could not bind up the incurable wounds they had suffered in this unjust and cruel prosecution.

Mademoiselle d'Anglade, whose destiny excited universal commiseration, was taken into the protection of some generous person about the court, who raised for her a subscription, which at length amounted to a hundred thousand livres; which together with the restitution of her father's effects, made a handsome provision for her; and she was

married to Monsieur des Essarts, a counsellor of parlia ment.-Causes Celebres.

EXTRAORDINARY SLEEP-WALKER.

A YOUNG gentleman going down from London to the west of England, to the house of a worthy gentleman to whom he had the honor to be related, it happened that the gentleman's house at that time was full, by reason of a kinswoman's wedding that had been lately kept there; he therefore told the young gentleman that he was very glad to see him, and that he was very welcome to him; "but," said he, "I know not what I shall do for a lodging for you, for my cousin's marriage has not left me a room free but one, and that is haunted; you shall have a very good bed, and all other accommodation." "Sir," replied the young gentleman, "you will very much oblige me in letting me be there, for I have often coveted to be in a place that was haunted." The gentleman very glad that his kinsman was so well pleased with his accommodation, ordered the chamber to be got ready, and a good fire to be made in it, it being winter. When bed time came, the young gentleman was conducted to his chamber, which, besides a good fire, was furnished with all suitable accommodations. After having recommended himself to the divine protection, he went to bed, where, having kept some time awake and finding no disturbance, he fell asleep; out of which he was awoke about 3 o'clock in the morning, by the opening of the chamber-door and the entrance of somebody with the appearance of a young lady, having a night-dress on her head, and only her night-gown on; but he had not a perfect view of her, for his candle was burnt out; and though there was a fire in the room, it gave not light enough to see her distinctly. On entering the room, this unknown visitant went directly to the chimney, and taking hold of the poker, stirred up the fire, by the flaming light of which the young gentleman was enabled distinctly to discern the appearance of a beautiful young lady-but whether she was flesh and blood, or an airy phantom, he knew not. This lovely appearance, having stood some time before the fire, as if to warm herself, at