It was a piteous sight to see a youth of such high expectations, of a lineage so ancient, of a duchy so remote, treated in this rude and inhospitable manner!  Like Caesar, who bore up against his enemies until he felt the dagger of Brutus, he veiled his face with his handkerchief, and submitted with dignity, when he ascertained how far it was the intention of the Minister of the Interior to push matters.  M. ——­ did not tell us whether or not he exclaimed, “Et tu, Montalivet!” The people of the hotel manifested a proper sympathy at the cruel scene, the filles de chambre weeping in the corridors, as filles de chambre, who witnessed such an indecent outrage, naturally would do.

The Duke was no sooner in the fiacre than he was carried out of town, to a post-house on the road to Switzerland.  Here he was put in a caleche, and transported forthwith to the nearest frontier.

On reaching the end of the journey, the Duke of Brunswick was abandoned to his fate, with the indifference that marked the whole outrage; or, as might have been expected from the servants of a prince, who had so lately shown his respect for rank by sending his own relatives out of his kingdom, very much in the same fashion.  Happily, the unfortunate Duke fell into the hands of republicans, who, as a matter of course, hastened to pay their homage to him.  The mayor of the commune appeared and offered his civilities; all the functionaries went forth with alacrity; and the better to show their sympathy, a young German traveller was produced, that he might console the injured prince by enabling him to pour out his griefs in the vernacular of his country.  This bit of delicate attention, however, was defeated by an officious valet, who declared that ever since his dethronement, his master had taken such an aversion to the German language, that it threw him into fits even to hear it!  Of course the traveller had the politeness to withdraw.

While these things were in progress, the Duke suddenly disappeared, no one knew whither.  The public journals soon announced the fact, and the common conjecture was, that he had returned to Paris.

After several weeks, M. ——­ was employed to negotiate an amnesty, promising, on the part of his principal, that no further movements against the duchy should be attempted in France.  The minister was so far prevailed on as to say, he could forgive all, had not the Duke re-entered the kingdom, after having been transported to Switzerland, by the order of the government, in the manner you have heard.  M. ——­ assured the minister, parole d’honneur, that this was altogether a mistake.  “Well, then, convince me of this, and his Serene Highness shall have permission to remain here as long as he pleases.”  “His Serene Highness, having never left France, cannot have re-entered it.”  “Not left France!—­Was he not carried into Switzerland?” “Not at all:  liking Paris better, he chose to remain here.  The person you deported, was a young associate, of the same stature of the Duke, a Frenchman, who cannot speak a word of German!”