17 NOVEMBER 1832, Page 2

The capture of the Dutchess DE BERRI was mentioned in

our second edition last week. The particulars have since been re- ceived. The following account is from Galignanis Messenger.

" The Princess, resisting the earnest entreaties of the chiefs of her party, who -were anxious that she should withdraw from dangers which they were certain -were inevitable if she remained, listened only to the advice of hot-headed young men or superstitious women, and obstinately continued in the heart of a country MO longer disposed to answer to her voice. The cry of ' To arms !' was no longer re-echoed in La VenUe ; the peasantry, recovered from their delusion, were convinced of the good faith of the existing Government, and, full of hope for the future from the abundant harvest, became anxious to enjoy tranquillity ; the abandoned and fugitive were dying with misery and despair ; and, iu fine, civil war had no longer any chance of success. The Dutchess, wandering in the environs of Nantes, only escaped the active search made for her person by almost daily changing her .abode and her disguise. Sometimes she wore the habit of a tender of cowsor sheep; at others she appeared as a miller ; then as the femme de clianzbre of some wealthy house, and afterwards as a peasant's wife. Not infrequently, she eluded pursuit by being carried in a large bundle of hay upon the shoulders of some sturdy driver of a team of oxen. At length the Dutchess was satisfied there was no safety for her but in large towns ; but at the same time, was ignorant of the new and rigid vigilance of the Police, which ceased neither night nor day. She consequently determined to come to Nantes, where she had several times before resided without detection, and where the house of Mademoiselle Duguigny was prepared for her reception. The Police, however, had accurate information of her intentions, and posted numerous secret agents at every avenue; who discovered the Dutchess coming through the town with Mademoiselle Kersabiec, of Pont St. Martin, in the dresses of peasants. When the authorities entered the house of Mademoiselle Duguigny, the dining-room was the first object of their visit. The room was decorated with fleurs-de-lis, and inscriptions bearing the words Navarino,' Trocadero," Algiers,' Scc. Fires were burning in several rooms, and in one of them the heat was very great. This was the chimney that concealed the en- trance to the retreat of the Dutchess and her companions; but they became so 'oppressed by the closeness of their situation, that they made some involuntary movements, which at length were heard, and led to their detection. In fact, after remaining twenty-four hours shut up, they were compelled to call out that they were ready to surrender ; and when they were released, they were almost in a state of suffocation. Mademoiselle Kersabiec, in the dress of a servant, came out first. She was followed by the Dutchess; then by the Count de Menars ; and lastly by M. Guibourg, who very nearly fainted, and afterwards declared that lie was pressed so close against the chimney, that every blow of the hammer with which the officers struck, to ascertain whether it was hollow, went to his heart. The Princess, on coming into the room, immediately said—' It is un- necessary for you to continue your search; I am the Dutchess of Berry. Where is the General? I intrust myself to his known military honour. If there is a guilty person here, it is I alone. These gentlemen and this lady have only obeyed my commands.' The Princess was completely disfigured by the dust and dirt of the hole in which she had been so long shut up, but at the same time preserved her presence of mind ; so likewise did Mademoiselle Kersabiec; but the Count de Menars and M. Guibourg were quite exhausted. General Count d'Erlon,

Maurice Duval, the Prefect, the Mayor of Nantes, the Colonel of the Na- tional Guards, and the substitutes of the Procureur du Roi, then came and offi- cially identified the Dutchess of Berry ; and a proses verbal was drawn up ac- cordingly. The examining magistrate then proceeded to interrogate the parties and witnesses; and all the requisite judicial formalities having been- gone through, the Dutchess, accompanied by Mademoiselle Kersabiec, the Count de Ilenars, and M. Guihourg, was conducted to the Castle by General Dermon- court. The most respectful attentions were paid to the Princess, and every due consideration to the other prisoners. Several places of concealment had been formed in the house of Mademoiselle Duguigny, one of which was sufficiently spacious to hold ten people ; but it was discovered from the wall having been newly coloured. In another of these secret places, there were found engines and tools for coining, a printing-press, and a great number of proclamations, includ- ing one to the people of Nantes, in which the Dutchess promises them that if they should declare in favour of Henry the Fifth, the seat of Government should be fixed at Nantes during the whole of the duration of the Regency. The Dutchess occupies in the Castle the apartments of the Colonel of Artillery."

LOUIS PHILIP and his Ministers have determined not to pro- ceed against the Dutchess by any existing law, but to make a statute for her particular convenience. They are, in fact, pre- pared to get out of the difficulty in which, according to the cant political of the day, the Dutchess DE BERRI'S presence in France places them, by the same expedient that the Ministry of Lord CASTLEREAGH endeavoured to get out of the difficulty in which the presence of Queen CAROLINE in England placed them—an ex past facto law. The question for these arch-politicians in the French ease, as it was in the English, is not " How is justice to be satisfied? how is guilt to be punished?" but " How are we to get out of our difficulty ?" And, to the marvellous credit of our own brethren of the broad-sheet, this seems the only light in which they are disposed to view it—" the capture of the Dutchess puts- _the French Ministry in a difficult position," they tell us : " if the French Ministry manage their case well, they may gain an acces- sion of strength from the capture; but their case is one of great difficulty." Now, with all submission, we think the case presents no difficulty at all. The Dutchess has been guilty of such an ex facie infraction of the laws of France as fully warrants the sending her to trial. What hinders her, then, being sent to trial? A Jury Won't convict ?—So much the better for the Dutchess. A Jury will convict ?—So much the better for France. Her sentence, if she be sentenced, Louis PHILIP could remit, and probably would, for any constraint that should save France from being again dis- turbed by her presence. But, whether the Dutchess DE BERM be acquitted or condemned,—whether she be executed or par- doned,—fiat Justitia, we say, ruat cmlum; let right have its way, even though M. THIERS should return to his editorship.

The Session of the French Chambers will be opened on Monday..

The French Journals give the following account of the person- a German Jew—who is said to have betrayed the Dutchess DE BERRI to the Government, for a bribe of 300,000 francs.

"He is aged thirty-oneyears; and a native of Cologne, where hewas educated in the Jewish religion. In 1826, he resided at Rome with his uncle the cele- brated Deutz, Rabbi of that religion. He afterwards became a Catholic, rose to high favour with the heads of the Church, and lived a long time upon the pecu- niary supplies granted him by Cardinal Albani. In 1831, an individual named Drak, brother-in-law to Deutz, was introduced into the family of Charles the Tenth, as an attendant of the Duke of Bordeaux, and thus afforded Deutz the means of introducing himself to the Dutchess of Berry. He soon gained the confidence of the Dutchess, who amply rewarded him, and sent him on several delicate missions to foreign Courts."

He seems to have been an active personage- " After the Dutchess's landing in France, Deutz was intrusted with several important missions; of which he rendered an account to the Princess, at Nantes, a few months ago. After this, the Princess sent him on a mission to Germany. On quittine. Frankfort, he went to Rome ; where he was received by the Pope, who gave him letters for the Dutchess. From Rome he proceeded to Portugal; where he saw Don Miguel, who also gave him letters for the Royal Dutchess. From Lisbon he returned to Paris, and made a final arrangement as to the sum he was to receive for delivering up the Dutchess. In order to carry his pro- ject into execution, he went to Nantes, and applied for an interview with the Princess. He was admitted to an interview on the 6th, at the house of Made- moiselle Duguigny, at the moment of dinner. On his entering the house, the Dutchess of Berry left the room ; but when she perceived that it was her pro-

sbe came back into the room, exclaiming, Ali ! is it you, my dear Deutz?'

'1' Deutz remained a few minutes with the Princess ; and then went out to give to the numerous police-officers who surrounded the house the signal agreed upon for her arrest."

This woman expected a whole nation to rise on her behalf; and yet in all that nation she could not find one individual to whom to trust her most important secrets.