A JESUIT'S Haszr.—We announced some time ago, that the late
Archbishop of Aix had bequeathed his heart to the Jesuits. The Constitutionnel states, that the executors of the will had prepared the bequest for delivery, but no one ap- peared to claim it. The heart it seems still remains in the hands of the executors, who are at a loss to know where or to whom they are to send it.—Parts Paper.
For some time past, artificial pinks, so manufactured as to resemble the riband of the order of the Legion of Honour, had been worn by most of the coxcombs in Paris. The police, in order to do away with this paltry imitation, have adopted with success the following manceuvre : for several nights together they sent into the saloons of the theatres about twenty very meanly-dressed persons, wearing the same sort of pink. After this, no person pretending, in dress at least, to be a gentleman, was to he seen wearing the artificial pink.—Literary Gazette. [A similar story is related of Beau Brummel, who was out-dressed by a gang of chimney-sweepers, whom Sheridan, for a wager, let loose upon the Prince of Fashion in Bond-street.] A RELIGIOUS ENTHUSIAST.--A curious case has lately occupied the attention of the Correctional Tribunal of Montpellier. Two women, one named Dupy, aged fifty-three, and blind, the other named Primac, the wife of a negro called Ibrahim, aged forty, but deprived of her limbs, conceived in 1820 the prospect of obtaining the pecuniary resources of which they stood in need of, by placing under contribution the devotion of a woman named Foriette, who was living in a state of separation from her husband. These women having ascertained that Foriette was a person of extreme simplicity of character, and easy to be imposed upon, and that on the subject of religion she possessed the most unbounded faith, determined to profit by the excess of her devotion. The women having esta- blished in Foriette's mind a belief of their sanctity of character, Ibrahim's wife seized a favourable opportunity of communicating to her, in an inspired tone, that Jesus Christ was in prison loaded with chains, on the point of being lashed by the common hangman, and that in this situation charity alone could aid him, break his chains, and snatch him from infamy, by collecting for him, secretly however, numerous and abundant alms." She did not forget to add, that a recompence the most glorious, felicity the most unutterable, were reserved for the well-beloved Christian whom Heaven might condescend to select for this glorious mission. These words, accompanied with prayers and marks of the most ardent piety, did not fail to produce the desired effect on the already heated imagination of Foriette. Scarcely had the prophetic words ceased to sound in her ears, when the young neophyte felt herself the object of a divine "call." Jesus Christ appeared to her, and communicated his orders. Like a submissive Christian she received them with submission, and instantly prepared to execute them. Then she con- sented to abandon her home and her friends to solicit alms from town to town, of which she pretended to be in want herself, but which she punctually placed in the hands of Ibrahim's wife, who, in her turn, undertook to transmit them to the divine prisoner. Ibrahim's wife, amongst other places, directed Foriette to go to Alby to solicit alms, telling her, by way of encouragement, that Jesus Christ would condescend to appear to her in the form of an ecclesiastic, the Abbe Bertliez. Foriette immediately set out on her journey, and collected abundant alms. When she arrived at Alby she went to the Abbe Berthez to make con- I fession, and took an opportunity of privately depositing in a corner of the con- fessional the money which she had collected on her journey. When the en- thusiast returned to Montpellier, she informed Ibrahim's wife how she had t disposed of the money. The good lady flew into a holy rage, and said, that it was by herself alone the assistance destined for the Redeemer could be trans- mitted to him. Poor Foriette was obliged to retitrn to Alby, and solicit from the Abbe the restitution of the money which she had left in his confessional, and which she obtained and gave to Ibrahim's wife. The two women now sent their dupe on longer journies, hoping that the fatigue she underwent would shorten her days, for she had made a will bequeathing them the greater part of her property. Whilst poor Foriette, in rags and misery, travelled from one end of France to the other, suffering every privation in order to increase the celestial treasure, the woman Dupy, Ibrahim's wife, the negro himself, and three little black urchins, were occupied solely in consuming, in pleasant repasts, the increasing produce of public charity. During almost nine years Foriette had faithfully kept secret the real motive of her journies. The sums which she obtained in alms, amounting to about 6000 francs, she constantly delivered over to Ibrahim's wife. On her return
front her last journey, Foriette lodged in the same house with Mrs. Ibrahim and Mrs. Dupy, and one night she heard the former say to the latter. "This woman will always come back. It is of no use to send her on the most distant journeys, for she returns as well as when she set out." These words opened Foriette's eyes to the 'deception which had been practised on her. The next morning she communicated the secret to some gossips in the neighbourhood, and of course the affair soon became public. The authorities arrested Mesdames Ibrahim and Dupy, brought them to trial before the Correctional Tribunal, where they were convicted of swindling, and sentenced, the first to two years, and the second to one year's imprisonment, and each to pay a fine of 60 francs and costs.
Prince Metternich has been robbed of a valuable collection of very rare medals, which he had at his castle of Kcenigswart, in Bohemia. The robber was, however, apprehended at Prague, as he was offering them for sale. Their value was cal- culated at 12,000 florMs at least.
Loss or THE DORADO.—Intelligence has reached Singapore of the discvery of the wreck of the Dorado on the east coast of the island of Bintang. Amon; those who had suffered by this wreck, was the Chevalier Rienzi, a French officer, who on his return from a voyage to the South Seas and China, intending to publish his travels in Egypt, Abyssinia, the Adaiel, and most of the countries in Asia, lost the whole of his effects. He had completed all his researches, and, after raising at Macao a monument to Camoens, quitted China with a vast and valuable collection of medals and other antiquities, Egyptian and Oriental MS., plans of ancient towns, &c. His MS. of travels, consisting of twelve quarto volumes, and an atlas, containing 240 maps and drawings, all ready for the press, have been totally lost.
CAPE OF GOOD Hors.—Papers to the 9th of May have been received, The new settlers have been frightened by several dreadful hurricanes and thunder-storms, fatal to property. Several new taxes are proposed, which the colonists represent will be very oppressive. The revenues of the colony amount to about 97,0006 per antrum; population 54,632 whites; 33,000 free blacks.
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