A vagabond courtier; from the memoirs and letters of Baron Charles Louis von Pöllnitz . odoubt but what all these intrigues were fomented byCardinal Alberoni, and he had the Prince of Cellamare,the ambassador of Spain, closely watched. . Nothingless than the Dukes removal from the Regency wasafoot. The Spanish Minister had collected a body ofmen in France who wandered about the kingdom as ifthey were smugglers, hawking salt and other merchan-dise. These troops, on a certain day, were to enterParis, invest the Palais Royal, and secure the Regentin person. The plot was only discovered just at th
A vagabond courtier; from the memoirs and letters of Baron Charles Louis von Pöllnitz . odoubt but what all these intrigues were fomented byCardinal Alberoni, and he had the Prince of Cellamare,the ambassador of Spain, closely watched. . Nothingless than the Dukes removal from the Regency wasafoot. The Spanish Minister had collected a body ofmen in France who wandered about the kingdom as ifthey were smugglers, hawking salt and other merchan-dise. These troops, on a certain day, were to enterParis, invest the Palais Royal, and secure the Regentin person. The plot was only discovered just at the timewhen it was to have been carried out. Not that I suspectthe Prince of Cellamare to have betrayed the Cardinal,but perhaps he did not sufficiently mistrust those withwhom he had to deal; for I have been told that a packetcontaining all the story of the plot and the names ofthe conspirators was placed in the hands of the AbbePortocarrero, in the presence of two servants whosefidelity was not proof against the louis dor of thePalais Royal. Besides this, the Abbe, though a man. THE REGENT the Collection of A. M. Broadley. 192] THE VAGRANT 193 of parts, was not experienced enough, or prudent enough,to carry out safely such a delicate business/ Pollnitzs version is that the Abbe Portocarrero started for Madrid laden with despatches which heldthe fates of many people, and had not gone far beforehis post-chaise broke down crossing a ford. The AbbeAnquetal, in his Memoirs, says that— The implicative papers were placed in the falsebottom of the post-chaise ; that the Abbe was misguidedenough to take a German as travelling companion; thatthe latter was stopped by the police, and, the chaisebeing searched for his belongings, the Abbes papers werediscovered/ Pollnitz narrates that the Abbe thought he wasgoing to be drowned, yet, in spite of his danger, seemedmore concerned for his papers than his own life. Thiscare for the preservation of his precious box seemedsuspici
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