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254 young sailor's appearance and manner. He formally, in 1788, adopted him as his son, and he took the title as such of Prince de Bouillon, but the Revolution obliged both to fly, and the estates were confiscated. Philippe d'Auvergne then rejoined the English navy, but on the conclusion of peace, his adoptive father having apparently died, he went over to Paris to claim the restoration of the duchy. He was, however, imprisoned in the Temple as a spy, and was a week in close confinement. On the representations of the British Embassy he was released, but expelled. He had been offered the restoration of the estates if he would betray his royalist correspondents in Western France. He resumed his naval duties, commanded the Jersey squadron, and is said to have superintended the military and forged-assignat expeditions to the Norman coast. The treaty of Paris recognised his claims to the duchy, but the arbitrators appointed by the Congress of Vienna held his adoption to be invalid, and assigned the estates to the Prince de Rohan Montbazon. Philippe d'Auvergne consequently remained a British admiral, and died in 1816, at the age of 81. Dr. (afterwards Archbishop) Troy, President of Maynooth, went over during the Amiens negotiations to plead for the restitution of the property of the Irish colleges, but Lord Cornwallis could not get for them better terms than for other British