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10 one day been inadvertently left out, he opened it, and saw enough to guess at the secret. From that time he beeame thonghtful and melancholy, 'which (says the author) I could not then account for. He shortly after asked me to get him a portrait of the late and present king; but I put him off by saying that I could not procure any that were good. He then desired me to let him go to Dijon; which I have known since was with an intention of seeing a portrait of the king there, and of going secretly to St John de Lus, where the court then was on occasion of the marriage with the Infanta. He was beautiful; and love helped him to accomplish his wishes. He had captivated the affections of a young house-keeper, who procured him a portrait of the king. It might have served for either of the brothers; and the discovery put him into so violent a passion, that he immediately came to me with the portrait in his hand, saying, Voila mon frere, et voila qui je suis, shewing me, at the same time a letter of the Cardinal de Mazarin, that he had taken out of the box' Upon this discovery, his governor immediately sent an express to court to communicate what had happened, and to desire new instructions; the consequence of which was, that the governor and the young prince under his care were arrested and confined.” The author of this memoir concludes,—“I have suffered with him in our common prison : I am now summoned to appear before my Judge on high; and for the peace of my soul I cannot but make this declaration, which may point out to him the means of freeing himself from his present ignominious situation, in case the king, his brother,