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A VERY STRANQGE STOR'Y. I
ABOUT ten -days ago :a Fl'renchman, M.I:1
-,Arrived at' Hastings and demandled
an' rndience of fthi Eimress 'Eigenie. Ai"
his name .was.not known to,Her. Majesty,
the request was refused. i,: iFoi-lei ina>tlhis?
attempt, M., k- contrived to fall-:in.
with: thliPi'inie ImperiaLinone ...of his
daily walks. He professsed great devo
tion to the Napoleonici cause, and it will
surprise no one `tlihithe=: Prince should
enter readily intoiconsmrsation with one
whom he bfievea to lihave be'en drivecn
from, France"ljr 'hby is devotion to
the Tiniperidl nasty. :' These walks were
repeated.severial ditys; and .iin the iend. v1I
- asked the Priuce-to-makte him a pre
sei?f bf: onof his'il otogrhaplls,' ithl th~i
additibonal distinction of the Pi ince' iswn'
autogiapk h apperided T.,his ::nitual Iresi
quesition was at once acceded to. with thie
kindly good-nature whlich, appears.to jbe
a part of:, the youlng, exile's disposition.
The photograph obtained; M appeared
no more in the' morning walks. It halitsnce
appeared that on leami Habstings?M .
made his wvayto tlheGernman armny be
fore Metz;,and obtained' i& a-pass ::throiigh
the lines into thelbleleaguiered dcity. It
seems'that amfong ttliegenierals assdciated
with Mishaii'B azaine ini he de fince of
that fortress there was.one General Bour
baki, who-nad, as was -well known1,in the
Prussian army; distinguisheadhimself by
his zeal and intelligencetii c'?rr-yiugon
the gillan iesistance e;the enepyf l whicih
has al ready ,,won theo admilration das, ?wel
as astonishment of both nations. Arrived:
in Metz, it" was sto ,this'General Bourbaki;
so valunble for the-slifety: of the French=
garrison, that M- at'- oi ce 'addiresed
himself.' Heo told geunei illBoxba4l(it hab
he ihad conim as aIImessenger toahiin fromn
the Empress Eugenie, and as his creden
tii?lshh'presentetd ' the ipotogriilph' bof hei
son, with the. signaitre' attached. ' Hi`
added that ..the Empi'oss desireid. the,imin
mediate presence of .General Bourbaki in
England, that she had a special .emission:
to eitrust to him; on the successful issue
of, which the future of the- war
would .mainly depend, and Her Ma-.
jesty dare not .put it in writing
lest' it should fall into the hands
of-the-enemy-- General-Bourbaki-at once
oheyeddtho commands ;of '-the -Empresss,
and, as he thought with difficulty ; but
asithe 1 toty reaches us it.would' seem to
haver?ieen iath thie ©coniiv.?ce, of the
I'rusdianu aithorities tht;t:jogottluiough
thelizies of .the besiegers, and making
the ;best of his way to England, arrived
a&few days since; at Camden Pl1ace near
.Chiselihurt, where the 'Empress. is-. now
residing. The surprise of the Emiipress
,Eugd#nie at seeieg:the General was very
great, and-after a few words of explana
tio.n it :has been discovered- that General
Bouirbaki-had been th victiit of ad 'oer=
noael-if-not very creditable ruse de
guerre, by- -which-the gallant army of
MetzJ?ad beerideprived of the services of
one in whom,,onaccount of his gallantry.
and intelihrenee, theyhad 'reposed he
accoun 6tlitt reaclied ius tlie gaillit ci n?
ral;- i;was still: ; in,,, =:England try
ina to arranie his retiurin'to.his - com
raides but he will probbl~t ~ty oid ' hi
Tir?peiial ~ potograph such a good piss
through, the Prussian lines, fer. thistim
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