not forbear from attempting
whatever may be done with honor, in order to save them.

"I therefore entreat my aunt, whose goodness of heart and
religious sentiment are known to me, to exert all her credit
in their behalf. The bearer of this letter will furnish
details respecting their situation. He will state that the
judges given them are men against whom they have fought.

"Notwithstanding the actual difference in our positions, a
volcano is under your feet, madame, as you know. I knew your
alarm--your very natural alarm--at a period when I was in
safety, and I was not insensible to it. God alone knows what
He destines for us, and perhaps you will one day thank me
for having had confidence in your goodness, and for having
given you an opportunity of exerting it in behalf of my
unfortunate friends. Rely on my gratitude. I wish you
happiness, madame, for I think too highly of you to believe
it possible that you can be happy in your present situation.
MARIE CAROLINE."

This letter was conveyed to the queen at St. Cloud. She probably read
it; but it was immediately returned to the bearer, who was in
waiting, with the declaration that the queen could not receive it.
Five months had now elapsed since the duchess entered Nantes. It is
by some supposed that Louis Philippe did not wish to have her
arrested. He would be fearfully embarrassed to know what to do with
her. It would hardly do to restore her to liberty while her
partisans were cruelly punished with death. It was not easy to decide
upon the tribunal which would sit in judgment upon her. The peerage
would have recoiled with horror from passing judgment upon a
princess, who endeavored to gain the throne for a child, who was
entitled to that throne by the avowed principles of legitimacy.

A renegade Jew, by the name of Deutz, at length betrayed her. By the
most villainous treachery he obtained an interview with the duchess,
and then informed the police of the place of her retreat. It was the
6th of November. In the following words Louis Blanc describes the
preparations made for her arrest:

"The first communication between M. Thiers and Deutz took
place under the following circumstances: M. Thiers one day
received a letter wherein a stranger begged him to repair in
the evening to the Champs Elysees, promising to make him a
communication of t