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Cellamare, as I have said, was Spanish Ambassador at our Court. He had been one of the chief movers in the plot. He had excited, as much as lay in his power, discontent against the Regent's government; he had done his best to embroil France with Spain; he had worked heart and soul with M. du Maine, to carry out the common end they had in view.
"What do you think of that, gentlemen? Can his majesty say more?" "He might have joined to this an epistle addressed directly to the States-General," answered the Cardinal de Polignac. "This letter, if the king had deigned to send it, would have had a great influence on their deliberations." "Here it is," said the Prince de Cellamare, taking a paper from his pocket.
The day after the arrival of the courier from Poitiers, Cellamare, informed of what had occurred, but who flattered himself that the presence of the banker had caused the arrest of the young men, and the seizure of their papers, hid his fears under a very tranquil bearing, and went, at one o'clock in the day, to M. le Blanc, to ask for a packet of letters he had entrusted to Portocarrero and Monteleon on their return to Spain.
The Abbe Dubois stammered out a short and ill-arranged recital of what he had done at the ambassador's house, and dwelt upon the importance of the discovery and upon that of the conspiracy as far as already known. The two letters he read left me no doubt that Cellamare was at the head of this affair, and that Alberoni had entered into it as far as he.
"The prince cast his eyes over the paper; I do not know what it contained, but I know that the prince turned pale as death; and that, as Dubois burst out laughing, Cellamare broke in pieces a little marble statue which was near his hand. "'I am glad it was not I, said Dubois, coldly, and putting the paper in his pocket. "'Every one in turn, monsieur; Heaven is just! said the ambassador.
Alberoni, who every moment expected decisive news from Cellamare respecting the conspiracy, wished to remain master of our ambassador, so as, in case of accident, to have a useful hostage in his hands as security for his own ambassador. Therefore the Cardinal, in anger, replied with a menace, that he knew well enough how to hinder, him, from acting thus.
There had not then been any serious accident; it was the police of the Prince de Cellamare, then, that were at fault. The chevalier returned home about ten o'clock without having been met or recognized. He had some trouble to get the door opened, for, according to the patriarchal habits of Madame Denis's house, the porter had gone to bed, and came out grumbling to unfasten the bolts.
"Enter, enter, prince," said the duchess; "we wait for you." At this invitation there entered a tall, thin, grave man, with a sunburned complexion, who at a single glance took in everything in the room, animate and inanimate. The chevalier recognized the ambassador of their Catholic majesties, the Prince de Cellamare. "Well, prince," asked the duchess, "what have you to tell us?"
I should say, 'My princess, the regent must have been warned by his police, for he did not leave as we expected, and we saw none but his roué companions. Then the Prince de Cellamare will say to you, 'My dear D'Harmental, we have no resources but in you. Madame de Maine will say that all is not lost since the brave D'Harmental remains to us.
In consequence of this reply, a courier was at once despatched to the Prince de Cellamare, Spanish ambassador at Paris, ordering him to ask for the recall of Louville, and to declare that the King of Spain so disliked his person that he would neither see him, nor allow him to treat with any of the ministers!
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