STATE PAPERS. 



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II. Foreign State Papers. 



I. FRANCE. 



1. Report concerning Kollis Plan 



for liberating Ferdinand, King 



of Spain. 



Paris, April TJ. 



I informed your majesty that the 

 Sieur Berthemy, officer of the staff 

 attached to prince Ferdinand, and 

 commandant of the castle of Va- 

 lancay, had acquainted me with 

 the introduction into that castle 

 of a baron de Kolli, calling him- 

 self minister of England to prince 

 Ferdinand, in his pretended quality 

 of king of Spain. This individual 

 having been brought to my office, 

 I transmit to your majesty, 1, 

 The letter of M. Berthemy, an- 

 nouncing the arrest and forw^arding 

 of Kolli ; 2, A copy of a letter from 

 -prince Ferdinand to the sieur Ber- 

 themy, relative to the arrival of 

 Kolli ; 3, A copy of Kolli's exami- 

 nation ; 4, 5, and 6, copies of 

 three letters, of which Kolli was 

 the bearer. Two of these letters 

 are addressed by king George to 

 prince Ferdinand ; one of them is 

 in Latin. Nos. 7 and 8 are copies 

 of a letter from M. Berthemy, and 

 one from prince Ferdinand. 



I have committed Kolli to safe 

 xustody. He is a close prisoner in 

 :lhe castle of Vincennes, and I wait 

 the orders of your majesty upon 

 this affair. The diamonds and other 

 effects of which this individual was 

 the bearer, are deposited at the 

 .office of general police. 



(Signed) Fouche. 



No. I — Copy of a letter addressed 

 to the senator, the minister of 

 general police, by M. Berthemy, 

 Vol. LI I. 



announcing Kolli's arrest, and 



his being forwarded to Paris. 



Valancai/, April 6. 



Monseigneur, — I have the ho- 

 nour to inform your excellency, 

 by a courier extraordinary, of the 

 event which has just taken place 

 at Valancay. 



M. D'Amezaga, intendant of 

 the household to the Spanish 

 princes, came to apprise me, on 

 the part of his highness prince 

 Ferdinand, that an English emis- 

 sary had introduced himself into 

 the castle. I instantly repaired to 

 the prince's apartments, and found 

 him in a state of great emotion. 



" The English," said he, ad- 

 dressing himselftome, "havedone 

 much injury to the Spanish nation. 

 They continue to causeblood to be 

 shed in my name. The English mi- 

 nisters, deceived by the false idea 

 that I am detained here by force, 

 have proposed to me means of es- 

 cape. They have sent to me an In- 

 dividual, who, under the pretext of 

 selling some objects of art, engag- 

 ed to deliver to me a message from 

 his majesty the king of England." 



1 speedily discovered and ar- 

 rested this emissary, who stated 

 himself to be the baron de Kolli, 

 an Irishman, and minister from his 

 majesty the king of England to 

 prince Ferdinand. I forward him 

 post to your excellency, with the 

 pretty numerous papers of which 

 he was the bearer. Theexamina- 

 tion to which you will subject him, 

 I have no doubt, must disclose all 

 the details of his plans, and the 

 accomplices he may have had. Ac- 

 cording to the preliminary inqui- 

 ries which I have made here, I am 

 induced to think that he has come 

 alone, and that he is totally unac- 

 quainted with this place. 



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