ro2.4 i. 
ceffion, He was fubfequently condemned 
to pals through the Cilalpine territories, 
with the troublefome efcort of the French 
commiflary, in his way to Leghor, 
where he was to embark for Cagliari. 
Being arrived in. Tafcany; his fignal 
piety made him forget his own misfor- 
tunes, and turn his mind towards the 
Pope, Pius the VI. who was yet in the 
Chartreux near Florence. He refolved 
to make him avilit. His Holinefs, on 
his fide, feemed likewife to forget his 
own misfortunes on feeing at his feet 
the religious monarch with his royal fa- 
mily. He fainted at the recital of what 
had happened in Turin,  Whilft this 
vilit took place, the French commiffioner 
was preient, with his hat on his head, 
and icofling at the expreffions of the mu- 
tual fentiments- of the two venerable 
perfons. On his arrival at Leghorn, his 
Majefty made to this French agent a 
gift of arich fnuff-box.fet in diamonds; 
the Duke of Aofta, had prefented 
him likewife with a beautiful faddle- 
horfe; and the other princes generoufly 
followed this example. The gratitude 
of the milerable wretch was publicly to 
fell all thefe things m the market-place 
at Florence, with fuch marks of difre- 
fpest towards the royal perfons, as to 
have endangered his life from the fury 
of the mob. 
His Majefty repaired to Cagliari, 
From the Port-Falio of a Man of Letters. 
325 
the capital of his kingdom of Sardi- 
nia. He ftaid in this place till the 
combined armies of Auftria and Rufiia 
expelled the French from Italy. Upon 
this, he returned to Tufcany, and req 
fided for about feven months in Flo- 
rence. When the newly-elected Pope, 
Pius VII. embarked at Venice for 
- Ancona, his Majefty, wifhing to pay him 
the fame refpeét as his predeceflor, went 
to meet him at the latter place, accom- 
panied by the royal family and court. 
Next, he attended his Holinefs, on his 
fubfequent jouiney from Ancona to 
Rome. In this metropolis his Majefty 
fiopped only for fome days, and after- 
wards retired to the pleafant town of 
Fralcati, where he is now waiting for 
thofe beneficial events which may, as 
every man of feeling heartily withes, 
‘enable him to repair to his continental 
dominions. } | 
His Sardinian Majefty is now forty nine 
years old, and he has four younger 
brothers — the Duke of Aoffa, the 
Duke of Monferrato, the Duke of 
Ginevrino, and the Count of Maurienne. 
The royal family of Sardinia has like-~ 
wife the Duke of Chablais, and two 
princefles from the fecond marriage of 
Charles Emmanuel his grandfather, and 
the Prince of Carignano with two prin- 
ceffes his aunts. 
a eT 
Extras from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
— 
THE MAN WITH THE IRON MASK. 
URING the demolition of the Baf- 
tile (fays Defodoards, in the Hi/- 
toire Philofophique de la Revolution) it was 
difcovered who had been the man with 
the iron mafk, concerning whom Voltaire 
could offer. only furmifes. The archives 
of this Rate-prifon were feized by the mul- 
titude ; papers which would have been va- 
luable to the hiftorian were difperfed ; but 
fome curious pérfons endeavoured to fe- 
cure, by purchafe, the reliques of this 
mafs of materials. It was very common 
to meet with mere cards, figned by the 
minifters, and containing the addrefs of 
fome prifoner. Qne of thefe cards, No, 
64,389, contained the following words ; 
Foucquet arrivant des ifles Sainte-Mar- 
guerite avec un majfque de fer. Then 
three XXX, and below them the fignature 
Kerfadion. I mylelf faw this card in 
' 
poffeffion of the perfon who found it, and 
offered money for it, but in vain. I then 
took an exact copy, and I believe that this 
document furnifhes a complete folution of 
every «difficulty. Colbert, as is well 
known, had fworn the ruin of the in- 
tendant Foucquet, and, in 1664. procured 
his being imprifoned in the citadel of Pig- 
nerol, then an appurtenance to France. 
He there {pent fome years, efcaped, and 
died—no one knew where. ‘This fact is 
attefted in the Memoirs of his friend 
Gourviile. Probably Foucquet was re- 
taken and confined in‘ the ifles of Sainte- 
Marguerite, and thence transferred, in 
1690, to the Bafiile. 
JOHN COUSTOS. 
In the year.1744 John Couttos, jeweller, 
a native of Berne, in Switzerland, was de- 
livered, at the age of forty-three, from 
the prifons of the Inquifition of Lifbon, 
through : 
