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the carriage, stepped round to the heads of the horses-and was never seen again! Suddenly, inexplicably, without a word, a cry, an alarm of any sort, he was gone-spirited away, and what really became of him will never be known with certainty. Whilst the whole house was in amazement and perplexity the Jewish merchants ordered their carriage to be got ready and departed.

The moment Captain Klitzing heard that the traveller had disappeared he remembered the alarm expressed by the gentleman, and sent soldiers to seize the carriage and all the effects of the missing man. A guard was placed over Mr. Bathurst's companions, and also over the Swan, and next morning the river was dragged, outhouses, woods, marshes, ditches were examined, but not a trace of him could be found. Klitzing had gone over the effects of Mr. Bathurst, and had learned that the fur coat belonging to him was missing; he communicated this fact to the civil magistrate, and search was instituted for it. It was discovered that the coat and also Fisher's had been found in the post-house by a woman, Schmidt, wife of the owner of the post, and she had resolved to appropriate them. The best, that of Mr. Bathurst, she gave to her son Augustus, who put it in a sack and concealed it under a heap of firewood in the cellar. The family were at once placed under arrest. On December 10 the secretary was furnished with a pass and departed for Berlin, where he went before the head of the police to urge further investigation; at the same time he wrote to the family in England and laid the matter before the English Ambassador. On December 16 two poor women went out of Perleberg to a little fir wood to pick up broken sticks for fuel. There they found, a few paces from a path, spread on the grass, a pair of trousers turned inside out, and stained on the outside, as if the man who had worn them had lain on the earth. In the pocket was a paper with writing on it; this, as well as the trousers, was sodden with water. Two bullet holes were in the trousers, but no traces of blood about them, which could hardly have been the case had the bullets struck a man wearing the trousers. The trousers were certainly those of the missing man. The paper in the pocket was a half-finished letter from Mr. Bathurst to his wife, scratched in pencil, stating that he was afraid he would never reach England, and that his ruin would be the work of Count d'Entraignes, and he requested her not to marry again in the event of his not returning. The English Government offered £1,000 reward, and his family another £1,000; Prince Frederick of Prussia offered

in addition 100 Friedrichs d'or for the discovery of the body, or for information which might lead to the solution of the mystery, but no information to be depended upon ever transpired.

On January 23, 1810, in the Hamburgh paper appeared a paragraph which for the first time informed the people of Perleberg who the merchant Koch really was who had so mysteriously vanished. The paragraph was in the form of a letter, dated from London, January 6, 1810-that is six weeks after the disappearance. It ran thus: "Sir Bathurst, Ambassador Extraordinary of England to the Court of Austria, concerning whom a German newspaper, under date of December 10, stated that he had committed suicide in a fit of insanity, is well in mind and body. His friends have received a letter from him dated December 13, which, therefore, must have been written after the date of his supposed death." Who inserted this, and for what purpose? It was absolutely untrue. Was it designed to cause the authorities to relax their efforts to probe the mystery, and perhaps to abandon them altogether? The Jewish merchants were examined, but were at once discharged; they were persons well-to-do, and generally respected. Was it possible that Mr. Bathurst had committed suicide? This was the view taken of his disappearance in France, where, in the Moniteur of Dec. 12, 1809, a letter from the correspondent in Berlin stated: "Sir Bathurst on his way from Berlin showed signs of insanity, and destroyed himself in the neighbourhood of Perleberg." On January 23, 1810, the Times took the matter up, and not obscurely charged the Emperor Napoleon with having made. away with Mr. Bathurst, who was peculiarly obnoxious to him. The Moniteur of January 29 said: "Among the civilised races, England is the only one that sets an example of having bandits in pay, and inciting to crime. From information we have received from Berlin, we believe that Mr. Bathurst had gone off his head. It is the manner of the British Cabinet to commit diplomatic commissions to persons whom the whole nation knows are half fools. It is only the English diplomatic service which contains crazy people." This violent language was at the time attributed to Napoleon's dictation, stung with the charge made by the Times, a charge ranking him with "vulgar murderers," and which attributed to him two other and somewhat similar cases, that of Wagstaff and that of Sir George Rumbold. It is very certain that the Moniteur would not have ventured on such insulting language without his permission.

In April Mrs. Bathurst, along with some friends, arrived in Perleberg. The poor lady was in great distress and anxiety to have the intolerable suspense alleviated by a discovery of some sort, and the most liberal offers were made and published to induce a disclosure of the secret. Mrs. Bathurst did not return immediately to England; she appealed to Napoleon to grant her information, and he assured her, through Cambacières, and on his word of honour, that he knew nothing of the matter beyond what he had seen in the papers. So the matter rested, an unsolved mystery.

In 1852 a discovery was made at Perleberg which may or may not give the requisite solution. We may state before mentioning it that Captain Klitzing never believed that Bathurst had been spirited away by French agents. He maintained that he had been murdered for his money. On April 15, 1852, a house on the Hamburg road that belonged to the mason Kiesewetter was being pulled down, when a human skeleton was discovered under the stone threshold of the stable. The skeleton lay stretched out, face upwards, on the black peat earth, covered with mortar and stone chips, the head embedded in wallingstones and mortar. In the back of the skull was a fracture, as if a heavy instrument had fallen on it. All the upper teeth were perfect, but one of the molars in the lower jaw was absent, and there were indications of its having been removed by a dentist. The house where these human remains were found had been purchased in 1834 by the mason Keisewetter from Christian Mertens, who had inherited it from his father, which latter had bought it in 1803, of a shoemaker. Mertens, the father, had been a serving man in the White Swan at the time of the disappearance of Mr. Bathurst. Inquiry was made into what was known of old Mertens. Everyone spoke highly of him as a saving, steady man, God-fearing; who had scraped together during his service in the Swan sufficient money to dower his two daughters respectively £150 and £120. After his long illness he had died, generally respected. Information of the discovery was forwarded to the Bathurst family, and on August 23 Mrs. Thistlethwaite, sister of Benjamin, came to Perleberg, bringing with her a portrait of her brother, but she was quite unable to say that the skull that was shown her belonged to the missing man, whom she had not seen for forty-three years. And-no wonder! Mrs. Thistlethwaite left, believing that the discovery had no connection with the mystery of her brother's disappear

ance, so ineradicably fixed in the convictions of the family was the belief that he had been carried away by French agents.

The writer, however, argues that the discovery appears to show that the remains were those of Mr. Bathurst; that the murder was committed by Mertens for the sake of robbery; that Augustus Schmidt might have been concerned in the crime, and the sable coat taken off Mr. Bathurst when dead. He also argues, from the known facts, that it was improbable Napoleon had any hand in the matter. Moreover, "Napoleon's solemn assurance that he knew nothing about the matter is deserving of respect, though the family never seems to have given it credence." The writer says in conclusion:-"In 1815 Earl Bathurst was Secretary of State for War and the Colonial Department. May we not suspect that there was some mingling of personal exultation along with political satisfaction in being able to send to St. Helena the man who had not only been the scourge of Europe, and the terror of Kings, but who, as he supposedquite erroneously we believe-had inflicted on his own family an agony of suspense and doubt that was never to be wholly removed."

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The Barony of Hawkesbury.

ITH the elevation of Mr. Cecil G. S. Foljambe to the peerage as Baron Hawkesbury, this well-known Gloucestershire title has been recently revived. It will be remembered that this was the title under which the Earls of Liverpool were first ennobled. It was, of course, derived from the ancient village of Hawkesbury, where the Jenkinsons for many years had their principal seat, though the house was pulled down many years ago.

The London Gazette of 23 June, 1893, contained notifications that the Queen had been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland granting the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom, amongst others, unto Cecil George Savile Foljambe, Esq., by the title of Baron Hawkesbury, of Haselbech, in the county of Northampton, and of Ollerton, Sherwood Forest, in county of Nottingham. As will be seen from the subjoined tabular pedigree, Lord Hawkesbury is the grandson and repre

sentative of the last Earl of Liverpool, and therefore it was peculiarly appropriate that, though of a very ancient Nottinghamshire family, he should nevertheless select for his title the name of the Gloucestershire village with which his ancestors were so long connected.

Amelia
Watts

d. 1770

Charles Jenkinson = Catherine Bisshopp, d. of Sir Cecil cr. Baron Hawkesbury Bisshopp, Bart., of Parham. Sussex and Earl of Liverpool d. 1827. b. 1727, d. 1808.

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Lord Hawkesbury is well known in the archæological world as an enthusiastic genealogist. He has, as our readers are aware, sent many contributions to various antiquarian magazines, this one amongst others, mainly of an heraldic and genealogical nature, so that it would seem like an omission not to make a special note in our pages of the honour recently conferred upon him.

To mark his elevation to the peerage, Lord Hawkesbury has had a grant during the present month (Sept., 1893) of an additional crest by patent dated 10 Oct. It alludes to the fact that he is representative and heir of the Earls of Liverpool, and also refers to his sea-service in the navy. It is as follows:

On a wreath or and sable, a rock ppr., thereon a sea lion sejant azure, resting his dexter paw on an escutcheon per fesse wavy argent and azure, charged in chief with a cormorant sable, beaked and legged gules, holding in his beak a branch of seaweed called laver, inverted vert, for "Liverpool," and in base with a sea-hawk wings elevated and addorsed argent, for "Hawkesbury." Above on a scroll is the ancient form of the Foljambe motto, DEMOVRES FERME, whilst over the old crest, (the jamb unarmed except the spur, couped at the thigh quarterly or and sable,) is the motto BEE FAST; the more modern Foljambe motto, SOYES Ferme, being in the usual place under the arms.

The sea lion is in allusion to the sea service, and is on a rock

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