honourable Caron de Beaumarchais, who proposed marriage to the Demoiselle D’Eon when on his late embassage in England; and whose coming embassage to Congress in America is for the purpose of importing snuff of a quality that will make the entire audience sneeze each time his plagiary, the “Barber of Seville,” is performed. The scene of the false Demoiselle D’Eon was repeated, I am informed, last week, in a house where Madame de F—— was hoaxed by Musson, the well-known painter, who personated the Demoiselle at the time that I, lonely and peaceful, was at work and asleep in my hermitage at Petit Montreuil.... Does M. de Beaumarchais, so fond of hoaxing others, desire to enjoy the exclusive privilege?... Let me tell you, sir, that all the integrity of the four ministers put together, adding to it that of their chief clerks, would fail to make an honest man of Caron, so far as I am concerned. People in England are convinced of this, for they have nicknamed him _bon marché_.... ‘LA CHEVALIÈRE D’EON.’ Passing over the reply sent to Beaumarchais, we find ‘The Appeal of Mademoiselle D’Eon to her Contemporaries,’ which also went through the press:— ‘Where is the woman who, having read the famous letters of M. Carillon[341] or Caron de Beaumarchais, of January 3 and 13, addressed to the minister and to me, has not said, She will reply!... He has sought, by base artifice, to deprive me of that consideration so conducive to my peaceful existence. I put him to confusion by ridiculing his impotent rage. He is a Thersites who should be whipped, for having dared to be insolent to his betters whom he ought to respect. I denounce and abandon him to all womankind of my day, as one who would fain have exalted himself at the expense of a woman, enriched himself by sacrificing a woman’s honour, and avenged his frustrated hopes by crushing a woman, who, of all others, has at heart the triumph of her sex. ‘N.B.—Caron has certified to and signed the copies of the two letters he has published; I cause copies of my two letters to be certified and signed by Barth. Pille, surnamed La Grenade, my valet, whose signature has always been respected.’ * * * * * ‘I certify that these two letters are true copies of the originals in my hands, this 2nd day of February, 1778. ‘PILLE, surnamed LA GRENADE.’