At the same time will be sold her MAHOGANY BOOK CASES, her PRINTS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, SWORDS, TRINKETS, JEWELS, and, in general, all her WEARING APPAREL, constituting the WARDROBE of a CAPTAIN of DRAGOONS and a FRENCH LADY. Quale decus rerum, si Virginis AUCTIO fiat, Balteus, et Manicæ, et Cristæ, Crurisque sinistri Dimidium Tegmen!... ... Tu felix, Ocreas vendente Puella.—JUV. N.B.—Mr. CHRISTIE assures the Public that the name of the Chevalière D’Eon is written with her own hand, in the first page of every one of her Books; and that the Preface to the Catalogue of them contains AN INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE VERY EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF Mdlle. D’Eon. The Catalogue has been divided into Six different Parts, to facilitate the transport of it into Foreign Countries: they are now united in one catalogue. Price ONE SHILLING. CATALOGUES may be had at the Place of Sale; at Mr. DEBRETT’S, _Piccadilly_; at Mr. SEWELL’S, in _Cornhill_; and at M. DE BOFFE’S, _Gerard Street_. Printed by T. SPILSBURY & SON, No. 57, _Snow Hill, London_. M.DCC.XCI. [Sidenote: A SAD TALE.] We pass over the intermediate years until 1791, when the Chevalière burst upon London with the sudden announcement that her precious books and MSS. were about to be sold by public auction. The catalogue, prepared by herself, opens with an address to the Public,[359] in which are given the reasons which place her under the necessity of disposing, during her lifetime, of all she possesses. She had returned to London in 1785 for no other purpose than that of paying her creditors and collecting what was due to her, but she had been unable to succeed in this double object of her wishes. The reigning King of France, she went on to say, sensible of her military and political services, as well as of her innocence and the misfortunes she had experienced, had generously caused to be remitted to Washington, Earl Ferrers, through M. de Beaumarchais, on October 17, 1778, the sum of 5,000_l._ sterling, to be employed by the said Earl Ferrers, according to his promise, towards the discharge of her debts, so that she might be in a position to leave England honourably. Notwithstanding, however, the earl’s honour and probity, and his friendship for the Chevalière, he discharged a part only of her debts, and without first asking her consent, kept 3,000_l._ for his own private use, undoubtedly with the intention of returning the money, D’Eon having asked him to settle with her creditors, and especially with Mr. Duval, the King’s jeweller, who had advanced several sums during the Chevalière’s law-suits and distresses in London. Being urged to satisfy these claims, his lordship acknowledged that he had applied 3,000_l._ towards completing the furniture of his seat,[360] the working of a lead-mine, and of a lime-pit in his park of Staunton Harold, which