I became acquainted with this charming lady, and to obtain favour in her eyes, announced myself as a friend of her lover’s family.  The relatives of the young giddy pate had empowered me to pay his debts; and if she could contrive an interview with him for me, she might rely on being satisfied with the result of the first.  Madame ------ was not sorry to have an opportunity of repairing the dilapidations made on her property, and one morning sent me a note, stating that she was going to dine with her lover the next day at the Boulevard du Temple, at La Galiote.  At four o’clock I went, disguised as a messenger, and stationed myself at the door of the restaurant’s; and after two hours’ watch, I saw a colonel of hussars approach.  It was Winter, attended by two servants.  I went up to him, and offered to take care of the horses, which proffer was accepted.  Winter alighted, he could not escape me, but his eyes met mine, and with one jump he flung himself on his horse, spurred him, and disappeared.

I thought I had him, and my disappointment was great; but I did not despair of catching my gentleman.  Some time afterwards I learnt that he was to be at the Cafe Hardi, in the Boulevard des Italiens.  I went thither with some of my agents, and when he arrived all was so well arranged, that he had only to get into a hackney coach, of which I paid the fare.  Led before a commissary of police, he asserted that he was not Winter; but, despite the insignia of the rank he had conferred on himself, and the long string of orders hanging on his breast, he was properly and officially identified as the individual mentioned in the warrant which I had for his apprehension.

Winter was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment, and would now be at liberty but for a forgery which he committed while at Bicetre, which, bringing on him a fresh sentence of eight years at the galleys, he was conducted to the Bagne at the expiration of his original sentence, and is there at present.

This adventurer does not want wit:  he is, I am told, the author of a vast many songs, much in fashion with the galley slaves, who consider him us their Anacreon.

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ANCIENT TYRE.

The Tyrians, although not so early celebrated either in sacred or profane history, had yet attained greater renown than their Sidonian kinsmen.  It is useless to conjecture at what period or under what circumstances these eastern colonists had quitted the shores of the Persian gulf, and fixed their seat on the narrow belt between the mountains of Lebanon and the sea.  Probably at first they were only factories, established for connecting the trade between the eastern and western world.  If so, their origin must be sought among the natives to the east of the Assyrians, as that race of industrious cultivators possessed no shipping, and was hostile to commerce.  The colonists took