[Illustration: Portrait of English Tourist searched in Paris on
suspicion of having a valuable Porcelain Vase concealed about his
person.]
[Illustration: The Porcelain Vase in question.]
["A valuable porcelain vase having been stolen from Versailles
Palace, a band of English tourists who were visiting the place
have been searched by the police; but nothing was found upon
them, and they have been liberated."--_St. James's Gazette,
Sept_. 17.]
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