U. U. Club.
_Philip d'Auvergne_ (Vol. vii., p. 236.).--This cadet of a Jersey family,
whose capture, when a lieutenant in our royal navy, led to his being in
Paris as a prisoner on parole, and thereby eventually to his adoption by
the last Prince of Bouillon, was a person of too much notoriety to make it
necessary to tell the tale of his various fortunes in your columns; of his
imprisonment in the Bastile, and subsequently for a short period in the
Temple; his residence at Mont Orgueil Castle in Jersey, for the purpose of
managing communications with royalists or other agents, on the opposite
French coast; or the dates of his successive commissions in the navy, in
which he got upon the list of rear-admirals in 1805, and was a vice-admiral
of the blue in 1810.
I have not access at present to any list of the _Lives of Public
Characters_, but think I can recollect that there was an account given of
him in that publication; and there can be no doubt but that any necrology,
of the date of his death, would contain details at some length.
I suspect there is mistake in Brooke's _Gazetteer_, as quoted by E. H. A.,
for I feel rather confident that the reigning duke had no son living when
he made over the succession to one whom he did not know to be a relation,
though bearing the family name.
As, however, this adopted representative of the Dukes De Bouillon has been
mentioned, it may be a fit occasion to ask if any of your Jersey readers
can tell what became, at his death, of a beautifully preserved and
illuminated French translation of the Scriptures, which he showed to your
correspondent in 1814, as having been the gift of the Black Prince's
captive, King John of France, to the Duc De Berri, his son, from whom it
had passed into the possession of the Ducs De Bouillon. His highness (for
the concession of this style was still a result of his dukedom) said, that
he had lent this Bible for a while to the British Antiquarian Society,
which had engraved some costumes and figures from the vignettes which
adorned the initials of chapters.