Fresh Investigations—Count Borghi’s Letters—The Baths of
Lucca—Intimacy of the Duke of Orleans and the Marchioness
of B.—Loan—The Chevalier Montara—Letter to the Duc de
Bourbon—Various Publications—The Lawyer Courtilly—Archives of
Genoa—Conduct of the Governor—Tomaso Chiappini’s Libel—Refusal
of the Printers—Vain Attempts—The Bishop of Faenza—Letter from
the Cape of Good Hope.
One important fact had been argued and settled, namely, that of my
substitution; and thenceforth it would be incontestable that my parents
were the Comte and Comtesse de Joinville, and French. But who were this
couple, and where were they? The uncertainty about this was insupportable
to me now, and I was inspired with fresh courage to renew the struggle.
Greatly wishing, if possible, to discover the nurse who had suckled the
jailer’s son, I had notices put up in several towns that a large reward
would be given to any one who could give me news of her.
I wrote about this matter to Count Borghi, and at the same time
reproached him somewhat for having omitted, on examination, to add to his
first declaration what he had come to Ravenna to tell me.