Louis, baron of AUERWECK, Hungarian officer, spy and royalis - Lot 246

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Louis, baron of AUERWECK, Hungarian officer, spy and royalis - Lot 246
Louis, baron of AUERWECK, Hungarian officer, spy and royalist agent. 4 L.A.S. and 1 L.A. (incomplete), London [1792-1795], to Charlotte Atkyns, in London or Wyndham (Norfolk); 10 1/2 pages in-4 (edges a bit frayed). Correspondence to the Englishwoman who financed a conspiracy to save Marie Antoinette and Louis XVII. Thursday [December 1792?]. Her answer would be for him "a life or death sentence"; he would find resources on the continent. "If I do not leave, I am lost in every sense of the word. I am so far from the end of my resources that I start to look at myself, as if I were at the end of my life. - It is only by dint of my efforts that I have avoided for some time a fate similar to that of Peltier"... Tuesday [November 25, 1794]. Cormier has left for Holland, and Auerweck does not have the courage to talk about political affairs today. "The present is heavy with the future, and it is difficult to have an idea of the combinations of the moment [...] I have just had by letters arrived yesterday the certainty that the young King [Louis XVII] is well, that he receives rather distinguished care, and that he indicates at the same time a perfect knowledge of his position, and an extraordinary prudence "... - December 4. Depressed, he thinks that Cormier could have avoided leaving England, had he been less indiscreet... Remarks on his philosophy, and an anecdote about a niece of Lavater... Deploration of public affairs: "the Jacobins are not dead in Paris; Mayence is not delivered; one does not tremble without reason for the islands of America; if Italy is no longer threatened, Spain still is", etc. "If the nature of the revolution still requires some crises, it is beyond human power to prevent them, and in this case, all the plans will have to be restarted, and all the projects will have to be formed anew, especially if [...] one does not cease to look upon corruption as the most powerful means that one can employ. One hopes to frighten the Convention of civil war, one holds the really royalist gatherings paralyzed in their turn, one trades or buys some real or apparent leaders of the revolution, and one thus counts on arriving at an arrangement which will put Louis XVII on the throne with forms which guarantee impunity to the revolutionaries, and one would willingly sacrifice in this case the Princes, and the prominent emigration "...Friday [February 13, 1795]. Echoes of emigrants escaping from Holland, and fears for Cormier... - March 20. It would seem "that the Cart is not yet so bogged down as some claim; that the particular peace that has been sounded so much, is not yet completely concluded, and that finally exaggerated hopes are always ridiculous"... They wait impatiently for the couriers from Vienna, "and the outcome of the expedition that Sr. Sidney Smith is going to command"... Old collection of the historian G. Lenotre (under autograph folders).
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