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100 SOCIETY IN ALGIERS.
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the dead man as to be able to replace him , and act Ms part in the world . So complete "was this identification that the family of St .
Amand , Ministers of State , the Due d'Aumale , bishops , generals and mag To rob istra the tes Treasury , never had , he a used doubt the but following that he 1 ingenious was the method true Marquis . The .
boxes containing the money are sent from France , fastened and stamped in a peculiar manner- they all weigh exactly the sameand
, , each contains exactly the same sum of money . Every year an inspector examines the cash-boxes in the public treasuries ; the
previous year the inspection had been delegated to an inferior officer . The false Marquis showed him some of the boxes filled with money .
They were carefully inspected , and their contents acknowledged to be exact . The remaining boxes were only weighed without being
opened . When Mr . Haupier requested the inventory , every box was opened , and only one was found to contain money , the other
six were filled with small lead shot ; the exterior of the boxes , cords , leaden stamps , & c , were en regie . Jeremy Varney must have been
a great genius perverted ; he was as dextrous with his hands as he was cunning with his head ; his mind and body were in perfect
unison ,- he was very clever in all out-door sports , and an excellent rider . He could imitate any hand-writing he wishedand was a
, good joiner , locksmith , and engraver . To take the money out of the boxes he wetted the cords , pulled them off the boxesand cut
, with a fine saw the exterior hoops ; then carefully extracted the nails , and having taken the money , he filled up the boxes with small
shot , carefully replacing the same cords , hoops , and nails , giving them exactly the same appearance , and the same weight to a grain ;
in short , it was utterly impossible to discover the robbery without opening the boxes . The following instances will give some idea of
his wonderful power of disguising himself . One day , while living at Medea , he had some friends to breakfast ; in the middle of the
entertainment he suddenly told them that he was wanted for some important business at Algiers . One of his guests objectedthat if
he were seen by his chief , or by any person who knew , him at Algiers , he would certainly be dismissed from his officenot being
, for authorized me to to / absent 7 and he himself left the ; he table replied immediatel , "It is absolutel . He y had necessary liht y
brown hair go moustache and whiskers of the same color . Soon g after he had , left the rooma gentleman with black hair and
whis-, kers entered it , and inquired for the Marquis of St . Amand . The guests invited him to sit downand told him that the Marquis
would return in a few moments ; , they entered into conversation with him for some time . At length the strange gentleman got up , and
said , _" Well , do you believe that any one at Algiers will recognise me ? " It was the Marquisor rather Jeremy Varneyhimself . He
exercised a strange kind of , fascination upon every one , who came in contact with him . A gentleman , who had been a schoolfellow of
the real Marquis of St . Amand , hearing that he was at Medea , pre-
100 Society In Algiers.
100 SOCIETY IN ALGIERS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 100, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/28/
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