Scurrilous Gossip

La Journée mémorable de Versailles, le lundi 5 Octobre 1789

THE
SCOURGE;
OR
MONTHLY EXPOSITOR,
OF
IMPOSTURE AND FOLLY

Mr. D'Egville has resumed his situation at the Opera-house: this gentleman is, we believe, particularly intimate with the man who bore in triumphant exhibition through the streets of Paris, the heart of the Princess de Lamballes.

The Scourge, 1 February 1811

Marie Louise de Lambelle
attributed to Henri Pierre Danloux (c 1791)

Mr. D'EGVILLE.

Sir,

 In your second number you have asserted that Mr. D'Egville is intimately acquainted with the man who carried on a pike the heart of the Princess de Lamballes through the streets of Paris. Such assertions as these had been frequently made long before the appearance of the Scourge: Mr. D'Egville, however, conscious that they could not injure him with those who knew him, and unwilling to obtrude in his private character on the attention of the public, suffered them to die away uncontradicted ; and it was not till in the dispute with Mr. Goold they were brought forward to prejudice the court itself against him, that he thought it necessary to give them a serious refutation. For this purpose he obtained in 1802 a certificate from those who had the best opportunities of knowing him at the time of the revolution, declarative of his peaceful and gentlemanly conduct during the whole of that unhappy period, and expressive of their knowledge that any aspersions of the kind alluded to must be unjust. This document I have seen, and it is now in Mr. D'Egville's possession. It is signed by the elder Vestris, Laborie, and most of the respectable performers attached to the Opera at Paris. From the liberality by which even your severest productions are distinguished, I trust that as an act of justice to a much injured individual you will insert this letter.

I remain, Sir, with respect,

your obedient servant,

ACHITES

London,

March 27th, 1811.

The Scourge, 1 April 1811

Le massacre de la princesse de Lamballe