the modern antiquary.

CORKSCREW.

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JAMES THE SECOND, HIS REMAINS.

The following curious account was given to me by Mr. Fitz-Simons, an
Irish gentleman, upwards of eighty years of age, with whom I became
acquainted when resident with my family at Toulouse, in September, 1840;
he having resided in that city for many years as a teacher of the French
and English languages, and had attended the late Sir William Follett in
the former capacity there in 1817. He said,--

"I was a prisoner in Paris, in the convent of the English
Benedictines in the Rue St. Jaques, during part of the
revolution. In the year 1793 or 1794, the body of King James II.
of England was in one of the chapels there, where it had been
deposited some time, under the expectation that it would one day
be sent to England for interment in Westminster Abbey. It had
never been buried. The body was in a wooden coffin, inclosed in
a leaden one; and that again inclosed in a second wooden one,
covered with black velvet. That while I was so a prisoner, the
sans-culottes broke open the coffins to get at the lead to cast
into bullets. The body lay exposed nearly a whole day. It was
swaddled like a mummy, bound tight with garters. The
sans-culottes took out the body, which had been embalmed. There
was a strong smell of vinegar and camphor. The corpse was
beautiful and perfect. The hands and nails were very fine, I