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Two persons, well known for their talents, from cork under a tree the high offices which they have filled, came to the relief of Mr. He was answered that it was impossible, advising him to make an application for a situation in the colonies, particularly Cayenne. Three months passed in useless solicitations to obtain this employment, as well as the decoration of the legion of honour, which he had been led to hope for. During this time he neglected nothing which he thought might conduce to enable him to attain the object which he thought he might propose to himself without being accused of extravagant pretensions. Excited by the advice of a great many persons, whose judgment, as well as their noble and generous sentiments, commanded implicit confidence, he resolved to go to the very fountain of favors, to carry into the royal palace the sight of his strange misfortune, to invoke that hereditary goodness, the bright patrimony of the Bourbons, which so many from cork under a tree unfortunate persons have not solicited in vain. But the malignant influence of the adverse star, which so long persecuted Mr. He first presented a petition to His Royal Highness Monsieur.