French Pretender.
(Friom the Nee York GzxelMe of tlay 11.) IXPOSTuRx.-A Frenchuman calling himself Louis XVI., bl made his anpearanCf in Washington, who pretends to be the stof. louis .XVI. of France, the Dauphin whfose birtlh was so-brillhantly celelrated throughout the United States, at the close of the revolu, tionary war t and who was murdered in Pais by the cut.thros, of. the Fiench revolution in 1794. Some few years smnce a peson, proe bably thc sarnc, attempted a simtilar ihnosition in France, anald . cited some atte.tion,iud the svmpathy tf the old Roy5dists,until his birth and parentagewere ascettained by the police. His father was found to be a carpcnter. Heis, of course, about the gethce Da hin would have attained, hadtbe have lived; and he is reported to ave the complexion and features of the Bourbon family. His atoyis that he wae carried from the Temple, gecretlyto the Al t,. an jthence to Cuba, and tlere taught the trade of a carpenter; waat b" been his history since, is to be learned. The person alluded to in the,above paragraph ha. madt the fid~ lowing publication in the iVai7dngten Rep abic,rn: .. "1, Louis Charles, Dukeof.Navarre, 'Dauphiv of Franct, an- nounce to the citizens of the Xmnited States, that I posses suilcient proof that I am the son of Louis XVL., that I have just withdraw4 mFse1f from those whlo hat kepc me witil this time prisoner in the idarlu of Cuba. I intend tobhave an abridged history ofthe different events of my life printed, which shaU be made public, in order to counteract the efforisofall calumniators. If I am an impostor, let me he transported to France, in order to be tried by the laws of the kingdom. lfmy claim isjust, what honorr the American na. tion to restore to France the rightful heir of a King to ihom it is under great obligations, and whose object would be to give peace to the werld, and happiness tothe Republic. The distress to which I amT reduced after a lemg joarney, makes it necematy for me to r quest the national aia. Those who are wiiRing to assist rme are rs. quested to call at Mlrs. Nardin's, opposite the Centre 'larket I'enn. sylvania Avenue. "CHARLES X., King of Pirane. " Washington, MUay 7, 1824." ' PRENCjq PRETZENDER.