EMIGRATION. Armand-Louis de SERENT (1736-1822) marshal of camp, governor of the dukes of Angoulême and Berry, agent in the Emigration, peer of France and duke at the Restoration. 6 L.A. (minutes, one incomplete), 1807-1809; 10 pages various sizes, one address with red wax seal; one in English. Interesting correspondence from an agent of Louis XVIII who took refuge in England under the name of Count de L'Isle-Jourdain (referred to here as Count "Delisle"), testifying to plans for espionage and a landing of the Duke of Berry in France. London August 18, 1807, to George Canning, [Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs], with a letter of transmittal on the back to Mr. Hammond [Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]. He transmits from Count Delisle an excerpt from a letter, asking him to take into consideration "the state of the faithful French who have long resided in Cadiz, and to place them under the protection of the British government. Now they find themselves confused in the treatment they receive with the partisans of Bonaparte"... July 24 [1809?], to a Lord [Castlereagh?] "I am charged on behalf of M. le Cte Delisle to have the honor of transmitting to you the names of two Frenchmen who propose to come from Gottemburg to England; one is Mr. de La Coudraÿe who has already been sent back from Mittau by order of the Russian emperor, the other M. Janbart, offer to the Corps of Engineers having made all the campaigns to the Corps of Condé, and having entered since the service of Sweden "... London November 14, 1809, to the count of Liverpool, secretary of State of the War and the Colonies. He recalls the wish of Count Delisle to send to France some devoted persons to probe the spirit and the dispositions of the interior. MM. de Saint-Hubert, alias Saint-Ange, and Ferriet left for the Vendée and the abbé Quilvic, "on a government ship," for Basse-Bretagne, but M. de Brulart's plan to go to Normandy via Jersey was not carried out. Serent wonders if the reticence of Castlereagh and the British government was not due to the arrests of royalists and the death of M. d'Aché; "nevertheless the Princes still hold on to it, I beg you to grant me the requested passport for M. de Brulard or to put my responsibility under cover by deigning to give me a decisive answer"... - To the Count of La Châtre. He is suspicious of M. de Ferriette who "had dealt with M. de La Feronnays on the means to lead M. the duke of Berry in France, and to put him at the head of a royalist party in the provinces of the West. This operation was about to take place when M. de La Feronnays received letters from his friends and even from his sister who warned him that this project was known in France, and that M. le Duc de Berry should be delivered to Bonaparte. There was never any positive proof of this fact but it left great suspicions on the count of the individual "... - Account in English of threats received by La Ferronays, and of suspicions towards the baron of Ferriette...