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0 re 3e llt ii. ..: .... ..„ C4An Y ~. Ix driver of the •Vlkt It to recognise om expecting to ?"—" Yet. : and d pistols, which make use of promise you." woe to whoever otner of the Rue ite pocket hand- ' war tht signal the way, I had I was od!suiscd, 1 a round silver- I took kate of used nr.y new g; it pound of he solitude coin- wain. I walked rapidly, and it p up x ith him. ut I was, never- [Armes galloping F me, and never after one hotted and one off, we lie Rue de Bar, r I am going," ii ile I speak - to the I a staireameon . Go through a t, and at the bot- ii OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, 14th September, 1831. U lll lk \ • 11 11°- k O 11„/ l ikvk t I I \ Disy sja NACzk iko onNICAlit 214, ,nr. isiammarb 4 . _ _ 1788. . . 91HE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of his Z ,iLIJESTY'S ORDN4NCE is infey gin N.&s, that they will SELL by PUBLIC AUCTION, AT THE TOWER, that I breathed at ease. In looking at the cabriolet, how peat was my astoniahment Count Chastens*, whom I was very far horn find there. " What I" I said," Ia it you ?" you have behind you four double-barrelled am well loaded ; I hope you will them." " No, indeed, I will not compromise " Then I shall set you the example, and woe shall attempt to stop your flight.' We entered the new Boulevard, At the corner Plutnet : there we stopped. I placed a whit. kerchief in the front of the cabriolet. This agreed upon with M. Baudut. During the thrown off all the female attire with which I Oa Tussnatr, die 27th Instant, at Eleven o•Cloek in the Forenoon precisely, SUNDRY LOTS OF OLD STORES, Consisting of Accontretnents, Flints, Brushes and Pricker*, Wading, Clothing, Iron Bedsteads, Portable Forges, Fire Engine and Hose, Scales and Weights, Flannel Cartridges snd Cuttings, Old Junk, Canvas, Rope, Twine, Leather Cuttings, Iron Door and Frame, Fire Irons, Fenders, Wood and Tin Canteen!, Tent Poles, Pins, Pelage Pegs, Old Tin Cases, Old Match, Old Cured Paper, and a variety of other Articles; the whole of which may be viewed at the Tower"; the Ordnance Depot, Tooley-street, Borough ; and at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, as expressed in the Cats togues, during the week previous to the Sale, upon applies- tion to the Ordnance Storekeepers at those places, where Catalogues of the Lots, and Conditions of the Sale, will be delivered to those persons who may apply for the same. By Order of the Board, R. BYHAM, Secretary. and put on a dickey great coat with a laced bat. M. Baudus soon joined us. I M. de Chaesenon, and modes ly master. It was eight o'clock in the evening; rain; the night was eitremely dark, and the plea in that part of the Faubourg St. Germaii with difficulty. 31. Baudua went on more v was not without trouble that I could keep I soon left one of my shoes in the mire, but . theta's, obliged to get on. We saw gendarmes along, who were undoubtedly in search of - imagined that I was so near them. Finally, walk, fatigued to death, with one shoe on, arrived in the Rue de Orenell near the where 31. Bandus stopped fur a moment. •' he said, " to enters nobleman's hotel. While FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1831. N°. 13,889. PRICE SEVENPENCE. THE NEW VOLCANIC ISLAND. A Supplement to the Malta Gazette of the 25th ult. containing the particulars of the newly formed Island, which has been christened after the First Lord of the Admiralty : On the 19th of August we got sight of Graham Island in the afternoon ; it is about twenty-seven miles from Sciacca, on the southern coast of Sicily, lat. 37 deg. 11 N. long. 22 deg. 44 E. It appeared two hummocks, united by a lower neck of land ; and from the southern extremity emitted a column of smoke or vapour of uncertain density and magnitude. On the 20th, after dili gently working to windward all night, we ap proached the Island considerably; and the breeze springing up favourable from the S.E. we were enabled to heave to within one mile distance, at 10 o'clock A.m. On our approach to the Is land we observed immense shoals of porpoises, and mul titudes of sea fowl, chiefly gulls, attracted, no 'doubt, by the fish which may have been destroyed by the late volcanic eruptions. It was very re markable what a regular distance these voracious tribes kept from the land, about four or five miles, not ono being observed near the shore on our visit to the volcano. .thrown up with the incumbent earth, baying no marks of combustion. There was ao trace what ever of lava, no terra puzzalana, ao pumice stone, no shells or other marine remains usually found nt /Etna and Vesuvius. Around the island where Neptune makes his advances, the sides fall down in abrupt precipices, and we could discern every strata ejected by each separate eruption ; the water evaporating, left an incrustation of slit, which now appears to be a white, firm liver, plainly marking the regular progress and formation of the ittlmul. Tin:surface of the island is likewise covered lith a eimilar in crustation, in some places so thick as to be visibly white sonic distance at sea. PERFUMERY, COSMETIC, AND THE CELE BRATED REAL OLD BROWN WINDSOR SOAP MANUFACTORY, porter, get into the court. Tou will find rout left hand. Go up to the highest story. dirk passage you will meet with to the right, _ tom of which is a pile of wood. Stop there." We then walked a tow up to the Rue de Bac, and 1 was seised with a sett of dlaew when I saw bim knock at the door alibis Wfbaister Aths, the Duke de Richelieu. 31. Baud* went in first; and, while he was talking to the poster, wits had thrust his head out of his lodge; I passed rapidly by. " Where Is that man ping F' cried the porter. "It is my servant." I quickly went up to the third floor, an d readied the pace that had been described to me. I was sc..rcely there, when I heard the rustling of a silk gown. I tilt myself gently taken by the arm, and pushed into an apartment, the door of which was iminedi. t •ly shut upon me. I stepped on to wards a lighted fire, which cast around the room a very Ithet glimmering. Having placed my hands upon the stove tO warm myself, I found a candle-stick and a bundle of usicies. I gnamed that I might light a cAndl.:. I did so ; and esamiaed my new abode. It was a middle•a:zed loom • the garettßoor. The furniture consisted of a very clean had, a chest of drawers, two claim, and • small German Move of earthenware. On the chest of drawers 1 found No. 6, BUDGE ROW, LONDON. PROFESSOR MULLER'S ORIGINAL MILK of LILIES fur the Complexion. tee. Ste. From the nature of this Island, there being no bond of coherence in its heterogeneous particles, and from the precipitous falling down of its sides by the action of the sea, I am inclined to think that there is not the stability of permanence in its composition. The insatiable ocean will encroach upon its base ; the winds of Heaven will scatter the dusty surface to the four cardinal points of the compass; the rain will dissolve the saline bond of union; anti the crumbling ruin will gradually sink and extend its base to a bank barely above the level of the sea. Its loss will not be deplored, for the screaming sea-bird instinctively wheels and di rects his flight to a distant part of the ocean, to avoid the dark and desolate spot; and even the inhabitants of the deep seem to avoid the unhal lowed shore. A. OsSORN E, Sur. H.M.S. Ganges This fashionable ardcle possesses pre.eminent properties not inherent in any other Cosmetic. It is recommended by the Faculty for Inflamed Ryes, Sore Nipples, Bums, or Scalds; it is also a certain eradicator of Ringworms. This inimitable Milk gives beauty to the coarsest skin, and im parts to it a refreshing coolness which is indescribable. It is universally patronized by all the Crowned Heads of Hu rapt, and by all the Officers of the Army and Navy of all Nations, after the operation of shaving, as it allays the smarting pain arising from the irritability of the skin, &e. kc. Persons who are travelling in solar climates should not be without this admirable Companion of the Toilet, as it facilitates a fascinating whiteneu to the skin, and an in. delible bloom to the complexion. It is strictly prepared from the original Recipe of the late OTTO CHRISTIAN BIULLER, Professor of Botany, and Inventor of the fol. lowing celebrated articles for the Toilet : " Peruvian Ve getable Balsam." for Gentlemen's use, attested upon oath before the Lord Mayer as being the ant and only article that ever has been introduced to cause the straightest hair to curl ;=" Russian Hair Dye,"—" Pommade de Macas sar, for the Growth of Hair,"—" Cold Cream of Roses for the Skin," and " The British Aromatic Tooth Powder and Tincture," &c. &c. All of which may be had Genuine by applying at the Manufactory, No. 6, Budge-row. Also, Muller's Perfumed Spirit of Lavender, Imperial Bloom of Roses for the Cheeks; Royal Curling Cream; Bears ➢farrow ; Bears' Grease; Pummade Divine; Bou. quet du Rol G. R. IV; Bouquet d'Armee; Bouquet de la Pelee, kr. die. N.B. To paid against counterfeits, every article will bear the crest of the Professor's family.—Medicine Chests fitted, with proper Directions for use.—Prescriptions accu rately dispensed. A Superior Writing Ink, at 3d. per Bottle. Merchants and Captains supplied upon liberal Terms. BUTLER'S VEGETABLE TOOTH POW DER. This Dentifrice has so long been in general us, u an appendage to the fashionable Toilet, that it is _ _ . ilmost unnecessary to offer any further recommendation in favour of it. Composedof Vegetables, without the admix ture of any mineral or pernicious ingredient whatever, it is free from the usual objections so justly formed against the ale of other dentifrices. Its detersive power is just suffici ent to remove these destructive particles which adhere to the gums and the Interstices of the Teeth ; and, if used regularly, will preserve them in a sound state, even to old age. _ . Sold in boxes at 2s. 9d. by Messrs. Butler, Chemists. Cbeapslde, corner of St. Paul's, London, and the principal Druggists and Booksellers. Of whom may be had, 0170 ROSE, ORANGE FLOWER, ALMOND, LAVEN• DER, MUSK and CAMPHOR, SOAPS, possessing the most delicate fragance, and altogether different from articles soder the same name. OP The above articles when Genuine, will have the name and address of Messrs. BUTLZI, attached to them. . Particular attention to this caution is required. " Domus et platens tixor."—Hea. Thy house, and (in the sup of life, That honey-drop) thy pleasing wife. HAPPINESS " the gay to-morrow of the mind" is ensured by marriage; " the strictest tie of perpetual friendship," is a gift from Heaven, cement ing pleasure with reason, by which, says Johnson, " we I approach in some degree of asso.iation with celestial in telligence." Previous, however, to entering into the hallowed ob ligation of marriage, it becomes an impressive duty, not only to regulate the passions, but to cleanse the grosser nature from those impurities which the freedom of unre- ; atricled pleasure may have entailed upon it. To the neglect • of such attention, are attributable many of those hapless in. stances which, while they excite the commiseration of the • beholder, should also impress him with the fear of self-re. poach. Luxurious habits will effeminise the body—x residence in the tropics will relax the elastic fibre—but more ape. elan} , does the premature infatuation of youth,too frequently ; ..nnpromise the natural dignity into a state of inanition, from :eace the agonised sufferer more than doubts the chance relief. To all such then, we address ourselves, offering i,opc—energy—muscular strength--felicity; nor will out edvances appear questionable, sanctioned as they are by the itultiplied proofs of twenty years' successful experience. The easy cares of married life are sometimes disturbed by the suspension of those blessings which concentrate the nuptial wreath--for the female habit is ofter, constitutionally weak—yet it can be strengthened, and deficient energy im rroved into functional power. In every case of syphilitic intrusion, as well as in every r. laxation of the generative economy, we pledge our ability t : , cure speedily, and with effect. Earnestly solicitous to tpel the unfeeling empyric from the position so presump tuously taken up, we deviate from general principles with los hesitation; and confident in our own honourable in. tegrity as Membets of the College of Surgeons, we refer the suffering community of either Sex (especially those en tering into matrimonial life) at once to our house, where daily attendance is given for personal consultation; and I tters from the country are immediately answered; these e.u.t contain a remittance for Advice and Medicine, de st. ribing minutely the case, which can be forwarded to any t , ...rt of the world, however distant. No difficulty can occur, -1 , to Medicine will be securely packed, and carefully pro from observation. GOSS and Co. (M.ILC. Surgeons,) 11, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, London. Just published (Twentieth Edition). THE tEGIS F LIFE, a familiar Commentary on the above Diseases. 2J. II YGEIANA, addressed exclusively to the Female The SYPH I LIST, a Treatise on Lues Venerea, Li ono/alma, Etc. May be had at 23, Paternoster-row M t ; 4, .t:lerine-street, Strand, London; Porter, 72, Grafton.' , Lt. Dublin • 86, Trongate, Glasgow ; 9, Calton-street, ; Wrightson, Birmingham ; Duffield, Bath; ILA, Bristol ; Weller, Cheltenham ; Loder, Brighton ; 15 ood, Huntingdon • Hatt, Cambridge Trewman, Exeter; I) ek, Ipswich; Hobson, Leeds; Gore and Son, Liver. 10 .0 1; Sawler, Manchester ; Platt and Todd, Sheffizld ; A. con and Co. Norwich ; Haldon and Lowndq, and Slitter, s. ford; Brodie and Dowding, Salisbury,; and of all Book :0 hers --Price Se. each. The island appeared about 160 feet high, pre senting a various aspect as the bearing by compass altered ; but in general that of two longitudinal hills connected by intermediate low land, sending up smoke or vapour in abundance. On the west ern and highest part we observed the Union Flag of England waving majestically over this new and appalling scene of danger and desolation. At 10 a. in. the boats were lowered down and manned ; and, in pursuance of previously concerted arrange ments with the Commander-in-chief, all officers, impelled by curiosity or science, desirous of wit nessing the phenomenon, took their places in them accordingly. We pushed off from the ship, made sail, and landed in a little bay on the North-east side of this sombre lonely isle. A boat from the St. Vincent preceded us a few yards, and the bowman, an offi cer, prepared to be first ashore, touched the ground with the boat hook, laid his weight upon it, pushed it down the second time firmly, with a kind of ap parent misgiving of terrestrial stability, and jumped upon the beach. We were all on shore in an in stant, scampering up the hill to the flag staff, through a dense oppressive vapour of carbaretted hydrogen gas. The flag staff is on the highest point of the island, bearing the name of Lieutenant Coleman, of his Majesty's cutter Hind, and from it we had a bird's eye view of the wonderful scene. In the centre of the island, to the eastward of us, was a circular basin, of about ninety feet in diameter, of boiling salt water, of a dingy red co lour, from the peroxide of iron in solution. The active ebullition from the centre, and emission of steam from the whole surface, were evident to every• one. From the summit where we stood this basin appeared like a funnel a quarter full, the bank shelving down in the same imaginary pro portion. The vapour here was oppressive to most of us, affecting the digestive more than the respi ratory organs, producing nausea and faintness, without any sense or feeling of suffocation. The pulse was not affected in the least ; mine was 86, accelerated by the exertion of quickly ascending the hill, breathing a highly rarefied atmosphere, not a little augmented by the internal caloric emit ted copiously in vapour from the earth, as well as the heat of a scorching sirocco sun, which was ex tremely fervent this day. On the S.W. side of the Island, adjoining the principal crater, with a terrific ebullition and agi tation of the sea, evidently the commencement of a new crater, with constant ascension of dense white steam impregnated with the oarburetted hydrogen gas, which blackened the silver and watches in the pockets of the observers. That this vapour was not impregnated with sulpur I infer, first, from the absence of that peculiar fetor, and its not affecting the lunge ; secondly, from the colour of the water in the crater, which, by coining in contact with sulphuretted hydrogen gas, would hare been changed to a protoxide, and been black in place of red. This last chemical test 1 consider conclusive on this point; but it has been the custom to speak of sulphureous smoke, which, by-the-bye, may have been ejected in actual combustion during the violence of previous eruptions, but certainly not now, in form of gas. On our descent, passing the margin of the crater, where it was not more than twenty feet to the boiling surface, I threw off my jacket, and jumped down, to the astonishment of all present, anxious alike to procure something from the caul dron and try the temperature of the water. I plunged my hand into the margin, but quickly withdrew it, finding it about 190 of Fahrenheit; the reduction of 22 degrees being easily explained on reflecting on the extended surface becoming ex posed to the atmosphere in a basin, as before men tioned, of 270 feet in circumference. The water was excessively salt, owing to the continued eva poration, since the direct communication with the sea has been closed, probably by the last eruption, and appears aomethin lower than the sea, leaving evident marks of decrease ou the coloured masses of scoria around the margin. The island is about a mile in circumference, nearly round, or perhaps an imperfect spheroid, indented at the ends, where the great crater was at different periods connected with the sea. It is about one hundred and fifty or sixty feet high.— The substance of which the island is composed is chiefly ashes, the pulverised remains of coal de prived of its bitumen, iron scoria, and a kind of ferruginous clay or oxided earth. The scoria oc-i curs in irregular masses, some compact, dense, and sonorous ; others light, friable, and amorphous, with metallic lustre, slightly magnetic, barely moving the load-stone. I only procured one native stone, a piece of limestone about two pounds weight ESCAPE OF LA VALLETTE. After Bourbon vengeance had been set free by the treasons of Grouchy, Fouche, Louis, &c. they seized, and condemned to death Ney, Labedoyere, La Valette, &c. but La Valette escaped under very interesting circumstances by the intrepidity of his wife, who was the neice of the Empress Josephine. He has lately published the following narrative of the circumstances, which we extract from the Literary Beacon :— " My hours were numbered ; I had no more than fray. eight left, for only three days are allowed for convicts to apply for mercy. Toe keeper of the Seals chose not to Fe. sent his petition before the second day. The King had already silenced the Duke de Richelieu on the subject. All my friends were in despair. The turnkeys themselves came no longer near me. Eberle, who was more especially attached to my service, spoke no more to me. He wandered about my room, apparently without knowing what he did. It was on a Sunday evening. " They usually execute criminals at a Friday ?" I said,—Sometimes on a Satur day," he answered, stifling a sigh. " The execution saw rally takes place at four o'clock ?" " Sometimes is is morning." Saying these words, he went out and helps to shut the door. A female turnkey of the woman" psi on was just going by at the time seeing me alone, she rushed in o the room, seized the cross of the Legion of &My I wore, kisse d ii with transport, and ran away in stns. This enthusiastic action of a woman I had never mon but at a distance, and to whom I had never spoken, told .00 at last my fate. My wile came at six o'clock to tune with me. She brought with her a relation, Mademoi. stile Dubourq. When we were alone, she said, " It ap pears but too certain that we have nothing to hope; we must, therefore, my dear, take a resolution, and this is what I propose to you. At eight o'clock you shall go out, dressed in my clothes, and accompanied by my cousin. You shall step into my sedan chair, which will carry you to the Rue e.e% St. Pem,where you will find M. Bsodus with a Cabriolet, who oiU conduct you to a retreat he has prepared for you, Bud where you may await without danger a favour. able opportunity of leaving France." I listened to her and looked at her in silence. Her man ner was calm, and her voice firm. Site appeared so con vinced of the success of her plan, that it was some time be fore I dared to reply. I looked, however, upon the whole as a mad undertaking. I was at last obliged to tell her so ; but she interrupted me at the first word by saying—" I will hear of no objections. I the if you die. Do not there. fore reject my plan. 1 know it will succeed. 1 feel that GOD supports me !" It was in vain that 1 reminded her of the numerous turnkeys with whom she was surrounded every evening when she left me; the jailer who handed her to her sedan chair ; the impossibility of my being suffici ently disguised to deceive them ; and finally my invincible reluctance to leave her in the hands of the prison keepers. " What will they do," I said, " when they discover that I am gone? These brutes, in their blind rage, will they not forget themselves and perhaps strike you ?" I was going on. but I soon saw, by the paleness of her countenance and the movements of convulsive impatience that were beginning to agitate her, that I ought to put an end to all objections. I remained silent for a few minutes, at the end of which I c o ntinued shus—st Well then, I shall do as you please ; but if you want to succeed, permit me to make at least one ob tion. The cabriolet is too tar oIF. I shall be scarcely gone when my flight will be discovered, and I shall most undoubtedly be stopped in the chair, for near an hour is required to go to the Rue des St. Pe res. I cannot escape on foot with your clothes." This reflection seemed to strike her. Change," I added, " that part of your plan. The whole of to. morrow is still at our disposal : I promise to do to-morrow all you wish." Well, you are in the right, I will have the cabriolet stationed near. Give me your word that you will obey me, for that is our last resource." I took her hand and an. swered : " I will do all you wish, and in the manner you wish it." This promise made her easy, and we imp rated. At five o'clock Etnilie came, accompanied by Josephine, whom I saw again with as much surprise as pleasure. " I believe," she said, " it Is better to take our child with us. I shall make her do with more docility what I want." She was dressed ia a pelisse of merino richly lined with fur, which she was accustomed to put on over her light dress on leaving a ball room. She had taken in her reticule a black silk petticoat. " This is quite sufficient," she said, " to disguise you completely." She then sent my daughter to the window, and added in a low voice, " At seven o'clock precisely you must be ready ; all is well prepared. In going out you will take hold of Josephine's ann. Take care to walk very slowly r_ and when you cross the large registering-room, you will put on my gloves and cover your face with my handkerchief. I Lad some thoughts a putting on a veil, but unfortunately I have not been accus tomed to wear one when I come here it is therefore of no use to think ut it. Take great care, wit:n you pass un d er t h e doors, which are very low, not to break the feathers of your bonnet, for all wool . ' be lost. I always find the turnkeys In the registering wont, and the jailer generally hands me to my chair, which constantly stands near the entrance door; but this time it will be in the yard, at the top of the gtatol staircase. There you will be met after a short time by M. Baudus, who will lead you to the cabriolet, and will ac. quaint you with the place where you are to rentatio concealed. Afterwards, let God's will be done, my dear. lb exactly 411 1 tell you. Remain calm. • Give sic your heed, I wish to feel your pulse. Very well Now feel mine. Does It denote the slightest emotion ?" I could' petceive that she was in a high fever. " But above all things," she added, N let us not give way to our feelings, that would be our ruin." 1 gave her, however, my marriage ring, and on the pretence that if I were stopped in my journey to the from. tiers, it would be advisable not to have any thing about me by which I might be known. She then called my daughter and said to her, " Listen attentively, child to what I am going to say to you, for I shall make you repeat it. I shall go away this evening at seven o'clock instead of eight ; you must walk behind me, because you know that the doors are narrow ; but when we enter the long registering-room, take care to place yourself on my left hand. The jailer is accus. comed to offer me his arm on that side, and I do no• choose to take it. When we are out of the iron gate, a n d r:ady to go up the outside staircase, then pass to my right hind, that those impertinent gendarmes of the guard-house may not stare in my face as they always do. Have you under stood me well i." The child repeated the it structions with wonderful exactness. She had scarcely finished when S:. Roses curve to us. He had got introduced under the pre tence of accompanying Madame de Lavalette horr.e ; but his real aim was to see me once more, for he was not in our coisilden:e. His plumes would have been a geese messing upon us. I took hint therefore asie, end said to hint, " L ave us now, my friend. Emilie has as yet no idea of her misfortune. We must let her continue in her ignorance. Come back at eight o'clock, but do not come in if the sedan chair is no longer there. In that case, go immediately to her house, for she will be there." " I embraced him, and forced him out of the door. But there soon came another visitor. It was Colonel Briqueville, whose wounds bad kept him at home for above two months. He had not expected to see my wife, and he soon perceived that his presence might be intrusive, though he was not yet acquairted with the whole extent of my horrible situation. So great was his emotion, that 1 was afraid it would become contagious. " Leave us," I whispered to him : " this is 4;lt Last tine I see her. One moment's weakness may kill her." At last we remained alone. I looked at Emilie; I thought of all the obstacles I should find in my way, and which would overwhelm us. A fatal idea crossed my mind : " Suppoe," said I, ~ you were to go to the jailer and offer him one hundred thousand francs if he will shut his eyes when I pus • he will perhaps consent, and we shall all be saved. She looked at me for a 11101111:71t in silence, and then replied, " Well, I will go." She went out, and came back ' after a few minutes. I already repented the step I had made her take. I was sensible how useless, how imprudent it was. But when she returned, she said to me calmly," it is of no use. I drew from the jailer but a few words, and chow were sufficient to convince me of his honesty, therefore let us think no more of it." " Dinner was at last brought op. Just uwe were going to sit down to table, an old nurse of ours, Madame Dutoit, who had accompanied Josephine, came in very 111. Madame de Leaden, bad left her in the registering-room, intending to send her after when I should be gone; but the heat of the German stove and her emotion had made her so W, and she had so long insisted on seeing me once more, that the turnkey left her in without the permission of the jailer. Far from being useful to us, the poor woman only ad dM to our confusion. She might lose her presence of mind at the sight of my disguise ; but what was to be done ? The first object was to make her cease her moaning., and Emilie said to her in a low but firm voice, "No childishness. Sit down to table, but do not eat; held your tongue, and keep this smelling.bottle to your nose. In less than an hour you will be in the open air." This meal, which to all appearance was to be the last of my life, was terrible. The bits stopped in our throats not a word was ushered by any of us, and in that situadou we were to pass almost an hour. Biz and three-quarters struck at. last. " I only want five minutes, but I must speak to Bonneville," said Madame de Lavallette. She pulled the bell, and the valet.de.chambre came in; she took him aside, whispered a few words to him, and added aloud, " Take care that the chairmen be at their posts, for lam coming. Now," said she to me, " it is time to drew." A part of my room was divided off by a screen, and formed a sort of dressing closet. We stepped behind the screen, and while she was dressing me with charming pre sence ofmind and expedition, she said to me, " Do not for get to stoup when you go through the doors; walk slowly through the registering room, like a person exhausted with fatigue." In less than three minutes my toilet was com plete. We went back to the room, and Emilie said to her daughter, " What do you think of your father ?" A smile of surprise and incredulity escaped the poor girl : " I am serious, my dear, what do you think of him ?" I then turned round, and advanced a few steps : " He looks very well," she answered, and her head fell again, oppressed, on lies, bosom. We all advanced in silence towards the door.— I said to Emilie,_" The jailer conies in every evening after you are gone. Place yourself behind the screen, and make a little noise, as if you wets moving some piece of furni. tare. He will think it is 1, and will go out again. By tbat means I shall gain a few minutes, which are absolutely =lfor me to get away." Site understood me, and I e bell. " Adieu," she said, raising her eyes to Heaven. I pressed her arm with my trembling bawd, and we exchanged a look. If we had embraced we had been ruined. The turnkey was heard ; Emilie flew behind the screen ; the door opened ; I passed first, then my daugh ter, and lastly M. Dutoit. Af.er having crowed the pas sage, I arrived at the door of the registering room. I was obliged, at the same time, to raise my foot and to stoop lest the feathers of my bonnet should catch at the top of the door. I succeeded ; but on raising myself again, I found myself in the large apartment, in the presence of five turn keys, sitting, standing, and coming in my way. I put my handkerchief to my face, and was waiting for my daughter to place herself on my left hand. The child, however, took my, right hand; and the jailer, coming down the stairs of his apartment, which was on the left hand, came up to me without hindrance, and, putting his hand on my arm, said to me, " You are going away early. Madame." He appeared much affected, and undoubtedly thought my wife had taken an everlasting leave of her husband. It has been said, that my daughter and I sobbed aloud : the fact is, we dared scarcely to sigh. I at last reached the end of the room. A turnkey sits there day and night, in a large arm chair, and in a space so narrow, that he can keep his hands on the keys of two doors, one of iron bars, and the other towards the outer part, and which is called the firer wicket. This man looked at me without opening his dean. I passed my right hand between the bars, to show him I wished to go out. He turned, at last, his two keys, and we got out. There my daughter did not mis take again, but took my right arm. We had a few steps to ascend to come to the yard; but at the bottom of Inc staircase there is a guard-house of gendarmes. About 20 sul diers,headed by their officers, had placed themselves a few paces off to see Madame de Lavallette pass. At last, I slowly reached the last step, and went into the chair that stood a yard or two distant. But no esairman, no servant was there. My daughter and the old woman remained standing next to the vehicle, with a sentry at six paces from them, immoveable, and his eyes hired on me. A violent degree of agitation began to mingle with my astonishment. My looks were directed towards the sentry a musket, 1:Ite those of a serpent towards its prey. It almost seemed to Inc that I held that musket in toy grasp. At the first mution, at t h e fi rst guise 1 was resolved to seize it. I felt as it I pos. mimed the strength of ten men ; and I would moat certainly have killed whoever had attempted to lay hands on me. This terrible situation lasted about two minu:es. hut they scented to me as long as a whole night. At last I heard Buttneville's voice saying to inn, " One of the chairmen was net ponctual, but I have found another."At the sante instant, I tent nsysdf raised. The chair passed :ho, ugh the great court, sail, on getting out, turned to the right. We proceeded us the Quai des °deems, facing the Rue de Harlay. There the enair stopped, sled my friend Battles, offering me his arm, said aloud, " You know, 11441101, you have a visit to pay . to the president." I gut out, and he pointed to a este:eget that stood at some distance in that dark s.revt. I jumped into it, and the driver said to me, " thee nit my whip," I looked for it in vain ; —he had dropped it. " Never mind," said my compallior. A motion of the reins made the horse start off in a quick trot. In passing by I saw .Josephine on the Quai, her hands elapsed, and fervently of. tering up prayers to OOD. We crossed the poor St. Michel, the •Rue de la Harpe, and we soon reached the Rue de l'aughard, behind the Odeon theatre. It was oat till then • paper, on which the following sent& were written . " Make no noise. Never open your window but in the night, wear slippers of list, and wait with patience." Rev to this paper was a bottle of excellent claret, several volumes of Bloltere and Rabelais, and a basket containing sponges, perfumed soap, almond paste, and all the little utensils of a gentleman's dressing-box. The delicate wen dons and the neat hand.writing of the note, made me guess that my hosts combined with their most generous feelings elegant and refined manners. But why was I in the Hotel of Foreign Afairs ? i had never seen the Hake de Richelieu. Al. Bandits was indeed attached to that de partment, but in a very indirect manner. I could not have inspired any interest in the Ring. Besides, in that case, it would have been more natural to pardon me. if I was by the connivance of the Minister, what reason could he have had to violate his sacred duties, belie the loyalty he owed to his sovereign, associate himself with the party of Bonaparte, and protect a criminal sentenced for a conspiracy ? ••• • • _ ••• •••_ .• I inust now return to the Conaergerie. I had scarcely pawed the outer door when the jailer entered my room, and, as I bad foreseen, retired when he heard a noise behind the screen. But he returned about five minutes afterwards ; and not seeing any one, though the same noise was once more repeated, be took a fancy to remove one side of the screen. At the sight of Madame Lavallette, he uttered a loud es ciamation and ran to the door. She caught hold of his coat, and said to him—" Walt a minute; let my husband get off!"—" You will ruin me, Madame," he said in a rage; and disengaging. himself with so great an effort, that he left a piece of his coat in the hands of my wife, be went off calling aloud, " The prisoner has escaped !" With these words be ran, tearing his hair, to the Prefect of Po lice. In an instant, all the turnkeys and gendarme' were suit alma in all directions. Two of the former reached the asietimheir, that was leisurely advancing on the quay.--. They weed it • and finding no one in it but my daughter, they le ft it. S oon, however, the pursuit began in regale; order; and during the whole night, the houses of my friends and acquaintance, and even of the pawns with whom my late situation in the world could have given me the least con nection, were rigorously examined. TI e next day the barrios were shut, and the joy of the whole capital fa witnessing the despair of the Police was inex pressible. Madame Lavallette, a little cuter after half an hour, began to get the better of her agitation • ' and she would have enjoyed her happiness, if the brutal turnkeys, who had left her door open. had not uttered against her the most horrible abuse, and assured her it was impossible I should not be retaken in a very sh wt time. The arrival of the Procureur-Orneral, Bellart, put an end to their abusive language. He sat himself gravely down to examine het, and addressed reproaches ti her that were only ridiculous. By his order, she watt treated with so much severity, that, in the state of health in which she then was, that usage became the chief cause of the disor der under which she laboured during twelve years, but from which she has at last recovered. They plated her in the chamber of Marshal Ney, where there was no chim ney, but a German stove, the suffocating heat of which made her suffer a great deal night and day. Tire window opened into the woman's yard. To hear the noisy aies of those wretches during the whole day, and their vulgar and obscene language, was agony to so delicate a female. No person could come near her ; even her maid was excluded, and she was attended by one of the female turnkeys. None of bey letters could 0011 the threshold of her prima, nor could any communication from her friends reach her. She was for ever assailed with a thounnd dif ferent tenors, especially in the night, when the sentries were relieved. She always imagined it was her husband they were bringing back. During more than five-and-twenty clays and nights, she did not enjoy one moment's sleep. I was far from thinking she could be so unhappy. I had • been told with the view of comforting me, that she was lodged in the apartments of the lady of the Prefect of Police, treated with the greatest attention and respect, and that she would soon obtain permission to return home. My daughter had returned to her convent in an eca'asy of joy, and agitated with so strong an emotion, that she could not explain in what manner she had 'con trived to save her father. But when, next day, the whole business was explained, the Superior, who had just suc ceeded in obtaining the protection of the Duchess of Angou. lame for her house, was seised with alarm : my daughter was ordered to hold bee tongue ; and the nuns and some of the boarders shrunk away from her, as if she had had the plague. Will it be believed when I add, that the parents of several of those boarders declared to the Superior, that they would take their children home if Josephine Lavallette remained in the convent? So that a virtuous generous ac tion, which ought to have been presented as an example to be followed by young persons, was through fear, personal interest, and perhaps also by meaner passions, regarded as a son of crime sad a cause of proscription. Sin week's af terwards, when Madame de Lavallette was set at liberty, she hastened to take her daughter from the couvent." The account closes with the following fact : At last the health of Madame de Lavallette re covered sufficiently to permit me to take her home. A deep melancholy throws her frequently into fits of abstractedness, but she is always equally mild, amiable, and go od. We pass the Pumeber in a retired country house, where she seems to enjoy herself. 1 tare preserved my independence,' the first of all mortal riches, without pension, salary,or gratuity of any sort, after a long life consecrated to the service of my country,offering up for her libei tv prayers that will perhaps never be fulfilled, and living with the recollections of a great period and a great man. LAGUIIIA, JULY I.7.—The affairs to the wind • ward, headed by Gen. Mounts, has been settled without bloodshed ; and the authority of Venesueii. under her constitution sod laws, are again re-tstab belied. Every tieing and every part of Venezuela is now entirely quiet. MD