The Sun. — London, England, 1816-01-02 00:00:00

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. PAsts, Dec: 25. —Yon will 'hove seen, by the LL f(miteur of yesterday, svhat 1131,p:spied upon the auluecit of Lavalette in the Cl&mberoltleptillis' bet l o d e s,. you had liven preseht;'Yosi can have no idea of the scene which took place. The enerey am' even violence of the majority tor an:, inquiry .into the causes of his escape, was extrenle; and the, Royalists ,till think the matter was not con fined to the keeper or titrokey•bnt that an in t eutionul negligence and delay have originated in bigher deportments. • The Miolster of the leterior 'tvu literally hisse , !, for attempting to p.acs to the Order of the D;iy. I believe, neither the Mi , itister of nor Barhe Alarbois, were present. 1 have just' heard a rumour, hut I .rel'Y mach thoiht the it lob of it, that I L : iektiette hers just ths..overeil lit Parie s and t:coticlueted to the Coneiergerie.. J hare no don, t.,thet he is attll in Paris, because it is so much tip ti cpsier tont sayer Vace of Cotievalment limn the. eptietry. If he •sti(ceeds in wiping detection, he will; .1 Pre:- take some opportunity of passing over to frie.ols the Americans. Jonathan (as ouesai ).os call our Mt s-atlautic neigh hours) will have orerty set it all the banished .and serieted trai tors go over to Ililu ; awl hereafter we may sec (: 1 1 . o o me other military desperado, founding iiyivis.y npou all American. throne. 1' 1.4`. 2s.—The grem lisilject of conver , .: sation here is still the escape of Litealette ; tint 00 account of the holiridnal himself, but its, re. geed to the consequences arising from it ; so far as „it alhets Sonic of the Ministeie., and Whirrs slip posed to be well inclined towards hint. Nothing vet has been done ii, the Chambers since Satur day, nor is the (ley yet fixed fur the Committees to make .their reports upon the motion of M. s e s m aisons. • You will have, seer. tlitu'dchate - upon the opening, H nil the speech of.lll,l4nieville: He is a young man. from La Vend6e7. 'Nothing has yet transpired in regard to the , esiamittations taken at the prison . Lavnlette most Itervebeeti seen by at 1 , ..1151 twenty persons in office, mid had to pass through at Icast six doors, that were watched and parka. • The aitilation of keeper is said to be worth 20.0b0 francs a-year, and if Lavelette bribed all the parties coneeroeo, it must have , cost hiM near but mu million of francs (I say lihn, though some • say a party dill it), to gain over ell the indivi duals, whose itouresta he must h a v e h a d, aw l w h o most. have been well paid for the risk they' mt. A lo onc r consequence of this business is the et . feet it will probably have upon the wntnesty law, on which .11 report was matte yesti;rilay front the bureau of the Committee, to the, Chanther; in a p,f,l c tine; and the laNv seems Much modified, bet .1 began too lac for the 'isi: c,- tl'e have still • its Paris H greae many English t loops ; I should think from six to' [elm thousaud.. 1 passed three barracks yestettley, which contain ed' abut e three thousand, and these were very near viten They arc gain; 'iporallt when they shalt march. • CANnIIIOII Ltitorteß, DATito rAstva, DeC. 26.) L 4 valetic, it is csrapetl out of Paris in, tie disguisv of an 1 1 .11;,;lish Officer, and aCCOIII - by two persous in the same . uniform, and Ittiniidied with ayertificale of leave. ot absenc e , purporting; to be'signed by the Duke of Wclllog- Livaletle frill cti n ihn ic4 in pri son ; she was visited by M. 14 , 11ari , the , .Ittni oey- General, -for the purpose of inrerrogatiog her respecting the escape of her husband..• When he commenced his examination, she.. atowered him with a laugh : Rtre West pas repaivire, Madame; to laugh is not to answer, Madame!' Wag the nhscrVotiOn Willett he mole ,upon her canduet.-- , this she replied, ft y it longionts (pie Je pieta,— outiatenant eat man twit de 'ire ,1. have wept long—it is my tun, now to 'laugh.' She . has she ty Mt c)ttrisorilhiai y degree-0i fort Linde 'and tulelity to her husband :—it *as •but three days belore his cionlemnatioa that she had been de .livered • of a child; yet, from the moment that be was found gull y, slic Wtts continually with him in prison, or seeking au opportunity to itp• roach. the King at the Tuilerh.tr i 1K the p he . pwie nt soliciting, his poi tion. The infant is dead, and Madame Lavaletir herself is aL . Rresent In a dangerous state. The triumph of', tbe.,Opponents of the Government is milmontled,—iven gross falsehoods are resorted to, for the vitt-pose of cast ing, odium upon those, who conducted the prose cution. M. Bellart is charged with having be haved with harshness to Madame Laralette ; they • have even nicknamed him Itellari-aineille, after Fourtthainyale, a notorious public accuser in the ll 'evoltitio n ; but the fact i s, that his conduct was, on , the enntraty, extremely inilidgent : he •ordered that not only Madame Lavalette, but her eleinghtSr, Mut O . female screens should be idlow. ed to visit hint when she pleased, and remain with him as long us she tholight proper. Another re prt is, that his daughter, a child of only eleven years of age, had been imprisoned in a chamber 'twpariti4. ;rum her mother. This is wholly' un- Jounded„ • Only two persons hare been confineti,hl conse l (invitee or I is e4espe--t6e,Onvcrnor.urilii4 Prison and tliejiirnkey, The former li' , Y.:lll . lrged only with .neglect, but the hitter 14 suipected of being nit iicemliplice. If was his they to ex . .iinine every p er son ilijing out, awl the manner in which he explains.his not, having thine so, in this instance, t---When he was approaching for the purpose :of examining the face of the person, Avitom iie sapposeil to be Matlante Lavaktte, the child cried our, in si tone of extreme .iiittress-- ' if lilt! Mamma, when shall we see ilear Papa agalnl"—La;•alette answered,: Only with ar sigh, in which he conyerfeitetl a woman so . well, shut the jailor liaff nu,sloubt of its haing the wife. Th e dress, worn in winter, by French wo. itko greatly tendril to facilitate the imps :tore. it is ixtre.nuely loose, and consists chiefly tar. .• Still it k believed, thr►t th,iisgh tifelcing knew uoibing of tkle mutter, tt►at some nietitbers ut the King expressed great astonishment and indigna" lion when told that is report hail gone abroad of his having connived at ihis event. Marshal On. dinot, N rough, mittineateil, h u t loyal soldier, is the person who is said to have told . the King of the existent:43 , d such .e report. The. King t o ts beta ill toribe last few dais; the cause assigned for the change in his health is the anxiety he suffers on account int the division which is every day increasing in the French Ministry. The Dike of Richelieu, it IA stilt reported, insists upon retiring, In conshinence of the opposi tion given to his Law of Amnesty, both by his colleagues and by the Chamber of Deputies. The Mini , .try is said to be wholly disoi gaiiiscd ; the moderate party are hostile to several changes which are proposed by the vnlowtHßnytilists,--- ,One. part.nl.the system by which the, latter, pro ' pohes to give stability to the Goveriment . is by loyal associations throughout the \olltic kingdom. .The danger of these associations 1149 beta already felt in the south ; in several instances they have even braved die magistt es . , and set op the per sonal Sitheiltill of the King in ipposition to the exis:ing laws ; tlyy,have already extended tip. Pt. tis, but as yet, at least, base not attracted much notice.. The pretence tinder which they meet is to read the public journals. - The reading rooms are in two instances •officiently large t o tuhtuin about a thousand persons, and per son is allowed to subscribe without a rigrt Nero. tiny of his political conduct and principles. The object openly prolessul by tciese assoenotionsfs,to intimidate and controul the serious cabal, ottbe dibcontented. The enustithtinuni party are tile to this system of affiliation, husi , ever Intoable its object in the commencement. Another tric:l - upon which the French Ministry it divided-is the 'withdrawing the.pensions gtanted to the Mal 'left clergy. This 111CH41111.8, if carried int., exeett- . _ lion, will excite much discontent This deseripl lion is much wore numerous io France than one would suppose at fire' sight ; and they have tit 1110s1 CaSvai more than their perniuns to slip port their families, All doubts of .the King's having secretly fa trimmed the escape. of Lavalette have becu reitMv. ed ; he, on the contrary, severely reprimanded the Mini.ters who Woe responsible for the secu rity .1d his person. When they •endeavoured to . justify themselves against the imputation of negli gence, each in hi* particular- department-, the King simply observed, "'I see no oue whose duty, has not liven neglected —except Aladilltle Lava. lettr," Nothing could equal the confusion into the Ministers were thrown when they heard of his escape. Barbe-Morbois, the Keeper,of the Seals,was the first who arrived at the prison; after him, M. Angles, the Prefect of Police, and next, M. Belton, the Attorney• General, half undressed ; be hail been going to lied whets the u accont reached hint; his coat had been . taken oil, his .waistcoiit louse, and stir stockings fallen down upon his uncles ; in this state, without waiting to arrange his dress, or - thinking • of its singuLarity . , he ran 01st of his house to the nsto 7 1161i1Hiit of his servants ant his family, and pre. sewed himself before his colleague* to the prison. It w a s th e strangeness of his appearance that made Madame Lavalcit• laugh : even the I wolli- Ilislers could not rest rain their men 'mew . •till refuse* to anliwer the interrogatolics 111.11 1 1 414 been lint to her. 'l6 only 81W% r • i gives is, " Catch him if you cum." Site; Isms heti' tretw ed ith=hnmantty,anti politeness by all the persons who have been cotinnistioned to rxNmiue her, ticept by Nl. Angles, tin: Prefect . of POlice; vet he s said to nave received, an fist his sevelees gill oe soon dispensed with. Ile Itstl been Prefect of Police for the Kingdom of Italy under llttonaparte, and one ut the ttiosid ! , voted instruments of his devotion. The general opt. Ma il i s , that a change. will take place in the Ali !list' y j it is said flot the Duke rat-Itieneliett does. not wish to act tvitit Mike., and that one or the other must resign. :AMA ICA PAPERS. (IIECCIVLD THit MoRN14O:) KIXGSTON, Nov. 4,--Further ascoants of Ab e , late storm have been recei)ed it) phis city frotu different. Otitis of the island. In Ilinc-MOtintain. ,Valley the river from its rapidity hai duce very great damage, carrying away bnildins, stock, tie. and senmving whole fields .of canes. Plaintain. garden River rose to a height never before wit nessed by the oldest inhabitant. In. Manelsioneal 'the weather was severely felt, many buildings have been blOwn down, and a quantity of stock, &e. Inst. A schooner in Long T tlay has been dashed to pieces, and the' Sloops rlicenix and Holland ,went on shore and bilged at Mauchioneal. The wharfs at Plantain-ga)den River .were also de stroyed. . .14 St. Thomas in the East, Oct. 22. " Mutant estate has lqat a great qoantity of canes and land, and the river has came So close to the works, as to undermine the bottom trash house, and has cut away the road under the works in t No different places. " The provision-grounds are completely WA waste. 'The canes are torn out by the roots; and tI every thing is much injured. " Moffat Insulation, St. Titoinas in the East, Oct: 2/. '' The damage done in this quarter,by the late storm is great, mid iu St David it is beyond any thing I ever saw or heard of, since I have been in the island.' On all the hilly estates, the canes are totally destroyed, not only for this crop, but hereafter ; the ground must be ,replanted, the cane-roots being torn to pieces. Coley, Vont- Hill, Georgia, Palmeto-River, and Mullet-Halt, have suffered 'more thou any other in the Valley, and cin Font-Hill, Pahneto-ltiver, and Colley., 'IMO fifth of the lend is. wine: you would be astonished to see Pelmeto-Rivet , there is no such thing as rid ing through it ; Alaccaw-tree, ititivers, Big Pas ture Piece, and half of Hose's Piece, are ell broken ground, and Coley Grass-piece alto. It is not even sate to walk in some parts, and in the pail's entirely broken the. canes are twisted nod wen Prow the roots, so that there will be no racoon., tnitl St. George's. Thre are only ten negro. houses left on ; none injured at Pal.; meto-ltiver. Von cannot possibly tort» an idea et the devastation and deOrnetion done by tlit rivers ; 1 have never scut them so high. A anal ! ; bur of negruea have been lost." " Morant Bay, October *G. " The late storm was aecOmpanied, in this TlCiglibmirlionti, with the most violent flood that has taken place iu the rememinwce of the oldest inhabitant. The town has fortunately escaped ith very Riding. damage the wharves are ht mitt ing,• but the estates, particularly those si tuated near the rivers, have suffered materially by the .10Si vi stock, laml, &r. The extent of the damage sustained on the estates in Blue-Mountain __ Valle) we have not been able to ascertain, but iv to ;be feared they have suffered severely, as the river presented a sad snvctacle ; the torrent bring in:; o vn a variety of articles of furniture and.ttic ruins with the bodies of six negroes and a white person, not known. A great 'p , rt of the canes to windward of Port-Murata are de.. strayed. Plantain Garden River made its way through Potosi estate, and carried away a I irge quitatity'of land ; lty its taking thi. eourse, Bath bus; in all ,prohabilit y, been saved. The • tlwel. hug•bousa at Unity-Valley is destroyed, bat hap. pily no fives lost ; several other buildings in that luarter are alai much damaged. 'The sloop Dart, this port, bound to Cuba, with dry goods, is on 'shore ne4r the mouth a the river, but as she is'a Strong vessel, there are hopes entertainett of her 'wing gut off. Three ships at anchor in Port-Alorant—rode neat the gale in Safety. Thr Master of the sloop Endeavour, on his passage, front Ochu-Rios to this port,. states, that he saw sevemi wrerks on the coast, bast is not sewint e d with their (mines., The news from Yallahs is .of it most disastrous and melancholy nature, but as we have it not in our power to po,sess ourselves enf the facts, we furnear - repeating it, hoping that it may be exaggOrated:' • " :Wig-Green Plantation, St. David's, 041.13. (After describing the first days of the SE6EIO— Friday, one o'clock, A.l\l. the wind increasing, and the ruin pouring incessantly ; the darkness - of the OlOitting preventedour seeing, the tlanger,we were in. About this time the ground below the negro-boluses began to break - away, and the first . of the stegrilkhon.sca was carried away; with us on waryinhabitfints (seven in number), down a pre cipice, about 300 meet, out of winch two escaped , with d few slight bruises, the : .rest were seen no More, The negroes..wholeard the noise 11114e,40 appriie the others of their danger, .ittit lie:tore their designs were executed, two more negro houses gave way, each containing three negrocs the first, after being caviled (by the earth that gave way) down the precipice, shout two hun— dred feet, broke to pieces ; one negro escaped unhurt, the other two with a few slight bruites : but the inhabitants of' the other houie were not Cu fortunate ; one escaped as the house was slid ing; away, the other two. were carried into the river -course, and were washed away bythe hirce of the stream. Thus the night continued, without the least hopeof our seeing the da 'Wit of morning but it only Mlle vilit h horrors. As soon as due-light jierm.tted us to see the danger WC were in, nothing l)ut immediate dissolution could pos. sibly be expected ; which had been broken beneath the negro-houses during the night, ind which still continued breaking nearer the dwelling-house, thrtYatened hioying us in the ruins every moment; hemmed in by rivtrs anti broken grounds on every title,. 'excluded almost every ity of escape; nothing now remaiLing • but a firm reliance on Almighty God for our 'deli verance from this distressing scene. 'the cries ol the negroes for the loss of their friends sod chil dren presented •a scene which is not in the power of moo to describe. In this dreadful.sospense we cootioned fur several hours ; at-length, about noun, it rained little more than fog,rain, the wind abated u little, and I determined swing the ne groes, if possible, by removin4 them," Aimotto Bay, OeC23. " You have been, I dare lay, anxious to hear how .we have fared dittiog the storm, and 1 slsyll etoleavottr what has happened ntf the.Anuotto river' hritge bus been c a r r i e d, awa y. tie 'rivers having bcconie, aU impassible. At Mithmight the wind came round.to the Northward, with incrented violence, and with the most ire mentions hocaling. I ever heard. On Thursday morning as soon as could be seen (a very thick fog.i prevai:inO, we discovered the brig on shore, hut could see molting 'of the Alert, and therelcire concluded she had foundered, and every soul perished. .1 ant, however, : since infoM red, that the mate and - Six people have been saved.' At this tilne•thethore pr e se n t e d t h e most shocking sc e ne 1 ,ever witnessed ; every thrall" vessel had been driven on the beech, which was literally sirwa with pieces of wreck from . one end the (Lower) Bay to the other, and' had so 'Awaked up time road, that you could not past from our house to another. The lee-wharf was ' completely demolished, and all the stores under waters tr large shed near Me. Tait's thrit‘n down, and a Itildir in the middl e of his yard completely lift e d off ' time pillars, and cart ied towards the back land. The inner part of the middle wharf was much shattered, and the sea beat over the tenet; into the wharf-yard, The wind drove the sand with such force, it was im possible to face it, and even difficult to keep your legs. About two o'clock the ship Janet Came on shore, about 10 yards to time windward of the middle wharf ; in 30 minutes after, that beau. tiful ship time Uteri of Lonsdale followed close tO her, then the Bayley, and then the William ; all nearly loaded, but now bilged, and broken almost to pieces, Not a task of the sugar Was been saved, and but very little rum from any ship but the Janet." " St. Elizostii, O c t 25. ".1 observe the storm has done great injury in 'town, and in the windward , parish e s ; it, was scarcely' felt in this quarter ; have, I think, been very fortunate in; escaping," *This truss aecotoplished. CARIASIA, SATURDAY. Use. 30.—1 n the after noon, it living horse with-aNddle anti bridle on it, was seen to pais tinflur Cattlew bridge; troni which it' is feared, that softie rider has beeji smiled :away and perished, in attempting to cross the river. - - _ MAILS. Aumveo—t 1111 E-1 France, 4 11z fl s H° l " Ufa. 3 Gettetibuillk, Cues usey aad Jersey, 1 1) abl i1, Waletford. Ar PRICII: 0 !MS PAT AT .7 • I Istti of •; , 1).11. • trAnh:Rlitt. 3, pet X'vpt. Red. 5.911 3 Ist* *4 - 1- elit. Coil*. abut 4 ivr Cc ti. 7q A per Cent. Navy Ann. shut Bank L.Ann. 16 1-16`11 —..-.," _..dtsill letters from Paris, and the Journals duo itkik!,:iltive arrived itt course :—the [Atter . 40 1 verysterile, and the former only Curious frnm con' twitting anecdote* relative to the escape ot bow LETTE.—In ItEvit.'s cause the Court have decided' for the leKitimaey.of the divorce. The Chandra .. lpeptities iu orSitfiug of the 213th, diccu ssc3 pro Let for a QatiODßl.Dlournittg on the '2 l / 1 114 ' 4n ' M : HYDE Da MeuvILIA loodiv invoked retra" lti°" , on the heads of the rpgicitles. A disrussioa en sued on the inscription to he placed (tie the mono ment of LoulsX VI. The following arc ex tracts from these Papers COURIER 1 A %TRAORDINItY, SATURDAY ilatSl Na. • if It is. said the . .larcch • ttl•de-Cuinp peon"! 1% ' %' ued yesterday in th e l t o us e whic h oc4 21 1. cupii3l3in the street Mesitie. --- " PARI9, Dsc. 29.—The second divi3ion or the English Army, 'which formed the garrison of Vet*" saints, consisting of 273 Officers, 3,790 inferior Officers and soldiers, forming the 6th, 29 0, and 7lit regiments. two brigades of-artitietyandlr6ini" left this town y ester d ay, at dul i t hi the for St. De n i s , i n or d er to proceed to Gambrel sa: Valenciennes. "' flee • .• dispositions prescribed by the 0rd0n . ... ','lsf the 'l6th Dec. 1814, with respect tc! °ffic.sl4reilehinen'by birth, who were foned itt 011.014004 foreign service, are continued. " . VENicc, Dec. 9.--r The Civic Council ha; Ainti) of 4000 ducats to the Austrian S' ,tiers who were wounded in the late 'affair's 'antler the wails of Paris. 11,1 . e city has also votet(thip.k e to the Duke of Welliagtint„. '.lirte.or informed that.they are 'lma to re' establish the Bank of St. Merit as formerly. DEC. 17.--The King 'Of Naples Ordered' tht continuation. of the works at the ex•-• ovations of Potnpria, 200 workmen have heels added. A bath. buts been diseOVerea, in 1 % Itch w - Rs4oond an,AntOiiiiii and .it Agrippa of the us , tural size, anti of most exccilent workmanship. 4 :f.rhWENTIA, DEC. 15.--Several Austrian re" ,%itnents have arrived here from Alemuidriol irv rt Austrian garrisoti retires to give plite l . • • ttiti g v+oluontese troops." , grocKs ~. WEIN,: &CLOCK. India Bondi, 2s. 3s. die. Eaciieq. Bilk, 4s. dis. par Omnium, I4h Ditto fur ra ) went, I4s IS i cum. for Opening, 6 1 ii HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORRO W ' blunting, Ss uthlutoßi aftat 7. j Keening, 33 minutes after 8• THE SUN. 1 , 11.101 Vint !WEAL rAtAlt/NI AUi”tAT LONDON. TUESDAY, J.XU4RYB, 1116. FRENCH FUNDS. . . 3 per Cenh . '644 Bw►k . f. 1030 i: There are v itr i ol's R e p orts o f 'Ch in atiges •—, be French Ministry. . . 11. PLOCQUETTI:, - the poter ofll;lAvALE Tigr has, in iaiitatiou liis gi eat CountrY /Ile : pu4tislied iwitiiication or his honour. l i e the Kling or Ilk Nlioisteri Ttlf have 4Pfigt he 411t1 not connive at the escape of O g Prisoster e6intnitted to his charge, though U11(13414 to bribe hantisc,nely •' •' ! A Flanders Mail arrived 01;6 morning, but is 0 little consequence., as a ppears froin the foilowiog extract : ViztotA, Dec. I.9.—The principal . p oints o the Treaty concluded. between -the .51Lilithrie Porti and the Serviattsttre stated to be the following `` 1. Scrvia rectignisis the Grand Segisior as So tereign. ",2. It retains the liberty of exercising iti reli gitin. 11! 4 ‘ :txt 3 : 3 4i l l:4 l Av •T'il si c (l l : l l .ef t t hat . a a p f i:s " 411OIServian can settle in Turkey, bah is alloAllo be there upon cotrtn►ereiut business. •• 5. The fortress ut Belgrade remains occup►e by Valipy Naha. " 6. In tiine of peace the Grand Signor has IF free disposal of a corps of 12,000 Set vian tro.rs " 7. Servin . .ll always to an accredit( Agent to the Divan at Constantinople. •' HANOVER, Dec.. 20.—0 n the 16th of month, the s formal cession of the: rrov:tic4 ' East Frieiland, Emil of the country of Hamlin! by lf"liitecto the kiugdom of Hanover ; and tl acx..tif tiitifikpossession by . the Hanoverian Con piave as 'I be essam b pPearYbsea:LnuailY