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London, England, 1815-10-26 00:00:00

GENERA C: PIC El 'EGIt IT.

LIEGE, AUG. 14.—Our Gazette contains the
following' letter .
~"4h bistorian can now no long& doubt that
Captain
.Wright „was iniirdered by his throat bring
cut, and .a's,little can it be que.3ti.iiied that J",elte-
gm was stranghid 'at the tithe of the trial of 2,10-
rean.and hiS-companions„ if the name of trial way
be given to proctedlngs_ before a CoOri, the sen-
tence of which determined before the evidence
was heard.

c' Ike violent death of. Pichegru had recently
occurred, when I ..was .transferred• from Aix
Chapelle to the Temple, merely on :the ground
that I had arrived from fla 11l burgh, and coiise-.
quently (coin -London, which city 1 never saw
bpt suet, is the manner in which tyranny, alivays
suspicious..and ,ingenious iu fIllsi:hood, r.easons—
` You conic trot tiamliurgh, then yoacoine front
Ent.tland."rhis coueluSi arg.ument .procurei! me
13 months' imprisonment.
" HoWever, wliett I was let out ‘of niv first
secret; and allowed to
.breathe the air in the fetid
courts of the prison, and in a, yard shaded by it.
wall more than lOU feethilth, 1 formed an itC-

quaiutauce with the old Jesuit of whom I have
already' spoken, and the Abbe David, a learned
and respe,ctable ecclesiastic. The latter having
been implicated in the affair of Alorean, Piche-
gut, GeOrges,'Cadonal, &e. was committed until
a general peace; which, in the law4tiagie of the
Temple, signified imprisonment for life. Jrritated
by a Decree Which presented to hint the prospect
Beath, he at last,' in the agony of
despair,• ceased to fear that event, or railier rli
.sot*e sort sough`f 'to hasten. it by' his constant ha-
precations agaiust Blto:,ip•Arte, whom he ttkvays
spOke of by that name, or called the Corsican.—
fie related to the prisonerS, that his apartment
being, contiguous to Pichegru', who was closely
confined, he heard, at half -pastoue in the morn,
ing, a number of persons enter his dungeon, heard
also PichegrO defending ithunelf, him cry-I ant
wounded; and finally heard Ike prisoners retire.'
" In fine, the prisoners Were not invited to
view the body of the General, as they had beget
to that of Capt. Wright. 'the reason doubtless
was,.that.they tiould have seen the wound which;•
.had
.been inflicted before strangulation.
" I:he dungeon inwcit Georges was impri.
qoned xvgs not fart llel• from that ofPie ,egrtt than
seven or eight !.ect, and as his door fronted the
General's, he ;:card the whole traosactiou. Ac;
cordinglx, the Officers wire coneeyini; him
to the Coltrt,;le said openly, " Piehegru will not'
be,there, for he is put out of the way '.'
• " I, as well as* all the-Other" prisoner's, have
seen inscribed on one' of the windows. of the-
dungeon, Italian verses from Taslo,r to Which •
Pichegru's name was subjoined, 11.11 d in which
he deplored the fate of a brave sol(!ier, de-
prieed of the honour of dying for Iris King with.
his sworkin his hand:* pane of glass •on
which they. were cut teas a`.terw:tr,,ls removed :by
51t142-r-v, whOse police, c:t! ad the Sec.retPolire of
Napoleon, was totally independent of the'Nli‘iis-
ter and Prefect, of the Police.. ~ • • • ""•.

(Signsd)

" 1).1i-LUNQK14, Advocnte,."

, •
4,4, ( • I,:,;t)cv,r+l,, IJr.s.lties •Itis biiLtary
su
was peri'ectly-eil citr,,int.vti with tile
wid sienii,ll3ansuai,res."

RE IGN 1 Nr.s' LIGE NCI-!..

BRUSSELS AND FRANKFORT PAPERS,.

[RECEIVED TRIS MORNING.]

BRUSSELS, OCT. the iniiteriA of Mont-
.
nu.dy has been removed. Preparations are making
'to h!ow op the fortifications erectediakter the de-
sign of Vauban. This town belonged to the pro-
lee of Luxemburg;

lIAGur., OCT. 20.—The second Ch!iimber of the
Mates-'General, after having yes.terday formed a
Secret Committee to hear the Report upon the
ALidess proposed to be presented to the King,
r.reived in its public Sittings the Minister of
Finances, accompanied by two Members of the
Council of States His Excellency the Minister,
Sex Von Otcrleck, then read the project of a law
to cover the deficiency occasioned by the extramr-
Oinary expenses of this year, anVi'Oytil•ovide the
means of so doing. The Chfiti4?k,,r,etolved to
Live the project printed in bothiongniges, and
diStributed to all the Members.

TI :e deficiency is estimated at 40 millions of flo-

r:::s, to be covered, without increasing thz 11a-
/if-dial debt, by issuing an equal sum in bonds,
itcatiag interest at 5 per cent., to be redeemed
grcdually, beginning Jan. I-, 1817, so that the
NO:ole will he redeemed on or before the 31st
1826. To meet this expence, an addition
of 15 per cent. is to be• made to all the direct
taxes,. to those upon servants, &c:Stc. (answering
to the English assessed taxes); to all. indirect
taxes without exception, .and some others ; and
lastly, on the imposts on all foreign tu'oditctions,
as well as on the customs. Allferans liable to
pay these taxes (les contribnableOttreto tulvance
it
a stun upon these lends equal to'ffie whole of the
amount of certain taxes which thcy have paid this
year, under the title of a war tax ; this advance
to be in ready money, and paid in five equal
nu m( bly instalthents, beginning in Novembermext,
and endink•in March 1816, because the receipt of
the direct taxes for the next year does not begin
till the month of April, &c.

HANOVER, OCT. O.—Lord eathcart, Ambas-
sador from England to the Court of Russia, is
bure, to remove his Lady who has lived for some
titnc in this city.

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FRENC 1-1 PA PErIS:

(lIECEiVED THIS STORNI-SG.)

(Franz thc Journal des Dehats.)

PARIS, OCT. 22.—A telegraphic
,dispatch an-
nounces the arrival,of the Duke. of Angonlerne at
Lyons, on the 21st inst. at half-past one o'clock.
An article in this Paper gives rather a detailed
account of the review of the four first legions of
the National Guard, in the Court of the Tuileries,
on the morning of the 22d.—The Duke of Reggio
xvent along the ranks, both on foot and on horse-
back. He was accompanied by the Duke de
Berri, as well as the Duke of Wellington and se-
veral other ,Euglish-Officers. The King, and the
Duchess of Angonleme appeared -at the ,iviudows,
and were hailed with shouts -of?.. koi !"
S.c. by an immense crowd %villa &dsi-*/),fisent at
the review..'

ARMY OF TIM 1.0IPLI:

• Bouttcms, Ocr. }S.—Marshal the Duke of
Tarentuin huts published in this town the three
Oi•ders to the army :