The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-27 00:00:00

TIATA.VIA.

A'file of Batavian Papers, from the sth of July last to
the 6th of September, has been received. It appears from
the general accounts, and the official dispatches contained
in them, that the favourable statements given in the Dutch
Papers have been much- exaggerated. The. plan adopted
by the rebels to harass the Dutch troop') has in .most
stances been.successful, and their superiority in numbers
has in-most initances enabled them to give battle to the
Dutch-troops, and to defeat them. Indeed, according to
private letters which have reached us with•these papers,
the Dutch have been repeatedly beaten by the rebel chiefs
and great apprehension was entertained that they would
make
.further progress before the ,reinforcements expected
from Holland could arrive. In the month of July last, the
two guardians of the Sultan were taken prisoners by the
rebelS, and the escort cut to pieces. A.' paper of the 16th
of August, contains a dispatch from General Von Geen,
to the Lieutenant-Governor-General, dated July 29, in
which he details the movements of. the 27th and 28th in
the neighbourhood of Kendall), where he suddenly found
himself surrounded and attacked on all quarters during the
night. - the following morning the rebels had totally
diSappeared, hut Gen. Van Geen, nevertheless thought it;
prudent to retreat. The same Paper contains other reports
froth. this General, from which it would appear . that his
troops had been constantly. harrassed in unavailing at=
tempts to bring the rebels to a general engagement. There
.is'also. a report from Major Le. Bron de. Vexela; dated
Kadja Kusumo, in which he states that he had been obli-
ged to commence his retreat, having expended all his am-
munition. In the Paper of . the 30th August, there is an
account of a considerable advantage- gained •by the rebels
under. Depo, Negoro, near -the Desna Kambang;,. the
Dutch had on this occasion to cut their way through- the
enemy, after, having been, abandoned by their allies, the
troops of Mangko Negoro. The General, in his dispatch,
says, " We have to mourn, on this fatal day,- the loss of
several _brave officers and men, and that there have fallen
into the hands of the enemy two mortars, a quantity of
ammunition, nine artillery horses, all the harness for the
fore-horses, and besides the muskets of the slain, many
others; for several of Mangko Negoro's troops have re-
turned to our camp naked and disarmed.!' At the date of
the 'latest accounts, Depo Negoro was near. Bedoyo, and
the garrison of Camping had retired to Djojo, not being
strong enough to defend the place. The number of the
troops being much reduced by the repeated actions with,
this rebels, much of the military service has fallen upon the
merchants of Batavia, who are anxiously imploring assist-
ance from the mother country. •

ANECDOTE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

LAST MOMENTS OF THE PRINCESS LAMBALLE.
The butchery of the prisons was now commenced. The
Duke de Penthievre set every engine in operation to save
his beloved daughter-in-law. He sent for Manuel, who
was then Procureur of Paris. The Duke declared that
half his fortune should be Manuel's, if he could but save the
Princess Lambelle, and the ladies who were in the same
prison with her, from the general massacre. Manuel pro-
mised the Duke that he would instantly set about removing
them all from the reach of the blood-limiters. *
The massacre bad begun at day-break (Sept. I.) The
fiends had been some hoUrs busy in the work of death.
The piercing shrieks of the dying victims brought the
Princess and her remaining companion upon their knees in
fervent prayer for the souls of the departed. The mes-
sengers of the tribunal now-appeared. The Princess was
compelled to attend the summons. She went, accompa-
nied by her faithful female attendant. ,
'A glance• at the seed of blood, of which she caught a
glimpse upon her way to the court, had nearly shocked her
even to sudden death. Would it had. She staggered,
but was sustained by her compeniOn: Her courage
triumphed. She appeared before the gore-stained tri-
bune.
•
After some questions of mere form' her Highness
was commanded to swear to be faithful to the new Order
of Government, and to bate the King, the Queen, and,
royalty.
" To the first,"
.replied her Highness, " I willingly
-submit. To the second, how can I recede ?. There. is
nothing of which I van accuse the Royal Family. To
hate them is against my nature. They are my sovereigns.
—they are my friends and relations. I have served them
for many years, and never have I found reason for the
slightest. complaint."
The Princess could no longer articulate. She fell into
the arms of her attendant. 'The fatal signal was pronounced.
Site recovered, and crossing the.eourt of the prison, which
was bathed with the blood of mutilated victims, involun-
tarily exclaimed-7" Gracious heaven 1 what a sight is
this!" and fell into, a fit.
Nearest to her in.the mob stood a mulatto, whom she
had caused to be baptized, educated, and maintained ; but
whom, from ill conduct, she bad latterly excluded from
her presence. This miscreant struck at her with his hal-
bert. The blow removed her cap. Her luxuriant hair—
as if to hide her angelierbeauty from the sight of her mur-
derers, pressing tiger-like around to pollute that form, the
virtues of which equalled its physical perfection—her luxu-
riant hair fell around and veiled her a moment from view.
An individual, to whom I was nearly allied, seeing the
miscreants somewhat staggered, sprung forward to the
rescue; but ,the mulatto wounded him., The Princess
was lost to all feeling from the moment the monster first
struck at her. But the demons would not quit their prey.
She expired gashed with wounds:
Scarcely was the breath out of her body when the mur-
derers cut off her head. One party of them fixed it, like
that of the vilest traitor, on an immense pole, and bore it
in triumph all over Paris; while another division of the
outrageous cannibals, were occupied in tearing her clothes
piece-meal from her mangled corpse.
The bead was then taken through the streets. By a
singular circumstance it became the cause of immediate
death to one who had been in my employ. The strange
event happened as follows:
My English mangaervant, and the young girl who had
accompanied me from France to Italy, were both taken
very ill, from the violent heat we had suffered from travel-
ling night and day in the month of Aligust, 1792. I was
therefore obliged to send them both back for the benefit
of their native air. They reached Paris on the very day
of the massacre. The first thing the girl saw, on alighting
from the diligence, was the bead of the well-known bene-
factress of her mistress. The fellow who was bearing it
thrust it so near theiefitees, that-thy-long hair of the vie.
tim entangled itself on the button of my man servant's
coat, who took a knife and cut the locks to disentangle
himself from the head. On his return to Italy, he gave
me the hair which he thus cut off. I have kept it by :frie
ever since. The poor girl, at sight of the horrid spectacle,
give but a shriek, and died in six hours after she reached
the inn.
The horrid spectacle was next exhibited within the
Palais Royal. Madame Billions, the avowed mistress of
its royal occupier, was,dining with biM. They both started
up, and ran to the Window. On discovering the cause of
the tumult, Madame But Tons fainted. The Duke of Or-
leans; it is 'said, remarked-7." Oh, it is Lemballe's head. I
know it by the long hair." Madame Burons reviving,
exclaimed---" Heaven knowahow soon mine may be struck
off and paraded in the same munner Send it out of sight
--lend it out of the palace, or I shall expire l"—Mensoirs
4. the Princess, Lambalk.

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