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 lodes,. 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 IL:iektiette hers just
ths..overeil lit Paries and t:coticlueted to the
Coneiergerie.. J hare no don, t.,thet he is attll in
Paris, because it is so much tipticpsier 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
(:11. oome 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.
sesmaisons. • 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 have had, awl who
most. have been well paid for the risk they' mt.
Alooncr 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 ParisH 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.)

L4valetic, it is csrapetl out of Paris
in, tie disguisv of an 11.11;,;lish Officer, and aCCOIII-
- by two persous in the same. uniform, and
Ittiniidied with ayertificale of leave. ot absence,
purporting; to be'signed by the Duke of Wclllog-
Livaletle frill ctinihnic4 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.tri 1K the phe.
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 is, 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 consel
(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
person 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. The
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, hut loyal soldier, is
the person who is said to have told. the King of
the existent:43,d such .e report. The. King tots
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 to
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 nsto7
1161i1Hiit of his servants ant his family, and pre.
sewed himself before his colleague* to the prison.
It was the 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 11414 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.
Mail is, 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 Abe,
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 LongTtlay 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:; ovn 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 sewinted
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 carried,away.
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 presented the
most shocking scene 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 middle of his yard
completely lifted 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, Oct 25.
".1 observe the storm has done great injury in
'town, and in the windward, parishes ; 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.

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letters from Paris, and the Journals duo
itkik!,:iltive arrived itt course :—the [Atter .401
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, diccussc3
pro Let for a QatiODßl.Dlournittg on the '2l/1114'4n'
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
extracts
from these Papers
COURIER 1 A %TRAORDINItY, SATURDAY ilatSlNa.
• if It is. said the ..larcch•ttl•de-Cuinp peon"!
1%
' %'
ued yesterday in theltouse which oc4
211.
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, 290, and-
7lit regiments. two brigades of-artitietyandlr6ini"
left this town yesterday, at dulit hi the
for St. Denis, in order 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.ke
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 irvrt
Austrian garrisoti retires to give plitel
. • •
ttitigv+oluontese troops." ,