Star.
London, England, 1817-12-16 00:00:00

TO 7'IIE EDITOR OF 1118 S FAR.

Stn—Amnsing myself last evening with the writ-
ings of an ancient Poet of Scotland, I met with the'
following Latin Epigram. The resemblance of the
ercumstance mentioned in it to the recent melancholy
event, will I hope induce you to give it insertion in
your excellent Paper. I have sent also a Poetical
translation for the benefit of your English Readers.
which you will oblige me by your insertion. J. N. J.
Stamford-street, Dee. 11.
IIAGDALLNX VALENIII/1 laoiNZ SCOTORIIIII, 16 itTATI6

ANNO Z.
Regis tram eonjus, et Regis filia, Depth
Reg,a, !,pc et von, Regis mates etani,
Stql ne tr.megrederer mortalts Omen hough,
loviJa mot., hic me condidit ante diem.
TRANSLATION.

WADOALUS• VALHI*. KOZLN Ot Tit SCOTS WIO KIM

TILE AFFAIR OF M. FUALDES. •

RHODEZ, DECEMBER 4

In the night of the Si inst. the twenty-three per-
sons detained at the Cordeliers made an attempt to
escape. Jaussion and Bastide were the only persons
in that prison, who were comfrized in the process of
the assassination of M. Fualdes. The rest of their
companions were condemned for robberies. The
Oa; Missonier Coiard, and Bancal, are in the Con
vent of the Capuchins. The following are the de-
tails of the affair s—For some time Bastide occupied
himself busily in making straw panniers, and his wise
was admitted to see and speak to him through the
gratings. 41 Well," he said to her, 44 I send my
work to you frequently."-44 Don't make panniers
any more," she cried, 44 the house is full already."—
" L will make you then a chatfiir (a machine to dry
linen). Besides," he said, 4. there is in the prison a
young man, a fisherman by trade, who will teach
me to make nets. I should be delighted to be able
some day to catch some fish. Send me some cord
and osiers."
Madame Bastide did as she was desired. No dif-
ficulty was made against admitting it—yet all the
prisoners employed themselves in working at chains
of straw. Bastide, as head of the inanutactory,dis-
tributed the string, and paid a s.m for each chain of
a certain length. The gaoler then suspected some
mystery—he saw the enormous consumption of cord,
and, besides the straw brought in. that of the beds
began to be secretly employed. He redoubled his
vigilance—passed four nights without sleep, and in-
formed the Mayor.
The Mayor wished the prisoners to be put in irons.
The gaoler, firm, and indefatigable, demanded that
they should be suffered to goon, that he might catch
them in the act. He informed the gems d'ermes who
were posted as sentinels.
The pint advsnced.—On the 4th. from half.past
nine at night, the prisoners were silent, affected to
sleep, and even to mine, and yet pursued their work
in the dark. At midnight he opened the door, entered
suddenly at the grand dungeon that contained them,
found them all np, except Jaussion, and a ladder of
aU feet lung finished. They meditated their escape I
by an opening formerly made in a wall, four toises
high, and badly mended. From thence they could
have descended upon a roof, then upon another, got
over a wall, and then be in the fields, on the side not
guarded since the procedure of ltisodea was annulled.
The ladder is will made.—An iron cramp which
remained in the *all was to have been used to fix the
ladder upon. Jaussion was found in bed, and seems
to have bad no share in the projected escape.
ever, from this circumstance, which will aggravate
Bastide's guilt, Jaussion will attempt to argue his in•
nocence. Bastide had already a portmalteau on his
shoulders. He wished an first to jump into bed.
o Where were you going i" said the Lieutenant of
the Gendarmerie, 4. You are not ignorant, Sir, (he
replied) that I hare some business—l have been kept
here a long while, and my fortune suffrts by it.
was going to Gross to see my wife. I should then
have gone to Alby the day before the Assizes." 13 is-
tide was put in irons forthwith, and several of his
comrades. The ladder is shewn at the external gate
of the prison.

We read in the Thortinue Journal, of chi h Dec.
that the Chamber of Council, of the Civil Tribunal
set Ithodez, has pronounced upon the process insti.
toted against Madame Manson, and that she is to be
sent before the Royal Court of Montpellier.
A letter from Windex, dated eir inst. contains
the following details:--" The circutribtance which I
am about to relate, adds a new sort of celebrity to
Madame Manson. This Lady speaks Latin without
ever haiing studied it. While the clerk was writing
down her answers to the Magiwate, she frequently
exclaimed to herself, tope eft mcntiri— non intell4o.
This is a fact. I had it from Madame Manson her.
self, and from the clerk who was present at her vari-
ous itx.iminations.

•• It we may believe the account given by Made-
line Bancal (the child is only ten years old), after sen-
tence was passed, there was a supper at her father's
-house on the night of the assassination, at which a
great number 41 persons were present, aid among
others M. Fualdes. When supper was concluded,
they observed to the ratter, that he must prepsre
himbellt for dead:; he thought it was merely a joke,
and went out but several of the guests having run
alter him, overtook him near the stables of Misson
flier, dragged him back into the kitchen, and these
inuillered nein.

" I am assured, that several witnesses declare MA.
dame Manson told them, she was present at the as-
sassination of M. Fualsies ; when pressed to explain
herself upon that head, she denied the fact; she said
the witnesses drew serious inferences from what she
had said, and that. thencellarward, she would never
open her mouth, but in presence of those whom she
knew had studied the logic of Condillac with a:ten-
tiou. Manson appears hot to have renoun-1
ced her design of making disclosures to justice. ' I
will speak freely,' she said, a few days since, t before
any other Court than that of Rhodez ; it is in the
Court of Albi that important truths will be made
known; the Court of Assizes of that City will be
like•the Valley of Jehosaphat ; the dead shall be re-
stored, and the living shall be juJged.'
Since the sentence has been annulled, Collard
has recovered his accustomed cheerfulness. Madame
Manson receives many anonymous letters from Paris,
Marseilles, &c. The lofty stature of Dastide and bis
masculine air, have caused him to be called for aver
ral years, by the name of Brennus. It may be said
that he never more resembled that chieftain of the
Gauls, than at the present moment. His long black
beard, bis large black eyes, and his florid cheeks,
give a fine character to his head, which our great.st
paimers might be emulous to study. Latterly, how.
ever. he has suffered his beard to be cut with scissars."

The extraordinary rate at which the eztendve power
of the Russian Empire increases, is best proved by the
increase of the population in this colossal State. In
the Government of Tobolsk the number of inhabi-
tants on 83,380 square miles was, in 1800, 684,000,
at present it is 952,780. At that period the population
of the Government of Irkowsk was 450,000, and it
is now 700,000. The population of the central parts
of Russia is now not interior to that of the most cul-
tivated parts of Europe.