Star.
London, England, 1816-01-24 00:00:00

YILL OF LOMS XPI.

.4 In the name of the Most Holy Trinity, of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.—
This day, the 25th of December, 1792, I, Louis, the
Sixteenth by name, King of France, being for more
than four months past imprisoned with my family in
the tower of the Temple at Paris, by those who were
my subjects, and cut off from all communication
whatever, even with my family since the I ith inst.—
being moreover involved in a process, the issue of
which it is impossible to foresee, on account of the
passions of men, and for which neither pretext nor
means are to be found In any existing law ; having
no other witness to whom I can addrsss my thoughts
than COD—here declare in his presence my last will
and my sentiments.
46 I leave my soul to Gon, my Creator ; I implore
him to receive it in his mercy, not to judge it accord-
ing to its deserts, but by the merits of our Lou DJESUS
CHRIST, who offered himself a sacrifice to Goo, his
Father, for us men, however unworthy, and for me,
the chief of sinners.

44 I die in union with our holy mother the C.ttho.
lk, Apostolic, and Rnman Church, which derives
its powers by an uninterrupted Fuccession from St.
Peter, to whom they were committed by JESUS
CHRIST.

" I firmly believe and confess all that is containe,l
in the Creed and the Commandments of GOD and
the Church, such as the Catholic Church telches,
and has ever taught them. I.have never presumed
to set myself up for a judge in regard to the different
ways of explaihing the doctrines which distract the
Church of JESUS Cstrus-r ; 'but I have always con-
formed, and shall always conform, it GOD grants me
life, to the decisions which the Ecclesiastical Superiors
belonging to the Catholic Church, give and shall
give, agreeably to the discipline of the Church, fol-
lowed ever since the time of JESUS CHRIST.

" I pity, with all my heart, such of our brethren
as may be in error ; but I pretend not to judge them,
nor do I love them all the less in JESTS CHRIST, as
Christian charity teaches us. I pray GOD to pardon
all my sins ; I have scrupulously sought to detect
them, to abhor them, and to humble myself in ni.
presence. As lam nor allowed to avail myself cf
the ministry of a Catholic Priest, I pi .iy GA) ti
receive the confession of them which I have made
to him, and especially the profound contta:ion that
I feel fir having put my name (thi u;;1; it v.. re
against my will) to acts which may be. contrary
to the discipline and the faith of the Catholic Churcii,
to which I have ever continued sincerely attached in
my heart.

-44 I pray COD to receive the resolution in
I an) firmly fixed, if he grants me life, to have
recourse, as soon as it shall be in my power, to the
ministry cf a Catholic Priest, in order to accuse
myself of All my sins, and to receive the sacrament
of repentance.

" I entreat all those whom I may have offended
inadvertently (for Ido not recollect having wilfully
given offence to any one), er those to whom I may
have given a bad example or scandal, to forgive me
the harm which I may have done them: 1 entreat
all those who have charity, to join their prayers with
mine, to obtain pardon of my sins from Coo.
" 1 forgive with all my heart these who have be-
come my enemies, without my having given them
any cativz to do so ; and I pray GOD to forgive them,
and likeniee those who, from a false or mistaken
zeal, have done me great injury.
" I recommend to GOD my wife and my children,
my sister and my aunts, my brothers, and all those
aim are attached to me by the ties of blood, or in
any other manner whatever ; I pray GOD particu-
larly to cast an eye of pity upon my wife, my
children, and my sister, who have so long suffered
with me, to support them by his grace, if they
should lose me, and as long as they shall remain in
this perishable world.

" -I
commend my children to my wife : I have
never doubted her maternal tenderness for them : I
recommend to her, above all things, to make them
good and honest Christians ; to teach them to con-
sidur the grandeur ot this world (should they be
doomed to endure it) as a very dargerons and pe-
ris'iable possession, anti to direct their attention to-
wards the only solid and durable glci y ot eLernity.—
I beg my sister to continue her tenderness to my
children, and to supply the place of a mother to
them. if they shculd have the misfortune to lose
theirs.

" I entreat my wife to forgive me for all the hard-
ships which she suffers on my account, and the vexa-
tions that I may have occasioned her during our
union ; and, on the other hand, she may be sure that
I bear her no if she thinks she has any thing
to reproach herself with.

44 I recommend most earnestly to my children,
next to their duty to Goo, which ought to take pre.
cedeace of every thing, to continue ever attached to
one another, submissive and obedient to their mo.
titer, and grateful for all the pains and attention
which she bestows upon them ; and, in memory of
me, I beg them to look upon my sister as a second
mother.

" I recommend to my son, if he should have the
misfortune to become King, to think that he should
devote himself entirely to the happiness of his fellow.
citizens ; that he ought to forget all animosity and
all resentment, and especially whatever is conoected
with the hardships and the vexations which 1 experi-
ence ; that he cannot make the people happy, except
by reigning according to the laws; but at the same
time, that a King cannot make them respected, and
do the good which is in his heart, unless he possess,
the requisite authority, and that otherwise, being fet-
tered in his operations, and inspiring no respect, he is
more prejudicial than useful. . •
" I recommend to my son to provide for all those
petsons who were attached to me, as well as the cirr
cumstances in which he shall be may enable him ;
consider that it is a sacred debt which I have con-
tracted to the children or relatives of those who have
perished for me, and in the next place, of those who
are reduced to indigence on my account.
" I know that several of those who were attached
to me have pot behaved to me so well as they ought,
and have even treated me, with ingratitude ; but I
forgive them (it is often the case That in moments of
commotion and effervescence people are not masters
of themselves) ; and I beg my son, if he sht,uld find
occasion, to think of their misfortunes alone.
44. I WWI it were in my power here to testify my
srittitude. to *se wbo bare nunifested a real and
" •

disinterested attachment to me. If, on th
I was deeply affected by the ingrat;'ude
alty of people to whom or to whose n
friends I had never shewn any eoiaq bu
enjoyed, on the other, the coasol 'tins of
the attachment and dienuerested „
persons have manifested fur me. lix
accept my warmest tharks for it
state of things, I should be afraid of co,
them, were I to speak more expliciCy ;
cially recommend to my son to seiz,2 all o
of discovering them.
I should, however, deem myself F
lumny against the st.ntiments of the od.i
not openly to recommend to my son i%les
milly and Hue, who were induced by t
attachment to me, to confine themselves
this dreary abode, and whA had wal ni;
happy victims to ir: I recommend to hit
with whose attention I have had every
satisfied since he has been with me. A
mained with me to the end, I beg the C
the Commune to deliver to him my ch
watch, purse, and the other things wh:c
deposited with the Council of the Coma
6' I forgive, likewise, most cheerfnl!y,
for the severe treatment arid restraint
they have thought it their duty to lay
found some tender 'and co:lrv:Arm:de ;
:hese enjoy in their hea:ts that tr.:nt;
their way of thinking must impart !
0, I beg Messrs. De M4l .t.cheers,
Deseze, to accept here my st
pression of my el,.ep sense ot All the L'ou
which they hive or. my account.
6 6 I conclude with declaring before Gi
to appear before him, that I do not re;
wit!' any of the crimes that are alleged
" Done is (11:viicate, of the Tower of the l'ea
D..cernber, 1792. (S:grri!)
" BACDRAIN Mani

PETROUSE.

LEITRACT rR om TN! " JOURNAL DUO SRL
i•OTu JNiTANT•J
" To THE EDI I9R.
_ .

Stn—l hasten to coramunicate tr
tails ‘vhich I have received from the I,
relative to ae expedition of the brave
nate Peyrott.e. Ttle uncertainty %Alia
op to the present Jay, of his
_unfostom
tm.tiered it is me a duty.
As I cLubt not this rzws will inti
leaders, I request its insertion in your ne

A Partogut se Captain, arrived at Maca. the &I
relates ct,a• 0:1 passicg to the east of the 1-h:fin
ro-is, to the so..th-cast ot .he 1•le of Timor, l.e
sae b,ach a man, who, ty Liz signals. sn:Voietl:
he immediately sent Lis oat ashen., and that it
i.renchrnati, named Dagelet, the astronomer of t
M. I.a yrouse, and that M. Dazelet gave the ft
M. tie la l'eyrunse settit.g out (rein Butte
17$8, with the two ships under his consmand, ti
to the touch-west of ISiew Holland, coasting a!
rocks, the direction and po:Wt..rt of which are en(
M.Da.p.::et. The barge, he Astrolabe, to k
night, az::: was lost. Ihe crew were in far: as
soon after run short in water and provision•,
traverse dos chain of rocks, la Per oust- discs
oltUll:rd, according to his account, in :he S S.B. I
'1 his island may be from about 12 to 15 leagues 1
fitter having made a tour of it, he entered with
that remained to him, into a deep and safe bay,w
He was very wed receiv..d,and found there an k
a supply of provisions of every Ishii, and obtain
tet.lb un chore for the accommodation of his sir
thertw had disturbed the good understanding 1).1
and the natives of the country; nit by the II
sailor a fire broke out an board, at, i the shy tea
burned. the cares of that bsave officer, Al. Is
then directed to the saving of every thing pots:Jet
utensils, arias, and arnntunitinn. His plan was
to carry the news of his misfortune into some
nits; but the natives of the country, who ailswi
a camp, and make all his dispositions !Mr his us
uppussid this des.gn.

here-then remained to M. k Peyrouse only
uncerra.nly of his fa.e might determine the Free
to stud ai search of him. Meanwhile the yeah
no vessel made its appearance. It was after .irtni
one years hi this expects:ion he at length for
build a vessel. Having siva, oriaers to cut
the necessary timber, the nativ..3 ef the unuatl
order as its ate cot hota...:y on 64 part, and war
between the two partite.i °Wised to always
sive, the French neitner our dared ti, care
M. 14 Peyrouse end,:avoureci .evelal -inns r,
but could slot succeed kinally, aft- a war, in
:1111111Utilt3011 chat remained was soon eituath.i
overpowered by numbers, yielded, and were s
Indians Luriied the camp.
M. Dageitr, who commanded a small post of
ed of the total defeat of M. de la e.'eyrouse, at
fate that threatened bimselt and' his companions
tittle battery, and laid the good :mune to rca
where some Indian boats were lying, which t
these trail little boats he put to sea, without oars
meats, without.provisions : he had to contend v
which precede inevitable death. However, tb
currents threw him, atter several days, upon the
whence the Portuguese vessel had meet] hint, J
two years, durabg which he suffered the sorra
one after another, the sad companfons of leis 'id
M. Dagelet was the only person who survive
the ninth day atter his arrival.on beard the chi
tion has been signed, and his journals have b
Macan by the Purtuguese Captain. l'here will
mined iu them the longitude and latitude of the
de laXeyrouse remained so long. lhe Hovers,
' has lbrwarded the one and the other to
they will be sent to France. '1 hey have bees,
compared with those of M. d'Entrecasteaux ; ao
this examination, that the latter had passages
within (rum eight to ten leagues of the place war
rouse was obliged to reside. But the account o
teaux makes no mention of the land perceived
I will indulge in no observation upon this ma
yet confirmed by any authentic declaration. It
that this part of the narrative, which relates to D
via, aid of the sending to France ut the journal
may be true. '1 hese Important pieces will he h
non a lasting monument of its love fur the peon
and its title to a species of glory which would Si
donee property of our rivals. 7. F. DE
Lieuttui

SPLENDID FR= AT ST. PETERSCUB
anniversary of the Emperor's birtb-daY•
Mother gave a bail equally
gant ; all the members of the Impniii
the foreign Princes now there, were I
the grand ball-room was entirely orn,
natural flowers; the immense sidocti
sated with 36,000 wax lights; if v.
resplendence of the diamonds and
stones worn by the Ladies, the wzrile
chanting sight beyond ail the chat ms
tiers of the Palaces ot the Caliphs of t
scribed in the Arabian Asher; i as
scene. At supper, we table consisted
all silver, except that of the Imperial
was of vld.