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8a1144 twoweeit' offering ragitis. inn
civil,' genies. This project sued tO the
King dkougli the Waster of Marine. it is tisatight
that the King of Naples well make un appeal to the
merchants to obtain Tel loin the necessary funds
for forsitieg a squadron competent b scrksr the teas.
ik the Vicinity of Sicily end Napler.

PARIS, DECEMBER 29.
• CHAMBER OF DEPU TIES.
•ULLETIN or MEURER 28.
• fa the SeiVet Committee several orators were hard
on the proposition of M. de Rochefoncank, for cele-

bracing the anniversary of the murder of Louis XVI.

Severn propositions-were mask in succession, all of

them breathing the same sentiments, and all haviag
for their object to add something to that homage of
the regret, the grief, and we may add the relig;on

of France.

An Address, full of new condolences, an expia-
tory ceremony, in which his Majesty shall be suppli-
cated to permit that the Assembly, in a body, shall
be present on the 21st of January next, at the fatal
hour it which the regicide was committed the af-
fecting idea of placing beside tha statue of the father
that of the son, to recall at once the memory of the

King who was assassinated, and of the King whose
death was caused by the regicides; the prnpasal of
raising in the same groups the statues of the Queen
and of Madame • Elizabeth ; all these proposals'
emanating from the same spirit, received with the
same respect and the same piety, were sent back to
the Committees to make their report.

The following are the leading resolutions
1. On the 2 tst of January every year, there shall be a general
mourning throe;,! nut the kingdom, the manlier of which is to
be settled by his Majesty.
2. On the same day, there shall be a solemn service performed
in every church in Fr.ince, co:daps:ably to the order of the ht
of January last year.
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3. In expiation of the crimes of this unfortunate. day, there
shall be raised, in the aame and at the expense of the nation, a
Statue to Lows XVI. on sise pedestal of which shah be engraved
these words " France a free nation—to the memory of ,Louis
XVI."

N••t a single clisionticnt vote appeared again:A the
above Resolutions.

I.AvAut.rn.
TO TILE EDITOR OF TIIE JOU:IN:AL DE PARIS.
" Paris, December 26.
41 The account which you have given of the escape
Laval.;:t2 is cuaect, will/ the exception of two
circunistance.s.

66 You stated that tl:e Minister of General Police
and the Prefect of Police went to the prison. and im.

med:ately ordered the arrest of the gaoler. You
sltoohl hive .statecT, tLat slx minutes precisely after
:he e.ieape c.i M. Lavaletto, the g..oler, after 11,tving
ordered the keepers and myse.: (and it was I who
stopped the sedan chair on thz (,)a-ii dos Orlevr4s) to
o in pursuit, proceeded hintsch to the Prefect of Po.
lice to inform, him of the disastrcustvent. It was thou

only that the Prefect sent ii:y lather to tLe prison of
the 4epot of the l'refectnri.t. n.iv,r is it prohaile that
the gaoler liad been wouli have given,
an atcnunt so soon to the Prefect of Police placed
Limy:lla: his mercy weehl h.: not hive eoneeaiei
tht: escape ontil ;scat thy, nay even kiis.ippeared him.
self before it was known'

66 Several jrurnalists have said, that. the gaoler
seemed to be guilty of negligence : Nu, Sir, he has
nor. The gaoler was present in the front lodge when
Lavaiette. went ow, disguised in his 4 ice's clothes,
siipprlted by 11:-; daughter and an .old servant, aji,
three scbking alai- crying, which appeared to him
quite natural. It has brien said, why was not Ae
handkerchief tadl;en from his face ? but 1 ask thou
who put this question, would they have done so them-
selves, to a female in the last agonies of 'grief and
despair, at seeing jeer husband for the last time pre.
%ions to his ascending the scaffold ? Would not such
conduct have been an insult and a cruelty, with which
the gaoler might have been justly charged ?
66 It has been said, why Was it ;lot discovered at
the various wickets, that a man and not a woman
was going out ? In answer to this it may be said,
that Madame Lavalette every time she came to see
her husband, was covered with a large fur cloak,
which seemed to accord with her sickly condition,
and under which her Ave wascompletely disguised.
0.: It my lather had been capable of telling his
.honour, he would have accepted the offers made him
by Madame Ney to save her husband—offers .of
which I can now give an account from a convertatlon
of which I took notes immediately alter my father
reported it to me :
On the 17th of November, at seven o'clock in the,
evening, came into the Lodge where I was; site said
, to my father that she was desirous of speaking to him
io private—l retired into the front Lodge. After
both were seated she spoke as follows 1-0. M. Roc.
quette, I know that nothing but the misfortunes put'
•:xperienced at St. Domingo reduced you to the ned.'
cessity of becoming a gaolur—you have a large family..
It may he poszible, it you wish it, to place them in
• opulence.'...'4 How so, Madame r ' A victim is
wanted and my husband is marked out; it depends
upon you to save him: set off with him—nothing can
happen to you—depend upon it my fortune is consi.,
derable—l offer you half, nay the whole, if yop wish
it. I/ What, Madame, do you prppose to 1:12e•t0 forfeit
my honour ?' Sir, honour is not •affected when it
is necessary to save an unfortunate person. 0 Non,
Madame, nothing can make me traffic with my duty..
Your grief affects me, but I beseech you instantly to
• cease speaking of a proposal which hurts me beyond
measure.' What ! will nothing in the world move