Star.
London, England, 1816-04-24 00:00:00

FROM LAST NIGHTS LONDON OTSIETTIZ

Members returned to serve in Parliament ;
Peterborough— l'he Hon. W. lamb, vice the Right Hon. 0.
Ponsonby, who has accepted the Chit ern Hundreds.
Wickiow-•-Tbe Right Hun. Ponsotaby, vice W. Tigbe,
deceased.
Ellis Gazette notifies the investiture of Admiral Sir C. Tyler
with the insignia of a Knight Coniniaoder of the Order of the
Bab; also that Captain ‘tr M. eylitaur, R.N.; and Cotonel Sir
R. Barclay, of the .11.ast India service, lead received di, honour of
Knighthood; that the Piince Regent had been pleased to order,
that a niedal thouta t e girco to every Officer, Non-commissioned
Olfic.r, and soldier, engaged at the battle of Wa:crloo ; and to
appohit Lord Napier to be his Majesty's Commissioner to iho
General Assianbly of the Church of Scotland.] •
BANKRUPTCY ENLARGIO.
April 29, George Burgess, late of Upper Baker-street, Mary-lzo
bonne, hawker, dealer an 4 chaptuan, at. rep, at Guildhall. ,
April So. Henry llama:wig, 0; CAI ice court,, Red Cross-street,
Borough Market, aural, c..ipenter, dater and chapman, at
ten, at Guahltall.

BANKRUPTS.
William Dyer, of Norh Leads, keioucesti-rshire, glister, dealer
and Chapman, to ste•render May 4. at fivi., May 7, and June 4,
at eleven, at the tipper Geutge Cultre-house, Giottetitorr.--
rltturuitc, Messes. kiJniuuds and Jere, 69, Chancesydane,
Losidun; or NC". 8. *fuller, W wthcunib.
Ars, i7atioick,J4ire, not
now of Perry-Barr, Staffordshire, deal,: an earn and grain,
May 8,7, and June 4, at twelve, at the Globe tun, Warwick.
Attornies, Mr. Davi./ llmas, Hind-court, 4, Fleet-street,
I.ocidon ; or Mr. hilwaed rnckett,
John Goodyear, of Hood Grange, Yorkshire, tanner, liasebarner,
dealer aodchapman, May 10, 11, and June 4, at eleven, at the
Golden Fleece Inn, Thirsk Anomie., Messrs. Morton and
arnson, 5, Gray's Inn-sqtare, London; or Mr. Walker,
Ti.iisk.
Robert Fitton, of Hartshead, Yorkshire, woollen-card-martian..
curer, dealer and clapinaii, May 8, at fire, May 9, at nine,
at the Bull lati, Gotneriall, and June 4, at three, at the
11/u..k Bull Inn, Murfield. Attomies, Mr. helms Hatton-Oar:
den, Lond.on ; or hie. Carr, Getneraal, near Leeds.
Edward rinhips, of Bristol, grocer, dealer and chapman, May 7,
a, and June 4, at one, as the Bushravens, Bristol. Attornies,
I.ssrs Poole and Greridield, t 2, Grays Inn-square, Louden;
or Mr. Henry Ball, Shannon-cdurt, Bristol.
Hugh Beach, of Melcombe Regis, Donetshire, Mercer and draper,
dealer and chapniaeb May 7, B,,and June 4, at twelve, at the
Rummer Tavern, brutal. Attornies, Messrs. Poole and Greene
Sell, £2, Gray's Inn-square, London; or Mr. Samuel Cary,
Broad-street, Bristol.
William Bland, of Scarborough, Yorkshire, factor, dealer and
cliapasau, M Ay 3,7, and June 4, at eleven, at 'lie slog sadiDuck
1 avers, Hull. Animates, Meters. Thonris and Charles Frost,
Ilan; or Messrs. Reiser, Bartlett's Liu I.liiigs, London.
Joshua *folio's, late ut Lughuuse, Halting, Yorkshire, grocer,
May 7, ts, and June 4, at nue, at the Ro.e and Crown, kits&
dlrsfield. *tunnies, Mr. Batty., 20, Chancery-Line, London ;
or Mr. Crosland, Huddersfield.
George Pope, new er Lite ut Asters Tirrold, Berko, farrner,dealer
and chapsuan, April sO, at three, May 1, and June 4, at eleven
at the Lamb Inn, Wallingford. Atteinsiev, Messrs. Hedges and
Sun, Wallingford; or Price and Williams, Inacoln't Inn.
Richard Wilson, late of Stone, Stafford, merchant, dealer and
chapnsan, May 29, at five, and SO, at eleven, at the Bed and
Bear Inn, Stone, StallOni, and June 4, at eleven, a: the Crown
lan, Stone. Atturnies, Messrs. Leigh, Mason, and Housman,
New Bridge-street, laandon; and Mr. Dent, Stone.
Thomas Davey, St. Pieter, Worcester, builder, dealer and chap.
man, May 14, Ir, and June 4, at twelve, at the Reindeer
Inn, Worcester. Anomie', Mr. Platt, New Boswell court,
I.incoln's Inn, LOndoa ; and Messrs. Welles and Dickens,
Worcester..
Robert Ward, of Beetles, Suffolk, grocer, dealer aid cbspmso,
M.y 2, £O, and June 4, at eleven, at the White Lion Inn,
beetles. Attorines, Messrs. Debary, Scudainore, and Currey,
Gate-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields; and Mr. Bohlen, Beccles.
lames Halstead, of Wheeler's-wharf, St. Car harioe's, sail-maker,
dealer and chapman, April 27, May 7, and June 4, at ten, at
Attorney, Mr. Peterson, Copthall-court, Thror
morton-street.
Jahn Davis, of Shoreditch, linen draper, dealer and chapman,
April SO, at twelve, May 7, and June 4, at one, at Guildhall.
Attorney, Mr. Jones, Size.latie.
Kdward Blackniere, of Caroline-street, Bedford-sqeue, tailor,
dealer and chapman, May 14, 17. and Jane e, at twelve,
at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Platt, New Boswell-court,
Carey-street.
John Nesbitt, of Liverpool, merchant, dealer, and ehapman,
April 27, May 11, and June 4, at twelv:, at Guildhall, Lou-
duo. Attornies, Messrs. Kearsey and 3,purr, llishopsgatee
street-Within.

DIVIDENDS to he made at GUILDHALL.
May 11, Robert Peter Gur.-..1, airozmortim-street, merchant,
at one. May 11, Thomas W agborn, Chatham, butcher, at twelvt.
May 21, Robert lanes, of Cheltenham, haberJa.her,ir
Ivlay 11, John Willis, Pudding lane, merchant, at twelve. May
11, James 1 appenden, Faversham, scrivener, and James I appery
den, North-court, irommaster, at ten. May it ,Tlionias Luckier.
of Upper Thames-street, merchant, at one. June ,1-hn swan,
Robert Anderson, and George Swan, Wapping- W all, isniejalow,
at one. May 14, Francis Fraukland, Orford street, linsn draper,
at eleven. May 14, George Gray, of Graceelourcipstruet, hard-
ware:run, at eleven. May 11, Evan Evan., Holton-town, cow.
hard, at 1. May 15, James Ile t4.4r, Clapham, syudianto at I.

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ESCAPE OF I,3IIdLETTE.
[CONTI:MD FROM 1 NR STAR Of 'MEMORY.]

INtERROCATORILS OF HUTCHINSC.N.
FIRST INTERROGATORY, JANUARY IS.
After some matters of form—
Q Who are the persons that you visit most fre-
quently at Paris ?—I am particularly acqoainted with
Lieutenant Bruce of my regiment; with Major Elli-
son, and Colonel Reeve.

Q. Within fifteen days has your'service called you
from Paris ?—My service has net required me to leave
Paris within fifteen days and more.
Q. Have you left Paris in less than fifteen days ?
For what motive ? How many days were you ab-
sent ?—I 'went on Tuesday last to the Horse at Go.
nesse, where several English Officers agreed to meet
for a hunting party. I did not find any one there,
tf,e time was not favourable; and I returned imme-
diately to Paris.
Q. Name to me some of the Officers who formed
the project of that party, and who were to have met
there ?—Colonel Smith of the 95th Regiment; the
son of the Duke of Richmond.
. Q. Have you slept constantly at Paris for the last
eight days ?--Yes.
SECOND INTERROGATORY, JANUARY 14.
Q. Have you not taken a very great interest in the
fate of Marshal Ney ? Have not you endeavoured
to withdraw him from the execution of his sentence ?
Have you no knowledge of the projects formed for
that purpose ?--I never knew Marshal Ney or his
wife. I feel interested for him like many others who
think with me that he could not be tried or con-
demned os account of the capitulation of Padi,
Q. Has not General Wilson communicated to
you some project to effect the escape of Marshal
Nay l—Never.
Q. What means the note which I present to you.
addressed to you by General Wilson, under the date
of the 13th of December, commencing in these
words When these expt. are attempted. ;was
must be ensured," and where inquiry is made as to
proceedings with the Ambassador Stuart to save
Linois and others ?—I do not consider myself ob-
liged
to furnish the explanation of what you ask ;
address yourself to the person who wrote that letter.
Q. You left Paris on Monday the Bth of this
month, before day : you were not alone ? What
was the object of your journey ? Where did you go?
Who were the persons that accompanied yon ?—I
told you yesterday, that on Tuesday last, I left
Paris on horseback to go to Gonesse on a kunting
excursion: it is possible that I may have mistaken
the day, and that it was Monday.
Q. But you told me yesterday, that you left
Paris alone to go to Gonesse; whilst it is certain
that on Monday last, before day, or at break of
day, you left Paris on horseback, in the company
of other persons ?—1 shall give no explanation on
that point.
Q. Are you very intimate with Mr. Michel Bruce
and General Wilson ?—I have known Mr. Bruce and
his family for seven or eight years. General Wilson
was Aide-dc-Camp to my uncle : I have known him
for the same space of time.
Q. What was the object of the meeting which was
held at your apartments on Sunday last, about tight
o'clock in the evening, where those Gentlemen at-
tended ?—We drank a bowl of punch.
Q. Was these no other individual at that meet-
ing ?—No.
Q. Did not an individual come to you that night,
wearing the uniform of an English Oftcer....No.
Q. That individual, wearing the English uniform,
did l►epot remain with you, and pass the night with
you ?--No.
Q. By what barrier did you leave Paris to go to
the pretended hunting party at Gonesse ?—By the
barrier of Clichy.
Q. Did you not take the road to Chapelle-en-
Cereal, instead of going to Gonesse ?—I will not say
where I went.
Q. Was not one of the persons who accompa-
nied you in the uniform of an English General
Officer ? Did not you meet, in going through the
barrier Clichy, several English Officers who ap-
peared surprised to see a General Officer of their
nation who was unknown to them ?-1. remember
nottling of the kind.
Q. Did not you go as far as CoMpeigne ?—I will
not reply to that question.
Q. How often were you absent from Paris ?—I
do not consider myself obliged to tell you. If there
be any charges against me, let the proofs be pro-
duced before a tribunal, and I will defend myself.

Q. The charges which exist against yoti are—
that, on the 7th instant, about eight o'clock in the
evening, the condemned Lavalette, dressed as an
English Officer, was brought to you : that on the
following morning he left your house at the break of
day in an open carriage, having General Wilson by
his side : that you were on horseback by the side of
the caniage : that you all went out by the barrier of
Clichy : that you passed on to Chapelle-en•Cerval,
and went to Compeigne, when General Wilson
and the condemned Lavalette took another carriage.
You are in consequence accused of having favoured
the escape of the person condemned to death.—
What have you to say in justification ?—Whea I
am placed in judgment, I shall produce MI means
of defence.
THIRD INTERROGATORY-JAN. 15.

Several questions which he refused to answer.
Q. Was it not you who carried to a tailor the
measure which was sent to you by Mr. Bruce, and
which served to make the habits of an English uni-
form in which Lavalette was dressed when he left

Paris ?—Mr. Bruce never gave me a measure.
Q. What is the name of the tailor who works for
you at Paris !—I shall not tell it.
FOURTH IN TERROGATORYJAN. 19.

Q. How long is it since you were informed that
Lavatette was concealed in Paris 1-4 did not know
it before the Sd or 4th of this mouth.
Q. bid you know him before his arrest aad trial ?
—No, I was not acquainted with him or any mem-
ber of his family._
Q. From what sentiment then, or by whose sug-
gestions, did you resolve to take apart in the mea-
sures concerted to withdraw him from justice ?—From,
a sentiment of humanity and generosity.
Q. Was it an Englishman or a Frenchman who
first sounded your disposition on this point i—lt was
an Englishman.
Q. What is his name cannot answer that Ties-

dap. I will speak 'tto truth in whatever contents
myself ; but honour forbids me to compromise others:
Q. On Sunday, the 7th of this month, in the day,
did not you give orders to your servants to set out
before you, and wait for you with relay horses on one
of the points of the road from Paris to Compiegne?
—Yes, sir.
Q. Did not your domestics execute your orders ?
My orders.were executed, not by my domestics, but
by the two persons whom I sent: only 'me of them
was in my service, his name is 'llomas Hooges.
Q. How many days had you agreed thus to con-
trive the departure of Lavalette, and to receive him
at your house when he should present himselt there?
—From the same day of which I signified my con-
sent, that is, from the 3d or 4th of the month.
Q. Do you know the place front which he escaped
on Sunday the 7th, in order to come to your lodging ?
—No, sir.
Q. But since you attended him at an appointed
hour' you knew at least the person who was charged
to 61:c1 his retreat and to conduct him to you r—No,
Sir. This is what took place; I was apprised that
Lavalette would come to my house at half-past nine
o'clock, and I waited for him there with Mr. Brace.,
Two or three minutes after the appointed time, Mr.
Bruce left me, went down, and returned presently,
leading in Lavalette, who had been conducted to him
by a person whom I do not know, and who did not
enter the house.

Q. Did not this person, or some other on his part,
observe that Laval.ftte had forgotten his pistols, and
return to your door in order to bring them N—Yes,
Sir, my servant, John Bald wick, informed me that
some person desired to speak to sne in the anti.nbanr.
ber. I went oat ro•prevent his cored's s k sot ak
Frenchman dressed in a riding coat, *bids
partly open, so as to let me perceive a doable
relied pistol in the side pocket. The first idea
presented itself to my mud was, that all was
vered, and I confess that I prepart4 to nuke
ante. I demanded the pistol, and advanced my hand
to seize it before he should have time to make any
movement. He made no opposition, and only said,
" you are then among my friends." I replied in the
affirmative, but would not permit him to enter my
room ; and required that be should instantly absent
himself. This was the first time I ever, saw this
Frenchman ; and it was for so short a period that it
would be impossible for me to recognize him. The
pistol was the nest day forgotten, and left with me
by M. de Lavalette. On my return I gave my ser-
vant orders to discharge it, and I had the precaution
myself to take out the flint. The pistol is now at
my lodgings, and my valet can produce it.
Q. Had Monsieur or Madame &meager whose'
apartments you occupy, or any of their servants, or
the portress of the house, any knowledge of M. de'
Lavalette's introduction to your lodgings, ird of the'
stay which he made there during the nigit ?—No.
6ir, Monsieur and Madame Sauvage had dined out,
at least so I presume; for I remarked that the key
was not in the door; the servants live generally in the
kitchen, which is one story lower. When M. de Lava.
lette entered, there was coaody in my rnti-rnom but
Baldwick, and a servant whom I dismissed the fol-
lowing Tuesday. With respect to the portress, I
have never spoken to her, nor do I believe that the
persons wbo called on me ever addressed themselves
to her.

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resist.

Q. Who is the person who on the next day, be.
tween seven and eight o'clock in the morning, came
to your door in a chaise, into which Lavalette air
tended in order to quit Paris ?—t have alrruidy said
that I am not compelled to speak the truth except in
what relates to myself, nor can I honourably satisfy
this question.
Q. When you arrived at Compiegne, was it by a
Frenchman or an Englishman that you were received
and entertained during the time that you remained
there ?—The same reason forbids me to reply upon
this point.
Q. When Lavalette came to you on Sunday, at
seven in the evening, was he dressed in the uniform
of an English Officer ?—No, Sir ; and I seize this
occasion to explain the answer which I made to the
Prefecture of Police, and which I wish should not
be considered as a falsehood. I was asked whether a
person dressed in an English uniform did not call on
me, and I replied in the negative; this does not form
a contradiction of what I state to-day in point of
fact : M. de Lavalette had on his French dress, and
it was myself alone who wore an English uniform.
Q. Who are the persons who addressed you, or
who brought the unitorm ?—The uniform was lent
i
me by an officer of my regiment, who was not in the'
secret, and whom I convinced that Mr. Bruce and
I wished to carry off a lady from Paris. This offi-
cer was called Bruce; he js a Lieutenant of the first
Company of Grenadiers of the Royal Guard bfl
England.
Q. It appears, nevertheless, according to the note
that you have signed, and which I now present to
you, that this uniform was furnished to you by a tai-
lor. By the first paragraph of this note it appeared
to have cost 152 francs ?—That article has nothing
to do with the uniform. The tailor had no other
orders but to make a great coat, a Übe waistcoat,
and grey pantaloons. I had given him the measure
without informing him of the object; and I took care
to remove from hem every suspicion on his part, by.
telling him that these clothes were to be seat to Abbe.
vile to a Quarter-Master; and to fix greater proba-
bility on this story, I gave orders to wrap the whole
in paper, adding, that I would deliver them to the
servant of the Quarter-Master, vho was then in Paris.
The tailor lives in the rue Pinon, he is a German,
and has a small shop. I have forgot en his family
name, and know only that his Cbristiaa name is
Frederic.

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