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Rioted the Tv rol, and made his vitiation% entrettoe Areved within four leagoes of Parisi Mamba! Ney
its Inspruck on the ith Norendver, their found in an Mu his harly, who had come to Wei him
marched iota Catinthia, w here be remained till the in a kited claim. They had togetgoia cosiirersatioi
pence of Presberg. of two holm, at the end if this (Inge the Marshal
At the famous batik of Jena Marshal Ney ram- tiOd the Qaptain that he wilt, stady to go on.; twee,
wieristhisti the Gth corps of the grand tinny, his skilful tears flowed from his eyes. `t'' Do not beluiprised,"
thipoeitions aid his heroic courage contributed to said he to the Officer, " if lave not been able to re-
tie pining this memorable battle, where the French tibia my tsars. It is not for myself I weep; bet for
armleccovered themselves with an immortal glory. -4 the fate of my children; when my children are !Aar
Mei-shot Ney was theft charged with the hlociade cerned lam no longer master of my sorrow." -• • -
sit ilderieberg;--this ;moor-kip fortress capitulated on The Marshal and his wife mounted the facto, the
the 9th November, 1806 ('he were made Olicer of the Gendarmerie placed himself in I;, a,
priiiviiiie,-:4lVeri-i7ii (Azad its ifti" Nit-rem SOO servant of his Lady monde(' b. hind the coach.
plooes.tateatt non, anti iamiense ‘.4 They arrited at Paris August lff. After having
It was Marshal Ney, who, after many bloody and passed the steels of the capital the coach arrived at
glorious combats* took, in 1807, the tuw is of Fried. the end of the street de Sevres; the Officer of GPI,.
land, which has &lie:, a name tattoo of the thousand dartaecie alighted to seek another vehicle at 60 of SO
'kiwis. which have rendered illustrious forever Mae paces distant.
French arms. The Marshal bade adien.to his wife, ascended the
After the peace of Tilsit Marshal Noy conducted second faire, and alighted in the military prison of
isho aim, into Spain. It Was in that fatal war that the Ahha)e.
the Marshal, ha to combat innumerable obstacles, , • Sitme'days after he was transferred to the Concier•

is, of Leipile;eati we shall leave to history thecae*
of relating the high deeds of the Prince of the
Mask's, at the different betties of Troyes, of
Otamp.Aubert, of Solemn., of Montereeu, of Colton,
of Leon, of Arcie.sur.Aube, and of La Fere Chair.
perodee.
Marshal Ney has been present in more than 500
Wiens or pitched battles, and is. this long career of
Mery and of danger he has never disgraced the no.
title of the brat'est of the brave, which had been
conferred on him.
When in the month of March 1814, Bonaparte,
who had retired to Foutainbleart, wished to carry on
negotiations. with the Allied Monarchs, Marshal
Nay was charged to signify to the Ex-Emperor that
be had ceased to reign in France; soon after be made
his submission to the Provisional Government.
When the King entered France the Prince of the
Moskwa was named a Member of the Chamber of
Peers.
His Majesty then entrusted him with the Govern.
anent of the 6th Military Division, he exercised
those functions in the name of the King till March
14, 1815, the period at which he joined the standard
of Bonaparte, who ou the Ist of March had landed
at CORIUM
In the last short campaign of the month of Jane
Marshal Ney had again occasion to show his wonted
valour ; we shall borrow his own words to relate the
result of the disastrous day of Waterloo.
[Hers follows Ney's letter to touche which is
already before the public.]
hied in virtue of the Convention

'The , troops, ,
signed the 3d, occupied Paris in the first days of
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,The King returned to the capital the Bth of the
seine month.
• Marshal Ney thought fit to remove himself ; it ap- ,
pears that he had at first the intention of taking re- I Purl% Det.2o.
full* in a foreign country • but having experiesiced Our Journals had announced that his Majesty the
difficulties as to passing the frontier, he retired into King of Bavaria had begged the King of France to
pcsourre, in the environs of Aurillac, to a relation's obtain a mitigation of punishment in favour of La-
of Ms wife ;it was there that he was comprised in the valette. The Minister of Police the day before yes-
Ordinance of the 14th of July ; he was arrested on tersely sent for the Editor of a Journal who had re-
ds, sth of August. pealed this article, to scold him on that subject, and
An Ottleer of Gendarmerie (M. Jauroard), in at the same time gave him to contradict this piece of
whose hands he was placed, was charged to conduct stews. From this meowed M. de Landow was
him to Paris. looked upon as lost. Marshal Marmont had pro-
• Before the journey the Marshal gave his word of mised Madame de lAvalette to get her an audience of
honour so the Officer not no make any attempt to the King : she went to him to recal to him his pro-
escape. This Officer bad formerly served under the mist; he gave her his word of honour, that whatever
orders of the Marshal, and he thought fit to rely on it might cost him, be would introduce her into the
tire word of his•former Geaeral. lie bad no reason Cabinet of he King : they both went to the Thud-
to repent his confidence. • lories: it appeared that the order had been given not
-Between Moeller and Aerillac, Marshal Ney and to suffer Madame fAvalette to enter, and the guard
his cosdectora stepped in a village to take some in- de corps who was on defy the King's apartment,
Monts of repose. After the repast a public, tune- wished to kinder this Lady and the Marshal from
tiessery of the neighbourhood, came to inform the passing, saying, it was his order. The Marshal
Officer of Gendarmerie, that at some distance thence answered him, that a Marshal of France might at
itttl would find oa the road persons posted who hod any time enter to the King, and half by consent,
for pies to carry off the Marshal. The latter and half by force, introduced himself into the Ca-
was in the same room where this commerrioetien took binet, where there were the Klieg, the Duchess .t
place; 110 a *ova that he heard gave him an easy Angouleme, and several other persons. Made's@
;woe into the subject of the conversation ; he ad- de lAvatette cast herself at the feet of his Majesty 46
wended and-said to the Officer—" Captain, I shall implore his mercy. The King answered her with
sturdy remind you that I have given you my word calmness, that his duty obliged him to refuse her,
of honour to go with yea to Paris ; if, contrary to and retired. The Duchess of Angouleme wishing to
iry expectation and to probability, an attempt is do the wine, Madame de Lavalette would have
made to carry me off, I shall demand arms of you tir thrown herself towards her to obtain her ruectiafion,
gppooa the tentative, that may be made on my per- her strength failed her, and she fell in a sweem at
son, sod to fulfil to dieted the sacred promise which her feet, her lifeless body barred the way of the
I have made you." llachess • all the perukes present began to ay—
'The travellers Continuo& \their joursmy and no at. " Pang's! Pardont-Lritk kltoi!" The DOCK
Wort was made to wry ofilbe 6lvt escaped by slumber way, without saying woo yew,

fusel, LOTL. .len._
at Nimes was not an isolated act, but essentially
connected with the religious policy of that horde of
bigots who dictate to the Crown. My nest will con-
vey further particulars.

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which the nattiest! Ades of the country and ex. ',de; he remained there till the moment when being - --,
ailed patriotism Of. its inhabitants opposed to him, brought before the Court of Peers his fate was de- arm, and supported by out-ref the turnkeys, slowly
descended to the chair. No uncommon circumstance
or watantlY displayed the military skill, the **deuce, cided by the Decree of December 6, 1815.
°catering to excite suspicion, he passed before all the
end the valour of the greatest Captains. History : s
Inspectors and Gueriliees of that horrible abode,
bas already written in eternal characters, that it the PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. and, at the unbari nig of the last gate, *as restored
Merit of Ciudad Rodrigo, Marshal Nay, at the • .• ----ame-- to the fresh air, to his friends and liberty. In the
hind of titres French regiments, stopped the march 1
P"'ll'' "ft.". mean time Mad. de lAvalette, who had thrown over
of an enemy's army of more tkawl7,ooo men. I You will rejoice with every friend to justice and
her the large cloak of her husband, was seated,
During the retried of the arMy in Spain, Marshal public virtue throughout the world, that the late
my constantly commanded the rear-gated, and on tragic scenes, destined as the brilliant commencement and
breathless, in his arm chair, with a book in her hand,
and the candle burning behind tier on a table. At
this .ccaainn, as well as so many others, France of a thousand massacres, are likely to be arrested in half-past six a gaoler entering the room, spoke to
owed tO his taker the preservation of many ikon- their progress; and that in a very unexpected man-
sands of her bravest defenders. • ' nee. You Inserted in your Journal of the lath in. her, but met silo no reply; he repeated the question,
and astonished at the continued silence, he approach.
• After this retreat the Marshal' was called to the stant the arguments of the immortal defenders of one
ed nearer to the Lady, when, with a smile, succeeded
censasied of a corps d'armee, in the disastrous and of the greatest, if test the very greaten of modern by strong convulsions, she exclaimed—" B est pada"
tonaweriereble campaign in Russia. Without enter- rieucb soldiers, respecting the 14ds Article of the •
you may imagine the confusion. The Prefect of
lag into a detail of the many bloody actions which Courention of the 31 of July ; it is a document which
Ileppessed in this campaign, and in which Marshal carries conviction with it to the soul of every man, , foie seven ;
! Police was acquainted with the event at a quarter be-
estafettes were dispatched in every direc-
Noy took se glorious a part : without speaking of who prefers justice to vengeance; aid though it
, lion, and the barriers closed.
that APietsoy at Moskwa, which gave the Duke of failed of its doe effect in saving the person for whom
The Police traced the chair two streets distant ;
Nefilern the title of Prinoe, which the conqueror it was especially destined, its authors! will hare to i there. it appears, M. de Lavalette alighted and
and Ibe conquered alike conferred on him, we shall glory in ill being the meats of .saving many ethers.-
i stepped into the carriage that was in readiuess for
lAN* Nil to Wind that this illustrious and generous : The French Journals (under the dictation of Gayer's-
traction at.thajtead of seas heroes who devoted meet) have inserted, within these few days, an article, ! him. It is conjectured he will fly into Bavaria,
where his intimate friend and relation the Prince
theliWkeee with urn, sued tits wrecks of an army, ' stating that," It is said the King of Bavaria hasdeignird
Be- asharnois will receive him with open arins, and the
poeseted at onse• by fire, hunger, and all the horrors i to solicit the• pardon of Count Lavalette, and that influence of that distinguished character is so great
of i Aunt* where a speedy death was the last wish, I it was going to be discussed in Council."—Tbis, Sr, •
sod seemed to be the only hope of the soldier. is an egregious falsehood, we all know that ;minion with the King, that should he reach his territories,
, there can be little doubt of his future safety. This
' It *HS it thisepoth of reourniog and contents. rests in the Royal breast, and not in his Council,
Bon, but also of high deeds and glory, that Marshal ' consequently the subject of pardois was not a mat. ' well-constructed plan was executed with peculiar fe-
licity, and at the declaim moment ; for M. Barbe
riterevoirned in some sort his military career, and i ter of their discussion ; and the inertial was only a
4_ Mai., after several imitation*, was rAectently
distrossel to be placed et the head of the battalions of ; mean attempt, worthy of the present
CnVernmenVw obliged to send yesterday evening to' his Majesty's
beton whom be alone knew how to preserve for disguise the truth. The simple fact so carefully cat.. Attorney' ~Genersi the paws which ea o passed
Price*. We shall pass rapidly over the campaign I coaled is, that the King of Bavaria, who%by intet. !brava his bands from the Cour do' Isre. it le
a 11113, where Marshal Ney, in the midst of inure-1 marriages is nearly related to Count Lavalette, fast sop has i„ „me &give committedwrote-4
neerehic reverses, always showed himself superior to I not demanded his pin don, het he has, by his Mild- kiretilltg those important docionents full two days
irstb*fil, Sod worthy of his great reputation. Wei star, DEMANDED THE 'nix Alto alliTiet ACQUITTAL 10
nger Matt the law authorises in his possession.
shall not erre stop at the battle or. Lutzen, where he, oy COUNT LAs'ALETT7., IN VIRTU! -07.AHT. 12, or The AltoroPy-Ceiseral must have done his duty im•
fought like a hero ; we shell only name the desperate! 7Hk CONTENTION 01 Tllk 3D OW JULY, WHICH cc' ' - ftliii Ls- dil have been '
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mediately, and tsalette wow.
RANTER!) THU LITE. AND rftorriviei or ALL Time beadhns trunk.
wuo MAD TAkEN ANY PART IN THE REEOLUTIO/4.-• Madame de Lavatette slept in prison. You would
This positive and well.timed demand, has staggered
with difficulty conceive the interest she has every
not only the Ministers, bat the good King himself i where inspired.
nay more, it has s'nggered the immortal Wellitigtoa:
sr he midi that Onaveldiets. Srheilinodoosa MIMI it' 0 '•-t-a'.`
this moment employed, it is said, in writing a memoir svarT YERSEVU/TONS 010 THE PRO-
to defend his conduct, and ha construction of the I'ESTANTS IN THE ALPS.
leth Article •, bot if we may judge from his Greee's -..11010..-
letter to Lord Castlereagh, Hs Grace will not cut so La Tour de P,lis. nth Der. 1815.
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good a figure as his great prototype in the verse of Consternation is in our allies—we are threatened
Homer; and the greatest of his enemies can eish no by the Agents of our King %shit being robbed of the
greater triumph, than to see each a produCtion on his little which had beets granted to us by the preceding
part. The fact, Sir, is, the question admits of no Governments, for the support of our religious worship.'
discussion. He solemnly guaranteed the lives and The Court of Turin pretends not to be bound by any
properties of the itsditiduals in question, and he convention on this subject, and professes to do in this
shrunk from his duty in maintainiog it. , case as in every other, whatever pleases itself, or rather
whatever colour the French Government may put whatever pleases the cabal of Monks which rules under
on the affair of Lavalette, it has not dared to tarry its name. In reality, neither the Treaty of Paris in
'the confirmation of his sentence by the Court of 181-I,nor that lately concluded, makes any mention of
Cessation into effect. To M. Berryer this glorious the special protcction granted by preceding Treaties,
triumph is due; and therefore when the sons of free- particularly by that of Aix.la-Chapelle, to the Pro-
dam pass the merry bowl at the approaching season of testants of the Tallies of Piedmont, known under the
festivity, and toast with their wonted delight, Er- name of Vaudois.—Can Englsnd, who formerly
skive and the Trial by Jury • I hope the neat will be acted so generously towards theml have now changed
H' Berryer and the fai:h of l'reaties." i , her system with regard to these eldest sons of the
These facts afford matter of rejoicing, but alas, Evangelical religion, who'e aversion to the Roman
there are others behind to slump all our joys. The Church is anterior even to the. Reformation of La-
Lancasterian System of Education had commenced (her? Can this population of 30,000 souls have ap.
in France under the happiest auspices ; but its treat , peared to the English Minister an object too unim-
end, universal education, is defeated. The Dim- • Portent to employ his attention amidst the political
tors, the mouth-pieces of superior power, have re- dismemberment of so many nations? We cannot be-
red to admit PROTESTANT CII ,REn The affair : sieve it ; for nothl is trifling which involves a great

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moral principle. However, if at a period when Eng-
land was far from that preponderance on the Conti-
nent which the follies of Napoleon hate put into her
bands; if at a period in which religious freedom had
not yet become a common maxim with all enlightened
Governments, the British Administration, in former
days, timid obtain so great a triumph on this subject
over the prejudices of time and place, can any person
doubt but that a single word from yourMioisters(whom
the House of Savvy most regard as its restorers) would
have been sufficient to assure, not only to the Vaudois,
but to all the inhabitants of Piedmont, the free es.
ercise of their religion? Since then, negotiators, sup.
ported by an peat an influence, did not think proper
to insert in the new Treaties the aitcreitrgintianteeliri
the Protestants of Piedmont, we must suppose that
they could not foresee that the Court of SArdinia, by
declaring every thing noll which happened during its
absence, (that is to say, during' cistern years and
more,) would, under this general proclamation, rob
the Vaudois of all the benefits with which a patents!
Administration Ita.l endowed their church, and of
which the Emir+ fiscality had not the hardihottrlte:
despoil them. lityrived of this resource, the Pro.
testattis of the Alps will be sifted again to Cali
upon the liberality of the English to 'contribute
to the support of their religion • but supposing
that they shout(' hot be disappointed in their expecta-
tions from theta, can any one compare this humili-
ating and premises sit 'Haien with that public and in.
dependent support of their worship, and that perfect
civit equality which they (.I+4 eil for so many years!
before the restoration of the Sardinian King? How
much anguish and uncertainty through Europe might
base been put an earl to by few words from your
-Ministers, supported as they are on this subject by I
claims -
ong and resources' an immense! Wilt i
they who have done so much for Kings, do nothing
for the people, espeeially for • that portion of the ,
European people wkAin the ',wed ties ofoft common
ntigloo, and the recollection orsicallir

Madame havalette was carried off senseless. It is hind in so close a manner with the nation whom they
said that' Marshal, Marmont is disgraced, &lid ba- profess to represent. We hope, and dare believe,
faked' lees Cndtt for three
.nionthit, for having that these great personages partake themselves of the
meddledr *is affair. indignation with which we are penetrated, and that
'4o,!‘ • they who have headed the coalition of Kings against
- Paris, Tharstbo Expror, bee. 91. their people, will not disdain to add to that glory,
I assuring their natural and legitimate rights to those
transmit to you from the highest authority the
nations whom they have forced to return under*.
following details concerning the escape of havalette:
Madame de Lavalette's health has been, as you domination of their ancient masters.'-
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know; very seriously impaired by all her late suffer-
ings. For several weeks past, in order to avoid the ----
movement of her carriage, she has used a sedan
chair. She has been accustomed to be carried in Ibis
vehicle into the.prison, when it is constantly depo-
sited in the passage of the under turnkey's room ;
thence passing through a door the yard and corridor
leading to the Prisoner's apartments. At four yes-
terday afternoon Madame de Laraletie arrived as
usual with a bonnet a la Franc live and a large veil,
accompanied by her daughter, a young lady eleven
ears old. She was assisted up slain and dined with
her husband. About half-past fire M. de Lavalette,
arrayed in her clothes, taking his daughter by the

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THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:
TVE3I) A It, DECEMBEIt 26, 1815.

The escape Of LAVALETTE is confirmed. The
rate letters, which will be found in another page,
place the matter beyond all doubt. This frustratioe •
of the sanguinary desires of the Bouttoom C;overo.
'vent in au instance where it had made SIDe of its 4
prey, is of the greatest importance at the penal sae.
men, ; but the real cause of this avast, es rn preseot.
ed by the letters, is still more important and inte-
resting. It has been said that the King of BAVARIA
had solicited the irdon of LAVALETTE hose the

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King of FRANCE. We now fled that instead of
supplicating the mercy of his Most Cheiatien Ma.
jesty in this case as a boon,' the King of BAVARIA
demanded the immediate andel*** libefation of M.
LA VALETTE, on the ground of t hrConvention of Paris:
Great pains have been taken to conceal this fact,
which fully accouitts fur the irldecision of the French
Executive. The King and the Court had reseiVed
that LAVALETTZ should not he spared. The ma"'
for his execution was even in the hands of tkelll.l
nister of Justice, who is now blamed far bullies.?
terposed so unnecessary delay In the fincLitsoceetts.
ings. Rut thet delay is better accounted ler by the'
unexpected and bold honesty of the King 6f BAVARIA
in declaring that the Plib Artlite of the'Clieventina
of Parii, which was signed in the toilet, of all the
Allies, guaranteed the lives anil pro ..of all
Ithose then in the Capital, who had taken. part in the
Revolution. This positive and weit.thasti. Duelers.
lion is said to have staggered " Theist* of Kings,"
I his '3ilinisters, and even the Duke of Wattaimeew
himself. Placed in this awkward dilemma, etionlii
afraid of remitting his sentence, and of tbeeffecM that
might result from distegarding flie fltriteedliflair
made . in his behalf, ' the `French" Govetnment
seems' to have had no readier
_way of geit4 rid
of the present difficulty thin to throw —foci-
, lilies in the way of the escape-of the prisoner.—
, The inferences, therefore, is, that LAvat.xpte's es-
: cape was connived . at. An extraordinary show of
. anxiety to re-seize the fugitive was exhibited by the
French Government, bat in nig. It is supposed
i that he hes bent his steps to &rade, where the in-
, licence of his wife's relation, tbs pliant Prince Ey-
GRNE BEAUIIiRNOIS, Is such as to procure him pro.
lection and favour.

One of our private letters makes es acquainted
with a new persecution of the Protestants—the Pro-
testant inhabitants of Piedmont, who have beta
lately restored to the paternal Government of the
King of SARDINIA. When the French were obliged
to give up Italy, and the King of SARDISIA way
restored among the other legitimates, hi lamed a
Proclamation, declaring as null siiq ect Which
had taken place during h i absence, a period of la
years. By this general Declaration, the Vaudoir
(as the Protestant inhabitants of the Alps are •tylcd)
have been actually deprived of the revenues for the
support of their religion, and as our Minis►er his'
neglected to insert in the new Treaties, the old co-
venant in their favour, they are thus subject to the
fury of a bigotry which may again break nut with
the same rage as it did formerly, end in' the mess
time their Teacher+ are deprived of all subsistence.
We realty blush fur our country, when we consider
the mann'r the in'erests of the Protestant Reli-
gion have lu-en secured by the Minister+ who have so
long bad the management of the affairs of Europe;
and tremble for mankind and pneteritx ;ellen we look
on the restoration of so many Royal Bigots, and
intolerant Governments.
No French Journals had arrived previous to our
Paper going to Press.

'German and Paris Papers arrived to-day,
which we find that the first payments of the French
Contribution are to he made to Austria and Prussia•
.It is generally inserted at Berlin, that in the coerce
,of this winter some thousands of the persecuted Pr"'
testanta from the South of France will settle in t5O
• Prussian States. Numbers of these unfortundePe""
ple hie already fled to the Cantons of 'Vaud la
Nesofchatel. •

The Allied Army under the Duke of Wer.trra-
, le* danomitsatect the Army of Occupation; Lira'
t tenant-General S'or GEORGE bIIGRRAY is uPPointed
Chief of the Staff to his Army.
The Court..Nlartiel for the trial Of Sir Großcg
, Ilet:ro;T, ordered to take pine on the 15th of .131.•
it is presumed must be deferral 09111 tke PreSe"l
state of that 'Offieeeli'llimitsi.