Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1816-03-20

the turkeys, slowly descended TO the chair. No
uncommon circumstance occurring to excite sus.
picion, hepassed before all the Inspectors and
Guardians of that horrible abode. and ~ tba mr..
= barring OF the last gate was restored 10 the
fresh sIr, to his friends and liberty. In the
mean time Mad. de Lavalettee, who had thrown
over her the large cloak of her husband. was
seated, breathless, in his arm chair with abook
IN her hant and a candle burning behind her on
q table. AT half past s, n gao,er entering The
room spoke to her, but met with no reply ne
repeated the question, and astonished At the CON.
,tinued silence, he approached nearer to the Ia.
dy, when, with a smile, succeeded by s,r,,nr
commissions, she exclaimed " esf bart1,-vop
may imagine the confusion. The Project ofPo-
lice was acquainted with the event at a quarter
before seven; e~stafettes were DESPATCHED IN eve
~ direction, and the barrier closed. 1t was ~
hrst rumored the Ministers themselves had con.
CURED in his evasion that All Enpl,sb gentle.
man had conducted him away in his caPriare
which was waiting at the end of the street for
him; that one Of the turnkeys had aed WI hin
&c. The first OF these reports is absurd. the
Others 1 am neither able to confirm nor contra.
dict.
The Police traced the chair two streets dis.
liant there it appears, NJ de Lavalette alighted
and stepped into the carriage that was in read;.
ness for him. 1t is coniectursd he will fv into
Bavaria, where his intimate friend aad relation
: Prince Beauharnois will receive him with omen
arms, and the influence of that distinp,;shed
character is SO great with the King, that should
he reach his territories, there can be little doubt
of his future safety. This well conducted plan
was executed with peculiar felicity, and at the
several invitations, was reluctantly Obliged to
send yesterday evening 10 his .HAiesty's Attor-
ney-General, the papers which er-oEcio passed
through his hands from the Cour de Cessation
At is said he has in some degree him
self by keeping these important documents fi,l
iWn day4 lnDC.pr than tho law anthD,.-o. =. -
Possession. The Attorney General must have
done his duty immediately, and Layalette would
have been to night a headless trunk.
Madame de Lavalette slept in prison. You
would with difficulty conceive the interest she
has every where inspired. On quitting the King
with Marshal .%bM1nont, she threw herself at ,hse
+. teet OF the Duchess dAngouieme, and the cour-
tiers ~Gsengsging her hands from the gown of the
Princess, yociieratcd Piue G Roi
PANS, Jan. II.
have but few particulars to add to the facts
shave communicated to yon in my last letter, re-
iatiye to. the arrest and imprisonment of Sir R)
pert Wilson, &c. 1t appears, say the ministers
nero, that lions. L~ayaiette WAS concealed in the
hotel of some Bonapartist or Revolutionist
<whether English or French, l will rot pretend
tossay) upwards of three weeks after his es-
cape from the prison of the Conciergerie, and
that 1T was not until the 9th inst. that he and
- Quilted Paris. They went of in a cabri-
o 80" y "a &'C LOIsCS WHICH conducted
them TO Senlis, about four posts from Paris,
where they applied for post.horses, which the
POSTMASTER at first refused to give them, as they
exhibited no passport or order agreeably to the
regulations prescribed by the Directors General
soI,the Posts Very fortunately, however. there
was an English regimen stationed at Senlis, ma
ny of the officers Of whom are known 10 -.
He took the opportunity of addressing, one or
two them as they passed by in Englis t, aud in a
most fam liar manner, which the Postmaster OBJ.
serving, he Immediately went up to - and
said, " L perceive, Sir, that you are an -.
and probably serving under the orders of the
Duke of Wellington, and therefore, from the
respect 1 bear to the uniform you wear, as well
as from the great admiration 1 feel for the Illus
trious Hero who Commands you, l shall not de
tain you any longer" Post.horses were then put
TO the cabriolet, and the fortunate Lavalettc and
his companion continued their voyage without
further interruption or impediment, until they
arrived at Cambray, where - in his letter
10 - says, " we were stopped upwards Of
live hours by - the English"
They atlength, however, arrived safe at JEons,
q town two leagues the other side of the French
frontier. Here - separated from his com.
panion, and retraced their steps TO Paris, from
whence they had not been absent more than sir
tyhours. III Lavaette continued his route, as
1t is supposed, to Munich, where he expects
protection from the credit and influence of Eu.
gene Beauharnois, the near relation of Madame
49, u hbOCioNdtd Via III WHOLE OF tle
Correspondence which has passed between--
and -, during several weeks past, is now
An possession of the French Police.
Among the different papers seized IN the a.
Partment OF ---, was found q rough sketch
Of the famous Memoir ascribed to Pozzo d; Bor.
30, the Russian Minister, and which / told YOU
mmy letter of the 18th inst. was an impudent
lsorication. Such are the accounts circulated
here by the French Government.
PAnIs, Jan. IL.
Among the papers of -, siezed by the Pc.
lice, was discovered, as is supposed the original
brouillon OF the Expose, so falsely attributed 10
M. Pozzo iii Borgo. lift be not the original
manuscript 1t IS at least acopy with various e.
mendations. The Russian Minister is said 10
have always suspected ahequarter which II came
from. He declared to a friend of mine more
than a fortnight since, his intimate conviction
that IL proceeded" De..... on biea DIE In bo,,;oye .
"It is strange" continued the minister. g that IN
= composition represented as mine, not q tinctnre
of my ideas should be found.".. .. has met with
Russians indignant at the spirit ofthe production
who did not suppress what they thought and
felt on the occasion. Without Venturinp 10 nro.
hounce a decisive judgment on this literary for.
gerry, we may justly deplore, that this specie s
Aof defamation of public characters, by premedi.
Vtately imposing ON the world, as theirs, senti-
meDts they most strenuously disayow, be not
branded with more general detestation.
With respect to the evasion of Layalette, they
who Rbetted bin might certainly be acting from
the innpulsion Of a generous nature. The man
from whom the greater part of his faithful mar.
shals implored the royal mercy, was certainly no
common malefactor; but the means were mos
inexcusable. Officers using and abusing the pri.
vilege Of their military rank to interfere in be.
halfof a state prisoner, towards whom die eyi.
dent policy Of the country reduired az le.st a.,