Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1821-07-21

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Wynnstsy viii indeed be in her glory: and
the heart Of every ancien, Bri,on viii leao in
MS bosom! A great number OF men are EN-.
P'oyed at Wynnstsy, ex2editng and Com
piet'ng the alterations, in The best way the
.horiness Of the time will permit. His Ma
Jesty will enier the house under . splendid
canopy OF crimson veive., spreading from the
south front across the flower garden, whrcn
environs that part. Several apartments are
hitting up with the royal co,ors; aud the room
in which the king will sleep, is hang wrh
crimson velvet, and god and silver lace, the
bed chairs, &c. en- Suite.
The British Parliament continues To be
occupied by debates upon the estimates Of
the Supply Bull. The opposition are an,ma.
ted aud Persever,ng in their efforts to reduce
the enormous expenditure of the govern.
ment, whilst the Ministers, aided by a con.
venient and duciile maturity, carry every
measure with q high hand. The abuses
practised it'll the money people are too fla.
grant 10 be denied and the .,necure offices
IN that country would hardly obtain credit by
an American reader.
MIR. Arbuthnot lately moved the grant Of
$4,000. for the use OF the Barrack Depart.
ment.
Among other things, it was stated by the
opposition, that the Barracg masters were
appointed where no barracks we're erected !:
that the Barrack- master H. Berwick had 1921
sterling a year. while he reslued at MS farm
twelve miles dis ant and the Barrack- mas
ter at Piershil had about 1901. year, while
he resided at his linen Diapers shop in Had
dingto0, winch was fourteen miles Distant
Farmers and linen-drapers were appointed,
to The exclusion Of baif-pay officers.
An est mate Wa also recently mado, aud
To Iafr
the late prosecution Of the Queen. This was
resisted with great warmth, a. imposing q
burden upon the country for measures that
had stained it with dishunor. The reply was
no' long nor weisb,y, but the measure was
carried by triumphant majority.
Me,srs. Wooier, Cartwright, Maddox,
and Edmonds, have received their sentences
in the Court OF king's Bench, for having
convened and attended meeting at Bur.
m ogham, 10 eeturn person [ Sir T.. Woi-
.eley J 90 Parliament, under the title OF.
Legisiatoriat Attorney. Edmonds was sem
fenced to oiue months imprisonment III
WarwicS Castle, ana To find security tor tive
years, himself 10 400 and two suretes III
iuOf. each. Maddox, eighteen months, III
the same prison, with the same surety
WoOller, fifteen months imprisonment, III
Inc same prison, security Cor good behaviour
'OI HSc years, ulinse!i tU fOUf- ara Two sure
Ties IN 2O0i. each. Major Cartwright, IN
consequences of ms advanced age, To IA, iUOk.
fine TO the King. The MAYOR immed iateiv
paid the iine, AID was discharged according
iy. After sentence was pronounced on Ma
Jnr Cartwright, ordering him to pay a fine
oi One funded Pounds u the Ming, anu he
discharged, the vene, able MAJOR produced
d general mile IN the Court, by the grave
banner IN which he slowly pulled, from one
Of the pouches of his Iinmense waisteoat a
Dag Hiled with Sovereigns, tc a much greater
Amount tdan the hne imposed, end formally
counted out the nett hundred, observing,
e" they are all right and, | believe, iua
weight"
LONDON, May 81.
~. LaUalette We have received the ioi.
owing interesting statement from a CORES.
1ondeai OF undoubted veracity. The primer
ies and Restoring adopted in il of course be-
'"ne to the writer only
The retarn OF tbi, individual to that coun-
ory, on the soil of which he was conde u,ned
'ut SIX years since to shed hIs blood under tn
sc %! the Jaw IS one of the many example.
wien history offers in the interest, of hum4o
y, TO check the indulgence of vindic,iye pas
son, IN moments of political anarchy, and al
NV time tor the restoration of the empire of
ustice under the auspices OF truth and mercy.
Monsieur Lavaiette was CHARGED with The
crime OF high treason for resumlng his func
tons as Postmaster General ims1 ediateiy at
ter the departure OF the king from Paris, and
before Bonaparte had entered Paris and rein
vested him With that appointment.
Fhis was the charge on which he was tried:
but the true motives of his prosecution was a
peiIet that he had eond ucted correspondence
with the island Of Eiba, aud encouraged the
return OF ms former Sovereign, bis benefac.
tor and relation oy marriage.
Monsieur Lava.ette. when placed on she
prescription list IVES offered by Fouche pass
port to quit the French territory. He refus.
ed to accept II; AID coniiding in his inno-
cence, and further protected by the convsn-
ton of Paris, he voluntarily presented him
.eif as prisoner To the constituted authori-
ties; hui il was not till the renewal OF his aD-
p'icat on that The gates OF the COHcIergerie
closed on him.
re was tired, condemned, and ordered for
execution.
The subsequent transactions which effected
MS release a lew hours before the consuHlDa-
ZION OF the sentence, and secured Ultimately
MS escaie from France, are we'll known,
Madam Lavalette, however, became the
victim ut her generous devotion: she had. to
save her husband, risen from bed IL which
she had endured the aifliction of losing by
miscarriage an only son. This efIO:t, and
me auxIely OF her mind, followed by a long
comfinem mt, impaired her health, and pr odu-
ced sIienas on 81 hr mental faculties
Touched by hese mIsfortunes, and convio-
ce1, "o DOUBT, OF the innocence OF Mons. La.
vaietts. the king, about a year since. signed
The aci OF grace which cancelled the former
proceedings, and re-e,tsb'ished Mons. Lava
iet,e IN all his rights French citizen.