Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-10-11

nut a sheet OF four pages.
After several fruitiess attempts y;
sina, the Perfect began to pursue a r;.
oroas system of Surveillance lie ad,i,s,
the lady never to 60 in any iii ection mo,.
than two leagues from Coppet Dir. Sch.
eel ner intimate friend, and the precs,
tor or her children, was banished b. 4.
government from her house and i,",o
Geneva, on the ground that be made h.,
an Auti -GaHican. Fatigued with r.
straint and supervision, She resolved a,
length to make her escape, and as she 70
lates, spent her days in studying tho
map of Europe for fight, as Naposn,
studied it to make himself its master and
her campaign as we'll as his, always had
Russia tor its ield" Ia the midst OF b.,
perpiexities, an old friend, Nj. de Mont
morency, paid her visit from Pali. \,
sooner had tie imperial government r.
ceived information Of this step, han
courier was despatched to him with let
tiers of exile. M de Stsel remarks TIA.
she shriexed with agony on learning til.
Gala nifty which she had thus drawn on III,
head oil her generous friend. Notwitb.
standing the strongest demonstrates %
her part, the beautiful Sie. Recsnle,
was hardy enough TO follow the exampI.
OF NJ. de Montmorency, and suffered IT,.
same penalty. She, too, received an Or.
DER OF Punishment. Separated from al
her friends, she passed whole month. in
small provincial town, a prey to the OK
tremes Of every feeling OF insipid and mi.
lancholy solitude" The Project mad,
known that no one who had any thing to
hope or fear from the government ought
to venture near Me. de Stael. Not ony
Frenchmen, but foreigners were apprlzed
that they must not 20 to her house. SOu.s
ladies' OF Geneva continued to hold com.
municatlon with her, but most Of those
who had eagerly frequented her drawing
room, were seized with a panlcA after
the instances of Punishment which we
have mentioned, and deserted her alto
gether. The Reproduction in which she
was then understood to be with the En-.
peror, proved equivalent to the visitation
Of leprosy. That there is no exagge.
ration IN her own statements OIL this sub.
ject, we are assured from the testimony
of American travellers who saw her at
Coppet during the first part of this period
OF her exile, surrounded by company.
IN repeating their visits to her on the,
return from Italy, found her in the de-
reelection which she describes. The con.
trast struck them as most forcible illus.
tration of the terror which the imperial
police inspired.
After passing nearly eight months, des'
solate and despairing, with fresh chagrln,
and additional injury to her nerves, ari.
sing from reports of the Punishment OF o.
ther friends from Paris, for keeping up 3
correspondence with her, she tried Sec
ond time to obtain passport for Amer.
lea. Many weeks elapsed bete;s she re.
ceived an answer to her application, and
that, when it came, was peremtory re-
fusal She then petitioned to be allowed
to live at Rome, reminding the govern.
ment that it was the author of Corinna
who solicited permission to 60 and live in
Italy. This request had not more gra.
cious reception than the other. Finally
she resolved upon fight to Russia, and by
stratagem succeeded in GLIDING the vigi.
lance OF the Project andescapingto Berne,
beyond the reach Of the French gend.
dTneS.
From Berne she fastened through the
Tyro!, to Vienna, accompanied by Mr.
Schlegel, who had been apprised of her
plan We cannot refrain from quoting
here some of her remarks on passing tie
Austrian frontier.
IL entered at last that Austria which
four years before, | had seen SO happy
already was struck by a sensible change
produced by the depreciation of paper
money, and the variations of every kind
which the unc ertainty Of the financial
measures had in troduced into its value
Nothing demoralizes people SO much al
every man broker, and hold out to the
working classes, a means ofgetting money
by sharping instead Of their labor. no
longer found in the people the same prob.
lty which had struck me four years BE-.
fore; this paper money sets the ina gina.
ton at work with the hope of rapid and
easy gains: and the hazadrous chances
oVerturn the gradual and certain exls'
tence which is the basis of the honesty Of
the middling classes. During my resi-
dence in Austria, man was hanged for
forging notes, at the very moment when
the government had reduced the value OF
the old ones; he called out, on his way
to execution, that it was not he who had
committed robbery, but the state.