Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1825-11-12

OF courtesy, but upon finding that our
hearts were sllllwltb Cur country, though
a saein necessity Obliged us to leave her
We were treated with every indignily
witch hatred 10 our principles, and disap-
pointment in their hopes OF our treache-
ry, could possibly devise.
We were transferred 10 great va
riety OF prisons, and separated my COM
panions were ignorant Of my fate, and
OF theirs. AT Magdeburg, the Govern
or must have considered me second
Baron Trenck : not only were the doors
OF my prlsoO massy, and secured by five
or SIX enormous bolts, bu, these again
secured by mammoth padlooks. The
term dungeon has been generally APP.
Piled to the places o! confinement in the
B1slles or Iprlifed ptisops---the rooms
are not, properly speaking, under ground,
but rather Oh level with Tie surface !;
but they are III all respects Sufficiently
damp, dismal aud unwboiesome, tor al
The purposes for which tyranny intended
them and whose miserable victims are
generally soon relieved thereirom, by 40
early grave. G az Neisse, ana finally
Oimutz, were among Tie number OF my
prisons. Al O.mutz, The room in which
was confined SO long, was directly over
he common sewer, not only Of the gar
rlson, bat OF The hospital; aud SO ellen
siVe was the atmosphere winch | breath
ed, that the guards, on coming their
rounds of inspection, actually held their
noses. and left the pestilehiai eiiluvla
with which was surrounded, as soon as
their duty would permit.
/ he Governor of The fortress some
times came TO SIT WIN ne, but hls visns
were generally short, nor is he TO be
blamed, or surely no one who could IN
hale the pure air of Heaven, would
remain, from choice, moment in place
SO offensive as was my wretcbed prison.
IL would be naturally asked why
was To be considered as state prison.
er, and treated with rigor only war
ranted by commission OF high crimes
aud m isdemesno had fought against
Ausria as the enemy and invader OF my
countryside same as eearded Prussia.
Was | moi a, least entitled To the cour-
tesy ahd privileges always shown by CT.
| vilized natiops 10 prisoners OF wal. -
| Was | a deserter from the armies o
F., France Ii SO, why was | not delivered
| up TO her al horiles, and tried by mil
tary commission The fact IS, | was ihe
friend of rational MISREPRESENTATION TO my
country, her constitution, and her laws
so long as she had ei,ber. My porse.
cutors wished 10 shut out the light OF pa.
llticai freedom, which bad Just began to
dawn upon regenerating France, and re.
Turn her 10 the feudal darkness in which
she had been involved for ages. Ii was
known that had served IN the rcvoiu-
lion Of America, and enjoyed the pa.er-
nal esteem OF her matchless chief. Tle
name of Washington, so awful to y.
rants, became warranty for those pun.
ciples, which ever have, and ever vii
belong to him whom he honored as hi,
adopted son.-The PRINCIPLES OF rational
liberty, the una,enab e. rights Of uan.
"Again, my oppfessoss well knew,
that so soon as any Thing hike order was
restored to my distracted country, il they
should loosen their bolts, would tly 10
her army, mingie my sorrows with bel
mlsior,unes, and, for her safely, her glo-
ry and her happiness, give the best en-
ergles OF my nature, and the last drop OF
my blood.
| /" These we're the reasons Of stare
which caused my persecutors to change
SO often their prisons and to multiply
rniseries on my head: these were ,he
cords with which the Austrian E0heror )
hands qvere tied. That was in earliest
lie the iiend OF liberal principles, viii
rela'e to you, my dear sir, sn aDecdote
II was hunting when quite youth, in
. forest, of which my faiher-in-lav, The
Duke de Noaiites, was lord warden, OF
ranger | shot superb stag. One o.
the keepers coming up, with tears in his
eyes, cried out, My dear young lord
VIVA, have you done I" Done, replied
why have killed noble stag, and the
father of the herd, for his was the Iarges
retinue of attendant females. Blu, my
dear lord, what shall we de to conceal
this heavy calamity, which even the in
1uence Of the Duke may not avert y
answered, very cody, take him to the
larder and let us feast upon his tat haun-
ches. & Not for worids!" exclaimed
the terrified keeper, who, SO soon as |
had retired, fairly buried the deer, horns
and all. Had have shot mans the