Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-10-13

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doubt, were shotby the keepers of theforests'
and probably buried with less concens than
was my stag. Z
!. In France now, every proprietor kills the:
pame on his own property, and Frenchmen do
not fear penalty in the first instance, which
NAV take the bread from poorman's family,
and transportation in the, second, for the hei-
nous offence of shooting partridge.
.ofthe gallant attempt made by Bollman
and Huger to rescue me from captivity at Oh
mutt, the accounts which you have seen are
in the main correct. twas my friends in Eng
land who first suggested the affair to Bollman,
who had become distinguished BY his gallant
and successful achievement. in procuring the
escape ofthe Count dc Narbonnc from revoluD
tionay fury, and his safe conveyance of him
to England.
"Bollman repaired to Vienna, in the prose-
cution of his plan, and there, while seeking
an assistant, fell in with Huger, the son of my
old friend, to whose house in Carolina, ar.
rived one stormy night on my first landing in
America, and where General de Kalb and my
self were first taken for robbers orPirates, and
then received with open arms by the hosplta-
BILE, the brave and lamented IIuger, who fell
before the lines at Charleston. Francis Kin.
lock Huger, the son ofthis Revolutionary mar
tyr, embraced the proposals of Bollman with
delight, and the friends repaired to the neigh
borhood of Olmutz to concert their final plans.
| The Governor of the fortress, in consequence
of the representation of physicians, had per.
| mitted me to take air and exercise, by riding
out, attended by guard. The writing Of
Bollman in sympathetic ink, prepared Inc for
their attempt to rescue. There was small
auberge, or inn, at which We sometimes OBJ
tanned beer: it was near this house that l
alighted, and, leaning upon the arm ofthe
corporal, awaited the signal Of my friends,
which was, 10 take out an handkerchief and
wipe the forehead. Believing that the ac-
ceptel time had arrived, observed to the
corporal, 'my friend, you appear to have a
very excellent sword-a French sergeant
would be glad to have one as good-let me
see if The blade answers to the value OF the
hit.' Iplaced my hand upon the sword, and
drewit about six inches, when the corporal
looking round, perceived my friends briskly
approaching, he Immediately grasped my arm,
and shouted to his comrades at the carriage
struggle enslled: the corporal was one OF
those men, who, apparently small, are well
put together, and of great muscular strength
he was beside gallant fellow; my own bodily
powers had been greatly weakened by long
confinement, and all the debilities resulting
| from the miseries which had endured: We
came to the ground in the struggle; inmy en-
tleav orng to prevent his calling for help, he
got nv finger between hi> teeth, and bit it Sc
verely-you can now barely see the scar
-r-Ai--l anwed upon my clothes. and MAS
Finding myself overPowered, as he grasped
my throat, and my strength sinking very fast,
l called upon my friends to Gre, although no.
| thing but the last necessity would have indu-
ced me to do so; their arms were fortunately
not loaded: with their assistance recovered
my feet, but in the act of mounting the horse
i'll waiting, was pulled back, and sustained a
heavy fall; finally gained the saddle, and
mistaking the word Hoff" for the English
word III, lost my proper course, was arrest
ed, and after tedious and vexatious exalni-
nation reconducted to the Castle of Olmu,z.
My treatment was in no wise varied on my
return, with the exception of young man,
who had assisted me to dress, to shave, &C.;
this luxury was denied me. The Governor
was much rejoiced to find me once more with
in the walls of Olmutz; but the effect which
my supposed escape had upon his nerves he
never recovered from, and died soon after"
"From the history of our own times, my
dear General, we should be taught to believe
IN the adage, that 'whateveris, is right Had
you have escaped from olmutz in 1894, and
repaired to this country, you would have look.
ed around you in amazement, and asked,
where is the American people, On one side
you would have heard from the rostru,n, ooh
Robespierre venerate thy shades" and on
the other, "Success to the bulwark of our
religion" "the worlds last hope" "the fast
anchored isles" and you would have seen
dangling from gallows the effigy Of him
who was President of Revolutionary Con.
gress, Minister to negotiote the Treaty of In
dependence, first Chief Justice of the United
States; one of the most pure of patriots and
most virtuous of men. You would have said,
can be awake' Have l crossed an ocean of
three thousand miles, but to find nation of
foreign partizans' Happily, Tear General,
you did not see us in the days of our deform-
ty; when a delirium of foreign feelings entire
ly obscured our native minds, when the fana.
ticism and phrenzy of party howled tbronpb