The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1826-10-17

from four 20 twenty years, with perpetual
exilesto Siberia, with priyation Of rank
three to deportation 70 Siberia, with pfivR-
Etion Of rank, and nihe'tO serve in the ranks
as private soldiers.
The report is followed By an imperial
ulase, by which the judgments Of the high
court ofjustice are confirmed, but with .
Communication Of greater part Of the pun
ishments, rendering them less seyere.---A
The five persons sentenced to be quarter
ed were ordered to be hanged. To those
sentenced TO be beheaded. the capital pun
lshnnent was RENTED, and they were or
dered to be deprived Of their rank of mo-
bility and condemned TO hard labor for life,
or for twenty years, and. afterwards to be
exiled TO Siberia. To most Of the others,
part Of the punishment was RENTED.
The following extract, which we are
permitted bya friend to publish, from a
letter dated St. Petersburgh, July 16, o.
5. will show the manner in which the a.
.bove described sentences were carried into
execution: y
IS The Eve greatest criminals were hung
on the 18th inst the others were degra-'
'ded, and, ! presume, by this time, are all
on their way to the mines. The manner
OF degrading them was ms follows The
criminals we're brought from the fortress,
where they had been Imprisoned, to- plain
adjoining, dressed in their uniforms, with
all their orders. At this place, Which was
surrounded by the different regiments Of
guards quartered in this city and neighbor-
hood, they had their swords broken. over
their heads, and their epaulettes, orders,
and uniforms torn from them, and burnt on
a pile prepared for thatpurpose. The Eve
were then dressed in jackets and trowsers,
one side white and the other blue, with their
names placed on their breasts in large let
tiers; and thus dressed, were hung in the
presence of the others. The rest were
aclothed in half-used private soldiers gar-
ments, and prepared to niarch to their res
pective destinations. The officers belong
ing to the navy, concerned in the plot, were
sent to Cronstadt, to be degraded before
the fleet; their epaulettes, &c. were sunk
at the side ofthe ships, and they dressed ia
half worn sailors clothes, and brought
back to be transported With their accompli-
ces. !
The conduct Of the emperor through !
The whole Of this business meets with uni- |
versal appreciation. A more severe strng-
Gle between the feelings Of humanity and
public duty, do not believe has occurred
since the time Of Brutus.. You will per-
:eive that the emperor has commnted the
punishment Of large proportion Of the
ebels; the public safety would not admit
# his doing more. The emperor and en- I
,ress left yesterday for Moscow, where the
coronation is soon to take place"
The Brussels Oracle contains descrip-
ion of the opening of the new canal of
Anfoing, which is said to be built upon a
construction entirely unique. 1t extends
rom the canal Of Mons, and crossing the
highlands near the border of the Neither |
ands, enters the Scheldt at the mouth off
he river Wezon. 1t is supplied with wa
er entirely by artificial means; it being
aised by steam engines height of thirty |
eet to the summit level. Boats rise to
his height by five locks, and descend by
light into the Scheldt. II has a cut OIL
seventy five feet, said to be the deepest
Known, and another of forty in solid rock.
The cost was 2,370, 900 forms. i
! We find also in the Brussels Oracle, the I
Following paragraphs under date Of
Genera, Jane 23.-M. Jakovis RHO,
The most distinguished poet Of Greece, for |
merly lieut.. general Of Prince Karadza in
Wallachia has arrived at Geneva. The |
heads Of his father and father-in-law were
first cut off at Constantinoplc. A long
Of misfortunes has deprived him
of ali his wealth. His wife, tho daughter
Of the princess Ypsilanti, has made him the
father Of eight children. Az an advanced
age, his only wealth consists in his talents,
which he has INCREASINGLY cultivated and
those titles to esteem and fame, over which
despotism has no power.-Under these cir-
cumstances, NJ. Rio has formed the hon.
Durable project Of making use for the sup
port Of his family, of his knowledge Of
Greek and Oriental literature.
Col. Fabvier has written under date Of
May 9th, private letter to person rcsi-
ding in Switzerland, which closes in the
following manner: 8
"No one in Europe has painted the
Greeks correctly; there are some dread
full views ofthem.--In other respects they
are admirable and surpass antiquity.
|" The general impression made by the
fall of Missolonghi is the resolution to inn
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