Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-05-31
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE.

Letter from DR.. Howe-The following letter
from DIR. S. G. Howe TO one of his friends In
this city was not intended for publication;
but we have been permitted to lay it before the
public to relieve the anxiety and crafty the curl
osty of the many who feel an interest In his fate.
1t will be recolected that the substance Of the
letter, to which he alludes, was published soon
after the receipt Of the intelligence of his I'M
prisonment, stating the fact of his having con-
sented to perform mission Of charity, at the
particular desire Of the Paris Committee Tor re-
lieying the Poles.-Boston Cour.
From THE BERLIN PRIsoN,
March "a, 1882.
NV Dear Sir: should be perfectly miserable
could | suppose that you should not have recelv-
ed the letter, which wrote you from Berlin, pre-
vious to my leaving it, and the business 1t was
nv duty to be about, for what supposed would
be six or ten days affair, but which has, to my
surprise, as we'll as my grief and indignation, led
to my imprisonment,-I say, | should be misera.
ble-for, in that case, it might be supposed that
had engaged in some political intrigue, that had
neglected the duties of my mission, and got IN
to prison through my own fault. trust how,
ever. that YOU did get that letter, and that Will
explain how, acting upon the spirit OF my engage
ment, | considered myself at liberty to make
some little depression from my route, at my
own expense" And in leaving Berlin for El6-
ing, l thought of doing deed only OF charity
and Of humanity, which might, indeed, get me
the ill.will of a government like that OF RUSSIA
or Austria, but not Of so civilized and Christian
one as Prussia.
was free from all political connections, or de-
sign; aud vet, lido you believe it, L cannot per.
suade them that even my voyage to Europe had
not political object in view; that my examin-
inn the Institutions of the Blind in Germany was
but pretext to cover another Intention; aud act
ing up to this, and in the absence OF any repre-
sentative of our government here, they have dared
to imprson me, put me au secret, and have Kept me
here three weeks. without even telling me OF what
am Suspected
This will sound strange in your ears. that in
a country like Prussia, where laws and judges ex-
ist, stranger should thus be shut up IN the cell
of common prison; that he should not be permit
ted to see soul, nor receive line from friend,
nor an assurance that his friends knew what had
become of him. 1t is only within day or two
that have been permitted to write, and as my
letters must pass under the eyes OF those who
have thus cruelty trampled on my riShts' anu
the laws Of justice. must speak Of my treat
meut in az qualified terms as my indignation
will permit me, lest they should not permit my
letters to pass. III be cool, then, and let you
know where and hew am-snug enough, be-
tween four granite walls, in wee bit cell, fast
barred and bolted. and writing by the light which
comes in from little grated window, or airhole
eight feet from the floor. am kept in perfect
seclusi on; not newspaper is allowed, to tell me
how the world ways without; and not sound to
disturb my meditstions, save the ciang of the
sentinel heel, as he PAGES up and down the cor.
ridor.