The native American., 1839-01-05

each laden with chains. padiocks, iron bars, are
laboriously opened, my dungeon, three feet
4 wide, and five long, is entered. The wall, on
the side OF the ditch, has the dampes mould; the
I suns rays never penetrate, but little light
comes through small grated window; two SEN
hnels constantly look upon us by this VISTA" &c.
Alter five months Of total secusion, permission
was obtained for him to walk daily one hour in
small adjacent garden, under the strict guard of
an officer. 81 haze" he exclaims, sat length
felt the external air; have again beheld the sun,
and am much the better for it," He relates
(22d June, 1899 this anecdoe: "The command
ant at Wezel lately came to me with an official
witness, to show me a letter of the King of Prls-
sia his MASTER asking me to give him, in order
to better my lot, some plans against France, and
TO serve The common cause. | answered them
that the King was very impertinent to couple
my name with such an idea" He celebrated
our.fourih Of July IN his dungeon; and he OBJ
serves, III letter to his aid-de-camp: ssAs for any
measure in my behalf by the Americans, that
should be subordinate to their political interests,
OF which canaot Judge where am. but which
/ would not consent to compromit one instant
on my account" In another letter, q 9th May,
l794,) he holds this language: "Since my capti-
vty, the American Ambassadors have never
ceased to attend to my situation. owe them
| public and secret remtances of money! pecuni-
airy supplies to my aids-de-camp; news of my
family, demands for my enlargement, which have
been at least preseruatiue." In May, 1894,
the King of Prussia transferred the captive to his
Imperial brother Of Austria, who consigned him
to the horrid prison of Omutz, in which, until
July, 1897, he was not permitted to write line
nor receive news of his family, before their arr-
val to partake his lot.
In 1906, Madame de Lafayette and their daugh-
ers were permitted to share his rigorous captivity
Ina note, particular account is given of the no.
bic and unsuccessful attempt Of Dr. Bollman and
Major Hugcr November, l794) to rescue the be-
ncfa"tor Of America. Madame de I.afayette's III
,eres'lng letters from her cell, rt.en and des-
patched clandestinely, furnish copious details of
the barbarous privaons to which the Austrian
authorities condemned the prisoners. Pens and
books, and knives and forks, lestfhey should COM
mH suicide, were strictly forbidden. Lafayette
told the officers that she was not so obHging as
to kill himself' Neither were Silvio Pellico,
| Maronce, and Andryane, whose recitals show
the transmission of the same spirit and refinement
| Of ienaty in the Austrian administration ofiustice
When the effect of Madame de Lafayete's
Affections and sufferings seemed to threaten her
speedy dissolution, she petoned the Emperor o.
Austria, by letter, to allow her TO pass some days
at Vienna, in order to obtain medical advice Her
letter bears date the 9th February, 1896. On the
third OF .4prH following, it was for the first time
sgnihed to her. verbally, by the commandant
Olmr'z, that the Emperor acceded to her request
IproUaded she ac0uld NOT re-enfer The prison. Sh
ans wered in another beautiful letter, that shs
would not desert her husband, whatever might b,
the state OF her health, or the suferings Of he
daughters, their companions The victories
the French troops at length accomplished tn
# tl,o I,la
dungeon of Olmutx were thrown open to them o.
the 10Th September, 1897, by virtue of specis
agreement between Generals Bonaparte an,
Clarke, Plenipoen,iaries Of the French Republic
and the Marquis King. The official note of tn
Generals requires that ''the prisoners be set
liberty, and have facility 10 repair to America,
any other place, France excepted for the .presen
'ime.' This exception and restriction (whicl
could not be carried into effect Lafayette, in hi
"reminiscences, ascrbes to Bonaparte himself; an
it is thus .doubIy remarkable; for we may infe
that the future emperor and King" Napoleon
already feared that the unmanageable patriot mig
prove an obstacle, in@France, 10 his ambitious az
cent.
Having dwelt on the manner in which the AM
TRAN Government immnred and gagged the apos
lie Of constitutional rule, ul advert to persc
nal resemblance which the Milan correspondent
ol tie TarlS JOuf2lut deS DeOHfS mas discovered
1t is between Lafayette and Prince Metternich
and thus mentioned: .rhe Prince has one Of th
+ finest (physicaD heads Of a statesman that coul
be possibly met with by the artist or traveller
With forehead more developed, and more f
I ,Tesse and regularity in feature, he presents,
: his whole person, striking likeness to pei
sonage also historical but who acted very dill
: icrent part in the world-I mean General Tia
: f"J d'.~ ~:..,, si.~ ...i'. III
: sound of the voice, the mild and unreserved dc
meanor, which made Lafayette finished patterl
OF the gentleman and high nobleman, are tn
same III Metternch. Nature seems to have in
tended, by this similitude of the exterior, to sc
: in stronger relief the broad contrast in the poll
tical sympathies and course of the two mission
aries As no human beings exterior has eve
been so fondy contemplated and so graphical,
remembered by so large portion Of numerou
people as that of Lafayette by the Americans
Prince Meternch's could not be better mad,
known to your readers than by v hat have jus
quoted.
| shall not be thought to wander too far, if
cite another passage of the French chronicler';
account Of the Coronation at Milan. sIn III,
Royal ggoap at the grand ball Of the Palace wa