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Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo.
It has been stated that the Me
moirs of the Duke of Rovigo, Na
poleon’s Minister of Police, were
on the eve of publication in the
French capital, and that Prince
Talleyrand had done every thing
in his power, and even applied to
t he King, to prevent their appear
ance. It was also mentioned that
he had failed; the King having read
the Memoir' 3 in manuscript, and
encourag'd lheir author to publish
them. The Quotidienne of W ei |.
nesday last gives a long
from this manuscript, which rc .
moves all surprise at the opposi
tion offered by 1 alleyrand to its
publication, for it charges, how
truly we know not, in the clearest
and most direct manner, upon him
the guilt of the assassination of the
gallant Duke of Enghien. The
following extract is a translation of
the introduction of the Quoticlien
ne, together with the most interest
ing parts of the Memoris, in which
the Duke of Rovigo relates, as an
eye-witness, the trial, and quotes
the very words of the murdered
Duke :
The object in publishing this ab
stract of his memoirs has been to
repel the odious imputation of hav
ing taken an active share in the
horrible crime which has deprived
the throne of one of its brightest
ornaments and firmest pillars. If
his statement is to be believed, one
of the co-accused with George Ca
doudal declared in his revelations,
that in the conferences of the con
spirators to which he had assisted,
there had been an individual of
whose name he was ignorant, but
who must have been of high impor
tance from the marks of respect
shown him. The portrait which
he gave of this mysterious person
age led to a supposition that it
might be a Prince of the House of
Bourbon, and the Duke of Enghien
was designated. In consequence
of this, Napoleon being informed
that the Duke of Enghien was in
the States of Baden, sent an emis
sary, who was half convinced be
forehand that the Duke of Enghien
might have made a journey to Pa
ris, since it was rumored at Stras
burg that he used to attend the
playhouse in thatplace. The etn
missary, on his return, made his
report to that effect; that report
was laid before Napoleon, who,
after holding a Privy Council,
transmitted an order for a troop
of soldiers to cross the Rhine,
arrest the Prince, and seize his pa
pers. The Duke of Rovigo had
just executed a mission when the
Prince was carried off. Napo
leon sent for him to Malinaison,
and gave him a letter to take to
Murat, who was then Governor of
Paris. The Minister of Foreign
Relations (who was then M. de
Talleyrand) was quitting Murat’s
house at the moment when the
Duke of Rovigo entered it. The
Latter received orders to send a
strong detachment of gendarmerie
(of which he was Colonel) to garri
son Vincennes. It was only at that
place that ho knew that this
was on accornt of the Duke of
Enghien.” ‘I he following is his
own account of the trial:
“The Commission assembled in
the great hall of the inhabited part
of the castle. The doors of the
hall were open, and free for all
those who might repair to it at
that hour. It was even so well fill
ed that I had some difficulty, hav
ing arrived one of the last, to pen
etrate behind the s*at of the Presi
dent, where, however, I succeeded
in placing myself, being anxious
to hear the debates on that trial.
“I arrived too late to see the
Prince enter. The discussion had
already commenced wi th much ani
mation. The Duke of Enghien
was repelling with indignation the
intention imputed to him of partici
pating in an act of assassination,
and from what I heard on the spot
he had just admitted that he was
not to re-enter France,except sword
in hand. By the warmth with
which he addressed his judges, it
was easy to see that he had no sus
p’u ion whatever of the issue which
his trial would have.
“ The Commission allowed him
to speak as long as he pleased ; and
when he had done it was observed
to him, that either he did not know
his situation, or that he did not
mean to answer the question put to
him,; that he confined himself to
the birth and glory of his ances
tors, and that he would do better
to adopt another system of defence,
ft was added, that it was not in
tended to take advantage of his si
tuation ; but that it was not proba
ble that he should be ignorant of
what was passing in France, when
not only the place which he inhab
ited, bat France and ail Europe
were occupied with it ; that he
never could make it be credited
that he was indifferent to events,
all the results of which would tend
to his benefit, that this was too
unlikely not to be observed to him
that he was therefore requested to
reflect upon it, and that it might be
come serious.
“ The Duke of Enghien, after a
moment’s silence, replied in a grave
tone—
“‘Sir, I understand you very
well ; my intention was not to
remain indifferent to those events.
I had asked England for service in
her armies, and she had sent me
for answer that she could not give
me anv, but that I should remain
on the Rhine, where 1 should im
mediately have apart to play, and
I was waiting, Sir. I have nothing
more to tell you.’
“Such was verbatim the answer
of the Prince. I wrote it down in
stantly ; I quote it at present from
memory, but it was so #eeplv en
graved on my mind, that I do not
believe that I have forgotten one
single syllable.
“The Commission thinking it
self sufficiently informed, closed
the discussion and caused the hall
to be emptied of the spectator*,
in order to deliberate in private. I
retired with the officers of my corps,
who like me had been preset du
ring the proceedings, and I joined
the troops who were on the esplan
ade of the Castle.
“ The Commission deliberated
fora considerable time. It was
only two hours after the evacuation
of the hall that the sentence was
known. The officer who comman
ded the infantry of my legion
came to tell me with deep emotion
that he had been asked for a picket
of men to execute the sentence of
tne Commission. 4 Give
it,’said I.—-‘But where shall I sta
tion it ?’ ‘ Where you will be sure
to wound none.’
“ After having well examined
the localities, the officer chose the
castle ditch, as the best place for
wounding nobody. There was no
other motive for preference. The
Duke of Enghien was conducted
to it through the staircase of the
entrance tower on the side of the
park, lie heard his sentence there
(in the ditch) and it was execu
ted.”
The Duke of Rovigo defends
himself with much indignation
against the charge of having affixed
a lantern to the breast of the Prince
and taken his spoil. “T he follow
lowing facts” says the Quotienne,
“ throw some light on the men
wh# advised or favared the execu
tion of the murder.”
“ After the execution of the sen
tence, I sent back the troops to
their respective cantonments, and
resumed the wav to Paris. I ap
proached the turnpike, when I met
Mr Real, who was going to Vin
cennes in the costume of a Coun
celltfr of State. I asked him where
lie was going?—‘To Vincennes,’
he replied, 4 1 received orders yes
terday evening to go there to in
terogate the Duke of Enghien.’ I re
lated to him what had taken place,
and he appeared as much surprised
as I had been at what he told me.
1 began to reflect: my meeting with
the Minister of Foreign Relations
(Talleyrand) at General Murat’s
came back to my mind, and I com
menetd doubting that the death of
the Duke of Enghien had been the
work of the first Consul. Mr. Re
al returned to Paris, and I went to
Malmasion, to give the Firs* Con
sul an account of what I had seen.
I arrived at eleven o’clock.
“ The First Consul could not
conceive that the Duke should
have been tried before the arrival
of Councellor Real. He fixed up
on me his lynx’eyes, and repeated :
— 4 There is something in this
which Ido not understand. That
the Commission should have pro
nounced sentence on the confession
made by the Duke of Enghien
does not astonish me. But that
confession had been obtained when
the trial began and ought not to
have been asked till after Mr. Real
should have interrogated him on a
point which it was important to clear
up. There is something in this
which goes beyond me. Here is a
crime which lends to nothing, but
onlv tends to make me odious.”
The Duke of Rovigo then adds,)
that it was onlv when he became
Minister of Police that he unfolded
the whole mvsterv, and that Piche
gru was the mysterious individual
who had attended the conferrences
of the conspirators, whilst the First
Consul had been made to believe i
that it was the Duke of Enghien,)
and that when Napoleon had been
informed bv Mr. Real of the fact,
he had exclaimed—“ Ah ! wretch,
Talleyrand, what hast thou made
me do !” The extract, after char
ging this Minister with having
been the author of imposition
practised on the First Const*!, and
the cause of the hurry with which)
the trial and execution took place ;
without the knowledge of Napoleon
closes with this remarkable
sage :—“ It is time that every one
should be known as the father of
his own works. It has been seen’
what has been my share in this san
guinary drama ; I will admit of j
no other, and I shall not suffer j
odious suspicious to rest on mv;
head whilst the real culprits sta.k
proudly beneath the honours with
which they are invested.’’
Murder. —A man named Othello
Church, a respectable inhabitant
of the town of Friendship Allega
ny countv, was murdered on the
29th of December in the most de
liberate and cold blooded manner.
About one o’clock in the morning
a man on horse-back rode up to
his house, and informed him that
he had at length paid a certain
debt to one Davenport, (for which
Mr. Church was security,) and if
he would step to the door he would
show him a receipt. Mr. C. got
out of bed, opened the door, and
when reaching for the paper, a car
bine was fired at him bv the vil
lain, the contents of which entered
his breast, and he instantly expir
ed. Mr. C. was security for a
Mr. How, and bv merely intima
ting his fears that he would be
compelled ■ultimately to pay the
debt, had enraged him to such a
degree that How repeatedly threat
ened his life. Suspicion, therefore
immediately rested on How ; pur
suit was made to his house ; a car
bine was found with every appear
ance of having been recently dis
charged ; his family testified that
he had loaded it the evening before
and had but just returned, having
been absent a part of the night;
and his horse w r as found in a high
state of perspiration, with other in
dications of having been ridden
excessively hard. These circum
stances appeared so unfavorable to
his innocence, that he was commit
ted, to await his trial at the Febru
ary Circuit.
It is stated that the important
discovery of a cure for the Hydro
phobia, has recently been made by
Dr. Magendie, at Paris. A patient
it is alleged, in a most violent state
of this awful disease, and in the
midst of the wildest furv, experi
enced relief in half an hour, by the
injection of about a pint of warm
water into a vein of the arm, and
that all symptoms of the disease
disappeared, and no indications of
any return were exhibited at the
time the account was published.
——♦
[’[’he following letter, (extracted
from the American Farmer,) will at
once show what might he done at rais
ing grapes and making wine in our
country. It must be a mistaken poli
cy to send hundreds of thousands of
our property to foreign countries to
purchase wine,when our own will fur
nish it as abundantly as it docs anv of
the crops now cultivated—and with
much less hard labour than is requir
ed for them. If a small part ot the
money now yearly paid for wine,
was to be applied in planting vine
yards, we might soon supply our
selves. If vineyards succeed bo well
in the District of Columbia, what
might not be done further South,where
the climate is much better adapted to
the culture of the vine ? We believe
that a few hands on our large planta
tions might be more profitably (as well
as pleasantly) employed in the shade
of vines than scorching in the cotton)
field. A small portion of the ground
now devoted to peach-trees for the
purpose of making brandy, would an
swer for the vines, which would afford
a much more w'holesome substitute.]
MAKING *VTw -
Practical and U J Fa.ts,
Vineyard near ... orpe Town,
I>. C Slept. SOth, 1823.
Dear Sir —I have this day put
the last barrel of wine of this vin
tage in my cellar —I have twenty
five barrels ol the different kinds,
(the produce of about two acres)
viz:
9 barrels of Constantia contain
ing 501 galls.
6 barrels Tokay, containing 202
galls.
3 barrels Bland Madeira contain
ing 100 galls.
4 barrels of the above grapes,
mixed containing 155 galls.
2 barrels Worthington grape con
taining 64 galls.
1 keg made of the Fox grape cul
tivated, 10 galls.
Total 832 galls.
of which about one seventh will be
lees. ike.
The grapes did not ripen so well
nor so equal this, as they did last
year, and were upwards of two
weeks later, and a great many more
mildewed and rotted than usual,
owing to the wet weather in Au
gust.
To answer a number of inquiries
of how much wine will a bushel of
grapes produce ? I had twenty-two
bushels of the Constantia grapes
picked, and in the bunches they
weighed forty-five lbs. the bushel,
and when picked off the bunches,
they measured twelve bushels and
a half, and weighed sixty-six lbs.
the bushel. They were then bruis
ed and put into a vat, and after the
pulp and coloring matter was dis
solved, [which took three days] the
juice was drawn off from the bot
tom of the vat, and produced fifty
four gallons f pure juice. Then
the skins and seeds were put to the
press and produced ten and a half
gallons more ; making on the whole
sixty-four and a half gallons ol
juice from twenty bushels of bunch
es of grapes —I then had twenty
bushels of the Tokay grapes gath
ered, and in the bunches they weigh
ed forty-fofcr and a half pounds.—
They were bruised and fermented
one night, when there was forty
three gallons of pure juice drawn
from them, and when they were
submitted to the press, they produ
ced sixteen gallons more ; making
in all fiftv-nine gallons. If the sea
son had been drier, I suppose there
would not have been so much juice
in the grapes, but it would have
been richer—but I have no doubt
on an average of years, the above
mentioned grapes will produce
more than two and a half gallons
to the bushel of bunches.
About one third of all my Bland
Made ira grapes became mildewed
or otherwise perished—and it has
been the worst year that ever I knew
of, for ripening grapes.
About eleven bushels of grapes
in the bunches, on an average,
made a barrel of wine—and one
acre will on an average, make
upwards of four hundred gallons.
I am Dear Sir,
Very respectfully,
Yours, &tc.
JOHN ADLUM.
P. S.—As there were considera
ble quantities of grapes sold in the
market, and otherwise disposed of
and given away, I think I must
have nearly three hundred bush
els.
j?ortifln *melUocnitc.
Letters from Madrid represent
King Ferdinand as entirely indis
posed towards any degree of con
ciliation with his subjects, or am
nesty and oblivion of past transac
tions; notwithstanding the advice
of some of his principle counsellors
to a prudent and moderate line of
conduct—a course too, which ap
pears to be the wish of the Duke of
Angouleme, and a part of the
French ministry. ‘The interest of
the fanatics and priests was revi
ving with increased malignity in
Spain.
Advices from Frankfort mention
that several German and Prussian of
ficers are about raising a legion of
2000 men to proceed to the assistance
of the Greeks. Several officers have
passed over to England upon this bu
siness.
A letter from the American Consul
at Havre states, that the passengers
and crew who were saved from the
wreck of the ship Paris, of N. York
were all lost on their passage from
Cherbourg, to that place, together
with the trews of two other strand
ed vessels who embarked with
Lord Byron has in the press R
drama called the Deformed
formed. Cantos twelve, thirteen
fourteen, of Don Juan are
nounced. ‘ a!
GREECE.
Athens i Oct. 9.—rhe fa m ;|;
that had taken refuge at Salami’
have returned to Athens. wh fT
the Turks appear to have defi ß
tively retreated. The city i s “
present defended by about
Greeks. All the gates but one
near the citadel are w’alled up,
new batteries are erected on \h e
ramparts. Nothing new from Mo.
tea, except too much appearand
of anarchy. Colocotrini has
three times nearly assassinated-1
A young Romeliote heroine,foal
tiful, aged about 21 years, attired
in the Albanian costume, and now
here at the head of 100 > men whom
she raised, proposes to the govern
ment to march against, Colocco
trini, in order to make him pri s .
oner.
The island of iEgina is defen*
ded by two ships of war, each com
manded by a woman. MissoWh;
has not been taken, as was reported.
Constantine Bozzaris, the brother
of him whoso nobly died, attacked
in his turn, a corps of 15000 Turks,
before marching against them he
was joined by the Romeliot Gene
eral Karaskiaki with 800 Suiintes
—this attack which had no very
decisive result, proves, however,
that the Greeks are not always con
tent to remain on the defensive,
but can on occassion seek their eti*
emies.
The Nuremburg Gazette con
tains the following intelligence of a
recent date from the Morea: The
Pacha of Scutari has failed in his
enterprize against Pktolia and Mis
solunghi. The Turk* of Negro
pont, being compelled to shut
themselves up in the principal for
tresses have even abandoned Kary
stos, whkh is said to be occupied
by the Greeks. The fort of Corinth
is also in their possession. Coren
and Modon are negociating relating
relative to submission, and Patras
is so closely blockaded by the
Greek forces, that the garrison
dares no longer make sorties. The
Greek Government takes occasion
to turn this circumstance to their
profit. Several corps are marching
upon Thessaly. Coloctroni is pro
ceeding upon the Thermopyke-
Odysseus and Demetrius Ypsilan
ti are directing their troops upon
Zeitoeni. On the side of Etolia
the Greek Captains who defeated
the Pacha of Scutari, arc marching
upon Acarnania, from whence they
will turn towards Thessaly, and
advance upon Larissa, leaving a
corps of observation in the pro*
vince of Astn. It is against this
place that all the efforts of the
Greeks are to be directed, and the
tesult must shortly be known.
FROM RICKJANF.IRO.
New-York, Jan-16.
To Capt. Mott, of the brig Titsn
loosn, in 52 days from Rio Janeiro, we
are indebted for the following intelli
gent statement and newspapers of the
20th Nov.
Flour wag dull at Rio—o’d was very
difficult to dispose ol—the baker*
would only take a supply for a fc*
days at a time. About 10,000 barrel*
on hand, and the general opinion
that a great deal would arrive during
the months of January and February,
and that the price would be vfry k**
Some cargoes of wheat are also look*
ed for from Europe. Advices > rolT ‘
Chili in Sept, represented the crop*
of grain there to promise unusuJ
abundance, and at Lima, the l*t°*
August, there were said to be h° m
12,000 to 20,000 barrels of flour--*
I'r ice dull at 810, money scarce. ’
polities uncertain. A battle in u PP f ’
Peru, between the Royalists and
triots was daily expected to be re pud*
id, which would probably decide
fate of Peru.—The armies were a [|
proaching each other at the last ad' 1 ’
ces. The Royalists were allowed /
the Patriots themselves, to be bd tc ’
appointed, and their forces aiMia
equal. ,
At Rio there had been a good <R' a .
of apprehension that personal atiiu ll1 ’
ity between the Brazilians and E uri ).
peaiis, would lead to bloodshed • n )‘
confusion, after the F.mpcror dis*° ’
ed the Cortes on the 12th, which o’
sure the Brazilians viewed with £ IC
disgust, and considered as ac 1 en r *
nifestation of His Imperial
European propensities. The }
part of the troops were keptat the P
lace of JSt. Christopher, (about
miles from town) which it was f
tended to preserve the tranquil l
the city, and was said to l* ave 1