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only be equalled by fny aftonilhment, in be-,
holding So perittf a Syftcm, formed ffc.u
such heterogeneous materials.
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LONDON, August 24,
Narrative of the Efcapt of the Countess Va
lois de la By btr/tlf.
THE Countess is perhaps the firft and only
prisoner whomever could find the way out
of the Baftilt. The peculiar conftrudion of
the building, the number of gates, and the
multitude of guards always on the watch,
preclude all poflibility of a return to the
world : But what cannot be effected by the
afiiftance of friends in power, and of money ?
For several months past, the Countess was
in pofleffion of the ncceflary apparatus; but
the private inftru&ions (he received from time
to time, and daily hopes (he was in of receiving
several papers mdifpenfible for her juftifica
tion, obliged her to put off the much wi(hed
for event, and even submit, with patience, to
the ill treatment of one filler Martha , and a
swarm of priests as malevolent as any of that
felfifli fraternity, all of them in the eonftant
pay of the family of Rohan, and of courte,
interetted in something worse than her unhap
piness.
At last the happy day arrived, and she gave
the faithful Matte Anne, her woman, every
neceflary inftniflion, not wishing to have her
as a companion through the windings of. the
infernal labyrinth, left herperfon, being uni
versally known, (hould occasion a fatal dif
cotfery. The Countess agreed upon a place '■
of meeting, dressed herfelfin a man’s cloaths,
cut the fore part of heir hail - in the (lispe usu
ally worn by Jockeys in Paris; and, thus
equipped, her head buried ns it were in a
large round hat, half-boots on her legs, and
a small switch in her hand, (lie boldly ven
tured forth, resolved, and beitig armed for
that purpofc* to die rather than bo re-taken.
After having opened and (hut after her se
ven different gates, (he at lift reaen*a «. mi
menfe yard, filled with fitters, so they call
female Ccrberi of the place. She addretted
herfelf to one of them, and disguising both
her voice and prenounciation, -put a piece of
gold into her hand, enquiring her way-tothe
Chapel, where lbe arrived arfter paying pro
per tolls at all the other gates. Left (he Arnold
be known to some of die sisterhood, Iho mix
ed as fall as she could with -a numerous com-',
pany of visitors, then busy in viewing what
curiosities there were to be feea. With the
whole groupe ihe was conveyed by one of the
iifters to the outward gate, called Porte tie
champs. There she met her good Mane
Anne, took boat with her, and crofted to the
opposite lhore.
Notwlthftanding her enfeebled Hate, the
Cortnttfs had strength enough to walk as far as’
Charanton, above fix miles. They then got
into a cart, which carried them three leagues
further. It was impoflible, nay dangerous
for she two travellers to attempt getting a con
venient carriage, and therefore they travelled
again on foot the space of twenty miles.
Worn out with fatigue, their feet in a moll
deplorable condition, they were glad to put
up at a miserable public houle on the road,
and there rest the whole night.
The next day they mounted a dung cart,
which was going four leagues up the country.
There they met with some good uatured wag
goners, who gave them a cast. The Countess
being apprehensive left she Ihould be traced,
and her dress deferibed, bought, in the firft
place they Hopped at, the Ample dress of a
country girl. The only remaining difficulty
was %o effetl the transformation. For this
purpose, Ihe left the town where Ihe.had thus
provided herfelf, walked on about three
leagues, aadjthen leaving .the.highroad retired
a Mi 11,., any there, changed her cloaths,
hiding amangft the brambles her manly ac
v toutrements. She then resumed her pede
i drian journey—After numbcrlefs fatigues,
and much anxiety, avoiding the large towns,
putting tip at the most wretched hovels, tra
velling some time in carts, oftner on foot;
, compelled through the inhumanity of a pub
lican, who would not open his door after
twelve o’clock, to pass a whole night on the
naked earth in Columby Forest, near Bar
fur-aube; she at lad, reached the city of Lux
embourgh, and from thence a small village
called Holrith, where the remained fix
weeks, under the afiumed name of Made
moifelie de Dulain, at one Madame Chiliz’s,
who treated her in every refpetf with so much
humanity, as mud forever engage her utinod
gratitude.
No sooner was the Count, hff husband,
apprized of her retreat, than he dispatched
after her atrufiy person, to bring her over to
London, where the fafely arrived on batur
pay the 4th instant.
The day on which the Notables met, will
form an sera, in the liberties of France,
which future hidorians may look to with
afionilhment. On that day, the monarchy
of the country had its deeped wound ; for
then government had recourse to people
for power—the people, feeling it *was in
their hands, will keep what was given them,
and ufeitin spite of opposition. And what
the Notables began the Parliament will finifh.
A w,bole Dutch family have been reduced
to beggary in a few minutes by the rage of a
civil war. A {prodigious quantity of small
mafies of gold and silver, for the purpose of
making touch needles, were leiz,ed by the
troops of the dates, belonging to this family,
attached to the Orange cause. And a very
ingenious young man, in his hurry of efcap
ingfrom the enemy, loft a tapis eleftricus, or
done gathered at Ceylon, which had the
power of attracting and repelling small light
light bodies, which so affefled him that he
foot, himfelf.
J.ah i . '
General Haldiman is to be the fucceflor to
General Elliot, now Lord Heathficld, and the
jljw Governor of Gibraltar. General O’Ha
ra wIU w jn the room
of General Boyd, who docs not return to that
fort refs, having received the King’s perrnif
fion to retir*,,, ....
KING ST O N,, (Jamaica) OQobtr 6.
Monday morning, between 10 and ij
o’clock, a flight Ihock of **> earthquake was
felt Hr&is town and Spaailh Town ; it was
preceded by a rumbling found, which appear- „
ed to COWie from N. E. and was about two
seconds it> duration.
24. On Sunday lash about 20 minutes be
fore tbree in the afternoon, a very severe
Ihock of an earthquake was felt in this town, ,
Port Royal, and many parts es Liguanea; !
tide motion was undulatory, and continued j
full half a minute; many inhabitants were I
alarmedj and hastily quitted their, houses; to I
our fatltfaftioo, we have not yet heard of .
any damage. The church clock and many
private ones were flopped by the concuflion.
S H E L BU ,R N, Stptmbir 6. ■
The cpmroiffioners of his M ajefty’s curtoms
in England have extended and engaged the
time for registering of vessels in refpeft to the
island of Newfoundland, and thnfe parts of
the provinces of Canada, Nova-Scotia, and
New Brunswick, which are adjacent to the
Gtilph of St. Lawrence, and to the North of
Cape Canfo, and arfo in regard to the Islands
within the (aid limits, to the firß day of Ja
nuary, 1788; and have; declared, thkt at the
end of one month from that period, this fur
, ther notice will expire, and the ads passed m
; the 26th and 27th years of hts present Ma
, jelly’s reign, must be registered, m confor
mity thereto within the said period.
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E VV - Y.O R K, November if. -
-We are informed from the best authority
that the Viceroy of Santa-Fee has lately given
a new proof of his humanity, in regard to
the native Indians ou the coast of Darien
wiih whom the Spaniards have been at war
• for many years past.
| Every thing was ready to ensure the entire
Jconqueftof the coast, aud the unconditional
fubmifiion of its inhabitants, according to
the lrws of war; when the Viceroy, with
that philanthropic spirit, which is fo'coufpi.
cuous in all the atfious of this truly great and
good man, figuified to many of his friends
by whom he was surrounded, that he ftioul j!]
be extremely happy, if, agreeable tu h i*
earneit wilhes, he could terminate the quar«
rel without further bloodlhed } notwithstand
ing the cruelties committed on the part ofth®
Indiaus, Since the commencement of the ho
ltiiir.es, by murdering without mercy, or
any just cause of complaint, one hundred and
ten Spanilh soldiers, three officers, two wo
men, ami a child, who cfcaped from ihip
wreck on the coast of Darien, in the year
1782, and by burning all the houses at San
Gerommo de Buena Villa, and putting tbo
dcfencelefs inhabitants to the sword, without
(luliuclioii of age or sex. To effect the grae
cious pmpofes of peace, the Vi:eroy gave or
ders to an Ambaflador to proceed to the head
quarters of the Indians without delay, in or
der to acquaint them with his humane deter
mination, which was to treat them with every
kind of lenity and undifiembled friendship, if
they were definitively resolved to live in an
amicable manner for the future. The Indians
received the AmbalTador with every token of
refpett, and listened to him with great at- \
tention; and, after Several meetings, they'
resolved to dispatch their and Chief
men to confer with the Viceroy, in the pre
feuce of hisCcurt, by which the peacc ofthe
province of Darien is firmly. eftablifhed,' ac
cording to the true laws of justice and huma
nity. This eve.it was celebrated at Cartha
gena, by singing Te Deum with uncommon
solemnity j and was by many other
public rejoicings.
CHARLESTON* Dec. 3,
Extr~~a es a letttrfrom GlaJg'>'w t Seft: y.
Great disorders have prevailed here with
■in theft few days. The manufacturers hav-,
ing of late attempted a reduction of wages on '
foine- kinds of work; the journeymen con- ,
ceiviog that wages were already fufficiently
low, endeavoured to fruftrate the attemrit.
The manufacturers, however, being aided l*y
the magistrates of the city, preserved; ip
coutequence of which, the journeymen pro|
ceeded to cut oat the webjis of some of tbof|
who bad taken in work at the reduced
the magifttates called the military to their ai<|,
wben a Scuffle ensuing, they were ordered to
fire, and eight persons were unfortunately
i killed, some of them leaving large familie#
| Reinforcements of troops are arrived from as
| parts of the country, and the town is at pre4
feqt full of soldiers. You may, from the ,
■ above, form some idea of the unhappy fitua- >
tion of the poor journeymen ; although their
wages are alteady so low, that they can
with the greatest industry barely subsist. yet
they are obliged to submit to any reduccmeut
the mailers may think proper. You will alfo*
no doubt, congratulate yourftlf on your own
Situation, as in America you hnvc na Jl**4.l*l
army , to forward and carry into effeCt the
bast design of any ftt of met-,.
In tne Liverpool papers, the Eliza, Me “
cer, and the Betfty and Amey, Watt, arc
: advertised for Nftw-York,
Fiiday last being the anniversary »
I Andrew, 'tutelar Saint of Scotland, ?a
company of refpeflable gentlemen .
Williams’s coffee-houfe to comm«®°ra e
day. The hen. general JMoultnc pr»*d
the fcaft.
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