1816.] Escape of Lavalette-Law of Amnesty. office, stopped the circulation of the king's proclamations, and otherwise facilitated the enterprise of Napoleon.He was sentenced to die, appealed to the Court of Cassation, which confirmed the verdict, and at length found means to escape, on the night of December 20th, in the clothes of his wife, who was permitted to visit him in the Conciergerie, where he was confined. It was at first very generally surmised that the king, or at least some of his ministers, had connived at the escape of this culprit ; but it has since been discovered that be was assisted in his plans by three English gentlemen of some distinction :-Sir Robert Wilson, who, as a soldier and a writer, has strongly manifested his antipathy to Buonaparte; Capt. Hutchinson, of the Guards, nephew to Lords Hutchinson and Donoughmore; and Bruce, son of Crawford Bruce, Esq. banker. The French government having obtained satisfactory evidence to this effect, caused them to be apprehended on the 13th of January. Their application to be allowed their liberty upon bail has been refused, and they now await their trial for the offence with which they are charged. Whatever inay have been the motive of these gentlemen for their interposition between a convicted criminal and the injured laws of his country, we cannot but deeply regret that they should have suffered themselves to be betrayed into so gross a violation of those laws, and so daring a defiance of the vernment of a friendly state. Nothing Mr. go indeed can be better calculated than such conduct to afford some colour to the charge repeatedly alleged against England, that wherever an opportunity offers for involving France in civil or military broils, there her interference will never be wanting. We know that this idea is so strongly impressed upon many minds, that in various parts of the Continent our government was firmly believed to have winked at the escape of Buonaparte from Elba, in the hope of again plunging our national rival into all the calamities of anarchy and irretrievable ruin. On the 8th of December, the day after the execution of Ney, the projet of a Law of Amnesty was submitted to the Chamber of Deputies by the Duke de Richelieu, but it was not adopted with out considerable discussion, and the proposal of various amendments which went even farther than had been contemplated by his Majesty's ministers. The 167 law as finally adopted, is dated the 12th of January, and is as follows: Art. 1. A full and entire amnesty is granted to all those who directly or indirectly took part in the rebellion and usurpation of Napoleon Buonaparte, saving the following exceptions. 2. The ordinance of the 24th July shall Continue to be executed with regard to the persons comprised in the first article of that ordinance. 3. The King shall be empowered, in the space of two months, dating from the promulgation of the present law, to remove from France such of those individuals comprised in the second article of the said ordinance as he shall keep on it, and who shall not have been brought before the tribunals; and in this case, they shall depart from France, within the time prescribed for them, nor shall they return to it, without the express authority of his Majesty-the whole under pain of deportation. The King shall likewise be empowered to deprive them of all property and pensions granted to them gratuitously. 4. The ascendants and descendants of Na poleon Buonaparte, his uncles and aunts, his nephews and nieces, his brothers, their wives, and their descendants, his sisters, and their husbands, are excluded from the kingdom in perpetuity, and are bound to depart from it in the space of one month, under the penalties denounced by the 91st article of the penal code. They cannot enjoy any civil rights, possess any property, title, and pensions granted to them gratuitously within it; and they shall be bound to sell, within the space of six months, the property of every kind which they possessed by onerous title. 5. The present amnesty is not applicable been commenced, or judgments obtained, to persons against whom prosecutions have before the promulgation of the present law; the prosecutions shall be continued, and the judgments executed conformably to the laws. 9. Are not comprised in the present amnesty crimes or misdemeanors against private persons, at whatever period they may have been committed. The persons guilty of them shall be liable to be prosecuted according to law. 7. Those of the regicides who, in despite of a clemency without bounds, have voted for the Additional Act, or accepted offices and employments from the usurper, and who, by cileable enemies of France and of the legiti so doing, have declared themselves irreconmate government, are excluded for ever from month, upon the penalty inflicted by Art. 33 the kingdom, and are bound to leave it in a of the penal code; they shall not be capable of enjoying in it any civil right, or possessing in it any property, titles, or pensions given to them gratuitously. In a subsequent ordinance dated Jan. 17th, the King, by virtue of the power of revision, vested in him with respect to the individuals named in the 2d Article of the ordinance of July 24th, 1815, continues the list in its original state, and commands all persons included in it to quit France by Feb. 25th, at latest, on pain of transportation. [March 1, not to be procured except upon such terms as nearly amount to a prohibition. With the departure of the chief adherents of Buonaparte, whose interest it was to keep alive and aggravate the feelings of dissatisfaction, we trust that these feelings will subside. Cambaceres, Soult, Massena, and many ot er revolutionary characters have sought refuge in Belgium, whence Merlin has embarked for the United States of America. Carnot is gone to Russia, and Fouché, not long since sent as ambassador to the court of Saxony, has been superseded and forbidden to return to France. Generals Debelle, Drouot, and Cambrone, are imprisoned at Paris, awaiting their trials, and legal proceedings have been instituted against Grouchy and others included in the first article of the ordinance of the 24th of July last, though they have not yet been apprehended. That these measures should excite great dissatisfaction among the adherents of the usurper, as well those who are, as those who are not proscribed by them, was no more than might rationally have been expected. At Lyons, this spirit actually burst forth about the end of January, into an open insurrection, in which Generals Meunier and Le Grange were implicated. The rebellious attempt, however, failed; the former was killed, and the latter afterwards secured, a few leagues from the city. Indeed, the French papers themselves convey no flat- The last posts held by the British in tering picture of the disposition of the and near Paris were delivered up to the country in general, throughout, which French in the last days of January, by numerous apprehensions for disaffec- which time the allied troops composing tion, are continually taking place. It the right wing of the army of occupation seems that this spirit has even spread had taken up the positions assigned them its contagion to a class of people, by the Duke of Wellington as Comwhom we should have supposed least mander in chief. They consist of 30,000 likely to fall under its influence-we English; 20,000 Russians, and 15,000 mean the collectors of taxes. Forty of Danes, Saxons, and Hanoverians. The these men have been suspended in the Saxons and Danes form a line which exdepartment of the Aude alone, and 550 tends to the French fortresses in Artois ; persons employed in the collection of the the Hanoverians are concentrated about indirect taxes have been removed since Condé; the Russians have extended the appointment of M. de la Barente to themselves farther into the French territhe general direction of that branch of tory-their left wing is supported upon the public service, for having manifested Charlemont, their right upon Maubeuge, opinions unfavourable to the government. and the most advanced troops of the cenThe violent attacks on the Bourbon fa- tre reach to the frontiers of the district mily, in which some of the English news- of Laon. Behind all these positions are papers have indulged, and the malicious the English en echellon, extending from fabrications to which they have given Valenciennes to Somme. All the forpublicity, were in truth well calculated tresses in this line have numerous garrito feed the flame of discontent, which is sons, and the positions are so chosen, far from being smothered in this unhappy that the Allies can at any time cut off country; their introduction into the read- those strong places which still have ing-stalls and news-rooms has in conse- French garrisons from all communication quence been forbidden; and they are with the interior. INCIDENTS, PROMOTIONS, BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS, &e. IN LONDON AND MIDDLESEX. With Biographical Accounts of Distinguished Characters. Bulletin of the King's Health. Windsor Castle, Feb. 3. His Majesty has passed the last month in 2 general state of tranquillity, and in the enjoyment of good bodily health. His Majesty's disorder remains unaltered. Mr. Dodd, the engineer, has announced the design of a magnificent iron bridge, which he proposes to call the Tontine Waterloo Bridge, and to carry across the Thames from Rotherhithe to the opposite shore. According to the plan of the projector, it 1816.] Promotions and Appointments. should be so constructed as to admit vessels to sail underneath it, and without spandrels of arches to obstruct the sight. Promotions and Appointments.] Colonel James Bathurst to be Lieut.-governor of the Virgin Islands, vice Lieut.-colonel Napier, resigned. James Robt. Matthews, esq. to be his Majesty's Consul at Cadiz. Adm. Sir Chaloner Ogle, knt., General Banastre Tarleton, and General John Floyd, to be Baronets. Major-gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, knt. to be a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. Lieut.-col. Baron Tripp, and Major the Hon. George Dawson, to be Companions of the Order of the Bath. James Allan Park, esq. to be one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, vice Sir Alan Chambre, knt. resigned. 109 Viscount Bantry to be Viscount Bearhaven and Earl of Bantry. Visc. Mountjoy to be Earl of Blessington. Baron Sheffield to be Viscount Pevensey, and Earl of Sheffield, in Ireland. Baron Cahir to be Viscount Cahir and Earl of Glengal. Baron Frankfort to be Viscount Frankfort de Montmorency. Baron Adare to be Viscount Mount Earl. Baron Ennismore to be Viscount Ennismore and Listowel. Baron Kiltarton to be Viscount Gort. Sheriff's appointed by the Prince Regent in Council for 1816. Bedfordshire-Henry Brandreth of Houghton Regis, esq. Berkshire-Rich. Powlett Wrighte Benyon, of Englefield, esq. Buckinghamshire-Thos. Tyringham Bernard, of Nether Winchendon, esq. Rev. Jas. Stanier Clarke to be one of the Cambridge and Hunts--John Whitby QuinDeputy Clerks of the King's Closet. Lieut.-gen. Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, K. G. C. B. to be Captain-general and Governor in Chief of Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the islands of Prince Edward and Cape Breton. Lieut.-colonel Charles W. Maxwell to be Governor and Commander in Chief of Do minica. The Duke of Richmond to be Lord-lieutenant of Sussex. James Buchanan, esq. to be his Majesty's Consul at New York. Wm. Dawson, esq. to be his Majesty's Consul in the State of Maryland. Major-gen. Sir Fred. Phillips Robinson, K. C. B. to be Governor of Tobago. Major-gen. George Wm. Ramsay to be Governor of Antigua and Montserrat. Thomas Probyn, esq. to be Governor of St. Christopher, Nevis, and the Virgin Islands. Major-gen. Phineas Riall to be Governor of Grenada. Patrick Savage, esq. to be his Majesty's Consul in the State of Virginia. John Leach, esq. to be Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal to H. R. H. the Prince Regent. Wm. Draper Best, esq. to be Attorneygeneral to H. R. H. the Prince Regent. Wm. Harrison, esq. to be Solicitor-general to H. R. H. the Prince Regent. Matthew John Tierney, esq. M.D. to be a Physician in Ordinary to H. R. H. the Prince Regent. The Earl of Ormonde and Ossory to be Marquis of Ormonde. The Earl of Londonderry to be Marquis of Londonderry. The Earl of Conyngham to be Viscount Slane, Earl of Mount Charles, and Marquis Conyngham. NEW MONTHLY MAG.-No. 96. tin, of Hatley Saint George, esq. Cheshire-Sam. Aldersey, of Aldersey, esq. Cumberland-William Brown, of Tallantire Hall, esq. Derbyshire-John Peel, of the Pastures, esq. Devonshire-Sir Arthur Chichester, of Youlston, bart. Dorsetshire-John Herbert Browne, of Weymouth, esq. Esser-Nicholas Pearce, of Loughton, esq, Gloucestershire-Daniel John Niblett, of Harefield, esq. Herefordshire-Kingsmill Evans, of the Hill, esq. Hertfordshire-Daniel Giles, of Youngsbury, esq. Kent-Alex. Evelyn, of St. Clere, esq. Lincolnshire-Nevile King, of Ashby, esq. Northamptonshire-Sir James Langham, of Northumberland-Matthew Bell, of Wool sington, esq. Nottinghamshire-Sir Robert How Bromley, of East Stoke, bart. Oxfordshire-John Phillips, of Culham, esq. Rutlandshire-John Cole Gilson, of Burley, esq. Shropshire-Sir Thos. John Tyrwhitt Jones, of Stanley, bart. Somersetshire-John Goodford, of Yeovil, esq. Staffordshire-John Smith, of Great Fen ton, esq. County of Southampton-John Morant, of Brockenhurst, esq. Suffolk-Sir Chas. Blois, of Cockfield Hall, bart. Vol. V. 170 Ecclesiastical Preferments, Births, Marriages. Surrey-Benj. Barnard, of Ham Common, esq. Sussex-John Ingram, of Rottingdean, esq. Warwickshire-Wm. Holbeche, of Farnborough, esq. Wiltshire-John Hussey, of New Sarum,esq. Worcestershire-Joseph Lea, of the Hill, esq. Yorkshire-Richard Oliver Gascoigne, of Partington, esq. Carmarthen-John Colby, of Pennywern, esq. Pembroke Hen. Mathias, of Fern Hill, esq. Brecon-Edw. Kendal, of Dan y Park, esq. Carnarvon-Thos. Burrow, of Benarth, esq. Denbigh Edward Edwards, of Cerig Llwydion, esq. Flint-Geo. Boscawen, of Marford, esq. Cornwall,-Sir Arscott Ourry Molesworth, of Pencarrow, bart. Members returned to Parliament.] Viscount Barnard for Winchelsea, vice Calverley Bewicke, esq. deceased. Sir Charles Cockerell, bart. for Seaford, vice John Leach, esq., who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. George Bankes, esq., for Corfe Castle, vice Peter Wm. Baker, esq., deceased. The Hon. Henry Caulfield for the county of Armagh, vice Wm. Brownlow, esq., deceased. Ecclesiastical Preferments.] The Rev. JOHN ASHBURNHAM, to the vicarage of Peof Guestvensey, together with the rectory ling, Sussex. Rev. S. COLE to be Chaplain of Greenwich Hospital. Rev. STUART CORBETT to the rectory of Scrayingham, York. Rev. JOHN DAVIS to the rectory of St. Clément, Worcester. Rev. JOHN DOLIGNON to the vicarage of Gooderstone, Norfolk. Rev. BENJAMIN EDMONSON to the perpetual curacy of Wetherby, York. Rev. WM. ELWYN to the rectory of St. Mary Abchurch, with the curacy of St. Lawrence Pountney, London. Rev. WM. GREENE to the rectory of St. Olave's, Southwark. Rev. CUTHBERT HENLEY to the rectory of Rendlesham, Suffolk. Rev. JOHN HOYLE to the rectory of Comp. ton Martin, Somerset. Rev. WALTER KITSON to the rectory of Chilton Foliat, Wilts. [March 1, Lady Harriet Paget of a son. Lady E. W. B. Webster of a son. Lady Ponsonby, widow of Major-general the Hon. Sir Wm. P., of a son. The Duchess of Bedford of a son. At Hampton, Lady Edmonstone of a son. The lady of Sir John Chandos Reade, bart. of a son. At his house in Great Coram-street, the lady of James Elmes, esq., architect, of a daughter. Married.] Ant. Hammond, esq. of Saville-row, to Theodosia Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Nath. Gostling, esq. of Earl's Court House, Old Brompton. Major Thos. A. Brandreth, R. A. to Sarah, eldest daughter of the late Geo. Curling, esq. of Cleveland-row. W. M. Peacock, esq. to Sophia, only daughter of the Baron La Cainea, consulgeneral at Nice. Capt. Francis Baker, R. N. to Caroline eldest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Price, prebendary of Durham. Capt. Henry Pigctt, 82d foot, to Margaret, eldest daughter of Scrope Bernard Morland, esq. M. P. Capt. Wood, of the E. I. C. service, to Ellen, eldest daughter of Jos. Murphy, esq. Spencer Perceval Mansel, esq. son of the Bishop of Bristol, to Agnes, daughter of Dr. Ainslie, of Dover-strect. Thomas Pain, esq. of Windsor, to Miss Hooper, daughter of the late Mr. Henry H. of Cheapside. The Rev. Wm. Wescomb, rector of Lang. ford, Essex, to Jane, grand-daughter of the Hon. General Douglas, M. P. Thomas Barnewall, esq. of Colemanstreet Buildings, to Mrs. Allan, of Quebec street. At Edmonton, Wm. M. G. Cobbe, esq. R. N. to Eliza, eldest daughter of Mr. T. Hammond, surgeon. Died.] In Burr-street, Jas. Flower, esq. 49. In Mount-street, the Hon. Apsley BathRev. H. LLOYD to the rectory of Llangei- urst, second son of the late, and only brother tho, Wales. of the present Earl Bathurst. 1816.] Deaths in and near London. In Bryanston-street, Mary Ann, widow of John Gibbs, esq. of Charlestown, South Carolina. In Finsbury-square, Mary, wife of Dr. George Rees. In Grenville-street, Brunswick-square, Mrs. Reid, wife of Dr. John R. In Great Russell-street, Chris. Wm. Lynch, esq. In Lower Grosvenor-street, Stephen Tessier, esq. 62. In Vine-street, Piccadilly, Geo. Hodgson, esq. solicitor, and one of the coroners for Middlesex. In Pilgrim-street, Blackfriars, Mrs. Pinder, wife of Dan. P. esq. 82. In Upper Norton-street, Robert Shuttleworth, esq. of Barton Lodge, Lancashire, 71. In Duke-street, St. James's, Capt. Samuel Malbon, R. N. 29. At Milbank-row, Mr. Robt. Stockell, 49. In Gloucester-place, Thos. W, Payler, esq. of Heden, near Canterbury, 68. In Bryanston-street, Mrs. Gough. In Grosvenor-street, West, Mrs. Alexander, wife of John A. esq. In Rathbone-place, Mrs. Parisot, 71. In Tavistock-place, Lewis Crawford, esq. late of Montreal, Lower Canada. In Great Mary-le-bone-street, Mr. Burnet, surgeon. In Salisbury-square, John Collier, esq. 84. At Dalston, John Compart, esq. 81. At the house of her son-in-law, George Todd, esq. at Belle Size, Hampstead, Mrs. Stegmann, late of Riga, 65. In New Boswell-court, Wm. Ross, esq.75. At Brompton, Eleonora, widow of Thos. Hutton, esq. surgeon to the E. I. C. factory at Canton. In New Millman-str. John Rose, esq. 34. In Duncan-street, Chas. Bradburne, esq. In Old London-street, J. Moravia, esq. 73. At Putney, Mr. Wm. Layton, upwards of 30 years farrier to the Prince Regent, 72.Mrs. Eliz. Hooper. In Upper Grosvenor-street,Thes. Gardnor, esq. one of the Directors of the Sun Fire Of fice, 58. In Princes-street, Cavendish-square, Capt. Barrington Price, aid-de-camp to the late Sir Thos. Picton, in the battle of Waterloo. At Palmer's Green, Mary, relict of Peter Fountain, esq. 90. At Parson's Green, Henry Tahourdin, esq. of Olveston, Gloucestershire. George Edwards, esq. an alderman of the borough of Lynn, Norfolk, 46. In Lincoln's-Inn Fields, W. Ch. De Crespigny, esq. son of W. Ch. De C. esq. of King's Row, Hants. At Strawberry Hill, Elizabeth Laura, Countess of Waldegrave, 55. In Orchard-street, Sarah, wife of W. Buck eridge, esq. 76. In Pall-Mall, Susan, wife of Mr. Edward Wakefield. 171 On the 22d Nov.1815, ELIZABETH, wife of JOHN SOANE, esq. R. A. The death of this excellent and admirable woman, can neither be passed over in silence, nor mentioned in the common terms of regret; for there were traits in the character of her goodness, which rendered her virtues remarkable among the virtuous. Her understanding was solid, yet capacious-her heart firm, yet tender; uniting all that is great in man, with all that is endearing in woman. There was in her judgment, sagacity, penetration, energy, and decision; a majesty of intellect, which appeared given by nature for the express purposes of guidance and government; yet such was the compassionate sympathy of her feelings, the considerate kindness of her friendship, and the glowing warmth of her benevolence, that her power was ever grateful to all who owned its influence :-it sustained and delighted the circle in which she moved. Liberal, hospitable, and charitable, this excellent steward of the gifts of Providence combined economy with munificence, and generosity with prudence. Her taste was elegant, her mind enlightened; and, in the variety and activity of her pursuits, there appeared a concentration of wisdom and ge nius, which, without assuming their names, yet displayed their powers, and awoke admiration not less than her virtues insured esteem and affection. To the most undeviating integrity and high-souled sense of duty, she |