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his arm chair, with a book in her 
hand, and the candle burning be- 
bind her ona table. » At half-past 
six a gaoler entering the room, 
spoke to her, but met with no re- 
ply; he repeated the question, 
and astonished at the continued 
silence, he approached nearer to 
the lady, when with a smile, suc- 
ceeded by strong convulsions, she 
exciaimed “ I/ est parti !”—you 
may imagine the confusion. The 
prefect of the police was acquaint- 
ed with the event at a quarter be- 
fore seven; estafettes were dis- 
patched in every direction, and 
the barriers closed. | It was at first 
~~ rumoured that the ministers them- 
selves had concurred in his eva- 
sion ; that an English gentleman 
had conducted him away in his 
carriage, which was waiting at 
the end of the street for him; that 
one of the turnkeys had fled with 
him, &c. The first of these re- 
ports is absurd, the others I am 
neither able to confirm nor con- 
tradict. 
The police traced the chair two 
streets distant; there, it appears, 
M. de Lavalette alighted and step- 
‘ped into the carriage that was in 
readiness for him, It is conjec- 
tured he will fly into Bavaria, 
where his intimate friend and re- 
lation prince Beauharnois will re- 
ceive him with open arms, and 
the influence of that distinguished 
character is so great with the king, 
that should he reach his territo- 
ries, there can be little doubt of 
his future safety. This well-con- 
ducted plan was executed with pe- 
culiar felicity, and at the decisive 
moment; for M. Barbé Marbois, 
after several invitations, was re- 
Juctantly obliged to send yester- 
day evening to his majesty’s at- 
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torney-general, the papers which 
ex-officio passed through his hands 
from the Cour de Cassation. It 
is said, he has in some degree 
committed himself by keeping 
these important documents full 
two. days longer than the law au- 
thorises, in his possession, The 
attorney-general must have done 
his duty immediately, and Lava- 
lette would have been to-night a 
headless trunk.” 
21.—As Captain Thompson, of 
the Cistus, Newcastle trader, and 
two of his brother captains were 
proceeding on board their vessels 
in a sculler, about nine o’clock in 
the evening, one of the captains 
suddenly started up to prevent a 
barge running foul of them, when, 
by reason of his leaning too much 
on one side, and the tide running 
very strong, the sculler upset, and 
the whole were plunged into the 
river. The consequence was, that 
capt. T. and another were drown- 
ed; but the other captain and the 
scullerman by a miracle were 
saved, The captain and sculler- 
man were driven by the tide near 
to a boat, when a person who was 
in it, seeing a hand above water, 
instantly caught hold of it, and 
drew the person into his boat, 
who proved to be the captain of 
the Dorothy, and to his great sur- 
prise the scullerman had clung 
fast to his leg. The body of cap- 
tain Thompson has been found, 
and taken on shore, but we do not 
learn that the other captain has 
yet been found. 
26.—Last week, as two boys, 
about 1] or 14 years old, were 
employed in a barn, at Penneur, 
in St. Keverne, Corawall, where 
a loaded gun had been incautious- 
ly left, the elder one took it up, 
