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I faid a few confufed words. *! Do you 
not know? (replied he): I am the phyfi- 
cian who vitited you in the fort, and 
have been fent hither to examine into the 
ftate of your health.” He then felt_my 
pulle, looked at my tongue, and shen faid : 
‘© You are ftill very weak: I fhall fend 
you fome medicines to-morrow.’” ‘This 
man was a German, and his name is 
Baile. 
- On the following morning an officer 
came to my bed-fide, with an order, that 
I fhould come to the Governor. . I told 
him that from my great weaknefs I was 
fill eeeapatie of walking. I afked him, 
however, for what pur pate ‘T had> been 
fent for. - He anfwered haftily << DL’ Biz- 
perenr vous apardoné.”’ replied: ** Ne 
trompes: pas un malbeureux par des 
UaiNnes aoe oles: eft en vain que vous mé 
berces 2 efperances!"* But he affured me, 
upon his honour, that the Emperor had 
pardoned me, and immediately left me. 
He was a Ruffian, and a man of highly 
polithed manners. About haif an hour 
atter, two grenadiers came, lifted. me out 
of my bed, and carried me to’another very 
dirty apartment in the Police-houfe, whi- 
ther my trunk was likewife brought. I 
now no longer doubted that they were 
preparing for my journey into Siberia. In 
a few minutes they carried me into the 
court, and Jaid me in a wretched cart with 
one borfe, where my trunk had already 
been placed. The place was crowded 
with fpectators: I faw tears flow, hands 
litted towards Heaven, and heard fighs of 
compaffion refound through the air, The 
cart drove through the gate, and crowds 
followed me through feveral ftreets. I 
Jay wrapped up im a cloak, and wept 
aloud. We foon pafled through the gate 
of the city; and Peterfburg lay behind 
me. I raifed mytelf up, and, overcome 
with pain and grief, exclaimed,  ‘* Fare- 
well amy. beloved wife! Farewelh my: 
{weet darling child !’’—and then again fell 
back, my heart torn with unfpeakable an- 
guifh. F 
When we arrived a the firft helene I 
was fo ill that I could not move. The 
perfon who. had there the eharge of the 
prifoners, was fo compaffionate as to 
keep me four days. During this-time I 
recovered from the violent agitation of 
mind into which I had been thrown by 
my fudden departure: but my great de- 
bility. till. continued. However, I was 
obliged to. proceed farther; and it is now 
four months that I have been travelling 
the road of exile-and mifery. Every day, 
Exportation of Books to the Weft Indies. 
{May 1, 
I more and more fenfibly feel the 
nefs of my misfortune. 
thing—my wife, my child, my office, my 
reat 
bread, my honour, my domeftic and civil’ 
happinefs, my friends, my health is de- 
ftroyed; my life ittelf hangs by a flender 
thread. 3 igh, 
'The above account of Mr. Seider’s fufferings 
is extracted from a letter which he wrote 
from Siberia to one of his friends.—In an- 
other letter he tells his friend, that he had 
difcovered what might have been the caufe 
of the cruel 
Amongft his papers, which he left behind 
him in his ftludy, was a Catalogue of the 
Dorpat Rvading Society, among which were 
feveral forbidden books. This catalogue, 
which he had borrowed for a few days, had 
probably been feized and fent to Peterfburg, 
where it had perhaps been miftaken for the 
catalogue of Mr, Seider’s own library. 
Every friend of juftice will hear with 
pleafure, that the prefent Emperor Alexan- 
der has, with the humanity which is charac- 
teriftic of his mind, not only reftored Mr. 
'T have lof every 
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fentence paffed upon him. - 
Seider to his clerical -fun€tions, but ordered: 
him to be vefted with the firft living in Li- 
vonia which may. become vacant, allowing. 
him out of his privy purfe an annual in- 
come of feyen hundred and fifty roubles 
(nearly one hundred pounds) until fuch a va- 
cancy may prefent itfelf. 
Mr. Seidez bears the chara&ter Hea man of 
learning. He pofleffes almoft all the modern 
languages, and has on many occafions diftin- 
guifhed himfelf Ashe poetical compofitions in 
German not inferior to the beft _ produc- 
tions of the prefent day. 
The fubfcription for his benefit which 
Kotzebue (in The Mofi Remarkable Year of his: 
Life) mentions as having been made for him, 
to avery large amount, at a dinner, after the. 
late Emperor’s death, did not take place.— 
The inhabitants of Peterfburg, particularly : 
the foreigners, raifed him feveral confidera- 
bie fums, which were partly remitted to him 
in Siberia, to pay the expences of his journey 
back, and partly were employed forthe fup- ~ 
port of his wife and family. 
ar 
To the Editor of the Monthly Meas: ime. 
SIR, 
YY “fille valuable Magazine bas lately 
fallen into my hands, and I lament, 
in common with all lovers of literature in 
this part of the world, taat, it has not 
long tince been expofed to fale in Jamaica, © 
The circumftance that a periodical work | 
fo obvioufly popular in Great Britain, 
fhould not have been introduced here till 
now, fuggelts to me a queftion connected © 
with the interefts of literature, to which - 
Tbeg 
wae, 
