TAB,
And North-Carolina State Gazette.
No. 23,
RALEIGH, (N. C.) FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1816.
Vol; VUL
THE
FOREIGN.
tell them to come immediately, for my mother is
very much txhaiuted And near fainting. By this
incident three mutate were lost, leaving only
Lui fjr lib escape to his carriage."
From fAs Boston Palladium.
t'rom tlie Java Government xrll, received by Um
tUip Jacob Joh a-
Wc are now enabled to give the public a full
and interesting account of the Volcanic eruption
that has recently taken place oq the bland of
tiuixbwa'.
'Hie distance of Batavia from the Tomboro
mountain is between seven and eight hundred
utiles, which appears so enormous a apace fur
eminrl fn Ka rnnvnvi1 Avfr. that uA ranmii )iln
a go in pursuit, proceeded himself tothe prefect .Dn .,:n, tfc- volcano on the Sambawa is in none
police to inform him of the disastrous event e connected with other volcanic mountains
LAVALETTE.
To the Editor of the Journal it Parii.
"The account which you have given of the es
cape of Lavalette is correct, with the exception
.fcftwo circumstances.
You suted that the minister ot general pe
jice and the prefect of police went to the prUoo,
Lid immediately ordered the atrest of the aler.
Jou sould have stated that six minutes precisely
,fter the escape of M. Lavalette, the gaoler, after
ordering the keepers & myself jf and it was I who
atorped ue sedan cfiatr on the vpm acsurieviTsj
U was then only that the prefect sent my father
to the p. .son ot the prefecture. inow, n pro
bable that if the gaoler had been ruUty, he would
. Kate given an account so soon to the prefect of po
fikt, and placed himself at his wercj f would he
toot have concealed the escape until next aay,
my, even disappeared himself before it vas
known ?
Several journalists have said, that the gaoler
teemed to be guilty of negligence i no, sir, he was
' not. Hie gaoler was present in the front lodge
when when M. Lavalette went out, msguiseu jn ajj tic
his wife's clothes, supported by his daughter and
an old servant, all three sobbing and crying,
which appealed to him quite natural. It has
keen said, why was not the handkerchief taken
from his face ? But I ask those who put this
question, would they have done so themselves
to a female, to a female in the last agonies of
despair, at seeing her husband for the last time
previous to his ascending the scaffold ? VV ould
not 6uch conduct have been an insult and a cru
elty, with which the gaolerTriight have been just
ly charged ?
It has been said, why was it not discovered
at the various pickets, that a man and not a w o
man was going out ? In answer to this it may
Jie said, that madame Lavalette everv time she
came to see her husband, was covered with a large
tfur cloak, which seemed to accord, with her sick
ly condition, and under which her shape was
Completely disguised.
"If my fathor had been capable of selling his
honour, he would have accepted the offers made
him by madame Ney to save her husband offers
ot which 1 now can give an account nom a con
versation of which I took notes immediately af
ter my father reported it to me s
On the lfth of November, at 7-o'clock in the
evening, she came into the lodge where I was ;
' the said tofwy .father that she was .desirous of
peaking to him in private I retired into the
front lodge. After both were seated she spoke as
follows : M.Rocquette,I krtow that nothingbut
the misfortunes you experienced at St. Domingo
reduced you to the necessity of becoming a gaol
er you have a Urge family. It may be-possi-ble,
if you wish it, to place them in opulence.'
How so, Madame.' A victim is wanted, and
my husband is marked out ; it depends upon you
to save him j set off with him ; nothing can hap-
pen to you; depend upon it my fortune is consi
derable I offer you half : nay the whole, if you
wish it.' What, madaine, do you propose to :
me to forteit my honor r ir, honor is not af
fected when it is necessary to save an unfortu
nate person.' No, madame, nothing can make
me traffic with my duty. Your grief affects me,
but I beseech you instantly to cease speaking of
& proposal which hurts me'hevond measure ?'
What will nothing in the world affect you in be
half of an unfortunate family ?' I participate
most sincerely in your just grief, but i cannot dp
more.' Then give me your word and honor
that you will not mention what I have said to
you to the marshal, who is ignorant of my propo
sal'. He made her the promise, and rose in or-
uerto put an end to the conversation winch was
in this island
' We may probably be wrong in orr conjectures
upon this subject, but it certainly appears to us,
that any sound . which could be conveyed over-a
space of six or seven hundred miles, must have
been insupportable at the distance of 35 p&als
from the Crater.
Extract of a jrivate letter.
On the 5th of April, a firing of cannon was
heard at Macasser the sound appeared to come
from the southward, and continued at intervals
eveuini.
wood ashes it lay in heaps of a foot ia'depth in
many parts of the deck, and I am ce-nvincea se
wral tons weight were thrown over board ; for
although a perfect impalpable powder or dust,
when it fell, it was, when compressed of consider
able weight, a pint measure filled with it, weigh'
ed 12 3-1 ounces was perfectly tasteless, and
mid not affect the eyes with any painful seusa
fjou had a faint burnt smell, but nothing like
sulphur.
By noon, on the 12th, the sun again appeared,
but very faintly through the dusky atmosphere.
The air still being charged with the ashes, and
which continued to fall Tightly all that day and
the succeeding one.
Ou going on shore at Moressa, I found the face
of the country completely covered to the depth
fan inch and a quarter great fears wejre en
tertained for the crop of paddy that was oalho
ground j the young plants being completely beaten
down and covered by it the hsh in the ponds at
Marrcssa were killed'and floating on the surface,
aad many small birds lying dead on the ground.
It took several days to clear the ship of the ashes;
when mixed with water it formed a tenacious
mud, dilhcultto he washed off my Chronometer
stopped, owing I imagine, to some particles of (
dust having penetrated into it.
from the 12 th to the 15th the atmosphere still
, disagreeable to him. She said to him on going
- away, -wiIl you think of it r will you reflect on
hat I have said ?' ' ' Madame, all my reflections
r finished, I beseech you to think no more of
tie gubjectyourself.' From this moment hea
toided being- alone with madame Ney, lest she
Should renew the proposal.
I have the honor to be, &c.
; (Signed)
" RQCQUETTE DE KERGUIDER, jun,"
- The escape of Lavalette having touched the
finest feelings of the human heart, the following
Wautc circumstances may be read with much
" interest, as the v discover the heroic presence of
s ttind which is peculiar to females, and on what
, trifling circumstances (as we, term them) our
, uvea and fortunes are sometimes dependent,
a! M When madame Lavalette visited her hus
wnd, she was carried from her carriage to the
.iprison in a sedan ; after sheieft the. prison Lav
.''Wette was in thehabit of leaning on the window
iith his head covered with his chamber gown,
od his back toward the door where the turnkey
;ntered, as one in the deepest distress. When
effected his escape, his wife, tn his gown, took
.vt; place at the window in the same position,
vherc she stood even minutes onZy, before the
fnkey. discovered the deception. Lavalette
wing passed out of prison in his wife's clothes,
leaning on th ana of bis daughter, about fifteen
3rs of age, who had been in the habit pf AC
'. jwnpanying her mother on these visit3; when,
wejcaine to the place where the aedan was left
three of the camera were m isslng; , The daugit
w inquired fqr them, and waa told they were in
j itte shop; Stic said to the one .left,go anji
seemed to approach much nearer, and sounded
like heavy guns, occasionally with slight reports
between.
During the night of the 1 1th, the firing was a
guin heard, but much louder, and towards morn
ing the reports were in quick succession some
times like three or four guns fired together, and
so heavy that they shook the ship as they did the
houses in the fort. Some of the reports seemed
so near that I sent people to the tnait-hcad to
look out for the flashes, and immediately as the
day dawned, I weighed and stood to the south
ward with a view of ascertaining the cause.
The morning was extremely dark and lower
ing particurly to the southward aud south-west;
the wind light aud from the eastward Percei-
inga large prow coming from the southward, I
seut a boat on board to get any intelligence she
might have to give, as she was coming from the
quarter from whence the firing had been heard
The m-ow was from the inland of Salaver. A
- ,
Dutchman who commanded her stated that he
heard the firing the whole night, but liad seen no
vessel or boats-rWalso stated that two days
previous to his leaving Salayer, about the 4tb.or
5th, a heavy firing had been heard to the south
ward ot the island j that the guns in the fort had
been manned in consequence, conceiving it to be
an attack by the riratea on some part of the isl
and, but as no vessels or boats had appeared, it
was at length concluded to be an eruption from
the volcano on the Island of Sambawa.
In consequence of this information and being
of the same opinion, I anchored the ship abreast
of Macasser, and went on shore to the resident
with the intelligence I found that capt. Wood
entertained the same opinion, as the house at
Macasser had been shook by some of the reports.
Indeed by this time, which was about 8, A. M.
it was v ery apparent that some very extraordinary
occurrence had taken place. The face of the
Heavens to the southward and westward had as
sumed a most dismal and lowering aspect, and it
was much darker when the sun rose ; at first it
had the appearance of a heavy squall or ap
proaching storm ; but as it came nearer it assum
ed a dusky, red appearance, aHd continued to
spread very fast over the Heavens. By 10 it was
so dark I could scarcely discern the ship from the
shore, though not a mile distant. I thun return
ed on board.
It was now evident that an eruption had taken
place from some volcano, and that the air was
filled with ashes or volcanic dust, which already
began to fall on the decks by 1 1 tlie whole of
the heavens were obscured, except a small space
near the horizon to the eastward ; the wind be
ing from that quarter prevented lor a short time
tlie approach ol the ashes ; it appeared like a
streak of light at day break, the mountains of Ce
lebes being clearly visable, while every other
part of the horizon was enveloped in darkness.
The ashes now legan to fall in showers, and the
appearance altogether was truly awful aad a
larming. By. noon, the light that had remained
in the eastern part of the horizon disappeared,
and complete darkness now . covered tlie face of
the day our decks were soon covered with fall
ing matter the awnings were spread fore and
aft, to prevent it as much as possible from getting
below, Dut it was so light aud subtile that it per
vaded every part of the ship. ,
The darkness was so profound during the re
mainder of the day, that I never saw any thing e
qual to it in the darkest night it was impossi
ble to see your hand when held up close to your
eyes the ashes cod tinued to fall without inter
mission through the night. At 6 the next morn
iiig when the sun ought to have been seen, it still
continued as dark as ev er but at half past seven,
I had the satifaction to perceive that the darkness
evidently decreased and by 8, 1 could faintly .dis
cern objects nil deck from this time, it began to
get light very fast, and by half past 9, tlie shore
was jdistinguishabie ; the ashes falling in consi
derabie quantities, though, not so heavily as be
fore, rhe' appearance of the .ship, when day
light returned was most extraordinary, the masts
rigging decks, and every .part being covered
with the falling matter it had the appeaiahee of
calcined pumice stone- nearly the colour f the
1 , Bambawa, is in lat. 8, 54, S.taa. 110, AT, K .
fowards sunset the reports contiuued very thick and dusky from the ashes
that remained suspended ; the rays of the sun
scarce able to penetrate through it, with little or
no wind the whole time.
On the morning of the 15th, weighed from Macas
ser w ith a very light wind Af on the 18th made the
island Sumbawa on approaching the coast passed
through great quantities of pumice atone floating
on the sca,which at first had the appearance of
shoals, so much that I hove too and sent a boat
to examine one; which at the distance of less
thau a mile I took for a dry sand bank, upwards
of three miles in length, with black rocks upon se
veral parts of it, concluding it to have been
thrown up during the eruption it proved to be a
complete mass of pumice floating on the sea, some
inches in depth, with great numbers of large
trunks ot trees and logs among it, that appeared
to be burnt shivered as if blasted by lightning.
The boat had much diihcultyin pulling through it,
and until we got into the entrance of Bima bay,
uie sea was uieraiiy covereu with shoals ol pu
mice and floating timber.
' On the 19th, arrived in Bima bay ; in coming ta
anchor grounded on the bank' of Bima town,
shoaUng suddeitly from 3 fathoms as the tide
was rising, hove off again without any difficulty
or damage. . I imagine the anchorage, at Bima
must have altered considerably, as where we
grounded the Teruate Crui&er a few mouths since
lay at anchor in six. fathoms. The shores of the
bay had a most dreary appearance, being entirely
covered with ashes, even up to the summit of
the mountaius the perpendicular depth of the
ashes as measured in the vicinity of Bima town I
iouuu three inches and three quarters.
From the account given me by the Resident of
ijiina, it appears that the eruption proceeded irom
the Tomboro mountains, situated about 40 miles
to tne Westward of Bima. On the night of the
1 lth, the explosionslie represents as most terrific,
aud compared them to a ueavy mortar fired close
to his ear.
The darkness commenced about seven in the
morning and continued until tlie middle of the
day, twelve hours longer than it did at Macasser.
The fall of ashes was 60 heavy as to break tlie
roof of the Residency house in many places, and
rendered it uninhabitable, as well as many other
houses in the town.
The wind was still during the whole time, but
the sea uacommonly agitated ; tl e waves rolled
in upon the shore and tilled the lower part of the
houses a foot deep ; every prow and boat was for
ced from tlie anchorage and driven on shore ; se
veral large prows are now laying a considerable
distance above high water mark
On the 22d the Dispatch country ship arrived
in the bay from Amboyna this vessel had mistak
en a bay,callled Dampoor Sanjier hay, for Bima,
and had gone into it: her boat was on shore at
Sanjier, tlie Ivaja of which place informed the
Officer that the greater part of the town and a
number of people had been destroyed by the
eruption ; that the whole of his country was
entirely desolate and the crops destroyed. The
town of Sanjier is situate about 4 or 5 leagues to
the S. E. of the Tomboro mountain jthe officer
found great difficulty in landing in the bay, a con
siderable distance from the shore being complete
ly filled up with pumice stones, ashes and logs of
timoer ; uie nouses appeareu oeuieu uuwu uuu
covered with ashes.
In passing Tomboro mountain, at the distance
of about 6 miles, tlie summit was not visable, be
ingenveloped in clouds of smoke and ashes, the
sides smoking in several places apparently from
the Lava, which has flowed down it not being
cooled ; several streams have reached the sea, a
very considerable one to N. N. W. of the moun
tain, the course of which was plainly discernable
both from the black colour of the Lava contrasted
With the ashes on each side of it, and. the smoke
which arose from every part of it. The Tomboro
mountain in a direct line from Macasser is about
217 nautic miles distant.
JWtr-Forfc, wtfay 24. ;.
latest from fRANC-i. By the arrival this
morning of ihe brig Kentucky-Belle, in 40 day
from Bordeaux, we have received Bordeaux pa
perrto the 9th of April, inclusive, containing Pa
ris date of the 4th.- They are filled with their
legthlative proceedings; which arfc-of n local .Hi
tare. We Had the following articles adder tai
ParU date of April 3.
, Mr. Patterson, th diughUr of Mr. Patfer-'
Sony a rich .American, is nomii thu city. Eh
comes to prcute her dai as tho lejitimat
heir of an ex-king, to the very, lafgo estate thai "
he ha left in thU country. It U' fcxpected thd
trial wUi come on Immediately!-. '.. V, '
M. Hyde de NeuriiU, this day aiUd, tho
Chamber, to grant him pehnafmott to be absent A
sufficient time to attend (o the mission, conferred
upon him. by his majesty, aa minister to thsTJtdt&l
State. lUi request was granted.' -4--
jTfte- rtV Philip. On Tnday- last, wl tiU
nounced this arrival at this port of foor Sfameft,
who lately belonged to the Philip, of Charleitoou .
which vessel had been lost at sea. By the Hrrirtl .
at Botttfn of the shijr Contest we" save' receive
the following particulars ' ' '
Tlie Philip, sailed from Charleston for Bor
deaux, on the 13th of April; On the 4ft, when
in lat 41, long. 45, she was strMtkby a Whd$
th w art her stem. By the blow the stem and cut
water were laid atliw artship to the starboard from
the" scarf of the keel to the scarf of (he stera which
was a foot above water. . .
They then took in all sail, but the 1 eat Increas
ed so 'fast upon the pumps, that in- hall an jbour
the water was above the cabin floor The eapj
tain and crew used every effort to stop the Ieaa
but all were in vain. , v -
They now got out the brig's long boat,;intd
which thev threw some clothinst and provisions
The passengers, consisting of a French lady .and
five children, the captain and crew, in all 15
souls, committed themselves to this little1 vesaeL
Next day they fell in with the Contest, and wera
received on board by captain George. '
v fttris, March 21 v
Among- the remarkable traits in the' discourse
of the Curate Vincennes, on the anniversary of the
death of the Duke D'Knghein, the following was
particularly noticed s Awaked at midnight, on
the 21st of March, to be conductod to the place1
of execution, the prince asked the officer who was
the bearer of the order What dojrbtt want
with me ?" A profound silence.- What o'clock .
is it ?" Midnight, " replied the officer, in a gen-
tie tone " Midnight l" exclaimed theprincej
that hour is fatal to me t at midnight I was torn
from my house at Ettenheim j at midnight theJ
dungeons of Strashure were opened fop'BHs at
midnight I was torn from thenar to bv conducted
hither ; it is no v midnight. ' ' i navfl
lived enough to tnow how to die 1" , ,
The ceremonof the; Duke D'EnghewVnuierV
al took place yesterday at Vincennes, with mffect
ing simplicity. Those who conveyed the remains
from the castle to the place of interment -WereJ
chiefly the companions of the long and glorious
life of the prince of Conde, the warriors who had
braved death with him and his sons on the fields
of battle, who had atonce looked in the face the pe-'
rils of war and the fury of executioners old ser
vants of that illustrious house, or the companions ,
of the infancy of the heroo whom they paid the
last duties. Among others were present thj duke
de Vauguyon, the viscount Chateaubriant, count
Lynch, and a number of military officers, togeth
er with several foreignner9,among whom was re
marked Sir Sidney Smith. The marquis de Jut
vert pronounced a laconic runcrai oriuuu in uic
true military style of eloquence. Thef bishop of
Chalontcelebrated massjandtherectnrofYincen
nes pronounced the funeral eulogy Many tears
were shed, because it detailad with great simplici
ty many traits in the life and circutnstanefel
which attended the death of the young herd. The
heartfelt grief displayed on every countenance,
formed the chief pomp of this affecting ceremony.
This was not only visible among those who took
part in it more immediately, but in the soldiery &
inhabitants of the neighbourhood, who flocked to
gether in great numbers. ' It is but justice td the-'
French people to state, that however much . they (
have been misled in other respects, they nevetv
for a moment remained insensible or blinded to
the horror of the murder of the duke d'EngheiH
At Paris, the consternation was extreme on the
day of that dreadful crime. As a proof of this
it has been strongly asserted that the consump
tion of articles of subistence was leas that day ,
than usual. Terror was also at its height, and '
was indeed so great, that the conduct of the may t
or of Vincennes, and that of M. Chateaubriant,
who threw up their functions on the occasion, .
were deemed acts of extraordinary tirtu&nf v---?
The first and second council of war of the n
first military divison will before the first of March j
take cognizance of the processes in contumacy ju M
fiinst generals Lallemant, Delaborde, Clausel, .
xcelemans, and Lefevre Desnouettes. .
The Prefect of the Rhone has addressed , the
following details to several of his colleague's I
" General Mouton Duvernet, doubtless.despair
ling to escape any longer from the searches simuL ,
taneously made m several departments j adopted sv
the resolution of delivering himself up a prisoner,,
at Montherison, and relying on tne king's cle-t
mency. In transmitting this important news I
seize with pleasure the opportunity to contradict
the reports which ere circulated respecting the
situation of Lyons and the Burrohnding country. t
By correspondence from diffierent and, tcry dis
tant departments, I learn that "the most Absurd
accounts ' are spread and credited and whatap
nears remarkable, is, that while at Paris ananxiei
I ty seems to prevail as to the state of Ljons, sto ;
Uaes equsily destitute of foundation, are told .re?
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