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ile in military province, where snOws, labor, haa'd living. and every sort Of severity reduced him tO a mere shadow, when, by accident rather than design, he was set at liberty On the accession of the present man, Nicholas. l remember he told me that 1t was in a night in February, when descending from his car riaSc at his hotel at St. Petersburgh, on his return from the theatre, that at the moment of entering his dwelling two officers of the pO- licc presented hcmselvPs-demanded if his name was noi -? He replied in the afr rnaIive. You must go with us.' Where v he demanded. .Never mind, you must go with us.' sWho are you' demanded the Russian gentleman. Never mind, you must go with us' Let me first go up stairs to ar- range my affairs No, you must go with us.' But shall pot be an hour No, you have not a minute.' 'Then let me, at least. embrace my wife and children, and tell them am arrcsied.' No, onr orders are peremp- tory you must go with us.' They placed him instantly on sledge-thpy set on each sidr-in two minutes the vehicle drove off; and in a few hours afterwards his wife and children knew from copy of the receipt sent to them, that their father and their husband was taken off perhaps for ever. The mother and wife lost their sVnses, and died in mad house. The children survived. but the daugh- ter fell victim 10 seduction, and the son was

 made soldier. There is no fiction. and nn exaggeration in this. It is a picture unvarnish- ed. and indeed a mere sketch of what we

 mean, ,when we write against despotic govern ments-and such facts as these chill our blood, nerve our arms, and make us swear eternal enmity to despotic governments and absolute mOnarchies.-O. P. c.