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The Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
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Extract from a letter in Magdeburgh denies rumors of Marquis de Lafayette's death; he remains imprisoned with Alexander La Veth and others in unwholesome conditions, isolated, under the Combined Powers, contrasting with Jacobin atrocities in France.
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From the General Advertiser of August 2.
We are favored thro a channel on which we can depend, with the following extract of a letter from Magdeburgh.
“I can assure you that the accounts inserted in several Journals of M. de la Fayette's being dead is false. He is still here with ALEXANDER LA VETH, and their companions in misfortune, in as good health as can be expected, in a prison very close and unwholesome. I have not seen them; for they are allowed to see nobody; they are not even permitted to communicate with one another. I shall say little of what I feel upon this subject; but I cannot help thinking that the atrocities of which the Jacobins have been guilty in France, in moments of alarm and tumults, are more pardonable than the deliberate injustice which these honorable men have been compelled to suffer—Few after this can any man trust to the moderation of the Combined Powers.”
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Magdeburgh
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As Of August 2
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rumors of lafayette's death are false; he and companions are alive but in poor health in close, unwholesome prison conditions, isolated from visitors and each other.
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Letter from Magdeburgh assures Lafayette is still alive with Alexander La Veth and companions in prison; they are in as good health as expected but confined strictly without communication; writer contrasts this deliberate injustice by Combined Powers with pardonable Jacobin atrocities in France during alarms and tumults, eroding trust in the Powers' moderation.