The Voice Of Freedom

RUSSIAN SEVERITY.--In a German paper, the well known authoress, Fanny Tarnow, gives the following affecting description of the fate of the Prince and Princess Trubetskoi. The prince was concerned in the conspiracy which took place immediately after the death of the Emperor, and was condemned to work for fifteen years in the lead mines of the Ural Mountains. The princess, who was nearly connected with some of the oldest families in Russia, accompanied him voluntarily into exile in the year 1826. In this terrible situation she bore him five children. In Siberia the children of a convict are also considered convicts. They are not allowed to bear any family name or receive any education, and are distinguished by numbers only. At the expiration of the period of punishment in the mines, the friends of the prince hoped that he, his lady, and his children would now have a better fate; but an ukase ordered the Prince Trubetskoi into one of the most remote places of the icy deserts of Siberia, where he and his family were to found a colony, and in a spot where they would be deprived of all aid and assistance. In vain the prince and princess begged to be allowed, at least to settle in the neighborhood of Tobolski where there was a doctor and apothecary for their sickly children.

Their prayers seem to have been lost in air. The German authoress has now come forward to ask for mercy for the prince.