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, V: , Message of his Majesty be taken into consideratiotC : to-morrow, at which time he would state to the House the nature Of the. course which was intended • ta.be pr posed. 1. 7 TiEk4NEY-Will not the Noble Lord give us some general - idea of the intended course at present ? Lord CASTLEREAGH.—If I were to 'enter par tially upon the subject now, it would tend more to mislead than to enlighten Members. Mr. TIERNEY.—But surely the Noble Lord may inform us generally whether be intends to propo , ,e this measure orthat? If he does so, I shall not make a single observation upon it at present. Lord CASTLERE AGH.—The House may rest assured that no measures but such as are indispen sable will be proposed, and those only in o rder that the public service may net be injured in the short in terval which shall elapse before the ensuing Par liament. Mr. T[ERNEY.—We are still as far from the na ture of the intended measures as before. The Noble Lord talks of indispensable measures ; but many measures are indispensable. There is the Mutiny Bill, the Civil List, and some otter measures, Which are indispensable; but cannot the Noble Lord say what other indispensable measures he has in con templation ? Lord CASTLEREAGH.—The House will under stand what those measures are. Mr. T!EItNEY.—I do not think the House does understand them, and I believe nobody does, from anything which has now been said.—Here the con versation dropped. wits-fed a greater share of happiness and glory than bad fallen to the lot of any other nation on the face of the globe (Hear, hear). The House, he was sure, were anxious to testify their deep.affliction at the loss of a Monarch who, in the course of a long reign, and during periods of great trial, had, by his mild and amiable qualities, secured the love and esteem of the Nation. Indeed, the veneration in which our late beloved Monarch was held, and the general attach ment to him by all ranks and classes, were visible at every period of his glorious reign, but more par ticularly -on those melancholy occasions when he was prevented from superintending in person the interests of his people. In the unusually long period of his reign. the country had grown up to rank, power, and commercial splendour, unequalled among the nations of the earth. With these feelings as to the character of the late reign, there would not, he was certain, be any di:ferences as to the Address of Con dolence which he meant to propose. With respect to the other topic of the Address which he should have to move, he was as firmly persuaded, that, in congratulating his Majesty on his Accession to the Crown, u a lioase con.o not hesitate to augur hap pily of the future, ti - bm all that hau already occurred. Whatever- differences of opinion might exist as to particular measures, either adopted in his Majesty's Councils during the period of the Regency, or pro posed to Parliament, he was sure that the general feeling of the country would go along with the gra cious declaration made by his Majesty on his Acces sion; and that the experience of the past would satisfy all classes of the people, that it would ever be his Majesty's most anxious endeavour to promote their prosperity and happiness, and to maintain un impaired the religion, laws, and liberties of the kingdom (Hear, hear). His Majesty had made the example of his Royal Father the basis of his con duct; and he (Lord Castlereagh) was convinced, that if his late Majesty could have been aware of that which had been done in his name, it would have met with his unqualified approbation. On the past, the seal was set: it had become matter of history. In the future, he was convinced the wise and beneficent spirit would be evinced by which the illustrious Fa mily of Brunswick had invariably been distinguished. He trusted that his Majesty's reign would be long and happy. As far as his Majesty had already pre sided over the Councils of the Country, the result had been glorious. He rusted, and was persuaded, that his Majesty would have the . 4 ratification of add ing a new page of lustre to the English history ; and that as there was nothing of glory left to achieve, his Majesty would snatch the only remaining laurel, by cultivatin the Arts of peace, and by pursuing a course mai ke p d by policy, justice, and moderation.— The Noble Lord coacluded by moving, THE EVENING STAR, LONDON. " That an :nimble .Address be presented to his Majesty by this House, to convey to his 31.tj.:sty their expression of deep affliction on the lamented death of the late King—a Monarch whose virtue; had sO long afforded the brightest example to, and who had so long reigned in the hearts of, his people; to as sure his Majesty that they would never cease to cherish the re collection of the many blessings which the ccuntry had enjoyed under the mild and paternal government of his Royal Father, during his lung and eventful reign—a reign in which such ad vances had been made in Arts and Industry, in Commercial opulence and National power, and in which the country had de rived so large an acc'ession of glory, front the splendid achieve meats of his fleets and armies; to add to thcse expressions of deep regret and condolence on the late calamitous event, their roost sincere congratulations on his Majesty's Accession to the Throne of his ancestors; to convey their most dutiful assurances of loyalty and affectionate attachment to his most sacred person, and to entre t his Majesty to believe, that from the experience of the past, as well as f rim their confidence in his character and virtues, the firm conviction of the House that his reign would be marked by constant endeavours:to promote the general pros perity and haprin sof his People.' Mr. TIERNEY said, he should be as forward as any man to extol the virtues of his late Majesty— virtues too numerous to be repeated ; but in doing this, lie would mix nothing of political feeling— (Hear, hear). He was also ready to concur with the oble Lord in congratulating his present Majesty on his Accession to the Throne. No individual had a more sincere respect for his Majesty than he had, and be sincerely hoped that his reign might be long, and such as would do honour to himself, and bring lasting benefits to the country. There was one part The Public have at last seen our statements re of the Noble Lord's speech, and also of the Address, which he thought might better have been let alone. specting the differences in opinion which subsisted, lie alluded to the expression—" from the experience within the past week, between the KING and his of the past.' He wished to bury all the past in oh- Miaisters, admitted, by those who were the most lit ion. He would turn his back upon it, and only o• c hfident in denying it. We will not differ with look forward to a new reign. That, he trussed ; them in the eulogiums they have bestowed on would be such as to reflect credit on the Sovereig . n, and be of advantage to his people. He again hoped his MAJESTY for yielding to the opinion of his con it might be a long and happy one, and that his Ma- fidential servants, who are placed in a state of re ie..:y s Ministers would afford that advice which sponsibihty to the Nation for anything they may wt. ad be most beneficial to the country. advise, or suffer to • be agitated and transacted • The Address was then put, and carried unani mously ; and it was, on the motion of Lord CASTLE- under such responsibility. But we say mere—the REAGH, ordered., that in consideration of his• Majesty's acquiescence of his MAJESTY in the legal inferences illness, the Address be presented by such Members from the Statutes which apply to the case that ex of the House as were of his Majesty's most honour- cited the momentary agitation, is a happy presage able Privy Council. of the spirit with which the newly commenced reign THE LATE DUKE OF KENT. . ' Lord CASTLEREAGH now moved, that an Ad- will be conducted, and the country will Lip appre• dress of Condolence be presented to his Majesty on ciate an omen which promises so much happiness. the lamented and premature death of his illustrious This business having been set to rest, a Message brother, the late Duke of Kcnt. Ile expressed, what he was sure the House would join in, the deep afflic- from the Throne was sent to both Houses of Parlia tion which was felt by all at this unexpected cala- ment last night. The Message was delivered to the mity. lodeed, not one of the Royal Family could Peers by the Earl of LIVERPOOL, and to the Com be selected, who, from his strength of constitution, mons by Lord CASTLEREAGH. It begins by declar had a fairer prospect of long life and health than his late Royal Highness. His death was therefore the ing his MAJESTY'S conviction that Parliament shares more felt, as it was so unexpected ; and more parti-. in his affliction ; intimates that the dissolution of ciflarly so, as, during the whole course of his life, he Parliament, required by law, will not be delayed; had endeared himself to the country by his many and. recommends, therefore, that Parliament will virtues and amiable qualities. This the House felt, adopt those measures which may be most conducive and he was satisfied that she whom he had left to the protection of the country would receive the s} m- to the public interest :—that is , as it is generally un pathy of the House and of the Nation at large. derstood, will not enter on any discussions not imme - The question was put, and carried unanimously, diately necessary. - and ordered to be presented in the same manner as The Message is to be taken into consideration in the former. I both Houses this evening; when suitable Addresses On the motion of Lord CASTLEREAGH it was agreed to, that the House do condole with her Royal . of Condolence will be ordered to be presented to his highness the Duchess of Kent, on the lamented death MAJESTY. of her Royal Consort. The hint in . the Royal Message, to abtain from all This Resolution was ordered to be communicated 'oilier of business than that which the exigency affairs to her Royal Highness. Lord CASTLEREAGH then moved, that the may require, is considered, by some, as unprece. TIIE OBSERVER NEWSPAPER. The Funeral Ceremonies which took place upon the Interment of his late MAJESTY, will be given in detail in the thisxavna, of Sunday, the 20th of February. To those persons who may have preserved the OBSERVER of Sunday, the 6th instant, this Number will be very desirable, as the Two Pa pers will contain all the Official Forms and Documents neces sary for preservation and future reference upon this much lamented occasion.—N.B. The price of the Oaszavita is Seven-pence. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1820. THE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT OKI O'CLOCK Bank Stock 223 3 per Cent. Reduced 69 1 / 8 69 3 per Cent. Consols 68 3 / 8 5 A 14, 3/ per Cent. 77 1 / 2 3 / 8 4 per Cent. 87% 1,6 5 per Cent. Navy 103 101 7 /$ Bank Long Annuities 18 1 / 8 3-16 Imperial 3 per Cent. Anns. 68 1 / 8 India Bonds 13s. 15s. pr. Exchequer Bills (2d.) 2s. 4s. 2c. pr. Omnium Consols for Acct. 68% 5A y 34. CORRUPT BOROUGHS. Lord J. RUSSELL rose to say a word br two, which he wished to stand as a notice of a Motion of his for to-morrow. He would then move that the Speaker do not. issue his Writ for the .Election of Members for those Boroughs which were lately the subject of Parliamentary inquiry (Grampounl and Penryn) until some further measures should be taken with respect to them. If the Message which the House had just heard had not been brought down, he would have given notice of a Motion for leave to bring in a Bill to disfranchise one of the Boroughs, and to transfer the right of voting to some other place—a measure which he was yet uncertain whe ther he should not follow up ; fur the present, how ever, he would content himself with the notice for to-morrow. The motion that the Message be taken into consi deration to-morrow was then put, and agreed to ; and after some routine business of no importance, the Hr use Adjourned. ~.. 'tea, attd will, it is thought, giO rige tostizite dis cussion in both llousee. . . 'An 'Address of Condolence. on the lamented death of his Royal Highness the Duke of KENT, will . also '1:)e voted this evening: •:-. The Paris Papers of Tuesday,• which. arrived this morning, are filled with details respecting the melan choly event which has befallen the House of BOUR BON, in the removal, by a violent death, of one of its first supports, the Duke de BEHR'. We. hasten to Make as ample extracts on this mournful and inte resting subject as our titrie and limits will permit: FROM THE MONITEUR. His Royal Highness was present at the Opera with his spouse and several persons of his household. To wards the end of the Ballet, being neatly eleven o'clock, their Royal Highnesses withdrew, according to custom, and went oat .by the Rue de Rameati. The Duke was handing the Duchess into their car riage, when a man, darting through the attendants towards the per son of the Prince, struck him in the right side a blow with a sharp-pointed instrument, which gave him a deep wound, and was left sticking inthe place: the Prince made a motion and staggered; ' one of the Officers of his suite, ignorant of the cause, but believing that the Prince had been hurt, hastily pushed back the assassin, who seized this moment to escape ; a chasseur of the guard, however, ran after him, crying out, " Stop! Stop !“ and a waiter of a Coffee house intercepted the fugitive, who was arrested near the Arcade Colbert, and immediately conducted to the Police Office of the Opera. The Prince meanwhile had fallen into the arms of the persons who accompanied him, and the Duchess, from whom it was in vain endeavoured to conceal the event, sprung from the voiture to the assistance of her august spouse. In this state the e Prince was conveyed to the Management Room of the Opera, where the bed of the Secretary-General of that esta blishment was hastily prepared for him. Several professional men were instantly sent for. MM. Du- ' puytren and Dubois were very soon with the Prince, and administered to him every assistance which their art could supply. In a short time Monsieur, Madame the Duchess of Angouleme, and the Duke of Angouleme, were by the side of the Prince, whose courage, in the midst of his sufferings, and touching resignation, were not for an instant disturbed. Until two o'clock M. Dupuytren and his colleagues had hopes of saving his Royal Highness; but to wards three o'clock appearances became alarming, symptoms of suffocation manifested themselves, and all hope of his recovery vanished. The King, to whom in the course of the night they had not been able to announce an event pregnant with such disastrous consequences, was at last' in formed that the situation of the Prince was such as to cause the most serious alarms. His Majesty im mediately hastened to his nephew, and did not quit him for•an instant. The last moments of the Duke de Berri were con secrated to the duties of religion. , He requested and received the Sacrament; he asked to see his daughter, and gave her his paternal benediction. He recommended to the King his faith ful servants, and supplicated from the clemency of his Majesty the pardon of his assassin. The Duchess would not consent to retire till the King thought it necessary to impose on her his com mands. His Majesty remained by the pillow of the Prince ; he received his last sighs ; and with his Royal hand he closed his eyes. It . was then six o'clock in the morning. • The mortals remains of the Prince were conveyed to the Governor's apartments in the Louvre. During the whole day the priests of St. Germain l'Auxerrois were in prayer by the side of the corpse. Picquets of the body guard did duty. The gates of the Louvre were closed. The Duchess of Berry went in the morning to St. Cloud, where she was immediately followed by Madame Duchess of Angouleme. Monsieur and the Duke of Angouleme remained with the King. The first circumstances of the great crime, of the melancholy event, which has - plunged the Royal Family, and the hearts of all Frenchmen in grief, are already but too well known, and are every where . re-echoed by the public lamentation. Victim of an execrable attempt, the Prince died with admirable courage, and a greatness of soul which seemed to aggravate the horror excited by the basest and most odious of all crimes. Surrounded by weeping friends, he suffered nothing to escape him but words of ten derness and sublime resignation ; wishes of clemency carried to a length which it belongs only to Divine Justice to grant, but which human justice has no right to extend. The illustrious relatives who were assembled around the Prince, received, with heart-rending af fliction, these last testimonies of his noble soul—these last sighs of a son and brother so much beloved, —The Duchess of Berry manifested all the agonies of the deepest despair at the sight of the husband; from whom she saw herself so cruelly divided: The same impression of profound sorrow has communi, cated itself to all who have heard of this horrible event. A deep melancholy has spread itself Over the Capital. The liveliest regret and indignatidn ate expressed in all public pla c es, and anions perscas of all conditions. Never was so cruel a loss honoured by a sorrow more general or more deeply felt. The great Bodies of the State have felt it their duty, in this deplorable crisis, to t olertin manifestation of the grief in which all France parti cipates. The two Chambers, when officially apprised 'of the event,• presented an image of consternation, such as might have been expecteJ from their•deva• 'tiohs to a Throne so cruelly assailed in brie of supports. Addresses were voted to the King, with marks of unanimous sorrow. The Chant . ber of Peers, conformably to the Char ter and to a provision of our laws, has been charged, by a Royal Ordinance with the prosecution of the crime. The accused, who was arrested at the mo ment when he had consummated the assassination, is about thirty-eight 'years of age, and is named Louis Pierre Louvel. He has been interrogated, and at once confessed the assassination, of which there was overwhelming evidence. It is said, that he does not evince the least appearance of regret, and exhibits a tranquillity as inaccessible to all emotion, as to all remorse. OFFICIAL PART. This day, the 14th of •• ebruary, 1820, at five o'clock in the afternoon, the Chanc_nior of France,. President of the Chamber - of Peers, wizlt the Merri bers composing the l3tn - 4.1, and all the Peers Of France.present at the Sitting of this day, repaired to the Chateau of the Tuilleries. The Deputation was conducted to, and received audience of the King, in the Ilan of the Throne, with the ordinary ceremonial. The Chancellor, in the name of the Chamber, ad dressed his Majesty in these words: " Sias—The Chamber of Peers were deliberating upon an Address to present to your Majesty expressive of its profound grief, and to assure you of its zealous concurrence in whatever measures the exigency of circuMstaaces may require, when it found itsvlf stopped by the Orditianoe, which erects it into a judicial Court ; the functions of Judges, to which we are called, allows us only the language of sorrow. But the Chamber of Peers come in body as soon as the forms emanating from your wisdom permit it, to lay at the foot of the Throne the homage of sentiments v:hich all France participates with it." Tile KING replied, " I receive, with sensibility, this expression of the sentiments pf the Chamber of Peers. lam happy to see that it is disper?.d to cor.cur in whatever measures circumstances :nay render ne cessary, and which I shall propose very well." At eight o'clock at night a grand Deputation from the Chamber of Deputies, accompanied by a number of Members of that Chamber, were admitted to present to the KING the following Address : " Stitz—We will not attempt to describe the horror excited in your faithful subjects of the Chamber of Dept.ties by the dreadful event of last night. We come to mingle our grief with the profound sorrows of your Majesty. The consternation spread through all classes of the inhah:tants of this capital, already give proof of the public indignation. in seeing that a parricidal hand has plunged the dagger into the heart of the Prince whom we adore, France will feel desirous to see drawn closer the ties which unite the French People to your august House, without which, neither liberty nor public tranquillity can exist. " But your Majesty expects from your faithful subjects of the Chamber more firmness of mind. The nature of the crime, the consequences that may follow from it, irduce us to hope that your Majesty will take measures for the safety of the l'eople, u we shall for the conservation of the Dynasty. " It is particularly is adversity that Monarchs slit* their su periority to other men. Persuaded that your Majesty's great soul, rising above grief, will take measures to prevent the con sequences of an execrable crime, we are re.dy to concur with energy and devotion, and in conformity with our constitutional duties, in any measure which the wisdom of your Majesty may judge expedient in the present grave situation of affairs?" The 'Ring answered : " I am deeply sefisible of the part the Chamber takes in my just grief. I perceive with rleasure that they are disposed to concur.in my views on this important occasion. A man in heart, a Sovereign by duty, they cannot doubt that I will adopt the measures necessary to preserve France from the dangers of which yesterday's bortible attempt has given me too early I notice." FROM THE JOURNAL DES DEBAT& On. Sunday the performance, which was unusual ' at the Opera (par extraordinaire), consisted of the Nightingale (Rossignal) the Ma, i iage f' Camachn, and of the Carnival of Venice. Some minutes he forethe end of the last ballet, Madame the Duchess of Berri expressed a desire to withdraw. The Duke accompanied her to the carriage, gave her his hand tb assist her in getting into it, and one:of the footmen closed the door. .The Prince then prepared to go back to his box, and he had • just returned to re ascend the stairs, when an individual, who hal passed the sentinel of the Royal Guard stationed to ,keep guard at the entrance, darted at film, caught a strong grasp of his left shoulder, and having raised his own arm over his rightsbaulcler, plunged into his right breast, between the seventh and eighth ribs, an instrument sharpened, with two edges, from seven to eight inches in length, and fastened to a wooden handle, of rude workmanship. With such gm; t Violence was the blow given, that the weapon en tered to its full length into the body of the unfortu nate Prince. With feelings of indescribable horror we announce the name of this assassin, which is already coupled with those of J?availlae and of Damien,' and Whiel Must hereafter take a share in the infamy of their immortality. - That name is, Pierre-Joseph Louvel, he is a saddler by trade, and for three months hzci I been employed In the saddlery a the King, ddring which tine he resided in the Groat Mews, He had been a soldier belonging to the train of artillery of the guard, nailer Bonaparte, and had even, it is said, followed him tO•the Isle of Elb a , : • • • 4t the iu.tant when the Prince felt himself stab:- 'l . '