The National Register. — London, England, 1815-11-12 00:00:00

TILE NATIONAL REGISTER. 12t Many an angry discussion took place, but no one was so frequently called to order as the Emperor himself. In the heat of debate he sometimes forgot that lie was not Emperor at home. But the execution of his threat of ()Meting a Mini s t er t o be s hot was adjourned by that Minister's assurance that the Emperor himself would not survive an hour after. •` These controversies in the cabinet of the Thuilleries were not altogether unknown to the Parisians, and were even sometimes rehearsed before the mob, hired to cry " Vive l'Ctupereor !" Acclamations were at first purchased at the rate of five !ivies a day, but the price was now reduced : no effort of the lungs was paid higher than thirty or forty sous, and the enthusiasm of the populace diminished in proportion to its current value, and even their respect was measured by their salary. An animated discussion between Buonaparte and his Arch-Chancellor happening to take place at the window of the Thuilleries, the Emperor, accus tomed to ill treat his Ministers, seized him by the collar. The scene was witnessed by the mob, who related to their fellows the scuffle between Pere la Violette and his comrade, in the same manner as they would have recounted one (4 the battles which takes place for their amusement, between the puppet-show actors of the Boulevards." " Joy brightenad his crest. He was drunk with hope on reconnoitring the English army, A Council of war was held in the morning. He reluctantly seemed to yield to the opinions of all his Generals, that it was prudent to suspend the attack. put before they rose from a rerast to which he had invited them, the noise of the artillery told them what account lie had made of their advice. In a moment of in spiration be bad secretly given the orders, and his Generals had only to repair to their respective posts. " I stood by him," said General -- to me, " on a ring ground, and at a convenient distance. His astonish r.lent at the resistance of the British army was extreme. His agitation became violent. Ile took snuff by handfuls on the repulse of each charge. He exclaimed, "fhese English are devils. They ought to have given in two hours since.' Ere , the decisive blow was struck, he took me by the at 41 Come, General, the affair is over— we have lost the day, let us he off." " The country people had learnt that the invading army was that of the English, and they had heard that the English trocp! in exception to the goneral practice of plunder and devastation ; that they never ill treated the inhabitants; that they paid liberally for what they wanted, and caressed the little children. They beheld an armed host, four abreast, ratite when about to enter the field of wheat, in crossing the country, and changing their order proceed in Indian files, Gne by onc, along the narrow beaten path, careful to do no injury by treading on the corn, and avoid .‘ bruising the flowerets of the valley with hostile paces." No further hack than the 17th October, it is stated, that • fresh perLecution of the Protestants broke out at Nismes— seven of it!, [Host respectable inhabitants were on that day as••ssinated, nistallan, the leader of this Catholic baud. has sirwe been taken into custody by the military force. The veteran Blucher, we 'egret to hear, was lately thrown flora his horse, at a horse-tam on the plains of Sablon, and reteived a hart its his shoulder. Letters from New York arc said to state, that Joseph Buonaparte, beside:, other property, has brought with him a credit on aconiaaercial house in London, to tbc amount of Two rfundred nous . ata Pounds. . r . - FR ENCH PAPERS. OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH LED TO THE DEATH OF MURAT:- " Narays. OCT. 13. Jeachins Murat, who fled from Naples in May, sleight an asylum in France, when the is-expected snpearance of Napoleon seemed to open hi• heart to new hope-. Since the events consequent upon the battle of Watt rime. Murat remaire.d in Provence, less with the intention of finding safety. them with a view to ex c ite dis. turbonces among the inhabitants of those departments and t o ,e-bindle there the extinguished fires of civil war. The progress of the cited re ,„ nth s, and the devotednesa of Toulon and Mar•eiel,s to their legitimate Sovereien. forced this General to abandon France. The I'. !ice af N;:- pies, which had cowl:mile followed his steps during the whole time of his stay on the French territory, did lint lose sight of hint w hen I e r e ;ie . dotted there quarters.—Murat went to Corsica: he was ree ed these by M. Colontia Ceecaldi, Mayor of Vescovato The Pppraintwe of the fugitive General excited the attention and vigilante of the- Military Commander of the Island, who had soon versional! to he c, its tweed that this new guest had not repaired thither except to execute new no chiea. times which he meditated. Ve•covato became the head quarters of ad thy Corsicans who lead served at Naples under the orders to Gmeral who, by an atrocious violation of the rights of nuti• projected the surprise of Paola, and ilms attempted to tumble the traemillity of the Wand already submitted to the government of the Bestabens. Oct the 15th of September, a proclamation of the Chevalier Venter, v ie . moulder ad interim el - this military division. revealed the i rojects s f the fugitive General to the seduced inhabitants, and declared to be and reliefs those who should receive money (ram Murat. who, to took refute in Ajaccio, where he continued to hold in pay ahem litlo men, However, several public journals announced thnt the getter city 11 the Allies had olrered to this General an asylum in Ger :oily, under the pre. tection of the Emperor of Austria, Kine of Bohemia ; the, he Ought with his family choose a habitatien in one of the cities of Menem, of nobenria, or of Austria Superior, and there live tranquilly as a p r i va t e individual ; that, in short, an E. glish frigate was aepoinet d to conve y him from Corsica to Trieste. The re•nit e f these rumours was looked for, when, on the tiLhit of the V.llth of September, Getter. I Murat fled from Ajaccio. Although his pr iccts appeared altogether romalaic, the Neapolitan Government had pieced light vessels as crul•ers to watch the coasts of tl:e kinedom ; so that there was a line of reined vessels from Gaeta to Mentecircello ; another from the puha of Croup:foie to the /Imre.; a third front the Cmpelt ienrmees to the lonian sea. The event justified the wisdom of arse precautions. On the Hilt of this month, at noon, General Murat, with two small vessels, approached 11. e coast of Pizzo, in Calabria Ulterier. He disembarked imo-rel'ately with a suite of 30 perms, among whom were Lieut. General Fraoces chetti, and Marshal Natali. From the coa the marched quit Iy to the rill:tee. When he arrived there, he attempted to excite the stir of a civil war, by crying out to the people. " I am your King. Joachim Murat : you ought to acknowledge me." These words were the origin of a general commotion : they ran to arms. Murat and his suit.. who were pruceeding towards Monte-Leone, seeing themselves pursued hry 11. e pole:lace, threw themselves precipitately among the mountains, whence they attempted to open for themselves a way to the coast, fur the purpaie of finding the vessel which waited for them; but overcome by the number and courage of their pursuers, they were made prism:. era, and condneted, in spite of the most active resistance en their part, to the fort of P:zza. Ti, the heat of the enceunter,C..ptain Eernice was killed, and General Frenceschetti wounded, as well as seven other per seina in the s;::te of Murat. While the action was most lively, the two vess e ls f e ; r l. The whole expedition of General Murat was eeeoposed o f six vessels ; four fell into the bands of his Majesty's marine : the other two were r parsued. It, is said, that another eneLarkation had put on slime, an the coast of License, three emissaries, charged with criminal operadoain This event has not in the least disturbed our trmiquillitr. Es-cry where is preserved 4 calm worthy of a nation, the friend of or der,. and tenderly attached to its legitimate Sovereipn. The police, which was acquainted with the most secret designs of :floret, had dis posed every thine in sad' a manner that public order utivist not suffer : Inot its meesures bore always the character of a paternal goverament. Althuuch it was known that Maria attempted to plunge the cottony into all the horrors of anerrhy and civil war, the government never per -mined, in the ivleile exteefof kingdom, n single individual to be arrested ; so deeply cunvineed was it of the fidelity of its •nbjects. Thisahres honour to the heart of the Kine, wild was not deotriv ed ii, thus confiding in the devoted affection of his peupic." It.appears.that Murat before he left C , riea was made acquainted with the offer of the Emperor of Austria, iu crant him an iota lain in lihs dominion ; Lott this he refused, and proceeded upon his enterprise to reconquer ss throne with fifty men! M 0 26 , - ~~ NOV. 12. 1 ;, •