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LONDON JOURNALS. FRONI TI lE. AIORNING PAPERS OF. nits DAY. [The Times ASSASS'INATION OF `flir: DUKE DE BERRI. EXTRACTS OF. PRIVATE LETTERS. " Paris Feb. 14, 4 ft-chich, " have to communicate to. you Lictiuse of so horrible a nature as to spread universal dismay throughout this city. as it undoulvedly as the intelligence arrives, through eves y part of France. I have waited till the last moment, in order to send you, if possible, some det'ails of the examination of its author, but they have not yet The crime was committed yesterday evening, at 11 o'clock, when the Duke de Bet ri, who had just quitted tlie Opera, and was abut to enter his carriage, received a s:iletto in tran , pirt his breast from the hand of an assassin. He was immedia!ely arrested, and will no doubt suffer the conseynenees of is crime. 'fhe Pt ince was iinme- diately carried into one of the saloons of the Opera house-, where all the assistance the medical art could supply was administered to him, but with out effect, the weapon having penetrated too deep not to inflict a mortal wound, and he expired at five o'clock this morning ;, all the Plinces of the Royal Family, and evin the King himself, being present with the Dike in his last moment. Up to this hour, nothing more is known on the subject. Paris . is perfectly tranquil ; but a general consternation has spread through all ranks •and all parties, who participate in the same feeling of horror at this melancholy event. 'the two Chambers immediately assembled to prepare an Address to the King. The Ex change has been shut to-day, and no business transacted : ail the public places are closed by order. P. S. It appears probable that the crime is of a private nak nre, and that it bas not originated from any motive connected with political feeling. " l'Attts, Fza. 14.--A horrible crime has been committed, which has spread consternation through the city. His Royal Highness the Doke tie Belli was assassinated last night on leavin2 rite Opera by a z•addler's servant (gar con sellier), formerly a soldier in the old Imperial Guard, who appears to have been impelled to this dreadful act by the most atrocious political fana ticism. Ile was immediately at rested, nor hav-• ing, indeed, mode any effort to escape. He de clared that ire hail meditated the crime for four years. The Plinee died at 7 o'clock this morn ing. This e,ol.reophe has suspended all business, and may produce, at some future period, the most calamitims .‘quences ct of a Letter datctl Petri's, Teb. at 9 o'clock A.M. fre,ns M. Da pa yt reit. " I ;tr) exceedingly distressed to acquaint you with a trighttul calamity, pregnant with import ance. The Duke de Berri was struck yesterday, at I I o'clock in ;he evening, as he was leaving the Opera, with a poniard, which was plunged i nto hi s br e ast by a journeyman saddler employed in the Royal Mews. Ile, in consequence, died this morning ! He expired at G o'clock, in spite of all my care and exertions, and those of the most skilful physicians and surgeons mho assist ed. me. Political fanaticism armed the hand of this wretched assassin, as formerly religious fanaticism armed that of Ravaillac. I am so overwhelmed tvi!h distress, that I cannot de tail all the painful and melancholy circumstances of this catastrophe. The last words which tl•e Prince uttered %sere in favour of his assassin. He entreated his uncle to spare the lite of this wretch ed malt. But supposing this request could be granted, could that man endure to live, who, with o ut having any personal wrong to avenge, could assas , ,inate the bravest and most generoas of Princes i" Spanish letters arrived yesterday in regular course of post, but without communicating any further details of the insurrection. The troops on the Isle of Leon are nomr stated at 12,000 men, and another attack on the Cortadura was ittedi tated. The general tone of the letters indicates the pi obahility of a stronger resistance on the part of the Itwirgents, and greater difficulty and delay to the Royalist troops in accomulishing their re duction than the preceding accounts bad led us to expect.— (Ibid.) . [Morning Chronicle. l An Address •of Cmidolence, on the latnentetl death of his Royal Highness the Dike of Kent, will he voted this day ; anti vc should be • satisfied to hen some notice taken of the hasty disposal of the Itingert•hip of Hampton Court to Sir Bell illoowfield, instead of .conierring it on his beloved widow, in whose state and com fort, under her severe rine:ion, the puhlic basso deep au interest. Not metely do her hno Wll vir tues, and the assiduous tend e rness with which she watched m'er the departing hours of her af- ft!ctionatc htft•ind make her dear to the people of England, Litt alto the hopes that are entertained of her adding another security to the confirm- tin c e of the iiittmtrioos line of Brunswick on the Throne of the United Kintiont. [3lorniqg Post.] Some of the Papers most strangely persevere in stating that there has been a serious disagreement between the. King and his Ministers, and that the latter bwl actua!ly rendered their lesignatiou. In n il this there is not a single word of truth. The Public may rely upon what we have stated on this snb;ect, and which we deem it unnecessary at pre se;;; to repeat. The King had nu hesitation in Hr i , g with his Constitutional Advisers, with io • the pri T er course to be pursued in a eertiit case not only of deep interest to his Ma jesiy's feelings, but of infinite importance to the honour of the Nation. The circumstances are of' a nature, perhaps, altogether unprecedented. Ells, Majesty is no only well with his Ministers, hut,' we are rejoiced to state, perfectly well in health.: ,His. Majesty leaves town to-morrow for a short: time. [Brit iSIL Press] Private letters received yesterday from Dublin, state, that the Proprietors of Covent-Garden Theatre have entered into a treaty for the Dublin Theatre, which promises to afford much satishiC. lion to the inhabitants of that city, as they will have a constant supply ofihe first rate talents of -Covent-gurdru in succession during the season. [Morning Herald.] THE ROYAL ESTABLISHMENT AT WINDSOR.— We understand that it is fbe intention of his Ma jesty to cause the Castle at Windsor to be closed, agreeably to the etiquette which requires that the }'oleo:,. in which a Sovereign expir e s, shall re main entirely upoccuPied for the space of one year after the death. In furtherance of this measure, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, in letters . lately received from IlanO‘rr, terptested his sister, the Princess Sophia, to take up,tier re sidence. at Carnbtidge-house, iu South Audley s'reet. lit r Royal Ilighnes:, accepted the invita tion, and removed there on Monday last, accom panied by the Duke of York.—The PrioceSs Au gusta, we have already stated, retires to Frog more, now her own property, by the wilt of her late Majesty ; but, plevionsly, her Royal Highness will pay a visit to her beloved an loog-alisent sister, her Majesty the Dowager Quern of Wir temberg.—All the other inmates of the Castle, in pnrsuance of a Royal order, will have quitted it in a few days—we believe by Sunday next. GENERAL ELECTION. Yesterday a onmeroos and most respectable Mee:ing of the Livery, and other friends and sup porters of 'flioNs WiLsoN, E!;(1 P , ‘vds held at the City of London Tavern, BADEN Po ELL, Esq: in the Chair.. All agreed wi;it respect to the necessity of the City being represent.ed by a Gentleman of the extensive commercial know ledge poss.essed by Mr. Wilson ; atilt a vat iety of Resolutions were passed to that effect, and for using the utmost exertions to promote the inte rests and secure the return of Mr. Wilson at the ensuing. General Elect ion. We understand that the inhabitants of the Bo rough of Southwark will - shortly he convened, for the purpose of taking into consideration the pro priety of inviting Sir JOHN SILVESTER, Br.rt. Re coirder of L and Mr. BOLLA ND, the Coun sel, to become Candidates at the next General Election, to repreSent that Borough m Parlia ment. • Lord CLIFTON has again solicited the votes of the Fieemen of Canterbury. JOHN WILLS, E:cl. the late High Sheriff for the County of Kent, 'will, it is said, start for Maid stone. ?lit•. A. W. RoBERTs has again offered himself as a Candidate for that Town. Tire expected dissolution of Parliament already occasions co►►siderable intrest. ?dr. 11. J. ADEANE intends to offer himself again for Cambridge; and a third Candidate for the Coon y is very generally mentioned. RESURRECTION 130w-STRE ET. —Yesterila v Michael 11 7 00 d, Pa trick 'Murphy' , and -- were brought to the Office, and underwent an cx'amination, ehroged with robbing the burying•grounrl of the parish of Sr. Clement Danes', in Portugal-street, Lincoln's inn -fields, of a number of dead bodies.' Joseph Crouch stated, that on Monday morn ing last, about two o'clock, he saw all the pri soners enter the burying-ground in Portugal. street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, by a wicket-gate, and afterwards he watched then, having no doubt what their object was, when be saw a large sack thrown oter the wall, which he had 110 doubt Contained two bodies, and they brought out a small sack through the wicke t- gale, Which he had no doubt contained one bovdy.' Both the sacks were put into a hackney-coach which was wait ing, and drove away by the prisoner - IVood, whom he. knew to be a hackney-coachman ; the pri soners, Wild and Murphy, rude in the coach with . the sacks. He followed the coach to St.Thoittas's Hospital, in the 'Borough, where the sacks were taker) in. On the following day he gave infor mation to the parish officers of St., Clement Danes of tvhat lie had seen, when an examina'ion of the burying-ground took place ;- it wad ascertained that the bodies of three old people, which bad been, interred on the Sunday, had been stolen, one of theM 82 years of age, and the youngest was 72; thq were tWo women and a man. Only the bodies were taken, the coffins and shronds remain. knumber.of other bodies it Was ascer• I alact) hid hr en stolen, particularly in what was called the poor vault. Applicatiar! was - made at Union Hall Police Office fora r.7arrant to search St. Thomas's Hos- pital for the Stolen bodies, which. Was granted, and the grave-digger and his assistant of Si. Cie mem Danes' parish were taken irno custody on suspicion of being concerned the robbers. The three .bodies were not found at the hospital, but several surgeons were found, with aprons and dresses for dissecting a number Of bodies, all wills their - heads cut nil. Mr. Gurney, the Rector of the parish, attended yesterday, and complained of no: having received proper assistance at Union Hall Police °ace. be Vestry Cletk and Sexton of the parish also attended. The prisoners denied the charge, set up an alibi, and rectimittated upon the witness Crouch, whom they cliv - ged with having brought forward the accusation against them front spite or disap pointment, he being a resurrection man or body snatcher . , as they are termed; that he had been such from a child; and they had no doubt bnt that be had gone to St, Clement Danes' burying ground for the purpose of rubbing it, but fi n ding that the ground had been worked and the coffins empty, he was angry, because somebody had been there before him. The prisoners were ordered to find bail , or he cononiited.—The grave:digger and his assistani were discharged. P O,E T R -.MONODY—(D t. 13658 Y.) 0/4 1,114 LATE MAJ.RST.Y GEORGE THE THIRD. AECITED,BY..,IRS. W. WEST, Al the Y'heatie:Roval, Drury-lane, last night. When fancy's numbers breathe ideal woe, 'rite muse-extorted tears in languor flow : - But when our grief springs Vivid from the soul, The dewy . sympathies spontaneous On Albion's loss, what mind unmov'd can What British heart—and not with sorrow.swcll Though long the radiant coarse our Monarch run, Too soon, alas! we viewed his sinking sun. In honours, as. in years, he..constant grew; While rich his goodness, great hiss-tory too. His . Ronxcv, I)uNcAN, noblest laurels gain'd 'Mid ever-spreading pow'r his virtues reign'd, Vict'ry her hold, exulting flag unfurlid, And Britain guarded Ocean's subject world; • While Neptune envying, Mars revived the fight, And match'd our NEcsoN's with our WELLESLEY'S might. You, loyal Britons ! to your Sovereign's grace, • Ascrib'd the bounty pour'd upon your race; With candour's eye sot vey'd each foreign throne', But blest the-gem that glowed upon your own. (if%rrrrrrlhy monarchs, Whc . ) with our's could vie t•rtia.'s roll what foes e'er tanli'd so high Superior. or in peace, or war's alarms, He rival'd them in goodness, as in arms. Benign as pi ons—l'a trio/ —Husband—Sire Iti all things lov'd, that. reason can admire. The Sinint co,o'iining with the kingly part, God and a faithful people shared his heart. While rneland's Stair his fervent pray'rs enjoy'd Tit merit England's 'peal, his care employ'd. The pold;c morals by his flueoce shone, And all the isriratc v i r i llts w er e Iris own. Phil,inthropy, kind visitant of earth, TyCe of the Deity who gave her birth, To his tier melting spirit did impart, And tix'd her fane in hi , paternal heart. Ilis mind 'hove ev'ry grosser passion soar'd, And ballow'd teinCrancc grate'd his simple hoard. SCiellCe her homage to his shrine shall bring ; Her noblest patron, grateful Masic sing, : The :iris ire raised, in turn, exalt his fame, And British Genius glory in his name. This his blest image; brightly - as it gleams. His great successor shall relumet he beams. 'Fire Star of Brunswick still in glory reign, Still a loved GLottcE its shining coarse maintain. The :ion, enkindled by the Parent fire, • Shall emulate the honours of his Sire; Whom with the memory of goodness flown, Bid the august Example be his own ; Prove that though Kings are summou'd to the sky, Albion's Imperial virtues—never die. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMERIDGU, FEB. 17.—Ar a Congregation on Tuesday lasi, an Aoldross of Condolence and Con rattiltvion to his Most Excellent Majesty King Gent ge IV. was .voted unanimously. At the same CongtegAtion the Hey. rivnry Browne, M. A. of Lincoln College, Oxford, was incorporated of K , trg'A College, in this Univer shy ; and the Rev. John Davies, M. A. of St. John's College, Oxfotd, was incorporated of St. John's College, in this tlniversi;y Mr. George Rider, of Catherine Hall, and Mr. Thomas WarOen, of Trinity Hall, woe on- the same day admitted Bachelors of Atts.' . The day of the funeral of our late most gracious Sovereign v' as observed with mete!) solemnity in this University. The great bell of St. Mary's commenced tolling efi tiy. in the morning, and continued'throughour the whole day, except du ring the time of Divine-Service, The Vice-Chan cellor, fiends •of Houses, atni nearly all the, resi - dent Members of the University, assembled in the Struve Oonse at eleven o'clock, trod, atter ar ranging themselves in procession, left the Senate House at the Eastern door, when, turning to the , right, they proceeded along the Sonth side- nt it, and passing through the Cloisters under the Public Library, issurd out of the square, entering Sr. Mary's Church at the Western door, in the fol lowing order . The Esquire Bedells. The Vice• Chancellor. Noblemen. Doctors. The Public Orator. The Professors. The Proctors. The Taxors. Bachelors of Divinity, two and two. The Librarians and Registrory. 1 Non-Regent M. A. two and two.' Regent .Nl. A. two and two. Bachelors of Law and Physic, two and two. Bachelors of Arts, two mid two. Bellow-Commoners, two and two. Undergraduates, two and two. On the procession entering the Church, the Dead March in Saul was played until the con gregalion were seated. The .Litany was then teat, by t he Junioreroctor, and conclutied by the Pro vost of King's College; atter uhich Handel's sublime Anthem of " Howare the mighty fallen" waspertorme:l, and the solemn tone, of the or gan, min g led with the harmoncons strains of the choir, excites{ feelings of profound devotion. The Regius Professor of Divinity then preached a very appropri a t e ar o. a bl e discoorse from the follQwing words :—" A King that sitteth in the throne of judgment seaAtereth-aWay all evil whh his eyes.", Prov. xx. S.—The pulpit, reading'iles - k, end front of the . throne, were hung With black ; and th v appearance of so large.a congregation, arrayed in deep mourning, combined with the circurustanceir already related, produced an effect at once awful anti imposing. Wednesday last being the clay appointed for the, Funeral of our late revered frvereign, was ob served in this (own in the most solemn manner. FlRE.—AbOlit SIX o'cloe,k yesterdayit orning a hre broke ont frit the &yelling hotoc of Mr. At kisoli,flyr, in Jatutts's...street, Paddington. It originated in the drying-rootn on the second floor, aud hatl i destroyed the greater part of the - room, together, with a quantity of clothes which were mug up to dty, before it wus discovered, but the house yvaN preserved from being consumed by the prompt exertions of the fit emen, an d a plat:61111 s supply of tt, ter. PANCIIAS,4bri. I?: A PEAL OF BELLS AT 9 O'CLOCK LAST NIGaTe A Correspondent begs to notice a circumstance which occurred yesterday evening, of a very una becoming nature, in one of the London Belfries, (Wing the solemn hour appointed for the Royal Interment. , —Living a short distance north of Lon don, be had (like many others), an opportunity to call the attention of his f-rnily to the awful occasion, when all the steeples seemed to share in melancholy sounds—at an hour when minute guns rolled in mournful anthems round the vault ed lamps of heaven, tending in a high degree td bring to our vicinity the sad offices then pertorma leg at Windsor for the hest of Kings—when suds denly the exquisite intervals of otrow and of st lence were invaded by a merry Peal, through some officious, if not drtiiiken fooleries at an adjacent belfry, totally putting an end to the accents of St. Ilanl's and of all other places, for - the substiA tutiun of its own racket, fron t whi c h t h ere w a s no relief until half past 10 o'clock, and when the re , cot d of solemnity hall every where fulfilled i!tt measure. Solely nothing could be more disgust ing or ill. timed.to British feeling ; nor can there he a plea of precedent Or propriety for stich a cow. ceit as the couti.iverS had adopter:. he practico of what is called flu ng of bells may indeed have ett agedas well for sole , un occasions as for pub ltc rejoicings ; but who ; in their senses, would set a rit!ging bells iii a regular way at the tnneral of Out- beloved Geolgtiri he d ? Anil it may be asked, what is the course which might have beets irsorted color the departure of a .l ames, or a bad King, as a i.YOUS event ? The answer is obs ions * to hare :;el all the Church Pens a riiting ; though, as reg,rds the present error. it cannot be attii% butt:A io -such a motive. The king has lift no elle »Lica ; hut this indecorous and thoughtless °aid., na,itess—this very uncongenial sensation at 54 ;nuns an interval, requires to have teen thus W. • Noticed. LAW INVELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Mußsomr, FEB, 17: BAXTER V. LORD wALLscouRT4 This action was brought by AlessES, flax tee i Coach-makers in Long An e, aKainst Lord Walls- , court, to recover the Amount of a bill for a cabriolk , f, which was made to older. 0! ber articles were - alio done tot' the Nobie Defendant. A pair of square glasses and curtains for the cabriolet occa sione( tirldhional cirtrge of 81. itot lo c i a dvd in t h e or i g i na l e sti ma t e . Jury found a verdict , for the phinf iff, deducting ,the charge for die glasses and curtains. HAWKINS V. WAP.D. The plaintiff, a labouring man, !nought his ac' lion against the owner of a house in Jain,s-street, Listoo-grove, to recover a compensation in dA. magts for an itijory received by falling into an area, which it was , alleged the defendant - had left °pc) in a way danvrons to the public. It ap- • peared that the house to which. the arra hckngeii • was unfinished ; and, secomny, that Ole spot where :he plaintiff was wheeling a battvty , wa h not a regular loot•path. The Learned Judge intinswed, that the pl intiff could not supputt the ace ion. An case it had been a public foot -path, he Would' have com mitted au ofLnce by wheeling Iris barrow on it. His Lordship, at the same tjine, did not go the extent f saying a man wheeling a barrow on the foot-path might not snppot t an •act i , /n for. inju , y sustained by. the negligence of peisons lea%ing open an area to endanger the safety of the public. For wheeling his barrow on the par ement , he tso :la be liable to a penalty. Mr. GURNRY, for the' defendant, consented to withdraw a juror, .‘‘ hich was-accordingly done.-- He than stated that tire deteudant would give the plaintiff 51. by way of tecompence for the injury received. GFORGB AND WIFE V. FERGUSON. THS WAS an actitm on the case against the de fendant, for negligently !caving a trop door open in the passage of his honse, whereby the plaintiir wife was sevcrely,injured it, having tallt.n into his and broke two of her I ins. I\if . . READER conducted the pkiintiff' case, and :I: I. SCA R VETT the defendant's. The ease was this':--The plaintiff is a journey- Hiatt bookbinder, and he and his wile l o dg e d lit the house of the defendant, a baker in Broad-street, Sc. Giles's. On a Saturday night, in the mown of. August, 1816, Mrs. George went ont to get pint of ale for self and husband, and on her re turn, in going through the pssage of the defend-, site's house, having no light, she fell 1111-o : tight st trap door in the centre of the passage, leading to' the cellar, where the defendant carried on his bak.• log business, - and broke two of her ribs. Site wag confined three , months, an d t h e surgeon's bill amounted to 12/. Under.the -cit,cutustmites of the case the Jury found for the plaintiff-7-DAmages 40/. CHILD.DROPPING.—About eight o'clock on Nlohday evening tt mule child, apnarcntly ttbout three %vitelss Old, was found by the watchman, _wl-liord up in a piece of a bknliet, lying on the pavement.,at the back of the George Inn, in the Old Bailey. It- %vas taken to St..Septtlehre's work.. hontr, in West.Smill;fitdd, where it is likely to do writ. BERTUI., °tithe - 171h instant, at . Wuristeittl Cottage, Mrs.G.,Clarke, of a ~t.11,-horo,child. NIARRIED. . Yesterday, at Kensington Church. Anthony Macdonald, Esq..of, Loeiig t iri y, to ,Miss. Alacduntrld . of the Grange, Brotopton. Ye , ,terthy, at Hampstead, John Loch, Ecg. to Babinia Ma yonogest danghter, of Arch. Culicu, Esq. cof his Mo,', , sly's Contisel. ( go , .„ 0, ' .. DIED. On the 15th inst. at Camberwell, Cecilia F. M. Keith, da,og titer of Captain. Sir G. M. Keith, Bart. K.N. On the 25th of duly, list, at Forrackabad, East Indies, tv,Wain Rennell; Esq. 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