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4 Flan the lasik dated Al aids,. 1 ,„
Pain. JA
AMwdYtR to the latest letters we have receired ftorn Warsaw,
surd which annownce the arrival of the tirand Duke Al ichael, every
*leg has been finally settled about the successor of the Emperor
/Malinke; and the Wand Duke Nicholas. after a fresh Ten unriation
of the Grand Duke Constantine, is stated to be Emperor of All the
Mamias.
ins Moth gives no news from St. Petershurgh of later date
then the nth December, and only a tew particulars already coat.
wisastaitsd thyough the Hamburgh Papers.l
firms from °dem, of the 20th December, add to the details
already known, that Prince Wolkonsky and General Diebetsch
wore still at Taganrog, and that the persona present at the death of
4ra Illospetor, besides the Empress, were the two tuenerals above-
saswtiooed, and General Cremitscheff. Prince Wolkensky, who
bad already acquainted the (hand Duke Constantine with the wish
at bla august brother to see him. had despatched Couriers, with the
news of his Majesty's death, to fit. Petersburgh and Warsaw.
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(Prom the Quntidientse of Sunday, Jan. O.)
Amos, the reports in circulation relative to the affairs of Russia,
we shall only mention what seems to us the moat probable, and the
most conformable to what we already know.
It may be considered as certain that the Einperor Alexander. in
his tut moments. wrote with his own hand a letter to his brother
Constantine, releasing him from the renunciation of the imperial
etarone. which he had made on his marriage with the Princess of
Loestics. It was the last will of the EmpEror Alexander, and not
Cie renunciation of Constantine, with which the Grand Doke Mi-
slaid was sent to St. Petenburgh ; but while he was on his way to
that capital. Nicholas had received the oath of the (hoards, and
taken it himself to the Emperor Constantine.
Immediately after the arrival of Prince %lichael at St. Peters.
bergh, a family council was called to learn the last will of Alex-
ander, and the instructions sent by his successor. The council met
again mat day, anti several Senators and Officers of State were
stammoned to attend it.
Mater Apatchinin was sent to Warsaw with the result of the
deliberation of the family council. We know that lie arrived at
Waviaw on the tith or 26th Dec. and that he was very well re-

Delved by the new Emperor.
These facts once established and well confirmed the only proba-
ble Colliettale is, that the mission of the Grand fluke Michael to
Ott Petersburgh, and the family councils held after his arrival, re-
:wed to the wire of the new Emperor, and the rank she will hold at
fi-ourt, home pence. pretend that she will be first crowned Queen
ufF'oiarid, and may perhaps In the sequel share the imperial throne

with bar ionsoit.
All this, however, needs confirmation, and it is probable that
several dap■ will pass before official news of what is taking place
at St. Petersburgh can be reeeteei.
[From the J.ns'-sal des &bate of Sunday.]
PAil I. JAN. 7.

The death of the Emperor Alexander is an event of such vast
saportance, that every circumstance attending, preceding, or fol.
loming It. is received with as much avidity at Pans as at St. Peters-
lugh. The following details may be relied on On the same day
to November that he took an excursion on the water by which he
'taught the cold that was the beginning of his dinette, he went to
visit a small tribe, who, by a fabulous or historical tradition, are
said to be descended trom the ancient Spartan'. The weather was
dreadful; the Emperor went in a small carriage, which was con.
ducted by a postilion or coachman, who for the last seven or
eight years always accompanied him, and habitually replaced the
regular ratilione on the road, particularly if the roads were bad.
The carriage was overthrown, and the Emperor ran great danger
ad being seriously hurt ; hut he escaped without injury, and went
hanself to raise his faithful conductor, who died in his arms. The
attendants on horseback rode up immediately, and the Emperor,
addresaing those who came up first, said to them, " Gentlemen,
this man always precedes me."
Fifteen days after that event Alexander expired. It is Certain
that he appeared seized with profound melancholy.
When the President of the Senate came to offer his homage and
that of the Senate to the Grand Duke Nicholas, on the day on
whiek the fatal news arrived at St. Petenburgh. that Prince was
holding in his hand a paper, with the seal unbroken. He asked the
President whether he had thought of opening a similar paper, long
before iletiosited in a pace whin he menuoued. The President
replied in the negative.
lt is," said the Prince, " the duplicate of that which I hold in
my band, and this paper contains the abdication of the Grand
Duke Constantine, but I desire that no attention he paid to it ; I,
on the contrary, desire that myself and the Senate should take the
oath of fidelity to the Emperor Constantine."
The President of the senate wished the Grand Duke to go him.
wit' and express his wishes to the Seeste.
The Prince refused ; because." said he, " the Constitution of
the Empire forbids the Princes of the imperial Family to enter the
Satiate, unless by an extraordinary and special sammons from the
li:rnpavel, but bring to me all the members who may happen to be
patient. '
His ceders were executed, and when the Senators entered the
Prince's apartment he repeated to them what he had said to the Pre.
indent--" I wish," said he, " that the renuncation of the Grand
little Constantine should be considered null ; 1 wish-1 desire—
and if it be necessary I order. that he should be proclaimed."
When we compare all that has been said and written by those
who at that time were in the best situations for being well informed
of Use Wants of the period, it cannot be doubted that at the time
the Grand Duke Constantine urged his mother and Alexander to
consent to his marriage, there were three express desires, that
the renunciation of the throne should be the condition, viz that of
the Empress .Mother, that of Alexander, and that of Constantine

himself.
A cireumptar.oe known at Paris within these few days only,
partly explains the delay of so many days before the arrival of the
definitive news. It is certain that after the snivel from Warsaw at
Petersburgh. and the departure from Petersburgh for Iranian, of
tie Grand Duke Michael. after the interchange of one or two
couriers. the Grand Duke Nicholas and the Empress Mother sett
th Warsaw a Russian Nobleman, the Comte de Atapekinin, who
was at Paris seven rears hack with the Grand Duke Constantine,
sod was honoured with his greatest friendship. This nobleman
was charged with new and list persuasions to determine the Grand
Puke Constantine. It may be imagined that, as soon as it was a
question. not of a simple courier or a despatch. which might be an.
awned in a few hours, but of so important a negotiation,
confided to such a negotiator. instead of hours we ought to reckon
It is impossible for those who believe these authentic de.
. dogs.
tails not to be struck with the reflection which naturally strikes the
mind. The three desires, which occasioned the renunciation six
years hack, and evidently renewed less than three years since, were
etil in force in December, 111'15. The dying Emperor seems to have
persisted in it. There is no reason to believe that her Majesty, the
Empress Mother, who is presumed not to have been the person who
kinked upon the renunciation as the least necessary. has changed
bee opinion. The Grand Duke. Constantine himself persists in
remaining faithful to his engagements.
How, thin, do we ask ourselves--how, in the midst of such cir-
cumstances, does it happen that the Grand Duke Nicholas wished
for more than the first movement, full of greatness and nobleness,
which induced him to order the proclamation of the Grand Duke
Constantine ? Why did the Grand Duke Nicholas persist in
pressing his brother, after one, and even, as it appears, after two de-
clarations from Constantine, posterior to his proclamation as Ent-
peter, confirming his renunciation, which walla thus have become
• tree, free, and solemn abdication ? How will nbe attempted to
sewer that objection ftgairst the truth of that which precedes?
We must, In the find place, suppose an incredible transmission
of the virtues of Alexander to his enure family, and acknowledge
la the Grand Duke Nicholas something even more magnanimous
and heroic than the sentiment which made hint refuse a mown.
Tb' persistence in the refusal on both sides can only be explained
by die following facts t seems that the marriage of the Grand
lhikeeerstantitse wile the roast important of his life. His attachment
is of the purest nature, and is as fresh and profound as at the
lint. The precarious state of his wife's health seems to increase,
and furnish it with sew food. It is, on the other hand, known
that the Princess, wife to the Grand Duke Constantine,
a 'embus Roman Catholic, hi much beloved by the Poles, her
countrymen and brethren in religion, but less so by the Russians
sad Greek Christians. It is known that in a conversation, of
which Madame de Maintenon, tile !marine of the late King of
Nsples, and the recent marriage of his Majesty the King of Prussia,
were the subjpets, she openly 'declared that it was all very well,
but that site lied no idea of being the consult of a King without
Wog a Queen, or of the possibility of herself being so circutn-
Masteed.
We grant that facts would be more important and more curious
than tho whole of thefrabove t but after what has happened, when
they abeolately fad, all that contributes to explain the muses and
She delays allow be altogether without interest.

Commercial letters from Marseilles state that a stop
had been pot, by high authority, to the building of several
shin of war at that port for the Viceroy of Egypt.
to reference to reports lately circulated respecting the
appointment, by France, of Consuls to the new American
bates* kt tt r from Paris, elated Saturday last, states that It is
mot the intention of the French Government in any cue to
Dominate natives of France to such appointments, but that
as order has transmitted to Admiral Daperre, who
commands on the Leeward Islands station, to select, in the
prir.cipal viva of South America and of Mexico, from
among the respectable merchants residing there, such indi-
viduals as he r.lay think qualified to fulfil the duty of Con-
sols, and to etnetide to them the protection of the Freath
commercial interests.
We understand his Majesty's ship Tweed is fitting out
at Portsmouth for the coureyance of the Consul appointed
. for St. Domingo. The name 9f a gentleman appointed as
Viee-Consul at Port-au-Prince has also been handed to us.
There is tnueh interest eteittel by the opening of policies
et insurance in the City on two Colomleian frigates bound
frniti the United States to Carthsgena, at from 90 to 40 per
cent. The alumni to be insured is, we believe. 90,000 f.
so escli vessel ; they are entirely new, and, by the latest
advises from New York, about to be launched. The con-
tent is to deliver them at Cartlil,lentr, where they become
. she property of the Colombian Government. Their names
are, the South American (64), from the Delaware, and the
3* Plata (44), from New York.