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London, England, 1825-12-26 00:00:00

FRENCIr PAPERS.

[From the Etuik of Friday.'
ants, DKr. 22.
Lettds from Berlin, dated Dee. IS, state as follows:
" As loon as our Court shall receive the official news of the
death of the Emperor Alexander, Prince 'William of Prussia, se,
to the King, will proceed to Sc. Petersburgh to compliment the Eau-
perer Constantine."
The Augsburg Universal Gazette contains the following article,
under date of Vienna, Dec. 13, received by an extraordinary vac:
reyance :
" On the 10th instant the sad news of the death of the Em.
peror Alexander, who died on the third, after a short aim;
which attaekcd him on his journey, was received at Warsaw. Th;
consternation produced by this unexpected event wee einaordi,
nary."
The 3letalliques have declined to ffiti, and Bank Stock to p(&
One jemmied When we consider the nature of theism.
try which the Emperor Alexander went to visit, we cannot be asto.
niabed.ar the.oralady which has terminated his life. and which.
according to the best accounts, was a bilious axe, putrid fever.
The
sea of Azoph, more properly called !'alas Afevtides, is in mac)
places a pestilentia. marsh,, spreading neiannala and fogs aracel
The Emperor, in enteriag the Crimea, had to pass along a great
part of the arm of the sea, called the Putrid Sea, the perre:ll4
abode of marsh fevers. Some days before the journey to mech.
men, Alexander had been to visit the country of the Comas, oral
especially Tckerkask, a city built in an immercse muddy Noah,
and where many travellers in passing through have expericaced
very dangerous attacks of fever. In addition to this, the are, is
a great, portion of these countries, are hard and brackish, yeti
bad, that even the inhabitants cannot drink them without SUOMI.
Menee. It was through exposing himself to all these danger%
which a-e described in the travels of Pallas and Sujef, that the Lai.
peror caught the disease of which lie died. It may be said that this
great man -has sacrificed his life through his desire personally to
watch over the welfare of his people."
Letterefroni Madrid state, that the high price of bread ot
the 10th instant excited much discontent in those parts of the
city which are inhabited by poor people. Considerahle crow/
assembled at the doors of the bakers, and it Is stated soma
acts of violence were committed. On the 11th them was still
more disorder. The bakers have remained firm, arid tranendlity
appears to have been re-established. It is difficult to conceive the
reason for enhancing the price of bread at a moment when the pries
of corn is so very low. The Police Authorities have met to coml.
der what measures might to be taken. It is raid that the proseeu.
tim of the individuals implicated in the conspiracy of Heerlen's, is
to be carried before the l'ouncil of Castile. It is added, that those
who are only-exiled, and against whom no judicial charge has been
preferred, will be recalled. The Consultative Junta closed its
sittings on the 10th, and submitted to the approbation of the
tioverntnent the draught of a law for eeppreadng the Juntas of
Purification.
By an Ordinance of the 11th of December, the King of Spain has
granted to the widow of the Baron d'Erolea an annual pensice
of eight thousand Teak (2,000 f.). half of which is convertible, ie
equal parts, to the maintenance of his children, till they shall be
otherwise provided fur.
hi. 'Lea rermudes set oaten the 11th for Dresden.