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t From the Egoik, dated Saturday.
PARISI , Matfett 18.
We find the following article in the Bordeatix Paper.
On the application of Dim 11ariano Gomez de la Torre. the In-
te:.dant of the Province of Madrid has ordered M. Victor Onward,
late contractor for the army in Spain, to be summoned to appear by
his attorney, within the apace of 30 days, at the office of that de-
partment, in order to be heard in the action brought against him
by the said Mariano Gomez, relative to the fulfilment of a certain
agreement, and to the payment of certain sums of money for the
lodging and supply of the troops ; when the above term is expired,
the proceedings will take their course.
M. Pierret, formerly Member of the Convention, died on the
19th February, at his residence, at Brienne le Chateau, aged 67
year. He was of the small number of those who, braving the
daggers of the assassins, did not vote for the death of Douis).CVl.
Employed in several very dangerous misolons to departments which
were a prey to anarchy, tic executed them with ability, repressed by
his energy the excesses of the exalted, and gained the esteem of all
honest men.
(From the Courrier Francais of Friday 1
ADII9I, MARCH 7.
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It is positively asserted that the tribunal of Ca;teens has con
demned to death General Don Francisco Martin, more generally
known by the name of the Empecinado, and that the sentence has
just been transmuted here to receive the Royal Assent. This un.
fortunate General, who obtained a considerable reputation during
the war of independence, has been for some time past shut up in
the dungeons of Caceres, where he has constantly endured the
most rigorous treatment. The relations and frierds of the General
have, it is said, engaged his mother, a lady far advanced in life,
to throw herself at the King's feet to implore his cletnency. It
hoped that the King will not sutler a man, who has so often shed
his blood to re:establish him on the throne of his ancestors, to perish
o the scaffold.
Two t aeons of Cordova having publicly said that the race of
negroes ought to be destroyed and purged from Spain, as a labourer
purges his lands of poisonous plants, have just been exiled from
that town by order of Government. A superior enipttii in the
Administration, accused of similar language, is comprehended in
this condemnation.
The King still suffers, and receives nobody except the Queen
and his physician; fur this reason the journey to Toledo during
Passion week will not take place.
[From the Con:tit:Monne:l
AIADILID, MARC/1 7.
The King has had another attack. His Majesty had a violent
fit of sickness on his return from the review on Sunday last at Ca-
ramancha, where all the Royalist volunteers of Madrid and its
neighbourhood were assembled. His indisposition was occasioned
by an individual going up to his Majesty's carriage and crying out
several times, " Death to the King." His Majesty so sensibly felt
this outrage, that he underwent a species of internal revolution. He
who spoke these words was immediately attested. On being
questioned, he answered that be was ready again to repeat those
same expressions ; that he knew well enough that he should be
condemned to bleach ; but that his firmness should never tail. He
even added the most outrageous insults towards his Majesty. He
was conducted to the prison of Madrid, and he will be tried forth.
with.
An order of the King has just suppressed the 'Natio of Madrid,
one of the most stupid and insipid journals in Europe. The pub-
lication of two journals is about to be put up to auction ; one of
them will be exclusively dedicated to commercial articles, and the
other will only contain the royal ordinances and decrees, and the
new discoveries in arts and sciences.
The Government project to raise a subsidy on the clergy dies
away (torn day to day : the latter have no objection to furni,h
six
millions of piasten for six years t but they do no: hide, that in
consequence of this favour the Government will procure the cram'.
tion of the Peninsula by the French.