The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-02-02 00:00:00

timillierl4 Olt -the Aare +at Mt .hottitste,
of which a part of the ends of the Tuileries,
wAtieh loweisesitke- apartments K NNfKlub..vas
the Theatre, mr'lletatday evening. the first feeli
ing of the Nehru! Parisians wets wattaniwoi
tioa, what. (new .alterier • accounts, obsy••loossetd
that the crime wee wily is vein attempt, their spirits
revived. sod indigestion against the guilty succeed.
ed to their original anxieties. Lest morning the.
seem was the only *abject of coasessotbsu. Tha
fallowing ats woe !what peetimitars
The powder witioii-prodeeed lite explosion was
cant iced ism bane, denied 'with isow keeps. F...
the diameter of the hoops that have been found,
the barrel was addicient to contain from five to six •
pounds of powder. It was sent some minutes
before the explosion •eovered with a piece of linen.
which is not so mach damaged as tq 'newel its
being used in • evidence. The berrel -was. laid ow,
the loading-place of die wooden • staircase •whichi
leads, to the exterior gellery4o the ~gordstaboilg
!motets the little doom& the oportutento of theirditli
and Madame, as else the sportinentein toe. on 4ito,
upper floont A large basket, covered with firewood;
concealed the barrel-which .was hood thus plated,
between the wall sod the basket. It *ppm, that,
a brimstone match hod Weitooljelsed to it, as the.
smell of brimstone was itesitivest before the-es.
plosion.
• 'We may judge from the quantity of the powder,
that the report of the detonation mast here been
very great, and yet to the accidents already men-,
tioued we have only to add. that one or two doors
of the upper rooms have been greatly damaged.
This event has only served to place in worms

the firmness or the King, the Princes. and Madame.•
The King seemed to think, at the first moment,.
that it was the report of • cannon, and evinced his
surprise at it. When the truth was commanicatied,
to him, be shewed no other smutty but to learn• that:
no one was hurt.
In an instant after Madame sent a message be she.
King, who lost not a moment to allay the fears of
hi. august niece, adding, with a sour, " Tell my
niece also that it was not I who set fire to the
petard."

The civil and military officers of the Castle hod
already taken all neceseary measures or precaution.
The gates were shut. Every man was at his post,
and from the activity and zeal instantly displayed,
it was easy to perceive that the signal of danger
afforded only au honourable premier fidelity ord
courage.
M. Bossrguignon, Deputy Proctor of the King,
was the first person apprised of the event. He
attended in great baste, and commenerd an as.
artainatioo. The Attorney-General, Bellart; M.
Angles, Prefect of Police, who had been ia•the
Chamber of Peen at the time of the explosion,
attended soon after. The material pieees of evi-
dence were received, the pervous found new the
place were interrogated.—The examination lasted
until four o'clock in the morning, and was re-
sumed again at two o'clock yesterday.
The Gazette de France asp, of We have to remark
Oat- at half-past 10 o'clock on Thursday night, as the
Duke of A ngoulerne, on his return from Compiegne,
was turning out of the Rue de Richelieu into the
Rue St. Honore, a petard exploded close to his car.
nage. The windows of several houses were broken,
but no other injury was done.

♦IiNNA. JANUA&Y 18.

We are assured that it is the King of Naples him-
self who has forbidden the Duke de Gallo, Minister
and Envoy of the Neapolitan Government, to join
him at Lay bitch. This interdict reached the Duke
at Gorice.