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FRENCH PAPERS.

Irma the stalls dated Suaday.l
Pairs, DSC. 31.
The QeMbdienne lays, today, that a courier extraordinary sent '
by Gant deb Fiervonoye. Ambassador from France foe St. Peters.
thergh. arrived the evening of the 29th at Paris. If the Quoti-
sikvinis had recollected that the Grand Duke !Wachtel did not set out
till the I Ish from Warsaw, it would not so hastily have published
an me 11:1 which has no foundation. The wishes of the Emperor
'could not be known at St. Petersburgh till the 19th, and, whatever
diligence he might use, it is impossible that a courier could arrive
here from the capital of Russia in ten days. The news in the
'Journal am Dods, that immediately after the arrival of the Grand
Dike Micheal the directing Senate had been convoked. and Ni-
tilsolu the net proclaimed Emperor, is therefore a conjecture of
that Journal, foe nobody in Paris has Wien announcing the arrival
of the Grand Duke at St. Petenburgh,
The news circulated of the renunciation of the throne by the Em.
-Item Constantine in favour of his brother Nicholas, has no other
aoundatiea than the rumour sent forth from Warsaw.
As to the letter addressed by the Emperor Constantine to the
Greed Duke Nicholas, and which. according to the Jon, nal des
DAM, contained these wads—" To his Imperial and Royal
'ajesty the Emperor Nicholas I." it is evident that this super.
smiption amid out have been seen by any one. and can only be •
lobjecture. or an invention, originating its the office of a newspaper.
Desides, we need not to wait far new, from St. Pctersburgh. The
Irtters of the 10th are numerous is the praises which they bestow on
the Grand Duke Nicholas. who ceased big biother to be proclaimed
Simperer, notwithatandit.g die renunciation which the latter to said
to have written. He replied to these who reminded him of it, "If
Inet believe that he has gives me any authority whatever it is in
• the Immo of that authorloy that I regain you to take thi oath of
idelity to my brother.'
Letters from Warsaw, which we received yesterday, say that the
Whiten Lowics,
to of
the news wired. of the fatal event at
Taganrog. was to go in Ertli for the benefit of her health, which
(bold not bear the climate of St. Peteralmegh.
It is melancholy to reflect, that If the Emperor Alexander
Shad censeeted to twelve the lest assistance be would still have
survived. If he had only put on a cloak when embarking at
*baster/kit, he might have %tivoided the cold which attacked him
the sense evening. and notwithstanding some symptoms of fever
the next day. he would not consent to stop, but set out again for
Taganrog.
With respect to what a German Journal says of the malady
of the Emperor Alexander, that it ma called the yellow fever
of the Crimea, we have to remark, there Is no disease of that
sort in the country. bat merely fevers. which are called fevers of
the Crimea.
The Empress Elisabeth intends returning to St. Petersburgh
with Priaceirolkonsky, who will bring back the escort of Alexander
•

Limn the Constitutional of Saturday.)
Punta, DEC. 32
In an evening ministerial journal we Mid the following article,
which ie not calculated to dispel the clouds which envelop: the af.
faits of the North :
Letters from Warsaw or the mit 64« al nee that the Emperor
Consuita ntine. who was to have set out on th 17th, was still in the
*p of Poland on the 23d. The Empe. was seriooely
Ind
en amount of the shock which he feu on the death of hie
. No prepaistioo had yet been made for his &pay ore. It
seemed be be believed at Warsaw that the will of the Emperor
would not be made public till the result of the mission of the Grand
Doke Michael to St. Petersburgh should be known.
The Ministry, Indeed, has not published any thing respecting the
Ulnas of the Emperor, the period of his death, and the events which
'here occurred at Taganrog. St. Petersburgh, and Warsaw, except
What le of the moat cootradictory description. The public appears
matided that the Ministry has much note information oo ail these
points than It chooses to make known.
This reusing a report is generally circulated that Constantine has
tebtliested in favour of the Grand Duke Nicholas.
'From the Journal de Paris of Saturday.)
Vitxxa, DEc.2l.
eVitox oralVATt LETTER.)
M. de Tads& , the Russian Ambassador Extraordinary to our
Colin, has not yet received from his Government any official de-
apatch since the death of the Emperor Alexander and the accession
of the Grand Duke Constantine to the throne of Russia. It is
xittnarktd that his Excellency hes had, since the 17th, several con.
fetences with the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Prince 3letternich.
According to the report of the General Imperial Post.oface, the
Communications with the frontiers of Russian Poland, on the side
of Galicia and the Buckowina are still interrupted, and the mails
from Wilna and Warsaw have not been received a; Brody and
Limbtrg.
At the departure of the last mail from Jaasy, Moldavia and
Wallachia were still oteupiedkby the Ottoman troops, notwith-
,standirg the orders given by the Porte for the evacuation of those
principalities.

LAST ILLNESS OF THE EMPEROR
ALVIANDER.

IFrom the Ilamburgh Papers of Dec. 27.1

ST. PETEESATICOH. DEC. 14.
On the 22th November a letter was received here Irwin the Em.
row. dated the 17rh, in which he mentioned his return to Tse.sn-
Neg. in rather indiFstent health. On the 30th, in the evening, the
Grand Duchess Helena Pawlowna (wife of the Gr-md Duke Mi-
chael) received a letter from her Majesty the Empress Elizahoi,
vita* the 21st, in which she requests Kr Imperial Highness to in-
form the Empress Maria Teodorowns, that his Majesty the Em-
peror was better, and that she herself did not write to her Majesty,
LIU it might no: appear that she thought his Majesty's illness
serious.
On Sunday. December 4. in the forenoon. a letter from the Em-
press Elizabeth, dated the 24th, wes received, in which she men-
-tons that the fever had returned, which hindred hi. Majt,ty from
writing. and adds.], she hoped she should be able in a few days to
welts another subjects.
On the 7th of December a letter was received, dated the 27th of
Etebot. from Dame niebitach, Chief of his Majesty's General
in which he states the Increase of his Majesty's disort:er,
he alb the yellow fever, the psteavEnsof which since the
2814, and especia since the 24,h, had become more violent and
Awn incessant. TGy
his situation of the angust patient induced the
about his Maims, to advise taking the Sacr iment, which
Criejesty received with the devotion and firmness for which he
wee tiotinguishte. Remedies we-.: then applicd, which in some de.
glee ditelriabed the inflammation. The physicians did not give up
all hope, though they did not dissemble that they considered his
Majesty In yeti great danger.
r-lITC..es
On the Bth December. met when the prayers in the t h
sElLotiader). a ('outlet arrived with a letter from the Empress
of the 211tha in which she states that a derided improve.
is situation of the Emperor was observed, which was
00il3nDeld by a private letter from Prince Woikonskr, who adds,
that in the morning the Emperor bad recognised all the rcrsors
about kite and ha4poonversed with the Empress in a pretty loud
yoke. D,;. Wylie, In the bulletin of the same day (ab) writes,
• otr2r the means of various internal application., they had sue.
in nosing his Majesty from the lethargic state in which he
had been, 90 that their hopes were 'named. On the same even.
lieter, and • bulletin of Dr. Wylie of the 28th; were re. ,
which stated that his Majesty the Emperor was on thatriay
at dm extremity, the symptoms being very dangerous; but as 1
Ws pest had been delayed, the account of the improvement on the
Nth arrived fine.
At length, on the !:h of December, after eleven o'clock in the
fiteseson, the melancholy news arrived of the Emperor's death,
which hspperied on the let of December, at fifty minutes pest ten
in the forenoon. I
Though the Eames Metter is net otherwise ill, the profound
animism caused by the shock has made her pass a sleepless
Alb; AAA' has Tether weakened her. Her Majmty took. the
elemillent eirtbe 12th, sines which the has been mare composed.
w' A In seterents from Taganrog of the 34 December,
Awed *Mu Ilkh, the Empress Elizabeth, with all her grief at
dee 4esailhil AbAiptrine, her. it with great firmness, and berm
0. tlt telMiblodi y VOL Her Wisely has written at her Empress
be
Ibe dirt went tato deep mourning. Prayer, (or
the *A ' the leer reeperee are reed is all the chinch*. Such
eit_a.'ll autenits. We learn also thee a mid which his Ma.
leeeem. * 4
tier.
Is which brought on en inearreittent
\
the little We roe.nibew. laid the
Midestre illness. lby an et she 'lid of
kEtildse Std panted oe Twiny,' the Nese peteirges
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