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London, England, 1825-12-22 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

[From the Erode of Tuesday]
Pants, DEC. 19.
The courier who left Taganrog to announce the death of the
Emperor Alexander returned directly to Warsaw, and the French
Consul sent off immediately a courier to Berlin, where N. Billecocq '
was despatched by the French Minister. The Emperor Constan-
tine left Wank* on the title. lle was to be proclaimed on the 15th
at St. Petershorgh, and on the 16th all the civil and military au-
thorities were to attend him. We shall, therefore, have by the 30. h
at Paris news of all that may have passed in St. Petersburgh on the
accession of the Emperor.
The Court of Prussia had been apprired of the illness of the
Emperor Alexander.
The doubts raked in sorer of the Journals as to the succession to
the empire have no foundation. 'rite order of succession was regu-
-1 lated by the Emperor Paul.
It is known that many years ago the Emperor had a fall from
a carriage, in consequence of which an erysipelas was produced in
his leg. As he did not care to avail himself of the precautions
commonly used in such casea, the erysipelas showed itself many
times, and eery recently endangered his life at St. Petersburgh.,
i where, it will be remembered, he remained for two months without
going out.
This august Prince was aware of the danger he was in, and his
death has been worthy aids life.
1 The Emperor Alexander had just purchased estates near Tegan-
-1 mg. He intended building a counery house there, and to go to it
every summer.
'1 he Empress, who hod accompanied him on this journey, which
was undertaken fur the benefit of her health, is plunged in the
deepest affliction. It is feared that she cannot survive the shock.
Taganrog is 500 leagues from St. Petersburgh, on the Black Sea,
and on the frontiers of Turkey and Persia.
A ball was to have been given at the house of Count Porten di
forgo, on the anniversary or the birth of the Emperor Alexander,
t.hich Is the `2ll inst. It had brew postponed, on account of the
Christmas festivities, to the 26th, and already he in humour of whom
the tete was to be given is no more.
51. Adolphe Billecocq, Secretary to the French Legation in Prus-
sia, arrived yesterday morning in Paris, having come from Berlin
as a courier extraordinary.
It is said that the Grand Duke Michael made the journey from
St. Petersburgh to Warsaw with the greatest expedition (in live
clays), and that he alighted at the house of the Grand Duke Con-
stantine. At Warsaw it was said that these two Princes were to
have had a conference with the Etnperor Alexander before his de-
parture for St. Petersburgh, and that fur this purpose they were
going to the head-quarters in Volhynia.

[From the Qnotidienne of Monday.]
The letters from Germany give some details of the presumed
cau*es of the death of the Emperor • for some months the Empemr
had been afflicted with a humour which settled in the legs. The
cold suddenly catmd this humour to fly upwards, and then the dis-
ease became tnnt

The Grand Duke Constantine, who was at Warsaw, has been
proclaimed Emperor or AU the Russia*. He immediately set out
with all speed for St. Petersburgh.

[From the Journal de Paris of Blonday.l
• PARTS, DEC. 18.
Our correspondent at Frankfort-on.the.Odcr informs us that
the passage of couriers and expresses has all at once become very
frequent. Three Russian Cabinet messengers passed on the 9th of
December front St. Petcrsburgh, and were going to Warsaw and
Berlin. One of them said that couriers had been sent to the Rus-
sian unties of the South and the West, and to that in Bessarabia.