The National Register.
London, England, 1820-02-21 00:00:00

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PARIS, Fen. 15 —At seven o'clock this morning
the doars of the galleries of the Louvre were thrown
open to a multitude, impatient to render the last
homage to the best and most untinionate of Princes
The body of his lute itnyal Highness the Duke of
Berri was laid l'orth on a bed of state ; Priests re-
cited prlyers, and the guards of' Monsieur walked
around, sword in hand. Front seven o'clock till two,
more than thirty thousand persona, of all classes,
defiled befbre these inanimate remains, with an order
and circumspection which proved how profound was
the grief' with which all present Were penetrated.
1 At three o'clock the doors of the Louvre were closed,
and no more persons were permitted to enter.
The cowardly assassin of the most generous of
Princes, Lonvel, was conducted by two gendarmes,
and placed close by the body of his august s ictint.
The Prefect of l'olice, Count Angles, entered, fol-
lowed by M. Jacquinot de Pumpeluna, MM. flour-
goignon, Mars, and several other substitutes, and
the murderer underwent the following examina-
tion :
Q. no you recognize the Prince whom you have assassinated ?
—A. I do.
Q. I demand of you, once more, to reveal the name of your
accomplices ?—A. I have none.
Q. If the justice of men cannot induce you to tell the truth,
think of the justice of God I—A. God is nothing but a word Ihe
never came upon earth.
Q. What could induce you to commit an action so criminal ?
A. I could have wished to refrain from doing it. bat I could not.
Q. What was your mod ;e ?—A. To make It serVe at a lesson
to the great of my
.country.
Q. Do you persist in saying that no body has inspired you
with the idea st this crime?-1. Yes. But that belongs to Jus-
tice; let it do its duty, and let it discover those whom it pre.
sumes to be my a:complices. -
Such are the oaly answers which they could ob-
tain from the wretch ; he signed them; and he was
afterwards re-conducted to the Conciergerie.
Immediately after the examination of this wretch,
they proceeded to the opening of the body ; four
va.'els de ehambre of the late Prince raised it from
its bed of state, undearried it into an adjoining room,
where were assembled doctors I'ortal, Dupytren,
Dubois, &e They are now occupied in embalming
the body. The Prince will lie in state, after \
to-
morrow, in a chapel lighted with tapers, and will
remain there some days • During the interval,
every necessary preparation will be made at the
Cathedral of St. Denis, where the obsequies will
take place, The King has not yet named the Pre-
' late who is to pronounce the funeral oration.
The King heard mass to-day in his apartments,
and received nobody but the Archbishop of Paris.
At half-rast two, there was a privy council of
ministers
It is worthy of remark. that on the day of the
assassination of the Duke of Berry, some hawkers
were seen carrying about some medals in lead,
representing the image of a warrior leading a child
by the hand. It is not said whether the police
seized them.
The Court is appointed to go into mourning for
twenty-one days, reckoning from Wednesday the
16th instant, on account of the death of his Royal
:hness.

Thursday the Dike of York accompanied the
Princess Sophia from Windsor to London to her
Royal Highness's new residence at Cambridge
House, where the Duke has visited his Royal
Sista sevreral times since. Friday and 'inturday
the I)uchess of Gloucester visited the Princess

Sophia.
SEIZURE or RAnICtL COFFEE.--Yesterday
morning several persons, venders of Hunt's Radical
Coffee, were visited by the officers of Excise, and
considerable quantities were seized and lodged in
store of the office in Broad Street ; a singular trick
was played upon the Excise people, on their appli-
cation at the shop of Mrs. Caine, in Fleet Street,
fin. the same purpose ; it seems that a messenger
had been dispatched, apprising Mrs. Curiae with the
probability of a similar attention being paid to her
stock of this imitative article, when she caused a
sack to be nearly filled with ashes and other dirt,
with a small quantity of the delinquent ankle at
the top ; shortly afterwards the officers arrived,
and actually seized the sack and its contents, and
conveyed it to the grand store in Broad Street,
where it now remains. Several other perins have
also been proceeded against, and the legallity of
selling the powder and also the herb tta will be
shortly decided upon.
A society has been formed to carry into effect the
benevolent act of his Majesty, in appropriating
Dartnioor forest for the employment of the poor of
tl.e metropolis, particularly the pauper children;
and his Majesty has become the patron of the soci-
ety. On Saturday, at three o'clock, the Archbishop
of Canterbury, and the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor,
two of the principal members of the society, waited
upon the King at his palace in Pall-mall, to submit
for his Majeajy's approbation the plan suggested for
,giving permanent employment to pauper children,
under the direction of the society.