The National Register.
London, England, 1815-11-12 00:00:00

FR ENCH PAPERS.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH
LED TO THE DEATH OF MURAT:-

" Narays. OCT. 13. Jeachins Murat, who fled from Naples in
May, sleight an asylum in France, when the is-expected snpearance of
Napoleon seemed to open hi• heart to new hope-. Since the events
consequent upon the battle of Watt rime. Murat remaire.d in Provence,
less with the intention of finding safety. them with a view to excite dis.
turbonces among the inhabitants of those departments and to ,e-bindle
there the extinguished fires of civil war. The progress of the cited re,„
nth s, and the devotednesa of Toulon and Mar•eiel,s to their legitimate
Sovereien. forced this General to abandon France. The I'. !ice af N;:-
pies, which had cowl:mile followed his steps during the whole time of
his stay on the French territory, did lint lose sight of hint w hen I e re ;ie.
dotted there quarters.—Murat went to Corsica: he was ree ed these
by M. Colontia Ceecaldi, Mayor of Vescovato The Pppraintwe of the
fugitive General excited the attention and vigilante of the- Military
Commander of the Island, who had soon versional! to he c, its tweed that
this new guest had not repaired thither except to execute new no chiea.
times which he meditated. Ve•covato became the head quarters of ad
thy Corsicans who lead served at Naples under the orders to Gmeral
who, by an atrocious violation of the rights of nuti• projected
the surprise of Paola, and ilms attempted to tumble the traemillity of
the Wand already submitted to the government of the Bestabens. Oct
the 15th of September, a proclamation of the Chevalier Venter, vie.
moulder ad interim el- this military division. revealed the i rojects s f the
fugitive General to the seduced inhabitants, and declared to be
and reliefs those who should receive money (ram Murat. who, to took
refute in Ajaccio, where he continued to hold in pay ahem litlo men,
However, several public journals announced thnt the getter city 11 the
Allies had olrered to this General an asylum in Ger :oily, under the pre.
tection of the Emperor of Austria, Kine of Bohemia ; the, he Ought
with his family choose a habitatien in one of the cities of Menem, of
nobenria, or of Austria Superior, and there live tranquilly as a private
individual ; that, in short, an E. glish frigate was aepoinet d to convey
him from Corsica to Trieste. The re•nit e f these rumours was looked
for, when, on the tiLhit of the V.llth of September, Getter. I Murat fled
from Ajaccio. Although his pr iccts appeared altogether romalaic,
the Neapolitan Government had pieced light vessels as crul•ers to watch
the coasts of tl:e kinedom ; so that there was a line of reined vessels
from Gaeta to Mentecircello ; another from the puha of Croup:foie to
the /Imre.; a third front the Cmpelt ienrmees to the lonian sea. The
event justified the wisdom of arse precautions. On the Hilt of this
month, at noon, General Murat, with two small vessels, approached 11. e
coast of Pizzo, in Calabria Ulterier. He disembarked imo-rel'ately
with a suite of 30 perms, among whom were Lieut. General Fraoces-
chetti, and Marshal Natali. From the coa the marched quit Iy to the
rill:tee. When he arrived there, he attempted to excite the stir of a
civil war, by crying out to the people. " I am your King. Joachim
Murat : you ought to acknowledge me." These words were the origin
of a general commotion : they ran to arms. Murat and his suit.. who
were pruceeding towards Monte-Leone, seeing themselves pursued hry
11. e pole:lace, threw themselves precipitately among the mountains,
whence they attempted to open for themselves a way to the coast, fur
the purpaie of finding the vessel which waited for them; but overcome
by the number and courage of their pursuers, they were made prism:.
era, and condneted, in spite of the most active resistance en their part,
to the fort of P:zza. Ti, the heat of the enceunter,C..ptain Eernice was
killed, and General Frenceschetti wounded, as well as seven other per-
seina in the s;::te of Murat. While the action was most lively, the two
vessels fe;rl. The whole expedition of General Murat was eeeoposed of
six vessels ; four fell into the bands of his Majesty's marine : the other
two wererparsued. It, is said, that another eneLarkation had put on
slime, an the coast of License, three emissaries, charged with criminal
operadoain This event has not in the least disturbed our trmiquillitr.
Es-cry where is preserved 4 calm worthy of a nation, the friend of or-
der,. and tenderly attached to its legitimate Sovereipn. The police,
which was acquainted with the most secret designs of :floret, had dis-
posed every thine in sad' a manner that public order utivist not suffer :
Inot its meesures bore always the character of a paternal goverament.
Althuuch it was known that Maria attempted to plunge the cottony
into all the horrors of anerrhy and civil war, the government never per-
-mined, in the ivleile exteefof kingdom, n single individual to be
arrested ; so deeply cunvineed was it of the fidelity of its •nbjects.
Thisahres honour to the heart of the Kine, wild was not deotriv ed ii, thus
confiding in the devoted affection of his peupic."
It.appears.that Murat before he left C,riea was made acquainted
with the offer of the Emperor of Austria, iu crant him an iota lain in lihs
dominion ; Lott this he refused, and proceeded upon his enterprise to
reconquer ss throne with fifty men!