The National Register.
London, England, 1815-09-03 00:00:00

TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER.

theCaptaina Is a person of the name of Toislajon, a sweeper of the
streets, who alone has killed fourteen Protestants. They broke
open the giave of It young Protestant gill to throw her into a corn.
mon receptacle of filth. Those Protestants whom they do not kill
they exile, and throw into prison, and yet there were a great num-
ber of Royalists among them.
From the loth to the 14th July no courier from Paris arrived.
(hi the 16th the King was proclaimed by the Urban Guard (com-
posed of men between 40 and 60 years of age), followed by all the
most respectable persons iu the town. and the white flag was
hoisted.

On the 17th armed bands of brigand/4 and the National Guards
of Beancaire came to disarm the military, who sustained an assault
in the barracks, and they were almost all massacred. Tkeir num.
ber amonnted to 200.
On the 18th many peaceable citizens were massacred—many
houses pillaged. On the afternoon of that cruel morning, the mad
wretches rdn about the town calling out that they wished a second
Saint Bartholomew.

On the 19th the Prefect published a proclamation, recalling th•
peaceable persons who had quitted the town; they obeyed this or-
der, and a Areat number were assassinated.
From the nth Lathe 19th, the pillages and -assassinations did not
iiseontinne. Those who sought their safety in flight were assassi-
nated on the roads. Some were conducted-into prisons, where they
are still groaning.
On the 29th the Prefect of the King arrived. The other Prefect
bad been named by - the Royal Commissioner.
On the Seth a 're Demi' wit (•haunted. On the .Slst the new
Prefect published a very prudent proclamation, but he quitted
Nisnies.

On the Ist of August, M. de Calviere, the person whem the
Royal Commissioner had named, resumed the functions of Prefect,
and 16 Protestants Were massacred. They went about* seizing them
in their houses, and they cut their throats before their own doors.
many were massacred in the fields. The night between the Ist and
2d was the most cruel. M. de Calviere caused an order to be postrd
up, which seems to have somewhat calmed these pretended Royal-
ists. On the 4th, several country seats were set on fit e.
The peaceable citizens. the Members of the I.7rhun Guard, hate
been again forced to flee to save themselves from destruction. The
Prefect sent au order to them to return, under the penalty of hav-
ing the laws respecting emigration put in force against them. Thcs,e
who returned into the town experienced either death or captivity.
It is uncertain whether M. de Moncalm or M. de Calviere ti mos%
guilty' of allowing or causing the commission of all these horrors.
bat suspicion falls principally on the former, who is Royal C 4
simper., and whom it is said the King had a considerable time aea
ordered to cease his tUnctions. Nothing. promises any s.. ua ity to,
the frit:olds of order; for all the authorities, with the ext.( idiot'
two pei sons, are composed of the most timid and feeble
The At tornies (Notaires) and the Arocals have formed resolutions
not to retain or receive into their bodies any but Roman Catholics.
Nismes has already lost its rank amongst the commercial towns
it is on the bi ink of complete annihilation.
The Prefect named by the King was aM. D'Arbot he has dane.
no good. The foreign troops have been implored to force the
brigands to repose, and to assist the trite Royalists. for the brigands
abuse this name, which they will render universally odious.

The number of deaths is proiligioui we have not au exact mut-
rneration.

Horrors of the same kind are continued in the neighbonring
towns.

STATE OF MAD-HOUSES IN ENGLAND.

The third Report of the Committee of the House of Commons nit
this feelingly interesting subject (the Right Hon. George Rose in tl.e
Chair) has been recently printed. In this, the evidence .01 Ducto.s
Weir, Best, linniess, Latham, and l'owell ; Mr. Br vans, Architect ;
Sir Jonathan Milton, Keeper of the llosinn lionse ; Messrs. Western
nod Smith, and Sir John Newport, Dna. Members of the Committee ;
and dr. Malone, Attorney, are stated.

From their dermaitions, it appears generally, that in the Establish-
ment for Naval Maniacs at Ilosinn, there has of late been a emitisosed
succession of changes with a view to its improvement Tliis is cum).
borated by the written Repoli of Dr. Elair's Visitation given in by Dr.
Harness. He attributes the improvements, perliaps,• t, Ilia attention
of the Proprietor of the Establishment, but chiefly to the attention
raid by the Medical Department Id the Trauvpott °ace t,) every 31;;-
geAiou fur improvement.