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London, England, 1817-12-08 00:00:00

PERSIA.

The Calcutta Government Gazette of the 29th of May con-
tains some very curious and interesting information from
Persia. It seems that Russia has of late exerted herself to
conciliate the Persian Nobility, strictly, however, on the
principle of "peace to the cottage, and war to the castle."
The Embassy, to Terhatin is spoken of as conspicuously
splendid. His Excellency General Germaloff had reached
Erwan on his route to the Persian capital. The best informed
men, however, conceived that the negociatious and confer-
ences would terminate in war.
The Wahabes let slip no opportunity of distinguishing
themselves by acts of cruelty and piracy. Their Chief con-
tinues to lie sorely pressed by the Turkish troops of the Pasha
of Egypt, at no great distance from the capital of the former.
lie, however, defends himself to the last extremity.
Daood Pasha has lately ascended the Musund of Bagdad,
by the ordinary expedient of murdering his predecessor.—
The most important feature in the intelligence from Persia is
the expected arrival iu that country of a number of French
<Akers from Paris. A Colonel Morcier of the cavalry, and
Captain Hubert, had made their way already; but the new
employment cut out for them by their Government at home
may supersede their enterprises in the eastern as well as in
the western hemisphere. The two Officers above mentioned
presented themselves to the Prince Heir-apparent, attired in
rich uniform. In a short conversation they entirely won the
heart of his Royal Highness, and obtained his permission for
their brethren at Paris to make part of the Army of Persia.
the Prince, however, at the same time declares, that lie
sivould not have given encouragement to Frenchmen, had
'British subjec is been allowed to serve under Persian colours.
.His Persian Majesty was at the capital in April last, waiting
sue arrival of the Russian Embassy, for whose reception he
bad made the must splendid preparations.

Between four and five o'clock in the morning ofTtresda
week, the watchman on duty in the 1t est Bow, Edinburgh.
eras slarined by hearing some person groaning. He proceed-
ed to search a staircase from which the distressing sounds ap.
peered to proceed ; anti through a window discovered mat
lying, ',ppm midy senseless, in a drain between the trout le.
newent and the roof of a back house. The aatehmau pre .
cured assistance,. lint, in order to come at the man, it oa•
found neCeiNary to take out the window frame. The unfortu-
nate sufferer was immediately barite to the Police otlice ; nu .
dical assistance oils obtained, but it proved of uo avail, fur he
expired in a few moiticnts. A man, a woman, und a /ad are
in custody as suspicion.

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REVIEW OF LITERATURE.

Narrative of a Voyage to New Zealand, performed in
the Years 1814 aid 1815, in Company with the Rte.
SAMUEL MARSIAN, APrincipal Chaplain Of New
Sarah ;Vales. .
By JOHN LIDDIARD NICHOLAS, Esq. 2 Vols. Bvo.

The public are indebted, fir these interesting vo-
lumes, to an attempt, on the part of the Church Mis-
sionary Society, at colonization, and the introduction
of religious and moral instruction, among the natives of
New Zealand, a people known, at the present day, to
Europeans, almost exclusively by their ferocious con-
duct towards persons falling into there power, and of
whose addiction to cannibalism their is, unhappily, but
too indubitable proofs. Judging from these filets, it
will readily be admitted, that any attempt towards a
friendly communication, or intercourse with such a
race seemed equally vain and hopeless. One individual,
however, entertained a far different opinion: mud to
his benevolent mind, and enterprizing spirit, it may
reasonably be hoped that these benighted savages
at no distant period, be indebted fir the blessings of
civilization, and that their country will be rendered
not only of greater value to themselves, but also of
much importance to our contiguous colony of New
South Wales, and to the numerous British vessels
which now navigate the Pacific. This individual was
the Rev. Samuel Marsden, his Majesty's principal
Chaplain in the territory of New South Wales, and
agent for the Church Missionary Society in that part of'
the globe. Notwithsamling the various acts of cruelty
committed by the Zealanders towards some of the crews
of ships touching upon the islands, and the recent ease
of a whole crew having been massacred, and many of
them devoured, and the vessel burnt, by one of the
tribes, Mr. Nlareden was not discouraged in his plan of
endcaveuring to introduce the arts of civilization, and
the truths of revealed religion amongst them ; while he
deplored the events above alluded to, he kept his mind
free fiont those hostile feelings, and that spirit of re-
venge which had of late been but too generally mani-
fested towards the natives of New Zealand: he saw
enough in the character and dispositions of the few in-
dividuals, who from time to time visited Port Jackson,
to excite his suspicions,. that a spirit of retaliation, ra-
ther than innate ferocity, must have led to the commis-
sion of those cruelties which had of late been perpe-
trated ; suspicions that were strengthened by. the well
known bad conduct of many of the commanders and
crews of ships, in all their communications with the
South Sea islanders. Ile knew, too, that Captain
Cook had been received by these people in the most
friendly manner; that he had penetrated a considera-
ble way into the interior of the islands, 'which he
strongly recommended as a spot for colonization ; and
had described the natives as a mild and hospitable race.
As fir as respected their cannibalism, Mr. Marsden
carefully distinguished between acts committed during
the phrenzy of revenge, and the general usages of a
people. Ile had entertained some of the New Zea-
landers who had visited Port Jackson, in his own
house, where he narrowly watched their conduct and
propensities, and every thing he observed, chewed
them to be a high-minded, intelligent people, possess-
ing, with fine, well proportioned, and manly persons,
sonic of the best qualities of the human heart, amongst
which, that of giwiiinde was highly prominent. They
saw clearly, and acknowledged the benefits of civiliza-
tion, and readily confessed their own inferiority and
• wretched condition, compared with that of Europeans.
While considering the best means of carrying his
plan into effect, Mr. Marsden derived essential assist-
ance from an accidental circumstance :—On board the
ship in which he made his last voyage from England
to New South Wales, he found a native of New Zea-
land, a Chief, as was afterwards proved, and the suc-
cessor of one named Tippahee, who was well known at
Port Jackson in the time of Governor King. As this
young man acts a conspicuous part in the transaction
detailed in these volumes, we shall here give a brief'
sketch of the earlier part of his life :—ln 1805, he em-
barked on board the Argo whaler, with two of his
countrymen, where they served while she was off their
coast, and subsequently arrived in her at Port Jackson ;
after refitting, she sailed again to fish on the coast of
New Holland, where she continued about six months,
and then returned to Port Jackson, ween the master
discharged I)uaterra, the young Chief in question, but
without any remuneration for nearly twelve months
services. He there entered the Albion whaler, and
after a cruize of another six months, was landed in his
island by the Captain, who paid him fir his services.—
He lid not retnain long at home : another whaler, the
Santa Anna, touching at the Bay of Islands, his resi-
deuce, he embarked on board her. He suffered many
hardships during this trip ; but nut sufficient to cure
him of a roaming disposition ; fur, on the Santa Anna
completing her cargo, and preparieg to ,ail fur Eng-
land, Duaterra engaged to proceed thither in her us a
common sailor, for the purpose of gratityieg a desire lie
had song entertained, et seem,., King ( ! The
ship arrived in the Thames about Juq, f.,u9 ; but,
untiatunate4 fel* this poor savage, and to the eternal

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disgrace of the Captain, he was kept ahnost constantly
on board till the vessel discharged her cargo, and then
turned over, almost naked, and silk from the bard.
ships find disappointments he had received, to the Ann,
a convict ship, then at Gravesend, being told he would
receive his wages at Port JueLion, Which, however, ho
never did, Mr. Marsden being ordered by government,
about this period, to return to New South Wales, toot
his passage in the Ann, which he joined at Spithead.

" When I embarked (says he), lluata►a ass confined below
by sicker s, so that laid not see him, or know he ►vas three
for some time. (hi my first observing him, he was on this
forecastle, wrapped up in an old great coat, very sick and
weak, had a very violent congh, and discharged (imbler.
able quantities of blood from his munth. His mind wilt
very much dejected, maul be appeared as if a few days would
terminate Ilk existence. I enquired of the master %hero he
had met with him, and also of Ihiaterra what had brought
him to England, an I how he emote to be so wretched and
miserable. He told me the hardships aml wrongs lie had
ex petienced on hoard the Santa Amin were exceedingly
great, and that the English sailors had beaten him very lima,
which was the cense of his spitting.hlood; that the master
had &liquified him of all his ~caAes, u nil prevented his
seeing the King. I should have bi en very happy if there
haul been time to have called the sinister of the Santa Anna
to account fur his conduct, but it was too Isle; I entries-
vowed to booth his afflictions, and assured him that he should
be protected from insults, and that his wants should be sap•
plied.
" By the kindness of the surgeon and master, and by pro-
per nourishment adi ll itt istered to him, he begun in a great
measure to recover both hi.; strength awl spirits, and got
quite well, sometime before we anise(' at Rio de Janeiro.
He was ever after truly grateful for the attention that was
shewn to him. As soon as he was able, he did hi • duty as
a common sailor on board the Anti, till she arrived at Port
Jackson, in Febinary thin, in w Mei. capacity he was con-
sidered equal to most of the men on board. The master be-
haved very kind to him. He tell the Aim, and accompanied
me to Parramatta, and resided with me till the November
following, during which time he applied himself' to agtical•
turn."

Some time after their arrival at Port Jackson, the
Frederick whaler touched there on her way to the coast
of New Zealand to fish, and Duaterra being now anx-
ious to return to his friends, Mr. Marsden conditioned
with the Captain of the Frederick, to carry him, to-
gether with three of his countrymen, to their homes ;
the terms were, that they should serve on hoard whilst
the vessel was on the coast, and that, upon quitting it,
they should be landed at the Bay of Islands: but this
Unprincipled commander, instead of fulfilling his en.
gagements, carried them all to Northlk Island, where
they were nearly drowned in procuring water for the
vessel; and finally, after they were of no further use
to him, left Duaterra, with two of his countrymen, on
that inhospitable spot, (having carried off the other by
terce) almost entirely destitute. From this place they
were carried to Port Jackson by another whaler which
happened to touch there, and through the kind aid of
Mr. Marsden, were at last taken home by the ship
Ann ; Mr M. having furnished Duaterra with seed-
wheat, and various implements of husbandry, in conse-
quence of his strong desire. to introduce agriculture into
his country. He sowed his wheat, and it grew luxu.
riantly, as did that which he had given to the other
chiefs ; but they had become impatient, and supposing
the produce was to be found at the mots, like potatoes,
they pulled up all their crops, which were thus, of
course, destroyed, and ridiculed Duaterra for his tell-
ing them they would produce bread. He, however,
waited patiently till his little stock ripened ; but here
an unexpected difficulty presented itself; he had no
mill to grind it when it was thrashed out ; he there-
fore applied, through some vessels which touched at the
Bay of Islands in their way to Port Jackson, to Mr.
Marsden, for a mill, which was sent him, and to his
inexpressible delight, and the utter amazement of his
incredulous countrymen, he was enabled to chew them
what he had promised, bread, such as they saw on
board English ships.
The Church Missionary Society having resolved, in
1808, upon making a settlement in New Zealand, and
some of the Missionaries having accompanied Mr. Mars-
den to New south Wales, that gentleman availed him-
self of his acluaintance with Duaterra, and dispatched
these two Missionaries to the Bay of Islands, in a vessel
he hired, to ascrtain how far the views of the Society
were likely to be accomplished. Nothing could be
more favourable than the report they made on their re.
turn, which was further strengthened by Duaterra,
and another chief, his uncle, accompanying them to
Port Jackson
We reserve for our next number, an account of the
preparations at Port Jackson, and the establishment of
the Missionaries at the Bay of Islands.

A person intimate sa Ii Las Catias mention•, that he RC"
gummed him that pre. ions to his leaving, St, ileleinr, his
miggage was strictly examined ny order of the Ciliverim., and
that a packet containing ilia hitimay of Boonaparte, written
ia3, Las Casas at the immediate desire 01 Boon:Tarte, and
ender I is direction, iia• taken limn luu, ; he made pressing
l'p'rations that it might he re !hilted, which th. Governor
omitvally refused ;at leng II Nes a n..a, that this RM.
lIIW a dithiry rumalis w the possession of Ge
natal Lowe, and with Ins lanai Las CaSJS sHise,t has seal,
that the packet should not lic opened at 'Juin hats Et...v.01%
Las Caws that he Isamu s mine ill the WSW') BUO.
11.3palIc titan au) other [lmmo', 1.4 a seliesl,l )ears his
:seesetary ; and to no min a- prison clad tli iiiii aparte
ever diva-lose his mind. La• t.:asiis is a middied aged map :
his sou's youth of 13 or 13 )ears of age, i4ccouipauits high

DEC. R.

SEIZURE AND MURDER OF THE DUKE
D'ENOHEIN.
[From the last Number of the Quarterly Review.]

WC are induced to copy the following article, not
merely front its interest, but for the purpose of con-
tributing, by every means in our power, to keep our
readers alive to the real character of Buonaparte; and
prevent them from being misled by those writers who
are at present so indefatigable in their attempts to pal-
hate the numberless crimes he committed, and to find
apologies for the conduct of those men who became
at all times the willing instrument of his atrocities.

" Louis-A Moine-Henry., Duke d'Enghien, was born in the
year 1;72. Ile was the son of the Duke of Bourbon, anti
grandson of the Prince de Condi.. of whom Doctor Johnsou
remarked in his tour to Park, Boswell, vol. ii. p. Sot) that
be we. a gramlsire At 39,—the tact was, however. still more
extraordinary, for (as he was burn in 1736) he was a grand.
father at Mi.
"The young prince emigrated with his amiable and res-
pectable father in 1789, after the capture of the Baatile, when
he was hardly 17 years of age ; and lie set ved in the army of
Conde with the most brilliant reputation, adored by his own
soldiers, and respected for his courage, his courtesy, and his
contlAct, well by the republicans.
"This army exhibited the singular anti interesting specta.
ale of three generations of heroes, lighting with equal cou-
rage and almost equal activity in the same field. After seven
campaigns the treaty of Liineville put it period to its services.
AIL Was dishatifed, and in hOl-1.1 lien his father and grand-
father came to England —the Duke d'Ele4laicsi robed to the
chateau of Ettenheitu, a country residence situated close to
the toss it of that name in Swabia.
" It is well known that an ardent and romantic passion for
the Princess Charlotte de Rolm-Rochefort. to whom it is
supposed he was secretly married, induced the duke to reside
at Etteultiem ; where, in a happy obscurity, his only occu-
pations were the spurts of the field; the embellishmeot of his
little domain, and the occasional society of her who dialed
and sweetened Isis exile. So domesticated was this young
prince, and so attached to his rein einem, that till the fatal
night in which lie was dragged from it to assassination, he
never plated it but once, when he made au exciirsi n to
visit some of the heaalifol scenes of Switzerland ; bat limile
was still mitre beatrilitl to him, and after a short tour lie has
tenet back to Et i eu'leim.
" On the night of she 15th March, 1804, about 12,000
?fetich troops, under the direction of Caulaincourt, anti the
immediate command of Generals Oidetier an 1 Fririon, crus-
e( the Rhine in two or three divisions. and surrounded the
town of Ettealieint and the residence of the
" The (bike had been apprised a day or two before that
some design again-t him was on foot in France. He could
not believe it—he was living, in a friendly coentry, a most
peaceable and inoffensive life, untie' the security of'hir Own
Innocence, and toolh r the protection of the laws of nature and
of nations ; he could not believe it,—and the assassins found
that no kind of pi ecawtion had been taken a:tattoo them.
" When the duke beard them surrouttitiug the house, and
breaking down the outward gates he jumped from tied, and
he and a footman named Joseph, immediately armed them-
selves with fowling pieces.— 'rot officers and other parts oh
his family soon joined him.- flie stairs of the castle were
straight and narrow, so that trout the that ianding_place au
ob.tinate defelice might be made against the assailants.—
The Mike, multi% WM:lolling the time of the night, and the
suddenness of the a tmek,iireserved the most perfect coolness,
and made the ablest dispositions fir resistance,— his officers
and servants we re 10 Iliad the fowling•pieces under cover,
stabile he alone, ;it the head of the stairs, successively dis-
charged thew. with an effect the more to be relied upon from
kis being airseseellent shot.
`"Fhe house was soon surroundedithe assailants broke the
lower door, and seemed to` be about to ascend the slat's,
'where souse of them would have received the reward of their
temerity, when the ilitke'a first gentleman, a baron Gi instico,
threw himsellopost hits', caught him iti 1.1,4 arms, awl ei.elai.r-
tug, that all resistance was vain, dragged him into a r4)0111
which opened on the head of the stairs. The assailants
ae:zeil the opportunity, they rushed forward, and the thilie
palsied by the prittinit uu'c of Grinstein, was with all the
...her persons in the room, made prisoner.
It has never, to this hour, been ascertained whether the
baron was actnat ed by a eeiniiiial inotiee,"—tlic fact of his in-
terference is ail we cans ouch for,—the duke would certainly
have been finally overpowered, and one cannot help wishiug,
en the first impressilm, that lie had had the satisfaction to
dying amidst Isis dying enemies with ilk arms in his hand;
bat Provideuc. ordained for him a still tioblt r fate. and
fraught with a nobler lesson.—liati he died in that midnight
scuffle, the :art:city of Ilitonaparte might have been doubted :
the cool heroic devotiou of the young and gallant victimwunld
not have firm tried nod proved ; the deep antilastiog hob 4.
',motion of Europe would nut have been excited ; and the re-
- tribirtive justice of heaven in the fate of Murat and BllollA-
parte, would have wanted its highest effect, its most exem-
plary vindication.
" When the French entered the room, their first question
was, Which of you is the Duke d'EtiJiivit? no answer was
made; none of the prisoners were noire titan hull dressed,
except Grinnell), who it seems haul gone to bed that night
without taking nti his elothes.---siveing Aim completely dress.
ed,Mhile the others were nearly as they liaihsprong out to
bed, the French faneied, or pretended to fancy, that he was
the duke.—line had had the honesty and presence of mind
to say, I am the duke, lie would have siren carried to Siras-
bnrgh : probably no harm would have happened to , cud
the Prince might have been saved. liritistein, however,
though b • received a hint to this effect, was silent; and the
French marched the whole party out of Ettenheini. The
town was by thin time in a state of consternation, and the
princess Charlotte de Ronan, who, alai tiled at the noise, hail
risen and run to a window, saw, but it is supposed with-
out recognizing Rota, the iltike dragged past her house, with
no other covet ing but a waistcoat and louse trowsers, and a
pair 'of ,loners.
" At a little distance from EtonlieM, they halted at a mill where
was the burgomaster of the town,—whether it was he or the duke's
seen tarn (who had billowed his stinger and heo;,feil to be allowed to
share he. Into wl:o ported out the duke to lir. guards, is doubtful
but he writs now ketisin.—lle asked to be allowed to semi his valet
back for hero, chilies and money,—it was grantt.l; an the servant's
rcturr., lie dossed !mn.eits, and they proceeded. They iia,,,,st the
Rhine lictweett Carpel] and licinau, at which latter place tlwv were
carriages waiting for dam. The French wanted to ),tax Ganstitin
in Me dulte's carnage; hot he refused to be aceonsploted and in-
sisted upon having the brave and faithful 6,X116101, who lad stalcarom-
ad to assist ban in the clefiaice of t:ie Louses

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On their arrival at Atrasburgh, the prisoners were confined in
the citadel, and it wiitlld seem that the jailers had not yet finalorders
as to the disposal of the Doke; probably Caulaincourt had not re-
turned from Offenbourg, whence he had diVected the operation.
The,prinee was, however, respectfully treated that day ; but in the
middle of the eight his bedwas surrounded by gendarme, who thrced
him to rise and dress himself with all haste, as he we, about to go
a journey. He asked for the attendance of the faithful Joseph ;he
was told he would not need it. He asked to take some linen ; he
was answered that taw shirts would suilice. This sufficiently explain-
ed to him his intended fate. He distributed to his attendants, who
had now assembled round him, all the money he had, except one
rouleau, and a few loose pieces of gold and Aver ; and, after he had
affectionately taken leave of them, they were excluded from the
apartment; bat they heard for some minutes the noise of the prepa•
ration for departure, and amongst the rest the dank of the chains
with which they had the needless barbarity and insolence to confine
his arms.

" Ile was fire days and five nights on the road, doting the whole
of which time he was confined to his carriage, and almost without
food. At the ordinary rate of travelling he might have reached Paris
in seventy hours ; so that some precautions must have been taken
that he should arrive in the evening. It was about half past five in
the evening of the tooth of March that the young Prince arrived at
the castle of Vincennes, when he was delivered into the hands of the
governor, who, at first, as well as cite ether persons, was ignorant
who he was. By one of those slight incidents, which sometimes add
an interest to a scene already deeply important, it happened that the
wife oldie governor was the daughter of the Duke's nurse, and she
recognized her foster brother; overwhelmed .WI sorrow and conster-
nation, she had yet the presmce of mind not to betray herself, and
retired—unobserved, except by her husband—to give vent to the emo-
tions of terror and grief, and to endeavour to consider how she could
be of use to the unhappy prince.
• • • •

"The name of the royal prisoner was however soon whi pored, and as
he complaint.sl of hunger and fatigue, all the inhabitant, of the castle,
even the officers and men of the regiment in garri-on there,
(s'empresserent) vied with each other in showing him attention.—
This alamted the persons to whom the direction of the crime was
committed. the regiment was immediately ordered under antis, anti
marched off to the heights of Belle Ville, where it bivuitaqued for
that night.
" In the meanwhile, a mock tribunal assembled in one of the
rooms of the castle. We devote to the scorn and detestation of pos-
terity these bloody and cowardly assassins. They were :—llulin,
General, President ; Bazancourt, Colonel ; Barrois, Colonel [PALl-
tancourt, Captain, Judge Advocate; Guiton, Colonel; Harter, Co.
loud ; Kabbe. Colonel ; Molin, Captain Secretary. • All,' says the
sentence, • named by the General in Chief Murat, Guo:rruir iy*
" The members of this court had received the notice to attend not
more than Sr. hour before the appointed time, and they did not, with
the exception of the president, know for what purpose
it they were sum-
moned. Nor was necevary they should ; the make.? way ready
drawn before they arrived, and the grave was n4..141(110 dug riejine the
coral was aranu&lyd! .

" Worn out with fatigue, the victim was asleep on a soldier's bed
on the floor of his dimgeon. when he was called to attend the court.
Ile was awakened with great difficulty, and he entreated to be allow-
ed to sleep again ; but as soon as he was made to understand that
his hour Was sole, he shook otillis fatigue, and prepared with digni-
fied alacrity for the last scene of his agony. Ile was introduced into
the nioni where the court was sitting. lie was asked his name; he
told it. Ile was asked whether he had nut borne arms against France;
he answered that he had served the King; but when they were
about to propose some otter questions, he said be supposed he had
told enough for their purpose, and that he would altiiWlT no more.
Ile was then led away, and Ilulin produced the sentence ready drawn
no. and laid it before the astonished members for their signature.
Ihe whole scene had been so sudden—their ignorance of what they
came thr—of whom they were to try—.the ninae of the young victim,
which fell like a thunderbolt amongst them ; all inotriloned to dis-
order their minds, and the ferocious threats of I folio, the organ of
Buonaparte and Murat, tile latter of whom was prevent in the e..stle
to execute them, overwhelmed tneir consciences, and they :•ignell the
fatal paper. We do not pretend to excuse their weariless, but we
know that some of them set no bounds to their self reproaches, and
to the remorse with which they recollected that terilibbi arena. The
bloody liulin said, with atrocious sangfroid. ' If the Primo° had out
told us his name we should have been prettily puzaed what to do, as
there was no one who could identify bint."l'his wretch was soon
after, as the price of blood, rewarded with the office of governor of
Paris, vacated by Murat's promotion to an imperial principality.
" In this Pretended trial, no witnesses were produced, nor any
evidence but some papers, which are stated in the sentence to have
been secretly read to the court beihre the prisoner was introduced.
" The moment the sentence was signed, the Duke was led down to
death.
- - • •

•, The night was pitch dark ; the executioners mild not sec their
victim, nor their owu leaders, nor one anothor. The Duke asked tot
a priest, it was refused t—lio then knelt down near a square stone
which happened to be then:, crossed hi: arms, bent his head, and
was for a few moments absorbed in devotion. He then requested That
a lock of his hair, which he had cut off and folded up, might be de-
livered to the Princess de Rohan—no answer being made, he exclaim-
ed—• Is then no French soldier who will perform this last office to a
dying comrade?' Ore of the guard cried, • I will ;' he received the
little parc:l;—but neither that nor the generous soldier was ever
heard of more! _ _ - • •

...... .
During all this time. two persons stood on the rampart asovc the
ditch, leaning over the parapet; to them the Duke's demands were
referred. and they, from time toddle, direcitd the operations of the
people below—theme two persons me supposed to have been Murat
and Savarv—Mvsa (—the hour came when he must have remember •
ed this dreadful scene with bitter sympathy'
At last, a lit:le b6ire midnight, the duke was placed in the
ditch, with his back to the wall—he asked to give the fatal word of
command—he was refused. At ten paces the soldiers could not see
him , a lantern was therefore brought, which he himself tied to his
button.hale. At the word tire, the duke rushed titrward on the muz-
zles of the mumpets, and fell dead at the feet of his execarioners.
The body was immediately taken up—unstripped and even unex-
amined, and flung carelessly into the grave. which had been dug be-
fore the trial. A stone was thrown into the grave near the prince's
head. It has been said that this was the cowardly vengeance of one
of the executioners, whose cruelty was not assuaged even by the vie-
tim's blood ; but the person who filled the grave declared, that ho had
himself thrown in the stone as a mark to know the body hereafter.
A little dog of the issalle kind had accompanied the duke ; in the
confusion of the trial and murder he was not thought of, but on the
'return of light he w:is tinind howling on the grave of his toaster.—
The poor creature was with difficulty removed from the spot; a gen-
tleman purchased him from the man who had taken him, and pro-
tected him for many years out of affection to the memory of the un-
happy Prince."
If Murat was not seared against all compunctious
visiting', the blood of this amiable and innocent l'rince
must have sat heavy on his guilty soul in the days of
adversity, when he was flying from tune lurking-hole to
another; and when he finally paid the forfett of his
crimes by death, at the hands of an infuriate peasantry.
pis apologist, Maeirone, has impudently attempted to
justify Ninnies mastuacre of the inhabitants of Nladriti ;
he was probably ignorant of the part he acted in the
murder of the Duke d'Enshicn, otherwise, we should
have had a justification of Utat also.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Tuesday, Dec.!.
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BANKRUPTS.

LLOYD T. H. Aldemsanbury, clothier, Dec. 9, 16, Jan. 3. at Guild-
hall. Att. %Ir. Carpenter, Church-passage, Old Jewry.
BATH W. Esher, victualler, Dec. 9, 16, Jan. 13, at Guildhall Atta.
Edwards and Co. Bloornsbury-slirre.
KIRK S. Leeds, alehouse-keeper, Dee. 12, 13, Jan. 13, at Leeds.
Att. Mr. Batty e. Chancery-lane.
STEELE: It. Bristol, Druggist, Dec 9, 16, Jan 13, at Guildhall.
Atts. Pearce and Son, Swithin's-lane.
WADE W. Holland-street, Oxford-road, baker, Dec. 9, 16, Jan. 1.3,
at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Arundel], Chancery-lane.
Svrant If. John•street, Holborn, money-scrivener, Dee. 6, 1;3,
Jan.l3, at Guildhall. Atts. Shaw and Co. Staple-inn.
DIVIDENDS.
J. Metcalf, New London-street, Crutchedfriars, merchant, Dec. 43.
C. 11. Kauffmann, New Loudon-street, Crutchoirrisirs, merchant.

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Dec. 23.
N. Deniery, Hartley.Wintney, Southampton, inn-keeper, Dec. y. 5.
W. Haigh, Halifax, grocer, Doc. 23.
W. Law, Copthall Chambers, Throgmorton-street, merchant,
Dec. 27.
R. Davies, New Bond-street, tallow-chandler, Dee. 27.
B. Thompson, White Horse-inn, better-lane, coach-proprieter,
Ow. 25.
J. Cowie, Warnfortl-court, city, merchant, Dec. 23.
W. Beak, Bishops-Hatfield, Hertfordshire, inn-holder, Dec. 2.'3.
A. Scott, W eat Smithfield, hardware and tow-merchant. Dec. 3U.
S. Brown, Shad Thamas, thickhead, victualler, Dec. 30.
J. Burgess, Enfield, maltster..lan. 3.
H. W. Sheppard, Aldermanbury, Blackwell-hall-factor, Doe.
J. Gale, New London-street, Crutchedfriars, merchant, Dcc. 23.
A. Dalgairns, W. Bruce, and J. Bridge. Liverpool, mcrchaula'
Dec. 24.
B. Cohen, Bishopegate-strect. merchant, Dec. 16.
J. Adderrield, Chesterfield, draper, Ike. 23.
W. Buick and B. l.emesurier, Warnford-court, Throgmortorrasset,

merchants, Dec. 13. _
M. Abrahams, Minorics, merchant Dec. 23. . .
J. Cheyney, Oxtbrd-street, linen-draper, Dec. 23. ..
11. F. !tome:nun, Queen-street. Cheapside, merchant, Dec. 23.
M. Levy, Alinories.merchant,Dee. 23.