The National Register.
London, England, 1815-09-17 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

11011111 D ASSASSINATION,

r ROM TftT JOURNAL OF TICIELLE DU CARD_)

A dreadilli has been committed at Marvejols-les-Gardenso
one r t sources of the rebellion in the Gardunneque, of which
t ;le Abb • E,grgaiv was the victim. This worthy ecclesiastic was on
w rpm* Pet is to MOMS, to he present at the operations of the
1 C,llege of the Department of which he was a member. H:
lett Ni,mcs on the 24th of August, for Marvejols, where his estates are
!mowed. On the 27th he paid a visit to one of his friends in the
cowure. On his return, towards evening, he was attacked in his
si:ea low close to his house, by four assassins, who fired their muskets
at h nt ; he escaped thr c shots by throwing himself behind a tree,
the trunk of which received the balls, but the fourth assassin having
advanced. hit him, and he fel; with his thigh fractured.
The villain then cooly reloaded his musket, and was about to put an
end to his victim, when a girl twelve years of age, whom the firing had
brought out of the house, ran and thrc' herself before her master,
protesting that they should not kill him till they had killed her also.
This determined the assassins to make off. A surgeon who was
cliled from a neighbouring village, said he would not risk conveying
the Abbe to Marvejuls for further medical aid without an escort of
300 men, and the wounded man remained twenty two hours without
prover assistance. He died on the c.t9th, after forgiving his assassins,
according to the precepts of his religion. He has left a memory
justly revered, and friends inconsoleable for his loss. This family
has been very unfortunate. There were three brothers : the ci ler
was massacred at A lais, in the beginning of the Revolution, by these
who then called themselves Patriots ; the second fell lime years
afterwards under the revolutionary guillotine ; the third and youngest
has perished as above.
The only remaining branch of this family is Count d'Esgrigny, his
friend and cousin-german, Aid-de-camp to the Prince of Conde, and
very distinguished General Officer.

Awar upon a small scale seems to have been on the point
of li:caking out between Fiance and Spain. Castanos and
°limpet!, each with a Spanish army, crossed the Pyrenees
into France, announcing that they cames as the friends of
Toni: 'XVIII. The Duke d'Angouleme assured them that
Ills uncle could do very well without such proofs of friend-
ship—Castanos bowed and retired. O'Donnell %las not so
complaisant, and advanced. Orders were therefore given by
the Duke to repel these ft iendo by force. Troops of the line,
national guards, &c. were assembled—but at length, O'Don-
nell, after some delay, following the example of Castanos,
by making a retrograde movmvost and re-passing the fron-
tiers. Previous to leaving France, O'Donnell wrote a letter
to the French General Viumenil, assuring him that the Spa-
nish; troops had no desire of vengeance, and that they were
entirely disposed to join the troops of Louis XVIII. in main-
taining together the sacred right of the august family of
the Rout bons. The conclusion of his letter was rather M-
ina/ kalde. ."I'he Spanish soldiets have lived as brothers and
faithful friends with the peaceably disposed Ft enchmen. The
horrors committed on their country by the satellites of
Buonapatte, have made on them no other impression than
the desire of shewiug that their hearts arc incapable of die-
rishing sentiments of vengeance, and that the same arms
Mich expelled those savage hordes from slain, are fully
prepared to unite with the troops of Louis XVIII,. in sus-
taining the sacred rights of the august family of the Bour-
bons.—l hope that hereafter they will not be necessary, and
that his Majesty, Louis XVIII. will not have one day to re-
pent of being deprived of the assistance of 80,000 Spaniards,
who would have regarded and defended his cause as their
own, and will always afford a prompt support to good French•
men."

The swoids voted by the Corporation of the eity of Lon-
don to the Commanders of the Allied Armies, are to be sent
to the Duke of Wellington, and by him presented to those
lwroes.

Inc'etlon is engaged, for the ensuing winter, at the Dublin
Theatre. Next summer he embarks with his musical notes
an adventure to America.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENI

FRENCH PAPERS.

-SEPT. 1 7.

PART% SEPT. 11.--The Duchess of Angoulense arrived at three
o'clock Yesterday at the Thitilleries.
The tienna Court Gazette, of the 51st ult. contains the following
Notice ;—" The King of France, as a proof of his friendship and of
his sentiments of gratitude for the restoration of tranquillity and the-
legitimate order of affairs in France. has conferred on his Imperial
Royal and Apostolic Majesty the Order of the Holy Ghost. The
Emperor. on his part, has nominated the King of France Grand
Cross of the Order of St. Stephen."
Lucien Bonaparte, who is still in the citadel of Turin, has asked
permission to go, on his parole qf honour, to Rome, where his wife is,
it is said, indisposed. He has been informed that application ninst
be made to the Allied Powers to know whether his request can be
granted.
A letter from Marseilles says—di On the Ist September WOO Aus-
trian troops arrived here. We are assured that they will not remain
long. The excellent behaviour of the English troops in this city
has produced the fullest confidence in them, and has procured for
them the-sincerest esteem of the people of Marseilles."
Between three and four o'clock yesterday afternoon, a train of
French artillery and some troops of different arms entered Paris.
They defiled on the Boulevards du Nord. Every one crowded to
see them.

The Ghent Journal states, that the lady of Admiral Cockburn has
received a letter from her husband, which states that Bonaparte was
seized with a violent fit of tea sickness the second day after he left
the coast of England.
Yesterday a violent quarrel occurred in the I'alais Royal, between
a Prussian officer and a citizen: but the Russian soldiers, who
pied the post in the Grand Cour, seconded by a strong patrol of the
National Guard, soon restored order. The garden gales were shut
and several persons suspected of having instigated the riot, were ap-
prehended, shed carried to the office of the Prefect of the Police.
Marshal Ney is to be removed to the Abbaye some day this wcel.
Letters from Italy state, that the wife of Lucien Bonaparte vas
lately in danger of being assassinated at her country residence near
Rome.

IVe are assured that the allies are besieging Montmedy.
The Spanisrdit, on entering the French territory, disarmed the
inhabitants of St. Jean de Lnz, and other places which they occu.
pied.
BERLIN. SEPT. 3.—lt is now known for certain that not only the
works of art belonging to our old and new provinces are to be re-
stored by the French, but that other Princes who have been plun-
dered recover their property; among these is the Elector of Hesse.
Messrs. Denon and Prassel make, indeed, difficulties, but in vain.