The National Register.
London, England, 1820-11-26 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, Nov. 19.—The Gazelle de Fraxce, con-
tradicting its previous statement regarding the time
when the previous statement regarding the time
when the Chambers will meet, says, that " it is
comidently stated they will not be convoked till the
13th of December, insteail of the Srd."

The palace of Elysee Bourbon is undergoing a
thorough repair, as is to be made the residence of
his Royal Highness the Duke of Bordeaux.
On the t Ith instant two young men of Bordeaux
quarrelled over a game of dice, when one of them
stabbed his companion with a knife, which caused
a, most instant death. The mother of the deceased
w.l informed of the catastrophe, threw herself
in.( tr.:. river, r.nd was drowned.
. .....e. u courier extraordinary, that the
Spanish Curt,. ter linate.l. their sittings on the f)th
of J.\tr ,uttnr. the King !Icing at the Esc'.rial,
the President iu his name, the functions
which the law assigns to his Majesty. The most
periect tranquillity perveded the whole city,
A ;oan of lova million: of ducats is now negotia-
ting with the h •usa of Guitturd, for the use of the
Neapolitan government.
STRALSUND, Nov. 4.—The Portuguese Ambas-
sador at the Gout: of Prussia, having acquainted
the Alini.ter of the events at Lisbon and Oporto,
proposed th..t all the Prussian ports shout.' be shut,
to prevent the s.:"'ag of vessels for Portugal. He
received an answer, 'Oat thc.gh the government
did not recognise the new order of things in Portu-
gal, yet it could not undertake any hostile measure
against that country; and that an `ltertlicticn of
that sort would be productive of great embarrass-
ment. The interest of commerce require that this
measure will never he adopted, unless the Minister
of Portugal give an assurance beforehand to the
Prussian subjects that, a compensation equal to the
estimated loss sha" made.

GENEVA, Nov. 4.—A double assassination, the !
details of which seem to furnish the counterpart to
that of the unfortonate Fualdes, was committed on
the Ist instant, in the suburbs of this city, on the
person of M. Corbox and his servant. 'Those two
victims were found horribly mutilated in the house
which they occupied at Plain Palais. It would ap-
pear that a long and hard struggle had preceded the
perpetration of the crime; but the murderers have
not left behind them the least trace that can lead to
a discovery. It happened, however, that the same
night the murder was committed, twa young men,
who were returning from shooting, alarmed a man
who was carrying a porter's hod, and as he saw them
be threw the contents into a ditch. A little farther
off they met another man similarly burdened. On
the following day they learnt that five men had
crossed the lake, carrying with them a quantity of
effects, and leaving behind a trunk at a public-haute.
The police immediately searched the ditch, and
found several things belonging to M. Corbor, and
among them some bloody 'knell. The trunk, also,
was filled with things stolen after the murder. Some
days afterwards, a well-dressed man, who was tra-
velling with a dealer in wine, ordered the coach-
man who drove them to call for the trunk at the
house where it had been left. The wine merchant,
nho had previously noticed that the hands and face
of the prisoner were mlich scratched, now suspected
him of being one of the murderers, and had him
arrested. This was not done without great diffi-
culty. The assassin, who is named Machon, is a
powerful man, and it was not until after a long
personal conflict between him and a French gen
darme that he was secured, and lodged in prison ut
Gex. Since that time, Madam 8., who belongs to
a Emily of rank in the neighbourhood, has been
arrested as an accomplice, and she has promised to
reveal evety thing, upon condition of ber life being
spared. A professor of Italian, who is also suspected,
has fled. Six men and two women, besides Ma.
chon and Madam 11., have been arrested. Machon
is the captain of a banditti called " the Black Band."
The gendarme who secured him was carried in
triumph upon the shotiltlers of the populace to the
town-hall at Genera, where he was publicly thanked
by the magistrates, and rewarded with 50 Napoleons
(4tl. 3s. 41.)
Nov. 7.—Our police, and that of the contiguous
districts of FraPt ilVoy, and of the Pays de Vaud,
ars concerting means fur the discovery of the per-
petrators of th. • ,order committed on the IA inst.
in the environs o this town, snit also of a band of
robbers who !:.t% been committing depredations on
our territory fie several months. The French gen-
&ramie of Gex have wrested an indiviecal under
strong .uspieimis of guilt, and other arrests induce
a belief that they are on the right tract. '1 he Stir.
. . .

dinian authorities have active measures to
prevent any suspicious character taking refuge in
Savoy. Another bind of vitirants and deserters,
partly Irma Milan and paint; from Ccnua, have
coilecttil in the west of Switzerland, whence they
make pl.--datory ineuisions into the departments of
Ain and ut Jura.


THE NATIONAL REGISTER

A report is in circulation, and has obtained a
considerable degree of credit, that the Grand ,Seig-
nor has ordered the assemblege of an army in the
vicinity of Belgrade.