The National Register.
London, England, 1821-02-12 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

The Moniterer of Friday. contains the following
statement:—

" The investigation undertaken to discover the
authors of the outrage which took place in the
Palace of Thuilleries, having excited suspicion
against an individual called Neva', a warrant was
issued against hint by the Judge of Instruction.—
He was met yesterday, about two o'clock, in one of
the streets of Paris, in a cabriolet, and conducted to
the Prefecture of Police, before the Commissary ap-
pointed to draw up the process verbal of the arrest,
and to proceed to the s•crsification and seizure of the
papers and other objects, which he might have
about him, to be sent immediately b:.•thre the Judge
of Instruction.

" At the moment when, escorted by the peace-
officer and two iuspecturs, this person was going to
enter into the office of the aforesaid Commissary,
and was passing into the narrow corridor which
leads to it, he cut his throat with a razor, which he
had concealed about his clothes, and by a movement
so quick that it was impossible to stop him. He ex-
pired immediately,"
In the Monitestr of Saturday the following addi-
tional particulars relative to the above event are
given, together with an account of some mysterious
attempts to produce a sudden depreciation in the
French funds :

" This person had been an old merchant: he was
afterwards a broker, and has since been a bankrupt.
He is said to have bought twelve pounds of gun-
powder on the day of the explosion, at different
places, and in different disguises. Several small
packets, containing a whitish powder, which is sup-
posed to be poison, have been found upon him ; and
belt, which contained a considerable sum in gold.
He has concealed his lodging very carefully, and
there is reason to believe he has lived for some Jays
past with women of the town. He is a native of
Rheims.

" Some days ago several exchange brokers re.
ceivetl anonymous letters, requiring them, with the
most dreadful menaces, to sell the rentes, so as to
produce a fall in the course of exchange, before the
first of February. It is unnecessary to say that
these commands did not produce the effect desired
by the writers of them. They then had recourse to
more effic.tcious means: this morning, Alessrs. Per.
ronet, Beaumont, and Fillet, exchange brokers,
received letters from the houses of Wesselt and
lougemont, requiring them to sell rentes to a large
amount. This appeared very extraordinary, and
one of the brokers thought fit to apply to the person
t.i.,bning the letter, who declared that his signature
had been so adroitly forged as to render it impossible
to be detected at the first glance. The other firm
has made a similar statement.

" From the particulars collected as to Neves, who
killed himself yesterday, it seeing that ho has been
for several days concealing himself from the search
of the Police, :t has been ascertained that several
gunsmiths and venders of powder have declared that
man, hoe person they describe, Inal come to
their shops, whero he bought about Iti pounds of
tne powder, and that at two of the shops he had
ordered the box containing the powder to be C,s-
Wiled in a small barrel, and sealed, it being intended
as be said, to be sent into the country In conse.
'pence of this infbrmation, the dwelling of the
purchaser, who was known to be Neveu. was dis-
covered. At the first furnished house where inquiry
was made, it was tnund that be did not come there
regularly, and with some it sans learned that he
frequented another hotel in the Faubourg Poisson-
Mere. An Officer of Police on going there could
get no further information ; when, as chance would
have it, /Vim happened to enter the hotel at the
moment the Officer was asking for him for the 3,1
or 4th time. As he •had passed for u tradesman
from the country, the Officer put some questions to
ium, which he answered vaguely and with tnubar.
russncnt, after which the Officer quitted him, but
remained upon thi.!wateh ; a few minutes after he
saw him go out, and get into a cabriolet. 11e then
went to him and acquainted him be had n warrant
tor his arrest. He appeared quite confininded, and
offered him money but the officer took him into
custody, and carried him, without having been
learc:ted, to th c4lce of the Prefect of 11,:lict:. It