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filer womb. This circemstance was hitherto only
suspected. This expression, which confirms the
*alit,, leaves at least the hope of a consolation,
uncertain it is true, but which France will grasp at
with as much confidence as anxiety.
When the Prince gave his daughter the paternal
benediction he said, laying his faltering hands on
her for the last time, " Poor infant, I hope thou
mayest be less unhappy than the rest of my
family."
A youug man touched the blood that was stream-
ing from his wound. " What are you doing t"
said the Prince, mildly pushing him away, " per-
haps my wound is poisoned."
A few minutes before the King had desired the
Duchess to retire, and when the Prince, perceiving
that his end approached, expressed to the Duchess
his repentance for some occasional errors, and fur
the slight vexation they may have caused I►er, " Ali!"
she exclaimed, shedding tears, " I knew well that
that noble soul was formed for Heaven, and that it
would return thither."
The Prince then said to her, in a vuice already
exhausted—
" To die happy, I mast die in thine arms, my
dear Caroline."

These were the last wards of a last interview. On
a sign from the King, the Duchess was carried,
rather than led, into an adjoining apartment.
On leasing the Kiog, the Duchess de Berry said
to him, with an accent of despair, " Sire, I request
oryour Majesty permission to retireto my father; I
never can reside in • country where I have lost my
husband by a crime so atrocious."
On her return to her own apartments, the Du-
chess passed before a looking-glass, and struck
with the disorder of her beautiful hair, " Alas!"
she exclaimed, with the most effecting tone of de-
spair, " these are the locks which my poor Charles
toyed so well ;" and she instantly cut them off with
her own hands.
On Monday evening the Duchess retired to the
Palace of Saint Cloud, accompanied by Madame,
who has never ceased to lavish on her the affection-
ate kindness of a tender sister and most excellent
friend. There, inaccessible to all except to the
members of her family, who have gone to weep
with her, the Duchess holds converse with none
but God. When Louvel (for this is the assassin's
name, and not Louvet) was first examined, they
wooled to persuade him that he had missed his
blow.
•' Oh," he replied, " I am very easy upon that
point. lie will die before me ; and if you wish that
I should die, execute me before twenty-foor hours;
you know not what may happen."
Yesterday the King received compliments ofcon.
dolence from the Municipal Body of Paris, and
film the National Guard.
The Otficere of the Notional Guard, on leaving the
Castle of the Tuileries, proceeded to the Louvre,
to throw holy water upon the body of the Prince,
the object of their regrets.
The Count Desexe, Baron Seguier, waited yes-
terday upon the King, at the head of deputations
from the Court of Cessation, the Court Royal, and
the Tribunal of First Instance.
The first President, Seguier, addressed his Ma-
icily in the following speech, which strongly affect-
ad the audience:—
" Slltg—To tell you that we are Frenchmen and
fithers, is to express to you how deeply the blow
which has struck your royal heart has penetrated
iota ours.

" But no longer to expose to you oar tardy sor-
rows and vain lamentations, we shall change the
language of grief fur that of truth.
" Yes, Sire, there exists a perrnaaent conspiracy
against she Bourbons, and in she general consiertra.
tic.* ferocious joy may be discerned. Hos the
blood so pure which has already flowed only irri-
tated the thirst for more ? Ali ! Sire, look to your.
self, look to every thing that surrounds you. We
implore you to do so in the name of society, now af-
flicted, and trembling for the future. Deign to
think incessantly of the preservation of what now
remains to us, of a race su precious, so necessary
fur the repose of France and of Europe.
" If your Majtsty should conceive that the Magis-
tracy could preserve it with still more efficacy,
restore to them those means of which the utility is

not forgotten; and however severe, however peril-
ous tl►eir situation may become, nothing shall rei.el,
nothing restrain them, satisfied that iu interposing
their own bodies before the blows aimed against
your sacred person and your august family, they
shall have no other sentiment than that of duty, no
other ambition than that of fidelity, and their *so
fires alone shall prove their recompense."
This speech, worthy the best times of the French
Ilitgistracy, was pronounced with an accent flail
of dignity mud tii fitness. All the persons who, to
a great number, surrounded his Majesty. were
moved even to tears.
Lousel continues in the Conciergerie in the most

rigorous confinement. He is perfectly tranquil,
and dues out seek to hold any conversation with
his keepers. At first he refused all food, bat be
at length hes consented to take some nourishment,
that is, the ordinary allowance of prisoners. The
precaution has been takes of giving hint the
camisole, a sort of prosiest which, by preventing the
use of his arms. would disable him from making
any emempt upon his own life.
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