The National Register.
London, England, 1820-02-20 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER•

atrocious, as exclusive of the dreadful deed, the
Duke was in company with his Duchess, who is
pregnant. His Royal Highness was proceeding
from the Opera, and had one leg on the step of the
carriage when the assassin struck him in the right
side with a poignurd. The blood spouted out on
the Dachess—the Prince uttered a piercing shriek
and fell senseless on the ground. He was curried
back to his box in the Opera-house, and immediately
attended by the first physicians in Paris ; but the
private accounts say, he expired in seven hours after
the wound was inflicted. The assassin is the son of
the coachmaker to the King, and has, been for a
length of time employed by the 'loyal Family, and
is about thirty years of age While intormgating
by M. De Cazes and others, he c:shibittxl the utmost
indifference, and coolly admitted that he bad medi-
tated the crime for upwards of two years past. It
u us at first imagined that the assassination was con-
nected with politics, but this was not the case, as it
originated alone. in private mike. The. Duke of
Berri was the next heir to the Throne of France,
I had he •urvived the Duke of Angouleme The
murder ha:; produced considerable agitation through-
out Paris; and occasioned much affliction to the
Royal Family.

We have now atehentie statements direct . front
Cadiz, so late as the '49th of January; and as being
transmitted by u Gentleman of undoubted loyalty,
they eannot be suspected of leaning to the revolu-
tionary side of the question. The revolters had
lately received a formidable accession of Officers in
sixteen chiefs-. of battalion and a brigadier, all o
whom had teen under arrest since 0 Dunncl's
affair, and bad* gone over, taking with them the
officers and guard of the prison. But they had re-
ceived a still more important accession in the person
of a Nobleman, of one of the first families in Spain,
a Grandee and a Major General, who had rendered
himself use obnoxious by his revolutionary principles,
as to induce Government to put bin into confine...-
went. He and his brother were arrested at Grenada,
and had been lately transmittal to a prison of the
buiNtisition at-Saffaigvi, ca-GraillON. PR has escaped
and joined the troops. The mode of his escape is
still a mystery, but it is- generally believed that a
forged order front. die. Ifuriaitor General at Madrid
had been receiied'at•tfie-prisos.. The itronglortress
of La Cara was taken by teesciery, or rather from
the garrison entertaining the same sentiments as the
Patriots. la this entergenc) considerable efforts
had been made to collect troops round the Isla. The
garrisons of Estremadura and Castile had been or-
dered to march, and General Preyrc, whose head-
quarters were at Seville, had, between Carmine and
that city, about • 14,000 men. • Flowerer, there
seemed to be no fear on the part of the officers,
either of the King's troops, or of desertion among
their own, for they had a few days before made an
excursion with two columns of 1,500 each, and
drove every thing before them as far u Xeres Cadiz
was completely blockaded nit the land aide, by the
possession of Port St Mary. The Leaders of the
Constitutional Army had pablished Manifestoes,
declaring that their object was the Constitution as
established by the Cortes. The fidelity of the army,
in general, was suspected, and a change of measures
was obviously required, and to increase the public
embarrassments the King was suffering under a fit
of the gout. The preceding fads coming from
unquestionable authority, show what little reliance
can be placed in the accounts inserted in the Paris
. Payers of the state of affairs in Spain.
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It was generally believed, that several of the mi—
nisters received their dismissals at a Cabinet Conn.
cil. which his Majesty held on Tuesday last—
the reason assigned was at once rUliculous stud
a libel on our new Kin;,;. It was said, that qualms
of conscience occasioned them to refuse lending their
aid, towards obtaining a divorce between the King
and Queen—this is ridiculous—loccausc it can hard-