The National Register.
London, England, 1808-05-01 00:00:00

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prosecutions were on font. And as to the concern that Sir
Vicars, Gibbs and the'gr.; take in the busines-, we are re-
minled of a ridiculous thing that a storekeeper said the other
day to a gentleman on the circuit. This storekeeper had • been
reprimanded by one of the .Itoles, because, in the course of
stone trial, it appeared, that his carelessness in leaving certain
waggons exposed hail led to the embezzlement of some of the
public property. Some time after this, the poor storekeeper
heard that the Judge was going to dine with the Prince of Wales.
AccordiNl v he came to the gentleman from whom we heard the
anecdote, and gave tokens of the deepest distres. and even de-
spair. '' What is the muter, my friend ?" said the gentleman.
i•hing to console. him. " Oh, Sir," answered the poor man,
" I hear the Judge is going to dine with the Prince of Wales,
44 he w ill be sure to tell his Royal Highness of me his lto) al
" Highness will tell the King neit time he sees him, and then
" the king will take my place away from me !"
Tie Independent Whig has been pl-ased to accuse the News-
papers in general, of having accepted bribes for the suppression
of the manner of Mr. Goldsmid.s death. For our own part,
we can truly say that we received no application from any of
the friends of Mr. Coldsmid, and that we were induced to sop-
pre.,s the fact of his having, through jealousy, committed suicide
by our feelings of delicacy ton ards the survivors: and nothing
but the complete publicity of the circumstances at the present
moment, should have tempted us to allude to it even thus. We
had hoped that it would not become a matter of publ ie notoriety;
and sorry indeed should we have been, if for the sake of obtain-
ing approbation from any curious reader, we had been the cause
of misery to the friends he has left behind him, or the means of
excluding his body from the consecrated ground of his religion.
This Paper observes that no body Spared Mr. Paull, because
Mr. Paull had nobody to pay the Newspaper Editors for their
mercy. Put an inquest was sitting at a public house on Mr.
Paull, and his death could not have been kept a secret beside,
there were no family reasons for a delicacy on the subject of hi!
suicide. But these observations, and the article in the end of the
last Sunday's Paper, on Suicide in general, and on the advantages
that the great enjoy above " otrendrec nn note or quatitg,''
remind us only of the burlesque scotiment of the grave-digger.
which may do as well for people of one religion as another :
" The more pity that great folks should have countenance in
" this world to drown or hang themselves, more than other
" christians

MAY 1.

" do you forget thof tny father is still alive 7"—" I must believe
that he is dead," answered the other, " because you command
here." And it is asserted, that the Prince added, " 31v father
not dead, but shortly he shall cease to command; and if I
1.1,1 not yet King. I shall soon be one." The Prince M cut and
s ',Tendered the prisoner.
PA refs, APRIL 16.—The Emperor and King left Bourdeaux
on the 11th inst. in his way to Bayonne.
The latest intelligence from Madrid is of the 6th instant, and
consists of the following articles, viz.
The order of the day, issued by the Grand Duke of Berg on
the Itit of April, informs the army, that the Emperor will he
shortly present, and at their head ; and General Laribossiere is
commanded to see that the troops he perfect ire the montrurres of
ficine. His Ilighnesi also testifies his satisfaction at the good
intelligence which prevails betwixt the French and Spanish
troop, adding, that a French soldier had been pardoned that
very day at the request of the citizens of Madrid, but that
this should he the last instance of the kind, and that he exhorts
the French ,soldiers to treat the inhabitants of Madrid with re-
doubled respect. The first attention of Ferdinand VII. on his
accession, was directed to cause the payment of the arrears of
pensions due to officers and to their widows; which was done
with the money fouad in the possession of the Prince of Peace,
which is sappo.ed to amount to •25 millions, and the remainder
of his property is estimated at upwards of 500 millions of francs.
The Prince's process is not yet commenced ; in the mean while
he is chisels' Watched at a village, three leagues frmn the
capital, by lOtt life-guards, and 590 foot, whilst his brother,
with his ftvnuriter, are shut up in a castle. In general, the
:%;ge against the Prince is not diminished, and the charges
brought against him have already been re-printed five times t it is
also asserted, that he had a secret intelligence with the English,
and intended to deliver up Ceuta to them, and to place himself
under their protection with the whole of his treasure.

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DET.IILS OF THE ftEroirTrov T11.4T 11.15 T.IKEN MACE

IN SPAIIN.

lisnntn, M %nett O.—There have passed within the last
few days, events tleat have shaken the throne of our Masters.
Ow party accuses the Prince of the Peace of being ie concert
ith the Queen to destroy the Prince of Asturias ; the other,
that the Prince of Asturias was at the head of a party to de-
throne his father. The say that he received this advice origi-
ially from his wife. Solemn councils, and long proceedings,
followed by acts of banishment, and proclamations, instead of
relieving the public mind, inflamed it the more. The French
troops, though on the borders of the Ebre, anti at a distance of
more than forty leagues from our capital, were in a situation of
Ntain quo, t% hich the great numbers of couriers that succeeded
each other at every instant, and the important negotiations
which seemed to be on foot, did not ser‘c to explain. our
troops had been recalled from Portugal, and advanced.by forced
marches to the capital. The Court appeared divided, and
without plan : That which was ordered one day, was contra-
dicted the next. There was neither arrangement nor unity of
power. In this state of things, on the 15th March the report
was, that.the King, who was at Araejuez, was about to retire
to Seville; that a great Council, which had been held at the
Palace, had so decided it, but that the opiiiilons on the subject
were not agreed; that the'Queen and the Prince of the Peace
wished logo, but that the Prince of Asturias, and his brother,
wished to stay. We were speedily informed, that the troops
Which were cantoned in Madrid, had orders to quit the city.—
la rm was in every breast, when a proclamation from the King
waq published on the 16th, which in some degree restored calm.
On the 17111 it was understood, that the Spanish Guards were n 4
march to A ranjuez, and that the .two Regiments or Swiss were
alone to remain here. These regiments have not for some time
been popular in this city. All the wnrill on this news hurried
to the road leading to Aranjuez. " Spaniards," every one cried
to the Soldiers, " nill you abandon your country ? Will you
" protect the flight of a Prince who sacrifices his subject,. anti
" who goes to carry disorder to our Colonies ? Ilave we then as
" little spirit as the Inhabitants of Lisbon ?"—Several of the
Minkters who were not favourable to the departure, circulated
hand bills in the surrounding. villages, stating what was going on,
and the imminent danger in which the country was placed. o'l
the 18th the peasants hurried in crowds to A raujnez ; relays
were already stationed on the road to Seville ; the town wa-
tilled w ith troops, and the baggage of the Court was parked up
in all the apartments. The night between the 17th and lith
Via!' sight uf tumult. The home of the Prince of the reao