The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-09 00:00:00

THE QUEEN OF SPAIN.

The particulars relating to the attempted assassi-
nation of her Mjesty Isabella 11. are as follows :
On the morning of the 2d instant a great crowd
surrounded the vicinity of the palace, to witness the
procession of the Queen to the church of Atocha.
Troops were drawn up on both sides of the way by
which the Qu-en was to proceed, and the windows
were filled with elegantly dressed women. At eleven
o'clock the Queen, holding the Princess Royal in her
arms, and accompanied by the King and all the Royal
Family, proceeded from her apartment to the royal
chapel to hear mass. She was returning from the
chapel to her apartment at a quarter to one, with the
royal infant still in her arms, previous to her pro-
ceeding to the church of Atocha, when she was ac-
costed by a man dressed as an ecclesiastic. This
man, who had formerly been a monk, affected to
offer a petition to the Queen, and according to
Spanish ceremony put his knee to the ground. As
the Queen was in the act of graciously taking the
paper he struck her in the side with a dagger, and
was drawing back to make a second blow, when Count
Vance Hermosa and a halbardier threw themselves on
the assassin, and in the struggle the Count received a
wound on the cheek. The assassin on being arrested
expressed no sign of regret, exclaiming, " What about
myself ! I have killed her." The Queen, on receiving
the blow, only cried out "Save my child."
The assassin's name is Merino, and is said to be a
relation of the sanguinary cure of the same name. He
is a man of apparently 60 years of age. His look
is that of cold•blooded ferocity and gloomy fana-
ticism. He is said to have been once engaged in a
conspiracy to assassinate Ferdinand VII., and was
compromised in another conspiracy to murder the
Queen Mother an d Narvaez in 1844. While stabbing,
tee Queen, he exclaimed " Tome, eres muerte
(hold, you are de ad). Since then he has been heard
to exclaim, with an air of triumph, "Oh ! if she is
not dead, she wit 1 die." Some have fancied that the
dagger might ha ye been poisoned, but nothing has
been found calcr dated to confirm the suspicion, for
the Queen has continued to go on well. The follow-
ing are the ten -.as of the dispatch received by the
French Ministe r for Foreign Affairs from the Am-
bassador at Ma 3.rid :
" While lea% ing her palace to go to the church of
Atocha, the Q seen, surrounded by all her Court,
was wounded is t the side with a dagger by a cure,
.to,
who has been see rested The wound is not believed to
be dangerous, an the Queen exhibits great courage.
Solicitude and
etixiety are generally felt."
The cereino ay which was to take place was sus-
pended, and asthe soon as
intelligence arrived at the
a
church of
;ha, the diplomatic corp., headed by
General A • uplel the French Minister, and dignita-
ries of the Scat,
who were waitiree there for her Ma-
jesty, hastened to the palace to felicitate her on her
escape.

National say 3 of the assassin
The Assen2t
Mat tin 11,1erilio. —.
" fie belongs i o the category of ecclesiastics who were
admitted into or dare at a period which coincides with
the invasion of 1808, when several ecclesiastics were
violently throe in )ut of their cou;se, and obliged to re•
turn to the IP of laymen, and even to become soldiers;
as for instance J, tho notorious Merino, the namesake of
the wretch PAO
1144 just been guilty of so great a crime.
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