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independence of his beloved country, to occupy himself
without intermission in promoting your happiness.
" Long live the King!"
The orders given by the Count DE MONTEMOLIN
are said to be imperative not to make reprisals, not to
confiscate the property of anybody, no matter what
may be his party, and not to oblige any Spanish sub-
ject to seek refuge in expatriation—and it is satis-
factory to find CABRERA declaring that, with regard
to reprisals, and other atrocious deeds, an experience
of many years makes him condemn them in his heart
and his conscience. Let us hope that the partisans of
the Government of Madrid will imitate the example
set by the Count DE MONTEMoLIN, and that URBIZ-
TONDO, the murderer of ALZAA, will be left alone in
his infamy. A letter, dated Tolosa, 4th July, gives the
following account of this atrocious act of treachery
and murder :

" General Alzaa was the first to cross the frontier on
the night of the 29th to the 30th of June. Some nego-
tiations having been set on foot in Guipuzcoa with some
important chiefs of the enemy's troops and with other
persons, these parties asked for an interview with one
of our Montemolinist chiefs. A colonel was sent to
them, but they demanded a person of higher rank ; the
General then resolved to go himself. He accordingly
proceeded to Tolosa, whet a he saw the traitor Azcarraga,
who sold him, and after a long conference with him,
was retiring towards Navarre at two in the afternoon,
when he was taken. The General was accompanied by
some of his men, the whole divided in three groups.
The troops which had been posted beforehand in the
place where they knew the General was to pass had
orders to allow the two first groups to proceed unmo-
lested, and only to attack the third group, with which
the General was. Many other precise circumstances
showed that all the dispositions had been directed by one
whom the General had trusted. Being suddenly attached,
the last group dispersed. The General, who was on
foot, tried to escape with his men. Having something
the matter with his feet, he could not run long; when a
famous tennis-player from Oyarsun, named Arrondo,
carried him on his back a long way. Being, however,
more and more closely pursued, the General told this
brave man, and another who was with him, to leave him
and to save themselvss, as it was better that only one
should perish than three. This being done at last, Alzaa
threw himself on the ground. The first who approached
him was a civil guardian, a former Carlist, who knew
him at once, and exclaimed in great sorrow, You here,
my General!' Alzaa asked this man, and the others
who soon arrived, if quarter would be given to him,
and they all answered in the affirmative. They
took him to Zaldivia, and lodged him in the house of a
certain Arriaabal, or Lardizabal, where he passed the
night, always believing, as everybody else near him,
that he was not to be shot. At three o'clock in the
morning an aide-de-camp arrived, with the order for
having him immediately shot. The officers of the three
companies in the place, arid the civil guards, endeavoured
to oppose the execution, and told the aide-de-camp to
entreat the colonel to come himself to the spot ; but,
instead of coming, he sent six more companies, renew-
ing the order, and General Alzaa was shot at half-past
eight of the same morning, Monday, July 3. This act
of treachery and cruelty will not remain unrevenged by
the worthy General's own countrymen. He has been
regretted by all; the deputation themselves, even Yturbe,
used their interest to save his life ; but Urbiztondo, the-
instrument of the ferocity of Narvaez, had given the
order, and was inexorable. This Urbiztondo had been,
from his infancy, one of the King's pages, had received
numerous favours, had been made a general without ever
exposing himself to danger of ball or bullet; and having
been one of the principal abettors of the treason of Ma-
roto, makes himself now gladly the executioner of his
former comrades and friends.

" On the side of Navarre the Carlists prosper accord-
ing to their wishes. Zubiii, with Colonel Soto, operates
towards the Aldudes. Yzarbe has come down with above
a thousand me❑ towards Estella, having taken prisoners
at Barranca between fifty and sixty men and ten horses.
The two battalions which were at Elizondo have re-
turned to Pampeluna; and near the frontier have only
remained those detachments which were there before the
insurrection, and which, little by little, will full into the
power of the Royalists. Villalonga went out of Pampe-
luna the day before yesterday, with a column, in the
direction of Lumbler, Languesa, &c. Everywhere he
was saluted by numbers of people, who from the heights
to the right and left, shouted to him, and to his troops,
Viva el Rey (Long live the King!'—Montemolin); but
he did not remain, and continued his march in haste, we
do not know yet its preci;e motive. Colonel Zabaleta
has marched in pursuit of him, to establish himself at
Carrascal, with 600 men—to wait for him there at his
return, and give him a warm reception. Navarre, in
fine, is all up and stirring for the King, and has nobly
responded to what was expected from her."

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
Up to the hour that the post left everything was
tranquil in Paris, notwithstanding it was the anni-
versary of the taking of the Bastille, the day that the
25 centime dinner was to have taken place, and the
day originally fixed on by the enemies of the Re-
public for the outbreak which took place in June,
and which it was rumoured was to have been renewed
yesterday. Thanks, however, to the firmness and
sagacity of General CATAIGNAR, the insurgents, if
they ever entertained any serious intention of re-
newing their culpable attempts at producing anarchy
for the profit of the monarchical factions have be.
come convinced of the hopelessness of their position,
and have abstained from everything calculated to in-
terrupt the public tranquillity. Measures are also
it seems to be adopted against those who, by the in-
culcation of false rumours of pretended conspiracies,
keep up the agitation of the public mind. The Patric
contains the following official announcement
A political journal, L'Asenir National, published
yesterday certain circumstantial details relative to a
pretended conspiracy which it was said was to break
out some day this week. Those details are false from
one end to the other. Every statement in this
strange recital is the work of a diseased imagination,
which has mistaken dreams for realities, unless it were
that the author intended to write a novel with a view to
terrify his readers, and to create uneasiness amongst the
public. At a period when false statements are so dan-
gerous, when all honourable journals are anxiously con-
tradicting them, and reassuring their readers, we cannot
too deeply deplore that certain journals should give a
place in their columns for such fables. The article in
the Avenir .National has been laid before the law officers
of the Government; and if we be rightly informed, the
Minister of the Interior has given the most positive
orders to prosecute the propagators of alarming reports."
The Moniteur alludes to the alarming reports
abroad, and says that they are spread by designing
persons. It adds, that all good citizens may be
satisfied that no disturbance will take place, and that
the Government knows its duty, and is prepared to
fulfil it conscientiously.
It would appear that in consequence of the rumours
of an intended outbreak on the 14th July, M. EMILE
ER GIRARDIN has thought it prudent to postpone
the publication of the history of his imprisonment
until after that day. He has addressed on this sub-
ject the following letter to his family
" The pamphlet you announce as being about to be
published by me, is in no degree a justificative pam-
phlet, and for this sovereign reason, that I have done
nothing for which I have to justify myself. I have not
been accused of anything ; for what then did I need
any justification ? In 1843, M. Armand Marrast pub-
lished, on coming out of prison, a pamphlet entitled,
Vingt Jours au Secret.' I have done as M. Marrast
did (what path more sure could I follow ?), not having,
when in prison, any better employment for my time,
I have written the history of my captivity, under the
title of Journal d'un Journaliste au Secret.' This pam-
phlet is printed, and would have already been published,
had I not been told that it was feared that Friday, July
14th, the anniversary of,the Taking of the Bastille,'
would not pass over without new disturbances. Were
these fears well founded? I know not; and a month
ago they had not arrested me, but they did my pen the
dangerous honour of attributing to it such great im-
portance, that I thought myself bound to defer the
publication of my humble narrative -until the day came
when the political horizon might admit of a hope that
the morrow might pass without a storm. By acting thus
I have remained faithful to my antecedents. A single
word from General Cavaignac, on June 24th, would
have sufficed to have induced ;he Presse to shut itself
up in silence as long as the new Executive Power migh
judge necessary. My patriotism has never been ap
pealed to in vain. Who knows this better than you;
Fraternity I
"July 12."

„E. DE GIRARDIN.”

This is a cunning trick of the cunning Or-
leanist chief, and is worthy of himself and his
party. All the harm that could have been done
by the publication of his pamphlet has been
done by the publication of this letter, which at the
same time gives him the prestige of a " persecuted
innocent," and is an admirable puff preliminary to
his forthcoming
work. Whatever EMILE DE Gx-
BARDIN may be as a patriot, there is no denying him
the credit of being one of the shrewdest of tradesmen.

The funeral of General DUVITIER took place on
Thursday. The service was celebrated at the
Church of Val de Grace, and the body was then
taken to the Invalides for interment, where it was

received by Marshal Mom Tort, the Governor, and the
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officers of the establishment. The funeral was at-
tended by General CAVAIGNAC, Generals LAMORI-

CIERE and CHANGARNIER, M. ARMAND MARRAST,
Mayor of Paris, and a deputation of fifty Members
of the National Assembly.
The insurgents, who have hitherto been confined
in the prisons of Paris, were removed on Thursday

night to the detached forts.
Four camps, of 15,000 men each, are to be orgao
ganized at the four cardinal points of Paris : they are
to be under the command of General OUDINOT.

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