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London, England, 1835-07-31 00:00:00

nary meeting on Wednesday, when the Keeper of the Seals
',would make a communication to them on the subject. A meet-
ing of Deputies had also been summoned for the same time.
" On Tuesday night letters from the Prefect of Police, re-
lative to the attempt on the King's life, were read by the com-
missaries of police at the various theatres of the capital, which
Were listened to with deep feeling, and the perusal followed by
general and repeated cries of Vivc le Roi
To the list of deaths given in the above accDunts is to be
Added that of Colonel Rafie, of the Gendarmerie, who ex-
pired on Tuesday night.

(From Galignani's Messenger.)
ATTEMPT UPON THE KING'S LIFE BY AN
INFERNAL MACHINE.
It is with the deepest concern that we lay before our readers
the details of the above horrible event, which took place at the
review yesterday. After having passed along the Boulevard
to the farthest point at which the National Guards and the
troops were drawn up, his Majesty, accompanied by the Duke
of Orleans, the Duke de Nemours, the Prince de Joinville, and
a numerous and brilliant Staff, was returning along the same
line to the Place Vendome, where the troops were to file off
before him. At 12, at the moment when he had reached the
Boulevard du Temple, a little before the Theatre des Fu-
Rarnbules, a tremendeus explosion, resembling irregular
plat, n firing was heard. At first it was supposed to be a
discharp, ^ of fireworks, but the falling and. cries of the vic-
tims sea; aa:Taled the reality, and excessive confusion en-
sued—an inferna:
p
machine had just poured forth a shower
of balls u on the cor
''.4e that surrounded the King ! Mar-
shal Mortier, Duke Cl': Tre;iso, fell and expired without ut-
tering a word. Several other osT'ers, and some of the Na-
tional Guards, were also killed, and a .72nsiderable -number of
persons wounded. The falling of some hors.a.'..", amorfg which
was that of Marshal Mortier, and the capering others,
added to the tumult, which it would be difficult to deser,a7-
-During this' scene the King, whose 'arm had been grazed '
by a bullet, and whose horse received a wound in the neck,
maintained the calmness by which he is distinguished, and
displayed remarkable courage by riding up in the direction
of the house from which the explosion came. After the
first emotion had passed, the cortege continued its route,
amidst shouts of joy for the preservation of the King's life,
and threats of vengeance against the assassins. The bodies
of the slain, and the persons who were wounded, were im-
mediately carried to the Cafe Turc opposite, where medical
assistance was immediately afforded to such as were still
alive. Smoke was seen to proceed from the third story of
the house, No. 50, on the Boulevard du Temple, of which
the ground floor and first floor are occupied by a wine-
dealer, named Parault.' - Each story consists of only one
chamber, which is lighted by a single window in front. The
house was immediately surrounded, and all the persons
found in it arrested. The room in which the machine had
been constructed is very small, its dimensions being only six
and a half feet by seven. The machine was made with
great skill, of wood, with iron braces, and extremely solid.
Two uprights supported two cross bars of wood, placed pa-
rallel to the window, -and in these were formed grooves, in
which were laid twenty-five gun-barrels. The front cross-
bar, placed at about a foot from the window, was rather lower
than that behind, so that the balls might reach the body of a
than on horseback in the middle of the Boulevard. The charge
Was so heavy, that five out of the twenty-five barrels had
burst, notwithstanding they were very substantial and new.
The assassin was immediately taken into custody. About
three months aeo he hired the rooms of the second and
third steries of M. Dellemagne, the proprietor. He gave
his name Girard, a mechanician, and appears to be about
twenty-four years of age. His room has a window in front
and another behind, and he had taken the precaution to fasten
a rope to the latter, to assist him in making his escape. By
the bursting of some of the barrels at the moment of the explo-
sion, the assassin was wounded in the forehead, the neck, and
the lip. Notwithstanding his wounds he rushed out of the
window. Some police officers having run into the inner court,
and seeing Girard slipping down the rope, one of them ex-
claimed, " Ala wretch !we have you." Girard, who was at
the moment at the height of a wall, threw himself over it into
an adjoining court, and there a police officer apprehended him.
He
nwas placed upon a hand-barrow, and conveyed to the
ciergerie. The Minister of the Interior, the Prefect of
Police, and several magistrates went to the house, and in the
assassin's chamber they found the remains of the infernal ma-
chine still smoking, a-straw bed, and a fire lighted. A delay
of half a second perhaps in the explosion saved the life of the
I9ng. The cortege advanced in the following order :—The
King, the Prince de Joinville, the Duke of Orleans, the Duke
. de Nemours, Marshal Lobau, and Marshal Mortier. All those
in the cortege who were wounded were nearly on the same line
as Marshal Mortier. The news of the attempt was rapidly
Propagated through the capital, and produced a powerful sen-
sation. General de Rumigny, Aide-de-Camp to the King,
set off full gallop to inform the Queen that his Majesty and
the Princes had escaped the danger, fearing that she might
have been seriously alarmed if she had heard of the event
lines he mentioned to several officers what had occurred, and
2S°Oll there was not a soldier that remained ignorant of it. As
the troops of the line did not extend to the Boulevard du
elnPle, they were ordered to shift in that direction, that
they might be ready to act in case of attempt at disturbance.
cAtuatrdsmheoment of filing off before the King the National
shouted Vice le Roil which was answered by the
!reaps!re of the line. The Guards of the Bth Legion, which had
ome of its officers and men, added cries of A Las les as-
sassins The King returned to the Tuillerics about five o'clock,
—entlY deeply affected by the scene he had witnessed.
During the whole of the afternoon and evening, crowds
flockedcinenee
ofo wutohiichfei:iriosity to the melancholy spot, u conse•
a strong detachment of Municipal Guards
- Was stationed there, to keep the peace. The following
are the persons whose lives have been ascertained to have been
sacrificed :—Marshal the Duke de Treviso, struck in the heart
by a ball ; General de Lachasse de Verigny, struck on the
orellead by a ball ; Captain Villate, Aide-de-Camp to Mar-
Maison a• Lieutenant-Colonel Ricussec, of the Bth Le-
-glen, struck by three balls ; Alessrs. Prudhousme, Ricard, Le-
Ber, and Benetter, Grenadiers of the Bth -Legion ; a Colonel
t!'e Army, two cit;aens, a woman, and a child, whose names
we Were unable to learn. The following are those who have
- neen ascertained to have been wounded :—General Heymes,
whose clothes were perforated by four balls, and who was
Wounded in the face by a fifth, which car;ied away his nose ;
I?eneral Colbert, slightly in the head; Pelef, wounded in the
balls of the neck ; Colonel Raffe, who received one of the
ends ini the left side ; Captain Marion, of the Bth Leion of
tile National Guards. The child of M. Go et, a turgner, in
mu- Rue Folic- Mericourt ; Vidal, a young man of the Rue
entagnes Ste.-Genevieve whose jaw is fractured ; Rose Ali-
12n, female servant of M. 'Brocard, No. 17, Rue Neuve de
~azareth, dangerously ; Madame Band herd
sister-in-law,
No. 20, Rue
!sergere, hi the head and left arm, and her -in-law, of
Co)near Beauvais, in the leg; Leclerc, a boy, aged 13, of
6. Fl, Rue de la Cote, whose leg is broken in several places :
b Brieux of No. 20, Rue des Vertus, who received a
1,a,1 hi the lower'part of her stomach. The greater part of the
''`)..ye wounds are so serious that little hopes are entertained of
theng the lives of the unfortunate sufferers. M. Roger, of
Saint
National Guards; a cabinet-maker, in the Rue du Faubourg
'3nint Antoine, and M. Francois, baker, in the rue de la Ro-
lette, also of the National Guards, were slightly wounded.
woe are informed that,
six other persons were killed, and nine
ded, all of whom it is said were taken into No. 31, Bou-
evard du Temple, but as to those we have not been able to
obtain any particulars.
(From Galignani's afternoon edition.)
tine following are additional particulars that we have been
Lime to collect on the attempt of esterday :
Girard has confessed his crime,but maintains that he had no
accomplishes; two white hats of different sizes were however
found in his room, which would indicate that at least two par-
ties were cognizant to the construction of the murderous en
give, The assassin concealed his preparations by Persian
blinds, and did riot unmask his machine till the moment the
Kira was passing before the house. It is presumed that he
u -not made his calculations of distance with sufficient pre-
cision, and that the time required for opening the window
caused his project to fail. All the barrels that were discharged
were fired at the same moment, by means of a train of gun-
Powder running to the touch- holes. Each barrel contained at
least six balls, and the charge filled eight inches ; this has
been ascertained by an examination of two of them that missed
fire. The five that burst did so with such force that the walls
nthe room were much damaged. A journal of this morn-
g states the death of the assassin last night, but we have as-
certained that this is not the fact, and that it is fully expected
he will survive the effects of the wounds.
At the moment the explosion took place the King had in-
clined slightly on one side to receive a petition.
thThe Queen, with the Princesses, were at the residence of
e Minister of Justice, in the Place Vendome, to witness the
filing off of the troops, when General de Rumigny brought
I,lel. the news of what had taken place on theßoulevard du
'temple. It was at first thought that it would be prudent to
conceal it from her till after the review, but her Majesty could
111°t. belts seeing, from the countenances of all those who
approached her, that some very serious misfortune had hap-
Peaed, and M. Guizot and the Keeper of the Seals ae-
iloaiioxl her with What had occurred. As the King had re-
;l(!ls'ed to nontinue the review, and, consequently, did not make
.2 aPpearant'at in the Place Vendome for some time after,
Ehonwsasr,.eimrepousnsiibuleuresdo.: convince her Majesty that Ile and her
.and it is impossible to describe the
4g,,nieS of mind' she emiti:ed. The Duchess de Broglie
"'ning in, the Queen threw
tO Navint
eg a !,erself into her arms, and
found relief in tears, became s..
~ently calm to listen
assurances given her that they were b.:re ;
,and then she
lamented sincerely the losses that had been real; sustained.
As
in ninny of the wives and daughters of the officers, who :were
Ivaa_ttendance on the King, were in the same saloon, and as it
known that several of the officers had been mortally wound-
a;Lva
" e melancholy scene continued till several aides-de-camp
susd with particulars, which put an end to the misery of
Pe.nse, and made known the misfortunes which each had
.tained. On leaving the Queen, General de Rumigny
,%
osesntth to the family of Marshal Mortier to announce the great
;they had sustained. It would be a vain attempt to de-
he the affecting interview. It is a singular fact that the
Marshal's family, fearing the consequences of heat and fa-
v4.le. ne, had endeavoured to induce him not to attend the re-
; but the Marshal, who was remarkable for his stature,
j'iL:en alluding to that and the reports of intended attempts on
,l(ing's life, which had been current for several days, said,
til.,"?e no ! I must go ; for lam tall, and may perhaps cover
King
el Mien Marshal Mortier was struck, M. Thiers was so close to
m that he was covered with the blood of the illustrious victim.
.T!le Duke de Broglie received a bullet throught the collar
of his coat.
Marshal it had his horse wounded under him, and was
obliged to return home on foot.
General Pelet's Found ia an inch and a half wide, and down