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London, England, 1842-02-14 00:00:00

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5,639 2,833
The total number of Members, December, 1840, 5,515 ;
ditto, Members of Convocation, 2,799.

SUICIDE OF GENERAL BUZEN.
On the suicide of General Buzen, the Belgian Minister of
War, the Independent of Brussels gives the following :
" Some days ago a Radical Journal, the Patriote Beige,
published a statement of the services of General Buzen in
France and Holland, under the Government of the King of
the Netherlands and in the Belgian army. From these
accounts it appeared that the General was not a Belgian by
birth, but had deserted the ranks of the French army in
1807, and that he never was a member of the Legion of
'lonour. This publication was repeated by several Journals.
At a meeting of opposition Deputies on Friday last, held at the
residence of M. Puissant, it was proposed that the Minister of
War should be questioned on the subject at the next meeting
of the Chamber of Deputies, but in the end it was resolsed that
a deputation of two Members of the strong Opposition party,
and two of the moderes, should first call upon him to de-
mand an explanation. These four gentlemen, Messrs. Ver-
baegen and Orts, D'Hoffschmidt and De Baillet, waited upon
the General, and executed their mission with all possible de-
licacy. The General replied that a full explanation should
appear in the next number of the Moniteur Beige, On Sa-
turday, however, he put an end to his own existence by
discharging a pistol against his right temp.e in a small
wooden building in the garden near his house, outside
the Louvain Gate. Whether what was published of him
was true or false we know not ; but we would not for all
the world have to reproach ourselves with having put it forth,
for General Buzen was a brave soldier, full of energy and zeal,
and the great services he has rendered to Belgium since the
revolution are incontestible. The General was employed on
Saturday morning at his office for two hours with his Secretary-
General. At eleven o'clock he shut himself in his own cabinet,
and continued writing till half-past twelve, when he came out
and gave a sealed letter to one of the porters in attendance,
desiring that it should be delivered to his aide-de-camp at one,
but not before. This order was punctually executed. The
letter was received and opened by I.is aide-de-camp, in the
presence of M. Geard, the General's private Secretary. It
contained the following words When you read this, I shall
be no longer existing. You will find my body in the small
pent-house of the kitchen garden.' The two gentlemen in-
stantly hastened to the spot, and there found the General life-
less, his head being dreadfully shattered. The servant had
already become acquainted with the event, but Madame Buzen
was still in ignorance of it. To communicate to her the
shocking fact was a distressing taste, for the fatal news gave
rise to the most heart-rending scene. She for a time in-
sisted on being taken to him, and was with the utmost difficulty
dissuaded. She has ever since remained in an indescribable
state of agony."
The Observateur, of Brussels, in giving its account of the
above lamentable occurrence, in which, as to the act and its
causes, it concurs with the Independent, says,—
" When the deputation came to General Buzen, he received
them very politely, and, having heard them, replied that he
had been made acquainted with the publication two er three
days before by his colleague, M. Van Voixem, who bad given
him the number of the Patriote Beige in which the article in
question was contained. He treated the matter with contempt,
and teemed to think it beneath him to take any notice of such
calumnies. It was represented to him that a great many copies
of the journal had been distributed among the troops, and some
had even been posted up in the neighbourhood of the citadel of
Ghent and in other places. The General listened to these ar-
guments, and entered into a discussion. As to his not being
a Belgian by birth, he adatitted that he was born in
North Brabant, which is part of Holland ; but, as his father was
a Belgian, he, according to the civil code, was a Belgian also.
As to the accusation of his having deserted from the French
army in one of the wars of the E.opire, he replied that his dis-
appearance from his ranks was the consequence of his having
been made prisoner at Alberstadt, with some of his comrades,
anti sent to the rear of the enemy's army. He afterwards,
however, escaped, and rejoined, in Gallicia, the corps of Gen.
Andreossy, to whom he explained the cause of his absence, and
rom whom he had a favourable attestation, which he, General

Buzen, was able to produce. The deputation still %aging the
necessity of a public answer to the reports circulated against
him, the General promised to insert his justification in the
Moniteur. Upon this the deputation took leave of him in the
most friendly terms."
The Observateur, in another paragraph, says—" It is gene-
rally reported that the portfolio of the Minister of War is to be
confided ad interim to General Evain, but General Nypels and
several other officers are talked of."
The Globe of Brussels mentions a report that the Belgian
Ministers, the colleagues of General Buzen, had requested him,
on the morning of his death, to make explanations on the
rumours circulated about him, which would prevent questions
being put in the Chamber. The General, irritated at this de-
mand, is stated to have become so warm as to have struck one of
the Ministers, and it was after this that, letting them go to the
Palace of Lacken without him, he carried his fatal intention
into execution. The Courrier Belye states that King Leopold
was at table with the King of Prussia, and the gusts invited
to meet his Majesty at Lacken, when a letter was brought him,
written by General Buzen before he destroyed himself. The
King, it adds, could not repress his emotion, but did not com-
municate the cause of it to anybody at the time, and afterwards
sent General d'Hane with a message of condolence to the Ge-
neral's widow, to whom his Majesty wrote during the evening.
The following communication, promising to untold the cir-
cumstances involved in this affair, has just come to hand:—
BRUSSELS, FEB. 7.—TO THE PRINCIPAL EDITOR OF THE
COU RRIER.

" Sir,—ln the hope of putting an'end to the numerous re-
ports which, in spite of your laudable efforts, continue to cir-
culate, respecting the cause of the suicide of General Buzen,
I beg you to inform the public that I am in posaession of docu-
ments that will confound his calumniators, and that I am en-
gaged in drawing up a statement which will be published before
the Chambers resume their sittings.
" Please to add that I am ready, even now, to show these
authentic documents to all respectable persons. Of course, I
have no mind to receive into my house the assassins, whoever
they may be, of a man who honoured me with his friendship,
(Signed) " GERI► ill,
" Brussels, I. eb. 7, 1842."

We find the following in the Droll A swindler
in high life, who called himself a Prince of the Roman empire,
and assumed the title of Count S., has just been arrested by
the Police, charged with a series of frauds upon several jewellers
and other tradesmen. It appears that this person, who lived
in a handsome house in the Champs Elysees, and always went
out in a handsome earring°, some time since ordered from a
tailor of the Palais Royal a chamberlain's costume, saying that
he was'one of the chamberlains of the Grand Duke of Lucca,
and having paid for it punctually, he obtained the confidence of
the tailor, who introduced him to a neighbouring jeweller, the
soi-disan( Prince wishing to purchase some towellery. He
made several small purchases at this and other s ps, and pay.
ing for them regularly, and calling freyontly to get bank-
notes exchanged, captivated the confidence of these tradesmen,
who naturally concluded that he was a rich man, and readily
executed orders to the amount of 70,0001., which he has not
paid for, Recently some of the diamonds sold to him by one
of these tradesmen having been offered to another, who recog-
nized them, suspicion was entertained, and the Count was
eventually taken into custody, At the time of his arrest he
was so reduced in circumstances, that his wife had been com-
pelled to borrow 15f. of the porter of the house where they
lived, and to whom they already owed 600 f. It appears that
the Count was in the habit, as soon as he had exchanged a note
at a jeweller's, of taking the silver to a money-changer, and
obtaining another note. In this way he was able to return
frequently with notes, and to establish a belief that he was very
opulent."
WEST INDIA STEAM-SHIPS. Intelligence
has been received of the arrival at Barbadoes of the Tweed and
Solway steam-ships, which left Southampton on the 15th P.,
cember. The former arrived on the 4th January ktid the
latter thirty-six hours later, on tile 6th. flu.
"• voyage of the
Solway had been delayed t^...y bad stowage., told she was ten days
in teaching Madeira?, which she re::,
on the 25th December,
her rup, from that island to r..)arbadoes occupied twelve days.
A41.0i. interest was Ittalted in the Islands to the success of this
experiment ie steam-navigation. The passengers by both ves-
sels al::: unanimous in their applause of the comfort and rapidity
of the voyage, Ii y the same arrival we have intelligence of a
collisioo between her Majesty's ship of war the Charybdis and
the rebel squadron at Carthagena : the latter had the audacity
tp flre upon the British flag; the compliment was returned
with, interest, and the admiral, Camano, withforty of his crew,
killed, This is considered as having put an end to the rebellion.
On Tuesday an alarming accident happened to
Mr. Butler Lambert, an overlooker in the employ of the Nor-
wich Yarn Company. A party of friends had assembled at the
house of Mr. B. Lord, in Ber-street, to spend the evening.
One of them, Thomas Galloway, a wool-sorter, from Liken-
ham, on sitting down upon a chair, accidentally sat upon the
hammer of a pistol he had in his pocket (which he carried for
his protection on the road), and by his pressure upon the per-
cussion cap discharged it, and the ball lodged in the lower pa;ts
of Mr. Lambert's body. We are sorry to say the ball cannot
be extracted, and there are not the slightest hopes of his reco-
very.—Norwich Mercury,
An inque*t vas• held on Saturday, before Mr.
Wakley, cOoner, et the Dudley Arms, Dudley-grove, Padding-
ton:, on ;dew of the body of a lady, apparently about 30 years of
age, at present unknown, who was found floating in the Pad-
dington Canal on Thursday last. There not being any bruises
about the body, or any evidence to prove in what manner she
came into the water, the jury returned a verdict of" Foetid
drowned." The body lies at Paddington workhouse to be
owned.