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THE DIARY and CORRESPONDENCE of SA-
MUEL PEPYS, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary to the Admiralty
in the Reigns of CHARLES 11. and JAMES 11. and the inti-
mate Friend of the celebrated Joint Evrirn.

Edited by RICHARD, LORD I3RAYBROOKE.
The Diary commences immediately before the Restoration,
R hen Pepys sailed with the Earl of Sandwich to bring over
Ktrtg from Breda, and is continued almost uninterraptedly for
lea Years, containing much curious *Watt not is be found in any
inner History of that eventful period. Independeettrof the pa-
::cal transactions of that period, the pages abound with priests
Anecdotes of Charles If. and his Court; nod 31r. App' reedier
habits of observation, led him generally to mimed the awe seriess
characteristics of the times in which be Mved.

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'The death of the Emperor Alexander Is an event of so
much importance, that at Paris, and at St.Petersburgh,
every little event connected with it is eagerly gathered
and repeated. The following details we can guarantee:l
The day in Novembev when an excursion on the water
had given him cold, which was the principal cau.e of
his disease, he desirsd to go and visit a small tribe,
which tradition, whether true or nor, says are de-tended
from the ancient Spartans. The weather was terlifle.
The Emper r was i i a small carriage, which was driven
by a coachman who had always been with him during
the last seven or eight years, and always supplied the
place of.the common postillions, partic.ilarly in bad
roads. 'The carriage was overturned in a terrible man-
ner. The Emperor, it was expected, would have been
severely wounded—he was tint; but he jumped Out to
rescue his faithful coachman, who remained del() in lila
antis. Those of his suite 'who werefaLowing: in car-,
rages, or on horseback. !listened, to the spot. " Gentle-.
men," said Alexander to. the firit.iviso came up, :44 :this
man alWays pr'ecedei me." 'Fftein dais after thisevent
Alexander expired; it is certain that he appe'ared aft-
•
feued with the deepest melancholy.
When the President of the. Senate came to pay his
personal homage, and the homage of the body to the
Grand Duke N cholas, the day when the melancholy
• news reached St.Petersburgh,thisPrince held in his hands
.a paper still sealed ; he asked the President if he hid
thought of opening a similar paper which had been
deposited a long time before in a place which the
Prince pointed ow ? The President replied. no:." It is
a copy of this which I hold in my. hand (said the Prince),
'and this paper contains the abdication of the Grand ;
Duke Constant*: but I desire that no attention be paid
to it ; on the contrary, I wish that the oath of fidelity to
'Constantine should he taken both by me and by the
Senate." The President requested the Prince to go to
the Senate and express his desire persolally to that body.
'The Prince refuted, " because (said be) the Congitu-
Lions of the Empire forbid any of the Princes of the
Imperial Family 'rods entering the Senate, unless there
he an extraordinary and special convocation by the
Emperor; but (added he), bring to my house all the
Members who are present." His orders were executed,
and when the Senators had err ived,be repeated to them
.what he bad said to the President, " I desire" that the
renunciation of tbe Archduke. Constantine be of no
effect. I wish, I desire that he.should be proclaimed,
and, if 'necessary, I order- it." •
It cannot be doubted, when everything is known,
which is said by those who had the best opportunity of
knot ing what passed at the time, that at the moment
when Constantino insisted oa obtaining from his-mother
and Alexander consent to his marriage, there was a
union of three persons who expressed. a wish that the
renunciation of the Throne should be the condition ;
-these three were, the Empress Mother, Alexander, and
.Constantine himself. A circumstance not known at
Paris till within, these two or three days, explains in
part the very singular delay which has taken place, and
the length of time which el 4psed before any definitive
news arrived. It is certain, that after the arrival from
Warsaw at St. Petersburgh, and the departure from St.
Peteriburgh for Warsaw,of the Grand Duke Michael,that
after the exchange of one or two couriers, the Empress
Mother and the Grand Duke Nicholas sent a Russian
Nobleman-to Warsaw, Count Atapcbin, who was at
Paris seven years ago with Constantine, and was very
intimate with him. This deputy was charged with
news and ultimate prayers to determine Constantine.—
It will be perceived, that when the question relates, not
to a common courier, whose dispatches may be an-
swered in a few hours, but to a great negotiation,
confided to such a negotiator, that we must not count
by hours, but by days. It is impossible that those
who gave credit to these details, derived from good
Authority, should not make the following reflection :
—The three wills which determined the renunciation
made six years, and evidently renewed within less than
three years, were also agreed in December, 184.5. The
Emperor in dying appears to have persisted in his reso-
lution. There is no reason to believe that the Empress.
Mother, who, it is presumed, was not the person who
the least regarded this renunciation as necessary, has
changed her opinion. The Grand Duke Constantine
persists in his determination of remainiag faithful to his
engagements. How, then, can it be said, how in the
midst of so many circumstances is it, that the Grand
Duke Nicholas has had a necessity for something more
than the first impulse, full of grandeur and nobleness,
which induced him to order Constantine to be pro-
claimed? How came the Grand Duke Nicholas to
persist in pressing his brother, after one—and as it
appears certain, alter two declarations of Constantine,
posterior to his being proclaimed Emperor, declarations
confii ming his renunciation, which thus became a true,
and free, and solemn abdication. How can this objec-
tion to the truth Of What has preceded be replied to ?
We mud first of all suppose an incredible transmission
of the virtues of Alexander to his whole family, and
recognise in the Grand Duke Nicholas something more
magnanimous, and more heroic, than the sentiment
which renounces a Crown. What appears capab!* alone
of explaining the instances of Nichol is, and by which
people seek to explain an equal energy in Constantine's
persisting in his refusal, is this. It appears that his
marriage was the most important event of his life. The
attachment, ca a most • rare nature, which determined
his decision, is as lively and profound as it was at first.
The decline of his wife's health seems only to increase
it, add furnish it fresh aliment. It is also known, that
the Princess, his stile) is a very zealous Roman Catho-
lic, and very much liked by the Poles, her countrymen
and fellow-Catholics, and that she is less liked by the
Russians and by the Greek Christians. It is known,
that when-there was some corversation in the presence
of Madame de Mai:aenon, of the marriage of the late
,King of N of she receat marriage of the li.ng of
erassia, she steel *lied aloud that she comprehended
eves ytt.iog of lb .t kind, except being the wife of a Sa-
vereign, asthma the sovereignty, and except being able
to play 'such a par n We aunknowledge that facts will

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BESSIERES.
=TRACT OR • LICSTM DMA SAFICILOSAD rt'ot
" Monsieur George Bessierea was born at
sonne, in the South of France, and was the sea of ei
poulterer. His father finding that hilt business did Rol
prosper in Carcassonne, determined to donee his native
place, and went to settle at Toulouse, in. Provence.—.
BeAieres not having received even a take:able edeca,
time, which, indeed, his father could not afford to give
'him, was now thought of swage, hnwever, to do some,
thing for himself. When the French troops passed
through Toulouse, co their march to Spain, General
Rey resided in the town for some days.--(This Officer
is now at Borges.en-Bery, and holds the post of Gower•
nor of the Department of the Cherje.-The father of
Bessieres being, ass saids e poulterer used to sip front
house to house to get °Octal" fowlsSondsbatMg sold
some several unmake dAya at the boUitaiebitbited br
.the General, was.gfven to understand dist he wanted a
se. vent. Thinking that sash a place would be a little
fortune for his son, he in tantly went borne and informed
him of it ; the boa being sharp and active, quickly put
on his best clothes, and went to offer himself. The
General was pleased with the physiognomy of young.
Bessieres, an] after asking him some questions, retained,
him in his service. Two days afterwards he departed, •
and went to Biticelorla,where he resided sere, al months.
Here the young man learned to speak the Catalan dia. _
lect ; and he behaved so well as to gain the confidence
of the General, who made him his chamberlain. At
this time the people were rising against the French in
all parts of Spain. There was a certain Joseph Manus
(who is now a General in that country), by trade a
miller: this man had been insulted by four French.
dragoons, who had come to demand provisions at his.
mill, and met with a refusal from him, when one of the
party struck him. Unable to revenge himself upon
them, be abandoned his mill, and betook himself, etch
four or five of his countrymen& Co the mount.ins,vowing
vengeance on all the Frenchmen who should fall into
his hands. Inn short time, having been very fortunate
in his combats with the enemy; he acquired a certain
degree of reputation, and wait jpined.by many of the
insurgents. Finding himself *at. the head of three or
four thousand men, he formed them into. regi-
ments, and receiving, likewire, all the French de-
serters that came, he draughted them into a sepa-
rate battalion, under the name of Foreign Volunteers.
Manua, finding that General Rey was a great obstacle
to his projects, sought to devise means for getting aid
of him, and knowing that no one enjoyed a larger
share of his confidence than his chamberlain, who had
gradually become the master, he endeavoured to open.
a communialtion with Bessieres, through some of his
acquaintatice. One day a confidental friend of Manso
requesting to speak with the Chamberlain, took him to
a remote place. and after half an hour's conversation,
in which he tried variousways to make known his pur-
pose, he at length avowed that he was sent by Nlanso
with the offer of a captaincy if he would kill his mas-
ter. Bessieres, without much deliberation, replied, that
as soon as a convenient opportunity offered he would
not fail to strike the blow. He did not choose, how-.
ever, to trust wholly to theemissary, but at night went
hinase:f to confer with Manse, whom he knew to be not
far from Barcelona. On accosting the Spanish Chief, he
told him he desired to know from his own Mouth what
he wished to be done, and what reward he had to offer?
Manso, in reply, said, " I abide by what the messenger
has intimated to you—that is, kill the General, and, if
possible, bring away his horses, and I will pay you, and
instantly make you Captain." Returning to Barcelona
in the morning, Bessieres resumed his usual avocations,
and in the evening went, to take wine with some friends.
He left their company about two in the morning, and
proceeded to the stables, where he saddled two of the
General's best horses, and then going into the house,
furnished himself with a dagger, and entered his
master's apartment. Bessieres was a little affected
by wine, having thought that if his spirits were ele-
vated, he should be able to strike a surer blow.
—According to a precaution very common with the
French, the General had an Adjutant who dept in a se-
parate bed near his own. Fortunately for him elf, on
that night the General bad not returned ; and this was
contrary tobia usual custom, which was to send out the
Adjutant on affairs relating to the service. Bessieres, as
I said, entered the room, and finding is all in darkness.
went and placed his hands on the General's bed, and
finding it empty, thought he bad gone by mistake to
that of the Adjutant, who was in Cie habit of going out
at night. He turned immediately to the other bed, and
with two blows of the dagger disprobed the poor Offi;
cer, thinking all the while he was killing the General—
. the room, he took away the lo rses, and went
to join Manso. On presenting himself he told him be
lied killed General. Rey.. (This took place on the night`
of the Sd January,lBlo). Manso welcomed him heartily,
overwhelmed him with thanks, instantly appointed him
Captain, an] gave him a company wholly composed of.
French deserters. He paid him for the her.es, and
exhorted him to be always valiant, and to fight cou-
rageously against the enemy. Nxt day Manso was
informed that Bessieres bad missed his man ; but,
though much disappointed at this, especially as he
had announced to all his confederates the death of trice
General, he sent for Bessieres, and' said to him—
" Though your blow has proved unsuccessful, yet, cot:-
sidering that it was not your fault, and that I have
made you captain, I allow you to retain your rank, a, d
exhort you to prove yourself deserving of it by loot
conduct." Bessieres finding himself raised from tke
post of chamberlain to that of captain, sought every
avenue to distinction; he fought bravely, and endea-
Toured by his courage to advance himself in the career
on which he had entered. I could mention many ac=
toss in uhich Session displayed his bravery ; I shalt
coofine myself to that of the 6th of March, 1810, when,
being on the advanced guard, he had entered into a
collusion with the officer of the first Ihench post, to rer-
prise the fort of Montjuich. Boldly truaing to the