The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-08-18 00:00:00

The following are extracts from the Brussels papers:—

BRUSSELS, AUGUST 12.—A violent fire broke out at one
o'clock this morning in the old Hotel des thin nres. in which is
the rich Cabinet of Mineralogy, which was happily saved.—
l'ise fire, however, destroyed a large part of the building.—
Several extraordinary circumstances threw great doubts on the
cause of this fire, which having began in the apartments of M.
Dekin, late Conservator of the Cabinet of Natural history,
de-. it was thought he was burnt or suffocated ; lis body was
however found in the flee des fripiers.
Baron Strogossoff, late Ambassador from Russia to the
Porte, is expected at Attasterdam, having embarked at Frank-
fort on the 7th, to come down the Maine and Rhine.
BRUSSELS, AUGUST 13.—There are many strand.) reports,
says the Oracle respecting the late fire and the death of 111.
Dekin ; some say he had received orders to remove in three
days; that there was a deficiency in his acc aunts; that he set
ere to his apartments and then took arsenic, and went out and
expired in the street, where he was found.
The Jovirnal de La Belgique says M. Dekin's body has been
opened, and there is (no] sppeardiance of poison, but his death
seems to have been caused by an accumulation of blood in the
chest, and an inflammation of the brain. These principal c .uses
may have been rendered more active and rapid in their opera-
tion by moral affections, which, according to circumstances,
agitated the unfortunate M. Dekin.
We invite our readers, therefore, not to credit a great nem-
,ber of fables which ill-informed persons circulate, not consider
ing what injury they do tolhe memory of a man whose talents
and character had gained him many friends.
FRANCFORT, AUGUST 9.—Tise merchant Fouk, of Cologne.
whose trial made so much/noise in Germany, has been pardoned
by the King of Prussia; as well as Hamacher, Isis accomplice.

American papers have arrived this morning, to the 2.lth
of July; but do not contain any news.

Another desperate attempt was wade on Satnrday to in
finance the funds, by the fabrication of Imes from Spain

It was sa monstrous in its nature, however, that it could
mislead no one. The hoax on the Stock Exchange in 1814,
was a moderate attempt at probable imposition, in ,comps-
rison with this:—and credulity herself, heard it with a
doubting face. It iris no less, than, that, without any
assigned cause, add, without any motive that could be
even guessed at, the Cortes ofSpain, had suddenly liberated
King Ferdinand, and taken to flight themselves ! The
news had been carried from Cadiz to' Madrid, where they
were all " weeping for joy !"—and " embracing each
other"—and " singing rietes,"—and we know not what de-
monstrations of joy besides. The war was all at an end—
not a shot wore was to be fired—and the.res'omtionof King
Ferdinand to despotic authority was deemed as certain as

it was unexpected. About one tenth of this might have
\,heen credited for a few minutes, had it been discreetly told—
but the whale was too mach for any stomach; and after a
little consideration, it was discarded as a most impudent
and se*sekss .fabrication. The arrivals of yesterday, and
this morning, confirm the opinion of the public, and new
falsehood* avast be invented to prop up the falling-Cause of
the Bourbons in Spain. Cadiz. Papers to the 14th of Au.

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