Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-03-21
LATEST PROM ENGLAND.

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From the Boston Daily Advertiser, March i6.
We have received, by the ship Triton,
London papers to the 18th ult. about
twenty days later than before received.
Parliament assembled on the 18th, and the
new king announced his intention OF sooD
calling new parliament, and recommended
| the immediate attention to such business as
it would be necessary to despatch before
the dissolution. The two houses adopted
addresses to the king, Of coincidence for
the loss of bis father. and consratulation
on his accession to the throne. The house
of commons also agreed TO addresses of
coincidence to the king and the Duchess
of Kent, on the death of the Duke oil Kent.
There had been serious misunderstand-
ing between the new king and his minis
ters, which, however, had been adjusted.
We have accounts from France to Feb.
IA. The Duke OF Berri was assassinated
on the evening of the 18th. As be was
leaving the Opera, and entering his car
riage with the Duchess, be was stabbed
10 the side with stylet, an instrument
used by shoemakers, by man employed
in the royaI stables, named Louvet. He
died on the following morning.. The Duke
Of Berri was the only one OF the near heirs
Of the throne of France, who is expected
to have any children. He has left daugh-
ter, who cannot succeed to the throne, and
the Duchess is enceinte.
PARIS, Feb. a.
Assassination Of the Dude de Berri.-
The inhabitants of this metropolis have
been horror struck by an atrocious assas.
sinalion, perpetrated last night at 10 o.
clock, on the person OF bis Royal High
ness the Duke de Berri The Prince at
tended the Duchess to her carriage in
quitting the Opera House she was al
ready seated, when person passing quick.
iy by his Royal Higbness, encircIed him
with his left arm, and thrust poniard, four
inches and half long, in his right breast
up to the hilt. On feeling the wound he
uttered cry aud fell senseless into the
arms of his servant. The Duchess her
self sprang out of the carriage and drew
the dagger from the Dukes breast, whose
only exclamation was, .jeme nseurs." The
Duke was conveyed into one OF the saloons
of the Opera, aud the nearest surgeon sent
for. The Duchess never quilted the couch
of her husband. The Duke of Orleans,
who was at the Opera, arrived immediate.
ly, accompanied by the Duchess.
The assassin was interrogated Ia the
presence Of vi. de CaZes, and declared
boldly that he had meditated the murder
ever since 1914, and that he had Quilted
Metz for Calais 10 the intention Of assas-
sinating the king on his rentrec, but that
he arrived too late; that he had at length
resolvedo on the determination of the Duke
de Berri, as the youngest of the family,
knowing that nature would soon dispense
him from the necessity Of abridgins the
days of the king.
The following particulars are extracted
from private letters :--they are all of Mon.
days date
The Duke was proceeding from the
Opera, and had one leg on the step of the
carriage, when the assassin struck him in
the breast. The wound was about two
and a half inches deep. The blood spouted
on the clothes Of the Duchess. He was
carried back into his box in she Opera.
and Immediately attended by the first ply
sicians in Paris. He expired at 7 next
morning. The assassin was the son of
coachmaker TO the king, and had been for
length Of time employed by the royal
family. The greatest agitation prevails at
Paris. All the nobility are calling on the
King. Every public place is shut. and
all business suspended"
"P. S. The amiabie and asopized
duchess is pregnant, which was TO have
been declared 10 few days"
An article from Inspruck quotes letters
from Venice, stating that considerable dis |
content prevailed in the Ionian Isles, tho |
under the appearance Of perfect tranquil |
lily. u was reported thar serious insur |
rection had broken out at Smyrna.
The accounts from Vienna state that the
intelligence from Spain had excited great
sensation in that capital, and formed the
subject Of general conversation.
From ConstantinooIe Il is mentioned that
the plague was making dreadful rayages