The Wilmingtonian., 1824-05-13
FROM PORTUGAL.

been received. The ship Mary Ann, Budd,
a. DAYS from Lisbon for Philadelphia, put
in on the seventeenth in a leaky state.
Capt B. stated that the assassination OF
the Prime Minister of Portugal, (wheh cir
cumstance has been before stated was at
tributed to the Kings second son, and that
the whole country was in state of COM
motion. The officers and troops had pos
itively refused serving under Marshal Bcr-
resford who had in consequence been de-
prived of his command. The people e.
vince the most marked feelings of hostility
towards the United States, in consequence
of the Language adopted by the Presden,
in his Message to Congress.
MARTINIQUE.-It is stated in the
Dcmerara papers. on the authority of pri-
vate letters from Martinique. that the CO.
lored people OF that Island are shipped a
way with as much dispatch as possible
No distinction is made amongst them !;
Whether high or low, rich or poor-wheth.
er guilty or innocent-whether implicated
Tor not in the late premeditated insurrec-
tion. the sentence Of Punishment is the
same. The hue Of the skin is quite suffi.
cient. and passport is politely handed to
every one whose name and residence is
known, as well as to those who are only
known abroad in the public streets and
high ways. A considerable number of
these people had already arrived at Trini-
dad. where it is said they have met with
unmolested refuge"
newspaper. lie Drapeau Blanc. (The
White Flag) down to the s5th ult. 1t is
conducted with much ability and rallies
the liberals without mercy on the defeat
which they have experienced in the late e.
lectons. Every thing is to be completely
royaliSed in France. The king declar
ed to be the only legitimate representa-
tive of the people," and a scptennial legis-
lature is to relieve the crown and the min.
istry from all opposition and embsrrass.
mcnt in the management of affairs. The
sixteen liberals who have been returned to
the Chamber of Deputies, hear already the
Icry, sitence to the siTtpen voices. The
proportion of titled men in the Chamber is
greatly increased. The restoration of the
property Of the emisrants. confscated du
ring the revolution, is more than hinted al
in the Drapeau Blanc. The "day ofjus.
tice" is said TO be arrived for them, ant
" the fruits of the moparchical tree are M
longer to be enjoyed by those who brok'
its branches. mutulated its trunk, and lat
: the axe to its root" Iimid statesmen arr
! no lnger to have the ear of the govern
ment. Three common laborers who hnt
. the nconcevable audacity" to trace up.
on the snow, in the garden Of the Thule
) ries. on the 18th of March, "some often
sive words towards an august parsonage,
were dragged before the Criminal Court
. and one Of them. the principal scribe, wa
condemned to six months Imprisonment
t and 500 francs (SlO0) fine. At Toulouse
t on the 1eth of March, workman in tn,
+ mint, tried for crying out. Lire the EN-
peror, that great Conqueror" was con
: demned to the same punishment.
3, Two females of great distinction ant
! wealth at Paris, were overwhelmed witt
, grief by the following circumstance. Tht
= son Of one Of them, who had hmselfa con
: siderable income, fell desperately in low,
! with an opera dancer, Mademoiselle Brr
4 court. The lovers after being once inter
: cepted, contrived to elope to Bordeaux
where they lived in the most extravasan
style of expense, and exhausted ere long
all their means. The young man address
ed rich auntin Paris, by letter. implorin,
}, pecuniary relief. She promised him all HI
e could desire, if he would return to hi
$ friends and lead regular life. In a shor
a time, his sweetheart herself persuaded hin
d t. set out with her on his return but whe
h they got near to Paris. the idea of a sepa
d ration became insuppnrtable to both-,he
+ deliberately lighted chaGng dishes file
i with charcoal in their chamber, and wer
d found dead the next morning. This ira
gedy happened in the third week of Marcl
J. At kiel, in Denmark, on the 9th Feb
s ruary, woman was brought to bed of Gou
If children, boy and three girls, all alive
e The boy died in "a hours after birth, bu
n the rest were perfectly well. and promi.
m ed to live. They weighed together /
p pounds and half.-.Nat. Gaz.
I'd The Sublime Porte is said 10 bov
a. threatened to cut of Lord Byron's bea,
ID should he fall into the hands Of a Puch,