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and that he died on the first of December, al
fifty minutes past ten o'clock.
Cariesrphe, Dec 22.--The Court goes into
mourning sax weeks, for the Emperor Ut Rus.
STA, whose untimely loss is equally deplored
| by all classes in our country, to whose prosper.
ity he so powerfully contributed The grief
OF the venerable Princess who lives among us
is the more severe, as the death of the Empe-
1 FOR of Russia having so soon followed that of
the King Of Bavaria.
vIEsSA, December 20-The following is the
| FIRST notice taken by our Journals of the death
F, of the Emperor of Russia. Ii is in the Aus
| trian Observer:
ON the All of this month, with the rapidi,y
with which great. and especially melancholy
events are generally spread abroad, reports
we're circulated of the wholly unexpected
| death of his majesty the Emperor Alexander.
| Reports from the Austrian Consular Agent at
| Warsaw, of the 9Th instant, first contained a
| notice that the Emperor Alexander died on
| the third, at Tagsnrog sfter q short illness,
| and that the city of Warsaw was in c. .ns erna-
| ton, though the cause OF it was not publicly
owned There were, therefore, many reasons
to hope that the news might rest on false re.
| port circulate d at Warsaw Nothing was said
of any act OF the new government and every
thing made It our duty to wait for either con.
firmaion ct the important news, or for the
wished for refatation of it.
'Unhappiy, the affair has since assumed
form which hardly permits us to doubt that
the'' march, whose name fills one of the most
glorious places in tb sai3ook Of History. is taxi
Ell fran his people and from the world Be.
tween the night OF the 18th and the morning OF
the 9th, no news was received that lad the
cl, srlf ff,fi lN,,f..
silence which but too much induced people to
fear its truth On the 18th the merchants re.
ceived accounts from Leipzeic, dated he i4,b
referring to accounts received on the 18th a,
Berlin, from Warsaw and coinciding with the
report ct the Austrian Consular Agent Of the
9th. Accounts from the Legation at Dresden
confirmed. on the same day, the arrival of those
accounts from Berlin.
To-day 1.-THE l9h) further reports have at
le,,gth been received from Warsaw. which
state She first of December as the day of the
Enperoie's death, and add the following cir.
cumstances:-
THE news OF bis maiesty's death. after ID
DAYS illness, is said 10 have reached on the 7th
his natural successor, the Grand Duke Con-
s,sntne who sent on the Oh bis brother, the
Grand Duke Michael to st retersa,rgh ! he
report Of the Emperor's death was spread
through the whole Kingdom of Poland on the
14th, and will certainly be heard in all parts
of Europe with the same feeling with which
We notice it in this Journal -, 4,istrian Observer
We have received the Journal de St Peters.
burgh ottbe 18th November, Goth December)
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cr,a b.s struct IN E,uoira ID is,sss;s ,,,;,b
,n;sfort,ne xvb;cI, M exnress;op c.n des.,;ba
Aconrier who arrved fro,, raoarroe, ~, 49,.
o., ms, has brongbt The ova,aLe,,n;,e, ,,,,,,s
of the dea,h ri he u.;ss,, ~ $780,
lexandAr,
On he frst news If this sudden ca,.n;ty tho
august members of the Imperial Family. the
Council Of the Empire. and the Ministers ss.
sembled at The palace, when the Grand Duke
Nicholas LIST. and after him all the public eff
cers.who we're present, as Wei as all the regi
ments OF imler'a' auards' took the oath oil n
deI,y 10 tue emperor Ions'ah''he i.
| ihehrecu'e oehats mas Jost promulgated
on, TINS OCCASION ehe ioi'owmE oecree
| ne MINISTER OF JusuGe' me oenefsl or
inahuy, ffihce '.anan'fi kostowki' nas COM
| muhica'ed 10 inc 1ehefsi Assembly OF me De
partments OF the directing Senate OF 81 Pc
| tersburgh,the depiorahe news that the EN-
perof Alexander mao. oy the WIN 81 the Al
! 'nehp' ana s'.er c'ae' maiady aied at a.
ssnrng on me iS'' OF tnis month OF november
| US. Decehoer'
! by Jefferson .im izth from Warsaw II was
SHOWN mat ue emperor Constantine was sun
| IN uiai chy Upon learning he news Of his
/ prothers DEAN, he shut himselfup IN his apart
mem, and iefused to see any one but his con-
sofr Tor 80 hours
| Ahe post from warsaw has failed for the last
Wree GAYS. u $ constant custom IA Russia,
a. 'he death of Emperors, to place Vldetes