The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1837-03-29
FOREIGN NEWS.
From the New York Gazette.

VERY LATE FROM FRANcE.-The packet
ship UTICA, Capt. PELL, in the short passage
of 26 days from Havre, has put us in pos
session Of French journals to the 25 of Feb
ruary, with London dates to the 22d. The
most interesting news by this arrival, phr-
ticularly at the present crisis, is the fact that
the Liverpool cotton market had improved.
1t will be seen by our Transitions, that
another attempt was in agitation for taking
The life of Louis Philippe, which was hap
PLY frustrated by the discovery of the plot
before the completion of the " internal ma
chine"
The affairs of Spain are in statu quo, no
movement having as yet been made, but tho
last accounts from st. Sebastian Of the 10th
speak Of the immediate commencement Of
operations.
Another plot to take the life of Louis
Philippe has been discovered in Paris. A
Commissary of Police and several assistants
on Sunday the l9lh, proceeded to the resi-
dencc of II man named Champion, 3S Ho-
tel de Vile, and after n strict search, found
slowed away in "A corner of the garret, an
other " Internal machine" half finished
1t consisted of a small box, seven to eight
inches long and three or four deep, with
three distinct apartments, the first of which
was prepared for seven small pistols direct
ed horizontally; the second was arranged
Cor six, with an oblique direction to the right,
and the last for the same number directed
obiquely to the left. The mode Of using
it, as explained by Champion was to erect
"A battery and communicate with it by n
cord, whereby trains of powder were to be
set Off successfully so as TO explode, each
range of pistols, commencing with the first
tho pistols also to go off separately,
Champion confessed his intention to destroy
with it, ifpossibIe, the life ofthc King. He
said his plan was to place the machine in
small hand-cart filled with furniture, as
if in the act of moving it. The machine
was to be placed at the height Of five or six
feet, and to bo covered with a mattress.
The cart was then to be placed on the road
Neuily, near where the King usually pass
cd.
Champion was then conducted to the
I Y,
expressed his regret Of not accomplishing
his purpose. Shortly after the guard had
gone out of his cell, Champion suspended
himself by his cravat to "A bar of the window.
He had got on to his bed and then push
ing it suddenly from him, caused his death
Immediately. He had for several dnys be-
fore been repeatedly drunk, saying he would
soon 90 to the Place st. Jaques, the place
of executions. He had been suspect ed
during the trial of Polignac, &c. 1t is sup
posed he has accomplices. Some have been
arrested, among others his mistress, named
Saget, aud fencing master named Janvier.
The first intimatlon that the authorities
had of Champions design was l5 days be-
fore in an anonymous letter, the clue to
which they ferretcd out. The would-be
assassion was a locksmith. A suspected
cafe in the garden of the Tuilcries near the
rue Rivoli, and which is said to have a sub
terranean passage with the street has been
demolished. Champion was 45 years old,
and his body was conveyed to the Dead
House for inspection. His skin is tattooed
he had served in Don Pedro's army.
The fort of Cassaba, at Bona, was des-
troycd by the explosion of the magazine on
the 30th of January, and los officers and
men were killed, and lSS wounded, by the
disaster. The officer commanding, Capt.
Bernard, was, with his wife, among the
victims.
The roval palace at Naples was COM
pletely destroyed by fire in the beginning of
February. The spread Of the flames was
so rapid that il was with difficulty the Prince
of Syracuse could be rescued. lie was ta-
ken fain,ing from his bed.
Letters from Smyrna speak of a frightful
earthquake ut Jaffs, which was entirely dcs-
troycd. OF $4,000 inhabitants, $4,000 were
buried in the ruins.