The Sun. — 1841-11-11 (London, England)

MURDER OF GENERAL AYMERIC. Extract of a letter dated " Palma, 28th October :" " Our town, generally so tranquil, was on Sunday, the !nth,. suddenly disturbed by a frightful crime. General Aymerie, formerly a Minister of Ferdinand 111. was assassinated in a dastardly manner by a party of revolutionary eadtados belonging to the corps of officers in the garrison. The following are the details of this sanguinary scene, which I have collected and can vouch for their autheuticity:— " At about eight o'clock in the evening a body of about thirty men, wrapped up in large cloaks, and wearing hats similar to those worn at Valencia, suddenly sailed out from several streets leading to the hotel where General Aymeric bail alighted in company with his son. After posting sentinels at the extremities of these streets, in order to blockade the passage, the band proceeded to the hotel of General Aynieric. and demanded to speak with him. Scarcely had the General appear,•d at the threshold of his.room when the assassins rushed upon him, and dragging him by the feet through the mud, they fell upon him with their poniards, and left him weltering in his blood, singing and shouting as they withdrew. A patrol, drawn thither by the disturbance, approached them, but was withheld from interfering, probably because they recogni-ed the rioters to be officers. Finding„ however, the unfortunate General stretched lifeless on the ground they hastened to raise him and convey him to his hotel, where he expired yesterday morning amidst the most dreadful agonies, and without having, even for a moment, recovered the use of his faculties. While all this was taking place the General's son was with the military commander of the town, whom he had sought out to entreat, though in vain, that he would afford succour and protection to his father ; for an officious friend had on the Sunday afternoon informed the General's sun that the project was on foot of assassinating his father on the same evening. All the entreaties of the son to obtain only a guard of protection for his father were useless ; the commander of the town affected to disbelieve that an:7. flange: threatened the life of General Aymeric, and even on hearing of his assassination he refused to order out the troops until the municipal authorities had declared that unless that measure were taken they feared an insurrection on the part of the inhabitants. .  This inexplicable conduct on the part of the military commander has spread alarm among the inhabitants of our town, the more as it is perfectly ascertained that the assassins were no other titan the members of the Radical Club, belonging to the Secret Society (Cubdo) of Barcelona. This Club still subsists, notwithstanding the orders of the Government of -Mitdrid, who directed that it should be dissoked, while, on the contrary, it makes a display of such daring recklessness that the peaceful citizens are alarmed, and already begin to desert the town, and conceal themselves in the country. The anarchy which exists among -ns is at its highest pitch ; we have, it is true, the shadow of a Government, but it is so weak that scarcely bas it strength to support itself, much less to support its subjects anti protect them from the fur- of these Radicals."  PARISIAN Ul[-HT