The National Register. — 1816-06-23 (London, England)

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.  LONDON : SUNDAY, JUNE 23.  We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday last. They are almost exclusively occupied with the particulars of the marriage-ceremony on Monday, at Notre Dame, of the Duke and Duchess of Berry. The language of the French press on the occasion is distinguished by such gross flattery and fulsome adulation, that some persons may be uncharitable enough to doubt the sincerity of the panegyrics so profusely lavished. The Monarch and his family are treated not as human Lings, but as deities ; and we are told " the sun rose ' cloudless fur the purpose of illuminating the object of so many wishes and hopes." After this glowing observation, the Bathos of the writer is most ludicrous ; as immediately after he tells us that some "veterans and others (brined in two files to keep the passage clear from the Thuilleries to the Church: The fountains of wiac are represented to have run in abundance ; and if we may judge from the reveries of the writer, he drank freely of that precious stream. The Paris papers, describing the Duchess of Berry, say, "her countenance is full of sensibility, and possesses a character of peculiar sweetness. Her hair is fair, and her large blue eyes give to her fuse an expression of melancholy deeply interesting. She was dressed in a robe enriched with diamonds ; on her head was placed a diadem composed of the same, in the centre of which appeared the Nuptial Crown. The Duke was decorated with the orders of the Holy Ghost and St. Louis, and wore the costume of Henry IV. with a cloak of gold. The Duke of Wellington was present, and had a distinguished sent assigned to him in a Tribune on the right of the Sanctuary. All that is grand in the Roman Catholic Religion, imposing in military pageantry, and splendid in Court luxury, was employed an the occasion ; diversified with the gambols of dancers, shows of every kind, and sports in the Elysian These Papers confirm, in a letter from Marseilles, the account of the terrible massacre at Bona. About 200 Christians were killed. Sixty wounded got back to their boats, and reached Cagliari. All the houses of the Christians were pillaged. The Letter concludes by saying, that " the insurrection was produced by the discontent at the Treaty between Lord Exmouth and the Dey of Algiers. Let us hope," and sincerely do we join in that hope, " that such atrocities will be avenged in a signal manner." The Paris papers contain extraordinary and mysterious particulars of the trial of a woman named Caroline Lereuth. She was charged with having stabbed the Sieur Delacourt with a sharp instrument, with an intention of putting him to death. The crime was designated as aiding and assisting in suicide ; but it appears from the testimony of the parties themselves, that the man was too timid to stab himself, and prevailed on the woman to take intoxicating liquors to excess to induce her to commit the act. Delacourt, in his defence, did all he could to save the woman ; declaring that, she being afraid, he seized herhand, and struck it against hi s bosom ; but the Court sentenced her to ten vears solitary imprisonment and the pillory. On hearing her sentence, she wept bitterly, and said she would prefer death ; but on being informed by the President, that she had three days to appeal to the Court of Cassation, she resumed her firmness and was perfectly composed.—(She had since, appealed to that Court for a revision of her sentence). Mails from Hamburg and Holland have also arrived. The Papers brought by them contain the following arti des :-Fito74 TIIIC VISTULA, it s.—lt is said, that his Majesty the jjnyesaa• d liussia has atm United his ›lajoty We listr, of