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his senses, which happened about two o'clock.

The Duchess of Angouleme, Monsieur, and the Duke of Angouleme, the Duke of Bourbon, and the Duke of Orleans, were about him since one o'clock. The unfortunate Prince was enabled to speak, and hopes began to be felt. He recognised the persons around him, among whom we distin. guished the Duke of Reggio, General Belliard, the Duke of Richelieu, M. de Chateaubriand, and others. His Royal Highness spoke to them with a touching affection on announcing to them his approaching termination. The physician having remarked, that the pulse had recovered some strength, the Prince replied, "So much the worse, I shall have a longer time to suffer." He in effect suffered sharp agony. He soon demanded to see Mademoiselle. She was brought to the bed of sorrow, and embracing her with tenderness, he said, "Dear infant, mayest thou be happier than thy father." He conversed in a very low tone with his august brother. About five o'clock the King arrived; the first words which the Prince addressed to him were, "Sire, grant that the last favour that I ask of you, be the pardon of my assassin."

The King shed tears. "This is not the time," said his Majesty, " to talk of this: let us think only of yourself." The Prince replied, "I do not deceive myself with respect to my situation," and he requested that M. Latel, Monsieur's first almoner, might be introduced. He received the last sacraments, and never ceased to give the most striking proofs of piety and resignation. About half past five o'clock the assistance of art became useless, the blood overflowed his chest with rapidity-death was imminent. Under pretence of leaving to the Prince a moment of tranquillity, they succeeded in inducing the Duchess de

Berri, Madame and Monsieur, to pass into a neighbouring chamber; but notwithstanding the reiterated instances of the professional gentlemen, his Majesty would not quit the bed of his adopted son.

The august victim preserved an heroic tranquillity. History will collect his last words. The worthy son of Henry IV. was recognised in the Prince, on exclaiming " Ah! why have I not found my death in battle?" and, he added, in a sorrowful tone, "It is cruel to me that I should die by the hand of a Frenchman."

It was in pressing the hand of the Monarch that the Prince expired"I have a last duty to perform to my son," said his Majesty. That duty was to close his eyes.

A few minutes before death, the Prince, turning his eyes towards Heaven, exclaimed, "Oh my country! Unhappy France!" Such were his last words. After having expressed all the noblest sentiments of nature, friendship, and religion, the last sigh of the French Prince was for his country.

Madame the Duchess de Berri is in a state which we shall not attempt to describe. We are assured that her Royal Highness has herself cut off her beautiful hair as the first sign of the profound grief which surrounds her.

During this scene of horror the assassin was interrogated. The wretch had at first taken to flight. At the cries of some persons present, an individual would have seized him; they struggled for an instant, and the murderer succeeded in escaping; but a waiter of a coffee-house seized him again near the arcade; the guards who pursued him arrived, and conveyed him to the guard-room at the opera.

The name of the assassin is Louvel, a name already celebrated in the annals of regicide. His manner is tranquil. The physicians have not perceived any alteration in his pulse. "He

is about forty, dark, bald, and his countenance has the expression of an hyena. He was a working saddler in the train of artillery of the Old Guard; he never carried arms even as a soldier. He went in 1815 to the Isle of Elba, and was afterwards at the battle of Waterloo. When asked if he were a Frenchman, he replied, "Do you not see by my face that I am a good Frenchman?" Interrogated respecting the motive of his crime, he said, "I

do not love the Bourbons."

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He was asked, "Who inspired you with this wicked intention ?" He replied, "Don't call it wicked."

The assassin has been examined before the Ministers; when his replies were as follow:

Q. What induced you to commit this crime?-A. My opinions-my

sentiments.

Q. What are they?—A. I think the Bourbons are tyrants, and the most cruel enemies of France.

Q. In that supposition why did you attack the Duke de Berri in preference to the rest?-A. Because he is the youngest Prince of the Royal Family, and seemed to be destined to perpetuate that race hostile to France. Q. Do you repent your act?-A. No.

Q. Had you any instigator-any accomplice?-A. None.

Q. If the justice of man cannot induce you to tell the truth, reflect on the justice of God.-A. God is merely a word; he never came upon the earth.

Q. What could induce you to commit an action so guilty?-A. I wished to have refrained from it, but it was beyond my power to do so.

Q. What was your motive?-A. It will serve as a lesson to the great men of my country.

Q. Do you persist in saying that no person inspired you with the idea of this crime? A. Yes. Moreover,

it is in the hands of Justice; let her, therefore, do her duty, and let her discover those who it is presumed are my accomplices.

These are the only answers that could be obtained from this wretch; he signed them, and was escorted back to the Conciergerie. It is impossible to convey an idea of his matchless sung froid. Neither the aspect of the unfor tunate victim, nor the presence of the Magistrates, caused in him the least emotion, even for an instant. As soon as the interrogation was concluded, they proceeded to open the body; four of the late Prince's valets-dechambre bore him from the state couch into an adjoining apartment, where were assembled the Doctors Portal, Dupuytren, and several others. From their observations, it appeared that the murderous weapon had penetrated six inches between the 5th and 6th ribs, and had pierced the membraneous muscles of the heart. The physicians drew up and signed a very detailed attestation.

When the late Duke de Berri was near expiring, he mentioned to his wife that he had two children born in England and one in France, whom he wished her to take care of.-The moment she was removed from the body, she desired to see the children; and on their being brought to her, she cut off some of her hair, and gi ving a lock to each of them, and also one to her own little daughter, she said they were sisters and brothers, and that she would be their mother. The Princess then went to St Cloud, and took the children with her.

London Gazette Extraordinary,

Thursday, Feb. 24.

Whereas Arthur Thistlewood stands charged with high treason, and also with the wilful murder of Richard Smithers, a reward of One Thousand Pounds is hereby offered to any per son or persons who shall discover and

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The above-named Arthur Thistlewood is about 48 years of age, five feet ten inches high, has a sallow complexion, long visage, dark hair, (a little grey) dark hazle eyes and arched eye-brows, a wide mouth, and a good set of teeth, has a scar under his right jaw, is slender made, and has the appearance of a military man, was born in Lincolnshire, and apprenticed to an apothecary at Newark, usually wears a blue long coat and blue pantaloons, and has been a lieutenant in the militia.

(The details of this atrocious at tempt will be found given fully under the head of Trials for High Treason, p. 105.)

DISTURBANCES IN THE NORTH.

"Heckmondwike, Feb. 22. "Yesterday morning, (Monday,) a scene of the most daring and barbarous outrage presented itself that can possibly be described or conceived. A number of the members of a society called the Clothiers' Union assembled at Batley, from Hanging and Earl's Heaton, Dawgreen, and the neighbourhood of Heckmondwike. During the whole of Sunday night, numbers were heard talking and walking backward and forward; but about four o'clock on Monday morning some of them knocked at the door of a poor woman, and inquired if William Good all lived there. Being answered in the negative, they proceeded on until they

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came to the poor man's door; and then, with the utmost violence, burst it open; at the same time calling out to the poor fellow, who was in bed, Come out, thou black devil, or else we will draw thee!' His wife got up and looked out of doors, when she beheld a vast host of men, armed with large cudgels and other weapons, waiting the arrival of her husband. Terrified at the sight, she hastily shut the door, and fastened it as securely as she could. Just at this time their cruelty was exerting all its efforts on a man called Milton, whom they kicked and beat in a manner too shocking to be related. Alarmed at this confusion, one of the mill-owners sent the above William Goodall for the assistance of some peace-officers and others, but, before he had gone far, he found himself pursued and surrounded on all sides. They knocked him down, then kicked and beat him with their clubs in all parts of his body, so that he is now confined to his bed. At this crisis the constables arrived, but found it impossible to enforce the powers of their office, beset, as they were, on all sides, by these desperate and inhuman wretches, who were vowing with all their vengeance, that, whatever might be the consequence, they would kill every man that opposed them. Would to heaven I could stop here! But it was now time for the Black Men, as they called them, to come to their work; and, alas! as soon as those from the neighbourhood of Morley appeared, they were seized; they were hewn and beaten to a degree the most barbarous and cruel. While these unfortunate men were suffering the cruelty of their unexpected foes, lamentable to tell, another poor, quiet, and inoffensive man, who was coming from Howden Clough, to work at the mill, was met by another company of these furious wretches, who beat him in so unmer

ciful a manner, that the poor sufferer's eyes were nearly lacerated from their sockets, his legs and arms broken, and most of his ribs fractured. Their barbarous career did not stop here. A poor old man, who was returning from Mr Spedding's, where he had been to seek for employ, was identified as a Black Man, and immediately knocked down, nearly strangled, beaten, and kicked in a most unmerciful manner. Having, as they thought, deprived him of life, they threw him over an adjoining wall into a ditch.

"But perhaps you will now ask, was there no one to help? To which I answer, that so far were these murder. ous wretches from receiving their just deserts, that they were strenuously encouraged by others as bad as themselves. The number of these depredators was at least three hundred. I am informed that their plan of operations was settled at a meeting of their leaders, held in the vicinity of Dews. bury, at five o'clock on Sunday morning last !"

"Leeds, Feb. 24.

"The most alarming reports were yesterday in circulation, but I could not trace them to any authentic source. One report was, that several thousands of the Union Men,' who were standing out for an advance of wages, had set fire to two large cloth-mills at Dewsbury, and that they had killed several of the Black Men, as they term those who work at the existing prices. These rumours, though not true to the extent stated, are not without some foundation. There was a very violent riot and disturbance at Dewsbury and in the neighbourhood at a late hour last night, and the • Union Men' evinced every disposition to proceed to the lengths I have stated. Their conduct was most violent and outrageous-so much so, that an express arrived here, at an early hour this morning, for a military

force; and so urgent was the request, that a troop of the 4th Dragoon Guards set off immediately in their stable-dresses, but before their arrival at Dewsbury the mob had nearly dispersed. With the aid of the peaceofficers, they succeeded in apprehending ten of the ringleaders, and brought them to this town, where they underwent an examination, and were this afternoon sent off to York Castle, to take their trial on a capital charge."

"Glasgow, Feb. 23.

"Last night a large party of the Radical Reformers, who met in a tavern in the Gallowgate, were apprehended by a warrant of the Sheriff of the county, and committed to the gaol of this city; twenty-six, in all, were seized, consisting of delegates from different towns and villages in the neighbouring counties. Their examinations are now going on at the court-room, before the Sheriff. The appearance of the military, and the seizure of such a number of individuals, collected a considerable crowd. The shopkeepers closed their shops, and for about an hour there was much bustle and confusion in the street. The military guard, in returning to the barracks, were followed by a crowd of disorderly persons, and assailed with stones. We are glad to understand, however, that four of the most active in the mob were laid hold of, and are at present in custody; and that a precognition is going on, with a view to their trial for this daring offence. The sentinels at the gaol were doubled, and and in a short time the town attained its usual tranquillity.”

MARCH.

"Ross-shire, March 2. "We have all been agitated by a most unpleasant business, which oc

curred yesterday. The scene took place on a part of Mr Monro's (of Novar) property, called Culrain, near Gladfield. Mr Monro, wishing to remove the numerous tenantry on his estate of Culrain, caused his lawagent to serve summonses of removing them. The officers sent to exeupon cute this piece of duty were maltreated by the people, and obliged to return without effecting their purpose. The following are the particulars. In order to enforce the due execution of the writs of removing, the Sheriff of the county, accompanied by one of his substitutes, proceeded to Culrain. As some opposition was expected, these gentlemen were accompanied by about 25 soldiers of the Ross-shire militia, nearly forty constables, and a very numerous body of gentlemen from the lower parts of the county. On approaching Culrain, the progress of the party was interrupted by the appearance of a body of three or four hundred people, chiefly women, posted behind a stone dike, who rushing out upon the soldiers with a hideous yell, attacked them with sticks, stones, and other missiles;-a scene truly horrible, in which 13 of the Sheriff's party were wounded, and of these one had his skull fractured by a stone, which hit him in the forehead. The Sheriff was in imminent danger; he was hit by three stones, one of which cut his hat. He went amongst the people, thinking to soften them by reasoning, but it was all in vain. They called out to him that he used to be on the side of mercy; that they thought he would protect them; but that he now came to oppress them like the rest. The mob appeared as if raving mad; and those who first attacked seemed furious, and were chiefly women. The men were drawn up on a height, and had taken quite a military position behind a wall, with their fire-arms in readiness. There

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"In this tumult some of the soldiers were compelled, in self-defence, to fire a few shots, by which we are sorry to learn that two or three of the women were severely wounded. No authority was given by the civil power for the firing.

"The venerable Sheriff-Depute used his utmost efforts to restore order; and endeavoured to expostulate with the enraged people on the impropriety of their conduct, totally regardless of the showers of stones with which he was assailed. Finding, however, all his efforts fruitless, and his force insufficient to enforce order, the whole party at length retreated. The worthy Sheriff has sustained some bodily hurt, and had the pannels of his carriage broken. Two other carriages suffered in the same way. Some of the soldiers were very severely wounded, and many of the gentlemen received severe hurts and contusions in rescuing the Sheriff from the fury of the mob.

-"The clergyman of the parish has, by his influence alone, accomplished what the authorities were unable to effect. The reverend gentleman convened all the tenants at Culrain, on the 8th current, and, after pointing out the madness and inutility of such violence, and the destructive consequences that must inevitably ensue, he prevailed upon every man of them to go down to Ardgay Inn, to receive their summonses for removing, which they did on the 14th, when

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