Of all the revolutions that have been got up within
our me- mory, that which has put an end to the pranks of the Duke of BRUNSWICK has been the most promptly and effectually gone about. On the 6th instant, the .populace of the capital of that Prince assembled before the theatre—their hats, sleeves, and pockets, filled with stones. The Duke was known to be present at the representation. He no sooner made his appearance in the street, than he was saluted with yells and hisses. From words the mob soon proceeded to blows. Scarce had the ducal carriage advanced a few yards, when it was saluted with a shower of stones. The coachman most prudently whipped his horses to a gallop ; and escorted by the military guard, and followed by his exasperated subjects, the Prince. reached the Palace. The windows of the Police-office, those of the Mint, and other public offices, were broken by the people ; who, however, did not venture on the attack of the Palace, where the whole of the soldiery and some pieces of cannon had been collected for the Duke's defence. In the mean time, a burgher guard was formed, with the consent of Cie Duke, for the purpose of controllingthe people and protecting himself—armed, however, not with fire-arms, but only with pikes and swords. Such a force did not present very formidable ob- stacles to the wishes of their townsmen, which indeed neither they nor the military seem to have been inclined seriously to oppose. On the morning of the 7th, a deputation of the citizens waited on the Prince to demand a redress of grievances ; but were dismissed with an unsatisfactory answer. In the evening of the same day, the people assembled in mass before the Palace • broke through the paralysed soldiers and city guard, which had been joined to them ; set fire to the Palace ; and had not their mighty Sovereign hastily slipped on 'a disguise, and mounting one of his fleetest horses, galloped off by the garden-gate, the odds are that the enraged multitude would have roasted him in its ashes. The Palace was entirely consumed, with all its contents. The Prince's precise route has not been published ; but the first accounts after his escape placed him at Rotterdam. From that city he appears to have travelled along the shore to Calais, equally distrustful of Neptune as of Vulcan ; and on the 14th,—" one week, one little week" from the period of his being burned out in Brunswick—we End his Serene Highness snugly seated in WRIGHT'S Hotel at Dover! He landed under a salute, not of stones, like that under which he had set out, but of the guns of the battery; a cheap honour, and cheaply merited. The people of Brunswick have formed a Provisional Govern- ment ; but there seems good reason to hope that they will be amalgamated with some of the neighbouring states, and no longer have to bear the greatest curse any people can be exposed to—a petty tyrant. Of the young gentleman who has thus hastily taken refuge in England, it is not our wish to speak severely, relation as he is of our own Royal Family; and therefore we shall say nothing. The truth, if told, would form one of the greatest libels ever launched against royalty. It is supposed he will go to Lulworth Castle, to wait the arrival of FERDINAND and MIGUEL, who are expected there in three or four weeks. How many more may arrive during the winter, we cannot yet determine.
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