The Court of Vienna has been sorely alarmed, by an
attempt te. assassinate the King of Hungary,-7-by which royal title of cour- tesy is, meant the heir to the Imperial crown of Austria. The at- tempted assassination took place on the 9th instant, at the baths of Baden, in the neighbourhood of Vienna. . The assassin was a. certain Captain REINDI; said to be a person of extravagant ha- bits, and much given to play. He had solicited 900 florins from the Prince, and received only 100 ; and he determined to murder his master. as a set-off for the 800. His design was well conceived,- but badly executed. He fired at the Prince's back, but he only grazed lifs royal shoulder. He then -fired a second ball into, his own mouth ; but lead and his skull seem to have had an elective. affinity for each other, and they combined together amicably.. Lastly, he fired a third ball at random—at the moon, -we suppose,- to join in her limbo its abortive brethren ; and then the guards laid hold of him. The people of Baden baths were very indignant. at Herr REINDT ; but whether for shooting at the Prince, or missing him, the account 'does not say. The cause of the attack is but lamely made out. We should not be surprised if politics were at the bottom of it. They treat such matters differently in free countries-and despotic. In the former, acts ivhieh have no connexion with politics are frequently attributed to them, because' the attribution, for the most part, gives opportunity to power to strengthen its hands; in the latter, acts that are connected with politics are studiously attributed to private motives. There, power has all it can desire, and to be the subject of attack would. only indicate its decadence.
