THE Ex-Kisru or PRANCE.-A German paper, under the date of
Dresden, August 28, says-" It is now confidently reported that Charles the Tenth and his family will take up their abode in Saxony. The fine castle of Wcesenstein, in a most delightful situation, four leagues from this city,1 has been purchased for our King ; some say it is for a reli- gious purpose, but this needs confirmation.
THE PRINCE DE CosruE.-We mentioned some time ago, that this Prince had fully acquiesced in the recent changes, as soon as he heard of them, and cheerfully adopted the tricoloured cockade. The revolu- tion has notwithstanding proved fatal to him : he committed suicide on the 27th, at his country house at St. Leu,-as the accounts say, because he was over head and ears in debt, and had no longer any prospect of supporting his extravagance by Government grants ! The Prince was in his seventy-fifth year. He was the father, it will be recollected, of the unfortunate D'Enghein. This branch of the Bourbon family is, we believe, now extinct. The Prince was not the only one whom the revo- lution must have given up to poverty, incapable of digging and ashamed to beg; but we have not heard of any others adopting so violent a re- reedy for the destitution to which the abolition of public robbery has reduced them.
DEATH rsr THE HOTEL DIEU.-A private letter from Paris contains the following statement.-" There is a very curious investigation going on to-day' the particulars of which I will inform you of in my next letter. It has been frequently remarked, that while most of the wounded have recovered who were taken to their own homes, or to the different hospitals, a great mortality -has taken place amongst those who were carried to the Hotel Dieu. Various reports were in circulation in con- sequence of this difference ; some said that most of those, who were in the Hotel Dieu had been wounded with brass bullets ; others that the soldiers had bitten the balls, and that had made them venomous. On Monday, however, a pupil of the Polytechnic School, and a printer, were so far recovered, that on the Tuesday morning their friends had agreed to take them home. On proceeding there for that purpose, they were both found dead ; and as no cause could be assigned for such a fatal ter- mination, their bodies were opened, and the presence of poison discovered in both ; since then eight or nine bodies have been opened, and the whole of them have been discovered in the same horrible state. Sus- picion immediately fell upon the Sisters of Charite, who are the superin- tendents or head nurses of the establishment, and several of them have been arrested. It is said that the principal sister has fled. The head surgeon,Dr. Dupuytren, who was created a baron by Napoleon, was star- geonto Charles the Tenth and the Archbishop of Paris. He is said to he a Congregationist ; and is no great favourite with the people, though all agree in giving him the character of the first surgeon in France. It was he who attended the Duke de Berri."
THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA AND THE FRENCH-We have it from an authentic source, that on learning the events which had oc- curred at Paris, the Emperor of Austria expressed himself thus-" I de- spise the Ministers who have driven Charles from the throne by an infraction of the Charter to which he had solemnly sworn. The first duty of an honest man, and particularly of a sovereign, is to be faithful to hii word. I am sorry for the Duke of Bordeaux, because he is inn°. cent ; but in no case will I wiz myself in his affairs."-Journal des De- bate. EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY.-When the news of Charles's deposi- tion reached Naples, "God is great ! " exclaimed the ex-Dey of Algiers. "The King of France drove me from my throne ; now his people have driven him from his."-The Dey continues to attract great attention in Naples. One of his servants having committed a theft lately he ordered him for execution ; and he was very angry with the Neapolitan police for interfering to prevent him from taking the law into his own hands, "THAT BOY WILL BE THE DEATH or 31E."-Prince Polignac is the natural son of a very natural father. Charles the Tenth, which title he may still retain, by divine right, as X-King of France (some- thing after the manner of X-Sheriff Parkins), made this noble youth an illegitimate Prince, and he returned the compliment by making his papa an illegitimate King. Now they are quits.-Morning Herald.
GEORGE ill., THE PROTECTOR OF ASTRONOMY.-" M. Her- schel," says Lelande, "having discovered a new star on the 13th of March, 1781, and having after some time convinced himself that it was a planet, he gave it the name of the King of England, Georyium Sidus• That prince, indeed, well deserves the esteem of all astronomers, by the large sums he has expended for the promotion of the science of astro- nomy. This year (1788), when, being in England, I thanked him for the ardour he has shown in so laudable a pursuit, he made me this in structive, this memorable, answer-' I it not better than spendiny money for the purpose of setting men to murder each other' "-Lloyd's Memoirs of George I F: [The saying is worthy of all acceptation ; nevertheless, in the reign of George the Third, more money was spent "for the purpose of setting men to murder each other," than in any other reign which can be named.]
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