The Duke of Fitzjaines, one of the old Carlist nobility,
died in Paris on Sunday. His decease was announced to the public in the following letter, addressed by Chateaubriand to the newspapers-
,. Sir—The sons of the Duke of Fitzjames have done me the honour to in• vite nie to announce to France the demise of their illustrious father. It is with the deepest feeling of affliction and of a disconsolate admiration, that I accom- plish this melancholy duty.
The death of Broussuis, the celebrated surgeon, is also announced. The following obituary notice has appeared in the French papers-
" This celebrated reformer had acquired an immense celebrity, and his loss is certainly one of the greatest that metliciue has suffered for some time. The author of the examination of medical doctrines, the founder of physiological medicine, the ardent definder of infianunation and leeches, has, by the power of his systematical genius, by the energy of his convictions, by the vivacey and even violence of his controversy, shaken unethical theories to their foundation. llmiug upwards of ten years, be (the Professor of the Military Hospital of Val
de Grace) had to maintain the most animated discussions. He at first found no adversary to take up the gauntlet ; but when he had founded a Dissenting sect, preached the most redoubtable crusade against the doctrines of the school, and propagated the most violent schism, by which all the powers of the inde- fatigable Athlete could not prevail against the force of the faculty, the strenuous advocate exhausted all his strength in combatting a reaction which he could not overcome. Like all great reformers and founders of systems, M. Broussais has done good and evil. Impartial history will apportion the share of each ; but from this day we may safely enrol the name of Broussais among the glories • of France."
We have the following account of a fracas which has lately trans- pired at Paris, in the Gardens of the Tuileries. Mr. Wentworth Beaumont, late M. P. for Northumberland, (says our informant,) during a recent tour in Ireland, while upon a visit at the residence of the Honourable Robert King, son of Lord Lorton, in the county of Sligo, had placed himself in so delicate a position under that gentle. man's roof, as to make it imperative upon Mr. King to send his friend Mr. Somers, M.P. for Sligo, to Mr. Beaumont, upon a mission of honour. Events not necessary to detail subsequently placed Mr. Somers himself in the position of principal ; who, in his turn, availed himself of the intercession of his friend the Member for Mayo, Mr. Dillon Browne. Neither a meeting nor a satisfactory arrangement, however, having been obtained, and Mr. Wentworth Beaumont having meanwhile left England, Mr. Somers and Mr. Browne followed him to Paris ; where the former gentleman, having met him in the Tuile- ries, assaulted him with a horsewhip in an unsparing style. We un- derstand that Mr. Somers and Mr. Browne waited two days after the occurrence, in expectation of a message ; but none arriving, and they having heard that the affair was being brought under the notice of the police, they left Paris, and have just arrived in London.—Morning Post, November 19.
An English gentleman, whose initials are given in the Paris papers as Sir A-- D—, attempted to destroy himself on Saturday last, hi the French capital. He is represented to have been u man of large fortune, which he spent in gambling and dissipation. lie staked and lost his last five hundred francs at an ecartt: table on Friday night ; and then, having drunk a quantity of brandy, applied a razor to his throat. It appears that he had not nerve to finish the operation. He was found by the servant of the house bathed in blood. She gave the alarm ; medical aid was procured ; and the unfortunate gentleman removed to a hospital, where he now lies with some chance of recovery. —Post.
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