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     ar comment. The opinions prevalent 
     
     "parts on the subject will be embodied 
     
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     e PARIS, FebruaryQS. 
     
    

    
     «On Friday the 22d February, at half 
     
     ist five, Madame the Dutchcss of Berri 
     
     elivered to General Bugead, governor of 
     
     he citadel of Blaye, the following decla- 
     
     ration:— 
     
    

    
     “pressed by my circumstances, and by 
     
     the measures ordaind by the government, 
     
     although I had the gravest pOSSllllc motives 
     
     for keeping my marriage secret, I think 
     
     [owe it to myself as well as to my chil- 
     
     dren to declare that [was secretly married 
     
     during my sojourn in Italy. 
     
    

    
     (Signed) ‘ MARIA CAROLINE, 
     
    

    
     ‘From the citadel of Blaye, 
     
    

    
     this 22d of February, 1833. 
     
    

    
     “This declaration, transmitted by the 
     
     General Bugead to the President of the 
     
     Council,‘the Minister-of War, was imme- 
     
     diately deposited in the depotof the ar- 
     
     chieves of the Chancellerie of France.” 
     
    

    
     By the last reports, the Duchess is on 
     
     the eve of her confinement it has been a 
     
     fortunate event for the existing dynasty of 
     
     France, and it cowrs the Carlists with 
     
     Little credence is given to the 
     
     story ofher being married, and the preva- 
     
     lent opinion is that the father of the child 
     
     is the Jew rutfian, Dentz, who betrayed 
     
     her. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Carlism cut-up—-The expose of the 
     
     Dutchess de Berrie’s being in the family 
     
    
   
   
    
     5- 
     
     E? 
     
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     to 
     
    
   
   
    
     amin in their endeavours to restore legi- 
     
     timacy to France. The French, fond as 
     
     they are of making fun ofothers, cannot 
     
     stand being made fun ofin return; and the 
     
     chivalrous Carlists, who would have fought 
     
     a l’ outrance for the heroic mother of 
     
     Henry V., will let the blade grow rusty in 
     
     the scabbard sooner than draw it for a 
     
     were female of sanguine constitution. 
     
     Alas! Maria Caroline was of Neapolitan 
     
     birth—and ltalia’s daughters are “ mighty 
     
     warm.” This mnlheureusecontrelcmps will 
     
     render Carlism defunct: the Legitimists 
     
     viilnever withstand the caricatures of the 
     
     th0ps—and the twits ofthe Salons—and 
     
     the sneers of the Republicans. 
     
    

    
     The Cour Royale of Paris has decreed 
     
     the trial of the celebrated Chateaubriand, 
     
     by the Court of Assizes, for having, in his 
     
     Memoirs sm' Ia Captirile de S. J1. R. la 
     
     Duchess dc Berri, excited to hatred and 
     
     contempt of this government, and attacked 
     
     the right which the Orleans derive from 
     
     the choice of the people. The proprie- 
     
     tors of the Royalist papers, the Courier de 
     
     l’Europe, Q-totidienne, Gazelle de France, 
     
     Echo Francois, Revenant, and Mule, are 
     
     likewise to be indicted for publishing a 
     
     sPeach delivered at M- de Chateaubriand’s, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     tending also to attack the sacred rights of 
     
     the “ best of republics.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     \Ve have received by special express 
     
     the Paris Journals and our private letters 
     
     of yesterday. From these we have some 
     
     facts of great interest and importance; the 
     
     first interest probably is, that Chateau- 
     
     briand, the editors of the Quodicnnc, Ga- 
     
     zelle dc France, Courier de l’ Europe, and 
     
     some other Royalists, who had been made 
     
     the objects ofa State prosecution for wri- 
     
     ting in behalf'of the Dutchess of'Berri. had 
     
     been acquitted. 
     
    

    
     This is ofcourse a triumph to the Car- 
     
     list partys but that is sadly counterbalanced 
     
     by the unhappy affair ofthe Dutchess, from 
     
     the effects of which the [loyalists do not 
     
     appear to he recovered. Some details as 
     
     to the discovery of the Dutchess’s situa- 
     
     tion, will be found in the letter of our Pa- 
     
     risian correspondent. 
     
    

    
     The acquittal of Chateaubriand and co- 
     
     defendents, however, though it may not 
     
     restore the party to the Dntchess, lowers 
     
     the Government, as a Government always 
     
     is lowered by a defeated attempt at prose- 
     
     cution. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     I‘HE Iii—{irisi—IMXSIERICAA 
     
     APRIL ’20, 1833. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Bv the arrival of the March packet at 
     
     Halifax, we are furnished with English 
     
     dates down to the 9th ult. The bill for 
     
     suspending the constitution in Ireland, 
     
     and establishing a system of coercion in 
     
     that unhappy country, has passed the 
     
     House of Lords, with little or no oppo- 
     
     sition, and is now before the House of 
     
     Commons where it passed the first read- 
     
     Ing on the 23th of February, when there 
     
     Was a vigorous, though an uuavailing 
     
     struggle made against it. “ All the evil 
     
     spirits” says the editor ofthe London 
     
     Examiner, speaking of the despotic 
     
     scheme of Ministers towards lreland,— 
     
     “ hail it with delight; the love of tyrano 
     
     ny prevails even against the spleen of 
     
     party, and Tory and Whig are cordial- 
     
     ly united in this evil work. The hell- 
     
     broth is brewing, and around it minglcs 
     
     black spirits and white, blue spirits and 
     
     grey. he Lords of misrulc of all colors 
     
     and denominations cheerfullyjoin hands 
     
     round the cauldron ; party rivalries and 
     
     jealousics are forgotten in an act of 
     
     congenial mischief. or if a sneer or a re- 
     
     proach be vented. it is at the tardiness of 
     
     the undertaking." On the other hand, 
     
     it is asserted that the outrages commit- 
     
     ted nightly in different parts ofthe coun_ 
     
     try, are indeed appalling ; no security 
     
     appears to exist either for life or proper- 
     
     ty in the disturbed districts. The great 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     question is, are these vigorous measures 
     
     the best mode of effecting this object P 
     
     Mr. O’Connell and his party say they 
     
     are not : that by adopting measures of 
     
     conciliation to a sufficient extent, the far 
     
     greater part of the peasantr would re- 
     
     turn to good order, whilst t to ordinary 
     
     tribunals would be sufficnent to deal 
     
     with those who might continue refrac- 
     
     tory. The fact is, England Imposed on 
     
     the conquered Irish, the clergy of a 
     
     Church to which they are irreconcilca- 
     
     hly hostile, and we now find it impossi- 
     
     ble to maintain this clerical domination, 
     
     except by the strong arm of military 
     
     force. 
     
    

    
     The provisions of the irish coercive 
     
     bill, we extract from the editorial of 
     
     the Halifax Journal, as follows: 
     
    

    
     The Bill provides, that, ifneccssary, any 
     
     district may be proclaimed in a state of dis- 
     
     turbance; in which case a different mode 
     
     of trial from the usual one will be adepted: 
     
     that the Lord Lieutenant shall be em- 
     
     powered to issue his proclamation, in res- 
     
     pect to any county where the peace might 
     
     be disturbed, and to appoint courts martial 
     
     for the trial of all offences under the act. 
     
     Those tribunals to be compased of a field 
     
     officer, captain, and four subaltern officers, 
     
     to have power to pronounce sentence of 
     
     transportation for life, to be carried into 
     
     execution inslanler upon .conviction, and 
     
     witho..t an appeal. They are not, unless 
     
     by authority of the Lord Lieutenant, to 
     
     take cognizance of offences punishable with 
     
     death, or to inflict greater punishment than 
     
     that of transportation. Persons absent 
     
     from their houses between sunset and sun- 
     
     rise are to be liable to be questioned by 
     
     these courts, and those who should be in 
     
     possession of arms and ammunition, or sell 
     
     seditious papers, are to come under the 
     
     act; nor shall any persons, imprisoned un- 
     
     der it, be entitled to the benefit of the 
     
     Habeas Corpus act—The Lord Lieutenant 
     
     to be empowered to change the venue, 
     
     when a fair trial cannot otherwise be had, 
     
     by a separate bill. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Avery large meeting of the National Uni- 
     
     on of the Working Classes, took place in Lon- 
     
     don. to express their abhorrence of 
     
     the measures ofcoerci-on proposed to be a- 
     
     dopted towards Ireland. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A great meeting was held at Birmingham, 
     
     where very strong resolutions in condemnation 
     
     of the coercive measures proposed to be used 
     
     towards Ireland, were adopted ; as was a. peti- 
     
     tion to the House of Commons. in which they 
     
     state that they approach the [louse with feel- 
     
     ings of astonishment, ofg'rief, and of horror, at. 
     
     the measures introduced by Ministers. 
     
    
   
   
    
     This port is now navigable, the ice having in 
     
     a great measure disappeared: two or three 
     
     small crafts came into the harbor yesterday, 
     
     and this morning a schooner arrived from Pic. 
     
     tou, N. S.