544 ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OE ANGOULLAIE. Although the French papers are lined with praises cm the enthusiastic loyalty of the people, facts occa sionally break out through other chanOels, which throw a gleam of light on the tumultuous and' threatening state of that country. The following important communication was received yesterday. " Paris, Aug. 23, Half-past 11 a. m. am this instant informed by a person of undoubted veracity, that he has just seen a letter from the Duchess of Angouleme, addressed to the Count of Artois, giving an account of an attempt to assassinate that amiable Princess by tome military at Poictiers. It appears that the Duke and Duchess of Angouleme arrived at Poictiers on the 18th instant, on their road to Bordeaux, and were received by the inhabitants with the greatest enthusiasm. The air resounded with incessant cries of Trivott la Due et la Duchesse d'Angou leme—Vire a jamais la famille de Bourbons. •• About an hour after the arrival of these illustrious per tonages,at the Hotel preparing for their reception, a number of soldiers were seen collecting in the street, with several officers aae their head, making use of violent and coarse 'lan guage towards the Duchess. After vociferating 11 has la ei bas Ics Bourbons, they attempted to force the doors of the hotel, when the Duke and Duchess were advised to make their escape by a pair of back stairs, and were tarried off in tafety by the citizens of the town and the peasants of the sur rounding villages. " I guarantee the truth of the above farts. The imme diate departure of the post obliges me to conclude With great haste." Such is the letter we have received from our Corres pondent. The Papers received yesterday morning of:Wed- Deaday contain billy the following paragraph relative to those sllustrioin Personages :—" The Duke and Duchess orAngou leme arrived on the 17th at Poietiers, where they were re. ceived with enthusiasm. On the 19th they continued their Journey to Boordeaux.—They were to dine on the same day at A ngouietne." PARIS, Au VS.—I enclose you a report which has been secretly circulated here, and which is attributed to Fondle. But Ido not guarantee it to be his. There is a degree of exaggeration in it, an attempt to produce imitation and ill blood that could not sut ely proceed from one of the King's Alinisters. However, it is industriously circulated by the Revolutionists, l'ouche's old party. Though Talleyrand and Fondle arc known to be upon ill terms with each other,they have for the present accommodated or adjourned their ditlerences, in order to rally their forces against the meeting of the two Chambers. The elections are, in general, good, and the two Ministers seem to think that one of the first oh:, ects discussed, will be some of the mea sures to which they have advised the King. The system of vigour ag ainst traitors will scarcely be carried much further — and there is general div,atilfactiau except atnor:g the partizans of Buonaparte and the Jacobins. The severity exercised against the press is very great, and as little reliance is to be placed now upon the journals as du ring the time of Buonaparte. The Editor of the Journal General de Frairce has been made to feel M. Fonehe's displeasure I yet this man has always been a decided enemy of the Buonapartists, and in a time of great diiSeu!ty ar,d danger did good service to the Royalists.' In his Paper , of the 2oth be has _published an' address, which he says, that " Elis paper of the 16th was stopped by superior order, and that the Paper of the 17th would A VG. 27. !' be received a day later than it ought to have been. '• During the time of Ifuonaparte," he says, •• I eaperienced similar treatment, but I well deserved it from him. The motive, however, of the present treatment I am yet ignorant of." In my last I informed you of the arrest of Maret and Thi baudeau in Switzerland. Well !" Maret has been permitted to take up his residence at Bernd. and Tbibaudeau bas been also released by the intervention of his old bosons friend I~ouche. There' are very bad accounts from the South-4)ot they are only whispered about, and the papers dare not give any details. Paris Papers to the 18th, furnish an important document, namely, an Ordonnance. of the King for raising an extraor dinary contribution of 100,000,000 francs (about 4,160,000/, sterling), as a requisition of war, for the support of the allied armies in France. The preamble of the Decree alludes to the evils arising from the presence of foreign troops, and the sufferings of the people ; but holds out the hope that the period is not far distant when these sufferings will be,termi nated. The evil, it is added, increases every day, and does not allow the Governinent to wait • fur the -assembling the two Chambers. The measure, in the first instance, is a sort of furced loan from the merchants, proprietors, and capi talists, who are afterwards to he repaid what they have ad vanced beyond their own shares out of the produce of the contribution. IThe Duke and Duchess of Angouleme, previous to settirg out for Bourdeaux, assisted at a ridiculous species of super ' stations mummery, in a pompous procession to the Church of Notre Dame, with the Duke of Berri, &c. &c. to cele brate what they call the Vow of Louis XIII." These he terogenous compositions of Pagan pomp and Romish craft, we had been in hOpes were laid aside. The Prussian Officers in Paris omit no opportunity to re tort with interest, upon the French . Offieers, their former conduct in Berlin. In the coffee-houses they will not suffet any French Officers to be attended to before them. In the theatres they will not permit any places to be kept for coins pany expected, whilst they are in want of a seat. At Ma dame Catalani's benefit, a party of Prussian Officers took pos. session of places intended for others. The police was called in, and a fracas ensued, but the Prussians ultimately kept posies s i o n. The acts of Prussia, and the vacancies made by her both in the Picture Gallery and the Saloons of Sculpture, at Paris, have encouraged other Sovereigns to make applications for their due ; the Emperor of Austria has taken measures for restoring to Florence, Modena, Milan, Parma, Verona, and Venice, every object of fine arts belonging to those cities. England, it is said, will act the same part for the Pope ; and a Protest has been lust entered by the King of Spain, against the French retaining the f.ve hiurilloa, &c. which they took from Madrid. General Clarke, Duke of Feltre, formerly Minister of War to Bonaparte, and since - employed by the Xing, has withdrawn from public husiness, and retired to his estates. It appears that the Duke de 13assano, Maret, has received three bayonet wounds in a resistance he made to the soldiers charged to secure his person. All the particulars in the French papers relative to am arrest of Joseph Buonaparte prove to be fa;se. The place of his concealment has not yet been discovered by the police. Napoleon's bitth-day was celeb r a: c d at t ou l og a e , on Wed nesday last, with enthusiastic deanonstrations,of joy : at Ca lais with every mark of public abliorreLce. TUE NkTIONAt 'REGISTER.