-Spaniards; but the answer which from Seville to Cadiz.
they received from the pre-purchased
traitor was, "that the Spaniards
were able to fight their own cause!"
Our readers may rely on it, that this
statement rests on no light authority,
and the very humblest of them will
not be at a loss to conceive what the
consequences of such a defection
might have proved, at such a time,
to the Duke d'Angoulême. As to
Ferdinand's rejection of these men
after having profited by their treason,
it is quite consistent with his whole
conduct he cannot be grateful even
to the base. We now come, in the
course of our melancholy duty, to
record the fate of the unfortunate
Riego, if, indeed, we can call him
unfortunate, who has died in the ful-
ness of his fame, and in the service
of his country. Death has only
placed his name beyond the reach of
every human vicissitude—it now
must be immortal. After his incar-
ceration in one of Ferdinand's dun-
geons, he was consigned to the care,
it seems, of a personal enemy, and
treated with every indignity which
individual malice and political bigotry
could devise. On his trial, a trial
where his most infuriate enemies
constituted his tribunal, the Spanish
Attorney-General, in the true spirit
of his employer, demanded, not
merely his death, but that his body
should be divided into four quarters,
and distributed in different parts of
Spain. The sentence pronounced on
him by the Second Chamber of the
Senores Alcaldes of the Royal House-
hold and Court was, however, mere
ly a condemnation to the gibbet, and
that he should be conducted to the
place of execution, passing through
the most frequented streets of the
metropolis. That this sentence lost
nothing of its bitterness from any
compunction of humanity on the part
of the Christian band who officiated
on the occasion, we may learn from
the fact, that he was placed on a
hurdle and drawn by an ass to the
scaffold! The windows of Madrid
were crowded with Monks to witness
the spectacle; and these worthy Mi-
nisters of a God of mercy are repre-
sented as having enthusiastically
cheered the work of murder! The
nominal accusation under which
Riego was tried, was his having been
a party to the removal of the King

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been able to glean from French papers, and from private letters the following particulars of his death. Our readers will not fail to remark the hyæna ferocity with which these monsters of the Faith violated even the habitations of the dead, to inflict a posthumous revenge upon their enemies. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 5th, Riego was led into the burning chapel, a room lighted up and filled with funeral emblems. Here he remained during two nights and a day, during which awful time his firmness never forsook him for a moment. The only expression in reference to his fate which escaped him was, " may God grant that my death may conduce to the happiness and tranquillity of Spain!" On the 7th he was led forth to execution in the humiliating manner to which we have before alluded; yet all produced no further effect than to prove still more the serenity with which virtue can suffer; a murmur never escaped him. Amongst the mob of savages whose demeanour was marked by particular ferocity, were many who not very long before had hailed him in these very streets as el heros de las cabezas? On mounting the scaffold his legs appeared feeble, they were swelled from previous illness and the weight of his irons. He died with characteristic intrepidity, and on his death being announced, the Priests and Monks who crowded round the gibbet set up a loud " viva." No doubt heaven heard its ministers. The French Commander had filled the streets with numerous detachments, a precaution which appeared very necessary, as many of the rabble were observed with arms under their cloaks. On All-saints day, crowds of the Royalists rushed to the churchyards, and after erasing with their sabres the epitaphs of the Constitutionalists, they dragged the dead bodies of Sievra, Pamblei, and Laudaburu out of their graves and tore them in pieces!! The unfortunate widow and brother of Riego are in London. The brother had long since solicited a personal interview of the Prince de Polignac, which was refused on the plea of unavoidable absence from London. The unhappy relatives then drew up a petition to

the King of France, on the 17th of hien. Savary has in consequence October, to which no answer was been excluded from the Thuiseries, returned; and on the 14th of No- and Talleyrand is welcomed quite as vember, they had forwarded to Mr. warmly as in the times of the ReCanning, a memorial to Chateau- public and the Empire. Surely this briand, supplicating his interference, man's clubbed foot was intended as but just as it was about to be dis- symbolic it should be no more ex patched, the news of the victim's pede Herculem, but ex pede Talleydeath arrived at the Foreign Office! rand. We mistake much, however, Riego was only in his 38th year. It if there is not a document now in will be seen that Louis did not even London, which may throw more deign an answer to this afflicted lady, light upon this matter than his reThe following accountof his own state, verence the Prince of Benevento proves that the feelings of Chris- wishes--we allude to the will of Natianity ought to be nearer his heart. poleon. After all, the public may It is admitted as correct even by our yet peruse this curious document, as Ministerial journals. “ There are it seems the causes of its suppression probably few instances of a patient hitherto, namely the hopes of certain living so long as his Majesty, in a legatees, are likely to vanish. We state so deplorable, His chest is have heard on pretty good authority entirely filled with water ; his body that General Montholon, who lately is a mass of corruption; and the flow set out on his travels to Vienna, was from his lower extremities is so great, stopped by an imperial mandate at that it penetrates, in a quarter of an Genoa, and that the Emperor hour, a double covering of flannel, Francis has followed this measure besides a wrapping of bark and cots up by a demand of all Napoleon's ton, and passes to the footstool on property, in the name of his widow which he rests them. When left alone and son, alleging that he had no for a few minutes, he is found in a right to make a will at the time of lethargic slumber—he even sleeps his decease. This we have every in his carriage when he takes an air- reason to give the fullest credit to, ing. He can scarcely move his legs, and, if it be true, is not unlikely to and has lost the usual energy of his lead to some unexpected discloarms - his head reclines on his sures. shoulder as if he had lost the power There is nothing new on the subof voluntary motion. In the mean ject of the Greeks since our last. while, the smell arising from his legs There was a report on the authority and body, in a state of approaching of an article from Leghorn, that dissolution, is painful to himself, and Mavrocordato had been torn to pieces sometimes overpowering to his ate in a popular commotion which origina tendants. His servants and ministers ated in a proposal on his part, to cannot remain long in the room or place Greece under the protection of Cabinet where he receives them.” England. The story was not very Such is the state of a man who is probable, and has since been consaid to have refused an answer to a tradicted. There is, however, anopetition for mercy! We should have ther report by the way of Venice, thought, perhaps, he was too busy stating that the Greek fleet had been in intercessions for himself, were we defeated by the Algerines; this is not told that he is occupied in are not very probable either, but we give ranging measures for the public entry it as it has reached us. Accounts of the Duke d’Angoulême into Paris from the West Indies state that DeIt is far from improbable, that the merara had resumed its former echo of the joy bells may not cease tranquillity, and preparations were ere the sound of the death bell making for the trial of some misbegins. Even were the laurels of sionaries, with wbom the late insurvictory such as those which bloomed rection is said to have originated. so thickly on the brow of Napoleon, The late motions, however, in the the very name of Riego would wither House of Commons on the subject them. We find, also, that Louis is of the Slave Trade, have excited busy in deciding between the respec- such a spirit amongst all the islands, tive merits of Savary and Talley- that Government is about to send rand, in the affair of the Duke d’Eng- large military reinforcements thither

Our military establishment is in con- they may be said already to have sequence to be increased by an ad been pre-judged and convicted. It dition of ten thousand men.

is, indeed, almost impossible for a Great preparations are making in jury, even with the very best intenAmerica for the election of a Presi- tions, to come to the consideration of dent. Amongst the candidates we this charge with minds so perfectly unobserve the name of their celebrated biassed as their heavy responsibility General, Jackson. Some, however, would demand of them. The odious of the more violent of the democratic desire of gain has gone so far upon party, are averse to the election of a this occasion, as to induce the mamilitary governor. Their last papers nagers of one of the minor theatres mention a fact of considerable com- to make the minutiæ of the murder mercial importance, namely, the the subject of a dramatic represenopening of the great canal which tation. A rule has been granted connects the Hudson river with lake for a criminal information against Erie, thus establishing a safe water them in the King's Bench, and the communication between the line of Magists ates have very properly proAmerican Jakes and the Atlantic, hibited the future exhibition of this through the state of New York. The spectacle. Under such circumstandebt incurred by the state of New ces, our readers will, we are sure, York, in the progress of this great give us credit for the motive which undertaking, is to be repaid by the prohibits our publication till the proproceeds of the canal itself, the over- per time arrives, feeling, as we do, plus of which is subsequently to be that human beings so heavily accused applied to the education of youth, ought at least to be allowed that and to internal improvements. impartial trial which has ever dis

Our domestic news for this month tinguished our criminal tribunals. It is very limited. The public mind is rather a singular coincidence, that has been much agitated, and indeed at the very same period, a trial for almost totally absorbed by the details murder should have been proceeding of a very barbarous murder, com- in Paris, which seems, in an almost mitted in Hertfordshire, on a person equal degree, to have interested that of the name of Weare. This unfor- metropolis. The accused was a phy, tunate man had it seems been invited sician of the name of Castaing, and together with one John Thurtell, and he was charged with poisoning two a public singer of the name of Hunt, brothers called Ballet, and of subto take a day's shooting at the cottage tracting a testamentary document. of a Mr. Probert, in that county, and The poison used, was called acetate on his way thither was murdered, as de morphine, and though the bodies is suspected, by Hunt or Thurtell. were carefully examined, not a trace There are some circumstances of of it could be found. The most peculiar atrocity connected with this eminent scientific professors in France event, but considering the proximity were examined, and their evidence of the trial, and the exasperated went strongly to exculpate the acstate of the public mind, we do not cused. He was, however, found think it proper to add to the preju- guilty of poisoning one of the brodice already excited by their publi- thers, by a majority of seven to five cation. Next month the trial will of the jury, and condemned to death. most likely have taken place, and The more humane spirit of English we may then, without detriment to law requires an unanimous verdict. any party, communicate more full Castaing has appealed to the Court of particulars. While on this subject Cassation, but with no great chance we cannot avoid reverting to, and of success. reprobating the conduct of the public The news from Ireland represents press, with respect to the unhappy that country as comparatively tranmen accused of this atrocity. Every quil—the tranquillity of exhaustion. detail of their previous lives has been Parliament has been prorogued to over and over again reiterated, every the 3d of February, when it meets anecdote which can tend to their pre- for the dispatch of business. judice has been repeated, and prac- Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey, the tices at which humanity revolts so late member for Colchester, has been positively imputed to them, that sentenced to three months' imprison