but which, from some unfortunate fatality, he did not attend to. He most probably felt himself safe under the protection of a neutral state, then at peace with France; be that as it may, he decided upon returning to Rastadt, and to occupy his former apartments, which he accordingly did. In the middle of the night, Caulincourt, the worthy confidant of such a master, entered the town full gallop, at the head of his 300 assassins, who surrounded the house of their unhappy victim, and forced the door. On hearing the noise, the duke immediately got up and seized his double-barreled gun, which was loaded in the room, determined to perish as a brave man ought. One of his principal officers, in whom he placed the greatest confidence, but who has always been suspected of having betrayed his master on this occasion, represented to him that any resistance would be useless, and that the only chance he had of saving that life so dear to all true Frenchmen, would be, to throw himself upon the generosity of Bonaparte, who would be afraid of taking away the life of the last of the family of the great Conde, who had always been the idol of the French nation. This argument induced the prince to lay down his arms, which he had no sooner done, than Caulincourt entered, at the head of a part of his escort, with their swords drawn and pistols in their hands. Having told him what the orders of his master were, the prince immediately followed him, without speaking, and was put into a chaise-de-poste, which only stopped to change horses till they arrived at Paris, where he was immediately put into the temple. Hulin, the president of the commission appointed to try him, without even allowing him to make any defence, read to him the sentence of death which had been passed unanimously upon him by these monsters. The unfortunate D'Enghein was immediately removed to Vincennes, and thrown into a dungeon there. Caulincourt, having noticed:

the high spirit which he had exhibited since his ar rest, and, perhaps, fearing the effect it might have upon the soldiers, gave an infernal order that the prince should be deprived of all food, that he might appear depressed, and unlike himself, at the moment of his execution. This, however, did not prove to be the case. In the middle of the night he was taken out of his prison, and conducted, by the light of torches, to the side of a deep hole, into which a quantity of quick lime had previously been thrown. Savary, then at the head of the police at Paris, fixed a small lantern to the prince's button, to serve as a mark for the soldiers to fire at. Having assisted in fixing it, and surveyed first of all his grave and then the soldiers, he called to them, with a most commanding voice, to fire. The soldiers, however, remained immovable; and it was not till Hulin and Savary had reiterated their commands, that these satellites of the tyrant could be induced to discharge their pieces at the unfortunate victim, who fell dead by the side of the grave which had been prepared to receive him.

Anecdotes of the Emperor Alexander.-As the ac tions performed by a sovereign in that capacity can very seldom afford any insight into the character of the man, those little circumstances, by which it is, as it were, involuntarily betrayed, are the more worthy of preservation. At a moment when the Russian sovereign engages so large a portion of the attention of the civilized world, the following anecdotes of him cannot but prove peculiarly acceptable to our readers.

The emperor Alexander is said to have manifested from his earliest years an extraordinary partiality to England, and to have been often heard to say, that "the man within whose reach heaven has placed the best materials for making life happy, was, in his opinion, an English country gentleman." It must, therefore, have been the more grateful to his feelings

to have an opportunity, on ascending the throne, of restoring liberty to so many natives of this country, doomed, by the capricious disposition of his predecessor, to languish in unjust confinement.

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On the laying of the foundation stone of the new exchange at St. Petersburgh, Alexander took the opportunity of paying a most honourable and flattering distinction to the British merchants resident in, and trading to, that metropolis. He attended the ceremony, and every English merchant in the place was invited. The merchants of other nations were not so favoured; the invitation to them was neither general, nor accompanied with those circumstances of respect and esteem which were manifested with regard to our countrymen. The first stone of the projected structure was laid with due solemnity; and when this ceremony was over, his majesty requested the attendance of our merchants at a splendid entertainment he proposed giving upon so auspicious an event. The emperor presided in person, and condescended to perform the honours of the feast. deported himself with such easy and familiar conviviality, that his English guests might have imagined themselves seated at the hospitable board of their most intimate friend. Nothing was omitted that could impart delight and gratification. After numerous toasts had gone round, and success had been drunk to the new undertaking, his majesty unfolded a packet, containing a quantity of gold medals, each of the value of about six guineas in weight, but inestimable in another point of view-on one side was the bust of the emperor, a striking and accurate likeness, and on the reverse was the elevation of the imperial exchange, precisely as it was intended to be erected. His majesty presented one with his own hand to every British merchant, at the same time desiring them to preserve it as a memorial of his respect for the first commercial nation in the world, and as an