North Wales Gazette

LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY ->2. TIIE lefters received yesterduy from Rio de Janeiro by the Eagle, are dated the (3th of March, which is three days later than the previous in-counts. The conduct of the liHpPfor conti/HIed to excite distrust Rio, which was manifested by placards aflixed at night in the principal streets, denominating him a traitor to the country. An order had in consequence been issued for the arrest of a number of suspected persons, of whom about twenty had been taken into custody. A Brazil squadron consisting of two frigates, a store-ship, and. a brig, had sailed for the blot.kiide of Pernambuco, & the Consuls had received official information of that port being in a state of strict blockade. Lord Cochrane remained at Rio, waiting the decision of of the Brazilian prize-courts on the sub- ject of his captures from the Portuguese, hut is said to be much dissatisfied with the Brazilian service, and on the point of re- turning to Engiand. LISBON, MAY.6.—This capital has been the scene of extraordinary events in the course of this last week. On the 30th 'he King was shut up in the Palace of Bemposta without seeing any one, and was in fact, a prisoner in his own Palace; and his Ministers were sent to prison by order of Don Miguel-and the Queen. It is considered as indubitable, that the deposition of the King was intended and that it would ha\'e been carried into effect but for tiie energetic and spirited conduct of the Foreign Ambassadors and Minis- ters. As early as tiitie o'clock, on Friday, the 30th, the whole of the Diplomatic Corps assembled at the Nuncios, whence they proceeded in a body to Bemposta, and insisted on seeing the King. This was at first refused, by an order fromJiis Itoy- ai Highness however, after a short time had elapsed, they,were admitted. They found the king in a most distressing state of mind, even ignorant ol what had been doing. attell(I-ilice of the I)ritice was requested, and, on his arrival, the foreign Mia isters made a full exposure of the views of the Queen's party, and various trivial excuses were made by his Koyal Highness, which, however, had no weight with the Ambassndors, who insisted that an order snould be sent, in the King's name, to disperse the troops, &c., which was com- plied with, and every thing appeared to be tolerably quiet. The Queen had come from Qoeluzearly in the morning, tully expecting to here the Infant Don Miguel proclaimed Regent, and was at Bemposta when the above consultation took place. His Royal Ilighiiess, however,continued to hold the command of the troops, and numerous arrests were made, in which the Marquis Palmella was included. He was released, it is said, at the request of the Foreign Ministers. Count de Povoa, formerly Seuor Sampayo, was the only Minister who escaped imprisonment. It is at present impossible to conjecture what will be the final result of this most extra- ordinary transaction. It is certain that no Conlideùce can exist so long as the Prince retains the command of the army. Mar- shal Beresford.is constantly with the King he wears the Portuguese uniform, and every respect is paid to him by the people. -It is supposed that the principal Foreign Ambassadors wish he may be prevailed upon to take the chief command, as tran- quillity can hardly he restored to this dis- tressed country, unless he or some other foreigner hold this oilice. The King's person is.coiis-id.ered to be not out of dan-, gcr, and a request was yesterday ,mnde to prepare the Windsor Castle for his recep- tion, where alone he could be hfe: every preparation was making on board that. vessel, to receive him at the shortest no- tice. Count Snhserra has taken refuge on board the Lively frigate, after having for some days found protection in the hotel of the French Ambassador. < The greatest contusion reigns in the Ci- ty for iif cifcumstances: where full scope is given to private revenge no individual can be sure of his safety. The alarmed and distrustful -countenances of the in. habitants sufficiently betray their feelings: Patrols, of military paiade the streets nigh and day. The prisons are so crowded, that numbers of arrested persons were sent, off yesterday and to-day to Peniche, to make room for others who are hourly ar riving. A list of the members of the clubs whongured during the Constitutional sys- tem has fallen into the hands of the Gc)- vernment, and thus gives an ample op- portunity to the exercise of vengeance these meuare accused or beingFreemasons. Some of the most respectable njerchants, I as well as the dregs of the people, have been arrested in this city. American Papers to the 24th ult. have come to ha:id. It appears that the Tariff Bill mutilated and mangled as it is has pas- sed the HouI'-e of Representatives, though Z, by a majority of live only.

TrTrr,AT- HORRID DEPRAVITY. THE, Cout of Assize of the Department de V Ain was occupied on the 8th and 9th of this month with the trial of a man named Thurel; who, from the circumstances detailed on the trial, appears to have resembled Thurtel as closely in nature as he does in name. He stood charged with the murder of Autbelmette Genet, his fourth wife, on the 12lh e of last November. According to the act of ac- cusation, the three former wives and one of his nieces had fallen victims to this blood-thirsty monster. His first wife met with a death through his contrivance, somewhat similar to that of Amy Robsart, in Kenilworth. He arranged one of the planks in a hay-loft in such a manner, that on her stepping on if. it gave way, and she fell into the stable upon a cart, in which there were pitchforks and other implements of husbandry placed upright. In consequence of the wounds received from thes she died in a few days, accusing her husband of being her murderer. Thurel soon after married his servant maid, who had been his concubine during the life of his former wife. After the lapse of k few years, he sent, as the report of the country went, this second wife to her grave by a kick in the belly. His third wife was a woman who brought him some fortune. She died in dreadful convulsions, pro- duced, as it was said, by poison administered to her by her husband. Shortly after her death he married, for the fourth time, Authelmette Genet, with whom he had carired on a criminal intercourse for some years previous. A very short time after their nuptials Thurel was discovered by his wife in a situation with her servant which left her no doubt of his infidelity. From that moment terror took possession of Authelmette Genet; she seemed to have a presentiment that she was des- tined to be another of his victims, and she became so alarmed that she ceased sleeping in the same room with him. Thurel, however, was not to be foiled by this precaution. He one day pretended to be suffering extremely from a violent attack of cholic, and entreated his wife to come out of her room and prepare some hot.towels to apply to his stomach. His wife set about lighting the fire, but was as- tonished to find that the faggots which she had brought there but a short time before had been removed. To get more she went up to the loft, the ascent to which was by a ladder. On herre- turn, as she placed her foot upon the first step, the ladder was suddenly pulled down from under her, and she must have fallen, and probably broken her neck, had she not caught the floor of the loft with her hands,andhungsuspendedin the air, at the same time screaming wdth all her might. As some of the neighbours, attracted by the cries, were heard coming, Thurel replaced the ladder, saying that it had slipped accidentally. This circumstance naturally tended to increase her terror and presentiments, and two days before the 12th November, she told some of her neigh- bours that she read her death warrant in the sa- vage eyes and haggard air of her husband. On the 12th November, between ten and eleven o'clock in the morning, the neighbours were alarmed by cries proceeding from Thurel's stable, and they soon recognised the voice of Authelmett; Genet crying out, Grace% pardon, Francois, an sccours!" They so much dreaded tne ferocity of Thurel, that they did not dare to approach "the stable; but two of them, getting behind a wall saw through an aperture in it Thurel come out of the stable and look anxiously around. He went in, and after a short interval come out a"-ain, locked the door, and took away the key "with with him. In a short time he returned a<i-ain to the stable; and after remaining there some mo- ments, came, out, locked the door, and took away the key as before. About an hour after his ne- phew, who was living with him. returned from working in the fields to dinner. He found Thurel sitting under a tree, and looked trembled and con- I; fused. On asking him what was the matter, Thurel replied, My wife, has been killed by the j horse; as for me, all 1 fear are the Reys; (the name of some of his neighbours.) The nephew, I alarmed at what he heard, was hurrying to the stable- to succour his aunt, when Thurel told him to wait for some time, and then to follow him, as otherwise it might be supposed that he (Thurel had come out to meet him. When the nephew entered the stable, Thurel took up a pole an A struck the horse, apparently in a great passion. Near the horse lay Authel- mette Genets weltering in her blood and covered with wounds. She was taken into the house, a surgeon sent for, but his aid was ineffectual, as surgeon sent for, but his aid was ineffectual, as sl she expired a short time after his arrival. During this interval, Thurel remained in a room near to the one where she was placed, and his only in- quiry from time to time was if she had recovered the use of her speech. It was evident from the nature of the wounds, that they had not been inflicted "by the hoofs of the horse, but apparently by a blunt edged iron instrument. The next morning there was found in the stable, under a wine press, an iron shovel or scraper, recently fractured and clotted with blood. On being applied to the wounds in the head it exactly'fitted them. Several witnesses deposed, that on the morning of the 12th of November, Thurel did not wear the grey breeches' which he had on in the e ,rening. Those he wore in the morning were blue. A search being made, a pair of blue breeches were discovered behind a chest; the right leg of which was Stained with blood, and to which there Were sticking several long hairs. These were the prin- cipal facts brought forward against the prisoner. His defence was confined to saying thai his wife I was killed by the horse, while he and His nephew were throwing manure out of the stable. He was foun.) guilty of the murder, and con- demned to be guillotined upon the public square of Belley, the nearest town to the place where the crime was committed. ——<S5»—- On the night ofSatUfday last a party of rattans, eleven or tweIN-e-iii number, attache.1 some houses at Currovagh, county of Kerry, within two miles of Tralee, for the purpose, of plunder. They I succeeded in two or three places, until they came to the house of a man named Slattery. Having called themselves VFhiteboyi, the house was opened at then-order, I, s soon. as i hey entered, they asked for arms and money to buy powder. Slattery informed them that he never possessed used arms. The ruffians commenced pillaging ti, house of every portable article, even a frize coa of Slattery's and the cloaks of two maid servat> who were in the house. Having efi'ected-thtdr purpose they all withdrew, except the fel.ow who had the cloak, upon which the servant, as soon a-; she saw an opportunity, laid hold of mvsl reso- lutely. Nearly at the same time Slattery sprue upon the fellow, and knocked him down, anil pit- ting his foot upon his neck, wrenched from hiii-, t bayonet he held in his hand. Slattery then place himself at the door, to prevent the return of rest of the gang, to whom the prisoner called C for help. A desperate contest commenced, i.i which slattery says he is sure he slaughtered several of them, and in which he received a num- ber of gashes on Lis hands and arms. At length, four fellows broke into the house together, an i gave Slattery a severe wound in the side ne- vertheless he beat them out again, fixing the bayonet so deeply in the hindmost fellow, as a most to loose his hold of it. The assailants we, e fully content with this effort, and left their com- panion behind, lie proves to be a fellow of the name of Quiiler, from. Kiillyn. six or seven miles from Tralee, on the I oad to Listovell. Slattery threatened him with instant death, but spared him on the condition of wi iling down the names of all persons concerned, which he immediately did, to the t imber of ten or eleven. Three of them have Siilce been brought into gaol, the others have fled from their houses. It is reported that one has been found dead in the mountains. THE STRUCTURE Ai-d) FUNCTIONS OFTHE LUNGS IN HUMAN SUBJECTS. -Tiiese have long been a chief study of Dr. Majendie, of Paris, and by very numerous dissections of this organ, in its phisically diseased state, he has ascertained, that the issues or cellular coats of the lungs are al- most entirely composed of the minute branchings of blood vessels, of the pulmonary arteries and veins, anatomising or connecting with each other. That the cells of-the lungs diminish in number, but increase in size with considerable regularity, from childhood to old age, the increased size be- ing greatest, where a cough has attended the in- dividual. That on the whole, aged people con- sume much less oxygen, and consequently have less animal heat, and are less able to resist cold, than the young. Dr. Majendie has found, that the beginning of phthisis, or consumption, is owing to the small varieties of the pulmonary blood-vessels secreting a greyish yellow matter, in one or more of the cells of the lungs this, in some cases, is moveable, and the patient coughs it up and recovers; but much too frequently it incieases, adheres to the small vessels, gradually obliterates them, and the whole lobe at length be- comes tuberculous, or formed of this greyishyel- low matter. Considering thus the commencement of consumption as only an alteration in the ha- bitual secretion of the vascular tissue of the lungs, Dr. M. employs sedatives, and particu- larly the hydro-cyanic acid, in the two first stages of the disease, with the happiest eifect. ROMAN PATRIOTISM.-—The patriotism of ancient Rome has been much extolledbut unjustly.— Her patriotism was founded on flagrant injustice and iniquity, and therefore, deserves not so much to be called patriotism as a desire to render Rome the mistress of the universe for this ptir, pose, she scrupled not at committing all manner of tyrannous and wicked acts against the liberties of mankind. Her feverish fondness for universal empire laid desolate all the known world. The possessions, the habitations, the paintings, the sculpture, all the riches of the Romans were the spoils of plundered nations. Thus they erected to themselves all empire, as unrivalled as it was unjust, on the ruins of their fellow creatures.— What then are all their lectures, and pompous declamations on the love of their country ? What their laboured orations in praise of liberty ? In- disputable proofs, indeed, of their eloquence, but not of their humanity.—If the language of bene- volence were to constitute the character, we must allow it due to those Romans 'but if actions are to ascertain the right, and to be considered as the criterion of justice, we shall find it a difficult matter to make good their claims, though we were masters of eloquence equal to their own. Mr. Matthews, the gentleman who was taken with Riego, is now busily occupied in prepar- ing for the press a narrative of his own sufferings, and of the last days of Spanish independence.— It appears that this gentleman was, during four months of his confinement in Madrid, without fire or candle, or the least article of bedding; and that to prevent as much as possible his enjoying the least cessation of suffering, from sleep, the guards, who were in a room immediately over his dungeon, were in the habit of striking on the floor at intervals, enormous pieces of wood. In the early part of his confinement they even vi- sited his cell repeatedly during the night to dis- turb him. Mr. Matthews has had an interview with the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and he is also about to lay a statement before the Government. GREAT PEDESTRIAN PERFORMANCE.—Llovd the Pedestrian Champion, last Friday evening completed his extraordinary and unprecederiieu match of walking It) miles backwards each day for ten successive days. The sum wagered was only 50 guineas aside, but bets to a large amount were depending- oji the result. The road chosen was from the Lamb and Flag, Clerkenwell-o-reen through llford, Hare-street, Romford, to lirook- street, in Essex being 20 miles out, and to re-, turn the same way on each day. On the 4th inst. Lloyd commenced in high Spirits, and continued performing his arduous undertaking, ha vino-much time to spare each day unril the 7th day, when in-returning through llford he sprained his left leg, and had some difficulty in returning home • the betting in town was then teilio one against him, and but few takers even at that, as he com- plained of a pain in his head. On the eighth day he was much incommoded by the dust, but oil coming in he seemed confident of success. The- b'etting then turned in his favour, and on the two last days he suffered severely from the continual raiii and he said, had he to perform another day, he must inevitably give in, from the severity of the weather, from which it was thought he never could complete tire in at eh and in conse- quence the immense crowds who were waiting his return on Friday evening were agreeably asto- nished on perceiving he had returned a consider- able time before he was expected. The com- pletion of this task can only be equalled by an other undertaking, of the success of which he i confident, as he offers 2 to I he will Stand urn one lej £ :for- twelve suc-c-soivo Uouis