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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



church of Ruel, the parish in 

 which the palace of Malmaison is 

 situated. It was attended by a 

 number of persons of distinction, 

 among whom were the Prince of 

 Mecklenburg, General Sacken, 

 many Marshals of France, Sena- 

 tors, and General Officers, both 

 French and foreigners, the two 

 grand-children of the deceased 

 Princess, a great number of Ec- 

 clesiastics from the neighbouring 

 Parishes, Prefects, Sub-Prefects, 

 Mayors, &c. The funeral cere- 

 mony was performed by M. Baral, 

 Archbishop of Tours, first almoner 

 to the deceased, assisted by tiie 

 Bishops of Versailles and Evreux, 

 The body was deposited in a vault 

 recently made under the nave of 

 the church, in which, it is said, a 

 monument will be erected. More 

 than 8,000 inhabitants of the en- 

 virons assembled to pay the last 

 tribute to the memory of a Prin- 

 cess, who so richly deserved the 

 appellation of the Mother of the 

 Poor and Distressed. 



The late Empress Josephine was 

 born in Martinique, 9th June, 

 17C3. Her name was Tacher de 

 la Pagerie. She came to France, 

 ■where she married Count de Beau- 

 harnois, member of the Consti- 

 tuent Assembly, Marshal de Camp 

 of the Army of the King, Minis- 

 ter of War, and who perished on 

 the scaffold in 1793. Madame de 

 Beauharnois was a long time in 

 prison. In 1797 she married 

 Buonaparte. 



4. By a letter from Smyrna, of 

 the 4th of June, we learn, that 

 the plague, whicli had committed 

 the most frightful ravages there, 

 had put an end to aU commerce. 

 The deaths were about 5,000 

 daily. Up to that period about 

 20,000 Turks and 10,000 Greeks, 



Armenians, Jews, &c. had fallen 

 sacrifices to the plague. The port 

 was almost completely empty of 

 shipping; and Smyrna, which 

 lately contained 180,000 inhabi- 

 tants, seemed now a desert. 



4. Dublin. — Yesterday the 

 Lord Lieutenant, with the advice 

 of the Privy Council, issued a pro- 

 clamation, declaring the Catholic 

 Beard contrary to law. The pro- 

 clamation states, that tliough the 

 law had not hitherto been en- 

 forced against that assembly, from 

 the hope that those who had been 

 misled would become sensible of 

 their error, and their meetings be 

 discontinued without the necessity 

 of legal interposition ; yet the 

 Lord Lieutenant being now sa- 

 tisfied that the farther continuance 

 of the assembly could only tend to 

 serve the ends of factious and se- 

 ditious persons, gives notice, that 

 if it shall again meet, the said as- 

 sembly and all persons acting as 

 members thereof, will be pro- 

 ceeded against according to law. 



8. Arrival of their Majesties 

 the Emperor of Russia and King 

 of Prussia, — Their ?/Iajesties sailed 

 from Boulogne in the Impregna- 

 ble about one o'clock at noon, 

 on the Gth, under a grand dis- 

 charge of artillerj'. As soon as 

 the fleet was in sight, his Majesty's 

 ihip, Monarch, off Deal, hoisted 

 the royal standard, and various 

 other flags, and fired a royal salute. 

 The fleet consisted of the Impreg- 

 nable, with his Royal Highness 

 the Duke of Clarence, the Jason 

 frigate, the Royal Sovereign and 

 Royal Charlotte yachts, and seve- 

 ral other vessels. The wind was 

 very brisk, but their entry into the 

 roads was delayed for some time 

 till the rising of the tide^ The 

 landing at Dover was easily effect- 



