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dforfiflit SnttUigtMr.PRANCE.Marriage of iifr Royal Highness tub Princes* Clementine with Prince Augustus or Saxe Cosuro Gotiu—The marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Clementine with his Serene Highness Prince Augustus of Saxe Coburg Gotha took place on tho evening of yesterday week, at the palace of St. Cloud. At nine o’clock the King, tho Queen, and tho Royal Family entered tho Galerie d’Apollon, which had previously been prepared for the performance of the civil marriage, tho King giving his arm to tho Princess Clementine, and tho Queen leaning on the nrm of Prince Augustus. Their Majesties and the Prince and Princess were followed by the King of tho Belgians and the Queen Dowager of Spain, Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg and the Queen of the Belgians, the Duko nnd Duchesa de Nemours, the Duke de Montpensier and Princess Adelaide, Duke Alexander of Wurtemburg and the Hereditary Princess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and tho Hereditary Prince and Prince Leopold of Saxo Coburg. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince do Joinvillo and the Duke d'Aumaile were declared absent on tho King’s service. Tho Royal Family and the witnesses having taken their places round a circular table, Baron Pasquicr, Chancellor of France, who performed the functions of officer of the clot civil, assisted by the Duke Decazet, Grand Referendary, and M. Cauchy, Keeper of the Archives of the Chamber of Peers, read the civil marriage ceremony, and, after having received from Prince Augustus and the Princess Clementine the declaration required by Article 75 of the Civil Code, declared, in the name of tho law, that the Prince and Princcaa were united in marriage. The signatures to the cer-tiBratff of marrinpc were then affixed. The august pair, their Majesties, the Princes and Princesses, and the witnesses, having signed, the certificate was completed by the President of the Council of Ministers, the Keeper of the Seals, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Chancellor, and the Grand Referendary. Immediately after the signing of the civil act, their Majesties, the Royal Family, and all tho assembly, proceeded to the chapel, where tho Bishop of Versailles performed the religious marriage ceremony. At half-past ten, the ceremony being terminated, the King and the Royal Family returned to their apartments. Nothing could be mors quiet and unostentatious than thia ceremony, at which, however, the Duchess of Orleans, the widow of the late Duke, was not present. Prince Augustus is nephew to the reigning Dake of Saxe Coburg Gotha, of the King of Up Belgian., and of the Dachew of Kent j he i# fco-L-ourt reversed, out nc was mistnKcn.The Monileur announces that the King would go into mourning, from the 2nd. of May, during 11 days, for his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex.The French stock-market was heavy on Wednesday, but without any political news to inflnence it.Tho Toulonnais of the 23d. inst. states that the disarmament of the fleet was proceeding in Toulon with tho utmost activity, and that a considerable number of teamen and workmen of the arsenal had been already discharged.SPAIN.According to letters from Madrid, the Spanish Ministry wasnot expected to be constructed until the beginning of this week. The question of the prolongation of the minority of the Queen was beginning to be agitated. Prince Jerome Napoleon Buonaparte had arrived at Cadiz.By Madrid journals of the 19th instant, we learn that the draught of the address ttf the Senate, in answer to the Regent’s speech had been read to that body, and that it was leas violent on foreign topics than was expected.AMERICA.New York papers have arrived to the 7th inst. inclusive, after a very quick passage of so von tec n days. They contain two set* of correspondence between Mr, Webiter, the American Secretary of State, and Mr. Fox, our minister at Washington, both relating to tho disputed territory on the north-eastern boundary. The first set bad refsrcnce to a resolution of tho legislature of the State of Maine, relative to certain proceedings of the Government of New Brunswick, supposed to be in contravention of the terms of the treaty of tho 9th of August, between the United States and Great Britain, by attempting to collect from American citizens bonds or securities for timber cut, belonging to tba disputed territory, that was t6“be aurreBdcTed by Great Britain to the States of Maino and Massachusetts under that treaty. The second set of correspondence had reference to the aeizure, by the British authorities, of an American citizen named Daniel Savage, on the territory of tho United States, and by them forcibly carried into the territory of New Brunswick. The paper also contains a letter from Mr. Webster to Mr. Everett, on the subject of the right of visitation. This correspondence did not, however, affect the American funds.Revolution in St. Dominco.—A very Woodless revolution has taken place in St. Domingo. The Ex-president Boyer, with tbirty-two of his adherents, fled from the island on the 18th of March, and sought shelter In one of her Britannic Majesty’s ships, lie was driven to thia step by the resistance offered to tho means he bad adopted to get rid of the opposition to the measure# of hi# Government in the national legist*
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Church and State Gazette
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Apr 28, 1843
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