The accounts received since our last Number, confirm the news
of CAPO DISTRIA'S fall, and that it had its origin in causes con- nected with his political conduct. A letter from Napoli mentions the assassination in the following terms : " Count Capo d'Istrias was assassinated here on the 9th instant, while attending divine service, by two members of the family of Mavromi- chaelis, the chief of which family (Pietro Bey) had been imprisoned since last January. One of the assassins was killed on the spot, the other escaped through the connivance of two of the President's Body Guard." The letter adds, that a commission had been formed immediately consequent on the melancholy event, to carry on the government until the National Assembly met. The Provisional Government consists Of COLOCOTRONI, AUGUSTIN DISTRIAS, and COLLETTI; COLOCOTRONI is President.
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