The National Register. — London, England, 1815-04-16 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Our Sing, Constitntion, ants tabus. PUBLISHED AT NO. 11, NEWCASTLE•STREET ) STELAND. ..,, ' PRlcr. 947. SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 1815. No. 381. POI,I7ICAI, 01S21.11SITIO.A'. CONDUCT OF PARTIES DURING THE LATE REVOLU. TION IN i RANCE. Every thing which tends to throw some light on the as tonishing revolution wihich has once more rendered France an object of terror to Europe, cannot fail to prove highly interesting. For some time, at least, the only sources of information must be found in the French papers, and were they conducted in the manner which disgraced the latter• years of Napoleon's despotism, we should not consider a ny of their statements entitled to more attention than the laboured descriptions of romance. As not only interest, but actual necessity, however, compel Napoleon for the present, in his new character of the apostle of liberty, to keep his promise and leave the press unfettered, and as French writers seem to have availed themselves of their privileges, thinking them probably temporary, and hasten. ing to enjoy them before they should be withdrawn, we shall make 'ow farther apology for translating the follow ing highly interesting account of the state of the public mind and the conduct of all parties in France, frcm the moment the landing of Buoneparte was known to that of his arrival at Paris. It is from the pen of one of the best living writers in France, Mr./oily, who, under the assumed characters of the Hermit e ofthe (lanes& d' Ant in, and Gail lenume le Franc Parleur, has for several years instructed and amused the Parisian public, with essays on events and manneis, which would have done honor to the pages of our own Spectator, as they displayed a deep knowledge of the hidden springs of human nature, pointed wit to ex pose the follies and vices of society, soundness of sense, and an dnimated, easy and captivating style to cort ley with n , common force and effect the result of his observations. If he has condescended to burn some incense before Napoleon, yet the feeling and indignant man ner in which he reproves the cowardly desertion of Louis XVIII. at the hour of misfortune, by his followers in prosperity is a pledge of his honesty and independence. The following is the essay to whish we allude and .which appeared a few c:ays since in the Gazette de France. THE RETURN OP THE EMPEROR. `lnca amor patriz, laudum que inunensa cupido. Ving. En. I. 6. This capital has witnessed twice in the same year, one of of those memorable events which are generally placed at the greatest distance in the course of ages ; the fall of a toTereign precipitated from the first Throne in the world to which victory bad elevated him, and the restoration of &Royal Family that had been banished for the 5 7fevi ! Vet. VII. o, CCCI: XX Nr. otto ~, i . ,..1 rcIT ~',- -1! •'rq.: , `' ...v. • ...4...„ 1,247-. I ~"Nr■ Every thing led to the belief that such a spectacle wou:d not again have presented itself to the eyes of cotern pornries. Napoleon appeared lost to the Empire for C e:, even whilst the fame of his name still rosounded througi Europe, and France was in a manner covered with tho wrecks of his glory. The Bourbons might think themselves fixed, if not an the Throne of Henry IV. at least on that of Louis XV. and the nation, painfully awakened from her dreams of grandeur, resigned itself reluctantly to the.torced repose which her situation imposed upon her. r shall pitss over the political causes, which have so suddenly brought about a new revolution, and without encroaching a second time upon the province of the historian, will hasten to re new my modest function of observer. Even an imper fect sketch of the events that took place in the Capital during March 1815, will be very interelifilig iu futurv, and perhaps of some utility at present. Those who judgGd of the situation of France, by that of the Court, during the three first days of March last, were dupes to the ap parent calm that seemed to subsist in the Capital. The Parisians had atlength formed their determination upon the decisions of a congress in which France had made so ridiculous a figure. Scarcely did some old poli ticians, of the Cafe *de Foy, condescend to follow 0:e course of the conferences at Vienna. The armi - t buried in their cantonments, no longer thought of victory, and received with contemptuous -indifferenco l the Ministerial favorites Who Were substituted for their former chiefs. The Priests did not sufficiently conceal the end and motive of their hopes; they looked upon the c- , -.- cessions which were made to them merely as the me..r.s of obtaining more, The Court, without a Queen, with out courtesy, and Without eclat, amused itself In re-estab lishing the barriers of etiquette, and the Ministers, inca pable of great actions, occupied themselves in . trifiing intrigues. One employed all the resources of his inv.- gination in confirming, to a foreign singer, a privilege of which he had deprived the legitimate possessor. Ano ther, saw the salvation of France in reform only, that :.s to say, in the destruction of the National Institute at.tl the University. A third, to whom tho sales of justi--„,. had been confided, weighed in them only the interests oi' his vanity, his prepossessions, and his averilons. The 3QC - nals, to amuse the people, made a kind of daily wror ; some exerted all their force for absolute power, other 4 defended (or pretended to defend) the constitutional chq.n ter, and others, for perhaps the first time, placf:it ~rkison anti laughter cn the same side . S uch was t he gt r S Of .err and thirigs when a low anddistattt report ..... , . , . r~,~► +. "*. - -Si.- ...,~,.~ me !Ty We /9 3.3 In 136 bu t or. WI land J. I 9 B ; I 9 _ 3 Did. Port. .1.:I .13J .134 .136 .14,1 ALL, I. d. 5 0 ,o 5 A s s 9