The National Register. — London, England, 1815-08-20 00:00:00

556 All the ships are deeply laden, particularly the Northum berland, which contains more than 900 persons." When Napoleon first boarded the Bellerophon, he said to Captain Maitland, with his usual quickness, " Come, Capt. Maitland, suppose we walk over your ship."—To this the Captain replied, by saying that the decks were then washing, and that the ship was consequently not in a state to be inspected ; that he had better wait an hour or so, &c. To th's Bonaparte responded, " No, no, Capt. Maitland, let ns go now, I have been accustomed to wet and dry and confusion, &c. &c. for upwards of twenty years, and I must ire her in her present state."—He did io, and inspected her with all the alacrity, minuteness, and curiosity so charac .. teristic of him, walking several times over the ship ; after this he expressed himself highly delighted with the admira ble economy of a British man of war. One day, addressing an old mat ine, he asked tim, " how long he had served ?" The reply was, " sixteen years."—" Where are your marks • of distinction, then ?"—" I have none," answered the tna• rine. Buonaparte shrugged up his shoulders, and retired. The Northumberland, with Buonaparte on board, was in Mount's Bay, on Thursday, detained by contrary winds. AV hen some of the free passages of the English newspapers were read to Buonaparte, or rather when the Countess Ber trand, upon coming to them, suddenly stopped her reading, Lein.. unwilling to o ff end him by the epithets therein la vished on him, Buonaparte desired her to proceed---" It is posterity, Madam, that will judge me justly ; these people speak of what they do not understand." Buonaparte sent into Plymouth in the course of one week, linen of various descriptions to be washed, to the value of 8001. Among the articles was a pair of sheets of exquisite *emote, and bordered with lace more than half a yard in Lz eadth. All the other articles were of a corresponding r:Aity and value. A worthy character; of the island of Portsea, previous to the sailing of the Northumberland, is said to have sent on board that ship a number of religious tracts and boaks, as a present for Napoleon Buonaparte, accompanied with a re- ference to a suitable passage in the New Testament, and a iong letter of serious advice, reccturnpnding him to study the Scriptures, and to devote the remainder of his life to religion and piety. Babbicontbe, near Torquay, Aug. 10th, 1813. went in a small boat alongside the 'Bellerophon, and was about the length of a good sized drawing-room from the gangway, when Napoleon came on deck. He is a tine looking man, quite a soldier in countenance and form, and looks as if he had worked hard and f•dd well. He made a polite how to the crowd in boats, about 13'41 (boats) iu number, which surrotinAed the ship. I went to see • hint twice : the last time he s.oor♦ with his hat off, and an opera glass in his band seemed quite indifferent, and merry rather than not. He has a very I►igh forehead, the hair cleared away from that part of the head a little above the temples, and a twitted lock on his Virehead. lie had on, as dem.ribld in the newsp2pers, a green coat. epablets, star, white breeches, silk stockings, and shoes. He seemed in ti:orc exactik the 1117411 correvonding with Isis history. Bertrand, Savary and L'Allemand were with him. 'Else officers and e•v %vele otarovered in his pre.enee; the people in the boats tool: o,'' hats. waved them in the air. and chccrLd him with htizzali: It ino.t annivited sight .I ever S;I ; from the calmness of t4e sra. at.ll ILA intiinty of boats people. I observed him with n telescope flu Ira miwitys, He roisverseil with the officers while ).e stood at tilt galics'ay. The laq time I saw him, the crowd *c;f h os t, wA: so immeti,ke, ilie atirird-br t 'atA of the lielleroppCn coda tot keep them off, and the tide (hilted theip alongside thp ve‘sel, so that many boatsiteld in the Bralerophott'bs boat-hooks. rrim ; t • . ; •i 1114//riff, • THE NATIONAL REGISTER. AUG. 20. the hills here at Babbicombe, I saw the Bellerophon and Northam. berland off the Berry-head. Some boats went out of Torquay. and accompanied him as he passed to the Northumberland from the Bellerophon. You will, doubtless, see many more particulars of this exhibition in the daily papers. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE: PARIS, 9th August, 1815. _ _ Mr. EDITOR.—" This cannot certainly last. If we have not an explosion soon, we may thank the innumerable forces of all nations and arms now garrisoning the capital ; but the sulky appearances, the stifled sighs, the indignant looks of the Frenchmen, portend a storm and an eruption. " To attempt to give you an account of the present more than Babylonic state of the capital, would be above my power, and indeed above that of any one. One must see what Paris, and indeed what France is, at this moment, to believe the assertions which I might be inclined to make respecting it—they are of so extraordinaty a nature. " Paris is one vast camp, one of the most glorious fea tures of which is the snowy tents of our British army 'o beying the monotony of the allies des armes in the Champ Elisees. The wooden huts of the Prussians lining one side of the Champ de Mars, form an unhappy contrast to them. Guns were placed at one end of the Pont Royal, turned against the Thuilleries; and there were guns till the other day on the Marchi des Fleurs, threatening the city. These have been ordered away to the great disappointment of Blu cher, who seemed to have acted not unlike a Bashaw. There are also wooden huts erected in the fine gardens of the Pa lace Luxembourg; for it appears the Prussians like the best every where they go. Their officers are the most perfect petit 71117111. es you have ever seen, and seem more equipped for a boudoir, or for a levee, than for a Waterloo tourna ment. Indeed the French are very sensible of this ; hence their greater guignon at having been conquered by them. A lady, whose house is the general rendezvous of foreign offi cers of rank in Paris, told me the other day—" En general les oficiers Anglais soul au pere grossiers, mais its parois sent avois lc coeur bon—les Prussiens, au contraire, sant mu:- eadins ; its ammenent lours domestiques pour tirer leur rnouchoirs de la poche de peur de sc gizter leB doigts, et its sous assortment Ott ec des perfumes de mille qualits." " I repeat it, this will never do. There have been very great riots and cries of Vice l'Empereur, under the windows of the Thuilleries—and on Sunday evening bit, they ac tually broke into the Chateau, astounding the poor Old King with " Vice Napoleon, a-bas Louis jupon." He rode through Rue St. Honore yesterday and the Duchess to-day. I saw them both dais. Not a single voice raised to greet them—every one affected to turn the head aside, and a hackney coachman would scarcely get out of the way to let Madame's carriage pass. " Vicennes his not surrendered. Labedoyre is to be-(tied on Fiiday. The Journals are very severe againit him ; but the people in . general pity him. It is supposed that he wilt he shut. This I cannot believe. They dare not do it—they may perhaps exile him. " I believe that all the Allied Sovereigns and their re spective M inisters are heartily sorry at Louis having thus been forced upon the Vrench—and 1 understand the Duke is more . so than any. " AUGUST 10. " I thought my letter of yesterday would have gone, but I find the Gentleman who will deliver it dues not set off till this evening. 1 try to put togethei• some more news of a frashpr fiatef The Kiug was beau oblized to aJupt A m4alLre