The National Register. — London, England, 1815-09-03 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. ply axed. They had white flags, and they stopped before the houses, which attracted them with the most brilliant illumi uations. At the Thuiileries the King was often called for, and, when he appealed, children were held up to throw li lies and roses into his balcony, the national guards crowned the ends of their miisquets with flowers, and the shouts, to which they hare so often been faithless, were again heard on all sides. The Fan xbourg St. Antoine, the focus of a hun dred revolutionary explosions, distinguished itself by its de corations, all expressive of some anti-revolutionary senti rlent The Paris Papers to the 28th were received on Wednes dav The Duke de Berri pronounced a 'very conciliatory discourse on opening the Electoral College of the North at Lisle. Another alai ming foe broke out at the Military Hos pital at Paris, on Saturday week, the cause of which is not stated.—A Prussian Commissioner, it is said, is about to re pair to Sr. Helena, to reside near Buonaparte.—The French Commandant at Montpelier has addressed a Proclamation to the inhabitants of the district, which goes in some degree to contit in the accounts of the existence of a civil and religious war in the south of Fiance. This is the first mention made in the Pa, is Papers of these shocking transactions; and as ties do not inform us of their termination, we fear the cruel outraes described in the Journals of Nismes arc still con tinned upon the Protestant inhabitants. The umst remarkable rebel, perhaps, in France, at present, Baihdneger, who commands at iluninguen. This Gen tleman, on the 150) instant, had the facetiousness to open a cannonade on the adjoining villages, in honour of the birth day of the Emperor Napoleon, and he has since carried.bis audacity so far as to demand of the city of Basle a contribu tbn of 300,000 francs ! The removal of Fouche is mentioned in some of the pri •,-ate letters as an event not far distant, and Cannot is reported to have resumed his pen, and written another le:ter to the Ring. intercourse must necessarily be kept up between the Eng lish Ministers Lord Castlereagh and the Duke of Wellington, and the French Ministers Fouche and Talleyrand. But Lord Castlereagh avoids social or convivial intercourse with hem... Mails from Brussels and Tiamburg-h arrived on Monday; and whilst the French Papers are assuring us of the pacific state of the Eastern departments, we are informed by the Cerman Papers, that Lecourbe has recommenced hostilities against the Allies; that a heavy cannonading has been beitrd near Befort; that that town has hoisted the red flag, as well as 1-luninguen ; that Besancon is strictly blockaded, and that a counter-revolutionary movement has taken place, in which several royalists perished. The Emperor of Russia and the two Archdukes, with their suites, occupy the magnificent mansion of the Duchess de Bourbon, in the Fauxbourg St. Vonore, the gardens of which extend from the house to the Champs Elysees. There the Emperor holds a levee on Tuesdays and Fridays, from ten in the forenoon till half-past one. At two, his Majesty and family sit down to dinner, which commences with a quantity of oysters. After these comes soup, and thus the dinner proceeds by dishes, not by courses, one after another till the whole is served up. The desert and wines are, however, all put on together. About five, the dinner concludes, when the Emperor retires to his study, takes coffee there alone, and afterwards occasionally visits the theatres. His Majesty goes to bed at an early hour, rises at five in the morning, and rides or walks till half past eight, when he breakfasts. Mails from Holland and Hamburg!) arrived on Tuesday. The former has brvught a long address from the King of the Netherlands, in which he declares the acceptance of the Constitution, which is henceforth to form the Constitutiocs of the Netherlands. "We shall proceed," adds the King, " without delay to the measures necessary to execute these dispositions, and it is our particular resolution, by a speedy convocation of the two Chambers, to enable the St tie.-Ge neral to execute the legislative power. The oath which we shall pronounce in the midst of them has been long since en graven on our heart. Never have we had, never can we have, any other views than to augment the general pros perity, and to protect public and individual liberty and dic rights of all and every of our subjects."—The C►►mmandant of Thionville has been summoned fOr the las' time. If he persists in his defence he is to be made responsible for the consequences.—Verdun has hoisted the white flag, but re. fuses to admit the Allies. The whole family of the Buonaparts appear to be dis posed of. Louis, Ex-King of Holland, is in Rome, where he seems to remain undistw bed ; and he deserves in every state a quiet and honourable asylum, not only on account of his private qualifies, but on account of the mild exercise of his authority when he tilled the functions of Sovereign. Lucien is still in Turin. Joseph appears to be in Switzer. land. Jerome is reported to have received permission front the King of Wurtemburg to reside with his wife in that kingdom ; and Murat, it is announced, has succeeded is joining his spouse in the Austrian States. Thus are they scattered, the once mighty, who, a few years ago, usurped some of the first thrones in Christendom I Halifax Papers arrived eesterdav to the 18th of August— they had received London Papers to the I lth of July. It appears they had received the account of the total de eat of Buonapartc ; and the Editor of the Halifax Jour,ial thus an nounces the event to iris readers Most heal tilt'• do we congratulate our readers on the great, brilliant and decisive victory obtained by the British and Prussian Army over those of France—on the overthrow of Buonaparte and the bar haroua bands who supported him—on the glorious triumph of justice over the foulest iniquity." 'There is no truth in the paragraph, that" A letter from Havre, dated Tuesday, states the arrival of a British frigate. with Savary and Lallemand on board. She had the white and British flags flying, and was received with a salute from the fortress ; but they were not permitted to land until instructions had been received from Paris." One of the letters from Paris states, that a ruffian had the audacity to dischatge a pistol at the Duke of Weliington. but fortunately his Grace escaped the danger, the ball passing through the rim of his hat. The Leeds Intelligencer contais the following anecdote, transmitted by an Officer on board the Northumbefland to his friend in that neighbouthoed, and which is vouched to be authentic Sir G. Cockburn and his pris neis per fectly understand each other: at first they endeavoured to get him to give up his cabin to nuoosparte, and would not desist till he positively said he could not spaie it. Thu first day the Ex-Emperor and his companions dined with him, and ate a very hearty dinner. In the evening, they pl,posed cards, and played at Vingt un till eleven o'c'ock The next day the sea was rough, and the General sick, and not ready at the dinner hour. Sir George did not wait, but sent him his dinner, with a kind of message of regret for his indispo sition. He has given them to understand, that so long, as they consider themselves his prisooeis. be shall treat then with every attention as his guests; and they are cunning enough to avail thccuselves of this notice SEPT. S.