The Sun. — London, England, 1814-05-20 00:00:00

JOURNAL OF A TRIP TO PARIS. (No. X.) have read somewhere - the dictum of a Writer, who pronounces that " he who has not seen Pa• ris has not seen the World ;" with a little varia tion, it might.now justly be .said, that he who sees Paris • sees all the World. In the Arabian and' other Works of the same species, we are generally delighted, at the finale, with the gor gecius meetings of the Emperors of Samareand and Sereedib ; the Kings of Diarbekir, Arabia, Persia, or Balsora ; and the .contemporary assemblage of a thousand Princes and Warriors, whose names and titles it is not easy to remember ; but here, at this marvellous'era, these fictions of romance ate more than. realised. Monarchs, more powerful than imagination has pourtrayed ; an occasion,. more interesting than fancy has conceived ; crowds of heroes, more numerous than fable has ventured to groupe together, are here assembled, within the walls of Paris. Such were my reflections as the cabriolet gained upon the environs of the City, and the gate of St. Denis, guarded by Russian sentinels, opened to receive us. - I have mentioned the only vestiges hosti lities which met the eye on the field of Montmar tre. The Fauxborg of St. Denis; bore stronger traces of the recent state of affairs in the tmw tran quil Capital of France. On the right of the gate was a strong stone battery, with embrazures, &c. for the mounting of cannon, and loop-holes for seusquetry. This commanded the road. From each side extended the massy pallisades, of which we had heard so much in England—those ram- 1 parts, behind which the Tyrant wished the people of Paris to rally, resist, and perish. Numerous and atrocious as the crimes of Buon a parte have been, and his direst enemy need enter tain uo desire to blacken their foul_ catalogue with any addition, perhaps one of the most hor rible of them all was the design he formed, and so earnestly endeavoured to have carried into effect, with regard to defending Paris. These weak wooden barriers could not have withstood a single assault ; and only a few hours prolongation of the resistance offered to the Allies by Marmont must have produced a catastrophe so horrid, that nature shrinks at the bare apprehension of it. There would, indeed, have been a bloody day for the re cords of History. As it was, the Parisian popula tion were infinitely more indebted, for the salva tion they experienced, to the clemency of the vic tors, than to the valour or prudence of their pro tectors. Marmont prolonged an useless effusion of blood for nearly thirty miles ; every height that afforded a position was occupied, and cost the Allies numbers of men to force, while, from the nature of their situation, the loss of the enemy was comparatively inconsiderable ; this course was pursued to the very streets of the metropolis, and it was not till Montmartre and Belleville were stormed, and every point of defence exhausted, that a Capitulation was proposed. To this the humane Alexander consented—but where would the crime have lain, had a Commander and an Army, exasperated by this provoking and fruitless sacrifice of lives, taken their desperate revenge upon the mighty City, lying psiostrate before them Paris and Prance have reason to thank God that more moderate and beneficent Counsels prevailed. It is a fact, I believe unknown in England, that the cannonade of the 30th approached so close to Paris, that several persons were killed, by ran dom shots, in the streets. In the Rue de Mont blane, one of the finest on the outside of the_Bou levarts, and almost in the centre of the Town, two persons, a man and a woman, were thus de prived of life. The former was killed in his house; ,the latter had both legs carried off in the street, and shortly after died of the wound. Neither is it generally understood to what ex tent of infamy the deceptions system of the Ty rant was carried. Even on the last day of his power, when the Allies were within three miles of the Capital; nay, after the negociation was completed for their entering the place, the people were still ignorant of their fate. In the after noon of the 30th, a change in the direction of time wind caused the reports of the guns to be less dis tinctly heard. The Agents of the Corsican were immediately at work; and, in a few hours, it was generally credited about Paris, that Buonapara had arrived with 80,000 men, attacked, and de feated the Allied Armies. Thousands of persons, who had shut themselves up in their houses, yen tired forth , again on the strength of this false- hood ; and, on the morning of the 31st, when the Allied Troops took possession, of Paris, it was bong before the multitude could be convinced, even by ocular demonstration, that they were not the conquering forces of litionaparte. The sight of the Cossacks, whom the French know almost by an intuitive feeling of dread, Ei3 well as ,by de . scription, at length dispelled this dream—the last imposed upon a deluded people, by an odious, barbarizing Despotism, and these uncouth sol diers took up their quarters in the Golden City—a name which they bestowed upon it when the gilded dome and spire of the Rote des invalides . first met their view upon the heights, and cheered them on to battle for Moscow's splendid revenge. Their difficulties, in accomplishing this object, .occurred on the outside of the walls ; mine on the - inside. We drove first to the Hotel des Etrangers— irwas crowded beyond the reception of another traveller. We next proceeded to a Hotel in the Rue Vivienne, where, by good fortune, two ,beds were to be had, up five lung stairs. These were se cured, ad interim, and, in the chamber attached to them, a general purification ensued. We then, with some difficulty, found separate habitations for the rest of the party (four in number), dined at a late hour, at Bibliotte's, in the Palais Royal, and soon after retired to our new lodgings, to:repair the fatigues of travelling with , '' tired Nature's sweet restorer—balmy sleep." The difficulty of procuring quarters was evinced by the price. My two fellow-travellers were not only compelled to pay at the rate of ten francs per night for their garrets, but, though they only intended to remain in Paris two or three days, to take - them by the week. This imposition was a second thought of the Hostess, as soon as she heard that it was not their intention to remain longer than the time I have mentioned. I was rather more fortnnate,. having procuret!,tempora rily a back moth-, hut on a first floor and in a good situation, for five francs a day. The first floor of the same lintel, consisting of three rooms, was occupied by an English'Nobleman, at the rent of 900 frtukes per month. The second, alto te nanted by a Countryman, at the price of 750. I shortly afterwards succeeded to another chamber, at an additional five francs ; and these prices may be reckoned about the average of what are de manded for decent lodgings from Englishmen at Paris. VIATOR. PARIS PAPERS. PARIS, MAY I6.—Prince Berthier, in quality'of Captain of the Body Guards on service, yester day gave his arm to his Majesty in descending the steps of his apartment to go to chapel. Peace was not signed yesterday as asserted ; but we have every reason to believe that is is far advanced : the bases are agreed upon, and the chief conditions of the Treaty remain no longer a mystery. They are all honourable for France. A Peace of this nature could alone be solid, and will not fail to add to the obligations which we owe to the Allied Sovereigns. We do not fear to say, that this Peace, so long desired, and the circumstances which have accompanied the nego ciatious, will canter on our august MOnarch a new title to the love of his faithful subjects.— (Gazette de France, May 17.) It is affirmed, that, according to the ordinance for the organization of the army, promulgated by his Majesty, the number of troops of all the ar mies on the peace establishment ‘vill amount to 220,000 men.—(Same Paper.) Accounts from Switzerland state, that the four Swiss Regiments are to be re. - -assembled at Paris. M. de CASTELLA has been appointed General . Co mmandant in Chief. Field Marshal Prince Scbwartzenberg gives a Fate to the Allied Sovereigns this evening at St. Cloud. By the decision of the King, all the Conscripts of the year 1815, Who have joined their colours, are authorized to return to their families..--(Sonze Paper.) ZURICH, MAY 7.—The Hereditary Prince of Hesse Hornberg has arrived at Geneva with Prince Philip, his brother. 'We are positively assured, that Geneva, the country of Gex, and Savoy, to the river Fiez, will form the 20th Canton of Switzerland.—(Journal des Debats.) The Emperor of Russia went, two days ago, to the Chateau of St. Leu, near Montmorency. H. I. Majesty dined there with Prince Eugene, his Mother and Sister----(Beauharnois, Josephine, and the ci-devant Queen of Holland ! !).—(Same Paper) The Council of War is incessantly occupied with the re-organization of the army. We are assured that the artillery are already re-established. There will be, it is said, eight regiments of foot and six of horse.—(Some Paper.) M. Joseph Hamony, nephew of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, formerly at the head of the customs at Cairo, and afterwards Chief of a squadron of Janizaries, has been appointed Colonel Com mandant of the corps of Matnelukes - in the service of the King of France. Prince Pignatelli has just been named a Privy Counsellor in the service of the Emperor Alex ander.—(Sconie Paper.) RASTADT, MAT 10. -- Stlabia is filled with Austrian, Russian, and Bavarian troops, which were destined to reinforce the Allied Armies in France, when they received orders to halt. All these troops have taken cantonments in different parts of that Country, where great numbers of troops returning from France are daily expected. They have already begun to pass through Swisser- land. ZURICH, MAT 4.—ln the sitting of the Diet of the 27th April, a comnrunication was made of a note from M. Mallet, Marshal of the Camp, to his Nlajesty the King of France, to invite the Can tons to send Deputies to Paris, in order to nego ciate a new Treaty of Alliance which his Majesty wishes to conclude with the Swiss Cantons ; and to regulate the formation of the Swiss regiments upon the ancient conditions. The Assembly de creed, that the note should be communicated to the Government of the 19 Cantons, and theY'ap pointed a Committee to consider of the deputa tion. On the 30th was announced the speedy ar rival of a Nuncio from the Pope. and a deputa tion was appointed to wait upon him. In the sitting of the 30th the Diet adopted the proposition of the Military Committee respecting the formation of a corps for defence, and the levy was ordered. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria is ex pected here in the course of the present month. The greater part of the Austrian garrison which was here has quitted us. Numerous bodies of troops, of wounded men, and great quantities of baggage, constantly pass through this town on their way to Germany, The Mayor of Dieppe 'has issued a Proclama tion to the Inhabitants, in which he recommends them to be upon their guard against persons ivishin:t. to excite discontent upon the subject of the droits re-zutis, and calling upon them to trust to the exertions of Government to afford them relief as soon as posiible. M. de Voisin, the Commissioner appointed by his Majesty to the 12th Military Division, has published an Address to the.. Inhabitants of La Vend4e, in which, after noticing the glorious exertions they had made for their Religion and their King, assures them that the King had en-. tered France with the Olive Branch of Peace, and, calling upon them to bury all former animosities in oblivion. His Majesty has issued an Order, that all Con scripts of the Class of 1 81 3, wh6 have joined their Standards, shall be allowed to return to their fa milies. All other Soldiers who, from a misinter pretation of the Decree of the Provisional Govern ment of the 4th April, 181 4, have quitted their Regiments to return to their families, are to be considered as being absent upon leave. CHANCERY OF FRANCE.—M. Le Piccard, an cient Advocate of the Councils of the King, is appointed Secretary-General to the Grand Chan cery of France. The Baron Dumay, Commander of the Bth Mi litary Division, has written to Baron Dupont, Minister at War, suggesting the idea of paying some tribute to the memory of General Kleber, who was massacred in Egypt. MODENA, APRIL 28. —The expected passage through this city of a great number of Ecclesias tics of the Roman States, transported or impri soned by order of Buonaparte, has suggested the idea of an association for the relief of those re spectable persons. BOURDRAUX, MAY 12. —Rear-Admiral Pen rose, commanding the English squadron, gave a Fete yesterday to the Duke d'Angouleme. He was received with every possible honour by Lord Keith and Admiral Penrose on board the Po dargus, on which vessel the Flags of all the Allied Powers were hoisted. Pants, MAY P.—An Order of the Day of this date, signed by General Dupont, Minister at War, directs all Officers and soldiers, who have claims to prefer, or rewards to solicit, to join their regi ments without delay, as Inspectors-General are about to leave Paris, furnished with instructions to amalgamate all the corps of the army. It is , therefore absolutely necessary that they should be present, to deliver to the Inspector-General a statement of their respective services, in order to their being continued on full or placed upon half pay. All Officers who shall remain at Paris eight days after the publication of this Order, shall be considered as having renounced their rights and The Council General of the Department of the Seine, and Municipal Council of Paris, have pub lished a resolution for raising a loan of rive mil lions of francs, by way of assessment, for services of the most urgent nature, and principally for the supply of troops in that city, and the hospitals filled with wounded soldiers of the French and Allied Armies. This loan is to be paid by three equal instalments;- the first on the 15th May, the second on the 31st, and the third on the I:3th June : the whole to be repaid in four years from the Ist of July next, out of the produce of the octroi and the coisse de poissy. CIRCULAR OF THE COMMISSIONER OF THE PROVI- SIONAL GOVERNMENT, INTRUSTED WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF THE FINANCES, RESPECTING THE REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE IMPORTA- TION OF FOREIGN AIERCHANDIZE, TO TUE PRE- FACT OF THE SEINE. "M. LE PREFECT—I am informed that false notions respecting certain, measures of Govern ment have alarmed the cotton-manufacturers, and the numerous workmen in their employ. I am therefore anxious to pacify them through your means. " A Decree of July 25, 1810, forbade all ves sels, not furnished with licenses or specially au thorised, to enter or quit our ports. The con tinuance of this prohibition wa3 incompatible with the present state of our political relations, and on the first acts of Monsieur, the Lieu tenant-GM/Val pf the kingdom, was to put an end to it. " But his Royal Highness, in ordering that all French or foreign v e ss e l s might freely enter and depart from the ports of France, if they con formed to the Custom-house regulatious, intended that their cargoes should be so. —0 or e f;73o l r di jet , l. i t n h a o s r m i n s t e i t c l h b a y s their the Ia ti ws anti re o g i u i loari putt' iu " Accordingly the Administration of the Cus toms has expressly enjoined its Officers to adwit such articles only as are permitted to be imported. its instructions, indeed, directed, that if, among the cargoes, there should be prohibited niercl:an dize, which shall have been deelcrredfcir, they should merely be detained in the warehouses till their re-exportation ; but this disposition results ex' pressly from the general laws of the Custows---' goods presented for importation, agreeably tc! those very laws, being not liable to seizure , oa le l they be omitted in the declaration, or declared under false denominations. Ad ". Thus' no act of Government, no order °' ministration, has yet taken off any of the es'' t ';'' prohibitions ; and the continuance of that re b l . 3 ; tive to cotton, yarn, and m a nufactured good s ' on the contrary been particularly recontmeAd“ The department of the Customs, .vhich has m „ f mined untouched o n th e gre atest part ": ) coasts, is orgAnised in such manner as to leave n' room for apprehensi o n, l es t i t s hould be violated with impunity on our maritime frontiers• " The case has certainly been didiretit o rt v e land frontiers, whi c h th e even t s o f the wa r 113 : ' r left without any line of c ustom -: so uses for five months. There has been abundant nit y for introducing goods, w hi c h die ment Was not able to prevent. It has 1 101. ' ever, lost a moment in adopting theor culated to - prevent such irregni m ities• ate!) , after the signature of the Conveot i°l ; t 23d April, it issued orders for t h e estat ) u sJ. : en .l Conventions. upiwsed, thin. n lintlts lt fi c x a e n d n of a new line of custom-houses, on the pr (i ' s-"L b o y t b ti e le s e scnt the Pr state of things, this service e ffords so s trelfi li g ,a security as in ordin ar y ti mes ; b u t nothii t g be neglected to r en d er it as u , e ful s 5 cl. . - 1 " stances, and the movements of the Allied 4 b„es' shall permit. = request you, Mr Prefect, to city to this expl anat i on ;i t w ill, 11 "P e ' rs, pet the alarm of some misinformed m anufac tu:e fa - and at the same ti me remove ever y pret ext disaffection. g ive doe pu,biilsi: Imit ~~ n 0 1 C f 4C :fshigenC, d o mm ) BAlioN th °l f BARCELONA, MAY 2.—We learn frnin M4dri t that on the 24th u l t . th e Kn i t, h a d not art i`c`,,j,g,t Madria. His Majesty was still at Valencia, was preparing to set o u t f ur ti,e Cal) f ah „rc Cortes maintain a th reaten i ng att irnite, solicitous to impose upon the S ivereign dons incompatible with the dioality o f the th b r a l l . Toe Spanish Constitution . The Executive Power is so confined, frttered, that it k impossible for tiie nreic h r:;:7 go on.—The Duke ,del Infantado . little Army of General Copons, which hilt panied the King since his entry into SP" ). Nobleman enjoys high personal and deserves the highest Conti fence of Iris reign. The example of attachment whic h ic i '-'l O l set on this occasion, will soon. be fol ly ‘ "" other Spanish Grandees.—(Moniteur) F;elj : VIENNA, MAY 4.—We have received fr o / '", it IT Marshal Bellegarde th e o ffi c i a l ne ws, second Military Convention, conc ludc'' 23d April with the Vi cero y o f I ta ly, E )c6l ` ' , the fortresses of Osopo, P a l n i a - nao y a , I..et 4h ' A r L .) - sth .fortress of Peschi e ra s h a ll b e g ven 011 1 " 1- , t . her April, and Mantua on the Ist May. All re' strong places in the kingdom of Italy "" . .11.0/ united immediately to the Austrian tront' s • ' ; ', ( l by. and all the kingdom of Italy, will be 04 : 6111). A - Ilica the Austria!, army, in the name of tl' e , Powers. The Italian troops will remain 111 ,de present quarters, but unde r th e o rder of C °1111: Bellegartle. 3d a ZURICH, MAY 4.—ln the Sitting o f -he •'a May, the Diet heard several n o tes - fro' Ministers read : o alf Ist, Relating to the occupation of the countries fol.viiiar subject to the Orisons-.-2d, That of the Ninustothal. 4j, belonged to the Bishopric of' Basic—ad, ' -The Cohin3tioal)tie semhly, which was to be held on thesd in the 1 - 4 ;'4 1 , 4.le' Valley, which the Ministers do not IproveWvG molition-of the Fortress of fluneng'iiiii. - w hi c h the). ru ig-e . .; to recommend in the most pressing manner to their tioverfour Next the Diet heard a report upon lc of military frontiers of Switzerland—on the re Germany, Prance, It a ly, an d Savo'. T hi l do il, port has for its object to pr ov e that Slt'i tze i i ,. t . tor the maintenance of the neutrality, "g„;, t oc" only to recover her ancient p os sessions , the. quire fresh ones ; am ong others, Huningntei': part of the Bishopric o f B as l e on this side tbe . Jura, Neufchatel, the B a iliwi c k of Ga%i °i f ' oe. side of Savoy, Geneva, and the left hank sr 3 . Lake of Geneva ; o n the side of Italy ,t L, e , be- • lois, the Valley of Folnezzen, t!)e tween the Trosa and the L a k e Maggiore , tu t ' ro d cleat Fort of Fuentes.—The report W as re ' c to a Conimittee. FRENCH FUNDS. 5 per Cents.. 59 fr. 75 cen ts ' Utions of the Baal: . . 967 fr. 50 ceDts• DUTCH PAPERS. Vori yo r: . n . o sszt.. s, MAY 1 , 1. 1 111 e corps of G ell oit llll ( to theek is it already on thattli e ",e march inay tl,l.tx•opuegclt: t v . ,o :: rt '; ' , 1 , 1 1:: iii, f ia a et ) i. j e s ,t. , i r: e t7 3 l f i tel e i : l - te o ilr t ea ls il. b ili o ,:ia t i l li i .o e c s livl o oi f fs t i r lti o lsi o .e p tai . troops )1s . 1 e 7 e 7 . :: : .: 0, , - , - , : . •:::• ori at i t i : is arrived here on the 12th, iii i ' l '1 (: -. P I expected, with the head-quarters o f ---e° G p : a i l ( :: e s:c u e L ms highly probable that , the Belgium Provinces-ivili hay° k frontier ; the French frontiers b:tve; 35 i co w,. - 11QW11, a treble line of fortresses:. th e 11.1.5,t' coil _sisting of Manbei.ge, v,dencienncs, b"'l'yit:ol, at aii ogicii i i l. tt e : r e : r : Donay, , %via, it is thought, be ceded to l~(,lrltt~tt, and France will be indemnified ill " (”1 , ) ,. ° ;, ‘ cci'Y quarter. People h e re b eg in to s nv, th• IL -. , i 3 likely these provinces will he m:ited sv't('4o, neighbouring State. since we lurve t , ". `-'vc .:1,, , 1 , and the contributions exacted " rn or , the req,,kitiousi are , rw'b ( 1; '"' ' /05 , inucli rigour. trou t •:be a, PIiANKFORT, MAY 12._..... 1 I et p tc : .-' ,r Mila n say, that Cie Ificery of if- 1 - 11- a ded his li fe at Mantua. The Italian Artuy &Iva ivitl►