The Sun. — London, England, 1814-05-16 00:00:00

ROYAL q LOUIS, by the'Grace of God, King of France, &c. "In consequence of the representations made to us,, that the Marines, Officers, and others, destined for the armament of our ships of war, have been organized in battalion crews, in a' way to operate n'ost injuriously noon the svttetn of our Naval Force, by an extension of principles, forms, and denominations, exelnively applicable to a Land Force • by Collecting in one vessel and tor only service Marines calculated for different lines of service and disCinline, according,to their degrees, establishment; apd pay ;. by attaching ,iniscriminately to Military Corps men who had not entered into the Naval Service, but with a view of engaging in pursuits of commerce, after having temporarily served on board our ships of war; by inducing in the mariners a neglect of their real duties, in dooming them to a line of rigorous service, without limitation of time ; and, finally, by such conduct, greatly to augment ex pence, without utility to the Naval Service, or to the individuals so employed : " besirous of patting an end to a state of thing's so adverse to the well-being of our inarine; and to the personal interests of so valuable a pin-, tiori of. our subjects, as well as to the salutary in stitutions established by the Kings, our royal pre decessors ; On the report of the Provisional Commis missioners of the Marine Department, and with the ,e.goizatice of,our Council of State ; " We have ordained, and do order as follows First—The Officers 01 . our Marines, Naval Officers, and Sea men, on board our vessels, frigates, and ships of every descrip tion, shall be no longer classed or arianged in battalion crews. " Secondly—All such organization shall cease •on the 30th day of ,Jupe next, at which period the administration and compatibility of these iniliridnias shall be made knOWn. " Thirdly—The Officer; and crews of our different ships of • war shall remain until that period provisionally in the dif ferent ranks and classes prescribed by the existing arrange.. ents. " Fourthly—From and after the Ist day of July in the pre sent year,thrrc shall be no deduction on life score of clothing, quarters, linen,. and stockings, . from the pay of the Naval Officers and seamen on hoard oar vessels; the present 'pay shall be delivered to them clear of deductiOn; our intention beim;, that the saute shall be so received by them until we shall order an increase thereof. " Fifthly—The Commnanders of our ships and other vessels who shall wish to provide for ;,,ne Officers and seamen of the . same. the clothing and maintenance, or who desire to be equipped accort:ing to the usages and customs of our marines, shall be futnished,with the various articles necessary for this purpose. " Lastly—The. principal Commissioners of the Marine De , partment are charged with the execution of the details of this Ordinance. " Given at'Paris, this 10th May, (Signed) " LOUIS. By the King, • " VITgOLLES, Baron, PrcAisional Secretary of State." PARIS, MAY Li-A person in the suit of 'Car dinal GABRIELLI, Who was' on . his way to Rome, writes from Frejus, under date of the Ist inst. as follows : " Amongst those who embarked with Buona parte I recognised Generals Bertrand, Drouet, and Dombrowski: about thirty other - persons formed the whole of his suit. At Marseilles, Where we arrived during the night, an iimneuse crowd collected round -our carriage, under the idea' that it contained tiuonaparte. In vain we shouted " Vive le Rai !" This did not prevent the glasses of the carriage from being shivered ; • and I was obliged to ask for a light, to show the people that it was Cardinal Gabrielli. You see, Sir, Buonaparte pursued us, even though he could no longer injnre us." A new trick has been played off on the sensi bility of the people of Paris. A-number of per sons dressed in military habits went through the streets, begging and,striving to excite the pity of the passengers by lying tales. The General of Division comuranding the Prench troops in Paris has therefore advised the inhabitants not to divert their benevolence from the truly . unfortunate, to assist those wretches, Whose imposture is so much the more culpable; as Government has taken care that the allowances shall be distributed with the most scrupulous exactness, at the different bar racks and hospitals, to those who are entitled to them. On the 28th April, at half-past four in the morn ing, there were felt at Inspruck two strong shocks of an earthquake. The mo►ion was in a direction from east to west. Several houses in the town were damaged. GENOA, APRIL 27.—Lord Bentinck, Conunan der in Chief of the Anglo-Sicilian troops, yesterday issued a Proclamation, in which it is declared-=- " That the Constitution of the Genoese States, as it existed in 1797, is restored, with modifica tions introduced by the general wish; and founded on - the public weal, and the primitive CoustitutiOn of 1576. " That a Provisional Government shall exercise the Legislative and Executive Powers of the State. That two-thirds of the Great and Small Council shall be appointed immediately, the other third will be elected conforthably to the Consti tution, and the list of the citizens proper to be elected shall be formed. • " I declare, iby the present Proclamation, that M. Jerome Serra, President ; Messrs. Ferrari, Do razzo, Brignole, Fresco, Pallavicini, de Albertis, Quartara, Massone, Travega, Selari, and Gandolfo, Senators, are elected Members of the Provisional Government. 1 therefore invite.and order all the inhabitants, of whatever class and condition, to afford their aid and obedience." The Governor of Paris, to prevent abuses in lo:!iing the military, invites all the inhabitants who receive them, to make a return in 24 hours of the name and rank of every Officer belonging to the Allied' Army %vho reside with them. DUCHY OF PatotA.—The Duchy of Parma, with it s &Tendencies, given to the Princess Maria Louisa and her son the Prince Napoleon Charles Francis, contaMs about 380,000 inhabitants. The revenues arc estimated at four millions of francs. The agriculture and interior administration may be cons;derably amelim:ated. This 'Duchy, go verned formerly by, the family of the Farneze, be longed to a branch of thellouse of the Bourbons. Austria was to have the reversiou.—l n 1801 the First Consul compelled the King Of Spain to settle it upon hi►n, and to endeavour to force the Duke to cede it to the French Republic. The Duke firmly refused. Sudde►►ly he was seized, with a violent cholic, which ended his days the Sth of October, of the same year !! • (No. IX.) • I concluded my last' letter with notice of the price of the principal articles of provision inn those parts of France v hich I have visited, and which will (as I have ascertained from conversations with , persons from all quarters) apply very generally and accurately to the whole kingdom. This.will ,afford a very ;avowable idea of the cheapness of living in France, and nudouhtedly a pe.rson of moderate income can attain many objects in this country which his purse could not reach in Eng- , land. The low price of wines, too, adds greatly to die luxuries.which a liMite4l fortune may com mand here. The small Burgundy, which is an excellent and pleasant table beverage, may be 'purchased at• less than a shilling per bottle, and the very finest sorts 'of Claret, Champagne, and Burgundy, may be put in the cellar at from two to four 'shillings per bottle. 'This is the fair side of the picture. On the other, hand, an Eng lishman .who Should prefer the expedient of living 'in France to living in his native land, must consent to many privations in making the exchange, Not to mention the greater se curity of property and of person—not to mention the invaluable rights enjoyed by British subjects, he must consent to the surrender of almost all the domestic con forts of life—at least of those enjoys merits, which we are 'in the habit of accounting our greatest domestic comforts. These are sacri ficed in every point ; in the kitchen, in the bed- , room, in the parlour, in the farm-house,„in the village, in the city. Convenience, cleanliness, delicacy, are unknown or unpractised. Filth mixes most intimately with . grandeur, and nastiness is a habit of the people. Social pl-a sures• are rare, limited, and few in number. • Let us not forget also the laxity of principle and .the subversion of morality, which a dreadful revolution and a long career of guilt have established gene rally over the population of this fruitful land.— .What their wicked Theorists have denominated the demoralization of a people, has been frightfully ac complished in France. It i s a h orr id t hi ng to as sert; but the moral principle seems to be almost extinct in all ranks and classes, from the corrupt and mercenary Senator to the oppressed and un settled peasant. You cannot move without being shocked by the obvious absence 4f every idea of honour in the high, and of honesty in the low.- 1 say, " of honour in the high ;" for I esteem as nothing that depraved source of actionwhich is held up as honour among the military, and which-con sists in a professed, unchusin devotedness to any power that may have acquired the ascendancy, and a readiness to spill their own blood, or the blood of others, in any quarrel, public or private 7 -right or wrong. Upon this.toPie, however, as I shall most probably have to touch again after my in tercourse with the French has been more extend ed, I shall not now dilate ; but the sketch I have given at a first view, is, I am sorry to pronounce, not that hasty one which there is any chance of experience causing me to revoke ! But to return to my subject. There are several other offsets against the pro, side of the accou►►t, in the question of the expediency of living in France or England. I have mentioned most of the necessaries, which are infinitely more reason able in the former than in the latter country : there arc some, however, in which we have the advant,ige, though it is probable that the renewed pacific intercourse of nations will materially diwi nisl► the existing diproportions. For e ample— Coffee is, per lb., Tea Sugar .. • - 4s. to -18 s. to 255. The material sold for tea at the above exorbitant price is, moreover, a vile mixture of the leaves of various plants, and not the genuine produce of the East. Except at Calais (where, I imagine, it was smuggled from Indiamen in the Downs), and in one or two other instances, I met with no thing that really bore any affinity to tea. In ex amining the leaves of the decoction in one case, where the taste was extremely dissimilar from what is usual, I found that the tea leaves were a species of birch, as broad as the joint of my thu►nb, and nearly as large. These, shrivelled up by the agency of fire, made excellent tea for the Parisians :—they, however, wisely prefer coffee, and our Ladies' favourite beverage is very little in demand. In all useful utensils, too, the French are an age behind the English. Their cutlery is • miser able, except in a few trinkets—their saddlery is worse. The manufactures of Birmingham, Man chester, and Sheffield, must .be invaluable in France, where they have neither knives to cut, the minor conveniences of the kitchen or the table to .use, nor a general supply of raiment to wear. In glass and porcelain (atleast in their price) they have again the advantage. Looking- glasses, IA Lich would cost an enormoue sum in private houses. In this comparative calculatiln it would also be requisite to estimate the loss of money in the transfer from the one country 'to the other. At present, a fund of. 10001. in England could not be realized in France without experiencing a dimi nution, at a very moderate computation, of 2001. very probably of 3001. This heavy loss or; the exchange will, of course, be lessened in the course of time, but present it forbids all jaunts to France on the score of economy. From Noailles to Puisseux, 1-1- post. At Puis seux commences the paved road, which is conti nued all the way to Paris. This, must be a great accommodation in winter, when the \ weather is 'wet ; but in the summer- sea Son, when dry, it is better to drive along the side of the pavement, on the common road. -From Puisseux to Beau mont is the next stage, of 11 post ; from Beaumont to Moisselle, the. next, IL. post ; and from Mois selle Denis, of an equal length., the last corn , mon stage -to Paris ; that from St. Denis being a post royal, and paid double. this division of the route, nothing worthy of notice occurred. The country continues to . improve as you approach Paris. There is more wdod, and a richer cultivation. Here, as at other stages, I had the curiosity to look into the stables while we were Changing horses. These esta blishments contain in general from 40 to 60 horses; .and. there are others employed in agriculture, which, on the occasion of a great run upon the road, are put in requisition. The transition from the plough to the cabriolet, or from the waggon to the coach, is made with little trouble ; nearly the same harness does for both, and the same species of cattle is indifferently applied to all pur poses----for tillage, or postage, or riding, or draw ing‘ I have before mentioned that these horses were in good condition, and, in spite of their figures (which -promise no speed), get pretty ra pidly over the ground. You will be as much sur prised to hear as I was to find, that, in nine in st4oces.'out of ten, their sole food is straw ! Like the Irish . story of the potatoes - for breakfast, din ner,, and supper, so is it with- these animals, and their parallel variety of straw-in the morning, straw, at noon, straw at night. The only exception which I discovered to this prevailing mode of nourishment was at -one or two Post-houses, where a small measure. of bran was afforded as a singular treat' to the horses, ,which : had been greatly fatigued with a• multiplicity of runs in the course of a few hours. As far oats, or any other kind of grain, it is, by nil accounts, so long .since a French hoise; not in the army, has, tasted pro duce of this kind,, that it is very questionable whether any of them Would relish such feeding, or, if they did, know how to masticate matter of a quality so hard and dry ! Before 'travelling - my last stage into Paris,. I may take this opportunity of 'noticing, that by the rules of the Police, which are scrupulously attended to, no carriage is allowed to pass ano ther on the road for the purpose of arriving first at the post-house. Races between postboys and coachmen are therefore unknown. If, howeVer, one carriage is stopped by accident, by the rupttire of some of the harness, the defalcatiOn of a wheel, or any of those occurrences' so, frequent in France, those in the rear have a right to go on, and take the lead ; but unless this is the case, no cabriolet dare venture to drive past another which maintains its course upon the high way. The same priority attaches religiously to the furnishing of horses at the post houses. No bribery can procure them for one ve hicle till its predecessor shall have been provided. First come, first served," is their unvarying and excellent motto. Determined to enter Paris by day-light we lost no time in pushing on from St. Denis, which we left about five o'clock on the Friday afternoon, having thus performed the journey from Calais, by ordinary means, in about thirty-six hours. The road here becomes very attractive, not only from the near approach to the great city, but from the view of several celebrated places and pa laces on either side. At this time it was rendered peculiarly interesting, from its pas Sing over a part of the field of Montmartre, where the last blow was given to the fortunes of Bnonaparte ; where the possession of Paris was conquered ; :where the Allies, in an arduous struggle, reaped the fruits of all their toils; and where the liberties of all nations, and the peace of Europe, were accomplished. Even at this period there were sonic vestiges remaining of this immortal day. Upon the heights the effect of the cannonade was still visible ; and here and there, upon or near the road, lay a dead horse, the burial of which tithe had not yet permitted. In other re spects, however, all was as if no such battle had ever been fought. The fields, so lately stained with human blood, and disfigured with the mu tilated corpses of the slain, .were green with cul tivation—over the road formed by the transport in tranunility-- - where the bugle and the "l im p et so recently sounded the dreaditil charge ; wli the noisy drum drowned the groans of the . a . fld confontid in rude clamour the agonies of battle ;' where carnage revelied„ .and the smoke, and fire, and thunder of war was terrible ; even there, within , so sho rt a s p ace, rural quiet and pastoral simplicity reig t e d undisturbed sovereignty. The song of the LIT .bottrer in the field had entirely succee ded to tho strife of the warrior ; the with lovely herbage did not ; seem as if its roots had • been mnisteneoi cv human gere. The celebrated heightg of t Li martre on the left, crowned with windmills ja:‘: WOli d activity, looked gay and animated. ful and mutable are the affairs of maul, About six o'clock we entered Paris- , —Of in its present state, I shall endeavour to you some idea in my ensuing Letters. VIATOIL AliktiV . ED , --1 France, 1 Heligoland, J St. S e bastian . , I . sey, I Jers4,.. 3 llu ilin, 5 Waterford. P" ---1 Heligoland.- PRICE Of THIS DAY AY T% N E H L a V n B k 0 1 11. g OT 0 Is f I . Ve tli‘ F STOCKS, : . India Bonds, Ss. 99. Vl' i Exehequet:Bills, bs. Is. 2r. 1 Omnium, 19 pi- I Con6ols for Accouut, 6 6 1 - .stock-Broker, 's: a coroll4 , , i. 0. 7 No. is, Coventry street. Bank Stock, 3 per Cent. Bed. 65ii 3 per Cent. Cons.'66li 4 per Cent. Cons. 81i 5 per Cent. Navy Ann.. 951 • E. ElifON, . and • ' S u e o aver price of Brown or Mugeo rau° s o ggro computed from the Returns Made - in the week 0 ,6 ' 4 May, 1314; is 83s. 9d. pce cwt. i ts HIGH WATEit AT LONDON . BIUDGE nnntt utes at" ~ • Morning, 16 minutes after 12. I Evening, 0.1 --eroe J 'l-4' SUN. SOLED 011 S DICERE FALSUM ADVEAT LONDON, MONDAY', 211_11 - 16, 1814. Paris Papers and Private Letters to the -;) have arrived since our last. The grand v is represented as being in a state of gre at 1.1) , wardress ; so much so, indeed, as to allow'" expect its signature in the course of the Pr esel .; ' week. It is stated to consist mainly of th e f° lowing Articles : The Cape of Good hope, Malta, the WO and Tobago, to remain British. Gnadaloope to Sweden. All the other French and Dutch CoOor:Icg restored. , to t ; ''' The Fleet at Antwerp to be given 'II I . French and Dutch, and/the Scheldt to be °Pe Warlaw (Grand Duchy) to Russia. f oi r ec.- Venice and its Dependencies, INlnntng 3 • I^' chiera, to Austria 5 which Power Ills° (lirit Saxony with the King of BRUSSIA. IA Sr) AlvaAr to have Naples, and King FER I)- ' o f Sicily, with an indemnity in Italy for the I°'s his Neapolitan Dominions. „„ eri So much has been stated in a -Morning but it will be seen that there arc many,fl°t . portant points not touched upon in this entw ie ce tion. The fate of Poland, of Belgium, of itself, is not defined ; not a syllable is swi d °i ct u new Commercial Code which must be establ i '' , ' 04 , nothing of the re-modification of the Cook`leoP , tion of the Rhine. These are the princiP l 103 .. jects of interest ; and, from the above p 111131 1: t ime tion of minor points, we can only infer , thaet so larger arrangements in disc u s s ion are.flut et definitively settled as to per m it u s to I )l3 k t e ' i ) to confidence on the report of their being be so early adjusted. With respect to MunAT's liinadin ti ' " : e n 7 ve oalof s strong, invincible obje c ti ons t o it. So '°- -3 ' BUONAPARTE lives, and a Relative of bis ( el l unprincipled and u nen titl e d to S ov ereigu t Y ) r l n t t s t' there will be a rallying point for the ItoP e ' 0- t' i • turbulent, and the machin a tions of the clis3tle°l:ll. We have cut off the Ulcer w hi c h infect ed the - (1 politic of Europe, and are we still to 13 ' 4 1 ? c5 ,- -e . 0- ,with a Wart ? We trust not Let tbis B ' '... t ll l7 er- Iconic excrescence share the fate of l'i r() in-law—there is room in Elba for titers leas to I C l ;i e b r i e ml i t s al u ., Elba. We imagine this is a jeu desP rit 1 ,is tioiis a rencOntre between the Another report, in a Paper of yes"' 4-- s having report that beca Bu refusedoN A ...j and those of the Allies, in P a ris, it' "' id' d I . in consequence 0, persons were killed ; apd that, this serious affray, the French troops sy'l ordered to quit the city. This los been c )1 , - 1 . Journals; all tradicted in several Morning the.pi c. we are happy to add our teStilnOny yin exaggeration f bability of its being a gross old i;iricnliitj ranee4ro..ool,o some preceding and unimportant fracns.---Irnme diately after the review of the Fretlc h tr° " s ' ten da • v ri Glin- sake of conveniencv alone, ordered to x° 'n , days ago, the greater part of them 'kvere , for the bleau and other places, so that there `:as not 1