The Sun. — London, England, 1814-05-14 00:00:00

JOURNAL OF A TRIP TO PARIS. (No. VIII.) From 13eanvais to Noailles is about ten Miles, through a fine country. Here the choicest fruit trees supersede, all along the road, the more lofty -and beantitid, ilioUgh less prOdueti've • spicies of wood. At every eight or ten - paces - stands an apple or pear-tree, and there ate, besides, a multi tude of orchards entirely open anti unenclosed. Passed,a . considerable number of French Guards in progress for Paris, to take the duty on ti►e ie ception of the King. Their uniform and appear ance, altogether is superb. It happened curiously enough, that at the * moment we were in contact with this corps, they were met by an equal body of Allied troops, Prussian Lancers, proceed ing\towards the. coast.. They crossed each other without ceremony or salute—as far as 1 could as certain, without interchanging a single word Who could have looked for such a rencoutre an the road between London and'Paris • At Noailles stone(: the Mansion belonging, in better times, to the noble family of that name, the chief of which suffered under the sanguinary code of the'revolutioriary Butchers, who forced his Son to fly for safety to Britain, in the service of whic!, Country, I believe, he holds a Com Mi ssion. It is now the property of . .Marshal Mon cry, will - ) married a Daughter of the old Loitt.— , There is a degree of dignity about all the Cha t teaus in France : they resemble the old Seats cf our Country Gentlemen in their architecture ; . and being generally •embowered in wood, with rich lawn - , and extensive avenues, they possess an air of grauleitr unknown to the spruce neatness and nice arrangement of modern Villas. The impres sion upon the mind, made. by theirrespectable and venerable appearance, is much heightened by the association of ideas which must crowd upon the sotil of a reflecting man, in ,viewing them, under their present circumstances. Who, for example, could contemplate the Palace of the Noailles, with out being agitated by a variety of stramg emotions ? Memory, in an instant, glances back to the days of former years, not very distant in this country, When the Seigneur, like a Prince among his feudal .vassals, kept here a Court in miniature, 'dispensed the laws, showered down favours or doomed to 4isgrace, rendered happy or caused to be wretched, a numerous circle of -tenantry, from the farmer down to the lowest peasant; while all these looked up to him as a ,l)tirri, of a superior order, less only than the Xing, the fountain of all that was then )ntld to be great and good. Let us record it too in honour of these Lords, that there was not one in a hundred of them but plated his delight in con ferring benefits and dispensing blessings upon his dependants ; that they held it to be the duty of their lives to give comfort, .ease, and joy to that Sphere of which they were , the centre. Such a man was the Marquis de Noailles, whose blood flowed on the revolutionary altar—whom traitors murdered fOr his loyalty to that Sovereign in whose martyrdom they exulted with the fury of -Demons, From this bloody date we trace the habitation of the Lord of the Manor, in successive vicissitudes, the property of partizans of one or other of the Fa ctions which shared in turn the exercise of power over lacerated France. The scaffold or the dagger remov ing these ephemerae, the noble mansion becomes desolate, and the fruitful land a desert ; a dreadful silence usurps the possession of the once festive and sonorous saloon—weeds- oboak the germs of useful vegetation—want and=' wretchedness the ruined dwellings of the people. The• vestiges of these ruins still remain. To this state of things succeeded the new order, of which Buonaparte was the spring and mover. On the establishment of a military despotism, the territories which bad run through this variety of owners, and the chateaus which had subinitted to this diversity of occupation, were consigned to the Palladins of the Corsican Tatnerlane. The pillars on whose beads rose his dome of splendour were richly founded and nobly adorned. Among others,the lands of the Noailles fell to the share of Moncey it would have been well had all the rest of the spoil been no worse bestowed. But since these acquisitions are now likely to be confirmed and perpetuated, it is impossible to reflect with out displeasure and regret upon the unworthi ness of many of their possessors.' It is easy to overlook the adherence of many Soldiers of Fortune to. Buonaparte, and even the ,service rendered-lim by Men of Honour and Family, who found it impossible to emancipate themselves from the bondage of his system. To such, the reward of coarav and conduct, even in a bad cause, might be due and -if they. have acted a becoming part, these dignities do not - disgrace them. But what can be said. of the vile robbers who have waded through blood and infamy to these favours from s.u. infamous Master—to the DIIVOUSt6 . , the Suchets, same worthle.'s stamp Tbe Gallows, instead of Seignories, claim these scounbt,is-, whose atro- cities arc unparalleled ill 11i:4w-3r- 7 -and it is la. i mentahle, that in passiug to a *better order of things, justice should come to he:So utterly eon founded, as to adMit of their retention of property most i(illattottsly acquired. I As a finish to the wonderfol .changes I liave ecu reeount!ng, I passed, at the gate of thy. Cha teau tie Noailies, a regiment of Russian Lancers, a remarkably fine body of men, marching, with their gay flags of red and green. These War riors, froni the Tanais or the Volga, were doomed . to restore the Bourbons to their Throne—the Nobles of France to the Domains of their Fa thers ! 'At a short distance from this interesting spot, tor', I met the first Cossack I saw' on French ground. Ile was riding' alone, with his spear in the rest, unconscious ofthestrangeness of the scene, and of the unparalleled concatenation of events which led hiin'thus to pairole, in fearless security, .the central provinces of ancient France. From this period, at every turn of the. road, parties of the troops of all nations of Europe were ineesSaAttly coating into view. The wild and foreign appear ance of mostof them formed ,ft striking contrast with the fertile country, and the avenues.ot fruit trees, through which their various ranks were 'seen to wind : it resembled a revolution in,nature,. or, tho relapse of a half score of centuries, to see the bearded Cossack soldier or the mail-clad cuirassier thus parading through ti.e corn-fields, or travers ing the orchards of the Oise. Every town and village, every diStinet habita- , tion, had its quota of.military quartered upon it. Not ,a but in .this part of uhe . country . but lodged a quondam enemy—it might justly be . added, and a cooqueror. The French national passion has certainly thrown a decent veilover this humiliation; but it is not easy to disguise a solid fact. Vanity itself, however, could require no greater baleit than the truism, that it neededtbeCoinbinedWorld to beat them down—for down to the Very earth have they been beaten. The clemency, and mo deration, and justice of the Victors, too . , softened the blow to the vanquished. Neither would it be necessary to record this memorable historical event, but that it. may have i'salutary effect upon the spirit of the Country alluded to--,-a part of the population of which are, perliaps, too tipt to deceive themselves, and forget the eircuinstan.es of the past campaign,-.-eircuarstances which they ought to remeniber, without experiencing; any sense of degradation, and which ought to ope rate powerfully in restraining. any. dangerous feel ings which may exist, hostile to the future bar men), and repose of Europe. On looking over this letter, I find so much of it didactic and political, that I trust you will not dislike my changing the subject, to finish it with' a notice of the prices of provisions in this coun try. I may premise, that the cattle are not of the best kind, according to my English conceptions — that is to say, they arena very fiat. This, how ever, makes little Or no dilfer4nloe . in French cookery, lean meat being in tact better adapted than fat for the manufacture of their dishes, stews, ragouts, boullis, &c. Beef is per lb. io sous. Mutton • Lamb, scarce and dear. -Veal ' p, io sous. Eggs are, for 2G Butter, a weight of apparently about of a lb: l5 sous. Graytre cheese; cheap; •-other iinds'clearcr than in En;;- land. • Potatoes as dear as in England, of a small kidney species, with rerl-r tlds. Aspavagns (vat of 'a very fine qualM; from 10 to sous the bundle of about 100. . • Bread, the trench griartern (a loaf about a yard'ioni, like those in the French' CoffeehonSes in London), 15 sous, or little more than half the price Of thebread in England. • This loaf has been as . bigh as 20 sous, Which was deemed an exorbitant price. Tbe price of meat is also reckoned extravagant ; and it would, in fact, be two sous per pound cheaper, but for a heavy Octroi, or duty, paid by cattle of every kind in passing along the roads. There is no appearance of actual scarcity in any of the articles I have enumerated; and this seems wonderful' to a traveller, who, in journeying through 2 or 300 miles of country, does not see it single extensive pasture, a drove of neat, or a lai . ge flock of sheep. Poultry is more plentiful, but, owing to the great demand, at a compara-: tivelv high price : fowls are from two to four france, and ducks nearly as Much. Game (par.;. tridges) is still put on table, even at this season of the year,; and pigeons are abundant—so is pig - eoning ! VIATOR. Count TR.A. „TTNTANSDORFF, Grand Equerry to the Emperor r; , T.?tA, has, it is said, pur 7 chased for his Majd9ty the Duke of Hur- LAND'S filVolltite ho, ;e ut high rice of 1700 guiuces. • COPENHAGEN, AP)I4L, hate received from Norway two Wifcial DocMfletifs, from tirti.ick the 4 followipt; is an extract : " By a decree of the Ist March, Prince Cnttts- TIAN' raEocatc, Regent of Norway, has appoint ed a Council of Regency to act under his au thority, in the administration of the interior of the kingdom. lie afterwards addressed the fol lowing Proclamation to hi+ troops :--- " Brave Norwegian Warriors !—Upon your courage depends the hopes of a whole People. Know, that the first condition exacted for the surrender or Norway was, that all ale fortresses and munition of war should be yielded urto the Swedish trodps, and that all of , you should be disartned. But this shall not be. Your heroic valour shall preserve Norway. The old men, . the mothers;and the children of - this liin shall rest in safety under the '}Egis of those warriors . _ who ate led to the field by your \ General and your Regent. Let our motto be, " Victory and Li berty, or Death'!" BERLIN . , APRIL 30.—The Military Govern ! . ment has issued the following Ilis Excellency Gen. count TAUENZIEN has concluded a suspen sion of arms with the Governor of the fortress of Magdeburgli. The garrison of this place has acknowledged the new French Government 'and relinquished the .tri-coloured cockade; in ceinSe-. quence of which the communications by laud and water are 'opened with Magideburgh." . ITALY, APRIL 29.—Baron IttocaTt, Prefect, ad interi»z,. of the Department of Coni, has an- . nounced, that a considerable portion of the French Army in Italy will traverse - that Depart ment in tbeir route to France, and in °Her to Make.rOont for the Allied Troops. ..GENon, APR I L 30.- . -:-Thursday 1a.4 was a happy and memorable day for us. Lord published a Procltimation for the re-esta blishment of ! the Genoese Nation upon the • basis of the ancient Republic. A Provisional Govern ment has been already appoluted : it is composed of 13 Members, chosen from among persons-who cujoy the..,highest share of public confidence and consideration. lly an Arrae 91 the Provisional Government, Many - arbitraq imposts haTebeela abolished. BASLE, Apttit. 29.----For some days numbers of Austrian troops have marched through this place, on their return from France. The Provisional Government of Geneva has re sumed its functions. AGEN MAY 4.-;--The Duke of ANGOO'LENIE, yielding to the . intreaties of Marshals the- Dukes of IiLBUFP,RA and DALtuATIA, went from Thou: louse to Narbonne and Carcassenne, to receive the homage of the armies which they comiimnd. It is thought that his loyal Highness will arrive iu our town on Sunday .next. PARIS, MAY 11.—By a decision of his MA .IRsTI', dated the 9th May, the 69 chests of di plutnatic Papers belonging to Holland, now in the Office of.the MiniSter for Foreign.Atiairs, shall fie restored to the Dutch Government. _ MANIIEDt, MAY s.—Her Imperial Majesty the Empress of all the RussxAs arrived this day, at four o'clock in the afternoon, in this City, by way of Rohrback, with her Serene Highness the Dowager Margravine of LADEN, her mother, and. the Queen of SwEnmst., her sister. The people . went in crowds to meet the Princesses, and they were received with every mark of respect and • honour. The ,Garrison was under arms—the City Gaud, on horseback, formed their retinue— the fiat Authorities complimented them—the cannon were filed from the ramparts, and all the bells were rung. KemPTEN, APRIL 30.—A Courier arrived at four o'clock this afternoon from the borders of the Rhine: We have the news that the ;Irchduchess MARIA. ,LovisA 'was' to pass Me on the 3d, and to continue her route for Ketnpten, Inspruck, and . Salzbourg, for Vienna. Kempten is the first Bavarian city, where she will pass, the night of the sth 3 -a hundred and sixteen horses are order ed her• and her suite. The whole of her retinue travel in two divisionS ; so that the se cond •may be never more than twelve hours in joining the first, which is composed of four car riages with six horses, and of fohr carriageS with four horses. The second division_ is composed of the carriage of the Empress, with eight horses ; of six others with six horses, of five With four horses, and of two with two horses. PARIS, MAN- 10.—His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor ALEXADER, palit. a visit this morning to his Itoya4 Highness the Duke de BERRI, at tire Pavilion .7,larsan, at the Castle of the Thuill cries . His Majesty, in . getting into his carriage, was sa-' hued by the !while with cries of " Hoe rEnz- I • • pereur mixed w i th those of " ITive le Due de - Berri !'• who attended him back to his carriage. The four Commissioners of the Allied Powers, who • accompanied BuoNArArtTE to the Isle of Elba, have returned to, Paris. All that has been said of his fear and of his disguises is of the greatest' accuracy, and i 3 confirmed in all its details. He cried the moment that he saw' ttuy riot—his features changed-41e was always .afraid of being killed. If the mob increased, he shed torrents of tears—when he believed the. danger past, he affected great security— renewed the conversation, spoke much, but his ideas were not connected—it appeared that his head was every day deringed. He manifested, without ceasing, a desire to go to England. He ! lid not testify the slightest regret in quitting Franck .—(Gaz. de France, llth May,) Many indigent persons hare addressed the Ett perot of Russia to demand relief. Ilk Majesty could not know the real Wants of each of them, and, willing to divide the succours in an equal manner, remitted to each of the Clergymen of Paris a sum intended to be distributed among the indigent of their parish. .. _ MATT s• ' AnitivED-2 Dublin. DrE—l Malta, . 1 Guernsey, 1 Jers^7, 1 Du:3lin, 3 Waterfard. Pi( ICE OF STOCKS 1913 1).1Y Al TVVI:f.Vk o'ci,t)CK. Bank Block, I Bank Lone Ann. 15 i - laiii 3 per Cent,. Ved. 0-):1T4 i '47 'es Inilia 11.inds, 7s. SS:pr. a per Cent. Col's. 1.;147,4 Ekcitequer Bills,'Rg.. ss. pc. 4 per Cent. Co ^l' ' Cans. T o,nicimn, 19 p r. .5 prr Cent. Nary Ann. 93; Cottstilvtor Account, ,C7,4f.;:! L. LrroN. ;Stec!:-I.lrolter. No,-,2, Cosni,lli, soul No. IS, Co.ve.ntiyrstrecV. • HIGH IVATV.II. AT LONDON 131tIT3GF. TO-N 1 011119,1 v. Morning., minutes after 10.1 Evcniag, giin6tes'a'ftes JO, F r E SITN. SULENI ntLium AuDEAT? LONDON, 542'7111 . 1),1Y, itrA V 14, 1814. rv~*~"~ • • . We have received French Papers, of a date ot o- - day later than those we inserted _ye,stertlay Their contents are of . minor iMportance, and,dis close _no political fact worthy of .partic ular n otice: ~ •:. The KtNo has issued two Procla m ationsr the '. • . . one dated the 5' th, and the , ether thc:P" 3- ‘ 1511. ' In the former,. his - MA,JESTY ex h i s . a‘ str e ,:•. nishment and his regret, that notwithstao(lillg t 1 Convention of the .2.3. d ult: the • Co c 11 0 : 31. 4 1 7:: .: ' and Intendants of the Allied Armies enforce War contributionS, and to make verYe.. xtu' ' • sive requisitions ; and 'after stating the assurances which he has received from the Allied Sover ei g ns ? • ,• : • ten .that such measures are contrary to tool. in tions, his MAJESTY orders, that 'the proper A'',' thorities in erety Department shall be proi'i ded i.r. , , „ to ~ the Allied TrOops, and forbids his subjec ts comply with: any .other requisitions, w' . 193 1 1 be made. - The second relates to 'the diffidu L : i .• ties and obstacles .Avhich are 'experienc ed •„,,eo .the collection of duties and imposts, o ccasi"7 • by the impatience of the People to r 4 I burthens ' with whicli they are 'oppressed. .i the. P' MAJEsTy reminds the People that, under sent circumstances, it is impassiblegran t.ille to . 13 0 at once the relief they're:Ore, and call °P °° subjectsto submit, fur a short time, to 0 e p re;:' sure, until other laws and:re . 1 t• 0 05131 ` 1 gu a to ~ L . adoptel, calculated to 'affOrd theta the reLiei ''- get rid of t 1 which they are so paturallyanxious. - hfe4 r- The condition of Norway is, certainly:- a s w ' - , 4c tf' of considerable. delicacy. If . W.c believe t he fa c=' 0 0i that - the opposition of - the People is sporoo.-, to t i)e anti genuine, arising out of their averSioO , 7 fe ... Swedes, and not the artful excitement::oi ; rested persons, there is seftrcely a fiA ll i g e ' s , c ri- . nature which most not be pained by ti r ' 0 1 fire which they are being forced to 0 111- • • is '''.- hearts must go, with them, though, our be''' . ,A„. 0. 0 .! c , -. own the alliance. *Politically coniidere , '' 1 ,0 s ett sion of Norway (as a Part of Denmark) cQ w qp , is, notwithstanding thenoise madaabout it b Y 313 1 ,t.. position, whose ingenuityis severely t(occd1(111 „, ters to censure, is one of the dearest Iliut iiirrt t 11• i proachable acts that ever was resorted roL pity the people if they are averse to tint traos fec . F+ but the fault is that of their own Governincor'. • , ! „ A ble . which they are (it may be unhappily) r" s r l ~i Sweden was an Ally of the Combined VO vel . )0 ,s 0 i Denmark an Enemy. . '.l compact co pact for th e cc co, pl 0 of Norway therefore bad no refere"ee' .. .ested have no reference, tc? Norwegian rights, bu t 1 0 0 ; entirely upon the right of conquest. 1 - 1 1 °) . ~ r 0) ,.. ground we cannot scent" iota of the cottdPetiocts, of our own +Government or of the Allied C 3 VC which exposes them to a Single icio 3c4 . ' ;et ut - ' .it be remembered; too, that lit; claims " , e wilti by Prince CHRISTiAN *tire altOuether 11'eVV :1!: l d i e ri,`,1 1 ' , ing upon an assumption, of integrity an -I al , d . 1 • io t . h dence .on the' part of the cOtintrY, iv i. it , se exisf .at the :period of the sTreaty: . 1 . 9 • r• ,s ,, i ce paratiort from. • Denmark.: • For o i u r , e . e !: i t :„ 8 :14, would much rather. that Nor Way 130°Itg- 1 Of l l , ii(j . , '''' i Prince than to a Prince of the se b° ' . 1 ~,s e , in , PARTE, of whose . sineeritl, - in the go°'. ,t , e st ronf, spite of this bribe, we entertain tti • -.t 0 , ot : b e - doubts. But a . sacred engagement .° 1 " bn , ver cr violated to soothe - 2 partial fej i " ' g' 5,15 , : t lle ~ strgnj ,; and, : at present, we 'regret , t o '' ' conquest of N'orwaY must be 1 1 - ----------- were ( The letters by the Gottenbur,gb Val . 01 ,; %...... livered front the Post Office ye 4 t erd '" l '„; the 12 i them we have ad vices from ICAsivt,"'' `,,,", N ,,ye, instant: Forty-six sail had arrived froi . q _L l ' ne s)i i t t,i under convoy of Cite Alereurilis., a . ''! 11 1 ,in , , ,. Th ,. .: from Leith, protected by to, tr on acc"" t I 5() in number, had 'been 1 t.ri yen bac- I had 01) , merhantmen from Carscronsal"aP:;.l of the state of the ice, and many of th eil • • : is tamed shelter in Hano. - "o-morroA, Advices from Paris state, that ' ~-:, a m "er ,, r the day fixed for the departure of tbc , ' - ' on i tl i c ir fillishei- The y we' L . i „, „ ro w• 4LEXANDER and the King . of PRu ssl . l , C l i t s l l : l3 " ' proposed visit to England. I 4 : . ,} e ocrat Jt. ' .I s - ceded by :Marshal Bi...vcana atv a nt. c ien cr.4 The Prince Royal of WinTamaerto, a .. ...„ 1. _ VON BssEN and OPPEN, are already all l' E .-, E ,,,1; Yesterday the Russian Ambassadf27r., Secant of LtvstaPoor. and BATHURST, WWI -% I ltSGt'll." MOUTH, bad audiences of the PRIN GS