The Sun. — London, England, 1814-04-29 00:00:00

JOUftNALi oti‘ A TP.II' TO PARIS. MR tpiTott, (Yo. III.) . . France, that land of delight, of .boast, of von der; that land, of which its children are -never . tired of speaking in enthusiastic terms of rake ; • Przence, changed by despotiSm, ruined, deport,- iated; covered with hostile arms, but greatly blest 1.77 tiazure with the means of resroratkin, is now before us : and, mixing,'as I shall do, observations 'of every bind together, glancing from politics to agriculture ) and from serious matters to trifles, I continue the narrative begun in mflaat letter. On Thursday the 21st, left _Calais a quarter be tore G o'clock, and at 7 reaclfed. BuisSon, 2 posts. The country appears to be finely - cultivated, and though this northern road ,to Paris runs through the poorest soil and Ivorst climate of France, it was yet so rich and beautiful as to attract my ad miration, The rising wheat looked extremely strong ;:vegetation not more advanced than in the neighbourhood of Londen.• , The difference which first. strikes an English - pion is the absence of fences. There is no hedge , or division of any kind, and the whole country is only one large field, patch e d out i nto crops , or follows, with - an occasional wood, or the occur rence of a few bushes. This detracts much from the beauty of the landscape. There is a sameness of appearance, not diversified by a ,single devia tion from ploughed land and greensward, which, in spite of the richness of the one and the fertility _of the other, fatigues the eye,. and conveys no pleasurable emotions to the mind. But the ,want of variety ib the tace - Of the coun try is amply- compensated to: a stranger .by the singidarity and variety which attaches' to the people. At Buisson our postillion mounted in the old costume. I imagined,. that, instead of waking out of the dream in which all 'Europe has been Occupied for the last, twenty years, and which, When I left London, I heard persons say ing, was just over, - I had again - plunged into that wonderful state where fancy forgets reason, and had gone back fifty years into ancient France.— Thelaige cocked hat, the powdered and ponderous queue, the ragged tires's, flid, beyond all, the enormous jack-boots into which this veritable. Frenchman inserted his puny limbs, restored 'me to half a century, and I became in an instant the .companion of the writer's / of that day, whose lu enbrations are now almost forgotten. , Away we went, in a style worthy of the costume of our driver. Nothing hut cracking and flourishing, but a i ntotnetitary cessation of these accomplished ma noeuvres, to look. behiad and see how they were admired by my-tor Anglois. During the remainder of the journey nearly the same objects presented. themselves ; and, if the postillions may be taken as an example of the stability of manners, habits, and opinions in France, the mighty Revolution, which has agitated the whole world, hats pro duced no alteration in the country of its birth. 'The country people, too, are not altered in their habits more than the postillions-. We passed the farmers' wives and daughters on tiliii way to the market at Boulogne, mounted, as in days of yore, on the panniers of their asses or little horse, in tile costume of the paintings of 1714, riding . Sid eways, and jogging on with the perfect uniformity of -last century. At Mar:vise, the eahriolets• were surrounded by at least a dozen of beggars—w-ornen, ren, the lame and the yhei . e . were no Ronteir among them, yet the objects of charity weve'so well calculated to excite compassion, that the frank which had been converted into sous, in expectation of these applications, Was very qUick ly exhausted, and still there were a nuniher of wretches whose Ivan tlnd meagre looks claimed sytnpathy and relief. I never witnecsed so muc misery within so small a compass. I alighted, and went into a Hut to procure change for an oth.n. frank. There sat a wounded soldier, un able to come out to solicit relief. Thirty,Con seripts‘had been dragged from the little flamlet of 'Marquise —the whole of its vigorous popula tion. He was one of th em; the only one wh o 'bad returned ! . This, I assure you, Sir, isno•overdrawn picture, As proceed with my journal, I shall have to tell yoU, that from Calais' to Paris there is scarcely a young man to be seen . . What _I had heard in England of the destruction•of the strength and gt:Anhood of France, in the cruel wars into which t h e ., ambition of a Demon plunged her, turns out to mere faint outlines of the horrid truth : sketch', and a slight sleteli, of the exhaustion of t co;" rhq filling up o f w h ich is too dread-. ful for belief, even ware there a pencil able to delineate it on its own dark and forcibl e colour.. jug. Vroue 11-larprise we proceeded to J3otilogne, where I met a party of Prussiau..Liassars. They of ,t 4 pride and arrogance of the Upslart—these were the men who had bumbled that pride and quelled that airogance—still surrounded with Scaffolding, and with an :appearance of, labour about this FOLLY will now, of course, never be completed. In ft ruined state, it will afford " a better lessoti to mankind than if it had been finished., . 'At•B9ulogne every house displays, the :tvhite flag. The very lowest or:lers of the people, if they cannot muster eusigujor reach the.adorn mcnts of tinsel flenrs-delis, at least hang out .a white handkerchief, or protrude a rag of that cu lone at _the extremity of a broonisticit', Attach- merit to the Royal cause was univei - siilly exhi bited, At the gate our passports were demanded, and our names registered---;the only place at which this was dune on our route. The regular packets between Cie conntries be ing re-established, it may he no master uf sur prise that we should inept the Diligence coming from Paris, and laden with passengers for Eng land. To this vehicle it is impossible to do jus tice,. Three of the iliost crazy ,hackney coaches in London, set upon the wheels and perch, 2tc. 'of a stage waggon, Might somewhat resemble it ; only that the. coaches would be handsome in com parison, and the lower works too light and easy! Taken altogether, with the usual harness of ropes, and the accompaniments of haybands, the gro tesque appearance of the.coachnian, and the odd disposition of the •Passengers, a Paris Diligence is one of the curiosities of France. The,post is just setting out; I must; therefore, leave the Diligence, and bid you hastily adieu. VIATOIt. Boulogne, April 21,.1814. FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, APRIL 24.—Monsieur received this dair,. in the Hall of the Throne, the Commissioners who are appointed to go into the different Provinces, and addressed then: in the 'following terms : GENTLomm,--1 have entrusted you with as important Missiou ; I have chosen you, in order thatl7renc;nu en enter 7 tai Sing different opiniOns should all be male acquainted. with the state of France. You teach them how necessary it is, that the past should be forgotten, that mutual sacrifices must be made, and that a sincere re-union of the wishes and of thn efforts of all is necessary to repair so many disasters. Carry hope to the Peop:e, and report truth , to the King. Tell everywhere, repeat it in the cottages of the poor, that the , King is arrived with . thesentimen44 of a Father, and that he will participate in the sufferings of his Children until he has relieved them." Marshal Brune, respecting whose fate set many reports hare:been in circulation, has addressed a letter to the Provisional Government, dated Brives, in the - Limousin, the 12th April, in which he announces his concurrence in all the acts of the Senate" and of the Provisional Government. By a decree of his ExCellency the Senator Grand Master of the University, the use of the . drum is suppressed in all the Lyceum Colleges. BOLOGNA, APRIL G.-The Sovereign Pontiff Pius VII. made his entry into Partna on the 25th of March. As soon as the King Of Naples eras informed of the arrival of his. Holiness attheout ports on the Taro, his Majesty sent his principal Chamberlain . (the Duke of Campomele) to meet him, to present him with the homage of hlsfilial piety, and to offer him every thing he might stand in need,of. The Armies paid to the Holy Father all the honours due to the Supreme Head of the Cathollc Church ; and his Majesty gave orders, that in all the countries occupied by his troops, the people should give themselves up without re straint to the joy with which such a happy event filled the hearts of all the faithful. On the 31st the Sovereign• Pontiff arrived at Bologna, and his Majest3i immediately paid a visit to his Holiness, who therwards visi te d t h e Ki ng. On the 2d of April the Pope proceeded to Imola, hiS ancient Bishoprick. The King of Napies ,wrore on the 4th of April a letter to the Holy: t i ddler, of the following tenor : " 1%1, AT Ilot.r-Fxrnua,—l have rejoiced, in• cinumnn with al.l the'faithful, at the return of your Holiness to Italy, and have ordered puhlie prayers and thauksgivings to -the Al mighty for it, in all the chuiches of my kingdom, and thoo in the countries occupied - 1)y my army. • "-It is my wish to seethe Head of the Church soon resume in the Capital iif Christendom, hoth hi s .honouis and the , xfrcise of a power so necessary to the 'happiness of • the World. - ‘` The chance of war having made me master of the states v4 ' 4,11 3' 0 11 Possessed - when you were forced - to quit Rowe, I do. Were, as wt - told, art theirnuitth td Wof; Louis XVIII. towards Paris: None of them. had arrived further in - thiS direction than Boulog,ne, but it wa s undcrstood they would rnarth the n e x t day to Calais. Around Boulugnehoweva, they were quartered ill considerable numbers; and all along the road; froth this port towavdi.Paris, it was impossible not to encounter the Allied troops in parties of from 2 •to 200 men, 'and :Often stogie . soldieri riding'in various directions. It was a re - markable incident to fall in with the subjects of FREDERICK, King of' Prussia, and ALEXANDER, Emperor of Russia, just at Boulogne. I Was loot; iug at the Tower of Napoleon, which • stands on the right-hand as you enter the place, wh l en these Hussars rode into s)glit. Here stood the monument ur- !-: - tiOIIC an! tv • I); l,•' • to these countries. ff • •'% actirn;it : - lief_kentinients of the . - your Ifoiiiiess, I ought to •,; theta befOre I i.e-estti !•;:. oier 1••111 f: ertnly resolved to do 11,1111i:1T !rt - ,t iu c 0.11,.: but As . eaubot doubt the it:te•if:.,n , :". tits:Princes, on -such t nientorzitile , 1, • •1:1' in fliltilling th'eni ' • thd.; eyes of Et.t-, rop e of Inv ;r i,c i uie Si-., as well as of my partietliitt Pciailf, so worthy, by bi-. '''4 11 ' 11 (:.1 1 l , virtecs, ul tut. r ratilt u wlricti Providence has phrea 11128. Chat the resto:-Itimi Volt stafes, which the Drench Goveriimiiht had iptothe two departments of Rome ainttlii•Thraiiitene, nary lA. performed with due order and snlemnity. I wish to lie your Holiness at. What time, and - by acts, yon th . ,Kise to , take possession of them. " As soon as I am inf or m e d of y•-ttr rt - i.lolutiMts, ll`rist Holy 'Fathr, my Chamberlain, the Margins de Moni-rorre, who will have the honour to deliver you my iett,r, shall be authorized to concert the arranymnent to be made'witirtfiepion whom your Holiness ; , ltall please:..to appoint. I shall adopt with pleasureallnicasui'e,. which may have for their object, either the inttrest of the ;idly See, or thr per , onal satisfaction of your Holihesb . . 1 dotter myeiell that on tour side you will ap prove at all the meiomreS which limy bethought accessary, in order that the Provisional Govern men t, which I hare e,•-tit blished at Rome, may cease its functions there with dignily. i "The pel,f,fri C0140i.113g it ate C!, t itled to particula r cil : sidviation, on account" of the zeal they dispizycd in (11,i:Eir, go6d. , " I recommend Ili' the hindness of Four Ildiness'all the Roman subj,cts wfio have seconded the Neapoiltan Adminis tration, especially those to Whom - I have granted particular di•tinctions. '1 owe tlwa entirely to, celebrated talents, or t ) lionow;Ible sentimt:.otr:, or to se virus which interested - ycur Holiness still More that my Govermo,nt. ‘, We pray. to God, to prtk3erve yao, NI;)0- I Idly Fathn, fur 'a lbiti.; series of years, at tie lied of t h:, Gaveruineut of our Mather the 1 - 1(4 (lifircti. Your devot, ,, , •;:,,,, 0;ii::;4'd) "JOICf I Ctl N.WOL,F.,ON. '. Bologna, April ~," , , NEWS FROM THE AUSTILTO-NEAPOfATAN ARMIES. •• - , TM BANKs oF ruts TAU°, APEIL 11.— We have just beard with grief, thrOugh an fur thentic channel, that the late events - at Paris, which are to give peace to 'ttie Worl , l, were still 'unknown on the 14th of this month upon the: right bank Of the Po. On the 12th, the King of Naples forced the passage of the Taro, and push ed the enemy as far as Pirepanola. Ott the lath .the enemy was 'attacked again he - retreated as. tar as the Null!, hut be was forced also in this po.litiou. The Ncipolitan army threw• Mel' ' a llridge.nt Sacca. This operation was warfhly op posed by ,the enemy, who, however, could not prevent execulion. The army was within a league of Placentia, which it was advancing to attack. Placentia is in a good state of cl.ence. la all these affairs many men have been killed on both sides. The Neapolitan army made 5 or aoo.prisoners, among wilorn are two Colonels, and Many, other Officers--Ht took also five pieces of canner. is is to he hopc,l that the news of the change in the . Gorti.nrnent will.arrive in time. to prevent cher operations. Lottery Drao7s on TUESDAY NEXT.—Every Purchaser has a Double C!wPcc. ~::.~ MAIF.S ARRIVEu-1 •Fiance,- IHo ; 1 .Flclil;oland, Guer . ncey, Jersey, 2 Dublin: • but•:.=-1 Cadiz, 1 Cia.,:rtisey, 1 Jersey. PRICE OF tile Z.!XS . • Ttlfs us.y'AT nvrt.vr O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Reduced, tis”l India Bonds, 12s. 15s. pr. Z , . Per Cent. Cons. tislii .. Exchequer 1 3i11s, Gs_ ur.. 4 pct . Cent. Cons. 8u • anniuni, 194 20 pr. 5 pt.r Cent. Navy Ann, 94M I Consols for May, 67ii /38 EiaticLongAnn. 16_ E. EYTON,. and iitock-Bicker, No. 2, Cornll, N 9. 18; Coventry -street. 'WATER .A . l: LONDON BRIDGE TO-1110111101V. Moi'l}ing, 7 taiautes after 11. J Eveaing, 33 Initiates after 11. A_ A I 11/ 711 S TAT SOLENI QULS DICERE VALSVM LONDON, APR/I, 29, 1814. -We received . s.this morning -the Monileur, and minor Path. Papers, of the 2Lth inst. They men tion some slight _affairs I, -- Iveen the Neapoli tans and the French on the banks of the Po on the 14th, in which the former bad the advantage. I t appears, therefore, .that at that period BEAVHAR NOIS was not apprised of the change in the French Government; for it is not to he supposed that he' would now_ venture to act in opposition to the. orderi of /As Sovereign. Some of. the French Generals who hare been disgraced -17 BuoNA PARTE are again making their appearance : Mai shah BRUNE, who was reported to have died 'in prison, has written to the Provisional Govern-- meat to announce his adhesion ; 'And •Geller:11 LECOURBE, who was exiled by BUONAPARTE to Lons-le-Saulnier, and afterwards to Boorges, in the province of Berri, has arrived in' Paris. He was very well received by MON SIEUR, and has been restored to the service.-- LECOVIME is one of the ablest Generals in the Fi'ncli service. He incurred BUONAPARTE'S displeasure by the zealous friehdship which be manifested for- General' MoREAU during hi, trial,. 'General LECOURBE'S brother, wim was one of Gen. illons:Au's Judges, was dismissed by BUONA PARTE, because he' would not vote for tb death of that gccat man. Dutch Papers reached toTn this morning, from which we have made the filllowin'g extracts : " NISIEG'LJE . 7.N:, APRIL 22.—The Commander of t. Grave still refuses to deliver up the town, and has declared, - that it any more flags of truce are sent, h e shall or ier the hattaties to fire upon them ;, it is, hiwever, very unpleasant for the Mhabi tants, as every day the batteries fire on the be siegers : detachments of the Landstrum are obliged to be sent there, who neglect their work here, pay the troops. I tha t t " Got s, AP RIL 20.—As soon ag' we hear :oft the white flag was hoisted at Walcheren! SWERTZ DE "JANDA seitt one of h is ' lll6- Ife' to Flushing, to desire toe . Groc•c ri3f) ° ine live: up Watcheren to his Roy,llll arrival of this oEcer tat Fhishiu4 port Of joy among the inua;ritauts, him with uni versa l s h wa , Fl u ii 3 l Boven !' In 'the evening he returud,' tic having succeeded in 111 nissicM re de-Camp, who was.sent to Batz„likc' vte . aot `a negative answer cvett (J, wh i te di z , ,,‘'"' yet displayed there (the 17;11), but it ` v3s • yesterday, by order o f th e G over ue. Alit'sc'll • r ,ooe "I\linDLEatittc, 'APRIL 21 : _..The gr )etween Walcheren and, the - re , t . at the •Neti jvip ple , larics is still impeded, ' annd v e e:N) j(j) 7 ° " 1. of nets but 'by balvc s : Ve ste rd ay t he 60vcril‘ b i c h • Ensiling published an Order of the .19 , i)?' - fredeelares that the change of the 610vertii , l ,rst in this country makes no akeriition ill position; that therefore . his trOons 11 ° 5 ' - rI the same post s , and be as m uc h t; )eir both against the in: , abitants and trnow all lice: to deliver tip the o mit Hs : they we re b e f ore , i t b, inK bis In t o tineto ►ti sameGovernment.ttcloihfirspootillui::vtooilsit:.otlh.leli `` STUNBERGEN4 APIZIL 21. Aceoants MoilclliY' till t the w h't once ot s i l l i t oh a a t l % t l . t re seti b ler t ie e r( l i t e at a il y, t sra,e a r yn l e a l c e nht e i (h s i i a v air e ltli sett led an d with se : l i n 3e 1 ) 1 1.; " e i • „ the 28th. pittv " .puts 7 r.E-Duc, APRIL ri.—Verllo I'3'latcd, and is to be d e li vere d u o:" °v p to c S ercj r in three days. t cl re 7 ?1, RR, APRIL 2.1.----O ur f o rts have de 4..? ,LD for tine good cause. There are but a': - ` l v e in garrison, b u t th e y h ave h o i ste d - cockade. The regular course of th e re-established. th;ce cr MUIDEL2IIRG, APRIL 19.---Dtirini' , x / r oll months and , a half that we have been Cut ch' isllrn.l has all:communication with Holland, our - been wholly plundered by numberless rec i tl f .sl 1 " 61 crf money and provisions. • The Voice of :rcfrta was sometimes heard but in vain : the r this nate persons who have' been imprison" -- ,,; , ;re account se e m to h ave b ee n reserved f"":L punishment How great was our joy ' tt the white flag hoisted ; the persons l t ,"P „ r: lnv for • their opini ons are vet at liberty. 11 c patient to return under the Dutch Gover"rtleklierl " Bauss4l,s, - APRIL 2i to quarters are still here; the troopS arc order° be in readiness to 'march at a moment'slwt:ice.A Since the beginning of this Week, an t r t tr , Flanders, Artois, and Picardy, !JOT 110iSte" white flag. 'Tire few adherent's of 81. 7014 A, 4 di(i not dare to resist longer.—Tbe CominanaBttil Idixenberg• has declared 'for Lours XV lll '; i lbe is negociatiag• with General DocRsBER G '' ..-7 Scheldt is free." We.are fortunate enoM4!) to be able, this ". to „ c present our R ea d ers w i t h anot h er Letter fro j " Correspondent in France. Upon , the ac ew ; ac i . Y t and fideiity of his statements tue ntost reliance may b e pl ace d, an d, with respect to ability with which hiS L e tters. are , trust that no o b servat i on i s now neeet,sarY• ' A chnversation took Ogee in tare firoose .mops last nie;nt, upon the.subjmet of t lll ' ;* ioithe coarse of %slily!' ;•t , /e ANc:'` - ' LL a .. ra ted . : v d hi t pi h t e ls E . t x:::::Q m ti: l e t i t , : ) .. u t t reports had been circulated ,resiwetinf,. tt)e 1 ; 1°1 actual amount of the,,Loan.vvould b.', be " Ir " "( '' 01.yit - would not by any weans be sp bad Inez: rumoured. • • tine and these arein wane of etzr; incanse poor peasants have nothing left. ZOTPLIEY, APRIL 22.—The Commander o f Peyenter having been made acquainted by § evets l flags of truce with the state of affairs in Franc :proposed arrnistice on the 6th; in i qutnce of which tWo Frencb Staff Office rs ' end one of the 'blockade, were Sea t° the Hague,: in order to convince themselves, bi of the truth.: inspecting the Official Docnnients: They returned in the night of • the 10'; the 1 : rison deda'red for Louts XVIII. and is to 1 93.rc " out an Monday, the 25tir,' rctu:rn to•Frali town is to be garrisoned the SAUIC dRY troops his Highness the ' PuiNce.---It is s. the dev,astation greater in that peig4bourao° consr than in any other part of Over 'Vessel.. • pot (y)ef if 15 1 71 ►ll , skt try by I~nrt fit. Pierre,' 11y i c h 10 0 P' 0 as- - s‘vedes and French, were li . Oled ` v- u ric ed. " T t' every moment .exp,2cr orders froth ' l , new Government to evacuate thesoi7n•Tflrg red" 1., , which was sr yen t h o-nsa ntist Wog , by deSeption to 540. T he B „ l .l, e rs b"" jntliU , fered very m uc h by iwptisitions, 0 " y hundred hens-d'ar tnes and hvssarS are 1)10' t'r i t y jog 'Another, lvhich, as the Genera ls s,'Y' is .