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London, England, 1824-11-29 00:00:00

FASIIIONAIMP: IWTELLICEYCE.

Melhourn entertained the Earl and Countem Cowper, the
Right Hon. Wm. and Mrs. Hosiiiinion, and a distinguished party
at dinner yesterday, at his house,

The Es;luf Mahoisbury loss lift town for his seat, Horn Court,
Hants.
_ _ _

lAed llynevor left town yesterday for his scat, Barrington Park,
tlifordshire._

Countess Ile Grty left her house in St. James's-square, on Sa-
turday., for her teat in Surrey.
llon. Win. Burrell has lett Paris, foe Rorer.
The 3larquis of lAnhian has arrive.' at Warren's lintel, Regent-
street, front the Marquis of Salishgry's seat. Ilatfieltl.
The Ifiike of Norfolk has left his seat Farnham, Suffolk, for
Worksop Manors,Notts.

Lord Ind Lady :Grantham have left Wrest 'louse, Bedfordshire,
for their seat in Vork•thire.

Captain 11E4 Irs. Brugge hare 10.1 Jordan** Hotel, St. James's.
strut, for Leamington. %Varwicitsliire.
Ile. Excellency I...cotenant-I /encral Sir James Kempf, Bart. has
arrivedat Illake's Hotel, Jennin. street, from the l'ontinent.
:lir. and Mrs. Er‘kine have left the London Hotel, Albemarle-
street, ti.r their seat in Kew.

The lion. Mrs. Strange and family have left the ll'aterloo
Hotel, Jenuyn.strftt, for Henry Drummond, Esq.'s scat, Albury
l'at k, Illuikliurd, Surrey.
Alm Pierre, E'aptain Pierre, and the Misses Murray, have ar-
rived at the Pultet.ey Hotel, .I,lbeniarle.street, from ; the
l'inintesa Rot.,cs aril the Ladies I..mlie have left ditto, for their
seat, near l)o king.
Arrivals at Thimutes late) Ikvktlev-squarer—Velrinel (lore
Langton and Mrs. laington and family. ?rem a tam; I 'ohmic' anti
the Misses Bromley, fmni it'orrester.hire . • David Lyon, Esq.,
from Itrighton. Itepartures :—Volonel and Mrs. Campbell, tor
Suffolk ; Lord Charles Fitzroy, and the lion. Hubert Fitzroy, fur
their seat, in Ilerkshire. _ _ _

Arrival, at the Royal Ilotel. St. Jantes'a-street:—..f. J. Guest,
Rao., trorn AValeo; the Hon. A. Foster, Anthasmador front Co.
Departures Print'crow. Esti., M.P.. for
Brighter; J. Ewer, Esq., for ditto; and the Her. Mr. Suryd,
for Vl'iodsor.

PARIS.

traosi ova coaarsroyouT.]

PAWS, Nov. 21

By an ordonnance of the Klee:, the meeting of the
Chambers (as you will have seen from the Manitette), is
convoked for Wedneeday, the e2d of Decembi r, and the
Ministers stick firmly to their seats. The public have !Ale-
cerbively adjourned the appointed period of their fall, but
they have hitherto reeovered from every shock; and arc,
no duubt, as touch astonished at their own stability, as the
nation is indignant. The Court departed two days ago
for Fontainebleau, but since the journey to Compeigne,
very little importance is attached to these excursions; it is
considered that they will end in a 'girlie de ehaese, an inter-
change of compliments, and some good dinners. On finding
the Ministers thus maintain their power, destitute u they
are of every quality which should fit them for it, we are
almost tempted to regret that the Censure has been abo-
lished ; for if it still existed, we should at least have the
feeble consolation of fancying, that the truth was not at all
known, and the judgment of the nation had not been in-
formed, that the evil acts of our rulers had been celled
frotn observation, and that they owed their continuance in
office to their successful concealment of the conduct that
would have displaced them. But the Journals are free ;
and facts which should overwhelm the Minister: with dis-
grace, are daily revealed to the public, and are on their part
neither denied nor defended. They have been proved to
be perjured to their oaths—violators of the Charie—op-
pressors of their fellow-citizens—persecutors of virtue and
talent—holding all popular rights in contempt—and carry-
ing corruption to its worst excesses. All this has been
proved by incontestible facts, and nevertheless the powers
of government are still in the same hands ! 1%114 becomes
of the pretended sovereignty of public opinion, if this
ani-disant Heine do 31161,th• is thus successfully set at nought
by three or four men without hieing—without character—
in a word, without one single feature in their authority
which can expiate the disgrace of submitting to it. It is
difficult to express how complete was the disenchantment
that succeeded to the brilliant hopes which the commence-
ment of the new reign bad inspired. The French people
had flattered themselves, that the Government would have
taken a national character, instead of which we see the re-
appearance of all those measures, which show that France
is again brought unit( r the vassalage of the Ilrly Alliance,
as she was during the life of Loots XVIII. The same
outcry is hearth against the liberty of the press, and of pub-
lic worship—against a representative government—in fact,
against whatever is necessary to the security of freedom, or
to the prosperity of France ; and all thin under a set of
:Ministers, who appear to be the mere delegates of the
Inquisitorial Commission at Mayence. The popularity
which the new rein at fast acquired, has disappeared—its
days were soon 111.1111x:rtil ; not that any one doubts, but
that CHARLES X. is animated by the very best intentions,
and that he enjoys personally the deserved affection of his
people ; but were a Titus or Marcus Aurelius to revisit
the earth, and re-assume the reins of empire, they could
do nothing for the happiness of their people, if under the
counsels of such Ministers as Cu. Leer, ('0551555, and
Pt ynoeser.

It appears that M. ne has succeeded in per-
suading the KING that he would do well to wait till the
Deputies from the departtmnts shall have arrived in Paris.
before he makes any change in the Ministry ; that then
it will be easy to sound them, and to ascertain their real
sentiments; that this precaution is indispensable, to avoid
forming an administration that might not be agreeable to
the majority of the Deputies, and who, from the com-
mencetnent of the Session would lint be able to prm.ced
amicably with the Chambers. This combination of
M. DE VI I. LEL/ is adroitly managed, for so long as the
resent liiu,niiioft bold the reins of power, tiny preserve
the means of acting upon the Deputies, by means of gifts,
and promises, and places, and ribands, and pensions, and
promotions, and whatever else may enable damn to
brave the battering storm. If, by virtue of all these means
of influence and seduction, they succeed in ensuring a
triumphant majority, then M. DE VI tr.r.rE will tell the
KING, that the present Ministers Mit exactly with the
wishes of the Chamber, that the Chamber desires no
others, and that consequently any change would be equally
dangerous and uncalied for. This combination may
be somewhat counteracted by M.M. DE ell AT EAU-
-511.5 ND and 1..)!:ffl'Itl/ONNAYE ; unf trtunately, however,
they have at this moment It:idler appointment to promise
nor places to give away, and in these days, e'est hi le, ;•rand
Lericr which moves the world.
The Minister has contradicted, in rather a vague man-
lier,
in the Ctiseticr of the Nth, the reports of a con-
spittle), against the Kist:. The particulars I gave you
some time ago, relative to the arrest of a Captain Nor 1.,
nen• exactly true. The French Joutnals spoke of the
atl:eir as taken frum an English Paler; yet the Ministerial
Journals have preserved a cautious silence, which seems
to indicate that the Minister has not renommed his inten-
tion to make use of this ennsidention de jid,rioe. Hellas
mitt:lAA hints 1I with a v: ~ tut. denial of the fart in the
C.:urriet: Ernuenis, as that denial, be knows, does not com-
promise him in the least, and he has it always in his power
to disavow it.

The beeper of the Seals presided, on Saturday last, over
all the Sections of the Cour de Cassation, which were
united together. as was announced by the Journals. This
sitting was marked by a particular circumstance, which has
not yet transpired. Among the questions which that
Court had to decide, was one relative to an old Norman
right, upon which the Royal Court of Caen had given a
judgment, which judgment hail been referral to the Su-
preme ('oust. Previous to the opening of the sitting, M.
ne Pt vaox say entered into a long discourse with the
Counsellors composing the circle which surrounded him,
and expressed himself decidedly of opinion that the Royal
('curt of Caen bad pronounced a proper judgment, and
that its decree ought to be supptvted. While giving this
opinion be looked successively on the Counsel, and in a
manner which not may seemed to bespeak their appro-
bation, but to entreat their concurrence. AVllen the ques-
tion, however, had been pleaded in public, the Court ad-
journed into the ('hombre de set IVile•raiLms, where Ill?
Judges, after consultation, being called upon respectively
for their opinion, every one, from first to last, decided
against the decree of the Court of Caen, and voted that it
°mitt to be annulled. The Keeper of the Seals could not,
at tirst, conceal his chagrin, on finding that the Judges
had unanimously pronounced against the opinion which be
hail so significantly expressed hefore the Sitting ; however,
recovering his sane4eoid, it still remaining with him to
give his judgment upon the point, he expressed his regret
that he should stand alone in the opinion he had formed,
and in which he should continue to persist. " est rnalheu-
raiz pour m'.i, Messieurs," said he, with an affected smile,
" de wenn/per sea/ de MIR avis, ft:UßlthillS ;31 perSitta."

Phis
circumstance, however, though he endeavoured 4
carry it elf lightly, evidently tatted him, and on quitting
flit Jo:lgts, he said to them, " A lieu, Messieurs, Jr
reromnrende d mire hurt st,useni,." These words have
indeed the Judges to ntriptet that he feels a presentiment
of his approaching disgrace, and that he believes he Ins
presided fur the last time in the Court of Cassatiom it
would be a subject of rejoicing among the Magictreey,
over which M. Pt. PEYRONNET presides, if they bad reasao
to expect that the vacancy he might create would be Leon
till' d; hut Al. DE VIL Lc LE, who manifesto' no disinclina-
tion to sacrifice M. DE PEY/tONNET, will find it more
painful to detach himself from M. DE Coanieur,
airy
whom it it: likely the Seals will be deposited, when tai
from the custody of their presoit worthy keeper; tuu
what an indelible dishonour to France, that M r Cbtonici:s
should record the names of COREIEK c and PEY Ito SLTI4
successively occupying the seat which bad been filled by g
L'IIOBPITai., a D'Anuls,4l.ar, and a 111ALaanEaats.!1

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OP 110.VAPAIITE LY
1814 AT FONTAINEBLEAU.
In the new work published at Paris by MM. Annuls,
Jay, and Jouy, on contemporaneous biography, the life of
Napoleon Bonaparte is given. Several otiginal antedates
are comprised in this narrative, amongst which perhaps the
most interesting is the account of his attempted suicide at
Fontainebleau, on his abdication iu IHI4. Hitherto this
fact has been doubted, but it now seems to be fully est,.
blished. The circumstances are related, we arc informed,
on the authority of an eye-witness. As Caulaincourt eas
the only party privy to them, we suppose the 'nth( e 3
the contemporaneous biography have obtained the part,.
culars from him :

" Uu the nth April, 1814, Napoleon spent the evening
with the Duke of Vicenza, and withdrew at eleven o'clock,
" The Palace of Fontainebleau was buried in the iron
profound silence; perhaps noone was actually sleeping. bet
yet this immense edifice appeared to be resigned to ail
state of repose which generally follows great agitation(
Within, there was not the slightest noiac; without, war
that of the French sentinels, who were guarding the capeit
of Europe. In the distance, nothing could be heard keg
the repeated and irregular buzzing of the qui ripe of the
foreign troops, whose monotonous challenges in the serem
dialects of Europe and Asia, ran uninterruptedly through
the French camp. In the midst of this awful silence, in
that Palace which had been at one time disturbed by the
sal.guinary vengeance of a Northern Queen, and frequently
by the magnificent fetes of many of our late noverei;ns—
Napaleon, at one o'clock in the morning, sent fur the Duke
of Vicenza.

" IVben this Minister entered, Napoleon threw an empty
cup on the table. The Emperor told him to take with him
into the Cabinet the portfolio, which contained the portrait
and letters of the Empress. "Fake care of Mein, ssd
Napoleon to hint. He then informed him the rest of his
wishes, and presented him with his portrait one canna.
While he was yet speaking he was seized suddenly in a
manner which alarmed the Duke of Vicenza; a dimness
came over his eyes, which seemed to threaten the u-mits.
lion of an agony as dreadful to the sufferer as it was fright.
ful to the witness. lie presently became so drowsy as if
he would never again awake ; afterwards he fell into a cold
sweat, and was seized with such violent convulsions and
voiniti”gs, that all his limbs trembled. He kept fast bold
of the Duke of Vicenza, in order that be might not get
away, telling him that if he was his friend he would not
prevent the termination of his existence. and that he did
not desire to have any other witness of his sufferings.
"This struggle between life and death lasted for three
quarters of' au hour, when the romitings having ceased,
Napoleon exclainteel—' It's of no use, death yin net relieve
me. lie then allowed the Duke to call a vklet, whom he
sent for a surgeon. M. Yvan came, and Napoleon insisted,
with earnestness, nay, even with authority, that he should
give him a dose of poison. Thunderstruck at this sour
request, M. Yvan fled precipitately, jumped on his ism,
am, quitted Fontainebleau. The Duke of Vicenza sena*
Bertrand, the Grand Marshal, and Count Turenne, eta
Groom of the Stole, who shortly arrived.
" Two days be lure, Napolemi had desired his attendant
to bring I ' some charcoal, intending to sunbcate himself
his bath ; but, as they hail not oheerel him, he had per
his pistols. Ills ntameluke and the valets de chem.
brehtad however drawn the charge. _ _

._„_.
" The efh•ct of the convulsions was so violent, that Na-
poleon could not rise before 1 I o'clock to send a despatch
to Marshal Macdonald. lie had vainly endeavoured toget
up soon( r, but his hp refused to support him ; his coun-
tenance was changed, and his eyes were quite sunk in the
socket ; his complexion was livid, his limbs shaking, jet
his extraordinary constitution triumphed over death, alit
his mind and charade r, notwithstanding his misfortunes,
recovered their wonted sup riority.
" The poison that Napo:ton had taken was invented
Cabanis during the hot rors of the Revolution, that Ls
friends and himself might escape the punisbments inflicted
in the reign of terror. Napoleon, after his
Moscow, kept it constantly about him, fearing to fall elite
into the hands of the Emperor of Russia. Little dill be
then think that he should seek aid front the fatal "visa
when a prisoner in his own palace of Fontainebleau.
after having thrice refusal a pace from him against wl:oin
he hatl travelled sou leagues from his own capital to male
war. Fate would not stiffer the poison of the fugiMe of
Moscow to avenge the defeat of the prisoner of Fontain
Wean."