The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-09-30 00:00:00

THE FRENCH MONARCHY.

The following extraction' the EPA!, may be
to oar readers. It is one vbf the best sperienetts of F
nno,
bombast piodueml by the occasion. We like it better tl
any thing that has proceeded from the pen of ill. :4-
tesubrisiiil, perhaps because it is by reason of r
less tedium*, anal certainly 'ts style is not morn 21.8,1di
adulatire :
We vestentay aceomparied to Si. Denis the royal banter the
sword Of France reversed, the sceptre and the crown on !
ear, the prayers for the dead accompanying that car. "It ee,t,-;
feeling in see the poor of the village assemble in crowds. iren-ot;
sad. and haggard in appenrancc. Their regret sense fro,* tile
whiele Louis XVIII. had had to secure to them the adve.'itagt,;
living in peace. The great are awakened, on the ocessie, at a
death, h a powerful voice, t consider that theage earth is nee
tomer, ho t, on the contrary.o enerrely the pass or topve
wore happy abode." The people and the army advance& tnrii.
the sepulchre of their Kings mentally exclaiming—TN Kai:
dead
To-morrow we *ball again repair to the foot of the al•zr. ht.
will be to Notre flame, and we shall go thither amidst seset;:i'
love from a whole people. Our prayers will by breathed is eel,*
and benedictions. lie ancient walla or the metroteolitanAh&
or Patin will resound with songs of gladness. The 27th Septet.
will resemble the 12th April with this difference only, Lod
name 4 ter
lied !"
The like sever dies ic Froace r and royalty, he
pcan ate
*s in the eternity or the Clod front whom it cranatea .NahLg
Nike eights

•• Haire rZeqrsia foe isomer of Pralire This my win r„,
-mound through the vaults of St. Denik The helms' and tCt
• 'hcnn sill be thrown into the grave, brat the banner an!'
6.
made only to bond over the SOW of France, descending to Lie
lan
place td repose. Soon shall it lot after niece raised, anefrbeva4
" Long lire the King !" will salute it again,
flow fraught with grandeur. mind, and wist!om, are all leg
usages of MU fathers! Men who tee in them but idle cereemaa
are to he Oiled.
It is to ennoble the tomb that we &ere ilepoeit the, helmet sta!:•.e
sawed. it ism teach a groat anti holy lesson to the King lOW is
About to reign, that we say to him " Come, take My CHAWS
Me cilia ay Me King re.'so is no more."
To prove that men pass away, hut that kingdoms, fourOti ea
and defended by esligoan, do not pass away, like them, wt en,
" Rair. ag,,in I.e thumer fl France." and the banter si: it
raised, anti the fincvs des lys sill shine again; the veil of mar.
ing shall cover them no longer.
Raise arab' the banner of France ! Yes, Frenchmen ! wr
sat
raise it ag-sins will all snrrouml it. and its shade shall gira..l
hatmitiv,s and peace. Our divisions are terminated : we ate c;
named to mourn for Louis XVII I.—we are all united t,
Charles X. His shall be a paternal sceptre like that of his brt
Let us then press round his throne: let our lore mom!. es;
guard it; and if ever an eneme dare to menace our tritiopi..l,
the son of the Bear:anis will rally us all—he will hare but is
claim—Raise again—raiw again—the banner of France!
Behold the French Monarchy, such as it has been ins!. it
ages ! How could its grandeur lee overlooked fora morner.!!
let us not rectal any mournful reCadlec ions. The pad and il t pea
ant are am longer separated by an abyss. it is tilled cp. Fr..i cc'
destined to be a model for the rest of Evnye, as in other Mack
when it was said of her, •• The kingdom of France has aka,.
been rec,gitised by the general voice of annoys, its the first ad
mast ear ilmat kings:am in Christendom, as will for its dig .by std
10, erg as for the autlisai it rof him who governs it. Its digni si
pears in this, that it ha. always berg free from hs origin, sodalua
it has Lever !teen sustained by any power but that of Gob slot;
an advantage which many Statesof ellii•telldAWl have nut enjwil.
Moreover, it is the most ancient kicgdom which at potent a s an.
has .g calumet:col four hundred and some few rears after the Irl
of Jaws CIIIIIST. Add to this, that it was the first to embed
the Christian Religion, about eighty years after it was establi4M,
by which it legitimately acquired for its Soesrei:m the tilt of
Lldest Son of the Church, there being no Prince. Potentref. re
Kingdom, which could boast of haying known the Catholic ga
before it had lumen received in the kingdom of Fran. e.
Iksides this prerogative, which is the mast noble and Tan
tritons that can be conceived, anodise consitieratMn strii,cs as,
which ix, that this kingdom, always increasing in great:servos'
strength, is the first which, by the wallow and merit of its Krg,
Charlemagne, was honoured. moat only with the imperial title std
dignity, shich was retained in his family so long as it csi.t.l;
but, still more, with the surname of ":lost Chriatisoi," shat c
preserved to this day in the person of the King cal France mu L'.l
SUITCWSOII.

Finally, the custom of anointing Kings. which Gni re'r..
minded in ancient tints for the lichees' Kings. and which is al
retained by three or four Christian 3lntiarchs, commuted .a
France in the person of ('laris, be a liquid which was held usly
miraculous. Front 01l thew consfe.rratiolo, roncludst
King of France has always obtained, without &Toe. the thu
obey in dignity and honour weir all the other Kings in rake!.
don': and though the King of Spain pretends now to hate a r,Vit
In contest it with him (the atitlit,r speak.. of that which happenold
Venice and at Trent a little before he wrote) there is, nrcrrthylea
no one of his States, nor any kingdom, white., for the (plaldvtof
its nobility—fur its antiquity--Or for the glory of its titl,s td ko.
nour—c, a legitin,atoly compare i•self with the Kint,tism ['talk*.
it is now that we can dory in being Frenchnite. Louis Kul
reconciled us to Europe: Charles secures us its It r•.
To our g. aid Lewd. Charles, Son of Fr. he', Kiag of Ftr
safety, love. and honour.

•
Sir Henry Torrcos left Miinjestertlay morning for Chit-
ham. preparatory to his eommamlitig the troop:, which re
to he reviewed, in the course of the week, on the Lines,
his Royal Highness the Connuanill.r-ha-Uhler
Mr. Mertes, a King's 3lesstutttr, left the Far. ign-off.:
on Nlontlity night, for Walnut GAstle, the seat of the Eirl
of Liverpool, and from thence proceeded to Bruss....,s, iviit
despatches for Lord Granville.
Despatches have been received from the Arctic Expedi
tion. The Griper, Captain Lyon, had arrived at the a:-
trance of !lutist:it's Straits on the 4:h of August, and nu
about to proceed on her exploratory rovk.e. It was L.:-
peeled that she would reach Repulse Biiy about the hegit-
Mug of Si ptehnFer. The surveying %Mid Snap, Li. mt.
natit Bullock, lead arrived at Newkattaland.

By tl:e last Paris papers we ohs rve, that among the
Aide-du-Camps appointed by Charles X., in addition tt
tl.e Duke de Fitsjanies, Count do Brom s, and others Irk
were supposed to enjoy the greatest favour with the King
(when Ilcusieur), is Viscount &mulleins de is Koebeftm-
eatilt, who has been cansitlensl one of the twee devoted
of the !Alit-rents of M. de Villele, and who was eints;led is
the discreditable ncgociationa for buying up the l'arisiaa
Journals.

The Mad, id Go:xtle announces that the has cr.
'lend to be re-established, for the exportatien ~,f.wool. the
Custom-houses of Lognmo, Vittoria, and Ortlugna, which
were appeintesl fur that purpose by the IX me of the tith
February, Vo.m. The Regency had managed this Dcz.-ce,
and molt red that the wool-merchants should carry to the
Custom-house at Burgos all wool intonded for exportation.
Letters have been receirtd from Para (Brazil), dated
August 4, which state that that province, which was the
must disturbed in Brazil, is now perfectly tranquil.
A Bogota paper of the I.lth of Ju'y states, that Mr.
Nlosiptera, a member of the Senate, has entered a mule's
load of l'itoya balk to be sent to Nlr. Ilea ihrsoo, British
('utter'-t ieberal, at Ito, o:a. in order that it may 11e ter
EnAlard, to owlt r..,0 experiments fur estab fishing its com-
parative quality lor medical purism, wiAt the Pour:an
hark ; to which the Colombians, with a 1111111111/11: Lllt
picious partiality to a na ire production, consil r it equ,d
if not superior.
Letters frootA'exanibia conitnunicate the ittrortant in-
telligence, that the Egyptian expedition had sailed atait•st
timer from that port on the 17th ot' July. It is Km il to
cousitt of Mono infantry and 't Mk) cavalry. It hail not
apiarcil, however, on the shores of any part of the Cot:.
Intent of t ;reeve previous w the Slat of Attkmat, and it :5,
therefure, Lot impossible that it is stationary at Malts or
Candia, until the Lawn Ter active LT, rations ah.dl have
passed away.
Tile k S.—The Jour Ind Delmer gives an ac-
count, ott the credit of letter* front Navarin, in the Mona.
dat, 41 August 31, /ma t mom ti to (h nos, of an attack
made by the Turks on the istand of Santos, which ended in
the almost ensile destruction of the Turkish expiihtivt,
by fire-ship_: and by the sword. Letters have also been ri-
ceiveil in town from Leghorn, announcing the arrival of
the rest I a: tie:ma, on the I ith September, front Navajo,
with letters of the date mentioned, which state that the
l'apitan Paella had succeeded in landing a body of ors
troops at Samos, wit! t any opposition from the inhabit-
ants, for they had la'd waste the low-lands, and retired to
the mount Mot. 'flue Greek fleet, however, afterwards scon
appeared, and the dread of their fire-ships in the shallow
waters which sot round that island put the Tut kish t
into gnat confusion, and obliged 111011 to ri tire; tit t
th. Truism a naval action was fought, and the liu of 11. r v
frigates, and thirty smaller veaseia, was the result to the
("opium Paella ; that immediately after this victory. ti c
(;reeks landed 11(1111e soldbra, who, having effleted a jun.-
fiats with those of the island, attacked the Turks who hail
previously been lauded, and put the whole of them to the
sword. All that is proved by the coincidence of the Eng-
lish with the French accounts is, that the letters really
have been receivi at Genoa from Navarin. The news is
neither contradict, it nor curroboratid by actounts reecit ed
through other channels.