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LEGION tpp
.110N017.1.
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NO:hlng gave more pomp and goteinnitx.fo th,
ate anniversary fete of the 14th of dips tit
lay kg doWis the last 'stone of that, y.,7Lical.,monu
ment, the'Legion of Honour. • p!..ze-sna mon
sprepoz, more august{ than the,Hotgl ut the Java
Ides f' that temple, dtenrated.(ogirre)py the Ilan&
of victory, and full of iiiastripas.,remenibrais..c
(utaliiieUi;•.•). • This Ins:Anti...ft,. more Ise.staifu ins
more durable, no doubt, than all the elyi wren of
arrhitcAure, confirm( date'from sal epsielia,mort
just aujhuiore The spirit rela'...lt animated
Frenchmeii, in i 731.), seams to lee dissolvini in, and
confaiindedi with, this institution. One finds there
the same elements. It is eminently smuseded with
that order of things, desired for a long tirne all
enlightened men. It ant' •unce, thus talents,
ririara, or services done one's count, y, ate 4.4 t only
titles of distinaion. It binds and I. rites in nut
body the sacred words NoNova and GOIeNTI,Y.
This institution is found no where in modern states.
Every where one separates individuals by different
orders, conneCled with their situation, in life; every
where one favours rivalship. The crossenuenee is,
the military nun is nothing but a soldier ; the priest
nothing but a priest ; the advocate nothing but au
advocate; the labourer nothing hot -4 I Inu:e:.
Herealeve all are bossaa by the same 4.1
to the same duties, honoured by the same d 1
tiols, because the country has to reeoropen.se
equally those who are equ aly useful. It 114.11:.,..en
said, and history has consl mei t.l.is saying, that
;:eat political revolutions finished generally by a
htary government; but. nothir.g was more pro-
per to secure Frenchmen againit .t, than
.the.the nitst,
idea of a Legion of„lIonour.
,whesiit is'
organised, all doubts have disappeared. • It .looles, as
was the case 12 antient Rome, as :: every eiziaro was
really a soldier. A.ll are naimaisly comseifted,•indi
form a nobler idea of their situ in life; as• well
as of their country. It may seem strange to those;
who do not look.farther that' the s•allace of :Meg:,
to 09.,soldiem render the same military honours nal
every individual decorated with the • cross of alai
legion. But this idea, profoundly morel and reniqw-,!
teaches the soldier the merits of citizens, and 'chi.
zens.the dizu.r, of soldiers. \any /egg:arid-ea are' ex-.
pened not to be in easy ciccurnstances. It wands*
same under the former government, alien many'che...
valiers of St. Louis.wanted even subsistence; and,-not-
withstand hag. the political corrupt/en f the sta., e, this
order wasgreatly esteemed; indigence did not debase
it. It honour were only united with miches, one vrculd
be obliged to despise three-fourth rang of society. 'Rut
no, a &feral government must suppose, that virtues
are found in ail classes of society, that all cla,•e's are
useful ; and, that iit those, where the cititens tire
most numerous, there, really, is the country.
shall not see, in future, the opulent man binds to
share the reward merited by indigence. Th‘s
rile vanity would render him unworthy r.t. it.' • It
is, no doubt. from the internal cirnvi„, dl' the
grandeut of this institution; it is, to maintain it
always pure and glorious, or if :errree; it is to answer,
-.ore hand, to the contempt of disappointed milice
ar.,l vanity i it is to preserve the sublime spirit of
ega•thiY• that :he Emperor himself will carry the
crosses of gold and ,'aver which decm Jte ord.'
eery *nd simple members. And in this 60,4, it in
supposed, that his Maj•exty will oftener carry the
silver, that it may no. be regarded the /01:;.-...
The cross is nothing but a thquithen ct order,
and not of superiority; ro superiority can exist is
a code of honour. A Loldier, decorated with the
crass, is. nevertheless!, subjestled to obey the oflicerol
who has not obtained it. This recompence does not
bear with it any civil or military authority. It is
for that reason, that it appertains to all employ
meets, to all ra,,A t, and that it honours equally all
individuals.-ii-(,feuevel de Paris.)

Terms of both sezes,
ed conspiracy of Moreau,
havelately arrived in England, after being shut up
in the Temple, in the Cenciergerie, and in La Force
prisons, for several months; and, after having en-
dured all the augmentations of the horrors of cap-
tivity, that the dread of tortures and of poison must
inspire. It has been observed by several political
writers, that little reliance is to be placed in the re-
ports of prdscribed persons ; but, when correspond-
! ins with rumours which they could not know, being
confined when these were disseminated, and con-
II genial with the charaftera of men in power, their
persecutors, they deserve, at least, to be narrated;
as they throw some light on the infamous transac •
tions of the present barbarous government of France,
which may be exposed to a wcll•merited detestation,
but which it is impossible either to libel or to
calumniate.

During last February, March, and April, the
number of persons arrested as accomplices in the al-
;
• leged conspiracy, amounted, at Paris Ant, to eight
thousand three hun.hed, gentlemen as well as la-
dies ; old people near fourscore, as well as boys and
girls under fifteen. I,la number of prisoners taken
up in the provinces is known to the police only ;
but, in the department of La Vendee, two third
parts of the inhabitants were either anually arrested,
or put under the inspeiftion of the military com-
manders, or of the police agent, as suspaled ad-
herent; to the Ilourbeens.
At Paris, the following formality was observed
with a Prisoner after being taken (torn his home,
by the spies of the Police, accompanied by the gews
d'annes d'Ellie he was carried to the office of the
Secret Police, which is sitting night and day. If
any other prisoacr was examined, or if it was in-
tended to inspire terror. the arrested person genet-
rally continued shot up, chained there, in what is
called la cherosre d..-7:tlT, or the Chamber of Hell,
.for 48, and sometimes 9' hours. This room is
a large hall under ground, where no light pene-
trates, paved with stones, and in the wall are large
iron rings, to which the chains of the prisoner, with
whicn L's hands and feet are bound, ere fastened,
and locked w:.l, a padlock. He cannot move fartho
from the r 7 :-.g tiro,: ix feet. This dark hall is far;
IMOU:s.I to coe•ain 1.50 risoners at the same time.
The on 4 time light is admitted into this abode of
2ry, is when the jailers arc bringing a ne v vi& m
to be chained, as they then generally carry a lan-
tern in their hands. Nothing but sighs and lamest.
tations are heard, and no consolation can be given,
... win be received, as, even here, the
..unrest person to an innocent sufferer may be a
person, or spy, sett to obtain and betray confidence.
Half-a-pound of bread and two pints of water are
allowed each prisoner, fur each 24 hours. IVben
• to his first interrogatory, he does not leave
the Chamber of Hell the same way he entered it,
but passes through other large subterranyous
rooms, where the ste.:ck strikes one of his
Lenses. and blood-stained rags, instruments of tor•
titre, and coffins, another; for these rooms are sn
well lighted, that he can see spots of blood not only
on the wall, but on the door. Arrived before the
Secret Police Magistrate, who generally was the
bat barony Real, or the ferocious Fouche, sometimes
both ; he is told that his pretended crimes have
long been known to the Government, he being
watched for months by the Agents of the Secret
Police ; of course all evasion or dental are of no
other avail than to expose himself to the rack, and
certain death. If he persists in being innocent, he
is carried back to the Chamber of Hell the way he
left it, and the turnkeys shew him, en purant, the
instruments of torture, explain the manner of ap-
plying them, the terrible tufferings they produce,
and fioiah, by intimating, that kw persons have
strength enough to survive their torments. After
being far forty-eight hours more in the Chamber
[ of Hell, upon bread and water, he is carried to a
second interrogotary,londer supposition, no doubt,
that want of nourishment has enervated the strength
of his body, as well as anguish reduced the vigour
'of his mind. If he is cwt suspeeted of being a
chief, or a principal confidant of the pretended
chief conspirators, he is then, after undergoing a
orcond interrogatory, sent to the Temple, or some
other prieon, after signing made-up interrogatories,
which, if he refuses to do, forty-eight hours more
in the Chamber of Hell teach him to be less obsti-
nate. If he has been arrested by mistake, or no
evidence is found against him, he continues in pri-
son as long as it pleases the police, which seldom
open the doors of the jails, if friends or relatives do
not make pecuniary sacrifices, which has been the
case with tho.e persons, who have had the good
luck to escape over to England. If the persons ar-
rested be related to suspecled individuals, or sup-
to ; ossess great talents, or known hatred
usually
we. Of
impr

have again
though the

_siie demanded a vo-
luntary banishment to the 'onionles,, tide lid rial
places at Paris are known to he inhibited by most of
them. Tt is well known that Georges's servant,
Picot, before the criminal tribunal, in the presence
of the public, declared that his confession had been
extorted by tortures ; and no one at Paris doubts
that the virtuous Pichegru received the reward for
the great services he had done his degraded coun-
try, by death upon a raek. A gees d'armes
d'Elite, of the name of Jean Pierreaur, oti.e of his
executioners, Is now raving mad, and shut up at
Charanton, where he never ceases to cry out :
" I have murdered Pichegru, the most honest
man in France' Before he was sent to Charan-
ton, he proclaimed this, both on the Pant Ness/
and in the Palau Ro,al. Roland, the friend
of Pichegru, lost On the rack the use of his
right leg ; but his descredon, in not mentioning it be-
fore the tribunal, saved his life, which Is said to be
the case even with Major Roussillion. During all
the interrogatories of Georges, Pichegru, and
Moreau, at the Seem Police Office, Bonaparte,
was, with his favourite Aid-de-Camp Duroc, in an
adjoining closet, where he could hear what was
going on; and it was he who, in a fit of rage against
Pichegru, who denied every thing, and refused even
to sign the interrogatories, ordered the instantaneous
and atrocious murder of this great General, who is
more admired in France for his greatness of mind,
when surrounded by Bonaparte's assassins, than for
his illustrious atchievements, when leading on those
vi,florions armies, ta Yillom France is indebted, not
only for all her conquests, but from escaping, per-
haps, subjeflion to the confederate powers in 1794.
Every person, who has the good luck of being set
at liberty, is, before he obtains his release, sibliged
to sign a declaration, praising lenity, generosity,
and humanity, of the present Co eernment, and of the
persons eo-oloyed by it, to wl.ich, and not to his in-
noce,scc, he owes that the do: is of the prison have
not been shut for ever ,least him. He is informed
that this decLiratii in .s in the hand of the police, a
mam,at d'arret, ‘‘hich will be made use of, the in-
stant his conclaa becomes suspeaed.
We have been assur:J that the late eonilua of
Bonaparte has more serv:l the cause of the Bourbons
in France, than all the arms of their adherents
in La Vendee, and the undertakings and endea-
vours of their f. iends at Paris, and in the provinces;
because, forni:rly, the French Royalists, residing in
France.were t3:vided among thensv-Ives : some were
fur Louis XVIII., others fur the Duke of Otlesats,
and others again fia the ice of Conde ; but thef
are now united, and rc;..:d their legitimate Sovereign,
Louis XVIII., as the only Prince wh t can 64%
them from the cruel and tyrannical yoke of the Cor-
sican. Beside', all other Frenchmen, either at-
tached to Pichegru, M.,reau, or to a republican
form of government ; and who have no crimes to
reproach themselves with, have joined the staunch
Royalists, in hope of escaping the vengeance or
r ppression of Bonaparte. whose cruelty against the
Duke of Enghien and Pichegru ; and whose envy
and ingratitude against Moreau, have made hint
detested by every man, who does not want this up-
start's elevation to collen plunder, or to escape the
punishment due to his crimes. Bonaparte is so
well convinced of the public hatred, that. during
his late journey, he has declined all guards of ho-
nour offend by citizens, and trusts the protec-
tion of his person only to Mamelukes, who poisoned
or murdered with him in Syria and Egypt or to
those pitied men of his guards. or gene d'armes
-fife, who, during 1793 and 1795, were his accom-
plices in his massacres of the i :habitants of Toulon
and Paris.

'THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
SATURDAY, SIPTESIIICIt 15.

Yesterday we received a series of the Moniftur
from the 29th last, to the sth inst. They are totally
destkttte of news. The five per cents. on the Ji
were 56 f. 40 cents.

We yesterday animadverted upon the insidious
and danger-us sent ments professed by a morning
print respelling invasion. Es principles and doe.
t. •.:e, simplified, reJuce themselves to this, that the
aTair off Boulogne upon the 29th, was the " grand
experiment ;" and, as it failed, that the danger is
over, at least, for the present. Secondly, that if
the attempt should not be made lx•fsre the equinox,
it will be deferred until the Spring ; and, thirdly, if
deferred until the Spring, that the q estion may be
considered as at rest, and adjou-ne I roe die; in
other words, that the attempt will r. ter be made.
Having alrea.:y exposed the fallacy cf the first
proposition, the few obe7vatiuns whip ve mean
now to make !hall be addresv• I to the part of
this eztraorjiaary Jocuiue. Never w. , here a more

fruitful source of speculation end conjeflore than
the subject of invasion. According to some, the
enemy are to be driven over in a storm ; accoring
to others, they :cannot venture but in a dead calm•--
son:n say, they are to come enveloped in a fog;
others, that a bright day will not obstrt:et their pur-
pose. We admire the modesty and sagacity of the
man who can see his way clearly through this mass of
conk :lure, and pronounce with confidence that, after
the equines, invasion still be impraEliiable. The
Dutch expedition was undertaken in the very
halcyon days of summer, and yet it was defeated by
a storm. Can the almatiack politician in The Times
be certain that there will not be one cairn and tran-
quil day after the equinox ? The public have been
taught to suppose, that an opportunity of a few
days, at the most, would be sufficient for the enemy ;
but this new politician requires mure time. lle
reckons not by days, but by seasons, and would
persuade us that all is safe in winter, and that
summer is the only time of danger. The Paper
ti which we allude, gave Government great credit
for their vigilance and aftivity last winter, when
the means of invasion, now mature, were only
in embryo. New we are told, that their vigilance
WAR folly, as there cars be no danger in winter.
There is neither sense nor consistency in this mode
of argument. But strong faith may supply the ab•
sence of reason, and authority is sometimes a good
substitute for proof. Now we should be glad to
know to what great name the paper in question can
refer, to bear it out in its paradoxes ? Mr. Pt s
declared, last session, in the liou,e of Com-
mons, at an advanced petiod of the winter,
that he did not think the enemy, having so long
delayed their enterprise, would attempt it until
Spring ; best he did not say that there was no
danger after the Autumnal Equinox ; or, that the
enemy became every day less formidable in pro-
portion as they should augment their meani of
annoyance. This is the only authority to which
the writer CAR refer; and, as to his reasoning, it con-
tains neither sense nor logic. The third proposition,
which maintains, that if the attempt be not
made before Spring, it will never be made at
all, appears more weak and groundless than
either of the former. A foreigner and a fugitive
has mounted, at a single bound, the throne of
Francs, and encircled his brows with an imperial
diadem. Ile has won a throne, and can appreciate
its value. He also knows, that a failure in the
expedi.ion against England would endanger hi,
power, perhaps his life. The love of plunder, ha-
tred, cruelty, and anfoition, urge him on. Craft,
cunning, and selfishness, all predominant in his
character, call him off. But, then, hose can he get
..►er the shame of shrinking from a fight where he
is the challenger ? This might be a difficult busi-
ness in ttl: case of a King of ENGLAND, an Em•
peror of Items, or a King of SWEDIN. The
fugitive of Acre, and of Egypt, can easily cut
the Gordan knot. He can draw his sword upon
the comment ; it is already half oat of the
scabbard. Ile can hide his disgrace and his dis-
cormiture in a continental war. But let him be-
come seasoned upon his throne; let him have
time to overwaelm the continent, and have Den-
mark and Sweden crouchi g under his foot, like
Swedes' and I lolland, and we will ask, may he
not then renew his threat of invasion with more
confidence, and attempt it with less personal danger
than at present ?

Dy the Gottenhurgh Mail, received yesterday, we
learn that :a courier Arrived thete frcin Petersbutgh,
on the 2tith ult. with important dispatches tram Sir
JOIIN BORLASE WARREN for Lord HARROWIIV.
When he left it, great preparations were making
for a grand review before the Est r CROlt of 60,000
choice trool•s.
The letters by this Mail also state the f.s.rt before
known, that a Russian fleet, of seven sail of the
and sit frigates, has reached the Sound ; one pun
of which is to cruise in the Bahic, and the other in
the North Sea. They are considered merely as fleas
of observation ; but will be ready to aa upon any
emergency.

According to a letter from an officer on board
the squadron of the Duke of Bow Limn, near Jersey,
betwen :10 and 10 of ths French gun-boats, arrived
lately at tit. Ma 0 from Brest, attempted in Ow
night between the 7tli and Bth inn, to steal away
farther to the sr. stward, supposed to Cherbourg's.
As the night was buds dark and foggy, ,thity could
not be perceived before the morning of the Bth,
when an immediate chace was ordered; but, the
wind and tide being in their favour, they suc-
ceeded, by skulking along the coast und, r the
proteetion of their batteries, after receiving some
of nor tire, which dismisted four of the stoutest
vessels, to return to St. Malo, where twent;
other armed vessels were drawn out in a line
to protct their arrival.
A letter from SanJgate, of the 13th, says, " A
very heavy cannonade took place last evening, be-
tween six and seven o'clock, on the opposite shore,
and was continued very briskly till late in the even-
ing; but so thick was the haze on that coast, during
the whole time, till dark, that tho•e who were on
the hills could not observe any thing ; in the first of
the morning, sonic of the boats wee seen out of
Boulogne, but not many ; the tiring has been at
times repeated during the whole of to-day, by which
we are led to suppose some of the enemy's vessel. are
coming oat of the harbour to exercise."

against the Corsican family. a dose of poison
t removes them from the prison to the gra,
the eight thousand three hundred persons
tahbasisim._

'S POLICE OP PARIS. Dowd last spitng, net a foUtth Ititt
made their appemance in society.; and
sezes, implicated in thepretend- police v•3ents say, that they hive dem
foreats, Georges, and Pichegru, luntary banishment to tha