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London, England, 1824-02-09 00:00:00

PARIS.

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ling great progress in this quarter of the globe, and these
two evils are, and always have been, the great precursors
of revolution. The reason is manifest. The majority
have no stake in the common interest of the country ; and
when discontent begets sedition, as in th.! natural course of
events it will do, there is no countervailing
in the prejudices or the affections of the Topic, to stern its
progress. if oldiers, and prefects of police, can do but little
towards the permanent preservation of " social order,"
when the great 11/3SS of the people are disconnected, in opi-
nion and feeling, from the government. In such a eye,
the harmony wants, what the musicians call, a fundament-
al base, and for this there is no substitute. The Parisians
, are not what they were twenty years ago ; their habits,
their sentiments, their feelin2a, areal! altered. At that pr.
nod, it was truly enough said, that the whole nation was
taught to bow; the church to the crucifix—the law to the
stare—the people to the bayonet—and church, law, st2te,
people, and bayonet, to the Citizen First Consul. But
Dine has, since then, read many lectures of experience, by
which the people have profited, though their rulers have
not; and it needs no gift of inspiration or of proplieq to
foretell that the present system will end in the fall of the
Bourbon dynasty. When the hour of danger and dismay
arrives, they will see their error, and they will then do, as
royal martyrs have done before them—they will begin to
concede when it is too late to conciliate.

In France the policy has always been to interpose per.
petual spectacles between the multitude and their upper.
most thoughts. At present great prepartions are making
for the Carnival of Paris, which, this year, is to continue
to the end of the month. The Ministers and men in an.
thority arc to wear masses or not, at discretion. In whose
lunatic brain could it have first originated to let loose this
sort of foolery ? Ilow can men of common sense look in the
glass, and not blush for their folly—to turn their un.
derstandings adrift for a season, that they may indulge in
the licence of irregularity and dissipation ! When the
permitted interval of profligacy is ended, all will begin
again to cross themselves with returning gravity ; to count
their beads, to say morning mass, and to go with the usual
complacency through all the formalities of adoration !
What a drama is human life; and what an inconsistent
and variable animal is man !

The expulsion of one hundred and fifteen students from
the College of Louis le Grand, late College de Clermont,
has excited equal interest and indignation. The heads of
the establishment, it appears, received private information
that a dire plot was forming among the scholars, which
was to be put in execution on the 27 in ult.—that the
candles were to be suddenly put out, the college to be
seised by the rleeis and the masters to be punished at
their discretion. There is no evidence of guilt, so coves.
sire as as an anonymous letter. Accordingly, without in.
quiriug into the truth of the statement, or searching for
proofs of the alleged conspiracy, the head master firth-
' with dismissed forty of the scholars, two hours before the
apprehended plot was to be carried into effect. At the ap-
pointed moment, not of explosion, but of extinction, all
was suspense and alarm, when behold, on a sudden, and
by an unseen hand, four candles were put out ; but the
,house contenance, the assured air, of the masters. arrested
the further progress of insurrection—nipped rebellion in the
bud—dispersed the portentous cloud while it was yet to
bigger than a man's band, and appearances promised a
speedy. return " to the accustomed relations of peace and
amity, ' when suspicion, always on the yui the ru-
moured that a second plot was in the wind. The fatal des-
tiny of the disciplinarians was again seen upon the horo-
scope, and fear again dictated that prevention was better
than a cure. People are generally ridiculed for crying out
before they are hurt, but as it is too late to cry out after-
, wards, the former is perhaps the wisest course; at least so
thought the heads of the College of Louis lc Gram!, and
therefore, without waiting for the tedious formality of
proof, they proceeded to a second expulsion of seventy:fire
scholars! A very short form of exorcism drives away an
supposed evil spirits under the present system. One has-
' dred and fifteen students arc here expelled from College, in
the midst of their studies, and to the destruction of their
professional pursuits, without any evidence of glib, and
without any means of justification ; and this, on the arbi-
trary exercise of a despotic power, vested in the principals,
from which there is no appeal. This act of expulsion took
place late in the evening, and one youth, whose parents re-
side 450 miles from Paris, found himself turned into the
streets of' this metropolis at midnight, without a friend,
without an asylum, without a anus, and was at length
forced to beg a lodging for the night at the house of the
father of one of his school-fellows. I learn, privately, that
this apprehension of a conspiracy originated in certain ex-
pressions of indignation which fell from a few young pupils
of the College, at the punishment inflicted on one of their
'comrades, who for a slight offence was condemned to the
severe sufferings of the picket, a punishment long since
abolished in our army. Such an oppressive act of injustice
as this passes current under the present legitimate sove-
reignty of the French nation, but under Napoleon it would
have beets visited with great and prompt severity.
Theme chiefs of a college exhibit, in this instance, t!te
very same policy which is manifested on a larger scale by
the despots of a nation. Pretended plots furnish a pretest
for removing obnoxious individuals, and papermforged
the occasion, unravel conspiracies which never were forma,
and afford a clue to designs which never existed. The
partial insurrections have arisen out of public divontiot
there is no doubt, but even these have, in roost cases, boat
secretly promoted, till they rose to a height short of being
actually formidable, but sufficient to give colour to the
calling out the military, and ridding the despot of his fears,
by ridding him of every man of talent and enterpritet
whose love of freedom opposed itself to his designs.
The present agitations of Europe, as an American writer
has well observed, must be regarded by those who conton-
plate them in their true light, as a continuation of the gest
revolutionary movement which was checked and comproaed
for a time by the despotism of Bonaparte, hut only waited
for his fi.:l to begin its march again with a renewed im-
pulse. This being the real state of the case, as no name-
able man can doubt for a moment, it is quite idle to lank for
the root of the evil in obscure associations and treasonabie
plots; or in the desperate fanaticism which mai have led
to the assassination of a poet in one country and a Prince
in another. These occurrences are symptoms, slight in it:,
portance as to their (qr.-et upon the interests at stake, but
proving, by their atrocity, the strength of the princ,pl,
which are at work. And those persons who are Ink:reset.
in checking the progress of politics! reformation mi;:b:
think themselves %cry fortunate if such obscure and feelsl
enemies were all they hsd to contend with.
The Italian Brochetti, the assassin of the venerali.i
Greek patriarch, has beets found guilty of the attempt
murder, but teiteeet premed/tat/me Out English laws kr, •
jof no such verdict as this. lie is condemned to he,
labour for life ; wit n this sentence was pronounced up.
him, he exclaimed, " It is wo:se than a senteumet a
death."

We have had remarkably flue weather for some Pi
put. On Sunday, the Bois de Boulogne was crove,
with carriages and equestrians, and the Champs Elysce•
which has been deserted for the last four months, in cm
sequence of the almost uninterrupted bad weather, t't'
assumed its enlivening aspect. The promenade on the F.l(1t
of the Palais Bourbon was filled from the place Louis XI.
to the Barrier de Phltoile with thousands of petlestriato•
composed of the fashionable% and elegantes of Paris. Tbe
day, though tine, was frosty ; and. as a precaution agains.:
colds and catarrhs, the beaux were enveloped in Spanal:
cloaks, the belles in pelisses of coloured veivet, with ttf
E,trac;ful appendages of hats and feathers.

Tr, F. Rev. Mr. Co LTON.—Extract from a letter, istjl
received horn Long Island, near New York, Ike. 19, 1 s'V
" A few days ago, 1 had the pleasure of meeting with
gentleman here, the Rev. Mr. Colton, the anther
Lacon, or many things in a few words.' I was Deo
more delighted with the company of any mail in my
With highly polished manners, he unites literary aciia
menta of the first order. In his conversation, "he quote
fluently front the brew, Grcek, Latin, and French. 21,1
yet it is all done without the least app,arance of *fol.'
tan. Ile stalks incessantly, his gun being his oirstl'
attendant and hobby. Ile represents himself as Witt.;
Fellow of Cambridge and his living as worth 31101.
annum. If you can learn any thing of him, from as
Cambridge friends, let Me have it."

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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCV PAPERS.

Paris Papers of Friday last have been received, from
hich the following are extracts :
[From the (*win kr FreNevis.)
111Anetn, JAN. 27.
There is a new question raised respecting the law of amnesty : we
are positively assured that it will be revived ; and it is certain that
unless I:list:tip be taken it will be impossible to r.--orgailite the
annv, because many persons, and especially the young men, find
theinselees compromised for having manifested their adherence to
the tons:ittitional
d,o said that the capitulations will be acknowledged, and
that this resolution has been taken at the request of tie august per-
si..ll whom the capitulations were concluded.
he lb-slaw-4er of the 27th January gives a detail of the events
which took place at Mirth's. the capital of the Philippine isles,
en the and 3d of June last.
It appears that some disturbance had been observed to exist in
the King's_Regiment. Captain Novelle*, on whom the greatest sus-
picions had fallen, received orders to surrender himself at 3lissi-
ode ; be made preprrations for his departure, and wax to have em.
barked on the Rel ; but in the night he went to the regiment's quar-
ters, ordered them to take antis, and, aided by lsietit. Ruiz; he
wok possesteion of the castle, the Governor being at that time ab-
sent. besieged the quarters of the artillery, and seized many :niter
points, after the soldiers who were led on by Lieut. Ituix had killed
the Sub-inspector of the Army, l)on illariano Fernandez of Fol.
goers.. The Governor being untriediately informed of what had
taken place, hastened back to the city, placed himself at the head
of the troops which had remained faithful, beat the revolters, and
re-entured the eirtle.
The number of killed on both sides amounted to .40, among whom
were an officer of the name of Alberto Arguelles, nephew of the
celebrated Canstitutiooal Augustin Arguelles. lie had At wounds.
A military commission appointed by the Governor has condemned
to death Novelle*, Ruiz, and twenty Reticent& or Coi rituals of the
King's Regiment : they were immediately executed. Novalles
evinced to his last moments great courage; when taken before the
Council he did not impeach one of his friends, but declared himself
to be solely guilty.
Since this event the tranquillity of the colony has been uninter-
rupted.
We learn from Corunna that on the 17th January the master of
the t•fe du Midair had been arrested for some injuntios discourse,
which he is suspected of having held against the House of Bour-
bon and &Aram
PTIIPIONAN, Jaw.=
There will arrive at this place, on the 13th of :mu month, a
column of
_blemish , who wilt be immediately directed to.
wards Catidtwan. n the 29th a second cot iron will attire. Both
columns •ill be composed of militia-men.
The officers and soldiers that have capitulated to the ;lieu d'Crgel
have the liberty of remaining in France, but they will not receive
either matey or entertainment firm that Government.
The Council of War of this division has condemned we persons
to sitir,r death, for having borne arms against France dureng the
late war. _ . _

[[From the Constitationsrti
Lieut.-General Menohaea, Commandant of the Second Army of
B4illasteros. is arrivtd at Bayonne with his site and family. lie
has obtained trout the Spanish fhtv..rnrot.nt permission to travel to
:ince, but is obligrd to wait at liayonne till the superior authority
has assigned hint a place of destination.
BEELIW, JAN 27.
A letter from the Lower Rhine says—" After the establishment

of the custom-houses on the frontient, our manufactories at first
improved, but won after such an extensive system of smuggling
was formed at Cologne, llerdingen, W.mel, and in short all along
the Lower Rhine, that almost all the expected advantages of the
new T -riff were lust. The quantity of smuggled goods was so
great, that there was perhaps hardly a merchant in all the provinces
on the Lower Rhine who did not sell (at least indirectly) goods
which had not paid the import duty. At length Mr. Moser. chief
Inspector of Customs of Munster, has succeeded in discovering the
bole system of contraband. Ile has found in the hands of several
merchants distinct sets of books for the express purpose of keeping
the accounts of this contraband trade. lty this totals be has pow
sesto3.l himself of the correspondence of all the smugglers, and the
result is, that the revenue has been defraudcd of import duties to
the amount of several milhons of rix-dollars.