The National Register.
London, England, 1814-12-18 00:00:00

FRANCE

Uniformly pursuing one system, that of aggrandi7ement, and
this system admirably seconded by the immoral stee of her pa.
pulation, she is casting aside tile pruning hook for the spear,
and preparing to assert those claims whit+ she says have a
lawful founilation—clahns which in the moment of distress
she was compelled to waive. tier armies are collecting, and,
notwithstanding the losses sustained by her in her Ru•sian
campaign, there is little reason to doubt,, but that she will
be able to take the field with 400,000 men. This, compared
to that which will be opposed to her, is a tremendous num-
ber. The depraved state of her morals, furnishes a sti-
mulus- to her attempts to regain her Rhenish boundary,
and then act according to dicumstances.
Various are the rumours contained in private letters on the
subject of the disposition of the people towards the Bourbons;
but, various as they are, we regret to see they excite a pretty
general apprehension in the by-standers of approaching con-
vu!sion.

Pr ivate advices from Paris assert that a plot was formed to
involve the King and Royal Family in destruction on Thurs-
day sennight, when returning from the Theatre to his car-
riage. The conspiracy was disclosed to his Majesty by Mar-
shal Mamma, a quarter of an hour before he left the Thuil
le; ies. The intention of the conspirators, it 's said, was to
surround the King before he reached his carriage—to hail
him with kind acclamatious of Vire lc Roi, and to s'// him
and the other Members of the Royal Family amidst their Irv-
pociitical applause. Every necessary precaution was used,
by lining the streets with soldiers'through which -his Majesty
and the Members of the Royal Family passed, besides hav-
ing an additional guard, and they returned in safety to the
Palace. It is added, that a great number of arrests have
taken place, and that 80,000 troops have been Assembled in
time environs of Paris.
The private letters received from Paris continue to repre-
sent that the popular feeling leans towards Bunnaparte, and
that alarms are almost daily 'excited of conspiracies against
the Bourbons. The following are two communications of
this description :
Extract of a Letter. from a Gentleman, dated Pwcy, near
Paris, Dec. 8 :-" Some disturbance is dreaded here : troops
of soldiers arc placed in every village round Park ; about
21 (cavalry) came to this house to-day to and every
bourgeois in Passy is obliged to keep a proportionate number.
About twenty conscripts were imprisoned •at Versailles, yes-
terday, fur crying " Vice l'Emperemr r and such like. The
Place Vendome and Rue de la Paix were quite full of men
to day crying the same things."
Another letter from Paris, dated 9•11 November, restates
the meditated attack on the King in the following terms :,
,‘ The day that the King was to go to the Odeon the alarm
of Government was greater than is imagined. The garrison
of Paris was reinforced with three regiment", which were or-
dered into the city from the environs. Three Marshals, and
especially Marshal Marmont, strongly urged the King net to
attend the spectacle. All the agents of the police :were
abroad to siateh over the public safety. But the King ht -
ved every reprirt, and every alarm. He went to the specta-
cle and nailing occurred. There. were the same alarms la,t
Sunday. They produced no more results than the precedi
ing ones. We are lost in conjectures upon all these circum,
stances. A regiment of light infantry, which was at St.
pepya, having received orders to set off for nuother destiny