The National Register.
London, England, 1816-09-02 00:00:00

FRF.NCII P %PERS.

PAnts Avo. 23.—Yesterday, the capital presented th.
aspect of the tir•cst Kstival : it was that of our august
Monarch; and Paris has had thc happines.s of hem,' ing the
interpreter of the wishes and expressions of gratitude and
atketion, which have at the smue nanacnt escapist front
all French hearts, and burst thrth on all points of the
kingdma.—Magistrates, warriors, poets, artists, citizens
of ullranks and ages, were anxious to discharge a debt so
precious, and present to their King the homage of feelings
which his virtues huve excited, and which he daily renders

At one o'clock, after mass, hi, Niajesty, surrounded by
the Primes of his tinnily and the Great Officers of his
Household, received in the Hall of the Throne tha
homage mid mpectful felicitations of the 6erieral
Staff, tool the corps of Officers of the Natiotml Gutinl of
Paris, who were presented to him by the Marshal I of
Reggio, their commander in chief. This eorps consieed of
nearly 2000 officers, in the finest and most exact unifimin,
who risstunbled in the great gallery of the Muscuin : they
dcliled betVre his Majesty in two lines by order of legions,
battalions, and companies. lit Majesty honoured them
with the most touching and paternal reception, and was
pleased repeatedly to express the •otistiiction with which
he saw the chiefs of a corps, whose acid, services, and
honourable devotedness he appreciates. The generld staff
sod the eorps of officers of the different regimente.of the
Royal Gum's, who were ;11,49 assemOlcd in the gallery.
of the Museum. were in like manlier presenteit to his
Majesty, and admitted to the honour of defiling beilers
him.
At two o'clock all the Theatres were openetlAeatis,
and were tilled by crawls--Every where such picots,
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were rep:v.:cute& as, on this happy occasion, wete dictated I
'by tal.mts, diverso indeed, but all animated by the 8/11113
seutintent.—These expressions of the heart were received
with an enthusiasm it would be impossible to describe.—
The greater part of the pleasant couplets of which they
cantis.el ware encored with shouts, and the curtain
fell, truil.t repeated cries of Vire le Roi, Vivent
Burbtnu! Towards six o'clock an immense crowd flock-
ed from all pans of the capital to the garden of the Toil-
and purti ul arl,V under the windows of his Majesty's
apartment, where all Paris seemed to have met. Nume-
rous group:, pre: vied by white thugs, with difficulty made
their way through the close ranks of the multitude, who
replied to their shouts of Vile le Roi ! His Majesty was
plensca to make an naxaimate return t:, this unanimous
zeal : he otlen showed himself to the multitude, to whom
kris presence is always the mast agreeable reward.—The
tnost lively ariumations were raised and repeated even to
the extre:niiies of the garden.
At eight o'cloek, the musicians, the drums and trum-
pets of all the legions of National Guards executed succes-
sively i'arious pieces or ma..ie under the windows of the
King. those of Monsieur, mid of the Duchess ngouleme
At nine a very tine concert was performed on the terrace
of the Palace —A part of the garden was illuminated.—
The usual hour of its being shut was thus prolonged
amidst the joyons movetnents of an immense population,
who at last returned to their respective homes, like a nu-
merous flintily who separate after having paid to an adored
tither the tribute of their love and veneration.

Extract of a private letter, dated August '76 :—" The
illuminations list evening were very general ; the public
buildings were particularly brilliant ; but amongst the pri-
vate hotels, that of the Prince of Benevento was most
conspicuous. The Champ de Mars and Bois du Bon-
] igne were crowded all day with the lower orders, as
every spreies of public amusement vas given gratis.
Madame Blanchard ascended at six o'clock in a balloon,
and at nine same very brilliant tire-works were displayed.
The streets at night were crowded, and with the excep-
tion of same insulting observations directed against the
English from the military who were parading in parties,
I saw no symptoms of disorder, but every expression of
attachment to the Bourbons. _ _

"A disgraceful scene occurred, however, at the entrance
gate of the Thuilleries. Cards had been issuel by order
td. the King to admit a certain number of persons to the
lisle-e on Sunday, to see his Majesty and the Royal Fa-
mily at dinner; and the greater proportion of these tickets
had been issued to strangers.—Whether this had incensed
the military and the police I know not, but about 200
English, furnished with cards, were kept waiting in the
open 'air, opposite the iron gate, from five until seven
o'clock, exposed to continual insults from the military,
and police ugcnts.—Many ladies had their clothes torn
from their backs, and lost their jewels ; several were se-
riously hurt: at seven the iron gate was opened to admit
t!tem all into the lower court, but it was merely to tell
them that they were too late, as the King had risen from
table, so that they might all return home. I attribute
this to a secret agency that appears at work to thwart the
gof.xl wishes of the King, and to throw discredit upon
whatever he does. Picquet guards were marched through
the middle ef a crowd of persons wait ing for admissinn ; and
ail the military who had tickets were admitted with their
ladies, while other:; who were waiting for the same ob-
ject remonstrated in vain?"
Another letter from Paris, same date, after describing
the insults to which our countrymen were exposed on
Sunday last, in endeavouring so get access to the Thuil-
'aeries, says, that it is the wish of the Royal Family of
Fiance, that every attention should be paid to British
subjects ; but that there exists a party about the throne
hostile to its interests, and extremely active in privately
counteracting the wishes and will of the King, and that
US long as the Bourbons continue to retain so large a pro-
portion of the Buonapartean school about them, the diffi-
ealties with which Louis has to struggle, will necessarily
iacrease.

PARIS, AUG. .el.—We begin to perceive here all the
symptoms which must necessarily accompany the period
• of the meeting of the Chambers.
It is certain that the Ministry, or a part of it, or at
least one individual Minister, is very much afraid of this
re-entrance on legislative duties.
It is felt that all the Ambassadors of France at foreign
Courts—all, with the exception of the Ambasstulor at
London, hostile to the majority of the Chamber—must
have inspired the different Sovereigns of Europe with
great alarm ut it ; which circumstance, during sonic months
of diplomatic correspondence, must have been the means
of conveying to the King of Entice an opinion which will
have weaved unanimous as to the feelings of Europe
against that majority.
In fine, this party, or this individual of the Ministry
above alluded to, t.,:trs nothing so much as the re-as-
aembling of the Ciitzniber, composed us it now is.
The fAllwing is the singular plan which, it would
appear, has Leen adopted ; and with regard to which it is
aided, that it is only p,:stlioned for a short time, that the
fae of he King may not be distnrbed by its Ftblication.
A rr:-1 Ordinance will. appear, importing—
o'llat the tiling feels daily more mid more convineed of the
neces,:ty of in no respect depart niz from' the Comitittition.
71::It the exi,itingc Chivniier of Depotio i> composed in s
Mama paciacly anal late. contrary w that Constitution,

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

The Constitution says, that the Chamber ought to consist of
only 2;0 Membees, and there are •IttJ.
It says tha: the :Members should have reached the age of 40,
and there ate many who are not 25 years oid.
The king was led to assent to this by COIIIISAi not sufficiently
enlightened.
H-I,els the example of returning to that sacred test front
which he will never an er%e. He regrets being linable to
youvoke a Chamber so devoted ; hot premimes that a great
ineolter of its :Members will he re-elected.
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This ordinance will announce; that the new Chamber
will be summoned fin. the Ist of November, and that a
subsequent ordinance slt,ull regulate the convocation and
formation of the Electoral Colleges.
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As a conscittenee of this plan, it is believed, that the
grand blow being once struck, Ministers will feel the
public opinion on the subject of the a'luption, in the
course of September, of one or other of the three follow-
ing steps :

14. To assent's& for new etc:lions the electoral colleges, such
as they exi:ted in 1:41.1, taking eilre to substitute for the ad •
jinicts of that period adjuncts of the liner:ll or ministerial way
of think inc.
24. To retit'sn the existing Ciamber, striking out all such ni
31st. tinder 4) year of age, and drawing lots for the rest, ilk or-
dor to relinee the whole to 270 inciiitic:.s, iu the hope that, llun
null dated and menaced with dissolution, it may become flexible

and manageable.
Or 3J—and this is the boldest cnm.c of all ; an actual appeal
to retolutionary power resuscitated—To CollloLe some new
electoral revolutionary bodies. and to compose them of all tho,e
to wham the Constitution leas es the povter ui becoming (lec-
tors, paying only 300 francs.
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PARIS, AVG. 23.—Yestertlay the King gave an audi-
ence to the Duke of Wellington.
It is calculated that more than 3000 F,nglish visited
Versailles yesterday to see the grand water-works of the
Garden. They will play again on the Ist of September,
in celebration of the King's birth-day.
It now appears quite certain that the expected inter-
view between the Emperor of Austria and the King of
Prussia in a German village will not take place.

Auti. I..—A Report has been made to the King on
the disturbances which lately occurred at Strasburgh.—
The number of men who fell in the general affray is
therein rated at 200. The cause of the tumults is re-
ferred to the offensive tone anti language assumed by the
officers of the Departmental Guard towards those of the
Natienal Guard of the city ; tliey were at length appeased
by the mediation of the authorities, and more than all,
by the dread of the interference of the armed tinvigners.
The spirit of disaffivtion has always been singularly ma-
nifested throughout Alsace. It is said by sonic, to be fo-
mented by the Austrian General commanding there, the
Court of Vienna being supposed to entertain designs
upon that province. According to others, it is kept up
materially by the intolerant system pursued towards the
Protestants, who are very numerous in that country.—
Strong symptoms of commotion appeared at the same
time at the towns of Hagueuau and Saverne, and a ge-
neral rising was apprehended throughout the province.—
The Count d'Artois will shortly visit this and the other
eastern province!:, as the Duke d'Angouleme lately visited
those of the youth, in order to try the effect of his pre-
sence, towards composing and reconciling the minds of
the inhabitants.

The late Proclamation of the Prefect of the city of
Strashurgh alludes to the difficulty of raising men for
the Royal service. This difficulty is gener.dly Mt.

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SPAIN.

Letters from Spain, received by the Mail of Wednes-
day, give the most melancholy picture of the country
that can be imagined. A sullen gloom overhangs all
public and private business, accomyanied by distrust,
which renders society impossible. So great is the want
of confidence, and the dread of arbitrary contributions
and seizures, that every one possessed of specie has bu-
ried it, so that not a dollar is to be seen in circulation,
unless in the hands of Monks and Friars. A merchant
is afraid of his clerk knowing that he has even the most
trifling sum in his strong chest.

The whole conversation in Madrid is absorbed by the

late dOwnfall of two 17f King Ferdinand's quondam Coun-
cillors and advisers. The Correspondence of Lurdizabal
to his friend Abadia in Cadiz, and that of the latter to
his brother in Lima were captured in the ship Neptune
on her way to Port Bello, and carried into Carthagena,
little before that place was captured by Nlorillo. In this
correspondence a disclosure of state secrets took place re-
specting the marriage of the King and Brother with the
Portuguese Princesses, the degraded state of the Madrid
Cabinet, and the manner in which the operations of Go-
vernment might be turn..ll to commercial purposes, which
has greatly piqued Minister Cevallos and his Master, and
both Lurdizalial anl Abadia have been arrested. The
latter, win) acted as Commissioner in Cadiz flr the South
American e:.peditions, was seized in the night in his Led,
and carried away, without even his frieuLL knowing
where.

Recent al.ices from Iton la, in Spain, state,
that the troops in glrrison at Malaga, lately broke out
into mutiny, and attacked the Bishop's palace, throwing
stones at it, and breaking the wimlows, &e. Against
the Bishop (FathA. Cancdo, a famous nnrade of Onto-
i.tza, in the Cortes, they uttered dreadful threats ; and
the aflitir woul-1 have had serilus consequences, had nn;
some persons int-aposed, and the Willa t.
Draught fora a b.i of dollars to pacify the ututiao,ro.

SEPTEMTvER Q.

A similar dispsitiun pervaded the iailit:try and naval
service in all parts of Spain. Marmars arc every where
heard that the King thins of nothing but fattening the
Monks and Canons like hogs, while the defenders of the
country.. are sufli..rtsil to perish.
A private letter from Cadiz states, that when Morrillo's
expedition was fitting out there, X) great was the want
of money, that the Government was obliged to effect a
loan of about one million and a half of.dullais frunt,the
inerAants of the above place ; bonds fbr payment at
stated periods were given, which arc now expired but thu
lenders cannot obtain either principal or interest,

Most foul surmises are circulated in Spain, respecting
the murder of Mr. Lycll, the late Messenger, which it
becomes the duty of Government to unravel. That he
was killed by no common ruffian fin. the purpose of plun-
der, is evident from his papers and letters which he had
about him being all that was stolen. Rumour concludes
that his death was connected with political purposes ;
and that inunediately after, the order to convey the
Spanish Liberates from Ceuta was given. `Whether he
had been the bearer of those remonstntnces so long pro-
mised, or conveyed letters of condolence from their
friends here or in France, is not known ; bat it is gene-
rally believed that his papers were all his assassins
aimed ut.