The National Register.
London, England, 1815-10-01 00:00:00

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

PA Els, SEPT. 25.—The most common phrase in the months of the
French at this moment, is, " What will be the catastrophe, Dow that
the tragedy is brought to the fifth act." Their langnage borders
upon the extravagance of despair ; they look upon the present mo•
inent at a crisis, respecting the issue of which they are in utter dark-
nest, but which must inevitably throw France into a state of colivnl-
sion. The state of the public feeling may he judged of from the
manner in which tlin National Guard, who were on duty at the
Louvre on Friday mornisse, are spoken of 01'1,1)21100 Paris ; they
Ore loaded with elle niAs 11,111 A r(prabatioss for not having
supported I)sainn, soya is ashnission 10 the Faiglisli at the p int
of the I).lp.tit t. The iestitt, Hwy say, would II:tvt• liven, that the
of Paris would have risen noon Ilse Allies, and
" delivered Franey " '[hey talk of the practicability of a general
massacre without the least reserve. It is erliditi, that a plot was
in the course of last week, and that several persons,
whose names are not know it, have been put into pri•on ; the object
wit is said to have been au attack upon all the Prussian poets
Paris; for
.this purpose a large hotly of the conspirators were to
wear Prussian tositiirms, and gluts ove ;come, with the zreater faci-
lity, the Prussian troops oche:111y on gears'. considerable num-
ber of Priessiair un,turuis have bevai 7lisevVfred in the house of a per.
son residing in the Foet bourg st. Germain, of wilieli no satisfac-
tory account has been given. 'r e stripping of the Loaves, and the
total disorgabisat ion of the Frel.e's .Alitsistry, are the pritscipal causes
of the present feints ittation thissughotit Paris. It has been folool
nees•ssary, dining the %%hole ot• yesterday, to station one hundred
anal litty English soldiers within the estllety of the Lai% re, two by
t%vo, mill at abort seven air eight yards slistance let %Veen each post;
!int still thew were the strongest symptoms of a tlisposit • to shot;
no viotessee, however, was commit tel, they merely formed gronaes
in the same manner as some weeks back in the Garden of the
ansl discussed politics with great semisoft, hut with
little ditlerence of opinion. The soldiers.oh-erved them
but did not disperse them, which, in such rases, is aloays done by
the French police. Some Atiettiati' I roops have been on duty there
this slay ; and to-morrow, it is said, the removal of all the Italian
statues atisl paintings will be coMmencesl. (7asiova, the celebrated
Sculptor, has ids nt died the pieces of sculpture brought bum Italy.
Several of the pietutes have been taken down in the course
of this day. Though the whale of the Freoch Miui•try have given
in their resigisations, Fondle is the ni ly one who has actually re-
tired ; all the others still continue their hinctions, and have done
' business with the King since their resignation. It is said that
Talle) rand w ill certainly .1,,5) out ; Clarke, who is considered his
enemy, is slidingitislied teir his knowledge of details of the War
The Duke of Iliche•
i I)cpartmeid, and indefatigable application.
lienpopular ;
1. is
grunt I. ittlinr4s, anti lie is said to be a mar of liberal principles

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