The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-05 00:00:00

A Persecuted Author.

valued.

Alexandre Dumas addressed the following charac•
teristic letter to the Emperor on the subjectris
mot of his
piece recently produced in Paris, and calledtine
and
"Mohicans of Paris." The " Maosh.in.ceainthslirhbaydwboeredn,
stopped by the censorship, and Dumas wrote
Sire,—In 1836, and even to-day, there were three. men at
myself.the
Hugo
sa t
proscribed.ure, , Txe icaciloe
,ra2
otoLheaHugo,atvcoela u:Lmsinerses ah.
I cannot be exiled like Victor Hugo,
iplatgisainnostt
their literary merits. Translated into
writing, nor act, have I given the authorities any hold over
me. But I can be ruined like Lamartine, and lam being
awndhaptuhbaliss
have gone as far as steam could carry
allfor
ei ruined.
tongues
u.
to
haveo
elappreciate not
them. Although the lesst worthy of the three, in the five
parts of the world I have become the most popular, because
one is a thinker, the other a dreamer, whilst I write for all
(.7e suis,moi, un vulgarisateter). Of these 1,200 volumes
there is not one but could be given to any workman
of the Faubourg St. Antoine, the most republican, or
to any young girl of the Faubourg St. Germain, the
most modest of our Faubourgs. Well, sire, in the oyes of
the censure lam the most impure man alive. Within
12 years the censure has successively stopped " Isaac La-
queden,"sold 80,500 francs ; the " Tour de Nesle," after 800
representations, stopped for seven years. "Angelo" stopped
after 300 representations for six years ; " Antony" also for
six years, after 350 representations. ,4 Le Jeunesse do
Louis XIV.", not played though received by the French
Theatre. To-day the censure stops the " Mohicans of
Paris," which was to have been played on Saturday. It wil
probably, on some pretext or another, forbid " Olympia of
Cleves" and " Balsamo," which plays I am writing now.
I do not complain any more for the "Mohicans" than for
my other dramas. I would observe to your Majesty that
during the three years of the Restoration of Charles X.,
during the 18 years' reign of Louis Philippe, 1 never had a
piece either suspended or arrested, and I add, for your Ma-
jesty alone, that it appears to me unjust to make a single
dramatic author lose more than half a million when so many
men, who do not deserve the name, are encouraged and
supported. I appeal then for the first, and probably for the
last time, to the prince whose hand I bad the honour to
press at Areneberg, at Ham, and at the Elysee, and who
finding, ins a devoted proselyte when he was on the road to
exile and the road to prison has never found me a solicitor
when on that of empire. A. DumAs.
" This letter," adds the Turope," was handed to the
Emperor by Marshal Vaillant, who, as a Minister
of B!ate, Ira the theatres under his supervision.
' You need not he told that it produced the effect de-
sired by the writer, for the " Mohicans" has been
played, hut with the suppression of three tableuty4
r of the original manuscript."

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—exactly 20 years ago.
The corporation of Dundee naturally wiabed
that the demonstration should be a pubic 'one,

and that the inhabitants should have en opl.l or,
tunity of seeing the prince and princess ; bu.t in
the official intimation of the embarkation re.

ceived by the provost, the desire of the

prince, as conveyed by Sir Charles Wood, was
to the effect that there should he no public ;de.
monstration of any kind, but that everything
should be carried cut in the quietest and most
private manner possible.
However,
at a meeting
of the Harbour Trustees on Friday, held for the
purpose of making the necessary arrangements, the
Earl of Camperdown stated that his son, Lord
Duncan, had been instructed by the prince to in.
m him thathioefrotyheal highness would place himself
magistrates
fo
might have a good opportunity of seeing the prince
and princess, that a procession should be formed
form
at or
the disposalr a
short time.
It was accordingly agreed, in order that the public

from the railway station, along Dock-street, up
Castle-street, to High.street, and Nethergate,

and down Union street, to the Mid Quay— a
distance of about a mile end a half. The magis.
trates issued a proclamation informing the inh
bitants that ample opportunity would be afforded
to all to see their royal highnesses, and urging the

citizens to show the Queen, by their orderly con-
duct, how they loved her and her children, and to

show the noble Danes how their royal daughter was

The prince and pri , s Ith the infant prince
and suite, left Abergeldie at ten o'clock on Saturday
morning and posted to Aboyne, where they found
especial train waiting for them, atil started in it
shortly after twelve. Aberdeen was passed at 12.58,
and the journey thence to Dundee was calculated
to occupy two hours. The royal suite included the

Earl and Countess Spencer, the Countess de Grey,
General Knollys, Major Teesdale, &c. The Lon•
don and North-Western Railway Company provideA,
a saloon carriage for their royal highnesses on their
journey.

The royal party were expected to arrive in Dun.
dee about three o'clock, and long before that hour
the streets were crowded with the teeming popu-
lation of the town, and with thousands of persons
who had been brought by excursion trains from the
neighbouring towns and villages. At half-past two
o'clock a rumour was circulated through the crowd,
that the Royal party would embark at Broughty
Ferry, about four miles down the Firth of Tay from
Dundee. On inquiry the report turned out to be
only too true, at least so far as regarded the inten.
tions of the Royal party themselves. Several tele.
grams were received at the platform of the Scottish
North-Eastern Railway Station, stating that it was,
fully intended to embark at Broughty Ferry, and,,
as if to corroborate the statement, the Royal yacht
Osborne was seen to sail down the Firth and anchor
close to the pier at Broughty Ferry. At this critical
moment the magistrates of Dundee, alarmed at the
evident misunderstanding, sent off the senior bailie
(Mr Owen) and Mr Kerr, the town clerk, to meet the
Prince of Wales at the Ferry, and to state that the
whole public of Dundee were in the streets anxiously
waiting to see the royal pair, and that the disap4
pointment to them would be of a very serious kind
should the expected visit not be paid. The muni.
cipal deputation found that it was from an idea that
the tide would be lost by the delay that the inten.
tion of coming to Dundee had been altered. The
commander of the royal yacht, who was at Broughty
to receive the royal party, was consulted about the
matter, and after making a computation respecting;
the tide, he assured the Prince that the embarkation
could take place from Dundee without any risk of
the kind anticipated. The order was then given to
go on to Dundee, and the train arrived there at, 20
minutes past three o'clock. A further detenti,m, of
10 minutes then took place, for the carriages of the
Earl of Camperdown had, according to the midden
instructions received an hour before, gone off to
Broughty, and while the train was corning up they

were rushing up the road at full speed, while the
royal yacht Osborne was again making her passe Re
up the Firth. At half-past three everything Nv-ris
ready, and, preceded by the carriages of the to wa
council, the Prince and Princess, who were received
with a tremendous cheer, both as they entered and
left the station, rode through the surging mass,
whose ardour oould not be abated, for, notwitha
standing barriers, special constables, and police, a
wave of people followed the Earl of Camper..
down's carriage, in which the Prince and prince
were seated, and at the wheels of which his lora-
ship walked, struggling at every moment with Cee
impetuous crowd. An extraordinary spectacle
was presented in Dock-street.; Net only was the

area crowded to excess, but the windows and

housetops on the one side, and the bulwarks, rig-
ging, and masts on the other, were literally alive
remarkably
we Well,
of with human beings. There were no barriers, unfor4
tunately, in the other streets except at the turn-
ingwrel points; and though the people, as a genera).
aafegv theood°:
the more ardent were always breaking through
rule,lin e aknedp
thougtheirh
places
the interruptions
natured kind, yet at some points were of rather an
alarming character, and but for the most strenuous

exertions of the Earl of Camperdown and other
gentlemen to check the foremost of the crowd the
passage would speedily have been blocked up.
Nothing could exceed the heartiness of the recep,
tion of the prince and princess, who, being in am
open carriage, were in the view of everybody, and
they very graciously acknowledged the salutatio as
of the crowd. At the corners of the streets, as the
carriage of the royal party came in view, the chtaer-
ing was most exuberant, and thousands of hats and
handkerchiefs were waved from the windows and
above the heads of the populace. The crowds in
the streets were chiefly of the working classes, and
many of them had just been set free from their
labours, with the smoke and dust of the factories
©till upon their faces. The drive through the town
occupied a quarter of an hour, and the quay was
reached at a quarter to four.
At this quay, in the centre of the docks, at which
Queen Victoria landed in September, 1844, on her
second visit to Scotland, and at the head of which
stands the triumphal arch commemorative of the
Royal visit, the volunteers of the local battalion
were drawn up, and the accesses to it were strictly
guarded. The royal carriage only was admitted,
and the departure took place from a floating jetty.
A large party was admitted to witness the royal
departure, including the Earl of Camperdown,
n,,,bhooNweeavlclr,, a heavy
Lord Kinnaird, Lord Lucie, Sir John Ogilvy, Sir
David Ross (Lord Provost of Perth), Sir David,
Baxter, Mr. Sheriff Heriott, and the provost, ma-
gistrates, &c. Before the arrival of the royal party
a good deal of rain had fallen, but the weather wax
, I quite fine during their progress through the town.
I Acawt
It
let
adrtielhge:::eit
continued
i detained
una:erd,
dkaaria.t°ifligements, the prince and princess
shower fell
flour. Owing to the
at the ferry for a quarter of an hour
. waiting the arrival of the royal barge. The crowds
on the qnaye and on the ehippiug had an excellent
view of the prince and prinTs; and, ss they ma
barked in the barge, the cheers of the multitude,
mingled with the loyal strains of the volunteer band,
ove them a hearty and hopeful goodbye. The barge
then stood out in the river, and readied the Osborne
about a quarter past four, the arrival on board NA
ing intimated by an artillery salute from a battery
near the docks. About half-past four the infant
prince and his nurses embarked in another barge
amid the cheers of the multitude, the band of the
volunteers playing the National Anthem. A large
number of steamers, with crowds on board, sailed
down the Firth after the royal squadron, and cone
. voyed them to the month of the Tay. Darkness
. closed in when the royal vessels were last seen en
i their way across the North Sea.

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