The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNI NG PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The following letter from Sir Robert Peel appeared
in the Obscr'ver of yest 4 trday. As the letter itself con-
tains a distinct stateme.nt of the contents of the para-
graph by which it was )ecasioned, we insert it without
an) f irther preface. [Fo r the letter see anotherpart of The
Sun.] The Observer qi 'miens Sir Robert's right to the
disclosure he demands, reminds him of the disownment
of Mr. George Robert; Dawson when that gentleman
had prematurely annouinced Sir Robert's conversion to
Cat holic emancipation, and reiterates the inquiry whether
the fanatical and perse. cuting No Popery policy is really
adopted by the Tory party, or only temporized with
for the sake of what a trength may be derived from it in
the conflict for place, and power. We leave the Ob-
strver and Sir Robert Peel to settle the personal part of
this affair by themselves. The Baronet's letter looks
very suspiciously tows rds a tendency to a breach of the
peace. There is a 3 well of powder in the last para-
graph. The champiol t of the Church seems rather in a
militant mood. His pistols are at the service of the
PI ceestant religion. 'I 'he Durham divines must be ready
with a remonstrance. ' They will have a subtler casuist to
deal with than Lord Lendonderry. We could almost
wish for the fight, lc a. the sake of the edifying corre-
spondence on Christie: t morality that might follow. A
defence of duellieg from the chosen leader of the No
Popery fanaticism, b. the sophisms of a Jesuit ! Sir
Robert Peel's denial g c sacs to the form rather than the
substance of the allegi pion. It is the sort of denial
which a Tory candidate a gives of the bribery practised
at his election. There is always, in such cases, a most
felicitous innocence and ignorance. He, the lucky com-
petitor for a seat, wlim t voters had received their ten
or twenty guineas pea • head—he had no knowledge
" that any such or sir iiilar communications had been
made ;" " in short, he never heard one word on the
subject of these allege. I" bribes " until he read the"
petition that set them forth ; and yet, somehow or
orb, r, lie is seated by si ten means, and reaps all the ad-
vantage that was purch used for him during his uncon-
sciousness. Not %Try iissimilar is the position of Sir
Robert Peel. The do able game is played or playing.
The sanguinary bigots of Orange Protestantism are
encouraged to entertain hopes from him, and mode-
rate politicians are pre Served from despondency. He
has the double phalanx : at his heels, and what power
he possesses is in the it 4congrous combination ; yet he,
forsooth, has never said whither he would lead them,
nor to what. If they t ;hink, do, or say anything false
or atrocious, or tending to enfeeble the heterogeneous
faction, he is as uncons4 ;iota as the sweetest babe of
grace that ever smiled. All he knows is, that he is going
into a place upon their t ihoulders—if they can carry
there. At any rate he takes the chance. Whatever
else may be questioned, the fact is beyond denial " that
it was required for the s ustenance of the Tory party to
keep up and enforce the No Popery' feeling in Eng-
land ;" and that the orgi ins of the party have brought
all their energies to sea r on this point. A charitable
allowance is made in thei, r favour by supposing that, to
this
dirty
necessity.atidT
he desperate
hard m
rdern " No Popery" cry may
be the same in terms, b ut in spirit it is the reverse of
that which embodied th e apprehensions of our fore-
fathers. Then, it was a rallying cry for civil and
r
religious rights ; now it is a clamour for the abroga-
tion
recognition.
co oin. Then,
forightstiu it t h: tvc legally obtained a solemn
gntiprotest against spiritual as-
cendancy and persecution ; now it is an insatiable de-
mand of ascendancy, and a n intelligible threat of perse-
cution. Then, it was a y lea for freedom, peace, and
charity ; now, it is the fir, rbrand of discord, inflaming
animosities, and foreboding hatred, strife, and desolation.
For the cold and calculating wickedness which raised
and fosters this cry, it. woul d be difficult to find a parallel
even in the most disgustil 1g annals of party spirit. It
is a practical denial and tic !secretion of whatever is most
true and holy. It denies that this is a free country, in
which the rights of conscience are respected, even when
conscience is most benight ed. It denies that the pro-
gress of knowledge and rilization has abated prejudice,
and humanised the nii; id, and rendered persecu-

tion for theological opinion an obsolete (as it
ever was a mistaken) obligation. It denies that
Christianity is a religion of divine love and human
brotherhood. But no matter to Toryism what it de-
nies, if it do but affirm the possibility of crossing over
to the Treasury bench. Only let it serve for -a safe
passage over that gulf, and the bridge may be
forthwith broken or burned. On this subject there is
no need of authority. By this lie, Toryism lives. Sir
Robert Peel knows that ; and he consents to be the
Tory leader. When so much was obvious, it really was
little worth his while to trouble himself about the story
in the Observer. , Suppose it altogether a fiction, still
that fiction is only the dramatized form of an unques-
tionable fact. There may have been no Irish questions ;
no authorized respondents ; no explanations or pledges ;
nevertheless the damning truth remains untouched that
Sir Robert Peel's party,. for its own party purposes, has
evoked and turned loose upon society a demoniac spirit
of' theological hatred worthy only of the darkest periods
by which the pages of history are overshadowed.
Against this fact, this systematic policy unani-
mously pursued lay the. organs of the Tory party,
the word of Sir Robert Peel could have gone for
nothing. But that is not exactly the case with the
other topic included in the statement of the Observer.
Sir Robert Peel's word would have been worth some-
thing on the prospective policy of his party as to
Ireland. We do not mean as to the inherent credibi-
lity of anything he might nave affirmed, but for the very
sate reason that he could have said nothing distinct with-
out risking the loss of some portion of his followers.
Has he, or has he not, repented of Catholic Emancipa-
tion ? Is he, or is he not, prepared to nullify that char-
ter of Catholic freedom ? Will he, or will he not,
gratify the savage desires of the bigot Orange Protestants
of Ireland ? These are questions which he might easily
have answered ; and on which no honest statesman would
leave the public in doubt. The oracle is mute, however.
Intolerance and moderation are both fed in silence, that
they may pull together in their work. The promissory
note of explanation is only payable at sight in
Downing-street. We cannot think so meanly of
the national character, or of human nature, as to
imagine the success of this nefarious hollowness,
this wholesale double-dealing. It not only cannot
eventually succeed, but it cannot last. The symptoms
are thickening of disunion and mutual antagonism in
the Tory camp. The feeling implied in the Observer
anecdote undoubtedly exists, and in considerable strength
and extent. The affected • ferocity of bigotry in the
Tory press has been overdone, and produced a reaction
of disgust and apprehension. By the way, as Sir Ro-
bert Peel is sensitive enough to become the correspond-
ent of the Observer, how coves he not to demand Mor-
timer O'Sullivan's authority for publicly asserting his
(Sir Robert's) repentance for the Emancipation Act ?
There is precisely the same ground, personal and pub-
lic, for inquiry in the one case as in the other. In
both Sir Robert Peel stands personally committed by
others for that to which he does not personally com-
mit himself. The sense of honour and of truth would
not dictate any distinction ; but partizan craft does
enforce a great distinction. Sir Robert calculates
the consequences. Let him speak out, and "to
arms, cries Mortimer," and Toryism is taken in
the flank by the fierce band of Orange bigots. With
such retainers the Tory leader thinks, with a cele-
brated pugilist, that " the best posture of defence is
to keep a quiet tongue in your head." So let the as-
sertion pass, false or true ; especially as it is profitable
to the party. Combining these different indications
with the mutiny of the Quarterly Review, on the point
of discipline, and with other discouragements in the
position of the Tories, it seems likely that they will take
little by the abominable means which they unscrupu-
lously employ, besides the deserved discredit of em-
ploying such means. That will stick to them like the
shirt of Nessus. And while we decline discussing the
propriety or impropriety of the Observer in refusing to
gratify Sir Robert Peel by naming its authority for the
paragraph in question, we beg leave to add that we do
know, and will name, the authorities for the concluding
sentence of the paragraph, viz., that which affirms that
there is no term " sufficiently strong to mark the infame
of such double-faced policy." Those authorities ar-
Historical Truth, Common Honesty, Christian Princi-
ple, and the Moral Sense of Mankind. We have
named them, and the Tory Champion may call them
out, if he so please ; do battle with them he may—
destroy or silence them, he cannot.
(From the Times.)
We denounced last week, " nothing better than
than a dirty, profligate, impudent, rancorous Downing-
street lie," a paragraph describing some supposed corn •
tnunications between Sir Robert Peel and certain Irish
Protestants, which the Observer published on the
" most positive authority," last Sunday. We should be
quite justified to-day in borrowing the Observer's
" most," and saying that it was a most dirty, a most
profligate, a most impudent, a most rancorous, a most
Downing-street lie. We are told, that we might add,
" a most Duncannon lie :" but as we do not tell lies
ourselves, or insert what may be the lies of others
knowingly and wilfully, we shall say no such thing,
even upon " the most positive authority," while we
can't name that authority. If, however, it should
happen to be true that the uncased, unglazed, and un-
museumed, human curiosity, which we have referred
to, and which is known among its colleagues
by the endearing. appellations .of "chin and cravat,"
" nose and neckcloth," &c., does vent either malignity,
or mendacity through the eolumns of the " Queen-and-
Royal-Family"-patronized Observer—let him look to
himself. We will make every place in the Woods and.
Forests Office a quickset hedge for him to sit upon.
But, in sober seriousness, we acquit Lord Duncannon
of all participation in this publication. He was never
wise enough to set the Thames on fire, nor wicked
enough to try to accomplish that feat ; and he cannot
have become, in a few years, so profligate an old fool as
to invent or retail, for the amusement of " the Court
and Royal Family," such a lie as that which appeared '
in the Observer, and which we denounced last week.
Our denouncement of that lie was perfectly well-
founded, as our readers will see by the letter which
Sir R. Peel has addressed to the Editor of the Ob-
server. Now, what do our readers suppose is the an-
swer which the Observer gives to this letter ? They will
never guess. Besides refusing to name the " most
positive authority," it indulges in a mean, lying, sneak-
ing, slanderous piece of slip-slop (too bad even for
Lord Duncannon to have written), which we cannot
think calculated to entertain the " Court and Royal
Family," because we know it must disgust every
honest and well-conditioned person in the empire.
Still this answer (unintentionally, and through mere
clumsiness, no doubt) admits that its " most positive
authority" is a most positive lie, because it yields the
most implicit credit to Sir Robert Peel's denial. Now,
was there ever any living thing in the creation, except
an unformed and incorrigible cur, that would show its
teeth after being kicked and buffeted at such a rate as
the cur of the Observer confesses itself to have been
most deservedly kicked and buffeted ? The Observer
patronized by the " Queen and the Royal Family !"
Stuff! If this were true, we should begin to believe
that it was by her Majesty's consent that Mr. Macau-
lay took advantage of the few hours he was at Wind-
sor to date his letter from the Castle, instead of being
sure, as we are, upon the " most positive authority,"
that her Majesty is so disgusted by that piece of im-
pertinence, that she will not transact business, except
by deputy, with the present Secretary at War! Alas!
for the Queen, the Court, the Royal Family, and the
regal halls of Windsor, when they are degraded to
these Whig-Radical uses, and when lying prints
placarded themselves, without reproof, as published
under Royal patronage !
(From the Morning Herald.)
It is with great regret that we have seen, in a pe•
riodical called the Church of England Magazine, . a
most bitter, rancorous, and unjustifiable attack upon the
Wesleyan Methodists. We disclaim, on the part of the
Church, whose doctrines we profess, and whose autho-
rity we uphold, any participation in sentiments much
more worthy the Church of Rome than the Church of
England. Popery assumes, like " the old serpent,"
many disguises for the purpose of effecting its ends.
Unquestionably the spirit of Popery speaks in the
article to which we allude, in the disguise of a champion
of the Anglican Church. In that semblance it assists
O'Connell's object by endeavouring to bring into
hatred and contempt that large body of our fellow-
Christians of the reformed faith who are engaged, in
common with Churchmen, in fighting the battle of
Scriptural instruction against the projectors and promoters
of the Romano-infidel scheme of national education.
In the bitterness of his spite and malice against the
Wesleyan methodists, did not O'Connell lately drag
their great teacher John Wesley from the repose of the
tomb to arraign him as a culprit at the bar of public
opinion, charging him in a sort of posthumous indict.
ment, with the heinous crime' of setting London on fire
in 1780, and drenching the streets of the metropolis with
blood ? What a pity that O'Connen was not of age to
be a witness at that time, as he oignt have figured
the Titus Oates, or Dangerfield, of the Wesleyan plot,
and obtained for the venerable founder ,if Methodism
the " honour" of a martyrdom at Tyburn: When we
noticed some time ago, in the terms that it deserved,
O'Connell's malignant abuse of the Wesleyan ,Me-
thodists, and his impudent calumnies upon the 1116-
mory of John Wesley, we little thought that .be
venerated name of the Church of England would be
prostituted by any writer to the same disgraceful task.
But the Church of England has no more connection
with that ungenerous and unjust attack on the Wes-
leyan Methodists than John Wesley bad with the riots
and burning of London.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
(From the Globe.)
Colonel Pasley's thousands of pounds of powder, and
voltaic batteries, are a mere flea-bi-e—his " operations
against the Royal George" mere child's play—to the
operations against the Cabinet contemplated by her
Majesty's Opposition. Hear how Monsieur Parolles,in
the Duke's service, prates in the Quarterly
With such a Ministry to contend against, all that ap-
pears necessary is, that the Conservatives, and those of
other parties who equally despise them, should steadilypersevere in showing them up,' in ' stirring them up, in

' cutting them up,'in sewing them up,' in 'screwing them
up' in rooting them up,' and, as they wont sink down-
wards, in blowing them up,' until the nation, disgusted
1 with their unmasculine characters and performances, in-
dignantly hisses this epicene company from the stage."
Truly these are " prave 'ords," every way worthy
lof Parolles or Pistol, or even of his ex-Excellency
the late Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada. Her
Majesty's Opposition are henceforward to act " re-
gardless of majorities, minorities, or of the violent pas-
sions which her Majesty's Ministers so artfully ex-
cite. They are to set to work, we suppose, with
all the coolness imaginable, at the several showing,
stirring, cutting, sewing, screwing, rooting, and
blowing-up processes. They are not to excite any" vio-
lent pasSions," but only " indignant hi.ssings." Well,
we think it very likely they may succeed so far, before
they have done. There is nothing the people of Eng-
land are more apt to hiss than empty bravado—words
without even the pretext of preparation for deeds. Here
is the grave Quarterly oracle of the great national Con-
servative party recommending them to throw off all
discipline—all obedience to thir present leaders, whom
it describes, by inuendo, in the following four lines :
" The Earl of Chatham with his sword drawn,
Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strechan.
Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em,
Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham."
So the Tory host, without waiting for either, are " to
fire their muskets independently, whenever they get a
glimpse of their irregular enemies." Teis writer has the
happiest knack at the transfer of epithets. So far as
all this Parolles-prate is translatable into plain English,
we take it to mean that the Tories have flown des-
perate at their last miss of office ; and intend to be-
have as such. " Under their [Ministers') unprincipled
system, whenever they are beaten tliey retire, not from
their offices, but from the institutions it was their duty
to defend." Now the sting of Tory exasperation ie.,
that Ministers did retire from their offices, and that
their wary chiefs did not think it advisable to take
their places ! So the troops, hopeless of pay and
plunder, begin to talk of throwing off discipline, lam-
poon their leaders, fire their muskets independently,
and are just as likely, if we may judge by appearances,
to shoot their officers as their opponents !
(From the Courier.)
It is rather unfortunate for Mr. Thomson that the
mission confided to him requires the union of many rare
and valuable qualities ; and it is still more unfortunate
for Canada and for this country that it is precisely these
rare and valuable qualities which Mr. Thomson does
not possess. Here is a British Colony placed in
the most delicate and embarrassing position ; having
the Delegated Lieutenants of a Monarchical Govern-
ment for its rulers, with the Republic of the United
States as a constant model alluring to imitation by its
side :—its population being the unmixed people of two
different nations, speaking different languages, of dif-
ferent religions, of different habits and forms, legal
and social, and cherishing hereditary prejudices and
animosities ;—the one portion of this incongruous co-
lony having recently been subdued in their unsuccessful
rebellion against the authorities of the mother country,
and the other portion still elated with the successful
part which they had taken in putting that rebellion
down :—and further, the one portion of this heteroge-
neous community, the principal in point of numbers,
wealth, and influence, deprived of its long enjoyed
representative constitution, while the other still retains
its constitutional forms and privileges ; and it is to
adjust all these differences, to reconcile all these
earring interests, to sooth, to soften, and to per-
suade ; to guard the hand of power from weighing
heavily, and to maintain withal the authority of the
British Crown, that the late President of the Board of
Trade had been metamorphosed into the Governor-
General of Canada. To meet these duties, and these
difficulties, must be brought the qualities of resolution
and perseverance in laying down a plan of action, of
constancy and patience in continuing it, of unerring
sagacity in penetrating the views of others, of long
familiarity with command, and experience in the prac-
tical art of governing. These duties are sufficiently
arduous to task the health and energies physical and
mental, the mens sans in corpore nano, of the
most robust. That the new Governor-General
unites any fair proportion of these indispensable qu&i-
fications may, in the absence of all proof, reasonably
be doubted ; which is the more to be deplored, as
the opinions which the Right Honourable Gentleman
is known to entertain on the subject of Free Trade, and
his proneness to carry into practice its abstract doctrine
without regard to its practical expediency, are not
doubted at all, and arc precisely the opinions which all
parties in Canada most repudiate. In addition to this
and other positive disqualifications, the Right Honour-
able Gentleman is open to the suspicion of having been
relieved from high official station at home, on the real
core of enfeebled powers of body and of mind, render-
ing him an incumbrance, or, at best, an absolute nullity
in the Cabinet, and giving rise to the necessity of some
pretext for his vacation. It remains to be seen how
the inhabitants of the two Canada; will regard this tyro
Governor, who seems to have been saddled on them by
way of rent-charge, to recruit a shattered constitution,
and to pave the way for his further transmutation to a
pension and a Peerage.
(From the Standard.)
The Morning Chronicle makes a great bustle about
a three-and-sixpenny dinner, " beer," and " batty and
pipes" (which our Correspondent assures us were called
tor) included, which was given on Wednesday last to the
Chancellor of th.. Exchequer at Portsmouth_ Every effort
that could be devised, even to the giving away of a large
number of tickets, was resorted to to swell
the motley group that assembled on the occasion.
Every person possessing the slightest influence in the
town had his part assigned to him ; but owing to the
prevalence of " civil and religious liberty" in the room,
all the speakers, from Admiral Fleming down
to Moses Solomons, the Jew slopseller, attempted
to recommend their own wares to the Company. The
Gallant Admiral, who was profoundly silent on
the subject of Greenwich Hospital, re-delivered his
parrot oration about the perfect efficiency of the Bri-
tish navy. He alluded to the clamour which had been
raised against " the family," for their scandalous neglect
of the naval resources of the country, but was silent
respecting the hubbub which his own profligate appoint-
ment had created, not only throughout every department
of the naval service, but throughout every part of the
country. Could this fortunate gentleman have advanced
anything in his defence, he had here an excellent oppor-
tunity, for as his speech preceded the " bacey and
pipes," he would, of course, have found willing lis-
teners. The Gallant Admiral, however, cautiously
avoided the subject ; being of opinion, no doubt, that
in his own particular case " silence was wisdom."
The temptation must have been strong nevertheless.
The Ministerial newspapers have attributed services
to him, which have been as stoutly denied by their
antagonists. To be sure, the naval records of the
country, with which most of his professional friends are
acquainted, are accessible enough, if people would but
be at the trouble of referring to them. But what a
signal revenge might he have taken upon his " tra-
ducers," had he boldly asserted his clait . to ever
so small share of the glory earned for their coun-
try by the brother Admirals whom he has
surplanted. His admirers boast of his having taken
a part in the action of Sir Robert Calder. He
is shown to have been out of sight of it at the time.
They declare that his ship captured a French corvette
after a dashing brush, and soft did ; but the Admiral was
ashore ! They insist that he passed like a meteor along
the western coast of South America, burning, sinking,
and destroying every thing in his way ; but although
his orders gave him an opportunity of so doing, his ship
was quietly at anchor at Rio de Janeiro a large portion
of the time that might have been occupied in such ex-
ploits. But he was' ordered to join Lord Col-
lingwood at Toulon, and might not only have
done some service there had he obeyed the
summons, but have escaped the censure of that
Gallant Officer for his neglect. He had, say his
friends, no opportunity of distinguishing himself,
because he did not command a ship of the line
until 1807. The navy list unhappily accused the
Gallant Admiral of having commanded the Re-
venge, of 78 guns, one of the noblest vessels in
the service, and in which but for his ill-luck (which
appears to have been confined to his various attempts
to distinguish himself) would have shared in the glory
of that action in which Sir Samuel Hood lost his arm.
All these things he might have settled in half an hour,
had not his accustomed ill luck stood in the way.

RIGIJLAR" FAR-WESTERS.—TaIk of bulls !
I knew an ox so sat, that his shadow stuck to the
ground for an hour after he was gone !—Talk of spirits!
I had a cask of whisky so genootne, that after drinking
a glass of it you spoke broad Scotch perfectly ; and after
three tumblers, pure Gaelic !

Two Companies of the Royal Artillery em-
barked on Thursday morning off the Arsenal, Wool-
wich, on board the Rattlesnake, transport ship, for
Ceylon, to relieve the two companies now doing duty
in that colony. , The Rattlesnake is expected to leap e
the river to-morrow.
SUICIDE FROM INTOXICATION.—On
WaterSatur :
Satur-
day morning, about seven o'clock, a woman of the name
of Scott, residing at No. 9, Nottingham-street,
100-town, Bethnal-green, committed suicide by cuttio•
her throat. Along with her husband, who is employ ed
as a mason nn the works of the Eastern Counties P
way in the immediate neighbourhood, she bad be en in
a state of inebriety for several days, and on aece,unt of
some quarrel with her husband the night
was
band
threatened to commit suicide. This threat
heeded, but on Saturday morning, after heas not
.r hus
had gone to work, she went into her land',
where she obtained a razor, with which she, .:rd's
ffect:d°°hlne;
deadly purpose. When discovered, the unhappy
was found seated in a chair opposite tliefire,her..7.atT bead
reclining downwards, and her apron lain filled with
blood, life being extinct.

I.JII A L Po IC E.—Worces'zershire, Gloune st( r
shire, Essex, and several other 'counties are aboni.; put-
ting themselves under the 'Rural Police Forte Act.
Tue measure has tn2t with some opposition 'in St ock•
port as well as elsewhere.

LN •
ATTA CK ON. THE KING-OF-TR El
! FRENCH'S CARRIAGE, BY A LUNATIC.

EVENING EDIT.

(From Galignani's Messenger of SAurday.) I
We are sorry to have to record an insult offered to
the persons of their Majesties, which occurred yesterday '
afternoon. From the information which we have been
able to collect, and which is in full corroboration of the
connected
:cn.;cd:one
Teurtethilititnaiesstsdagatnwrihtivieteei:hn,
woman
afternoon,"
aaoonenniil(io:cwi,
that
I,:,:iaat: there es: imiteaaeupdacpiieiir:aich;u:si.
mat ost
circumstance
bae
nine
enpeot
idissoi ulnabbnt
labouring
ii what-
ever
gy-
sterial evening jour-
nal, "at half-past five, at the moment when the King
and Queen were leaving the Tuileries, a woman ap-
proached
the King's carriage, and threw a stone into it,
which broke the glass, the fragments of which wounded
the Queen slightly in the head. • The King was not in-
jured. Their Majesties continued their route to St.
Cloud. The woman was immediately arrested and taken
to the house of M. Marut de l'Ombre, the Conimiszary
of Police, where she was interrogated by the Prefect of
Police, who had immediately proceeded thither. She
stated that her name was Stephanio Girodet, and that
she was a servant out of place. She is lab :urine under
ins iiiity."
The Messager, after repeating tne same sti tenter, t in
ne,ry the same wonis, adds :---" Ti e follow-leg are
the particulars, as related to us by an eye witn as ;—As
the King's carriages were leaving the gate of the Car-
rousel by the side of the river, the first carriage, in which
were the King, the Queen, and Madame Adelaide, had
arrived opposite to the entrance gate of the garden of
the Tuileries, when a woman advanced suddenly to the
door of the car:iage. The officers of the Court were
preparing to put her back, when, raising her arm, she
threw with great force a stone, which' broke the glass,
just
above the fragments of which struck the Queen
above the left ear. -The carriages stopped an instant,
but as the wound was not serious the King gave orders
to go on to St. Cloud. The author of this incredible
attempt appears to be about thi!ty years of age ; she
is of middle height, and of sanguine temperament ;
she wore the costume of Paris servants. The incoherent
replies of this woman have left no etoubt as to her in-
sanity ."
While the King's carriage stopped it was surrounded
by a crowd, which showed every mark of interest and
respect, and when their Majsties continued on their
way saluted them with loud cheers. The stone had but
a narrow space to pass through, as the. window of the
carriage was nearly covered by the person of the orderly
officer who rode by its, side ; and it must have been
thrown with great force, since the woman was at a good
distance train the ei!titre'of the raid:: She wore a red
handkerchief "on her'. head i her other clothes were yet)?
ragged.___

The King and Queen arrived at St. Cloud at a qua"-
ter after six., Dr. Pasquier was immediately called ,a,r
thJ Queen, and his report on inspection of the bruise
at once dissipated all uneasiness. Her Majesty dined
with the King as usual, and received company in the
evening. The President of the Council and all the
other Ministers went to St. Cloud to pay their respects.
The Danish Minister, the Russian Charge d'Affaires,

the Count de Montativet, Countess Dueilate', and a
great number of other personages, were successively
received by their Mjesties. The Queen retired at half
past ten o'clock.

" The woman Girodet," says the Moniteur, " who
threw the stone into the King's carriage yesterday, was
visited in the evening at the Conciergerie, by Drs.
Cherie] and Vignardane, in the presence of the Minis--
ter of the Ir,terior and the Prefect of Police. Both
physicians are decidedly of opinion that she is insane."
The Droit states, that before the King's carriage cam e
out of the Court of the tti cries, the woman was see
to traverse the Pont Royal, gesticulating vehement'iy,
and exhibiting with a menacing air a stone which she
had picked up from where the workmen were engatged
in the alterations of the bridge. The King, it adds,
took up the stone after it had ente -ed the carriage, and
threw it out of the window. The Quotidienne says,
thit the woman Girodet had been observed sitting about
on the pavement near the Pont Royal during the greater
part of the day, and at times weeping bitterly.