The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-05 00:00:00

FRENCH REVOLUTION.

(Freni the Morning Herald.)
Our Paris Correspondent alludes to a report of the ar-
rest of Peyronnet, the ex-Minister of the Interior. If
the report be correct, we trust that a respect for the forms
of justice will prevail over the popular exasperation which
his guilty participation in the acts of the late Government
has excited, and that he will be made to answer for his
crimes only before the regular tribunals of his country.
The noble 'position which the French have obtained by
their manly and devoted resistance to arbitrary power, un-
stained by any thing like vindictive ferocity, can only be
lost by allowing evil advisers to hurry them into acts in-
consistent with the steady, considerate, and intelligent pa-
triotism which they have already displayed. That the
emissaries of mischief will go amongst them, to endeavour
to stimulate their passions, and to involve them in intern.
petite proceedings which may afford matter of accusation
to their enemies, and blemish the fstne of their glorious
achievements, we have no doubt. We hope they will be
wiser than to listen to such adviser.. The Bourbons
have derived no instruction from adversity;--let not that
he said of the champions of public rights. They have
the errors and the sufferings of a former reiolution to.look
to ; and the recollection of the calamities of that crisis
ought to prevent their staining, by any excesses, the
triumph, which liberty has just obtained. To all the
instruments of tyrannical misrule—to the soldiers and
others who acted under imperative orders, an amnesty
ought to be immediately extended ; but the guilty
counsellors of an infatuated King ought to receive the
punishment which the laws have provided for those who
dared to subvert all established order, and, to gratifl
their own criminal ambition, deluged the streets of Paris
with the blood of civil war. If judicial examples arc
made of such men, they should have the opportunity of
answering fir their conduct by fair and regular trial, and
at the bar of an upright and dispassionate Court of Justice.
Such, we have no doubt, will be the case with Peyronnet,
if he be really in the hands of those who have been driven
to save the country by the last desperate remedy of a re-
volution. It is now pretty certain that the Duke of Or-
lesns will he called to fill the vacant Throne, though, like
the ex-King, Charles X., he is of. the line of Cape, and
not of that of Valois, as a Morning Paper has, with much
genealogical simplicity, very gravely stated., The mode-
ration of his character, and the comparative liberality of
his mind, offer a guarantee that he will protect the con-
stitutional liberties over which he will be called to pre-
side. If not, it is probable that the republican party,
who are at present very strong in France, will have the
opportunity of abolishing Royalty altogether—an event to
be deplored, as it would be likely to endanger the peace of
Europe. We subjoin the particulars furnished by our Cor-
respondent, which will be found to be highly interesting :
PARIS, Ana. 2.
I, immediately after closing my letter of yesterday, proceeded
to ht. Cloud. The newspapers will have informed you that the
King and family left early in the morning.
I found St. Cloud a most dismal place. Unlike all other towns
In the vicinity of Paris, and perhaps of France, no popular
movement had taken place there; a circumstance to be ac.
counted for by the presence, in the neighbourhood, of a large
army—the hurry of the retreat, of which from the Bois de 800.
logne through St. Cloud was so extreme as to amotuit to con.
fusion. - - -

Notwithstanding that the Government had prohibited the
march of troops (armed citizens) out of Paris, stragglers, amount.
trig in all to 1,0.10 or 1,500, contrived to escape, and proceeded
towards St. Cloud, " to bring in the King," although surrounded
by 12,000 or 15,000 men. Fortunately the retreat commenced
before their arrival, or there would have been dreadful slaughter,
some of the Garde Royale (Infantry and Lancers) being in a
state of horrible excitement. It is hardly necessary to say that
the Swise were equally enraged. Still, amid all their over.
flowing loyalty and murderous dispositions, fear of the canaille
had got such possession of their minds as to deprive them of
judgment.
Every moment during the morning and forenoon of yesterday
their ranks were lessened by desertions, their power paralysed
by.suspicions, and their capabilities for service weakened by
privations of food, drink, and rest. The whole country was in
full insurrection. On their retreat up the Champs El sees, on
Thursday, some of the Garde (cavalry and infantry) betrayed
the must savage spirit of revenge, fired down the streets which
opened on the avenue, and into tile windows of the houses. They
&unroll for it, however, by the lose of some hundreds of men.
Six hundred wounded are in the Hospital Beaujon. Three or
four regiments bivouacked in the Bois de Boulogne. They had
no food, were kept in constant alarm, were attacked by the pea.
santry, and so demoralized as to fly without knowing where to
turn. Here also hundreds deserted, •
I met a peasant, armed with a fowling.pieee, on the plain of
firenelle. A tall young man, with his arm in a sling, awns.
;Nulled him. In reply to the usual inquiry for news, he told me
the Sarre had fled. "'This man with his arm in a sling," added
he, ." is my prisoner. Is it not true, Jean P" " 041" (with a
humble shake of the head). " I tired at him," said my AC-
quaintance, "and shot him through the arm, which reminded
him that I was the friend of his cousin. He told me he was from
buy (a village near Paris), and would join the people ; so I
took him into a publie.house, and gave him some wine, and
a pair of trousers and that jacket, for I could not bear the sight
or his butcher'a dress. I then had his moustachios shaved, and
we are now on our way across the plain, to spend the evening
with our friend."

I told you in one of my letters last week, that Sevres was for.
titled, and that Meudon, and other heights in the vicinity of St.
Cloud had been occupied by the King's party. It Is almost in.
credible, but an unquestionable fact nevertheless, that, up to
Saturday, an attack upon Paris, and its re-capture. was coll.
templated and reckoned on. The troops would not, however,
have AdVittleCti on Paris. Fifteen thousand men had rallied round

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the King, and others were expected; but a million of men
would not have taken Paris. Hie news of the rising of the
People every whom and the growing dituttlbetion of the troops.
altered, however this determination, and the retreat was under.
taken. A skirmish took place In Sevres some hours before I
reached it yesterday, in which 20 Guardsmen (of all arms) were
killed, and two of the people. Tine cannon on the bridge of St.
Cloud were discharged in the air, and the rout became general.
On passing over the bridge, many of the soldiers threw their
muskets into the Seine, and (dispersed. The 85th Regiment of
the Line formed part of the King's force. The cry of 4. Vivo la
Ligne!" had reached Sevres and &tendon •; the soldiers and the
sub-otticers were, therefore, spared; but the rage of the people
was turned against the superior officers with an eflbet of which I
will give you an example, as related to me by a soldier of the re.
giment yesterday We were retreating on and climbing up
the heights of Bellevue," said he. 4. A gardener, who had only
five minutes before been seen working in his garden, was book.
tog at us from behind a wall. He sufibred us toddlers to pass un-
molested ; but, on the approach of our Captain, he fired at and
shot him through the heart."
Th o Lancers here again displayed their ferocity, in thrice
charging the people' and lost a down men, from their already.
reduced numbers, of that superb regiment, which on Wednes_
day last I saw so full and eftbctive, and which on that night,
when I s:iw them retreating, still amounted to 600 men, there
are not, lam assured, '2to on their march with the King. Their
lass in officers was immense.

On my return to town yesterday evening, I passed again over
the most severely-contested points of the field of battle, if I may
apply that phrase to a city. I visited the grave of lan of the
poor fellows who had perished in the attack on the Louvre. It
Is in an open space, immediately without the Louvre, which had
been enclosed by railing, and from:which the Swiss haddefended
themselves with resolution and deadly effbct. Two wooden
crosses, inscribed "To the memory of the French who died
fighting for liberty," are placed over the ends of the tom in
which they rest. A profusion of flowers and garland. lay upon
them. Two Sisters of Charity were kneeling by the side of the
grave who were looked upon with respect approaching to awe.
A cask, half filled with silver and copper money, contributed by
vlaitors, fur the fund for the relatives of the deceased, stood in
the centre. A National Guardsman was on duty; but no pro.
(motion was necessary, Two Sundays previously I had seen the
market.women at St. Cloud with a bouquet for the King, in
honour of the capture of Algiers. The flowers that were strewed
on the graves of the " martyrs to liberty," had been the offlrring
of the same persons.' Yesterday was a very hot day; the flowers
had, therefore, very moo faded. Just as I was about to quit the
spot, I met the same women coming with it fresh supply, which
the " leaner" cast upon it, with some observations of evident
pathos ; for all present shed tears.
On reaching the Place de Greve, it appeared to me as if !lather
' devastation had taken place, there. The windows of all the
houses sure shattered to placer. The house et the corner of the
Pince and the Hue Pelletier had suffered so much, that a few
shot more would, 111111 sure, have brought it to the ground. A
recent letter gave you an account of the execution of a mart on
this very spot, on Thursdays July 32—anevent which caused the
'spectators some pain. On that day week (2Oth) the whole Place
was covered with hundreds of dead and dying men. *trees of
horses and of lancers, cuirautiers, grenadiers, and carmoniers a
cheval lay also on the pavement. 'The square was, when I ert-
tered it yesterday evening, crowded to excess with visitors, from
curiosity. Outside the clitlerent cares were hundreds of chide*
occupied by well-dressed persons partaking of ices and other re-
freshments. Before the lintel de Ville a dense rustss of people
were assembled. A hackney-coach at the great door seemed to
he the metro. of attention. .1 inquired the reason Y—" Ah,
'Monsieur I Pei/rennet est in* r"....(reironnet is teken.) lie
had, according to to y Serminant, been found at Vincennes, and
brought prisoner in Thu vehicle before roe. If it be true, his
life will pay. the forfeit of his Ministry.. He will be tried by the
Chamber of Veers.
This last sentence Will strike with hment eny man who
recolletts the summary vengeauce o thenrevolutions or teeu_
and, added to the moderation of the heroes by whose courage
this last revolution has been vatted (and to which, in iny letter
of yesterday, I bore testitnony) will redound as much to their
honour as will their bravery.. With such leaders, however, as
the educated, cool-disciplined students (4 the Polytechnic school,
no excesses, nothing derogatory (ruin their renown, could be
apprehended. What extraordinary youths! fsnerglng from
school, thrown in an 'trident into the midst or an limo and
regeoustropuletion, they assumed the command of the various
masses that presented themselves, with a quietude and is
confidence that clothed them an instant with atitherity, Iteir
heroism in belle confirmed their influence, which, the battle
mice over, was. executed in a manner that wit! apnear incredible
in the eye of posterity. Nut a life was sacrificed after the fight_
Big had ceased.
The eloquence of the Chamber of Deputies and the authority
of the Marshals of Iranee would have railed in enflaming that
mercy and moderation with which the dignified modesty, rim
(almost melancholy') gestures, and brief address of those Int-
l-rntal youths, imbued masses of wen under circumstancet of
such excite.nent as those which result from victory at 41 times,
and particularly from suraess io a civil war.
I. shall close this part of my letter, for the present, with a
trilling incident illustrative of tint happy and liOnnergthj "cop.,
thni to the mud ()utilities which itccoinpany and follow the corn,
bats of men of the same nation. The scene, recollect, was the,
Phew tie Greve; the principal actors in It the inhabitants oe the
Faubourg* St. Antoine and Marceau, and a wounded enemy
the time, the third night of the massacre of Inindrede of tie!,
people by the King's troops.
Quitting the Hotel de Ville, I directed My steps. homewards,
; towards the live tie Jannerie, and had just crossed the Piece,
where I overtook half a dozen men who, with the utmost gen-
tienees, kept the crowd from pressing on three other trimwho
were slowly moving in the centre. no demeenour of those
guards and the crowd indicated pity and respect. 'I found that
the group within was composed of trio of the men from the
Faubourg, and a woundtxt trumpeter of the Grenadiers Nyeeeal,
who had fallen while aounding a charge of hi,i Iteginsent en the
preceding Thursday. He had been conveyed into a neighbout-
lug house after the battle by some of the conmatmte_ and was
now deemed aide to walk to the !heel Dieu. ' •
I followed them as ter es the. Place du Chatelee The party
halted, and smnethingtwas said to the wounded man, who wi,,hed
to decline (groretllllYr however) art oidprr. " Bah l" malt one Of
his supporters, a drop of good wine never did any Iran harni,"
and they entered the cabaret, ..
met this moment a grenadier of the '2d:regiment of the
(l ode Royale. lie had been engaged on the boulevard de*