The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-06 00:00:00

Statue of Napoleon I. in the Place Vendome.

PROTEST OF THE " SIECLE."

Oar voice has not been heard, as
a body of
workmen have let down the popular statue—the
effigy of the conqueror of Austerlitz ; and hence-
forth the Imperial Roman mantle will replace the
grey overcoat and the little cocked hat. The persons
who witnessed this scene were painfully affected,
and the noise which the displaced statue made in
touching the ground had a melancholy sound in
their ears. The column was destined to consecrate
the memory of the glorious and rapid campaign,
which commenced on the 24th Sept., 1805, and ter-
minated en the 26th Dec., 1806, by the treaty of
peace at Presburg. The bronze plates which cover
Vie stone column are made with Austrian cannon.
The bas-reliefs, modelled by Bergeret, represent the
passage of the Rhine, the combats of Donawerth,
Wertingen, Gunzburg, Albeck, Langenau, and Nee- j
resheim ; the capitulation of Ulm ; the victory of
Diernstein ; the entry of the French into Vienna on
the 13th November, and the battle of Austerlitz. If
the architects, Denin, Gondouin, and Lepere, had
not limited the column to a height of 42 metres, the
length of the spiral freize might have been doubled.
Was it not natural to crown those great military
deeds with the effigy of the captain who commanded
the grand army ? Louis Philippe's Government
understood that such ought to be the case. It not
only gave to the statuary, M. Sourre, the indica-
tions and particulars necessary for representing the
captain with the historic) costume, but also borrowed
the bronze from three victories, and the statue which
it inaugurated was made with the metal of cannons
taken in Algeria. If the bas reliefs represented the
signing of the concordat, the peace of Amiens, the
promulgation of the code, the coronation and mar-
riageiloofrdthere, Council of
might
State,
and Napoleonot her incidentsl
the
of sessions
a civil
understand that the figure by which they are sur-
mounted would bear the costume which the chief of
the state had adopted. It would not in any case be
this Olympian travesty, which is no longer suited to
the present age.

THE GALES.—PORTSMOUTII,
Bence has reached here that the hull of a brig or
schooner, supposed to have gone down with all hands off
St. Catherine's, Isle of Wight, during the gale on Friday
last, has been washed ashore, keel upwards, on the beach
off Niton Baths, Isle of Wight, below the Royal Sandrock
Hotel, at the west end of Undercliff. At the time the letter
containing the intelligence was despatched from Niton the
unfortunate vessel lay half buried in the sand ; and this
cause, combined with tthoeacsconersttaainnt,
fromsea barneyakvi:igtinogvewr
hhiecrli,
rendered it impossible
might be on her stern, what was her name, or the port she
we
hailed from. The wind has been very strong here all day,
sfrirce
10V W.
and Wha.ss;tWo Oct a andt 3028. at cloudy. The barometer
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