The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-21 00:00:00

CHARLES X. AND HIS XI. COOKS.

The following curious episode of the journey of Chat leg
X. has been sent us from I'Aigle, where he spelt one night.
It appears from thence that the fallen Court hay not
changed any thing in itt habits of ridiculous etiquette, as
if that could be of any use to them.

M. de C., the richOst inhabitant of L'Aigle, who pus-
Nesse' a fine chateau, was informed by the authorities that
Charles X. was next day to proceed from Verneuil to
L'Aigle, and that he would atop one day there. M. de
C. immediately set off for Verneuil, to learn what he could
do for him. He applied for instructions to M. Hocquart,
the Maitre d'Hotel, after a previous
accompaniedsconferenee wthiteh
Commissioners of Government, who Fx
King. He returned home then to make the necessary
preparations at his chateau ; he destined for the use of
Charles X. an apartment, consisting of a saloon, a bed_
room usually occupied by Madame de C.'s mother, and a
grand dressing-room fit to lodge a valet-de-chat:Aire in.
Divers apartments in other parts of the chateau were in-
tended to be appropriated for the use of the rest of the
family. Mammon and straw were prepared for the suite
in the corridors and unoccupied room., the proprietor, his
young wife, her child end nurse, taking refuge in the ser-
vants' room, where they established their dining-roost,
bed-chamber, kitchen, &e., contenting themselves with
such scanty accommodetion. It is to be noted that, tic_
cording to the instructions of the lix•King's Maitre
d'Hotel, separate apartments had been given to the
Duchess de Berri, and to Madame de Mae, who ae.
compenied that Princess; as well as to the Dauphin and
the Dauphines., Madame Gontaut, with the Duke of Bor-
deaux, Mademoiselle de Berri, her Governess, tee.
At seven o'clock in the morning, M. Ilocquett, with a
crowd of culinary officers and waggons, laden with plate
and utensils, arrived, as Mil customary during the travels
of the Court. He wanted immediately to know the ar-
rangements taken for the lodgings of the Court. lie was
first conducted to the King's apartment, which he crossed
to enter his bed-room. lie then turned round solemnly
to M. de C—, and exclaimed, " Sir, it is impossible theta
the King can sleep here r'—" Why, this is the best room
in the chateau, and the only one I thought worthy of the
King. I intended it for him, it being my mother's own
room." " Very unfortunate indeed, but the King cannot
possibly sleep here." M. de C— looked at the Maitre
d'llotel perfectly astounded, when the latter hastened to
add, " Sir, etiquette formally forbids it. The King can
only sleep:in a room behind which there is another suffi-
ciently large to contain his attendants during the night. It
is impossible to get over this indispensable rule. There
is but one expedient then, Sir, namely, to move the
King's bed into the saloon, and to convert it into a had.
room." "Do so, Sir." The bed was immediately taken
down, with its rich draperies and ornaments, which were
removed, together with a looking-glass at the foot of the
bed. They were all fixed in the saloon, holes being bored
to receive the nails and hooks. The destruction was con-
siderable, every thing being done, as it is no doubt cos.
tomary at Court. The other arrangements were approved.
Afterorganising all matters concerning the lodgings, the
Maitre d'Hotel installed his people in the kitchen. EverY
thing was pressed into the service, not an oven being left
to prepare- the proprietor's own dinner. In the midst of
these occupation M. Horquart sent for M. tie C---• and
said to him, with an air of alarm, " Sir, I am in despair."
" If I can do any thing, Sir, command me," Was the
answer. " Oh, Sir! I ant a ruined man." `. Gaud God,
what is the matter then ?' " Why, Sir, I brought
twenty cooks from Rarnhouillet ; and, would you believe
it, these wretches have, by degrees, abandoned us, so that
only eleven of them remain ? What can I do? What
will become of me ? I cannot possibly manage with eleven
cooks. I implore you, if you will save rue, to procure
me 25 women from the town to twist in the kitchen."—
" I'll try to get them, if that is all." The campaign new
eewtmenees—thse2s women arrive. M. Hoequart gets
somewhat calm, and sends word to M. de C--- that he
aneequu,
apireosthtewr ooftaebilsee—ht
for
of
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ufettyr
attteproeteutn.....ta,
A fresh message soot to Madame de The King
cannot eat on a round table. Etiquette forbids it; that
would be a quite unheard-of infrattiou ; really we must
not think of it." " I am very sorry ; but no other tables

are in fashion, and I possess only such a one." " That is
unfortunate, Madatne; but the King absolutely cannot
dine on a round table." "'Well, Sir, I can only give you
what I have got ;" and Madame de C- not choosing
to humour the whim of the Maitre d'ilotel, he was
obliged to resign himself: and for the first time since the
age of Louis XIV. a King of France was now seen to dine
on a round table.

LEICESTER COUNTY ELECTION.

(TERMINATION.)

Never in the memory of man has Leicester witnessed
such an out-pouring of popular enthusiasm as has been
evinced during this contest. The calm and ►teadfast self-
devotion—the disinterested industry, enterprise, and intel-
ligence of the friends of the popular candidate, have ex-
cited the utmost astonishment, and have produced the most
unexpected and extraordinary results. Friends and ene-
mies are equally astounded. The first scarcely hoped that
a spirit of independence, so wide and so strong, could
exist. The last, still more sceptical as to its existence,
imagined it would never dare to show itself in the face of
such an array of the rank and wealth of the county as
was diligently and purposely collected at the day of
nomination.

On that day never did Lord Bacon's celebrated maxim,
that " knowledge is power," receive a more satisfactory
illustration—a more decided demonstration. The late
members, Mr. Keck and Lord Robert Manners, were put
in nomination by gentlemen of rank, title, fortune, and
University education. • Their speeches betrayed an utter
ignorance of proper topics for the occasion—an equal
paucity of ideas and poverty of expression, and which ex-
posed the speakers to the just derision of the most un-
lettered of the assembled multitude. A tissue of vapid
twaddle, obsolete common-places, trite compliments, and
empty sophistry, were swept away like dust in a whirl-
wind, by the solid f►cts, the cogent arguments, and the
Irresistible felicity of manner of Mr. Paget, the new can-
didate, supported by Mr. Healy, an independent and in-
telligent yeoman, and Mr. Brewin, a skilful manufacturer.

gr. Paget was put in nomination by Mr. Ralph Old-
acres, the most extensive grazier in the county, and se-
entitled by Mr. Stokes, one of the most respectable and
opulent hosiers in Leicester. These gentlemen, like thou-
sands around them, were convinced that it was high time
to Ivrest the representation out of the feeble and inadequate
bands of patrician dictation, and to bestow it on a man of
talent, general information, business-like habits, and in
Mr. Paget, of Humberstone, the banker,
was selected as possessing all these attributes in a pre.emi-
nent degree. It was determined to try an experiment on
the pure system—that of sending a Member free of ex -
pence. A project in the highest degree gallant and chi-
valric, but which it was impossible for the opposite party
to follow. The vile debasement produced by a corrupt
system had too deeply vitiated their dependents and sup-
porters.

No sooner was this intention announced, in a form that
could not be disputed, than subscriptions flowed in frets
all quarters. Volunteers in every department flocked to
the standard. Committeemen, agents, canvassers, and
runners, were all filled up by a spontaneous impulse of
efficient persons. Zeal and activity became the order of
the day. A large warehouse was taken for the use of the
Committee. The upper story of which was converted
into a refectory for the subsistence of voters front the
country. Provisions ready cooked were sent in daily, in
staple abundance and of the beet quality—hams, rumps,
rounds, and loins of beef, legs of muttt,n, roast and boiled,
bread and cheese, and malt liquor insufficient profusion, to
regale all who came front *distance, and to support the great
and unwearied exertions of the subordinate agents and mes-
sengers. Every department was conducted with tem-
perate order, liberal economy, and great skill. The poll
commenced on Thursday, the Nth instant, and went on
with great briskness till Saturday evening, with a ma-
jority of 581 against the popular candidate Mr. Paget,
which did not then create any despondency. On Sunday
evening it was placarded that the late Borough Member,
Mr. Otway Cave, would make his* public entry from
Scraploft, about four miles distance, at neon on Monday,
in support of Mr. Paget.
This took place, awl ptosluced such an unexampled
deluge of public feeling, attachment, anti gratitude, as was
never before manifested in Leicester. Mr. Otway Cave was
met about one mile front the town by a band of music,
Mr. Paget's colours, and a multitude of not less than
15,000 adult persons. his carriage was drawn by men
into the town, he was taken through several of the prin-
cipal
streets and set down at the Bell Hotel, front the
dining-room of which house he addressed the following elo-
quent and animated speeds to at least twelve thousand
pers.:ins :

Mr. OTWA Y CAVE said,—Frequent as have been the
opportunities I have had of meeting my follow-countrymen,
and kindly as they have uniformly received me, never did
I anticipate so general and, indeed, I may say, so enthu-
siestic an expression of their approbation as I have this
day received. Nevertheless, the feelings of delight and
gratitude which I experience are mingled with others of
a more sombre and, I might almost say, melancholy cha-
racter. Could I have supposed that you would have re-
ceived me with such kindness, never would I have given
my pledge to any body of electors, to represent in Parlia-
ment another place than that to which I owe my birth.
Do not imagine, however, that my heart is estranged from
you. The cord which unites us is only extended, nod
the knot drawn still tighter; but I trust that, though I
have no longer the honour of representing you in Parlia-
mint, the gentleman who has succeeded me will not
leave the battle which he has so nearly won. I trust that
you will not relax in your exertions until you have defeated
the vile boroughmongering faction, who went!tl goad you to
the pull like oxen, and send you to vote like a hound
cringing from the lash of the whipper-in.—(Cheere.).—
Persons iu the higher ranks of life, men of rank, and men
in affluent circumstances, do not often come into such
contact es I have done with the lower classes, or they
would feel as I do, horror-struck at the abject and miser-
able situation into which they are fallen. My heart has
thrilled, and my blood run cold at instances which have
when the poor half-
starvedeolo
wmryeteklntoli%aqs"algpep,liiendwfuir4i'a'lli'ne and relief from those
very men who have helped to reduce him to the condition
in which be is, he has been answered, go and rob, and
then you will be transported. Females have been told to
go into the streets and earn their wretched subsistence
with their shame ! But I trust that better days are up.
roam
adfig --days in which you will build a fair super-
structure of liberty on the ruins of that edifice which we
have just passed. What we are doing here is only a
subordinate underplot in the great drama of hint ty, the
first act of which has just concluded so gloriously
in a neighbouring country. But long before the
French revolution took place, this country had
the honour of producing a man, (I mean the
great Sir A. Hesilrigge), who was the first to raise the
standard of freedom, and the first to bring to condign
punishment a convicted tyrant. To this day the peasant,
who passes the ancient Italic of Noseley in the gloom of
evening, fancies that hesees the plumes still wave, and, in
imagination, still hears the clash of armour. Let me tell
the descendant of this Mil that he has a heavy debt to
discharge, and that should be prove a traitor to the cause,
the name he bears will make hie treason doubly black.
Who will not contrast the fame of this man with that of
the modern country gentleman, who, seated in what ought
to be a House of Commons, decked in a mock military
uniform, girt with a sword never used fur a more worthy
purpose than that of frightening old women anti children,
alms alike his friends and his enemies, and flies like a
guilty thing to hide himself amongst his hares, his oaks,
and his money bags.—(Tremendous elms rs.)—With
aire-
spect to the gentleman who has offered himself for this
county, and who has joined you in your gallant efforts for
emancipationnotens
rom
article d'
his ty,
171 int yie'a i n which i sac
thatdo
nut most cordially concur; and the only difference that
can possibly exist between us consists in the manner of
expressing those sentiments..(Cheers.)—But there is
a third party in this town for whom I can find no words of
reprobation sufficiently strong, men who, with a tot t of Scrip-
ture continually in their mouthy, yet always have their hand*
in your pockets. There are hypocrites in politics as well
as in religion, but in my opinion the hypocrite in religion
is the worst of the two. It has been said, that there is
honour among thieves ; but I say, there is no honour
among mint* /---(lmmense cheering.)—But let me exhort
you to conduct yourselves with the utmost order and re-
gularity; to give no occasion few the least disturbance of
the public peace and good-humour which has hitherto
subsisted amongst all parties, and not to tarnish, by any
acts of violence or indiscretion that triumph of public
feeling which we have this day witnessed, and Which, I
trust, is only the precursor of one still more glorious and
decisive.
Nothing could exceed the order and regularity of this
iron-sense crowd during the whole of the procession, and
it terminated with one inaignificant outrsge, too trifling to
mention.

Every evening, at the close of the poll, Mr. Paget and
his friends addressed the assembled crowd front the hue-
tinge, and again front the windows of the Bell Hotel.—
The Tory aristocracy of the county have been compelled
to listen day after day to a series of bitor, and it is hoped
wholesome, liaisons. The independent freeholders. ten, hire
been taught to respect their franchise and to slitiluati 1"