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,41;n,..for.theMiF.charge of persons ctilliog them,=
selves A,merienns, whetritx impressed from: vessel
under, the fiag of the-United States, or impressed
oft Shore, j litrit-Wr•ot: from It';rei.,Tt cre6ale, or
f-akeaz.in French pribulcers,' or- en( a.:itecTA
",The Legislature eine(' 14 the of ri.;Yi-
zeni of the United States retorn.kives a list
(besides Americans), Of Scote:l,
French, Danes', Swedes, Si6ol,ods,
in short, of ail the natio.is!. in the wurll,- who
have at any tiMe endeavoured to. avail •theinselves
of the ever-ready - good ofikees of the American.
Consul in London.' Before the, publication of
these lists,
,it•was 11.16:atter of .wm“ler' trt, v that
Consul should take tlie tronhle.-of appivittgi iii
cases which Ameriea had evideotiv; an:l often.
avowedly, nothing to do. It' now appears thvt
the motive was to swell this. list; which', iii go ,71
season, was to ,he called for by ;he Legislat'ore,
or, if not called fpr,.. was to he forc,ed upon, them,
when they called for something else.
" The Legislature called fora list of persons im-
pressed and iietained the names: in the re..,`
turn arc of persons wit detitined,
,of persons who
have•beon released, discharged, Or invaided
•
the usual pension. • ;
" Such aretlie.retorns from which I shall
row some facts, and I thinlz".l may he • permittd.
(after Hit statements I have made) to assim,w,
that I refer't6 a document drawn up by thoSe:Who
are not putial to England.,

c' "I'llese lists are for _six ,yeirters, beg-inning
lst. of April, 1809, and ending.l.2oth yf • L'',cptetil-
•ber, 1810. •

" In this period, Mr. Lyman,' Cle..'Anieriean
'Consul, stme himself to hae Made applicatiolis
to the British Admiralty in behalf of 1',558 peri-
sotis ; or rather I.should say, to have made 1,a58
applications..

-;‘ Of these fifteen hundred and fifty-eight,.hoty.•
many, even on tinr vamped and_garbied state-
i eats of Lyman, aladisou, and Alouro.e.
-appear to .have been' impressed from..,Amoicaa
ships at pea ?. Foriy-scxen ! 130 .these forty-sere 1"
cases, though the appiications_for the reie;,.e of
the mew "‘T'efilh.nade witlyiir the, eighteen months
to refercilid -not arinaTlY
,place within" that. pc,rio.d.-they:are stated. as'
pressments of 1803,:1804,.:th I so .0.2,''f1,01,11-,!.0
1810. 'ffie cafes that'arii iilhi ei to hitve occurred
in the eighteen months ;Of 18139-10,-11re Only,
nine, for I,do. not inchtle in titti,abO•tit. tiventsr
men, the crews of three or: four vessels, t
'for bre:ieh of hlockade, and- sent into .
ports, -because this :nter'ruption arose 1.:•6!n
bciii-
gercnt measures, and not from any- pre'ten'ce,
impressment. %v7;ten it is recofiected una:o,r
litlnked IJI2II of w'ar,. and r •n:any
these-years on the seas, the fact of time );'olitcFs-
went of nine men will not, I think, *prOve any
very vexations exercise of our Lc!iigerent
nor any 'reryjustiliable ground foi.. Mr. Madison's
retributory War.

" But thoug'a the case might• safely be -rested
on this utter discomfiture of Mr. Madison's own
Pieces justificative's,' I shall add, .lo make s,ss,nr-
ance double sure, that of 751 seamen helong'inp.;
to his Mjesty's ships, %rho at the. bi eai:ing out
of the war claimed to be 'American citizens, only
38 bad been- impressed nom A Merl r;t !I 5 at
sea ; and it appears, -from biitish.•docuMents'
the same subject, that- the.number of person`' im-
pressed in the year 1811, ff.c."rin Anierican- sh ps at
sea' (not including prizes; or ships detained and
sent in for
.aljudicatiOn as prizes), w'as 21, of.
whom onlytwo even assumed to be Athericans.
1-10Wr'many;ships map hate • visited in that
year cannot be Stated ; but the fact--.that but two
Men claiming to be Americans were taken out of
Amexican .ships on the -.lig!, seas in the year pre-
ceding the war, which ,is waged, only to redress
`this intolerable grievance—this fact must sheer
Europe, and, we hope,- even America herself,
bow little, reliance .is . to be placed in Mr. Madi.
sop's exposition of the causes of his attack npon
Great, Britain.

" Two Words more, to conclude the subject of
the inconvenience suffered:by Atnerica!-frop..im-
pressnienis at sea.
.1 -have mysejf spoken with palms who.have.
commanded British' ships 61 war hiring the whole
OE the late and present wars, who•conld not reA.
collect ever to haKe detained a 'man out of au
American •ship; but who sere positive flint they
never had detained any man who even Oiled him-
self an American, And the ,RepOrrof.the Legis-
lature of cite State of Nassachusetts• 0f..01e:26th
Feb. 1613,, stateS,• that its Committee having
• examined the most experienced ship-owners and
• ship-masters of their State; the most mAritime.
of the whole Union, toned -them.. of- opinion,
• that, during a period of 25 year's, ,aod,Lut of
acid
thalt;n.tol should be. addo,•tha't
about 21,000 seamen employed by them, not
• more than 12 had I,Tettlic.isienplr2es;eoinl7,-,'Voill3eri.,t-hilsttli
cruizers,
.thbiseennuiCtlirrijunciedl;ii'des as -well those tak'n in port
as those ir»presSed attea.
• <i I think ImaynoW,safelv rest on the concurrent
evidence of American and British docunients, .Of
British Officers and American Ship-masters, that
the inconvenience suffered by' America troin int
pressments at sea, is quite inconsiderable ; that
'two Or three individuals at -most per aunuin.ai%:.
impressed ; and whieu.l add, that, ofthe few men.
impressed, when any one demanded an investiga..
0011 into his citize,tsliip, it was •intmediately
granted, .and if,he advaoecd ov,.thing that ap-
proached to proof of his Ireing
was tor:11wOh 'discharged,; when, I say, Of an
e‘il so small the'rcaress r,ady,
Maill'Sj---On this, ground, to the American
.dechira7-..
tion. Of Avar ':not" evert a colour- of. necessity. or
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.'OI..3IINAL s) r' Prq,il) 'TO PARIS.

(No. -X X I.)

Paris., Thursday, Jab/

About noon to-day, (haying been employed
ivriting letters all the morning) I set out in my
usual promenade. • With the Cmtducteur de l'Et-
rang-er a Paris in one pocket, and the Noreau Plaa
de Paris in the ether, auc. dispensing with the at-,:
tendance of a guide, a dostription of persons,who
except for an; specific anti pa'rticular put pose, are
always more tronhlesorne than useful, I steered
my course through the garden of the Thuilleries,
the_ Place Louis XV., and across ,tlie,.'Pont de la
Concorde, on which I encountered a cavalry regi-
ment of the French National Guards. They were,
generally speaking„ stout good looking men, and
well mounted. Their uniform, blue faced with
white, has a shewy appearance, and the great.
,utility of this respectable body, in preserving order?
in the Capital, and promoting the restoration of
the Legitimate Family, caused me to look upon
them with more than common feelings of regard.
I need scarcely say, that they consist of the first
order of Citizens in Paris. Many of them were
attended by their sons, children from ten to four-
teen years of age, in uniform, and it was a pleas-
ing consideration to trace, in this delicate mark
of attachment, the promise of much ftiture loyalty
and devotion to the House of Bourbon. I also
saw at the same time a few of BUONAPARTE'S
old soldiers, invalids ; they continued to wear the
Eagles on their coats, while the White Cockade
graced their hats, or hung suspended from impe-
rial buttons.

Facing the end of the Pont de la Concorde
stands the Palais of the Corps Legislatif (now of
the Chamber of Deputies) ~one of the handsomest
structures in this City. . It was built in 1722 for
Madame de C01...1DE; became in revolutionary times
the Palace for the Meetings of the Council of
Five Hundred, and
latterly,
for
BUONAPARTCS
House of Commons. These changes have c?cca..-
gioned great alterations, not only internally but
externally, and its present appearance very little
resembles the pictures of the original Palace. A
fine and broad flight of steps leads to a noble
portico, which, like every other building here, is
surmounted by a. representation of some exploit
of the grand NAPot,coN, in alto-relievo. The
portico is elevated on twele-e magnificent Corin-
thian pillars, and in various parts arc the statues
of SULLY. COLBERT, de liflopiTAC, (IC D'AGUES-
onv, and of fume/cc& anti Nance, well exccuren,
and producing a good effect. A figure-of BUONA-
TARTE • stood in the middle of the great Saloon,
but that was removed within a few hours after
the Allies entered Paris. The jute' for of this, edi-_
Lice is extensive, and admirably suited to the pur-
pose for which it is assigned. The conveniences
attached to either of our Houses of Parliament are
not to be compared to its accommodations, whether
for magnitude or splendour. The Saloon where the
Legislature sits is superb in its decorations and
in every respect a grand apartment. In niches,
on the right and left of the President's chair, are
statues of LYCURGUS, SOLON, DEMOSTHENES,
BRuTus, CATO, and CICERO; and the Chair itself,
as well as the Walls and Cieling are beautifully or-
namented with carved work., and paintings in fresco.
The gallery for strangers is small, and the Hall for
the sittings of the same shape with the andienee-part
of Covent Garden Theatre, supposing the chair to

be placed in front of the Stage. In the adjoining
, apartments, halls, &c. are several modern paint-
ings, among which I noticed the Battle of Ma-
i engo, and three or four others, devoted to the mi-
litary glories of BUFNAPARTE. I have forgot the
Arti#t's name, but they are excellent productions,
and both for spirit and colouring excel any works
by DAVID which I have yet seen. In the Impe-

rial robing and audience room is a whole-length
of MARIA LouisA. The person who sl►ewcd the
place assured ineit was an excellent likeness, and
that the EmperorFaAscis had expressed the highest
admiration of it when he visited the Palais. The
drapery of white satin, richly embroidered., is clever-
ly painted; and it is in these unimportant branches
of the art that the French Artists seem to aim at
pre-eminence. The higher eifOrts of the Painter
do not enter into their contemplation. Give them
anatomy and drapery, and they regard not CX-
pression, elevation, character, or, in fine, any Of
the more difficult and superior achievements of
the -easel.

Having examined all that was remarkable in
this ply►ce, 1 strolled down the left bank of the
River, where a scene of a very different and novel
kind almost immediately presented itself. A,stnall
lirty of the irregular Cossacks had pitched their
bivouack about a couple of hundred yards be-
low the bridge on the channel of the Seine '! !--
1t resembled the encampment of a great gyFey
party. Several -waggons, about a dozen of horses
(with every appearance of never having bad their

state of nature violated ky scissarsf currycomb, or
brils!i) standing ioosi>ly at cribs like large ben-

coops, one long and low covered tent, with travnes,,
cooking utensil 3, the remains of fire, &C. lying
scattered about. the ground, furnished as pit-
ture.,:que and wild s scene as ever DF. Lou

ottltc, st;erched. The men themselves are a strange
and terrible-looking race. They are, am:zinly
Strong, and capable of undergoing incredible fa-
tigue and I)rivatitsns. They were at dinner, stand-
ing round a pot upon the channcl, and with
spoons conveyei its contents in tolerable masses
into their mouths, by in7rinnatiug the spoon
imost adroitly through More hair than any
"'VIM horse Dobbin " has upon hip tail.—

ViThen. they arrived at a lump of tricrt, it was toil)

to pieces with dispatch, and with the cere-
"nniny acannibal. A striking feature the
appe:.rance of these hardy men arises out of the
mode in which they wear their thick 10.4 d: hair,
cut squarely r3und, at the length of two or three
inches from the hcad, like some 'of the oldest pic-
tures of our Heroes and Kings in Britain. Add
to this their prodigiously bushy beards And mus-
tachios, their leathern coats, and curiously patch-
ed habiliments, and you Will have a pretty accii-
rate idea of these elegant pronienaders on the cul-
tivated Banks of the Seine.

VIATOR.