The Sun.
London, England, 1814-05-27 00:00:00

SPANISH PAPERS:

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Msntun, MAY I.—Tbis day took place the eX-..
hutlyation of the precious rmains of Daois and
Velarde, the martyrs of their country, and that of
the victims sacrificed on the Prado Of. Madrid, by
the ferocity of the atrocious Buonaparte.• The
funeral pomp which accompanied this scene, as
novel as affecting ; the solemnity with which it_
was conductdd ; the mournful tolling of the hellST
the roar of canon ; the recollections which
ceremony excited,—all 'was new, pathetic, anti
impressive. •What ideas did not the ceremonial
rceal 'o those whose irnagination tnqnsported them
to the 2d 9f May, and who al-3,p con,:iidered the
prest:a epoch ! What melancholy reflections
must wit the coinpa-r'son of the two :periods sug...•
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gear
particularly when we look forwarirto the_
result which may attend the present crisis! Vied.
tiros of the 2d of May ! oh, cOititf you
_rise from.
your tombs, anksee heroic -Spain., .after six yn'tr3
of sacrifices, invoking your sname nter:ly to at last
become ensl— ; but we trust it would be still
premature to pronounce the
.word.
The Officer has returned who was dispatched 1-;y
the Government to Gen. Whittinghaffl, to k
the reason of his entering the district id the Gap-
tain-General of New ' ile replied that be
had done so in virtue of an order from .the Ning,
communicated by Genersl Elio; that his force '
infantry, 600 inntry, 25a0 horses,- and six cannon;
Yesterday they were to pass the night at Guada.-
laxara, and their further, destination , was nit-
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there was an extraordinary meeting
of the Council of State. .

In the Sitting of .the Cortes this day, the two
letters frointhat Body, which have been transmit-
ted to his Malestv King Ferdinand, Were publicly
read. The first of them, dated the 25th of April, ,
expressed the anxiety felt by tit!". nation to see his -
Majesty, 'seated On the tkone..of his :a'ocestors ;
anal that lie would assume the charge of'- the Go-
vernment, according to the Co.:stitucion. in order. 't
to form the felicity of the Spanish people :, it also ,
represented the we;glitiy, reas,ms which deinauded
that he st:ouid accelerate his journey to the capi-
tal of that Monarchy.
The President-remarked, that it would nor be
foreign. to the-point to observe, that thin letter
hod reached Ws Majesty's hands, and that he had
received.it with much pleasure.
The second letter of the Cortes to the. _King
was then read, hiving the same object as.t he for-
mer, and satin:- fc.rththe terrible mtschielA \vhich
*the non-arrival' of his Majesty might occasion.
When the reading of thelettei; o
als
buisl.ied, the
public manifested their gratitude
sentativeS of the nation, by exclaiming, Viva or
Congreso Nutidnal! • •
The genius of mischief still seems to pursue rhe'!
heroic and loyal Spanialds. The mysterious po- •
Hey pursued by those tvho surround our Monarch
has thimped the joy which his arrival in the cowl-
try produced insthe breast of every Spaniaru, tutti
the most sinister reports are in circulation. There •
is also a rumour that Charles IV. has appealed to
the Allied Monarchs, asserting that the thr me of
Spin belongs to hint, and, that as.Louis.XVili.
has been restored in France, so ought he LO be ,
in Spain.

The puMic will he glad to betzr, t'aat the Tran-
slation:of 'the First Part of the Memoirs and Cur-,

respondence of ,Baroit DE GRIMM, I.l'olll the, yArs
1713 to 1769, which completes the work, Will
be published on Tuesday next. The Editor ob-
serves, that the Baron Da GRIMM is not the on4y
author of this Correspondence ; the RAY..
N;0,,, was the first 'person who underfciOk to holid
a literaty CorrespOndencewith several E'ttropeati
Soiercigns ; in 175 he relinquished thi6,task to
Baron DE GRIMM, who continued it, aided by
the,most distinguished writers, to.the year 172+1.

JOURNAL Or A Till? TO PATtI.

(No. XI.)

In. my last I stated the general price,Of guar=
Ws at hotels, the common mode by Which strana.
ge,.-s 'make tlremselves at home in Paris. Many,
liowever;.prefer ,private lodgings, and these are
310 t tliffidtilt-triThe-obtainect, thong!) conveniency
dictates that they ought to be provided by soirie
friend or agent before you arrive in Paris ; other-
ivise you are apt to be annoyer{ in searching for
..them, and more irnposed'upon in your bargain.
"Ptivate lodging-hattses, as well as the hotels, are
bete tinder the superintendance of the,Police,
from Which they have a licence. Should they
grossly cheat a stranger, which they are very .apt
to do, either in their charges for his apartments,
or for the necessaries be may employ them to
purchase for him, it is merely requisite to hand
their bill over to the Licencrrs, who not only
reduce every item to a reasonable scale; but
punish the attempt at extortion, by depriving
tile parties of -their licence. I haves. known
some of them strike off one-third of
charge, rather than have it pass through the or-
deal of a review at the Police Office ; and an inti-
mation, that you intend to resort to this plifg'arory
step, is a most certain mode of redUcing the
amount of your costs in Paris.

Very good lodgings for a family were to be bad
at from 300 to 1000 francs per roonth—at the
former price they were genteel ; at the latter, \su4
perb.

There is another want which occurs to most
. travellers on arriving in Paris, and Lyon the pro-'
per, or rather lucky (for it is a complete lottery,
with only one prize to a thousand blanks) deter-
mination of which much of the comfort, and
more of the purse depends, than upon any other
point whatever. I allude to the hire of a French
servant. Shoals of this description of ever-ready
persons are to be had at, ten minutes notice, and
from among the crowd your choice is to be made.
Fortunate is_ the man who chances upon an honest,
faithful, and diligent attendant. Leading, as these.
people do, a life of uncertainty, apd of mingled
toil and' idleness-=sometimes 'engaged, and theft
fur weeks unemPloyed—it is to be suppmed that
they are not only generally needy, but addicted
to bad habits. I fear this is too universally
the case, and will illustrate my position by an
anecdote of what occurred to myself with the
Garcon whom I engaged to wait upon me while
in this metropolis, and who had somewhat wormed
himself into my green confidence by taking inti-
nite paini to warn me against the impositions of
others ; which, by the way, I. afterwards disco-
vered to he a trait in all their characters ; every
one putting you on your guard against his bro-
ther or sister cheats, that he may have,the richer
harvest of pillage to himself. But to my anec-
dote—to shew how low these rascals will descend
in the art of spoliation :—I was anxious, one clay,
to send a packet to London, and being engaged
in another direction, 1 intrusted it to my knave to
carry to the Post-office, giving him strict injunc-
tions as to its speedy and careful conveyance; I
also, unfortunately, had to give him six francs to'
pay the postage; and the postage way a tempta-
tion too great for Monsieur's conscience to resist: ,
In the evening he assured rue he bad put my letter
into the Post-office, and paid- with it 4 fr. 6 sous.
Three days after, I found it lying at oui• Minister's;
for being addressed to an official Gentleman in Lon-
don, my Varlet had consulted its safe transmis-
sion by carrying it to the Ambassador's, and put
what he thought would be fair postage into his
own pocket !! ! I got rid of Monsieur Thom,
and the servant of the hotel answered all my
purposes afterwards.

There are so many topics which, occur' to.a
stranger as worthy of being touched upon,--so
many observations suggested by the first views of
Paris,--that I scarcely know with what to begin ;
whether with animate or inanhaate nature ; the
city or the citizens; the houses or the inhabitants;.
the streets, the gardens, the females, the chil-
dren, the general manners, or the peculiar cu-
riosities ; or, above all, with the monuments of
art, inglorious in their acquisition, but splendid
in themselves, which demand to be recorded with

accuracy and minuteness.

The great City of Paris is a very miserable,
ill-built, irregular, dirty, and disgusting place.
The streets invariably narrow, filthy, noisome,
and dangerous, What is splendid in it, is only
to be found in the palues and pitblie build-
ihgs ; and even there, the toe of meanness does
so tread upon the heel of magnificence, that
it galls its tribe.- Paris, with its appendages, ap-
pears to be about half the size of London—and,
like London, it is divided into two parts by a
river, which is, however, unlike the Thames. In
this river are several islands', covered with houses
-and in this-respect is presentied one of the most

tween the two capitals. The only other marked
dissimilarityi. indeed, consists in the Boulevart•,
certainly► the greatest iirnattients, of this, city.
These fire a circle of broad Streets, planted with
a row of treet,bn each side, run entirely
round Paris, properly so called; the streets', &c. on
the outside of this line being denominated the
Fauxbourgs.-2-1 have already mentioned that the
streets are Universally narrow and inconvenient—
the best oethein are not broader than the narrow
part of the Strand. But even this is not their
greatest defect. The gutter, in ceaseless activity,
purls down their• centers, and there is not a foot
pavement to protect the pedestrian from the en-
croachment of carriages upon his body--a danger
to which he is incessantly exposed, as it is barely
practicable for two vultures to pass each other
without coining into contact, and taking a rub
en passant.---,

VIATOR.

[The influx of temporary matter eninpels us to put the sig-
nature of our Cortespomknt .to the middle of this Letter,
lA-ltich we shall continue to-morrow, and follow it closely-with

dthers which N't have received]

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