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people with tilt proposed King. You know,' I said tr.
him, 'that I am a Republican, and that I regard the Con-
stitution of the Unite I Sates as the most perfect that ba•
ever existed.' I think as you think,' replied the Duke ol
Orleans ; 'it is impossible to have passed two years is
America and not to be of this opinion ; but do you be-
lieve, in the situation of France, and according Cr' general
opinion, that it would be proper for us to adopt it ?" No,'
I replied ; ' what is now necessary for the French people
a popular throne surrounded by Republican institutions.'
4 So, also, I understand it,' replied the Prince. The mutual
engage nent which I hastened to publish served to rally
around me those who would not have a Ikionarelt and those
who would have one, but not a Bourbon.
" When the Poles, trebly thrranchised by our principle of
souereignty, by the sneonsive robberies of which they had
been the victims, and by the last violation of the treat)
with them, stopped the progress of the Russians toward,.
us, shedding that Moor!, which has been shed in torren's
for 'France, what prevented us from protesting aloud in
tlreir favour, from receiving their representatives, and not
`to remain ever below that abandonment of them which was
the disgrace of the reign of Louis XV. As to the Lite horrors
in Italy, from the violated capitulations to the atrocities of
the tyrant of Modena, the vile assassin of the virtuous Me-
notti, to whom he was indebted for his life, the fault is
not to he attributed to our Legation., which signified their
dissent, and informed the Council of the King ; still less
was it to be attributed to the Italian patriots, who must ,
have seen in this signification, publicly announced, never
to consent, a meaning equivalent to a promise to prevent
One word on the hereditary Peerage.—lnformed by ex-
perience, anterior to I Thu, I regretted that the Constitu-
tional Assembly preferred the unity of the Legislaosre to
its division into two Elective Chambers ; but without new
discossing the senatorial conditions which the Revolution
of July has bequeathed to the representatives whom we are
:about to nominate, 1 am firmly persuaded that the princi-
pal question is not doubtful. It is not in this age of io-
telligence, and in this country of equality, that old aris-
tocratical prejudices, that are declining in their own fo-
reign abode, that the interest of the present Peers, or the
ambition of future Peers, will be able to root among us two
or three hundred petty legitimacies, without an object,
which, far from supporting the Constitutional Throne, risk
dragging down in their fall ; and which are equally op-
posed to common sense and the representative rights of a
nation—free, independent, and sovereign."

(From the Times Private Correspondent.)

PARIS, sATURDAV EVENING.

Since my last letter the state of the metropolis has con-
tinued nearly as I then described it. Every day and every
night a great concourse of people assembled in the neigh-
bourhood of the Porte St. Denis. 'they usually began to
collect in small groups before noon, and gradually increased
until nightfall, when their number became prodigious, and
blocked up all the avenues which opened into the Byule-
varde Bonne Nouvelle.

I have mixed a good, deal amongst these groups since I
wrote last, but could not trace any appearance of general
conspiracy. They were chiefly composed of young men
of the working classes, who complained of want of work,
and who laboured under the delusion I have-already de-
scribed, that the authorities were about to furnish it. A
body of these people (about 250) last night carried off a
tri-coloured flag from the coffee-house of the Regency, be-
hind the Palais Royal, and moved on, shouting for " bread
and work," but they were speedily dispersed by some in-
fantry, which were called from the post of the Tuileries.

1 siw very few of these people with sticks, and certainly
done acting in anything like the concert which would in-
dicate a combination for resistance ; they appeared to as-
semble promiscuously on the Boulevards until the crowd
became dense ; there was not the least semblance of ha-
ranguing or leadership, but there was a great deal of chat-
tering in little circles, which imported a good deal of dis-
satisfaction, and was repeated with avidity by a number of
well-dressed young men who mingled in these groups.

The demeanour and movements of these crowds on
Thursday and Friday nights corresponded with that of the
previous nights, which I have already described to you.
The military were, however, in greater force than at the
beginning of the week, and the Hussars and Chasseurs
charged, at intervals, as well as the Municipal Guard :
several of the latter were furnished with ball cartridge in
their cartouches, hut no pistols were drawn. The cavalry,
particularly on Thursday night, galloped a good deal among
the people, and I saw several persons whose clothes were
cut, and some also who received flesh wounds from
the point of the sword ; the cavalry always, as far as I
could see, struck with the hick 4,f the sword, but many
of them used the point, and I thought, in some instances,
unnecessarily, because their thrusts were made upon
flying and scattered groups. The police were also ex-
tremely active in the crowds, but, as will always hap-
pen in the police force of a large city, some of them ap-
peared to me, from their injudicious and imitating mode
of interference, to be more likely to raise than to
quell a riot. Individuals of the National Guards were
also betrayed into intemperance. I saw a boy stabbed, as
I thought wantonly, by one of them, and I understand the
unfortunate lad died an hour after. It was certainly to
he expected that men would lose their temper aNr being
day and night obliged to le we their homes and business,
and patrol in the streets, to drive off a senseless and noisy
rabble, and individual fatal collisions are always to be ex-
pected in such tumultuous scenes. The officers of the
National Guards, as well as the great body of that excel-
lent force, appeared to me throughout to act with the most
exemplary forbearance. They were cheered one moment,
hissed and pelted at another, and yet, except in the
instance of one or two detached companies, when the
drums beat the pas de charge, they always advanced
against the crowds with their muskets upon their shoul-
ders. Last night the military arrangements were, I
thought, better executed ; the picquets and posts did not
allow the people to gather, as on previous nights, on the
Boulevards, and there was, of course, less probability of
those accidents to which dense masses are exposed ; the
people, too, seemed tired of the row, and dispersed
quicker. To be employed five nights in one riot was
rather too much for ev4 n a Paris mob ; and it is to be
hoped that, for the next week, they will find some other
occupation.

A number of arrests were made, and search warrants
txecuted, but Ido not believe any extraordinary disco. i
veries have been the result. There was a rumour here
among the English, that the gentleman of the name of
Lennox and his wife who were arrested, were of a noble
family ; but this is nut the case : the Mr. Lennox in
question is a Frenchman, of Scottish parents; I under-
stand be was once in the army, has some property, and
has dabbled a good deal of late in French politics. The
General Dubuurg, also, whose house is said to have been
searched, was one of the provisional assistants to General
Lafayette at the Hotel de Ville last July.
There has been this day no commemoration of the sol-
diers who fell at the battle of Waterloo, as was first in-
tended ; nor is there, as far as I can learn, any appe tr-
ance of tumult or disturbance in the city.
The letters from Brussels this morning are more favour-
able, because more moderate, than any of late received
here, and great stress is laid upon the premised mediation
of Prince Leopold.
The Berlin State Gazette of the 12th mentions, that
the cases of cholera motbus in Dsntzic were then on the
decline. On the 6th, the number of cases was 71, 39
fatal ; on the 7th, 86, 51 fatal ; on the Sth, only 1 I, and
deaths. A letter from Stettin of the 10th mentions that
the must rigorous precautions were. there taken against
communication with Dantzic, from which place it was
thought some symptoms of the d;sorder had been imported.
In Sweden, likewise, severe conservative measures have been
adopted by two decrees, one of the 31st ult., and the other
of the Ist instant• . . _

On the 14th instant, at Strasburg, an order was issued
for the purpose avowedly of preventing a similar scene to
that of Metz, on the arrival of the King and presentation
of the National Guards. It repeated some order which had
been issued on the 2,:ith of February, 1809, enjoining the
appointment of a commission and scrutiny to prepare a7iy
a_ildresles from public bodies, and their due registration be-
fore they were acted upon.
There is uo truth in the notification given in some of
the journals, that the garrison of Paris is about to be aug-
mented to 26,000 troops of the line. There are upwards
of 1.0,000 troops within half a d ry's march of the cit,-
if necessary ; but no addition to the actual garrison is called
for.
Y.
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The ..in; left Nancy onthesth at noon, attended by
the Mayor and the municipality,
accompanied his
3fijesty to the church of Istrawmheorle Bons Secours
g,neeKfiri,,,in tflie,town, where he'
which stands about half a lea
idolandi and that
visited the tomb of Stanislaus
in which is deposited the heart of'l7is
Lecinska, who was a Queen of France. daughter Maria
Epinal, the King stopped at the experimental Nay
yNto
Dombasle, at Roville, where he conversed with thrrinee young
M.
Egyptians who are learning the science and practice
;:griculture. His Majesty alighted at the Mayurie of the
-.mall town of Chorines, where he received the several
authorities and reviewed the National Guards, which
mustered 5,000 men. The King observed in the ranks
an old soldier of Jemappes, who had by his side seven sons,
all grenadiers in the same company. At half-past seven
his Majesty arrived within a quarter of a league of Epinal,
where he was .met by a • regiment of dragoons and the
Nati9nal Home Gruirds, who eseorteel him to the Pre-