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CAE1:1111:AY, JUNE 99.

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I arrived at this place about four hours before
the King
Francemade
his
entryitlligtosilti. troli>iples
town had beensumnioned by Our Eli
in the name of Louis XVIII. on the 2311 instant.
The first•sti-intnons being rejected, a few cannon-
'shot were fired on each side, butt without doing
'lllicit mischief. Night Put an end to the tiring; and
early the !Text morning, a parley was held between.
theGovernorandthebesiegers. Thisconferencealso
terminating inelfectually,an msault was made by
the English troops in two places; and in less, than
two. hours the town was in our, possession, without
any mat erinl loss. The. Governor retired into the
citadel, where lie capitulated in the course of the
25th, when the place was consigned to the city
guard, of whom the Colonel, whO had been su-
perseded by the Rebel (iovertiment, res4llled the
Fll/11cilld anti rue white flig and white cockade
weie every hoisted. This event was diailed with
universal exultation. Notice -was giVen; that the
King' had ,arrived at -Catean Valobreses, onkr
eight miles distant. .111:stantiv a guard, of ho-
nour was formed t)y. the young men a the
most' respectable families a triumphal arc"'
Iva; erected at the•apprbach to the city. In the
morning of the 2.(ith. the guard marched to meet
the King.
.principal young ladies of the
place, dressed in' white, tosembled at the arch,
received his. Majesty there, and scattered flowers
.before bhn all the way to,the Hotel, de Ville. It
was about one ()!clock in the afternoon. when the
King reached the town, his: progregs Ini'ving been.
'eonsiderably impeded by' the immense noil,itudes
of, the cottnery people, who. flocked frenn -all the
neighbouring villages to see •andwrlcione ilinl
back to acclamations amid
which he entered the city were so lottd,..so unlver-
people in this part of
asa(ll,,iiiii%oiiiltiN‘ta,rie)enitielyvesoolii:ti,itrlcie', that one would Imre
the country could have taken the least share' its
the laze revolt. Green boughs, lir sign of joy,
were so thickly spread; from the windows, .that,
viewed from an upper story 4, the streets seemed
to torm
.so many gleen alleys, and the Irtospect
was' infloitelypictaresque: Arrived at the tow"
boasei the people unharnessed, the -Horses;
drew the Kiog io his coacPi to the house hdmeans
to occupy. lie ett hasiAsni seentel at its height.
It Mils hardly comptehensin;e that one could pasS
so quickly to such 'rt sceue of joy, ft oat the midst
of fields loaded with thousands of slain,anif cities
besieged and stained within am! without by
slaughter. groans of the wounded anal dying
are still ringiag in my cars—and to ! --,,
'rounded
.by Ail/VDUS multitude, who seem intoxi-
cated with shouting Vice lc /foil Even the little
children, when ,they see an Qffieer pass whit- ,
the white cockade, set up the shout which.
they :have learned from their fathers. Already
bits the town been illtvn::nated for t..vo nights ,
successively : and all ,this day the inhabitants
'have.been dancing in the puulie square. It
seems that the joy of being de:ivered front the
horrors of a new revolut.on, athl the:t.eces-
sary evils of war, has converted their pLisure at
the sight of the Kiog into a real deli to:n. Nor
is it only the towns-people who id in these
festivities. The towo has .been Ike a fair ever
since I have been here, with the vast'inultitudes
of peasants flocking into it in every direction.—
. The example of loyalty-has extended Lb tit. neigh-
, homing towns. Qaesno‘r has. submitted. l. -
rmine has hoisted the white cockade.' Valen-
ciennes Nvoultl have Opened its ; but the
Commandant, Rey; a scoundrel' who played ,at,
distioguished part in the infamous tar it) Spain,
has. shut himself up in the citadel with about
500 Dotoliers, and threatens to fire upon ale
town if it makes any 'royalist demonstration.—
Arras is, on the eve ot d,:elaring itself. The
population is decidedly loyal. it is only the
Corsican soldiery, I mean the bra.voes of the Cor-
; Sit:R:l'S gang

, wno prevent tile (;[!Zeus from tot-

lowing the ink,wlse of their t ,gs natural feelin. 1 hese
fellows, the sonlh.us„ are an iii ernal race,—brought
' up and habituated Co crone, tilt it has be,:oine att
appetite to them. There trill be no ease ortest:
to the world unless they are all banished to Si-
beria. I ant sorrow to say ICo nit see any qwp.
toms 'of a wholesome severity beiug,likely to ue
exercised towards them. The very rebels that
ltdd out the citadel Of Cambray .against their
Kiti. are at this %cry moment walking about
the to‘tn with the utmost unconcern, with the
decoration of the Leg on of.Honopr at their but-
ton-hole ! Surely the King will not be so wedt-
ly impolitic as to suffer, all the revolutionary
'Counts, Dukes, and Chevaliers, to nose the old
nobility, with their ribbands and -crosses, after
, this second treason ! 1 hOpe the new Ministry
will act with a very vifiereut degree of frfuniess
frointheir imbecile predecessors. M.de Talleyrand
is now here. lie arrived last night at ten o'clock,
usual ha,' already attended a Council. He scents to
enjoy high favour. It was -understood that he had
offered his resignation at Mons, under the iutpres-
. sion that the King's entrance into France was
prompted bya,‘lmister, who would possess theetii-
dent inauence, wit Ist lie (Talleyr.ind) world have
-o•ily the respOn•ib.lity Of a Premier. i suspi-
cnin, however, being removed, it is now! Otlieved
I hAt this celvbrated Statesman wilt, in tact, Lave
the"guidance of the Administrat.on. A Procia
nyttion, which has this -.moment ~,otted from the
-Royal Printing Press here (see Papei!,),
„is to favour this idea. At any rate; ti e lead_
to it are tho,e wl ich M. de Tulkyr,..ti34
is knywn to have supported.