The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-20 00:00:00

'TIE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Morning Papers, Sept. '2O.

[narrtsu PnEss.]
We learn from our Paris Correspondent, that
owing to the Exchange being shut up for six'
weeks, as well as all other public places of re-
sort, the merchants and stockbrokers are com-
pelled to assemble on the Boulevards, at Tor-
teni's, and at the Caffe du Nord. The confusion
and inconvenience arising out of this is extreme.
To shut up all places of amusement for so long
a season is unreasonable enough ; but to shut up
the Exchange also, and put an end, during the
same long period, to all the pecuniary transac-
tions of mercantile agents, stockbrokers, fund-
holders, and the whole of that commercial class
whose concerns require them to be at all times
iu a state of prompt and punctual intercourse—it
is really monstrons ! The death of a Sovereign
may surely be deplored without carrying its out-
ward forms tom revolting an excess. A resprct for
decorum on such an occasion is always becoming,
but the interference of the civil power to exact it
to an extent like this is most outrageous. The or-
dinary feelings of nature on such an occasion, if
left to themselves, will always flow in the right
channel : while so left they are sincere, and they
are rational • but when constrained by the com-
mands of office to go so much beyond the point
to which cemmon sense and the course of nature
would carry them, the whole becomes nothing
less thaira forced, and therefore a farcical solem-
nity. No proceeding, besides, can be more im-
politic. You stifle in the people all those sen-
timents of honest regret which they would other-
wise cherish, and you carry their feelings into an
opposite direction by the interests which you in-
terfere with, and the privations you create. Louis
XVIII. has exchanged an earthly for a heaven-
ly crown. He was a man with many virtues,
and we may safely leave his subjects to cherish
his memory. " Vest, en cc monde, assn." 'l'o
attempt to inoculate the sorrows of the Sepulchre
upon the speculations of the Stock Exchange, is
a folly that smacks of insanity. The people have
no sympathy to spare for an event that is made
to bring with it so much of pecuniary loss and
personal annoyance. There is no merchant or
bourgeois in Paris that, however he may lament
the death of the King, will not lament still more
that it should be made to interfere with the di.-
patch of business. The commerce of France,
moreover, wants at this moment all the aid and
all the activity that can be given to it. If its
present rulers cannot assist it by their wisdom,
they should, at least, not embarrass it by their
folly.

EFROM min CORIMPONDENT.)
PARIS, SEwr. 14.—His 'Majesty Louis the Eighteenth is
Do more. On this most important event I shall at this moment
make no comment. It is pregnant with results perhaps of the
last importance to Europe, when considered in relation to the
personal character of his Successor,. and the political system
which will now be acted upon in all its rigour, and will be fol.
lowed up to the full measure of its effects. The Exchange, the
Louvre, the public theatres, are all ordered to be closed for six
*seeks. The Ministers called late last night to make their in.
quities at the palace. M. ide Villele orly was admitted. -.
may be stated its the bulletins, t 'ping was in such
a state of complete insensibility aver since Sunday night, as to
.recognise no one. He had no such farewell interview with his
faintly as is there stated. The Wks of Orleans arrived 4t half-
pUSt eleven last night at the Tuileries, as did the. Prince Don
Miguel, but neither were admitted.

[MORNING; HERALD.]
Friday's Paris Papers arrived last night. They
are'blaek, bordered, and chiefly taken up with
the last moments and death of Louis XVIII.,
and the succession of Charles X. A cir.curn-
!twice is mentioned of a person endeavouring to
excite revolt union the soldiers, and firing, with-
out'effect, upon an officer. The only reasonable
solution is given by the Journal des .D.auts—it is
that he was deranged. He is in custody.—M. de
Chateaubriand has published a miserable pam-
phlet of a few sheets, and at a few sous, entitled
Le Rot est moil, Woe le Rot !". He has truly
taken occasion by the forelock. But who could
'oppose that a person, who has been a Minister,
and aspires to be one again, should descend so
req. beneath himself—at least beneath the person-
age which he has assumed to represent. A sub-
altern pamphleteer, casting out for a pension,
and crying " date obolUm," by a piece of
.season-
able sycophancy, and he only might do such a
thing in character, and with excuse. It is scarcely
possibly that M. de Chateaubriand can have
either common sense, or any sentiment, of real
dignity to direct him. The performance, too, is
truly 'Wretched. it is that sort of 66 sad
fustian;" of which .Pepe has said that—
"lt is not poetry, but prose run mad."
He opens with thunder and lightning—and
asks, whether celestial wrath is to descend
again--whether he • should hide himself on
the death of Louis the Eighteenth, as on that of
Louis the Sixteenth. Surely it requires " no
ghost to come from the grave" to tell him,he
need not. He .next proneunces an eulogy, on
the Saliothe 'Law (which excludes women from
the throne), and, by rather a loose inference,
concludes that because the race of the Bourbons
hat a endured from ltobert the Strong to Charles
X6l, 'it must last for ever! Why be steps. out of
the way to praise the Sulique Law is not very
obVious—perhaps he fears the Duchess of An-
gouleme may
,set aside the male branches, and
usurp the throne. It is said that Buonaparte
declared, her 4,4 the only man of the family."—
he refers to the fall of Buonaparte, and broadly
declares it was caused by Napoleon's reading,
$t Fontainebleau, his (M. de C.'s) pamphlet,
" Of Buottaparte and the Bourbons," which
be then, as now, happily published in the
very nick of time. Of his happiness in pane-
gyric some opinion may be formed from two
specimens. The deceased Monarch, he says,
" in political offences preferred oblivion to par-
den—because oblivion is pardon 'without osten- ,
lOtion." Now one Of the deepest shades of this
Prince's character was, that injuries, public or
private, were neither forgiven nor forgotten by
him—though he made a parade of lenity. All the
world has applied to him it verse in the tragedy
of the Templie.rs, in reference, to' one of his pre.
aecesiors—

prettlie le pardon, et ne le donno pas."
Of the living King M. do C. says—" Your