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London, England, 1823-04-12 00:00:00

PARIS PAPERS OF WEDNESDAY.

IFrom Me Constitutionnel.] •
ODESSA; MARCH. 19.—What we lately pre-
dicted, and which drew upon us such unjust ac-
cusations, appears at length to have happened.
A vessel which left Constantinople on the Bth of
March, in the evening, brings the melancholy
news that Galata, Pera, and all the Christian
quarters in which were immense magazines of the
Franks, and which might be called the Treasury
of the East, were in flames, and the atmosphere
appeared like a sea of fire. •
The Captain of this vessel reports, that since
the sth March it was known at Constantinople
that the Greeks had taken the exterior works of
Pat ras.—( Gazette d'Augsburgh.) •
[Private Correspondence.]
PERPIGNAN, APRIL I.—During the whole night of the
30th ult. the Camp of Saint Esteve, occupied by the soldiers of
the Faith, was in a state of alarm. The report had been cir-
culated that all the neighbouring villages were to be attacked.
Whatever, may be the sentiments of the greater part of the
population, such a report must be unfounded.
PARIS, APRIL 9.7-For some days there has
been a talk of a system of censorship which would
place all the public Journals in immediate de-
pendence upoll the police, and which it was said
was to be immediately presented to the Ministry.
Such a measure would be opposed to the prin-
ciples avpwed by M. de Villele and the Viscoun
de Chateaubriand ; it would give so mortal a
blow to Representative Government, that though
it has received its birth in narrow and malevolent
minds, it is difficult to believe that it will be
adopted.
According to the reports in circulation, it
is to be an occult censorship which would escape
every species of responsibility, and that would
impose on Journals articles which..they would be
bound to publiSh as the sentiments of the Editors.
This would be a sort of inquisition that would
prevent the publication of all the complaints of
citizens against arbitrary measures, which would
stifle the sighs of their victims—which would
intercept the least offensive truths, and interdict
altogether the examination, however moderate,
of the acts of power. •
The Courier de Brest, which had mentioned
the tumultuous scenes that gave rise to the Procla-
mation of the Mayor, contains on this subject, in
its number of the 4th instant, the following note
and documents :
" It will be recollected that at Nantes the arrest of a man by
the Swiss soldiers, and the interference of some individuals,
occasioned tumultuous scenes ; the same cause last Sunday
produced similar effects here. Tranquillity, however, succeed.
ed to disorder, and no unpleasant event has been the conic.
quence, prompt and efficacious measures of repression having
been taken by the authorities.' The Marquis de Foresta, our new
Prefect, arrived on Monday night, and issued yesterday the fol.
lowing Proclamation :
" Brest, 2,1 April, 182:1.
". Inhabitants of Brest I—The tumultuous scenes of which
i
your walls have too often been the theatre, manifest n an af-
flicting manner that perturbed s-pirit which is a cause of re-
proach to many amongst you. Its difficult to conceive that
the anti-social faction should find auxiliaries in the bosom of a
city which is a glorious monument of the munificence of our,
Kings, in the midst of a population which owes its whole exist.
ence to the goodness of the Government. What ! do you
not draw back at the reproach of ingratitude which France ad-
dresses to you ? Can I dissemble in its eyes the too real motives ?
" It is doubtless painful to hold to you this severe language,
and that too on the day of-the investiture of my new functions,
when it would have been so pleasing to call down the paternal
goodness of the King on that portion of his subjects whom he
has deigned to transfer to my solicitude. But you remain deaf to
,the voice of your Magistrates ; you appear disposed again to de-
spise them. Alas if it be so we must employ the most effi.
cacious means. The laws have not invested us with power
without confiding to us a force to cause it to be respected. A
faithful garrison is within your walls, which will protect the
good citizens, and keep down the factious ; in spite of the vain
clamours that tend to lead it astray, it will continue to do its
duty as it has hitherto done, for it is proved that it has not
gone beyond the line, since an estimable, but ill-informed
Magistrate ventured to advance the contrary, in the precipita-
tion of his zeal for your interests, and we were under the painful
necessity of censuring the inconsiderateness of his expressions.
Calm, firm, submissive to the voice of its Chiefs, it comprises
all that is honourable, as is shewn by the malevolence with
which it has been attacked, and it disdains impotent menaces.
" Brave Soldiers ! the uniforms which distingnish you, may
vary in colour, but the same cockade occupies your noble fronts
—,it is without stain. Is it, therefore, astonishing that the
splendour of its whiteness offends the enemies of the Throne ?
In whatever region you may have been born—whether on the
banks of the Liana or of the Seine, you are equally French by
the loyalty of your sentiments, and your love for the Kind, and
you will always maintain amongst you that happy spirit of
concord, without which there can be neither safety for your
country, nor glory for your standards.
• " The Prefect of Finisterre,
" The Marquis DE FORESTA."
A letterfrom Brest,which, we received yesterday
states, that the Prefect arrived there on the 2d inst.
lie received all the authoritiess and blamed the
Mayor for his proclamation. It is even added,
that he proposed to him to retract it by a second,
and that on the refusal of the. Mayor, he threatened
his dismissal. The Mayor declared, that he would
not do it, and that he would wait his dismission
from superior authority, trusting entirely to its
justice ; because his sentiments in favour of the
monarchy could not be suspected ; and be be=
lieved himself to have fulfilled his duties in mani-
festing himself as the protector of his fellow-
citizens. It was then that the proclamation of
the Prefect was posted up in the town.
M. Picard, who was arrested in his house be-
cause he had refused to open his door without an
order from an agent of the civil authority, was
wounded in the kidnies.
" The inhabitants of our town,"
_ adds the letter, which we
have seen, " are devoted to the Constitutional Throne. Strong
in their consciences and in the testimony of their Chief Magis-
trate, they turn their eyes towards a Government, the protector
of all the cttizeni„ and they hope that justice will not be refused
to them. They learn with extreme satisfaction that the Swiss
troops have been charged with the service of the arsenal, and
that they have been replaced in the posts of the town by the
Marine Infantry."

[From the Courier Prangais..l

PARIS, Ainx.--- 'We remark hi the Speech
of the Viscount Chateaubriand, in the Chamber
on Monday, the following
words :-.--
4‘ I cannot felicitate myself to•daY on speaking without con.
tradictors. The Honourable Opposition which has thought it
its iluty to retire,would have enlightened me by its intelligence
it would have produced a greater good, Gentlemen, its presence
wouldhave re-united men made to esteem each other."
On reading these words,
we find it beyond
doubt, that the Opposition are treated more fa-
vourably by the Ministers since they have been
absent, than when they were present.
A letter from Bayonne, dated March, 31, says
—44 Alarm was for a moment spread last night.
The report of ,the cannon, and the beating of the
generale, called the troops of the garrison under
arms. The fire had communicated to the cloth-
ing magazines. Within two hours the conflagra-
tion was suppressed. This morning, two Cap-
tains, four sub-officers, and several soldiers of
different corps, wore 'arrested, and brought be-
fore the Governor. Tho two Captains are ac-
cused of being the perpetrators of this deed."—
Nuotidionne.)

LITERARY NOTICE..

An ESSAY on the DRAMATIC CHARACTER of Sir
JOHN FALSTAFF.

" I am not John of Gaunt 4 your Grandfather, but yet no
COWARD, Hal."—( First Part of Henry IV.)

As, after a long period, a second edition of
this valuable tract has recently appeared, our
Readers will no doubt be highly gratified in
knowing something of its author, who certainly
wrote from conviction when he' defended the
character of FALSTAFF from the imputation of
cowardice. We have therefore extracted the
following note from the life of MILTON, by
CHARLES SYMMCNS, D. D. of Jesus' College,
Oxford, which for the credit of our national
taste has lately reached to a third edition. The
learned Doctor, speaking of his favourite Poet,
MILTON, in the following passage, takes oc-
casion to advert to our great dramatic Bard,
in the note relating to the author of the Essay,
which we have subjoined. " But even amid
the ruins of Britain (subject to those great vicis-
situdes to which all that is human is perpe-
tually exposed, and which all that is human
must eventually experience, shall blot out our
name and our language and bury us in barbarism')
MILTOrf will survive. Europe will preserve one
portion of him • and his native strains will be
cherished in die expanding bosom of the great
Queen of the Atlantic, when his own London
may present the spectacle of Thebes, and his
Thames roll a silent and solitary stream, through
heaps of blended desolation."

" I am reminded on this occasion of a beautiful passage in the
" Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff," writ.
ten by the late Maurice Morgann, Esq.; " yet whatever may be
the neglect of some, or the censure of others, there are those
who firmly believe that this' wild and uncultivated Barbarian*,
has not obtained one half of his fame." 'When the hand of
time shall have brushed off his present editors and commenta-
tor, and when the very name of Voltaire, and even the me-
mory of the language in which he has written, shall be no more,
the Apalachian Mountains, the banks of theOhio,and the plains
of Sciola, shall resound with the accents of this barbarian.—
In his native tongue he shall roll the genuine passions of na-
ture ; 'nor shall the griefs of Lear be alleviated, or the charms
and wit of Rosalind be abated by time.
This Essay fornis a more honourable monument to the me-
mory of Shakspeare than any which has been reared to him
by the united labours of his commentators. The portrait, of
which I have exhibited only 41 part, is drawn with so just, so
discriminating, and so vivid a pencil as to be unequalled, un-
less it be by the celebrated delineation of the same great dra-
matist by the hand of Dryden.
With the name of Maurice Morgann, who has fondled my
infancy in his arms, who was the friend of my youth, who ex-
panded the liberality of my opening heart, and first taught me
to think and to judger—with this interesting name, so many
sadly pleasing recollections are associated, that I cannot dis-
miss it without reluctance. He was my friend i but he was
the friend also of his species. The embrace of his mind was
taslivuinnabd;lesect r
it;
creativekht
jehnatg that
uouflagiildi
thought acutely
nal
wilueahtnye
leefnuvy benevolence was unbounded. With great
rectitude of understanding, he possessed a fancy that was al-
l.
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ev
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error,
ohsriti:biljdl subject,
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were for o n
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specious and to pleaSe : and he never failed of your applause,
though he might sometimes of your assent. When your judg-
ment cpyly held back, your imal;..ination yielded to his seduc-
tive addresses ; and you wished him to be right when you were'
forced to pronounce that he was wrong. This is spoken only
of those webs which his fancy perpetually spun and dipped in
the rainbow : his heart was always In the right. With a mind
of too tine a texture for business, too theoretical and abstract
to be executive, he discharged with honour the office of Under
Secretary of State, when the late Marquis of Lansdown j was
for the first time in power ; and he was subsequently sent by
that Nobleman across the Atlantic as the intended legislator
of Canada. his public and his private life were impelled by
the same principles to the same object ;—by the love of liberty
and virtue, to the happiness of man. If his solicitous and en.
lightened representations had experienced attention, the tem-
porary and the abiding evils of the American contest would
not have ,existed ; and the mother and her offspring would
still have been supported and supporting with their mutual
embrace. From a longintercourse with the world he acquired no
suspicion, no narrowness, no hardness, no moroseness. With the
simplicity and. candour, he retained to the last the cheerfulness
and the sensibility of childhood. The tale of distress, which he
never staid to investigate, passed immediately through his open
ear into his responsive heart; and his rot tune, small as his disinter-
estedness had suffered it to remain, was instantly communicated
to relieve. His humanity comprehended the whole animated
creation; and nothing could break the tenor of his temper but
the spectacle of oppression or of cruelty. His failings (and
the most favoured of our poor species are not without failings)
were few, and untinctured with malignity. High as he was
placed by nature, he was not above the littleness of vanity ; and
kindlily as were the elements blended in him, his manner would
sometimes betray' that eontempt of others, which the wisest are
perhaps the least prone to entertain, and which the best are the
most studious to conceal.' Though he courted praise, and was
not nice respecting the hand which tendered it, or the form in
which it came, yet has he refused it in the most honourable
shape, and when offered to him by the public. He had been
importuned in vain to give a second edition of his Essay on
Falstaff; and his repeated injunctions have impelled hi* execu-
trix to an indiscriminate destruction of his papers, some of
which, in the walks of politics, metaphysics, and criticism,
would have planted a pernianet laurel on his grave.
Such were his frailties and inconsistencies, the objects only
of a doubtful smile.:—but his virtues and his talents made him
the delight of the social, the instruction or the comfort of the
solitary hour.
Though he had been accustomed to contemplate the awf4.4l
crisis of death with more terror than belonged to his innocent
life, or to his generally intrepid breast, lie met the consumma-
tion without alarm, and expired with as much serenity as he
had lived. This event happened at his house in Knightsbridge,
in the seventy-seventh year of his age, on the 28th of March,
1802.

XatpE ! Vale!
I shall never cease to think with a sigh of the grave in which
I saw your body composed, till my own shall reJuire the same
pious covering of dust, and shall solicit, with far inferior claims
yet haply not altogether in vain, for the same fond charity of a
tear. C. S."

• Shakapeare, so called by Voltaire.
t This able and, to decide from the consistency of his
_pub.
lie conduct, this•upright statesman,. died on the 7th of May,
1805, and bequeathed his whig principles and virtues to his
second son, Lord Henry Petty, who lately filled the Office of
Chancellor of the Exchequer.

SUGAR TRADE.—It appears by the Bristol
presentment of Monday) that " there is not one
cask of sugar now remaining in the bonded ware-
houses at this port, upon which the home conf
sumption duty has not been paid." This circum-
stance, we believe, is wholly unprecedented since
the establishment of the warehousing system.—
( Bristol-.toper:)
IMPROVEMENT IN TRADE.—Business is dull
among the shipper's at Saltcoats and Irvine just now ; but the
salt pans at Saltco4ts are unusually brisk. The two companies
have six pans, and they mqlse above 200 bolls of salt in the
week. Formerly about this season, they used to have from
about 2,000 to 2,400 bolls on hand. At present, however, they
can hardly answer the demand, and the salt is frequently sold
and taken off the very dayit comes from the pan. Twenty-eight
pounds are got now for Is. 6d. Farmers, and heads of fami-
lies, that never bought above 71bs. at one time, now take a
bushel. The consumption has increased fully one-third since:
the duty was taken'off. We are happy to hear that the carpet:
manufacturers in Kilmarnock are doing. well. There are about
250 carpet looms employed in making the different kinds of
carpeting. The wool-carding for the carpets is so brisk at pre-
sent that the carding-mill near Dairy keeps two sets of workers,
and the machinery goes night and. day. The bonnet-making is
also brisk in Kilmarnock. About 250 dozen bonnets are
weekly finished in that town.—( Glasgow _Chronicle. )