The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-14 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From Calignani's .Ilessenger of Saturday.)
On the King's leaving Cambray, at half-past eight in
the morning of the Sth, the whole of the National Guards
and the troops of the line were under arms, and the Mayor.
with the Municipal Body, was in attendance at the gate
by which his Majesty left the town, to honour his depar-
ture. On passing through Gateau, Landrecies, Maroelles.
and Avesnes, the King and Princes alighted, and reviewed
the National Guards of the several towns. At Avesnes
his Majesty entered the Hotel-de-Ville, and received s
basket of flowers, which was presented to him by Mdlle
Guillemin, the Mayor's daughter, accompanied by a long
train of young ladies, and where Addresses were presented
by the Civil Tribunal, the Municipal Body, and the Clergy
At half-past four the King arrived within a quarter of a
league of Mauheuge, whence he was escorted by the Na-
tional Horse Guards of the place, and a squadron of dra-
goons, to a triumphal arch, at the entrance of the town,
where the Mayor, attended by all the civic officers, pre-
sented him the keys, and a gun from the manufactory at
Maubeuge. His Majesty then proceeded through a
double line of soldiers, formed of the 25th and 58th
regiments, to the residence of M. de St. Leger, the Mayor,
where he alighted, and received the congratulations of all
the civil and military authorities. The King appeared to
receive with great interest the application male to him by
the Mayor in favour of the maintenance of the manufactory
of Maubeuge. Having dined, the King and Princes went
to a ball, which, for the purpose of admitting a greater
number of persons, was given in part of the manufactory,
fitted up in haste for the occasion, but nevertheless richly
ornamented with arms and warlike trophies, below one of
which, bearing the old flag of the National Guards of
Mauheuge in 1793, were inscribed the following lines :
Kenai-clue citoyen, to via ras dans l'histoire;
Its respectee nos droits, ton pouvoir est sacre ;
Defenseur du pays to pris part a sa gloire,
Et pour tor, notre amour este une verite.
The King withdrew at 10 o'clock. The next day (the
nth), at 11 o'clock, his Majesty, accompanied by the
Princes, and attended by Marshal Sault and Marshal
Gerard, went on foot to the Glacis of the Porte de Mons,
to review the troops, and distribute the rewards won by
their valour. The frost having made the ground ex-
tirerne'y slippery, the King desired that all the cavalry
should be dismounted, and refused to be escorted by the
Horse National Guards or any other cavalry. The troops
were drawn up in the following order :
The National Guards of Maubeuge; the 2d brigade of
General Janin's Division, composed of the 52d and 58th
Regiments of the Line, commanded by General Georges ;
the 2.1 brigade of General Dejean's Division, formed of
the sth and 10th Regiment of Dragoons, under General
De Latour Maubourg, and the depot of the Ist Regiment
of Horse Chasseurs. The King passed along the whole
of this line, which extended to the Mons road, and was
bordered by immense crowds of people, who constantly
greeted him with loyal acclamations. His Majesty then
took Ids station at the head of the first column, and re-
ceived in succession all upon whom his hands were to be
stow the rewards of their services and their valour. On
proceeding to deliver the Crosses of the gion of Honour,
the King delivered the following impressive address :
" You are already aware, my dear comrades, how
highly I appreciate the new glory acquired by the army
under the walls of Antwerp. I congratulate you upon it,
and have been anxious to give you this testimony of the
joy my heart has received, and that which fills all France.
Whenever the army is called upon to fight for the coun-
try, it cannot fail to heap new laurels of glory upon the
French name. lam happy in being the interpreter of all
France, and in testifying to you the admiration excited by
your valour and brilliant conduct."
This interesting ceremony being concluded, the Na-
tional Guards and troops filed off before the King. The
weather was extremely fine, and the enthusiasm of the
troops and of the people cannot possibly he described.
The King afterwards walked to the hospital, where there
are about a hundred men, who were wounded at the siege,
and on the banks of the Scheldt. His Majesty went to
every one, inquired into the nature and extent of their
wounds, and addressed to them words of encouragement.
The Duke of Orleans was also particularly attentive to
them, and inquired where they had received their wounds.
He recognised one man, who was struck by a grape shot
in the trenches when close to his Royal Highness. A
soldier of the 58th, who would not suffer himself to be
carried from the trenches till he had received a second
wound, was presented with a Cross of the Legion of Ho-
nour by the King's own hand. On leaving the hospital
his Majesty delivered to the Director a sum of money, to
be distributed amongst the wounded as they were dis-
charged. The King then entered his carriage, and pro-
ceeded by Bavely to Valenciennes, where early in the day
all the streets were hung with national flags and of er
emblems of loyalty. The 18th Regiment of the Line was
drawn up in the great square, and the way from the Pa-
lace to the Quesnoy-gate was lined on each side by the
National Guards. At the entrance into the small com-
mune of Marley, about 200 yards from the town, a small
triumphal arch was erected, and inscribed, "La Com-
mune de illarly aux Dues d' Orleans et de Nemours, et
aux Braves de l'Armje du Nord. Vice le Roi
His Majesty was expected about three o'clock, and at about
half-past two the authorities went out to meet him, and
the approaches to the town were completely crowded with
people. It was not, however, till half-past five that the
King reached the gates, when it was too late for him and
the Princes to mount their horses; consequently they en-
tered the town on foot. After receiving the address of
the Mayor and Municipality, and delivering a firm and
dignified answer, the King proceeded, attended by his sons,
lighted by a general and spontaneous illumination. On
his arrival at the Palace the King sat down to dinner,
admitting to the table a great number of personages. He
afterwards honoured the theatre with his presence, and
did not retire to his apartments till ten o'clock, fatigued,
but no doubt highly gratified with the reception be hail
met with.

We learn from Lille that the Queen of the French and
the Princesses attended mass, performed in the Palace by
the Rector of Catherine's on the 10th. In the course
of the day several bands of music, belonging to regiments
now at Lille, succe.sively played in front of the Palace.
The King of the Belgians, who was confined to his room
by a slight indisposition, is quite recovered. Several ex-
presses have been received and despatched by the Queen of
the French. The King is expected here to-morrow.
The Queen admits to her table in succession the principal
civil and military functionaries, and the general officers of
the army of the north. By the particular desire of her
Majesty, one of the members of the Commission of the
Palace is also daily admitted to the honour of dining with
her. A private table is kept in the Palace for the officers
on duty and the Commissioners.
A letter of the Bth instant from Brest says—" Orders
have been received to fit out three ships of the line with
the utmost expedition, taking those which can be soonest
got ready. We have no certain information as to the ob-
ject of this armament, but have good reason for believing
that an expedition to Hayti is in contemplation."
The Augsburg Gazette, of the Bth instant, has the
following, of the 28th ult., from Ancona :—" The Go-
vernment is forming a new battalion and a squadron of
Carabineers, to send to the Romagna, whence the Swiss
troops are about to remove. It is said that a great number
of troops are to be collected in the marches, and that the
bead-quarters will be established at Macerata. It is still
asserted here that the three French transports, which are
in our port, are destined to proceed to the Morea, for the
purpose of conveying the French brigade either to Ancona
or to Toulon."—Metalliques, 5 per Cents., at Vienna, Ja-
nuary 5, were 89 9-16 ; ditto, 4. per Cents., 75g. The
same paper contains the following, of the 3d inst. from
Frankfort :—" From the fact of the Diet having demanded
satisfactory explanations with regard to the violation of
the territory of the Confederation, which took place when
Marshal Gerard marched his army into Belgium, it would
appear that the Diet is by no means disposed to accede to
the resolution of the London Conference which incorpo-
rates that part of Luxemburg with the kingdom of Bel-
gium, but will, on the contrary, maintain the rights of
the King of Holland, as a member of the Confederation,
and those of the Confederation itself, from all encroach-
went. With regard to the report that the London Con-
ference would be transferred to Frankfort, nothing is
known here. It is, however, not improbable, as after
the settlement of the affair of Antwerp, and the retreat of
the French army from Belgium, the question of Luxem-
burg will be the most complicated point in the differences
between Holland and Belgium, and in this the Diet appears
most concerned."
Extract of a letter of the 7th instant from Geneva :
" Our Catholic devotees and emigrants have transmitted
to the Duchess of Berry, or her agents, a sum of 20,000
francs, the product of a collection made from house to
house, and other deposits made with the decurii and cen-
turii of the faithful; for this system, invented by the
Congregationists in France, has been introduced here.
This is nearly double the sum which the Grand Al-
miwer of France has sent annually here since 1818, to
promote conversions and pay a few obscure emissaries."
The Breton of Nantes has the following :—" A letter
of the 6th instant, from St. Etienne.de-Corcoue, states
that M..Barreteau, on his return from Lege, where• he
I ad he,n to pay his taxes, was attacked at 6 o'clock in the
tvening, at halt a league from St. Etienne, by six Chouane,
at med with muskets and bayonets. They were on the

point of killing him when it was found that M. Barteteau
vas not the perso❑ against whom their hatred was
directed. The Chouans had mistaken him for M. Go-
dard, who inhabits a farm in that neighbourhoo,l, where s
farmer had been assassinated a short time before. Ac-
oording to a letter from Bressuire, four Chouans had
entered the house of M. Greslier, proprietor, in the canton
of .Montcoutant, and killed him with two musket shots."

(From the Journal du Commerce.)

PARFi, JAN. 11.—THE EMBASSY OF MARSHAL MAI-
SON TO RUSSIA.-The sending of Marshal Maison to St.
Petetsburgh has caused several Journals to indulge in con
tradictory conjectures ; but there are only two modes of
explaining the motives of a choice of which we must the
more approve the energy, as we have few similar exam-
ples. There is not a single political circumstance con.
netted with Russia which has occurred since Marshal
Maison commanded the expedition to the Morea, which
he has not probed to the bottom. He has never ne-
glected to point out to the Government the means of abat-
ing the spirit of conquest in that empire, which hitherto
has appeared so powerfnl, because it has never directed its
arms against any other but impotent people, or people like
the Turks, reduced to insignificancy by European diplo.
macy. When the dangerous position of the Russian
army in Turkey, at the purchase of Varna, was known,
the Nobles of Poland asked to take that opportunity
of asserting their independence. There was then a
symptom which always precedes Polish conspira-
cies or revolutions—the Nobles left the towns, and re-
paired to their• estates. Marshal Maison knew the dan.
gers to which the Russian army was exposed, which,
almost starved and diseased, could neither advance
nor retreat. He knew, also, that the whole of the Diplo-
matic Corps laboured to save Constantinople, for if the
Russians had approached, the Turks would have burnt the
city, and taken tefuge in Asia. Marshal Maison pro-
posed to cover Constantinople with his 10,000 men, and
he demanded that the French fleet should chase away those
Austrian vessels which, in defiance of neutrality, supplied
the Russian army. His wish was refused by the Princes,
who remembered the hospitality of Alittau. The energy
of the Marshal, however, gained something, and the two
steamboats of the Sultan carried a part of the Diplomatic
Corps to Diebitsch, to announce that England and France
would regard the entrance of the Russian army into Con-
stantinople as a declaration of war. Diebitsch escaped
admirably from the embarrassment caused by this decla•
ration, by asserting that the magnanimity of the Emperor
would shun any proceedings likely to he followed by the
burning of Constantinople, and that he would go there him-
self but only as a diplomatic character, and not as a con-
queror. It was owing to the influence of the Marshal,
that Russia was then refused a port in the straights be-
tween Schoulousmele and Terapaia. During his embassy
at Vienna, Marshal Maison, in accord with General
Guilleminot, explained to the French Government the
weakness caused to Russia by the Polish war. They
declared to the French Government✓ that Russia had
only 95,000 men from the frontier of Persia to the fron-
tier of Poland. They proposed to raise in a few
days nearly 400,000 men among the Persians, Carcass
sians, and Moldavians, by merely sending two French
men-of-war into the Black Sea. These two Ambassa-
dors both knew, that after the victories of the Poles,
public prayers were offered up at Moscow, to prevent a
second conquest of Central and Southern Russia by this
valiant nation. Finally the Marshal knew that while
Paskewitsch was forming his pretended bridges over the
Vistula, he had frequent interviews with Krukowicky to
purchase Warsaw. He had the key to the success of this
expedition, and, after the pretended victory of the Rus-
sians, Marshal Maison opened a wound for Russia which
is yet bleeding, and gives it the most serious alarm. He
enlightened Austria on the intentions of Russia to retain
Moldavia and Wallachia. The inscriptions On monu-
ments inappropriately set up by the Governors of
those provinces confirmed the warnings of the Mar-
shal, and were the source of the mistrust of Austria.
Marshal Maison pointed out to Austria the advantage
of preserving in Gallicia the remains of the Polish army.
Austria followed his advice. She received the Poles, and
took them into her service with a higher pay than that
if. the Austrian troops. Lemberg and other Gallician
towns are filled with Poles, who wait until the interest
of Austria gives them an oportuuity of recommencing the
war. This is one of the wrongs with which Russia re-
proaches Austria. She knows that she is indebted for
this preservation of the Poles, so threatening near her
frontiers, to Marshal Maison. The Marshal, therefore,
knows Russia by heart—knows what language to use to-
wards her, and what means to employ. The Marshal
has been the only energetic Ambassador during the last
two years. It was wrong that M. Sebastiani refused to
send a military officer to Constantinople, for his business
there is to organize the defensive system of Turkey. If Ad-
miral Roussin is acquainted with military organization, he
will be well placed at Constantinople. After what Wt!
have said, it will be readily believed, that the Russian
Ambassador at Vienna conceived a great dislike for
Marshal Maison, who has the habit of wielding dip-
lomatic notes as well as swords. The Marshal has
acted a little freely towards the Diplomatic Corps, for
at his two last dinners, in 1831 and 1832, on the Fete
do Roi, he had the boldness to invite two obscure French
travellers, and mingle them with the gilded nobility who
constitute the diplomacy of Vienna. This caused a great
deal of conversation—it was said, that it was easy to per•
eeive that the Marshal was not a nobleman—and that he
did not know how to behave. At the last dinner the
Russian Ambassador was not present, and his lady went
to dine at the Prater, but the Marshal troubled himself
very little about it, or about the speedy departure of the
company. The young men of his suite di-played their
impatience, and caressed their swords, which they would
willingly have put in the places of their diplomatic plumes.
The Marshal went to the Prater in his cabriolet, showing
how much he relied on himself to put an end to all their
manifestations. In truth M. Metternich was very polite; he
even honoured, with some words of conversation, the
individual, with worsted epaulette, who was disdained by
all the other diplomatists. At Petershurgh, as at Vienna,
Marshal Maison will trouble himself very little about the
unpoliteness of the Court to which be was accustomed,
and the French Government would not send him to Pe-
tersburgh if it was only intended to speak a language
agreeable to Russia.
(From the Constitutionnel of Saturday, Jan. 12.)

PARIs, JAN. 11.—The fohowing letter has been posted
at the Lloyd's Francais:—
" BRUSSELS, JAN. 10.—You must have seen in the
Belgian Journals, that an Austrian ship which had re-
mained in the basin of Antwerp during the siege, having
attempted to go down the Scheldt, was stopped at Lilo
by the Dutch, and that an intimation was given
to the Captain, that no ship would be allowed to as•
tend or descend the Scheldt. It was in conformity
with an order received from the . Hague. I have
learned to-clay that this circumstance was the
result of a misunderstanding; that M. Verstalk Van
Suelen, the Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs, did not
intend to apply this measure to any but English and
French ships ;.and that by way of reprisal for the em-
bargo on his ships, and the blockade of the Dutch coast.
This explanation, which is unknown to everybody here
except five or six persons initiated in the mysteries of di-
plomacy, will, I believe, be made public in two or three
days. It is not doubtful that it will cause a great sen-
sation and give much pleasure, because to exclude Eng-
land from the navigation of the Scheldt, is not shutting it,
but leaving it open in principle, only making an exceptio❑
by way of reprisal."
The evacuation of Belgium by the French troops, says
the IV uremburg Correspondent, will probably lead to the
withdrawing of the Prussian army of observation now
cantoned along the banks of the Meuse. The taking of
the citadel of Antwerp is too recent for sufficient time to
have elapsed to receive orders on this subject from Berlin.
Private letters from Berlin and Vienna inform us that
the Ambassadors of the several Powers have vary frequent
meetings in these two capitals, and that the project of a
general reduction of the military force has been for some
days again under consideration. On the one hand the
immoveable firmness of the Kiug of Holland impedes the
possibility of an amicable arrangement by diplomatic
means ; on the other, the desire decidedly manifested by
the Great Powers to maintain the general peace, dimi-
nishes the chances of war, and paralyzes the hopes of all
those parties that wish for trouble and disorder.
(From the Quotidienne.)

PARIS, JAN. Cordovd, who exercised the

functions of Spanish Charge d'Affaires at Berlin, and who
Istely passed through Paris, has just been appointed Spanish
Ambassador at Lisbon, in the room of M. d'Acosta
Montealegere.
It seems that it is the Duke de San Fernando who will
succeed M. d'Olalia at Paris.

It is affirmed that M. de Broglie has been much
alarmed at the measures taken by Holland, respecting
the navigation of the Scheldt, and, in the absence of the
President of the Council, he has had a conference with
the Prussian Ambassador: it is added, that be was not
satisfied with M. de Werther, who gave evasive answers
to his complaints.

A courier, sent horn Loudon by M. de Talleyrand, has
not allayed the uneasiness of the Doctrinnaire Ministers.

Those despatches, it is said, announce the prolongation o'
the visit of M. Pozzo di Borgo to London.
It is affirmed that the King of Holland, rejecting the
proposals made by France an 4 England, has declared that
he will no longer treat except through the medium of
Prussia ; and that it is to commence the negotiations
.hat M. de Werther has so often met our Minister for
Foreign Affairs within these two days.
M. Ed. de Bussiere, Principal Secretary to the French
Legation at Vienna, arrived at Paris ye•terday.
Letters from the frontiers of the North speak in strong
terms of the marches and countermarches which the regi-
ments have been made to undertake during these two
months. To form the battalions of Grenadiers and Vol-
tigeurs united, four chosen companies were taken from
each regiment of the line, and two from each regiment of
light infantry.
Several of these regiments were at Lyons, Grenoble,
in the Alps, and the South, and consequently 200 leaguis
I rom the northern frontiers to which their companions
were ordered. They had scarcely marched for their des.
tination when they received orders to return to their re-
spective garrisons; that is to say, they will have had to
travel for the good pleasure of Messieurs the Doctrinnaires
300 or 100 'e igues, without rest and with empty pockets,
their clothes in tatters, and shoes without soles.
M. Legendre, the senior and the most celebrated of the
geometricians of Europe, died on Wednesday last. His
loss will be greatly regretted by the friends of the sciences.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES—SITTING or JAN. 12.

111. Berenger (one of the Vice-Presidents), took the
chair at 25 minutes past 1 o'clock.

The proces-verbal was read and adopted in presence of
3 very small number of deputies.
The Chamber then proceeded to hear reports on a va-
riety of petitions, the great majority of which were
totally destitute of general interest. A petition from the
master fishers of Toulon, complaining of the injury which
they sustained in consequence of the invasion of their
fisheries by foreign fishers, was referred to the Minister of
the Marine and the President of the Council. _ _

In the interval between two reports on petitions, M.
Martin (du Nord), by permission of the Chamber,brought
up the report of the committee charged to examine the
proposition of M. Salverte relative to the deficit of Kes-
ner. The committee disclaimed giving any opinion on
the question of responsibility, but as it agreed with Al.
Salverte that an inquiry should take place, it recommended
that a committee should be appointed to present such a
resolution to the Chamber on the subject of the deficit, and
the responsibility which may arise out of it, as, atter an
examination of all the circumstances and evidence, it
should deem advisable.

Some discussion arose as to when this report should be
taken into consideration, several Members of the centres
wishing it to be deferred until the termination of the dis-
cussion of the municipal law, but the Chamber, on being
consulted, fixed Saturday next for the discussion. The
reports of the Committees of petitions were then resumed.
On the subject of a petition from a physician at Cou•
t 'flees, praying that physicians might be exempted from the
payment of the patente, or license-tax, or else that advo-
cates, notaries, and huissiers might be subjected to the
same payment, iIM. Thouvenel, Prunelle, and Lerrall (all
belonging to the medical profession), excited the laughter
of the Chamber by the energy of personal convictio❑ and
feeling with which they supported the prayer of the peti-
tion. M. Dupin, in a few words, eloquently pointed out
the difference in the situation a physicians, who had a
legal remedy for the recovery of their fees, and that of ad-
vocates, who would he scouted and spurned by their bre-
thren if they were not always ready to give ther gratuitous
assistance when requisite, or if they ever attempted to
compel payment of their fees. The petition was referred
to the Ministers of the Finances and of the Interior, and
also ordered to be deposited in the bureau des renseigne-
omens.