The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-03 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY

tikes house, attended by M. Thiers, M. Baze, and
others of the chiefs of parties, at which it was decided
that the comp against the President should be made
thi3 very day—:hat is, that he should be arrested, the
Assembly prorogued or dissolved, and no doubt the
Republic abolished.

It was considered absolutely necessary to take
steps immediate!y. Proclamations were at once pro-
pared, addressed to the nation and to the army, in
the former of which the President explained his
causes of complaint, and declared that instead of em-
ploying itself in taking care of the interests of the
people, the Assembly had only become a theatre of
conspiracies and plots against him, the elect of the
people. He makes an appeal to the people by whom
he has been elected. He restores universal suffrage,
summons the people to assemble next month in their
cornices to elect a new Assembly; to this new Assem-
bly he will resign his powers, and let the nation exer-
cise its will in either electing or rejecting him. He
proposes ten years as the periol which the Chief of
the State should retain power , aided by Ministers re-
sponsible to the Executive. He abolishes the Council
of State, &c.

The Prefect of the Police, M. de Maupas, has ad-
dressed a circular to tall the Commissaries of Police,
inviting them to watch with courage and energy over
public tranquillity, and to allow no meeting the ob-
ject of which should appear to them suspicious.
This morning, at an early hour, the Place de la
Concorde, the Faubourg St. Honore, the Tuileries,
the Louvre, and the Place de Carousel were covered
with troops, the arrangements having been made
during the night.
Generals Changarnier, Cavaignac, Bedeau, Lam°,
riciere, Leflo, Colonel Charras, MM. Baze, Thiers,
Brun, the Commissary of Police of the Assembly,
and, it is said, 22 or 28 others have been arrested.
The first named are committed to Vincennes, and
I am assured will be transferred to-morrow to the
fortress of Ham. General Changarnier, attempted to
harangue the soldiers sent to aid the police agents
who arrested him ; but it is said they refused to
listen to him. Colonel Charras is said to have
wounded one of the agents who arrestedAlim(
It is also reported,that:M. Michel (de Buurges) and
M. Odilon Barrot are under arrest, but this is
doubtful. The decree dissolving the Assembly, &c.,
i 3 signed, as you perceive, by M. de Morny, the new
Minister of the Interior.

The new Ministers are M. de Moray, Interior;
M. Fould Finance ; M. Rouher, Justice ; M. For-
toul, Public Instruction ; M. Chasseloup-Laubat,
Marino; General St. Arnaud, War; and it is said
M. de Persigny will be Minister of Foreign Affairs
General Milgrim still retains the command of the
army. Orders have been given to take down the
temporary hall where the representatives were wont
to meet. Eight journals are suspended, among them
the Evenement.

The Prefects on leave of absence in Parig, or else-
where, have been ordered to return instantly to their
departments. The same order has been communi-
cated to the other public functionaries on leave of
absence.

A number of representatives met this morning at
the residence of Count Daru. They m ere dispersed
by the police. Same of them afterwards repaired to
the municipality of the 10th arrondissement, but also
received orders to retire.

The President wrote late last night an affectionate
letter to M. de Thorigny, and also to the Ministers,
declaring that his mind was made up—that he could
not allow himself to be sacrificed by his enemies, who
were conspiring at that moment ; but that, as he was
unwilling to compromise them in any way by impli-
cating them in his sets, he thought it better they
should resign. It is unnecessary to say the request
was complied with at once.
People have been taken so much by surprise,
though such an event might have been foreseen, that
it is difficult to say anything on the public feeling.
All my accounts from the faubourgs are unanimous
in declaring that the people are well pleased at what
has been done ; and it cannot be denied that the in-
trigues and plots of the chiefs of parties in the As-
sembly had long since disgusted them. Groups are,
of course, assembled at the different places where the
proclamations are posted up; I have heard that in
some places they were torn down. I have, however,
seen nearly one hundred of them, and not one is either
defaced or soiled. I have heard many make observa-
tions not over flattering to the Assembly, that they
richly merited what has befallen them ; and the
only thing most of them regretted was their 25 francs
a day.
The President, mounted on horseback, rode
all through the Quays, the Champs Elys6es, and
other places of the city. He was followed by a
crowd, shouting, " Vire Napoleon !" and " Vire le
President !" One or two regiments marched along
the 'Thulevards about half-past twelve o'clock, and
the people also hailed them with cries of " Viva le
Ligne I' " Vire la Republique !" " Vive Napoleon."
To say that Paris is not agitated would be absurd,
but, so far as I have perceived and heard from others,
I do not see that the agitation is of an angry nature.
The restoration of universal suffrage and the appeal
to the people contribute to their good humour.
The troops are, I am assured, to be relied, on, and
express themselves well pleased with what has oc-
curred. Though there are numbers of people along
the Boulevards, 'Jet ,in the other parts of the city
where I have been the people seem to be at their work
as time!.
The troops are still in the places mentioned above,
to be ready to put down any disturbance that may be
attempted.
It is stated that one of the men who arrested
General Bedesu was wounded by him, and that the
General had to be bound.
The President's reception last night was never
better attended. Not the slightest suspicion existed
of what was coming on.
Attempts have been made on the Boulevards to
get up some disturbance, but to all appearance they
have failed. A man who headed a procession of
about fifty or sixty young men, shouting, was ar-
rested. There are no soldiers along the Boulevards.
Every precaution has been taken to prevent any
disorder.
The Mountain is now sitting. It is, said that a
manifesto will be addressed by them t
O'CLOCo
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people.
FOUR K P M.
Groups stilliassemble in the Boulevards. When-
ever an officer of the staff passes on horseback, they
shout out " Vive la Republique!"
The Rue St. Honore and the Faubourg are still
occupied by troops ; and artillery and troops are on
the Place de la Concorde, and surround the Assembly.
The Palace Royale and the Chateau d'Eau are also
occupied by troops. Pickets are at the corners of
the streets to preserve order.

FIVE O'CLOCK.
A manuscript decree, purporting to emanate from
the representatives who met in the Municipality of
the 10th arrondissement, under the presidency of
M. Odilon Barrot, has just appeared. By that decree
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte is declared outlawed, and
the High Court of Justice is convoked to try him for
high treason. The army is relieved from its alle-
giance, and a General appointed So command it.
General Lauriston is said to have placed the 10th
Legion of the National Guard at the disposal of the
Assembly. Another report states that he has been
arrested.
P.S. The Faubourg St. Antoine is perfectly
tranquil. About 100 persons are on the Place de la
Bastille, discussing public affairs. A strong body
of troops is stationed at the Chateau d'Eau, Fortes
St. Denis and St. Martin. Whatever agitation there
is is on the Boulevards, and particularly observable
amongst the bourgeoisie.
(FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.)
I have walked through the principal thorough-
fares of Paris from seven o'clock this morning until
twelve o'clock, the moment at which I am writing.
troops
sop n
I have entered into conversation with the Blouses
reading the President's decree, and I have not heard
one word of disapprobation by anybody at the Pre-
sident's coup d'etat. The general remark of the ope-
ratives was, " Ma foi, it a Bien fait ; maintenant
nous voterons puisqu'il a retabli le suffrage uni-
versel." I was passing the pont de la Concorde,
Ito
whout lowoa'
was
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oko,
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I overtook
e Chamber M. L 2orfo c hpe je apcuri
Deputies,
followed by a number of persons who appeared to
wish to prevent him, by representing to him the
ate
danger. He, however, persevered, and the iron
and he was permitted to enter.
g
a
p was hiasamll'owed to return I know not. The
opened
de t
occupied the Chamber of Deputies, when
they Whetheroasaw a
crowd advancing over the bridge, showed
by the earnestness with which they raised their mus-
kets, that they were determined to maintain their
ground. When I passed there again, in about half-
an•hour, the troops were reinforced by several pieces
of artillery. I met the President of the Republic at
11 o'clock. He was crossing the Pont-Royal, from
the side of the Tuileries. He was surrounded
by a numerous and brilliant staff of general
officers, and was preceded and followed by
a strong body of Cuirassiers and Lancers.
He wore his usual uniform of a general of the Na-
tional Guard and the Grand Cordon of the Legion of
Honour. He bowed right and left and raised his
cocked bat to the crowds, who then began to return, th
streets. Most of the men raised their hats in
and there was some cheering, but no enthusiasm. He
was followed by an immense mob, shouting, " Vive
Republique r which they were permitted to do in

fall liberly. I can safely assert that there wns not
one cry of " \rive Nap&eon" n-s long as the cortege
wag sithin my sight. It must be admitted, on the
other hand, that there was no organized mob of De•
cembrists, es has been asserted on former occasions.
Everybody was suffered to express himself as he wished
without molestation.

(From tho Morniqr Chronicle Correspondent.)

PARIS, TUESDAY, DEC. 2, 11 A.M.

The President of the Republic accomplished a coup
(IWO this morning ; the principal streets in Paris
were occupied at an early hour by strong bodies of
infantry, cavalry, and artillery.
We have since received by Extraordinary Express
the following disp itch :
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENECO, FOUR O'CLOCK.

I sent you a telegraphic dispatch this morning, an-
nouncing the accompli4hment by Louis Napoleon of
the long talked of coup d'iltat, and a letter in which I
gave such details as was then known. With respect
to the tell graphic dispatch, I must inform you that in
the first instance it was sent back to me by the French
authorities, and that it was only two hours afterwards
that I received notice that the telegraph had been
opened.

It will be seen that Louis Napoleon has set the
Constitution completely at defiance. Were the Con-
stiution to be acted upon in its literal sense, Louis
Napoleon would no longer be President of the Re-
public, for it will be remembered that by Article 51
he is forbidden to diisolve or prorogue the Assembly,
or to suspend in any manner the authority of the Con-
stitution and the laws; and by article 68 it is de-
clared that " the President of the Republic and his
Ministers, &c,, are responsible, respectively, for all
the acts of the Government and the Administration.
Any measure by which the President of the Republic
dissolves the National Assembly, prorogues it, or
impedes the exercise of its charge, is a crime of
high treason. By this sole act the President is
degraded from his functions ; the citizens are
bound to refuse him their obedience ; the executive
power passes by right to the National Assembly ;
the judges of the Supreme Court of Justice are im-
mediately to assemble, on pain of forfeiture ; they
convoke the jurors at the place they may designate,
to proceed to the judgment of the President and his
accomplices. A law will determine the other cases
of responsibility, as well as the forms and conditions
of the prosecution."
But, whatever the Constitution may say, Louis
Napoleon has cut the Gordian knot. He seems to
have been more conversant with Voltaire's tragedies
than with the code of laws of the Republic, and to
have adopted Catiline's opinion when he exclaimed—
"Le devoir le plus sacs 6, la loi la plus cl.6:ie,
C'est d'oublier la loi pour sauver la patrie."

From the confused manner in which the news
reach me from different quarters, I am obliged to
give them without any reference to order.
The affair has come quite suddenly on the public,
and even upon the Ministry. M. Turgot, de Tho-
rigny, and the other Ministers, were present at the
President's reception, and General de St. Arnaud
was the very last to leave the palace. On the other
hind, M. de Morny, the new Minister of the Interior,
was at the Jockey Club a great part of the night,
and remained playing cards till two o'clock in the
morning.

The new Ministers are MM. Fould, Rouher, Magne,
and de Morny.

It was at five o'clock this morning that they took
possession of their departments. At the same hour
the troops were directed in great numbers to the
neighbourhood of the Assembly, and the other points
of Paris which they were directed to guard.
The arrest of the representatives, who were ar-
rested at their own houses, took place this morning at
six o'clock, by detachments of police, assisted by the
Republican Guards. The number of arrests amounts,
it appears, to about 67. The prisoners were chrried,
not to Vincennes, as was generally supposed, but to
the Prison Mazes. The following were the names
of the persons arrested : —Generals Cavaignac, Chan•
gamier, de Lamorici3re, Bedeau, and Leflo, Colonel
Charras, MM. Thiers, Lagrange, Valentin, Panat,
Beaune, Greppo, Miot, Nadaud, &c.
M. Baze has escaped.
M. de Mallac, the former secretary of M. Duchatel,
is arrested.

The following journals here been suspended :
L' Opinion Publique, Le ilessager, La Presse, La
Republique, L' Ordre, and L'Avenement. The Debats
and others have been allowed to appear, but some of
them have been subjected to the condition of making
no commente on passing events.

The question most asked this morning after Louis
Napoleon's proclamation became known was, " But
what will the Assembly do ?" That body has not
allowed its answer to be long waited for. As early as
eight o'olock some representatives assembled at the
residence of M. Odilon Barrot, but it was immedi-
asely after decided to go to M. Darn's, one of the
Vice-Presidents of the Assembly. Towards eleven
o'clock nearly two hundred representatives were
assembled. They decided that they ought to
proceed to the Legislative Palace, and for-
mally claim their right to hold their sitting.
They then proceeded to the Palace and advanced in
a body towards the usual gates of entrance. They
were there refused admittance, the officer of the troops
on guard at the gate informing them that the Legis-
lative Assembly no longer existed, having been dis-
solved by a decree of the President of the Republic.
Some of the representatives expressed themselves
warmly, it is said, at such language, and even at •
tempted to force their way in, in doing which one of
them, M. de Larcy, ww, I understand, wounded with
a bayonet.
The representatives, after formally summoning the
officers in guard of the entrance to afford them ad-
mission, left the place, and on the invitation of M.
Dam, one of the Viee-Presidents, proceeded to his
apartment to deliberate. They were on the point of
commencing, when a message arrived from General
Lauriston, Colonel of the 10th Legion, declaring that
he placed the Mairie of the 10th arrondissement at
their disposal, and that the 10th Legion was prepared
to defend them from all violence.

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Thither the members of the Legislative Assembly
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pprooseseeesds odn of one tNhe
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being in the chair. After a deliberation conducted in
due form, and at which the short-hand writers of the
Moniteur were present, the conduct of Louis Napo •
leon Bonaparte was declared to be
illegal, and con-
trary in every respect to the Constitution. In conse-
quence they affirmed him to have forfeited all claim to
the high dignity of President of the Republic, and
passed a decree pronouncing his (Valance, in confor-
mity with Art. 68 of the Constitution.
Another decree frees the officers of the army and
navy and the public functionaries from their oath of
obedience to Louis Napoleon.
The High Court of Justice is convoked to judge
the President and his Ministers. This decree was
signed by all the Members present, with M. Daru's
name at the head. Amongst the other names are
those of 0. Barrot, de Broglie, Molar, Dufaure,
Passy, de To2queville, Gustave de Beaumont,
Quentin Bluebell, Dufour, de Tracy, Coquerel,
Mortimer Ternaux, de Kerdrel, and Piscatory.
Some Mountaineers were present at the sitting,
and amongst others, Grevy, Ferdinand de Lasteyrie,
Didier, Colfavru, &c.
So far matters appeared to go smoothly enough
with the Assembly. But after they had passed their
various decrees matters changed their aspect. A
body of the Chasseurs of Vincennes surrounded the
building. They had scarcely taken up their position,
when M. Berryer appeared at one of the windows
of the Marie, wearing his representative scarf, and
declared aloud to the crowd which stood outside
looking at the soldiers taking up their places,
that the Legislative Assembly, being in sufficient
numbers to deliberate, bad pronounced the dicheance
of the President of the Republic, and appointed Ge-
neral Oudinot Commander-in-Chief of all the troops
of Paris. Just as he said this, M. Thamisier, another
representative appeared behind M. Berryer, and raised
the cry of " Vive la Republique.' This cry was most
coldly received by the crowd. " What is Berryer,"
said one, " but the servant of Henri V. ?" " And
what is Oudinot," said another of the persons standing
near, " but the man who went to Rome ?" Almost
immediately after an officer of the Chasseurs of Vin-
cennes knocked at the door where the Assembly was
sitting with closed doors, and insisted on gaining
admittance. This was refused at once, but the
officer insisted, and in a few minutes after the room
was cleared.
Four members, MM. Dare, De Broglie, Odilon
Barrot, and Mole, remained in the apartment.
An officer of the staff presented himself, saying
that, as they would net separate, he should take
their names. M. Odilon Barrot then replied, and
said that, after such a violation of the Constitution,
he demanded to be arrested.
The officer replied that he had no instructions to
that effect, and that his orders were simply to clear
the room.

MM. Odilon Barrot, Mole, and De Broglie then
withdrew. M. Daru was following them, when the
officer declared that he was his prisouer.
An employe of the first Maine arrived, to place
the hotel of the Maine at the disposal of the re-