The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-05 00:00:00

BAROND'HAUSSEZ AND HIS BOOK.

Baron d'Haussez having been very unjustly as-
sailed for the views he has taken of English society,
and put forth in his work recently published by
Mr. Bentley, under the title of " Great Britain in
1833," we willingly insert the following remarks
from the Baron, in vindication of himself, contained
in a letter from hint to a friend in London :-
1 " Rome, sth October, 1833.

" My dear --, I have received yours of the 19th
of September, which, by the date, you will observe has
retched me in due course—and which, like every other
proof of your remembrance, has made me comparatively
happy. I should have beon snore so had you not con-
firmed, what I had More heard, the sensation pro-
duced by my book in the salons of your capital. I
extremely regret, and can scarcely conceive it possible,
that so false an interpretation should have been given to
my intentions and my language. I fond in this the sub-
ject of a piquant chapter upon the susceptibility and dis-
position to self admiration so prevalent among your coun-
trymen. I slid not think it a crime of lsze nation to say
that your daubers 01 canvass were not Raphaels, your
scrapers on the violin were not Paganinis, that your
builders were not Palladios, that too much pepper was
put into your soups, and that your sauces wanted
piquancy. Ifl ittered myself that the critics would have
looked with approbation on the sincere praises bestowed
upon the more important objects, such as the institu-
tions, public spirit, education of the men, the virtues
and accomplishments of the f males ; I thought,
indeed, they would have remarked the precaution,
wflich I sedulously adhered to, of indicating the
exceptions to my general observations. Mr.
particularly, whose table I have described as being served
on the most refined elegance, I should have supposed,
could not have applied personally that which I have
written generally, upon the cuisine Anglaise, and that lie,
of all others, would not have given the signal for the cho-
rus of displeasure now universally raised against me. I
have carefully re-perused my book, and I persist in saying
that there is not a single animadversion or view of English
society which I am not able to sustain by facts taken, not
from the exceptions, but from the general bearing of the
muHtude ; and I assert that there is not one to which the
reproach of personality cao,w it hpjoeurxttuieuennepitoiyvbneeotfahttaettn,raiiptbmeuratsdeovdn animadversion,
individua-
lity happen t,
certain individuals may have applied censures to themselves,
is not only possible, but ought to be the case, otherwise
I should have been justly charged with inventing fables.
To
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haveafforded
when
becomes absolutely impossible. I depend much upon
your friendship in pleading my cause, and in being the
interpreter and guarantee of the esteem which I feel for
the English nation, and my unceasing gratitude to those
who honoured me with their attention and kindness.
during my residence in Great Britain. I shall shortly
send you some copies of a Preface which I intend prefix.
ing to the new edition of my book, and beg you to dis rie
bute them among our acquaintance. After a short stay
t ere 1 shall proceed to Naples and Sicily. After having
s.-en the island, I shall pass the winter in Naples. I trust,
in the course of the ensuing year, that the anger of your
countrymen will have calmed, and reflection restored to
them that lucidity of judgment to which I have paid such
merited homage in my book, and which I regret has not
been made use of as regards myself. I hold su much to
England as even to travel in an atmosphere resembling
hers ; since entering Italy I have seen but two fine days.
Every thing here bears the semblance of tranquillity; one
sees a Pope in the Vatican, cardinals in the churches,
prelates in the salons, monks in th street., and all seem
entirely regardless of th.- revolutions either hatching about
them, or taking place elsewhere."
* This gentleman, a Member of Parliament, of whose hos-
pitality the Baron D'Hausses had so frequently partaken, has,
we understand, felt and expressed himself warmly under the
idea that his " batterie de cuisine," whose fire is always
opened upon his friends with the most powerful effect, should
have been so misrepresented as to its " calibre, charge, and
range."

LIVERPOOL COTTON .rrIARKET7 DEC. 3.--
The market coutinues firm. The busin,bs transac46 to-
day amounts to 2,500 bags. Prices have advau rd a,
shades