The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-04 00:00:00

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BIARRITZ.

BIARRITZ, AUG. 31.

The Imperial residence here is beginning to show
some life. One or two officers of his Majesty's
household, several of the Palace employes, and a
number of servants arrived yesterday, and at once
set to work preparing for the Emperor. and Em-
press's reception. Three special trains are put in
motion for their Majesty's service. They bring 60
horses and over 30 carriages, several of which have
already arrived. The Emperor is to leave St. Cloud
at 5 o'clock to-morrow, and is expected at the
Bayonne terminus at 10. Recommendations are
given to illuminate private houses, and the Go-
vernment buildings will, of course, be as brilliant as

possible. The vessels in the Adour, two of them war
steamers, the Celigny and the Pelican, will display
lanterns. Their Majesties will not stop at Bay onrie,
but proceed at once to Biarritz (which is hardly 20
minutes' drive), probably by the new route of the
Allecs Marines, instead of the Spanish road. The
Emperor, it is said, will remain only 10 or 12 days,
the Empress much longer, in a place so entirely to
her tastes, and where she resumes her former inde-
pendent habits. That freedom from restraint im-
posed by Court etiquette is most congenial to her,
and, perhaps, it is not too much to say that her
Majesty is more truly happy in this neighbourhood
than in the stately saloons of the Tuileries.
I perceive the Moniteur of the 27th announces
the removal of the Marquis de Turgot from the Ma-
drid Embassy, with the nomination of M. Adolphe
Barrot, now at Brussels; as his successor. When a
few months back Lord Howden was recalled from
Spain, your Paris correspondence mentioned that
M. de Turgot would soon follow. This was denied
by the French paper at Madrid, the organ of the
French Home-office ; and the denial was repeated
in some of the Spanish and French papers ; and a
few days ago a high authority in Paris declared
that the Emperor would never think of removing
him. M. de Turgot himself probably (lid not, until
he saw the decree in the Moniteur, dream of what
was awaiting him, for within the last ten or twelve
days he talked confidently of returning to Madrid
on the 10th of September. Nearly a year ago
M. Walewski said that M. de Turgot's removal
from Madrid was definitively settled. This no
less a personage than the Emperor declared sub-
sequently was not the case. M. Walewski had
no doubt decided the matter, and his will, as you
see, has prevailed. The removal of M. de Turgot,
and the diplomatic degradations to which he,' an
ex-Minister of FOreign Affairs and an Ambassa-
dor, is subjected in being named to a post which is
only promotion to the secretary of a_ second-rate
mission, justify the supposition that personal hos-
tility has a good deal to do with it. The fact is that
there are few public men in France more warmly and
honestly attached to the English alliance that M. de
Turgot. The• whole tenor of his relations with our
late Minister at Madrid is abundant evidence of the
truth of this assertion. His attachment to that alli-
ance was too sincere to please the present head of
the French Foreign-office ; his partiality to liberal
and constitutionalsatisfied t
ilGovernmentEmperor ; his independence of
in Spain, may not
have
character decidedly made him odious to what is
known in Madrid as the Montijo coterie ; and his
friendly relations with his English colleague earned
for him the hostility of the French journal established
in the Spanish capital, by the French Home-office,
apparently with the sole view of writing up France
and writing down Great Britain. It is no wonder,
then, that M. de Turgot has succumbed, with such
powerful elements arrayed against him. It is
hardly thought that he. will accept a mission so
dull as. Switzerland and so contrary to the require-
ments of his health.
Private letters from Madrid speak of the sensa-
tion occasioned by the approaching marriage of a
Spanish lady nearly related to the Montijo family
with Marshal Pelissier, Duke of Malakhoff. Due
homage is rendered to the skill of the lady, whose
success in this line of diplomacy places her in the
first rank of political tacticians, male or female. It
is not easy to match such triumphs. Under patron-
age like this, Paris is decidedly the plac3 for
Spanish beauty to be duly appreciated.