The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-14 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Messager des Chambres, dated Saturday.)
PARIS, MAY .-The telegraphic despatch in the
Moniteur of yesterday has disconcerted all our calculations.
Letters, communications, despatches, have all been in vain.
The re is no Pt incess, there is no Duchess of Berry._
There is only a lady, an invisible person, whose name is
not mentioned, because she probably does not confess the
name she hears; or else that which she does bear is not
her own, and cannot properly designate her. All this is
like another edition of the child born with a gold tooth,
which, after many learned discussions on it, proved to
be a false tooth. Is it possible to treat such a subject
rightly ? and on the other hand, is there not something
ridiculous in the warm controversy commenced by the
press on an event the principal object of which eludes its
discussions? But yet there were some positive facts.
The Charles Albert has been taken by the Sphynx at
Crotal, conducted to Toulon, and thoce to Ajaccio. It
did not then occur to any body up to that time to prove
the identity of the mysterious person to whom so much
respect was paid. This person was immediately supposed
to be the Duchess of Berry. Was not the respect shown
to her carried a little too far? If it had been thought fit
to carry the pretended Duchess to Edinburgh the mysti-
fication would bave been still more cruel ; and, in truth,
we are astonished that such has not been the case, for
there was no more reason to do at Ajaccio what it bad
been thought necessary to do at Crotal, or at Toulon, or
during the passage between those ports and between Toulon
and A.jaccie.

Now what has become of the Princess? She must he
somewhere. At what place has she landed ?Isit at Bar-
celona or at Rosas? And can she have entered France by
way of Perpignan, to join her partisans at Toulon, Mon-
tauban, and Castellaudary.
The enterprise would be as hazirdous there as at Mar-
seilles. Every where are troops and national guards,
every where faithful citizens, and a sincere opposition to
every criminal attempt against our institutions, and against
the family which is the keystone of them. But people
present, and some who pretend to know every thing, say
the Princess left the vessel at Crotal. She is concealed
in the environs, and may still carry on many intrigues
and plots. We very much doubt this last story. Time
will clear up our doubts, unless the Post Otl'ce, more
faithful than the Telegraph, should shortly inform us that
the Duchess of Berry, not warlike and daring as some
Journals have represented her, but tranquil, cast down,
and resigned, still inhabits, and has never quitted the little
town of Massa Caracca.
edge out of the dilemma in which the Ilioniteur has
pla tut we shall need the proof of an alibi.
A talions letter from Marseilles of the sth says, " Two bat-
are
the garrison.t this moment entering Marseilles to reinforce
There seems to be no foundation for the report that
Government intended to convoke the Chambers !or the I st
of August.
The Moniteur of Friday has no news from the south of
Prance, and makes no further mention of the Duchess of
terry.

EXTRAORDINARY FACT.—We have been
informed that the total amount of custorns received in this
Dort during the last month, only amounts to two shillings I
ikitot Gfulte.