The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-09 00:00:00

PARIS, OCT. 6.

(From the Times.)
Our first army of 25,000 men is already on the
extreme northern frontier, ready to enter Belgium.
The second army, destined to reinforce the first, is
completely formed, and will occupy the fortresses
of the department of the North until farther advance
be neressaiv. The Cherburg fleet is ready for sra,
and will forme a junction with the English fleet.
You can have no idea of the ardour of our troops
and seamen. Never was the desire for coming to
action displayed with more zeal, and if peace should
be maintained, a reaction which could not fail to be
inconvenient would probably take place. Seven-
teen years of peace have agglomerated a population
which pants to extend itself outward, and enchained
ambitions of all kinds, which are impatient to rush
forward. If King William is serious in his wish
for war, he will precisely play the game of Fiance,
at a moment when its Government has a perfectly
free attitude, and is completely disembarrassed from
all the fetters of party. It is no longer an insane
propagandism, a thirst of aggression, or a contri-
vance to rise imto power on the part of certain per-
sons, which makes them desire to-resort to arms.
They only obey the dictates of the country's in-
terests, such as they appreciate them, and the dig-
nity of the position which the nation ought to
hold among the Powers of Europe. This opinion
is so deeply impressed on the public mind, that no
sr rious depreciation of the public funds has followed
the announcement of war, and that the progress of
trade and manufactures has experienced no check.
Your travellers on the continent can tell you
what sort of an army we have got. It is quite im-
possible that there can be one better disciplined,
better fitted out, or more eager to distinguish itself.
Our materiel is immense and superb. Finally, leave
to the expiring faction its talk, and believe me that
evreything is improving, and that every day adds to
the strength of the Government.
Bet the grand difficulty is to form a Ministry for
the approaching Session. It is certain that M.
Dupin has demanded as an absolute condition the
dismissal of M. Montalivet, not being desirous, to
use his own words, of the embarrassment of a fa-
vourite Minister, and that he has made a similar
seineletion with regard to M. Sebastiani, whose
heath), though undoubtedly improved, is not yet,
and probably will never again be, equal to the du-
ties of the post he occupies. M. Dupin is still at
his country house at Rafligny. He has succeeded
in resisting the supplications of friends whom he
cherishes, and who had been employed to besietre
him. For the defence of the Government in the
Chambers, M. Dupin would be a most important
acquisition ; but will he not be there, either as a De-
puty or as President ? M. Dupin, whose exalted
talent cannot be denied, is of a disposition very dif-
ficult to deal with, and its inequalitir s will often dis-
concert expectation at the very moment when his
support is most reckoned on. Let us, then, extend
our researches, and surely adequate individuals will
Le found.

But the problem becomes of inextricable difficulty
when ti eye researches are confined to the circle of
two coteries. It is very strange that whenever a
question arses of strengthening the Administration,
fit and proper persons are never once thought of, and
the Government either forgets, or seems to forget,
that if it has not a position in Parliament decided
and indispensable, it would be very easy to acquire
such a position, by calling to the Ministry indivi-
duals elected to the Chamber of Peers. It is ridi-
culous to be continually going from M. Guizot to
M. Dupin, and from M. Dupin to M. Guizot.
In the mean C.me affairs advance but slowly, cr
rather are quite stationary. Though a Minister of
the Interior is in existence, yet he rarely gives any
signs of life. The bureaus answer a few letters, but
the Interior has no administration. Every thing in the
department proceeds upon the impulse given by M.
Perier, and the system is that of the 13th of March,
a • tua warp now nt itS head.
litical tottrage. He is more frequently disappointed
than encouraged, and more often degraded in the
places he visits than honoured with applause. His
is a perverted, or rather insane, ambition. At Lyons
a respectable deputy of the juste milieu met him in
the midst of his cortege : " Colleague," said he to
Mtn. " how I regret to see you surrounded as you
are !" The coryphman deputy reddened, and al-
lowed a sigh to escape from his convulsed breast.
It is thought that King Louis Philippe will
shortly proceed to the northern frontier. Ifs pre-
sence is earnestly desired by the people, and no-
thing could better conduce to still the disturbances
which have broken out in the town of Lille,—dis-
turbances of a demagogic origin. The agents of the
society Aide toi Ic Ciel t'aidera has given vent to the
resentment excited by the insult which was offered
to the three colours by a legitimist journal, La
Bousole, who called them the livery of the palfreys
of the crapulous Philippe Egalite.
Ferdinand VII. has been amusing himself by
mystifying our Exchange speculators, and our op-
position on this subject have opened a great cry
against Ministers. They accuse them of falsehood,
of deceit, and of under-hand dealing with the
stock-jobbers. The poor and absurd opposition
party have fallen very low. The public has re-
marked with regret that M. Laffitte, who owes
so much to the King, and who scarce ever
goes to the theatres, has thought proper to be pre-
sent at a representation given at the Vaudeville, for
the benefit of the Corsaire, a libellous weekly pub-
lication, which has been sentenced for having out-
raged the King ! One hardly knows how to re-
concile the inconsistencies of these clever men.

All parties are now busy in forming their statisti-
cal calculations upon the approaching session. Up
to the last moment they will indulge in vain antci-
pations. The great majority will undoubtedly be with
the Government, and if in the course of the session
the dissolution of the Chambers shall hedecided upon,
the present opposition will lose at least one-half of
its forces. M. Odillon Barrot is compromised and
completely humbled in his departmental promenades,
and M. Mauguin is entombed in his diplomacy and
;11 the illessager des Chambrcs. of which he is
editor and co-partner with M. Aguardo.
Among the events of the day, the colossal will of
Madame Letitia I3tionaparte occupies a conspicuous
place. Nearly 70,000,000 will now be added to
the fortune of the eldest of the Buonaparte's, and
will consequently render him a very important per-
sonage. Madame Mere, who was enriched by the
gifts of her son, and still more by her own economy
and the prudent management of her fortune, never
seriously assumed the elevated part which unex-
pected events assigned to her. When she has been
urged to increase her household establishment, I
have frequently heard her say, " I must be econo•
micas; one day or other all these kings will be com-
ing to ask me for a dinner, and I must manage so as
to have something to give them." She was one of
the most beautiful women of her time; and Canova's
tine statue, which represents her in the costume of
Agrippina, conveys a perfect idea of berdiginfied figure,
and her noble and serene countenance. I •aw her
many years ago at Marseilles, in the midst of her
children, and there was something in the interest-
ing group which seemed to presage the extraordi-
nary destiny that awdted them. Her two daughters,
Pauline and Caroline, afterwards Princess t:f
ghese and Queen of Naples, were beautiful en ?attires;
the former was then only fifteen, and the
latter between twelve and thirteen. El who bore
on her feminine shoulders the head and countenance
of her immortal brother, was distinguished for her vi-
vacious and commanding expression. Lucien, who
was then in the commissaiiat, had just married the
daughter of a wealthy innkeeper at S•. Maximine.
His wife was a very interesting woman, and was a
model of virtue and gnod conduct. Joseph was ah-
ent, and Louis and Jerome at college. At this
time Napoleon arrived to take the command of the
army of Italy. He was extremely thin; his hollow
cheeks were overhung with flowing curls, then de-
nominated oreilles de chien. His uniform was ill
'Lade, and the long skirts of his. coat dareed against
the calves of his_legs. He did not sit w•t ll on horse-

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back, and his presence altogether occasioned no
little dissatisfaction among a division of 12,000
men, whom IS= him command on the plain of St.
Michael. A few weeks elapsed, and the hero ap-
peared a hundred times greater than he had shown
himself at the dawn of his career, when he raised
the formidable battery' which delivered Toulon. I
shall never forget that on the day of that review I
had the honour of dining with him.. He took me
to the theatre, and from the theatre we adjourned
to the Hotel Beauvecin, where he put up. On
entering his chamber he went to bed, ordered a
bawl of punch to be brought, and he read to me
and a friend who accompanied me several passages
from some papers which contained his plan of cam-
paign. His plan terminated with the following re-
markable sentence :—" Finally, to beat the enemy
for the last time, and to conclude peace under
the walls of astonished Vienna." We looked at
him with a smile, for which I have frequently
reproached myself, for his glorious programme
was fulfilled. There was at that time in Marseilles
an old offietr of the Royal household, who was pos-
sessed with the mania of being poetical, and who
was incessantly reading quotations from a tragedy
of his own production, entitled, " Les deux Vied-
lards, at la vertu vengee." It was a Tartar sub-
ject. To every person who arrived at Marseilles lie
offered a part in this tragedy, and then he spent the
nigl:t in creating a new Tartar. General Buonaparte
wished also to become a Tartar, and the poet wrote
claracter for him. It happened, that every morn-
ing the part which had been written during the
night was lost and condemned, and the unfortunate
poet had to commence his task over again. The
future conqueror of Italy and Egypt laughed like a
child at this repeated mystification.