The Sun.
London, England, 1818-05-11 00:00:00

FRENCH GALLANTRY.

The following curious anecdote relative to a pro,'
vincial event is now circulating in Paris :-.--Gene-
ral Commandant of the Military Divlsiott.
of --, had been for sine eonside.rable time past
violently in loVe with the wife of an hutuble tin-
man Of the town where the General
Great difficulty attended the-meeting of the loveys,
ortring to the diStance of their situations-in
as well:as the husband's vigilance. 'However, Mrs.
Block-tin contrived it with her -lover-one night
.to order the husband, who belonged to the Na-
tional Guard, to 'do duty on a post at ..some
dis-
tance from their dwelling, which woidd-keep hint
out all night, vhen the gallant was -to take pos-
session of the tits-shop and every thing in it. AIL
Went on as well as could be wished, but when the
lovers thought themselves in petfect security, a
knock came at the door. It was the hosband—he
was taken very ill, anti was brought home, where
he certainly was not expected. The General had
just time to take his clothes, and secret ehirriself
in some part of the house, for out -of it he could
not go. The husband got into his wife's bed,
complaining of violent spaims. His wife-strongly
urger) hits- to go . himself •to the aroubecary's to
get some medicine, which he !lid. Upoo-his go
ing out, the-gallant coon nt.tde his escape front
dtirance. The husband having purchased his me-
dicines was about •to Pay for them—he Tut his
hand into his
-pocket, and to his great,•astonish=
ment, tie pulled out a good keavy purse full of
void, which certainly he knew did not belong to
him—and on looking at his pantalOotis; he sawr,
to his great grief that they- also were riot his own:
Upon reaching house he insisted Upon kn.6wing
who was
,the owner of the pantaloons, which the
wife
.soon informed hint. A trial against the
General stud liis trail one,. for' adultery,. is to be
instituted, and it is expected! that the General,
should he be found guilty, trill he cashiered. You
see our notions of religion and morality differ
from yours. l believe tto , General- in Engja
who runs 2,trayvt'ith another man's wife, is evert
dismissed, the service-on that score.'

THE- BANK OuTkvITTEIL—On -Thursday helta
person, accompanied. by: a friend, appeared at the
Bank, and tendered a parcel of notes to take
a-bill. (inc Of them the inspet;nr pt onminced
ro be a forgery ; the.person applied' to look
the. note,. tliat:lre ,o,ee ; from whom he re-
ceked it -the note -W:;4:givert‘hiiii, and he put it
into his .packet. ';the' ilispettor threatened not
to return the remainin'gbeiteit, unless he delivered
op the-supposed forgery; the_ftkrrner persisted ins
detaining, it, and alter much acrimony, he w
laid hold of, and .eonveyed up 'stairs to the In-
spectors Office. .14e was minittely searched, bht
no note .could be found, and therefore 'the' re,,
na:oder of the notes were returned to him. lie
'afterwards declared, th3t at. the commencement
of, the dispute he slipped the note into the
hand of-his friend, who itnmedidtely !eft the 13aoa,

We receive d yesterday the Pads Papers of
Tiiiirsthy last. Those of Friday, which were due
this. morniog, have not arrived.
Nothing further of the least importance had °c-
entred in the Chambers. Several of the Deputies
had left Paris, and it is probable the Session will
soon be closed.

An article from Hanover dated the 23t1 ult. says,
" llis Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE,
whose marriage is fixed to take place on the 7th
of May, ‘vill set ont on the 9th for England with
his consort. His Royal Highness will at Frank-
fm t have an interview with his august sister the
Qteett Dowager of WURTEMBERG. Mr. Rosa,
the English Minister, found on his return to
Berlin trout London a courier who had brought
hint orders to proceed to Cassel to represent his
Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT at the mar-
riage of the Duke of CAMBRIDGE."
The Grand Duke MICHAEL of RUSSIA bad ar-
rived nt Leipsic from Berlin.
From Hamburgh it is stated that the Danish
frig Ate Nymph, of 44 guns, had sailed for the Me-
diterranean to protect the navigation of Danish
vessels, and to convey presents to the Bey of
TUNIS. The same article mentions that the King
of SPAIN has recalled his Minister Don L. Oxts
from the United States of America, and appointed
the Counsellor SERNA to succeed him.

The Prussian and Saxon Commissioners, who

hare not yet concluded their protracted discus-
sions, were about to proceed to Vienna, to con-
tinue their negociations under the mediation of
Austria. •

An article from Lausanne mentiOns, that an
insurrection had brOkenfitti in Lower Underwahl,
in consequence of which the Authorities of the
(!anion hid been compelled to invi*e for aid the
['Wet al Guarantee, and a hatta;ion of militia had
marched thithei ttom Lucerne.

FIVE PEI CENTS

Wednesday

Gii f. 70 c.

InFERRED STOCK.
Wednesday

.S 1 f. 20 c.

IWe give the remainiug Letters of our Paris
Correspondent this day, and though we rely on
the purity of his motives, respect the strength
of his judgment, and are fully sensible that his
opportunities enable him to form a very probable
estimate of the state of affairs in France, yet we
are by no means satisfied with the reasons -which
he 'gives for the expediency of removing the Allied
Troops. He describes the people of France as
proud and courageous. We dont)t not their pride
or their courage, but we fear the direction which
those feelings might take if they were left to act
as they please. It is admitted, that the Govern-
ment has powerful enemies, and that the Ministers
have a difficult task to balance and confront then,.
We do not conceive that the leading men in France,
of any party, feels so touch a high sense of the
indignity which their country suffers in the pre-
sence of foreign troops, as iu the resistance which
.those foreign troops might offer, if they were to
attempt to carry their ambitious projects into ex-
ecution. Th6seal friends of the country, who
ate capable of reflection, must know that nothing
like into-tit was intended by the Allied Potentates.
Their object was to protect the good people of
France front those of a contrary nature. The
evil of the Revoktion is by. no means at an
end. Factious spirits abound in all (patters of
the Country, and it the Throne and its loyal ad-
herents were not protected by the Allied Forces,
those factious spirits would soon raise their heads,
a civil war would • probably ensue, the Throne
would be demolished, and the whole work of de-
fending Europe would be again the necessary
ditty of every component State.—Our Correspon-
dent maintains, that if the French Ministers pos-
sess wisdom, they will be able to save the Country
without the foreign troops. But suppose they
want wisdom and firmness to despise the cla-
mours, and to resist the machinations, of their
enemies?—the peace and security of Europe ought
not to depend on so precarious a condition.--We
find that those whom our Correspondent deems
the wisest and the purest characters in France are
constantly assailed by factions Partizans, and if
those Partizans gain confidence by the removal of
alt controlling authority, and see a consequent
opening to power, it will be impossible to keep
them under, and the most fatal effects might be
expected to ensue. As to what are called the
Ultras, we resvect their feelings, but we pity their
want of judgment ; for if they can possibly hope,
after the total change of the French character in
general, to see the ancient order of things restored,
they must be dead to experience and sunk into
fatuity. Such men are wholly out of all poli-
tical consideration. Their weakness renders
them even ridiculous, and the rude spirit of mote
intelligent characters, and the determined fierce-
ness of Jacobinism, would soon reduce them to
total insiguificance. Upon the ,vhole, we see no
security for the integrity of France, and the tran-
quillity of other States, but in the continuance
of the Allied Troops on the French territory till
there is a moral, political, and physical certainty
that France is able to protect herself against the
contending factions within her own bosom, most
of whom endeavour to cover their ambition with
a pretence of feeling for the character of their coun-
try, and to an honourable indignation on the in-
trusion of any foreign authority.

A Flanders Mail arrived tr R late hour last
night, from which the following is an extract :

" BRUSSELS, MAY C.—Wc .i:ave this moment received news
from the Hague,' of an indisposition which has attached his
Royal Highness the Prince of Orange. His R,yal Highness
has hoen confined to his bed ever since Friday; his indisposition
is attributed to his having taken too much exercise on horse-
back. The situation of the patient gives no reason for un-
easiness, but the first symptoms so much alarmed the tender-
ness of her Royal Highness the Princess 9f Orange, that not-
withstanding her situation, she sat up all Saturday night, and
has mat quitted the apartments of her august Consort.".

The PRINCE REGENT, (tie Dukes (if YORK and
CLARENCE, and the Duchess of GLOUCESTER
visited the QUEEN and PRINCESSES on Saturday.

Yesterday the Qt3ltEN took an airing in the
garden at the back of her Palace.

Last week the Messenger, who carried the offi-
cial dispatch of the offer of marriage from his
Royal Highness the Dike of KENT, with the
sanction of the PRINCE REGENT in Council, to the
Princess Dowager of LINANGEN, returned to Eng-
land from Cobonrg, with the assent of the Prin-
cess, ratified by the Trustees of her Serene High-
ness—namely, the Icing of BAVARIA and Duke of
13aDEN. Every preliminary of this most desirable
union is settled, and we expect that a Message,
announcing it, will be brought down to the two
Houses on Wednesday next.—(Morn. Chronicle.)