Star.
London, England, 1830-08-07 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PRIVATE LETTER.
EXTRACT OF A LETTIR DATED LYONS, JULY 31.
Lyons has been in a state of revolution—nearly all the
citizens are armed. Last night the crowd of people of all
classes was immense. Two regiments (one foot, one
horse) were ordered out on the Place des Terreaux, but
no attempt was made to disperse the people by firing or
otherwise. As each troop arrived, the people shouted
Tire—! (naming the commanding officer)— Vice la
Charle ! &c. They shook bands with the soldiers, em-
braced them, &c. As the Garde Nationale began to form,
the Prefect refused to sanction their assembling, and an
order was issued, threatening to fire upon any armed as-
sembly. They began, however, to form at five this morn-
ing, and up to this moment no attempt has been made to
interrupt them. On the contrary, at noon, the Pre-
fect is reported to have sent an officer to assure the Garde
Nationale that they had nothing to fear from the
regular troops, his desire being to continue in peace
and harmony with the citizens. He desired, however,
a list of the officers, and offered them a station at the Ho-
tel de Ville. At four o'clock they went accordingly, but
found the gates shut. The chief immediately had an
interview with the Prefect, who said either that he could
not or would not let them take their station there as pro-
mised. A general attack was then meditated, and every
one seemed anxious to commence hostilities. The arrival
of the cavalry to the aid of the Hotel de Ville, was pre-
vented by small parties of the Garde Nationale, and the
population had begun to unpave and to barricade the
streets. The Prefect, however, threw open the gates, the
soldiers mixed with the Garde Nationale and the people,
and up to this hour every thing has gone on quietly.
The soldiers are about 4,000 only, horse and foot, and
that is as nothing compared with the determined popu-
lation by which they are surrounded. The Garde Na-
tionale is forming all round the country. They are, it is
reported, masters of Grenoble, where they have disarmed
the regular troops. At St. Etienne, a National Guard is
forming, and as there are no soldiery, it is intended that
they should march to Lyons. The manufactories having
ceased, you may imagine the immense crowds that are
assembled, and the cry of them all is " Liberty !"
PARIS, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 4, Two o'clock.
The Chamber of Deputies met yesterday ; the Duke
d'Orleans addressed the house, and announced the abdi-
cation of the King, as well as the yielding up of all claims
on the part of the Dauphin, without, as I believe I told
you yesterday, its having been stated by the Duke that
the King resigned in favour of the young Duke of Bor-
deaux. This, however, it appears, was declared by
Charles as his wish. The speech of the Duke d'Or-
leans I forward in the newspapers, French and Eng-
lish, which I send through Al' Mahon. The armed people,
volunteers, &c. having found yesterday that the King
did not seem inclined to leave Rambouillet, and that h•
wished to resign in favour of young Bordeaux, met in the
Champs Elysees, where they were joined by some thou-
sands from Rouen, and proceeded in omnibuses, coaches,
cabriolets, &c. on the road to Rambouillet, to force him
to start. They are, however, all returning to-day, and
the Moniteur, in an article dated six o'clock this morn-
ing, announces that the King left that place at ten o'clock
last night. Rambouillet is about 11 leagues from Paris.
The people who are returning state that he has now cer-
tainly taken the road to Chartres. My previous infor-
mation on this point was not correct. It is asserted that
all the crown jewels have been given up. Tranquillity and
order prevail here in a wonderful manner. We perceive
that, as Mr. Brougham would express it, the school-
master is abroad : good sense is certainly abroad. After the
first few hours during the row, I felt much more comfort-
able among the people than I should among a mob at one of
your Westminster elections. All the English here are
quite astonished that no pillaging has taken place,—
no burning of houses. I cannot obtain a tolerably ac-
curate statement of the killed and wounded. Some talk
of four or five thousand ; but I have, as I have men-
tioned before, been as much as possible in the midst
of what was going on, as a looker-on, and I think it will
turn out that the whole amount does not exceed 1,200 or
1,500. My long experience as to the kind of firing which
took place, enables me to judge pretty well that the effect
was not so great as many might suppose.

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PARIS, Avo. 4.
After asking and obtaining a safe conduct through the
French territory, from the existing Provisional Govern-
ment, it was yesterday announced, on the return of the
commissioners to Paris, that the King had finally refused
to quit Rambouillet, until he was made acquainted with
the resolutions of the two Chambers on the subject of
his abdication in favour of the Duke de Bordeaux.—
In adopting this resolution, it is believed that the King
has been influenced by the remonstrances of his
niece and daughter-in-law, the Duchess d'Angouleme,
who had reached Rambouillet a short time before the ar-
rival of the commissioners from Paris. As the letter of
abdication, subscribed by the King and the Dauphin,
and addressed to the Duke of Orleans, as Lieutenant-
General of the kingdom, has already appeared in a sup-
plement to the Moniteur, it has probably reached you by
some of those extraordinary means which give you so
decided a precedence over all your contemporaries. It
contains as you have seen, a sort of order to his
Royal Highness to proclaim the accession of the Duke
de Bordeaux to the crown under the title of Henry V.
and to communicate the King's intentions on the subject
to the members of the diplomatic body. The whole con-
trivance, however, although evidently intended to sow the
seeds of dissension among the people, or at least to detach
a portion of the aristocracy from the popular cause, can-
not fail to be attended with the most signal defeat. As
soon as the resolution of the Royal Family to remain at
Rambouillet was made known to the Provisional Govern-
ment by the return of the Duke de Coigny and the other
commissioners who had been sent to protect them in their
retreat, Lieutenant-General Pajol and Colonel Jacque-
minot were directed to place themselves at the head of a
strong body of the national troops,and to proceed to Ram-
bouillet, for the purpose, it is understood, of either bringing
[the King to Paris, or of compelling him and his family to
make good their retreat. This movement, as was to be
expected, produced, and still keeps up, a very marked
sensation throughout the capital. Every horse, and
every vehicle, public or private, to be found on the
streets of Paris, was put in instant requisition, for the
more speedy conveyance of this mass of armed citizens
to Rambouillet. It is certain that the number who left
Paris, and who were last night seen on their way to Ver
Bailie., amounted, by the most moderate computation, to
20,000 men; and it is known that they would be joined
on their route by, at least, 8,000 additional troops, who
had previously arrived at Poissy and St. Germain from
Rouen and Havre, and who had received orders to pro-
ceed in the direction of Rambouillet.
It is to be hoped, therefore, that the constitutional
Laaths
force will be found so overwhelming, that the King, with
ll his obstinacy, will be deterred from hazarding a gene-
fig engagement. It would be matter for serious lamen-
if an armed population, excited by the sanguinary
'nesses which they have lately witnessed, should, by the
Iposiiiiistion of the Royal family, inflict a stain on the