The Sun.
London, England, 1818-07-10 00:00:00

LITERARY REVIEW.

AN AUTUMN near the RHINE; or, SKETCHES of
'COURTS, SOCIFIY, SCENERY, in sonic of the
GERMAN STATES bordering nn the Rhine.--In Octavo.
Piinted ft, LoNciNANT, Bunn, TREES, Oat, iltld BROWN,
Patprnoster-row.

In spite of the extensive emigrations of our
countrymen to the Continent, it is really sot.-
ising to reflect how little accurate and general
i—formation we possess of the manners, the so-
cial habits, the customs, in short of all that is

-comprehended in the word society, in many coon-

tries whose latitude and longitude vary very little
trom our own. Whin we have ascertained the

geographical limits, the geological peculiarities,

And the topographical features of th'e surface of
the globe occupied by our near neighbours, Cu-

riosity too often appears satisfied, and inquiry
stops, with Out reflecting that the most interesting
subject, the People, still remains unexplored,
compared to which the object of our first obser-

vat ions are but as the straw-built hive in compa-

rison with the interesting tenants of its internal

Republic. Every traveller who offers his hicu-

brations to the world is sure to record the Cattle-

a, ids, the Museums, the Statues, the Galleries, he
has visited ; but few appear to have inclination,
and still fewer opportunity, to direct their obser-
vations to the manners, the mode of life, of the
inhabitants ; and yet these topics afford an inex-

haustible fund of observation, and amusing and in

etructive description. It is principally as etnbrac►
iug these topics, as presenting a lively picture of

society and manners at the German Courts, and in
some of the small German Capitals near the
Rhine, that Cie Work before us lays claim to at-
tention. Instead of taking his ideas of society
from the table d'hote, or the Diligence (the sources
which often furnish Authors with elegant disser-

cations en Society), the Author of this Volume
appears to have had access to the best circles,
and to have noted with ad observing eye the pe-

Culiarities of manners, amusements, and social
habits. The Work is in the shape of Letters, and
we make an Extract almost at random :
" I had the satisfaction of seeing more of the
Grand Duchess of Weimar, at a Fete and Ball
with which her Illustrious Guests (the Grand
Dkikt and Pitches, of He•se) entertained her at an
Orangerie of the Grand Duke, a mile from Darm-
stadt. This may be taken as a fair specimen of
the summer• amusements with which the German

Princes vary the eternal ennui of daily state
dinners. Those who witness the long journies,
through sandy roads, to dine inconveniently in
annte old 11“111ing Chateau, whose long corridors,
lined with stags' branches, echo to the rarity of
human footsteps, and where the Prince meets his
ancestors, the old Landgraves or Mat graves, on
the w 4113, in all the state of bags, raffles, and
cobwebs, may conceive the toll force of the mo-
tive which actuates these journies after pleasure.
The Gardens of Besstmgen are small, and prettily
laid out, with a Summer-house in the middle, in
which the Court dined, and a handsome Orangery,
to which the evening assembly, intended fur a
Fete Champetre in the Gardens, was obliged, by
unpropitious weather, "to be adjourned. The
Court had dined at the usual primitive hour (two
o'clock), and the evening visitors, who, by a plea-
sant abatement of state, were permitted to appear
without swords or trains, were assembled by five
o'clock. The Orangery, a spacious building in a
Garden, laid out in the French taste, Mil!, deco-
rated with ranges of orange trees and festoons of
flowers, on the spur of the occasion. When the
company was assembled, the Court arrived from the
Summer-house, where they had dined; the Grand
Duchess entering, arm in arm, with her Illustrious
Sister front Weimar, suirouuded by the Official
Ladies and Gentlemen of their suites. The two
Princesses then made the tour of the circle in the
ordinary style, commencing with the ladies,
among whom youth and virginity often gives the
privilege of a condescending kiss, w bile the
matrons are only honoured by a few words
of passing politeness. Whets the two Grand
Duchesses bad finished their arduous progress,
and were seated side by side on chairs prepared
for them at the upper epd of the hall, tea, coffee,
and substantial cakes were banded - about in abun-
dance. A favourite Waltz, struck up by a military'
baud, among the orange trees at the lower cud,
afforded a signal for (lancing, to which German
Bytom are never remiss in attending. After the
initiatory Polonaise (e promenade rather than a
dAnce, in which the Dowagers join who have bid
adieu to livelier exertions), Waltzing commenc-
ed. lu an instant the beaux were at their posts,
encircling their fair partners' waists, headed by
the little Duke of Anhalt-Cothen, an amiable
young Sovereign of fifteen, who already shows
proficiency in the first accomplishment of the
German Prince and Peasant. The ladies all par-
tAking this national passion, readily overlooked
inconvenience of a paved floor, which re-
quired toes .unplagued with corns,' to be at
all supportable ; and the boots and spurs of the
officers in full • uniform were no impediment to
grace or agility. A pretty girl Waltzing with
great gaiety was dressed in becoming black, with
an orange coloured corlon slung across her breast.
It was a young . Chanoinesse, in the costume of
the Convent des Dames Nobles, at Frankfort, one
ot the very few of these establishments still exist-
ing. Protestant and Catholic Noble Ladies are
here alike adtaitted-, and enjoy, besides a yearly
allowance of some hunched florins, board, lodg-
ing, and equipages, under the superintendanee of
an Abbess. They are subject to none of the
strict regulations of a relig:;:er. order. They leave
the Convent when they like, somftitnes Are sot-
fertd to retain their peusons when tuarigd,

THE SUN.

SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALsUM AUDEAT ?

LONDON,
FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1818.

We yesterday stopped the Press to announce
the arrival of the Paris Papers of Monday last.—
They maintain a guarded silence with respect to
the Conspiracy.
_ _

The Kt:NG had a numerous ant'. splendid Cotzrt
at St. Cloud on Sunday last.

A Madrid article, dated the 25th ult. complains
that two Insurgent privateers insult every day the
Spanish Flag, within sight of by making
captures of vessels, and that- they, in fact, block-
ade the Port.

The accounts from Lausanne give further de-
tails of the damage caused by the torrent arising
from the passage of the obstructed waters of the
llrance. At the village of Champsec 52 houses
were destroyed ; at Sain Brancher and Martigny
also many buildings were demolished. A great
number of lives were lost, and cattle and property
were destroyed to an immense amount. The
course of destruction was only stayed by the tor-
rent 'finding its way to the Rhone.

The French Envoy Extraordinary at Stock-
holm had a formal audience of the KING on the
ISth ult. to congratulate his MAJESTY• on his.ac-
cession to the Throne.

The Emperor and Empress of AUSTRIA were to
arrive at Guntz, in Liangary, on the 2d inst., and
at Baden the 3d.

A ditainguibhed General, a Member of the Mi-
litary Committee of the Germanic Confederation,
is stated to have proposed a plan for the defence
of the Western frontier of Germany, which in-
cludes the construction of two new fortresses on
the Upper Rhine.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday last, valid] were
due this morning, have not arrived.

As every thing relative to the recent Conspi-
racy at Paris, first communicated by this Paper,
is of great importance to all Europe, inasmuch
as it skews the factious state of France, covered
at present by a thin veil of specious tranquillity,
we renew the subject. The Paris Papers, as we
stated yesterday in a Second Edition, are atilt
most cautiously silent on the subject; and with
good policy, for the French Government is still
employed in a full development of the Plot; as
there are Persons said to be concerned in it, who
mast have been urged by an excess of ambition
approaching towards insanity, but whose names
we do not think it proper to mention: Though
it is understood to have been the intention of the
Conspirators, after the compulsory abdication of
TIIR KING, to place MONSIEUR on the Throne,
yet it does notsappez,r that the latter was eon-
,cert2ed in the Pl'ut. Hewas only to be a slop-

gdp 'till another branch of the Blood Royal
should take his place,-who in turn would soon
have been removed, and then, during the general
conftision that would be the result, a war`O(fac-
tioni would have arisen, and most probably have
terminated in "the trill-mph. of the Jacobins:. The
Ultra Royalists cannot be cured of old prejudices,
or be convinced that it is absolutely impossible to
restore the former order of affairs, and being
weak, rather than mischievous, they know not
' how duly to estimate the. Jacobin Character, not-
withstanding all the terrible lessons of experience.
Hence th`ey may have.been tempted to. take some
part in the plot, being mere instruments in the
hands of those who are more cunning than them-
selves. The following Letter, which we have
extracted from The Times of ithis day, will fully
justify ail that had been said by our Correspond-
ent, as well as our own remarks on the subject :

" PARIS, .JULY 6.—The clouds that cuter the conspiracy,
which has for this week past been the subject of general con-
versation, begin to clear up. It appears to have been serious
and daring in the plan, but weak and absurd as to the means
of execution. Among the persons judicially arrested are the
Vendean Marshal de Camp Cbapdeleires ; M. de Romilly,
Chief' of the Staff to General Canuel, when a' Lyons; and
M. de Sungcs, Aide-de.Cawp to the same General, who it is
said has fled.

" In the superior ranks of society, such details respecting
the conspiracy are given as I should nut choose to repeat to
you, lest some susceptible gentleman of this country should
take a fanCy to institute an action on the'subject: •
" What might be the consequence, for instance, were I, in
conformity with public rumour, to name as the principal au-
thors of thii machination precisely the sane personages
whom public opinion has pointed out as having contributed
to the Ultra4toyalist correspondence with the Allied Ca-
.
bi nets ?"

But we have received private.intormation to the
same effect, in addition to that communicated by
• •
our Correspondent, and with these. several cor-
roborations we conceive that. The New Times will
not be disposed to persevere in the assertion
that the plot was absolutely unknown in Pa-
ris, except to a few individuals. But the
temper of the factious in Paris, the probability
of new, and, perhaps, more successful plots, apd
the consequences likely to occur, are- matters of
powerful interest 'to all Europe; and, therefore,
whatever may be the intention of the Continental
Rulers respecting the proposed, withdrawal of 'the
Allied Armies, •we trust that the British Cabinet
will deeply consider the 'subject before it can be
induced to coincide in a measure so- pregnant
with universal danger. s•

We deem it our public duty again to call the
attention of Governmot to the preparations
going forward to collect perhaps the largest con-
course of people ever assembled in this Metro-
polis. We have inserted in another part of our
Paper, this day, 'the Programme of the intended
Procession, and.when we consider that the BUR-
DETT multitude will consist of the Spenceans, who
want to partition out the whole landed property
of the United Kingdom, the Spa field Reformers,
who. want to subrert the `Constitution, and the
whole tribe of Levellers. and Jacobins, who are in-
cessantly on the. watch to latroilua-Democracy
and` Anarchy, as well as the fbetious Orators; who
delivered their inflammatory harangues on the Wes-
tminster Hustings, and whO, no doubt, will address
the multitude in thecourse of the Procession, we
conceive that Government will be lamentably and
most reprehensibly deficient in duty, unless they
make the most vigorous preparations to avert the
danger. But we trust that Ministers are fully
aware of the peril, and
.will adopt the best mea-
sures for the protection of the Metropolis.—But
it ought to be observed, that the day selected for
this alarming procession, which, certainly cannot
be tolerated by Lew, is the most disorderly day in
the whole week, and therefore such selection may
be considered as a strong indication of the inten-
tions of the Leaders of this alarming assemblage
pf the worst people that can be found in the worst
parts of the Metropolis. •

NEW PARLIAMENT,

- • MEMBERS RETURNED.
4yr (County)—Lieut.-General James Montgomery.
Berwickshire—Sir J. Marjoribauks.
Kinross-shiri—Tbowas Graham.