The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-24 00:00:00

time in circulation, first of an armistice, and
since of an absolute lamination to hostilities in
the East of Europe, arc now gradually acquiring
more consistency, and more general belief ; and,
although the tremendous levy, lately announced
in Russil, of three on every five hundred of the
population, must be admitted, under present cir-
cumstances, to wear a threatening and warlike
aspect, yet the evils which could not fail to at-
tend a more general interruption of the peace of
Europe are now so universally admitted, that
credit has, perhaps, been too readily given to
these flattering reports; which, with something
of a poetical license, have been regarded as the
advanced shadows of events vet in the bosom of

futurity. It is, however, among the immediate
adherents of the Ministry, and in those circles
which may be supposed to have access to the
best and earliest information, that the belief in
some pacific arrangement having taken place be-
tween the Russian and Turkish Commissioners
has obtained the firmest footing. Not hating
hitherto seen any evidence in support of this
opinion on which I can bid you rely, I must
content myself for the present with the expres-
sion of an unavailing wish that the Court of St.
Petersburgh may find its . fears or its promises
sufficient to restrain that ambitious policy which
has so long tempted them to add to the Empire
of the Czars the ancient capital of the Cmsars.
" The day before yesterday was the last and
greatest day of the great annual fair of St.
Cloud, and the late unfavourable weather having
been succeeded by a morning 'of delightful sun-
shine, I was induced, with a few friends, to mix

in the crowd of well-dressed Parisians, who
were hastening to enjoy the spectacle of the day
in the immediate precincts of the Royal Palace.
It was nearly four o'clock before our little party
arrived on the ground: the market people and

the dancers, the musicians, the jugglers, and the
merry-go-rounds, were already in full activity ;
and the splendid water-works of the Park having
just begun to play, the public enjoyment was at
its height, when the unexpected appearance of a
detachment of the Garde du Corps, followed
soon afterwards by a train of Royal carriages,
gave a new direction to the feelings of the crowd.
For a short time the accustomed round of
amusements was suspended; and I confess that

I waited with some curiosity to see the manner
in which the King and his good people of Paris
should meet each other after the late unpopular
change in the Government. Ever since the Ac-
cession of the present Cabinet to power the two
official Journals have persisted in contending
that the opposition was mere Journalism, and
that it had no foundation in the opinions of the
people at large. As I could only judge of this
reiterated averment from what I saw and heard
in the circles to which I happen to have access,
I Wa3 not sorry to witness the test of its truth,
which was about to be exhibited. I hastened,
therefore, to the front of the Palace, where the
declivity of the ground and the division of the
•esplanade afforded me an excellent opportunity
of observing the features of the Royal Party, as
they slowly approached, and of remarking the
movements of the crowd. The first carriage
contained the King, the Dauphin, the Dau-
phiness, the Duchess de Berri, the little Duke
de Bourdeaux, and Mademoiselle. Four other
carriages followed, containing the Officers of the
Household, the attendants of the Prince, and
the Ladies in Waiting of the Princesses. In

le aspect of the King there was evidently, from

the first, an air of stiffness and constraint, not
by any means habitual to Charles the Tenth
The free and unconcerned manner of the Dau,
phin, who looks much more like the brother
than the son of the king, bore no such indica-
tion ; but the deportment of the I)auphiness,
who has been said by some one to be the only
man of the family, was still more characteristic
of displeasure than that of his Majesty was of
nervous anxiety. The prim but puny figure of
the little Duke de Bourdeaux, standing on a
stool in the bottom of the carriage, seemed
to tell of the lessons of royalty he
had been receiving in the anti-chamber,
while the pale and placid features of his
mother seemed to say, that she at least
saw no more in the scene than in any ordinary
pageant. On passing the gate in the middle of
the esplanade,' a feeble attempt was made by
three or four voices to raise the accustomed cry
of Vive le Roi,' but meeting with no respon-
sive feeling in the great body of the people, it
was followed by a dead and ominous silence.
The men, indeed, were all uncovered, and
nothing was said or done to afford any active
indication of disloyalty or disrespect ; but it was
clear, from the aspect of the Royal party, and
the cold reception they met with throughout
their two hours' progress among the people in
the park, that the governors and the governed
were far from being well contented with each other.
" A scene of a different kind was yesterday
exhibited in front of the Palais de Justice. The
Count de Mallarme, a degenerate member of the
ancient Noblesse, who had been condemned to
the pillory and to seven years' imprisonment, for
abstracting money from letters intrusted to his
care while officially engaged in the Post-office,
underwent the absurd and demoralizing punish-
ment of public exposure. A punishment of
this infamous description is no doubt much
more severe on a titled culprit, like the Count,
than on the common herd of malefactors ; but
on that very account it seems to be unjust, since
the remains of right feeling, and the contrition
of the offender, become in some degree the mea-
sure of his punishment. On this occasion the
poor creature's sufferings were evidently exces-
sive, indeed he was in an agony of tears (luring
the whole of the disgusting scene. Attached
to eight other gibbets eight other criminals were
exhibited as an edifying spectacle to the multi-
tude, and two of them were afterwards branded
with a hot iron, as if to make assurance doubly
sure, that they at least should never return to
the paths of rectitude and virtue.
" I observe that the Con querant, M. Reg-
nault de la Susse, with Admiral de Rigny on
board, has at length sailed from Toulon for the