Star.
London, England, 1830-08-06 00:00:00

PRIVATE LETTER.

PARIS, AUGUST 3, Two o'Clock, p.m
I have just attended the opening of the Chambers by
the Duke of Orleans, in his character of Lieutenant-
General of the kingdom. The speech he pronounced has
not yet been printed, but the inclosed is a faithful trans-
cript of its contents. You will observe that be invoke s
the Charter; he announces his intention to improve : bw
this is far from satisfying the public, most of whom
wish for a Bill of Rights, as the primary condition of
this Prince's elevation, Others are desirous of different
measures ; but, in general, we ought to do the justice
to the public to allow that, in the midst of the divisions
iuseparable from the crisis in which we are placed at
present, it evinces the highest elevation of mind, and
the most remarkable good sense, in growing animated
upon secondary political questions, whenever the liberty
of the country is at stake. The triumph of the country
becomes daily more decisive and brilliant. With the
exception of the South of France, from whence there
was not sufficient time to receive accounts, all the rest of
the kingdom has mounted the tri-coloured cockade, called
the National Guard out, and disowned the perjured and
prostrate Government of Charles X. Lust night de-
spatches were received from Bordeaux and Metz. Both
these important places have declared in favour of the
Provisional Government. There is little doubt but that
all France, without any exception, will follow this ox
ample. The treasures front Algiers, the army com-
manded by Bourmont, and the remainder of the Swiss
troops who accompany the Court, are the only supporters
Charles X. can at present rely upon. They will prove
impotent against the force, the union, and energy of the
national mind. The population of the country is every
where in arms, their watchword being " Vive la Liberte."
Charles X. is at Rambouillet, twelve leagues from Paris.
During the course of yesterday (as you will perceive
from the inclosed) he abdicated. In consequence of
this, a Commission, consisting of Messrs. de Schoner,
Odillon, Barrot, the Duke de Coigny, Jacqueminot,
and Maisons, proceeded to join hint, to watch over
his safety, and to accompany hint to the place of his em-
barkation. This morning the Commission returned with-
in our walls. Charles X. has changed his mind. He pre-
tends to remain firm, and to renew his exploits at the
head of 6,000 Swiss of the Guards, who remain with him,
for all the French troops have left him. The soldiers
arrive every moment by hundreds; they present themselves
to the staff, and take the oaths of allegiance to the na-
tion. This morning a regiment of Chasseurs of tho
Guard, with their Colonel at their head, all wearing the
tri-coloured cockade, made their entry into Paris. Fif-
teen thousand National Guards are at this moment mus-
tering in the Champs Elysees. They will march to Ram-
bouillet, to enforce the retreat of the old perjurer.
doubt whether he can cut his way through to the place
of his embarkation. One of our countrymen, who has
been established for a number of years as a printer in
Paris, and who has a large establishment in London,
shut up his office, and fought on the Boulevards, on
the 28th, as a tirailleur, and thus procured several
muskets for his men. On the 29th, accompanied by
some friends and several of his workmen, he was at the
attack of the Louvre, among the first who entered the
Tuileries, and afterwards attacked the Royal Guards in-
trenched in houses in the Rue St. Nicaise and St. Ho-
nore. From the corner of the street they kept up an
incessant fire for nearly an hour, till at length he called
on the others to follow him, and rushed through a shower
of bullets, into tho house in possession of the Guards,
who, seeing themselves thus attacked within and from
without, surrendered, and it was our countryman who
received from them upwards of 60 muskets, officers' sa-
bres, &c. He afterwards employed every effort to save
these men, but succeeded in saving very few, for, the
firing still continuing from the third story, the people
were so furious that they slew every guard that they could
approach. Two of his men were killed ; one of them
has left three infant children. We have the pleasure to
announce to his numerous friends in this country, that
he himself escaped miraculously without a scratch. On
his return home at night, besmeared with blood and gore,
he was loudly greeted by his fellow citizens and neigh
hours. Mr. Pouche, formerly letter-founder in London,
was on the spot where the above workmen were killed,
and generously gave 200 f. to the widow.—Herald.

PARIS, AUG. 3.

At length (should I not rather say already ?) the streets
of Paris are restored to a state of comparative tranquil-
lity. The barriers which were thrown up at the crossing
of every street, to impede the march of the military, and
give a better chance of success to the resistance of the
citizens, are now rapidly disappearing. The tiles, and
hrieks, and paving stones, which were used with such
dreadful effect, as weapons of offence, from the roofs and
upper stories of the houses, are in a great measure cleared
away, and it is now possible for carriages to circulate
through all the principal thoroughfares. Business is ra-
pidly assuming its wonted regularity ; transactions in the
public funds are effected under the colonnade of the Ex-
change, which will itself be re-opened to-morrow for the
purposes of business. Artisans and manufacturers of all
kinds have returned to their accustomed employ ; and
yesterday evening the chairs on the Boulevards, and in
the gardens of the Tuileries, were occupied by crowds of
those fair loungers, who at this delightful season of the year
impart such an air of gaiety to our places of public resort.
Brave and resolute as the French have ever shown them-
selves in the hour of need, it is not a little surprising to
our more phlegmatic countrymen to observe with what
perfect facility they can apply their minds to every change
of circumstances. If you stop to look at some of those
half-finished monuments which are to be met with in so
many quarters of Paris, so lately destined to perpetuate the
restoration of their ancient race of kings, and are in-
duced, perhaps, to smile when you see them surmounted
by the three-coloured banner, with all its incongruous
associations, you will be sure to hear that its destination
is now to be changed, and that it is hereafter to be con-
secrated to the honour of some living patriot, or to the
memory of those illustrious victims who have died ist
' the cause of liberty. If you express au apprehen-
sion lest the strength of the country should be dissi-
pated by differences and dissensions as to its future form
of government, you hear but one sentiment in reply, and
that is an admission of the existence of a variety of shades
of opinion among the people, accompanied with an as-
surance of the readiness of all parties to sacrifice a portion
of their own peculiar views for the sake of securing
unanimity and moderation. To illustrate this idea I may
mention what occurred tome so late as yesternight, among
a party of individuals the most influential of whom
have long been known to me as decidedly republican
in their ideas. One of them in particular, who has
travelled, and for some time resided in the United States
of America, and who is known to have there imbibed the
most decided opinions as to the superior advantages of a
democratical form of government in regard to strength as
well as to economy, was the first to declare his conviction
that the frame of society in France, and above all the
want of political information among the inhabitants of
the provinces, made it quite unfit at the present crisis in

receive or enjoy the benefits which in hie mind were as-
sociated with institutions like those of the United States

of America.

Another mode of estimating the force, and ascertaining
the direction, of Feiblic opinion, on which, at the present
moment, so very much is to depend, is to watch the pro-
gress of the journals of every shade, from the Gazette
and the Quotidienne, which have already re-appeared, to
the Rerolution and the Tribune of the Departments,
which, although the advocates of pure democracy, are
unable to command any share of the public attention.
The Revolution announces this morning that it ap-
pears to-day for the last time ; and the Gazette, which
was formerly so bold when backed by all the terrors
of the Government, is unable any longer " to aggravate
its voice even to the tone of a sucking dove." Here also the
strength of a united people is beautifully evinced in its
moderation after victory. The presses of the constitu-
tional journals, in the first days of the tumult, when the
city was in the hands of the soldiery, were broken to
pieces and destroyed. Such of them as succeeded in pub-
lishing and placarding their papers, effected the process
of printing clandestinely, and had the wall of the town
covered over by stealth during the night with their pa-
triotic effusions. The printing apparatus of the Gazette
and the Quotidienne have remained to this moment un-
injured and untouched; and if they do not try to jus-
tify the proceedings of an arbitrary government, which it
was so lately their business to defend, but content them-
selves with an artful arrangement of extracts from the
constitutional journals, in the vain hope of sowing dis-
sension among them, and pointing out to their readers
that on all points they are not perfectly unanimous, it is
not because there would be any real danger in the ex-
pression of unpopular opinions, but because the writers
in question must be conscious of the great share they
have had in misleading the remnant of those who have
latterly adhered to arbitrary and unconstitutional prin-
ciples, and because they feel that they deserve a treat-
ment very different from that which they now experience.
The measure which of all others has most contributed to
the preservation of that tranquillity which we now happily
enjoy, is the promptitude with which the Provisional Go-
vernment, on the recommendation of General Lafa-
yette, proceeded to the organization of twenty regi-
ments of the National Guard. This temporary arrange-
ment has the double effect of clearing the streets of
all those who, in a moment of excitement. might have
become the disturbers rather than the protectors of the
public peace, and the rapidity with which the lists have been
filled up with the extraordinary surplus, it appears this
morning, of 100,000 names, has served to re-assure the
minds of the most timid and apprehensive, that if danger
were again to arise, there would be no want of a powerful
body of daring and disinterested defenders. It deserves to be
recorded to the honour of Lafayette, as the consistent
friend of regulated freedom, that in 1790, when 3,000,000
of his countrymen called upon him to place hinself at their
head, he refused to do so, because lie felt that at that pe-
riod the existence of such a force might be perverted to
the prejudice of public liberty. He now accepts the
supreme command, because he is impressed with the con-
viction that in the present state of France there is no such
danger to be dreaded.
As to Charles X. he must now be bitterly sensible of the
grievous error lie committed, in attempting to assume
the dictatorship, and to crush the liberties of his subjects.
By the latest accounts, he was still at Rambouillet,within
15 leagues of Paris, where he was yesterday left with his
family, surrounded by some 200 of the Garde du Corps,
to wait the return of the Marquis de Laroche Jaquelin,
who is now in Paris to apply for a safe conduct for the
King and the Royal Family to proceed to Cherbourg,
where it is understood to be his Majesty's wish to embark
for the United States of America. The King has also
asked permission to carry with him whomsoever he may
think fit to name, and has requested an annual stipend
of 4,000,000 francs, with an immediate payment of
1,000,000 to account. A commission has been named
by the Provisional Government, consisting of the Duke de
Coigny, Marshal Mortier, Messrs. Odillon Barret, De
Schonen, and Jacqueminot, to attend the King, and make
the necessary stipulations as to the terms on which he is
to be protected in his retreat, through the disturbed dis-
tricts, and in his embarkation at Cherbourg. Nothing is
yet known as the amount of the allowance to be granted
him, or the number of the individuals who are to be
permitted to accompany him in his exile, but there can be
little doubt that the Ministers who signed the treasonable
ordinances of the 25th of July, and who have made
themselves responsible for the sanguinary results which
have flowed from them, will be excluded front the indem-
nity which unconditional compliance with his Majesty's
request would no doubt procure for them.—The conduct
of the Duke and Duchess of Orleans throughout the ex-
traordinary scenes of the last eight days is at present the
subject of universal eulogy and admiration. Their un-
ostentatious entry into Paris, and the unflinching confi-
dence with which they presented themselves and their
children to an excited populace, are particularly dwelt
upon. T"e Duke's subscription of 100,000 francs to
the fund for the relief of the wounded, and the relatives
of the slain, was presented through the unpretending
medium of the mayor of the arrondissement in which
the Palais Royal is situated, and the Duchess is
indefatigable in her personal attentions to the nu-
merous sufferers scattered over the different hos-
pitals of Paris, which she visits daily. Although there
is certainly no want of eagerness and liberality on the
part of the more wealthy inhabitants in filling up
the subscription for the relief of those who have suffered
in the sacred cause of freedom, it occurs to me that a
noble opportunity is now afforded to the friends of liberty
and. of humanity in England to evince their sympathy
tor those who have struggled and bled in a cause which is
not that of Frenchmen merely, but, when rightly viewed,
Is that of all mankind, by contributing a portion of their
superabundant means to promote an object, which, while
it does immediate good, will have the happy tendency to
heal the sores which have too long ruffled the tempers of
the French people with reference to England, and to ce-
ment the friendship which ought ever to exist between
two nations, who, from their relative position, can never
be indifferent to each other.— Times.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

D.

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