Star.
London, England, 1815-08-31 00:00:00

FRENCH 10.1PERS.

PARIS, AUGUST. •
The King's birth-day was celebrated yesterday,
with a pomp of character altogether new, and with
circumstances at once both touching and satisfactory
to good Frenchmen.
-Conformably to the paternal intentions of the King,
the Prefect of the Seine had two days before invited
the inhabitants of Paris to abstain from all expensive
festivky, on this celebration, in order not to add to
the heavy burdens with which the immense crime of
Biinaparte's second usurpation had loaded us, as well
as all the rest of France. The Government setting
itself the example of resignation to the, calamities of
the moment, had refrained from the usual expenses
far public festivities.
At the same time from the 24th in the evening- a
great number of white flags, charged with emblems
and devices, adorned the windows of the houses even
in the higher stories of the buildings as well as in the
lower. Many ot the streets in the interior of the city
and all the Faubourg St. Antoine were illuminated.
The inhabitants of this Faubourg had determined to
tlethonstrate that they were calumniated, when they
were represented as engaged in bad designs, and that
in the days of his distress the King might depend
upon them as much as upon his affectionate subjects
in the other quarters of Paris.
On the same evening the people flocked in crowds
to the Thuilleries, under the windows of the King.
The customary concert, which was less numerous in
musicians than usual, was followed by cries of—
., Vive le Roi. Vivent les Bourbons," more unani-
mous and louder than were ever heard before. This,
however, was one feeble prelude to those of the fol-
lowing day.
Eat ly in the morning the churches were filled, and
in several of them high mass WAS celebrated at the
expense of the parishioners. Flags, garlands, devices,
figures of the King ornamented with flowers, were
multiplied as if- by enchantment, especially in the
Faubourg St. Denis, St. Martin, and St. Antoine,
ail inhabited with iedustrions labourers, who each of
them lent his auistance to the work.
At the Thuilleries a crowd assembled at mid-day,
waited to salute the King, when his Majesty should
traverse the terrace that leads to the chapel. The
surprise was delightful, the joy was extravagant;
when on a sudden they beheld at the other extremity
of the garden, the Sovereigns and the Princes of
Austria, of Russia, and Prussia, approaching in the
midst ot magnificent cortege, to pay their respects to
the son of St. Louis. Universal acclamations testi.
fied to those Sovereigns that the French still entertain
that confideoce in their magnanimity, so many pro,,ts
of which they have already experienced; and tr,
this moment the festivities assumed that cliaracti-r
lively rejoicing which hope inspires.
Soon numerous bands of young people, of women
and children, parading the different quarters ot
each preceded by its white flag, met together belle
the palace. His Majesty was pleased to thew m.
self, and at the same moment, by a movement sebum
respect could not restrain, nosegays were scattete t In
the air in such numbers, and so near the window
even where the Xing was, that Monsieur, weir th.it
grace and address which are peculiar to him, nos
able to seize one, which he presented to his august
brother. His Majesty received it with complaisance,
making
.a sign that he was not displeased at the
manner in which it reached him. Songs then began,
as there was no preparation for dances or instrumen-
tal music. The vast garden of the Thuilleries could
not contain the multitudes of people of all classes.—
The weather was fine, and that part of rte Fate
might easily have been prolonged to a late hour, if
the order which ordains the :butting of the Thuille-
ries at nine o'clock had been suspended. Upon the
Command for withdrawing, the cries of Vive le Roi !
redoubled, and without any intermission continued
for an hour during the efflux of the crowd. At de-
parting thence, every street, every house, every win-
dow was beheld illuminated : on all sides the explo-
sions of fire works resounded, dances were formed in
the public squares; in fine, on this occasion, as upon
the day of the happy return of the Bourbons, Paris,
surrendering itself to its own feelings, has incontesti.
bly proved both the strength and the unanimity of
those sentiments of love which it entertains towards
its King and his family.
Amung the most brilliant illuminations, and even
superior to all others, we must reckon those of the
Allied Sovereigns. Above all, we cannot omit pmis-
ing the conduct of the Generals of the allied armies,
so Lull of politeness and of a noble delicacy.
The Gazette de France contains the following aw
count of the same fete :
64 The foreigners whom circumstances halm
brought to. Paris, were yesterday witnesses of a fete
truly national, and which, they will say, was univer-
sal and inspired by the tenderest-attachment of the
Parisians to the best of King's.
" In'vain did the Prefect of the Seine publish an
Ordinance, in itself prudent, to prevent 'eclat and ex-
pense in the present calamitous sondition of France.
The sentiments of the people would not be contained.
44 Duty was performed in all the churches, which
were full as on solemn days: almost all the shops
were shut. In the morning the crowd paraded about
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the Thuilleries, and the bust of the King was carried
tthAentcoiitnye., Slalicet Mint
avenged themselves glori-
ously of the injurious reports that a bad spirit reigned
i the
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taires, of national guard's, who were carrying, amid
the flourish of trumpets and shouts of joy, the bust of
has Majesty. overshadowed by more than tuty flags,
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the t r t Bonaparte
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went and knoc4cd from door to dour':
no resistance,

obedience was necessary, and. the next day it was
Gelled that ti•e capital had been illuminated :pont .
mouily and brilliantly, whereas a few miserable
had been all the expense.
" Yesterday the whole city was illuininated, and
in most houses from the ground to the roof. The
streets, Saint Denis, Saint Martin, Saint Antoine,
Saint Honore, Des Petits-champs, were resplendent.
The less-frequented streets, inhabited by the poor.
were lighted up. Garlands of Holsters were susrit.
ded across the streets, with crowns attached to therm.
White flags were seen at all the windows. Some
transparencies were very curious. A Parisi;tn, in ti
new street Des Petitoi Clkamps, was represented with
these words
-

it Vivent le Rol,
" Ma femme et mot!
• " To the King long life
a'And to me and my wife I
el It was all the world to this man.
66 Before the house of M. Dubu', keeper of a board.
ing.house in St. Antoine, was written:
Past ream Pt [Mt. Eel. ere.
6' I suffered. I enjoy. re.
a. Thou sulTeretlA. Thou emjoyett. i'l4lt live.
" At the Thuilleries the crowd was prodigious
At five o'clock a deputation of the scholars of the
Lyceum entered the garden, having at their heal
some grenadiers of the guard and musicians, and a:.
companied by fifty young women, clothed in white,
with flowers in their hands. The young men ca7ried
the bust of the King, crowned with Bowers. They
placed themselves under the windows of his Majesty.
66 As soon as the King appeared, the shouts t f joy
from all sides prevented the orathr from being heard;
but a deputation of five of the national guards beiog
admitted, M. Pervaset, grenadier of the lOth arron-
dissement, addressed the King in a speech full of
loyal sentiments, with which his Majesty seemed sen-
sibly touched. The ladies threw flowers into the air.
It will not be said this time, that an immense popu-
lation, composed of all classes of society, does not ex-
press the national will, and the King will find in the
enthusiastic love of the Parisians a sweet compensa-
tion for the evils which desolate his kingdom, and ::t
which his heart.groans.
66 We are assured that M. Loire has been appoin-
ted Privy Councillor of the Emperor of Russia.
" There will be a grand review of the English ar-
my after the grand review of the Russian array.
66 It is rumoured that Lord Stewart is gone to
London with the rdiimoom of the treaty of Frarce
with the Allies.
66 Yesterday, on the occasion of the fete, the King
received the congratulations of the foreign And, issa,
dors and Ministers, and of a considerable number tr.'
toreigners of cl,siinction.
66 It. Aneelo was presented as Charge d'Affaires
from the bublime Porte "
PARIS, AM:Mr!' 27.
• TitLELOIAPHIC Disk'
sat MARITINIC PASSeCr Of lita T 741 rite JAINISM or TEt
WAltltie ANa CoLONIA4
• Augtl4
a The Ferri's! of Si. L0t11.4 has horn ctlebrAir,l At ti,.,: %%HI
an eelat worthy sit .0 ;furl-. a day lk.th ts .11 ,ri raj
laud and beA, •As,p &Cm e I aitlt c .141..r•0k TeprVal, • hpra .•3•
rade, a dinner on board the Admiral's sidp, where the he . ti: of
tie King was drank, amidst ti.e roar of cannon, and vmritke
musk, fire-works, a general illumination, awl pith ir
in short. contributed to render this Festival one art tt in .t
halt tit scription; but what principally characterised it waz, tbit
general joy, and the union of all•hearts in behalf of the King."
1.13 LE, AUGUST 21.
The following is the speech delivered by the Duke
of Berri, on the opening of the Electoral College of
the Department du Nord:
" GENTLEMEN—The most beloved of your Kings,
Henry IV. after long intestine wars, assembled the
Notables of his kingdom at Rouen, and demanded
their advice. Like him, my august Lord and uncle,
in conformity to the Constitution which he has given
to his people, addresses himself at this moment to
you, and especially appoints me to be his medium
for the department Du Nord.
66 The compact of love formed so many years age,
between the French people and my family, has on
some occasions been shaken, but it never could be
dissolved. The children of Saint Louis belong to
France ; her happiness is our (pity, her attachment is
our hereditary right ; and when the King, under the
influence of the blessings of peace, the advantages of
commerce, and the prosperity which follows a rt'pre.
sentative and legitimate Government, returns amidst
you with the Fiances of his blood, it is your good
which he gives you back, the splendour of our house
having been your work for more than nine centuries
past.
66 I shall not speak of their fidelity to the inhabi-
tants of a country which has been the cradle of the
Monarchy—l will not thank fur their devotion a
people who so much resemble those geiteratts and
warlike Franks, of whom they were she first descen-
dants. I shall merely confine myself to sag to toe
Members of this Assembly, that 1 deem myself ho.
noured by being appointed to preside over them.--a
Gentlemen, the King, after 16 years of troubles and
misfortunes, is compelled to learn the leeti,igs t f his
subjects—to know their hearts, of which judges
according to his own. Not being able to unite around
him all the Frenclit of whom he is, as you kuows
much less the Monarch than the Fauber, he retores
that you should address him ; but net those aniogst
you who love him the ;most,
this selection wt oki arc
impossible, but those who, aortliy of interoietin;
your opinions,wnl bring to the ttkit of the
that oblivion of the past, that knowledge of the pre'
Sent, that view of the future, that respect for toe
Constitutional Chatter, that love t r his Sacrotki pet-
son; in short, that abnegation of self, which aio.'e
can ensure the happiness of all."
To-day will commence the elections for the Cahn'
ber of Deputies.
COMM,. EILTKAORDINARY Of SUNDAY moit%ish.
" A subscription was raised .in the Faubourg St.
Antoine to celebrate the fete of the King ; alter the
expenses of the tetr. bur 9000 francs remained. which
have been applied to the release tit prisoners tor Jett.
" M. Regneud de St. Jean Angely has, it is sai,jo
obtained passports for the United S:ates : it is
that he set tot yesterday to embark.
" The Xing went yesterday at five o'clock into the
Faubourg St. Antoiue. .All the inhabitants were el
tile streets. He was received with a salute of ma'
quetry, which began an hour before he came, 4061
ended an hour atter his departure, acconipanied With
Crjes tit Vive le Rui
66 Accounts from Bourdeaux Statde that the Duke
and Duchess of. AngLuleate were received with il&
thusiaaus iu that city."