Star.
London, England, 1830-08-18 00:00:00

SI'IRIT OF TUE JOURNALS.

l'i)sr.—The unfortunate King of France has, with a part of his
family, reached the British shore. Intelligence of this event was
yesterday received at the Admiralty by telegraphic dispatch from
Portsmouth. The communication was very brief, announcing
merely the fact of the arrival in the offing of Spithead of a ship from
Cherbourg, with the Es-King of France on board. There is no ac-
count of his Majesty having landed, nor is any thing yet known
of his intentions in regard to his ultimate destination. We have
therefore only to observe, that should England be the chosen spot
of his Majesty's retirement, from the cares of governing a
volatile and turbulent people, (whose licentiousness his ex-
asperated Ministers did not adopt the proper means to
suppress or controul), he may rely upon the ever-generous cha.
rimer of Englishmen, to afford him that hospitable reception which
has never been refused either to fallen greatness or to private mis-
fortune. Impartial history will record of Charles X. that he fell
from his adoption of intemperate advice, and not from any wish to
act otherwise than for the real happiness of his country. He saw a
revolutionary faction daily gaining strength by artifices the most
perfidiooa and insulting ;—he saw that the growing spirit must in.
evitably predominate in the land, to the disturbance of' his people
and the ruin of the legitimate Monarchy of France, if some preven-
tive measures were not promptly adopted. The expedients resorted
to by his Ministers to avert these coming evils were unquestionably
the reverse of prudent or wise, and the Sovereign fell a sacrifice to
their indiscretion.—This, we repeat, the faithful historian will not
fail to hand down to posterity as " the very head and front of the
offending " of the unfortunate Charles the Tenth.

CHRONICLE.—The Meeting so long delayed, of the City of Lon-
don, has at length taken place. Mr. Warburton, the Chairman, in a
speech distinguished for clearness and moderation, stated the object
of the meeting, and that " he did not call for subscriptions because
the French nation were unable to assist those who had suffered in
their cause—he did it for the honour and character of the Eng-
lith themselves; they were called upon to subscribe as a definitive,
marked, and striking mode of manifesting public opinion upon
a great political event; of expressing sympathy with those who
have suffered in the cause of general humanity and true social order."
The room was filled with respectable gentlemen ; but it was impos-
sible not to remark the studied absence of the upper ranks—the City
Aristocracy, asst is called—front the Meeting. Mr. Fearon gave a
narrative of the paltry subterfuges of the Bankers and Merchants.
" As a body, he was justified in raying, that the Bankers and
Merchants had not come forward to lead the public—to stop the
course or public opinion was beyond their power." Mr. Wells
stated, in justice to some of the members of the Aristocracy, that
they had expressed their cordial approbation of the object of the
meeting ; and among others he mentioned the names of Earl SpCil.
cer, Lord Althorp, and the Marquess of Lansdown, from whom he
handed up to the Chairman a letter stating why he was unable to
attend any meeting in London, though he cordially approved
of their proceedings. It was happily observed by the Reverend
Mr. Fox, with respect to this absence of the Aristocracy :
" If it was a reproach to them, or any of them, that they
had been backward on this occasion, there was, perhaps, a benefit
derived front their backwardness, for which the people owed them
some obligation. It was this, that it taught the people to do with-
Mil them, and to rely on thentsclues, (cheers.) It was, besides, the
proper duty of the people to praise the conduct of the people (cheers.)
The Revolution of Paris had been effected—the battle of liberty
had been fought by the people of Parie....let the people of Eng-
land, then, offer to the people of France their sincere congratu-
lations on the triumphant success with which the popular cause
had been attended (cheers.) The people ought by this time to
be convinced that they must conquer liberty of themselves—if
they would have it, they must win it by their own exertions."
This want of sympathy of the higher classes of this country with
the most splendid event in history speaks volumes. A hint has
been given from a high quarter, that any expression of sympathy
with the French would not be well received ; and as the merchants
and bankers of London are anxious not to be excluded from the
countenance of the great, they hang back. What meanness ! What
cowardice ! At a numerous party of high people, a day or two ago,
the events in France were not once alluded to, although almost every
other event of the day was noticed. That the English Oligarchy
would not wish success to a Ferdinand, or a Miguel, or the Devil,
rather than to the cause of good government, we believe. But what
a manifestation of their hatred of everything noble and generous
have we here in this conspiracy to suppress all sympathy with the
brave Parisians.

PRIVATE LETTER IN THE HERALD.—To furnish you with an
idea of the manner in which " the Commerce of Paris" did its duty
during the three days, permit me to give you an instance :—ln the
new and splendid gallery of the Palais Royal, called the Gallerie
Vitriee, there is a bookseller's stall, through which many musket
bullets had passed during the conflicts of Tuesday and Wednesday.
A musket ball is lodged in one of the volumes of " Millot's His-
tory of England," which rendering it in some sort a curiosity, I
asked the price of it on Thursday night last. The proprietor re-
fused to sell it until he should be first indemnified by the Mu-
nieipality, " when" (the applications for it being numerous) he
said "he would sell it by auction ." A very smart and gentle-
man-like young man, who was present, toll me, with a smile,
that other relics of the fight might be had at most of the
stalls on the Boulevards—arms, gilt casques, schaspskas, *lke.
" I have myself," said he, "a relic which I should not like to part
with, but am sure you could have similar articles to purchase, for I
observe you English are anxious for them, and you arc now so de-
servedly popular that the owners would not scruple to let you have
them. That of which I speak is the hat I wore on Wednesday and
Thursday, the 28th and 29th of July, and through which no fewer
than three musket-balls passed." This brought on a conversation
which led to the history of himself on the days abovementioned. He
told use he was the deputy cashier of and Co. bankers : that on
the morning of Wednesday he was proceeding to collect a sum of
7 to 8,000 francs in the Rue Faubourg St. Honore, when, in passing
through a group of people in the Rue St. Honore, who were
partly armed, he was recognised by a friend, who, reminding him
that he had been a corporal in the National Guard, called upon him
to* take that rank among his fellow-citizens to which his military
experience entitled him. The affair was soon settled. His country
was of more importance than his employment, and, accepting a
a musket offered him, he headed a party—not 400 in number—
composed of people of all ages, from 12 to 70 years, and partly un-
armed, to attack the barrack in the Rue Vertc, occupied by 800 of the
reyiment of infantry of thc Garde Royale. W ith most consum-
mate assurance, or courage, or what you may, my informant walked
up to the barrack, and summoned the garrison to surrender.
The officers within demanded a parley, which was acceded to, when
my inforuiant and three others entered en par/it/men/airs the
caserne. They were met by the four Captains who commanded the
battalion. The parties soon understood each other. The repre-
sentatives of the people appealed to the feelings of the officers, re-
ferring also to the certain destruction which an attempt at resistance
would entail on all found in the barrack. The menace was apparently
unheeded, but the appeal had its success. One officer said " I have
a wife living at No. —, in the Rue another " My parents re-
side in the Rue de —;" the third had dear friends living in the
Rues and --, whose lives would be endangered by a general
engagement. In addition, all declared their reluctance to shed a
single drop of the blood of a fellow-citizen. The deputies of the
people recognised the discretion, the humanity, and the patriotism
of these sentiments, and in another moment the 800 soldiers sur-
rendered to the people, whose first act was to secure the arms ; the
next to contribute from their own persons to the disguise of the
soldiers, who issued from the barrack, and repaired to places of
retirement, nearly in the garb of citizens. This was a most im.
portant achievement. So perfectly disproportionate were the people
to the soldiers in this point, that on quitting the barrack, each of
the Bourgeois was the bearer of two muskets. Amongst those most
distinguished by his intrepid advance towards the barrack was a boy
of 14 years of age, the son of a marchand des vies (owner of " wine
vaults") at the corner of the Rue Verte and Rue St. Honore. Armed
with his father's carbine, he marched at the head of the column. Hair-
ing possessed themselve of the arms as above mentioned, and a
skirmish in the Rue Pepinniire, the people proceeded to the Hue
St. Honore, where they soon found hands for their superflous fire-
locks ; and, hearing die dreadful discharges from the Quid d' Ecole
the Hotel dc Ville, "marched upon the cannon" of the guard. Im-
mediately upon teaching the Louvre they got into fire. Near to the
Pont Neuf they captured a field-piece, and killed or dispersed the
eannoneen. In this gallant affair the youth abovementioned was
again the leader. With two shots he killed an officer and a
soldier of the Swiss. In the capture of the cannon a musket ball
carried off the fore-finger of his left hand : he continued, neverthe-
less, his charge upon the artillery ; and having, with his followers,
taken the cannon, he very leisurely opened the little bucket which
contained grease for the wheels of the gun, and which he well knew
where to find, applied a morel of it to the wound, bound up his
hand, and set off again in his career of glory. This boy has been
the subject of a bpcciul teport to the King. My informant was the
next day at tile attack on the Louvre and Tuileries, and on Friday
and Saturday remained doing military duty. On Monday (August
2) he returned to his tatisse. The only mark of his military ca.
pocky now appertaining to him is a modest pair of moustaches.
In the above abridged narrative there will be found mats
ter for wonder. How eight hundred men of the elite of the whole
French army could be compelled to surrender by half the number of
men and boys, forming what, without offence, can be only described
by the words "a mob," will be read with doubt and surprise. The
position of the poor fellows must, however, be taken into con-
sideration. If they had fought, it would have been against their
countrymen, friends, and, perhaps, relatives. If they bad
fought they would have been enveloped in dangers of every de-
scription. They were, perhaps, also favourable to the views of
the people, although a sense of duty compelled them, in the first in.
itance, to obey the orders given them to resist. Their communica.