Star.
London, England, 1830-07-30 00:00:00

PRIVATR LETTER.

PARIS, July 27, Seven o'Clock, A.1.--The Journals
are suppressed ! The Con.stitutionnel, with its 17,000
subscribers, does not appear. The Courtier Francais,
the Journal du Commerce, the National, the French
Times, the Messayer des Chambres, and all the rest of
the liberal or moderate papers of the liberal tide, are put
down. The English are without their Galiynani's Mes-
senger, and their London Express ; and the following
are the only papers which this morning have permission
to appear, viz. Moniteur, Universel, Quotidienne, Ga-
zette de France, Drapeau Blanc. But I must learn the
events of last night, and then continue my letter.
Eleven o'Clock, Tuesday Morning.—Last night mobs
assembled in various directions, broke the windows of
the Treasury, andof the Hotel of the Minister for Foreign
Affairs. The police and guard defended themselves from
the people. This morning, at an early hour, the win-
dows of the carriage of Prince Polignac were broken. The
National published without permission, an early edition.
Le Temps has done the same thing, and announces that
it shall oppose force by force. I will send you extracts
from these papers. Great bodies of people are assembling
in the Palais Royal, and I must proceed thither.
Twelve o'Clock, Tuesday.—l have just been to the
Palais Royal. There are five thousand persons there. A
great many are printers, who are out of employ ; ex-
electors of 121. a-year, who have no longer permission to
vote !!! and respectable tradesmen, who have shut up
their shops, and left their commerce and their families, to
hear the speeches at the Palais Royal. I heard one
speech, which was as follows :—" My Brothers I French-
, men ! the deplorable Ministry has done its worst, but will
you submit to be slaves ? Hear what the National says
to you.—' Ce qu'il reste a faire a la France, c'est de
refuser I'impot. La Chambre aujourd'hui brisee a fait
son devoir ; les electeurs ont rempli le leur ; la preen,
qui, desormais, ne pourra plus servir ouvertement la
cause de la liberte, a fait aussi tout ce que l'on devait
attendre d'elle : c'est aux contribuables maintenant a
Bawer la cause des lois. L'avenir est reunis a l'energie
individuelle des citoyens.' Will you not second the
press ? I know you will. Let us unite together against
our oppressors," &c. &c. &c. The orator was mounted
on a chair, and his address was received with shouts of
" Oui ! oui ! " " Yes ! yes ! we will unite ! "
Tuesday, One o'Clock.—The Palais Royal is to be
cleared. There are to he no Clubs allowed. The Pre-
fect has issued an Ordonnance against all illegal and un-
authorised Journals. The people have attacked the po-
lice in the Gardens. The hotel of Prince Polignac is
surrounded by soldiers The gendarmes are galloping
all over Paris. People are rushing to the Bourse to
learn the opening price of the Rentes. I will go there
too.

Tuesday, Two o'clock.—The Bourse is full. Three
per Cents. have opened at 73 francs. This day twelve
months they were at 84, and this day week they were at
79k. They fell just now to 711, and at this moment
(half-past two) are at 72. A Deputation of Ex-deputies
has gone down to St. Cloud to request an audience of his
Majesty ; but it is said the King has gone to Compeigne,
and the Deputation will therefore be unsuccessful.
Tuesday, Three o'Cloch.—A deputation of Peers has
gone down to St. Cloud, and report says it has been re-
ceived by the King. The mob had attacked the police
and military, who have been obliged to defend themselves.
The greatest agitation everywhere prevails, and the funds
are at 72 francs.

Tuesday, Four o'Clock.—The Bourse (or Royal Ex-
change of Paris) is to be closed for some days. An
elector has just told me that the electors will meet to-night
at Montmartre, to petition the King to retrace his steps.
This will be an useless proceeding. The funds have
closed as follows :-5 per Cents. 100 f. 3 per Cents. 72f.
The Palais Royal is closed.
Tuesday, Half-past Four.—Rumours are abroad of
prevotal courts, of riots, &c. but all persons unite in
stating that the King will not give way ! ! Indeed ! !
! A gendarme has been shot in the Place
Vendome. Prince Polignac has been attacked.

The intelligence which we have given this day from
Paris describes a state of circumstances there, which,
we fear, placer beyond doubt that the horrors of revo-
lution still are not terminated. in fact, we may say
that a revolution has taken place ; and the question
only is, whether the next news will be that of counter-
revolution. The revolution has, in this instance, begun
on the part of the Government. Will it terminate on
the part of the people ?
We observe that conjecture on the results is avoided
by our contemporaries; for conjectures are often miscon-
strued into prediction, and prediction in politics, it is
well known, is hazardous ; for false prophets can sel-
dom re-edify a lost confidence. There are, indeed,
some great masters in the art of political prediction, who
possess a polypus kind of vitality, which overcoat. all

difficulties ; and they, some how or other, contrive to
keep alive their character for sagacity, in spite of
events knocking down their predictions, as fast as they
start into existence. We do not assume to be so fa-
voured ; but cannot say we are inclined to be so timid,
of any little repute for sagacity, which our vanity may
prompt us to think we possess, as to hesitate about always
stating those conjectures which, from time to time, occur
to us on public events. We are sure our Reader—if lie be
not a very extraordinary specimen of humanity—always
thinks himself wiser than we are ; and therefore lie can-
not be misled : and if u•e afford him a little matter to work
upon, with his own sagacity, we are only, we think,
performing our duty.
If we are to give our opinion, as to the chance of an
immediate successful re-action on the part of the French
people, we should say that we deem it improbable:,
unless there be defection in the military, or want of
judgment in their employment. There never was, we
believe, an instance yet of a people successfully over-
turning the power of a tyranny, which is alive to its situ-
ation, and in possession of a national purse and a national
army. As for successful resistance under such circum- I
stances, by the Parisian people, we deem it very impro •
bable. Can we forget that, fot months together, La cha-
retie past along the Rue St. Honori, conveying all that
was truly respectable in France, for talent, literature, pa-
triotism, and personal worth—all that was just and
popular—to the scaffold ?—and yet no efficient resistance
was ever made, until fortuitous events produced the dis-
union of the horrid executive. Fear, and self-interest,
in such times, prevent all successful combination. Com-
bination of the most sagaciously organized description,
can alone prove successful ; and combination, without
cash, arms, and circumstances, is an illusion—it wants
cement, and cohesion is impossible.
The French army, however, we are told, is different
from every other army in Europe. We are well aware
that it once was an army sui gencris, and may be, in
some degree, so still. The French commonalty is a far
different one from ours; but barring the national dif-
ferences, and the progress of information on popular
rights, we see no reason to believe that the French army
is now much different in composition, from what it was
previous to the revolution. A successful defection in the
troops, however, is the only probable chance of a speedy
counter-revolution. We believe that the present pro-
ceedings of the Government are such as to cause a very
general adverse feeling in France ; but the early popular
explosion of the revolution had deeper seated fires to pro-
duce them, than any that exist at present.
While writing these remarks, we receive intelligence,
by an Express from Paris, dated late on Wednesday
evening, which, if true, would give a solution to the
questions we have been making the subject of conjecture.
It states that " three regiments of the line have
joined the people, and that the National Guards have
been culled out." This undoubtedly may be true ; for
in such times, and of such a people, it is not really pos-
sible to foresee what may happen. We shall carefully
give our readers all the intelligence as it is received.
If, however, we have some difficulty in crediting that
the unarmed people of Paris can accomplish an early
counter-revolution, we can have no doubt but that
ulti-
mately the cause of the people must prevail ; and
if, as our latest on dit says, the KING and Government
have already fled from Paris, the event will do more to
establish the sovereignty of the People, in opposition to
the right divine of Kings, than any event that History
has ever had to record. We receive the news with some
hesitation.

We have advice. from Madrid to the 17th ult. They
are not without importance. A discovery had been made
there, of a society, among which was a favourite of the
KING, and one of his Ministers, who had been selling
both civil and military offices, and employments, and li-
censes, to introduce into the kingdom prohibited articles.
The scarcity of water, from which the people had suffered
so much, during the preceding month, still continued.—
Thousands of people were gathered round the public
fountains, waiting their turns to obtain a few pints of
water. Some women have been even obliged to remain
thirty hours before they could get their pitchers filled.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The affairs at Paris have at length taken a serious
turn ; and by the express it appears that the soldiers
have commenced firing on the people. This is all we
know at present, with the exception that the cannon have
prevailed. The account of the killed and wounded we
are not informed of as yet. It also appears that Paris
w•as in a state of siege ; therefore the private letters are
scarce from that capital. The greatest anxiety is ex-
pressed for further accounts from that quarter.
We have no other accounts this morning worth men-
, tioning.

Consols opened at 9011 for the account ; at present
they are 901/ ; for money 901, with little doing.
In the foreign markel 'tis settling day, consequently
they are busy settling their accounts.

CITY, HALF-PAST ONE.

The events in the French Capital succeed each other
with rapidity, and the most important one we have re-
ceivad this morning, which will now place the Bourbons
in a very awkward predicament—is, that three regiments
have deserted the King, which is a proof that he cannot
put confidence in his troops ; and the private accounts
from Paris add, that the King must give way to the
people. We also understand that all bargains in the
funds at Paris, within a fortnight, have been made null
and void, owing to some of the speculators having been
made acquainted with the late severe measures of the
government.

We have a report that the King has left Paris, and
that the house of the Prince Polignac has been pulled
down ; but this is only report.
Consols, which were in the early part of the morning
at 90(1 for the Account, have receded to 901 on the M.
formation of defection of the King of France's troops.

The settling of the Foreign Accounts is going off
well ; little or nothing doing in the Foreign Securities ;
the Share Market is stagnant ; South Metropolitan Gas
211 premium.