Star.
London, England, 1814-04-08 00:00:00

AFFAIRS OF FRANCE.'

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It is by no means sin-prising that the niott unPre-
eedented anxiety should prevail for the arrival of in-
telligence from the French Capital. It ought to be
recollected, however, that there was a considerable
track of country to clear between Paris and the Coast,
and that the arrangements between the Allied Sove-
reigns and the Chief Authorities at Paris would
necessarily require to be explained by Deputations or
otherwise to the Sub-Authorities in the departments.
Accordingly we find from a short communication
which has been received from Boulogne, dated on
the sth instant, that 64 the Mails had now arrived
from Paris, in consequence of arrangements with the
new Government." From this circumstance we pre-
sume that every thing goes on at Paris as the best
friends of humanity could wish, and that the virtuous
and high-minded Louis XVIII. has been restored
to his rank as one of the legitimate Sovereigns of
Europe.

Since writing the above, we have learnt that the
Guard of the Dover mail. coach brings accounts that
at the time of his departure, the b::tteries were firing
along the French Coast ; and we have been informed
that there are letters in town from the coast, an-
nouncing, what we were prepared to expect, the
complete overthrow of that edifice of tyranny
and oppression under which France has so long
groaned, and which has been the source of so
many calamities to other nations. The Allied So-
vereigns were hailed as• deliverers by the Parisians.
Precautions to maintain order and tranquility were
immediately taken, and not a moment was lost in
adopting the measures necessary for restoring to that
great city and to France the blessings of regular
government, under the auspices of their long-banish-
ed, but, as now appears, their much-beloved Royal

For a moment the Parisians were in a manner over-
whelmed with fearful apprehensions of the dreadful
fate which seemed to hang over them. Aware of
the miseries which had flown from that city as the
den of the regicides and murderers who had enslaved
France and desolated Europe, they could hardly be-
lieve that the Allies, who came with the sword in one
hand, carried the olive branch in the other; The fate
of Moscow was before their eyes, and they were dis-
posed to give credence to the lies in their own jour-
nals, that the march to their city had no other ob-
ject in view lout its destruction.

Proportioned tt, their previous fears were the ex-
pressions of their joy when assured of safety and pro-
tection. When informed that the Allies had arrived
ivoly to perforar-the promise they had voluntarily
come under, to restore peace to France and to the

world, to put an end to that system of terror, con-
scription and bloodshed which had robbed them of
the rights of free men, dragged their sons to the
slaughtei, and made them the victims of a Cruel
despot who trampled on all laws human and divine)
the shout was universal—" Down with the Tyrant"
Vive Louis XVIII."
• How different has been the conduct of the Allies
in France to that of the French in every country
cursed with the presence of their armies during the
last twenty years of war and bloodshed ! It is impos-
sible in the nature of things that the immediate theatre
of war can experience a state of perfect repose; but
the French people must be sensible that the load has
been rendered as light as possible, and that they have
suffered none of those wanton inflictions which other
nations had been doomed to bear from the inroads of
their own countrymen, under the guidance of a military
despot, who could so far outrage the usages of civilized
ations, as to declare that he would make war support war.

Never since the rudest ages of barbarism was such
an infernal line of procedure proposed to any people,
as a motive to second -their Ruler in his hostile de-
signs against other States. Never among civilized
communities could a State be found in so depraved
a condition as to act simultaneously, and at the same
time without compunction, in the execution of a sys-
tab of crime and villainy so atrocious and so undis-
guised. The fact.,is morally impossible. To what,

then, shall we attribute the apparent acquiescence of
the French, and the seeming accordance with which
they enabled the Tyrant to act upon so open an
avowal of infernal policy ?

The answer is not difficult. The French, as a
nation, (for we speak not now of the unprincipled
thieves and assassins who have shone as the satellites
of Iducifir,) have been acting, not from choice, but
from the same hard necessity which compelled the
surrounding nations to yield their necks to the will
of the murderous villain who has so long been tht
scourge of mankind. From like causes, like effects

must Row. As soon as the European States had an
opportunity, the Rulers, with their people, broke the
chains of the Oppressor, and trampled his authority
in the dust; and, proportioning their energies to the
degrading condition to which they were before re-
duced, and the insults they had suffered, they have
permitted nothing to divert them from their purpose :
resolved on complete emancipation, there has been
no temporizing—no half measures.

Madame CATALASI set out on Wednesday for
Bath, where she stays three weeks, and Will return to
Town for her second Concert, which will take place
on the 28th of this month.
A Collar of the Order of the Thistle becomes va-
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