Star.
London, England, 1830-12-25 00:00:00

snd regiments of the line every where strongly posted, and the utmost
ipprelicnsions expressed by the public for the peace of the metropolis
through the night.
Tile King, however, put an end to all these apprehensions by a coup
iit of his own. He went forth instantly from his palace, accom.

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„Hied by his second son, the Duke de Nemours, and threw himself at
once in the crowded streets among the people, and his appeal to their
„sour props had at once the desired effect, and his enthusiastic weep-
equalled the poet's description of that of your Duke of Mon-
mouth in Devonshire; but with more chances, I trust, of a successful
result. _ _ .

At night fall, as I have already mentioned, the crowds rather in.
creased, as was expected, and the National Guards had difficulties
which, amongst less disciplined men, might have led to serious conic.
quences, in keeping the streets clear in the neighbourhood of the Palais
Royal and the Tuileries. The Rue St. Vonore, at five o'clock,
.:ontained a dense mass of people, crying, " Death to Polignac ;" and
at one time h looked as if the Guards must have charged bayonets to
open a communication. Through the extreme sclf.possesaion of the
afficer in command this extremity was not resorted to, and a passage for
:Ix corps was found without more violence than the upsctttng of a few
persons who evinced a refractory spirit.
In the whole hex of stteets, from the Place Vendome to the Place des
Vietoires, the instant night set in, the houses were, up to the third floors
in some of them, illuminated, so that no advantage could have been de-
rived by rioters from the destruction of the lamps, and in this direction
I did not see one lamp broken.
An hour later in the evening, the appei.rance of the city was singu-
larly picturesque, the ballustrades of the Tuileries, Louvre, and Palais
Royal were closed, and each of these strong posts was filled by regi-
ments of the line, and National Guards of all corps; the night was
ere:, cold, and tempestuous, and the troops early and every where
lighted their bivuuaek fires upon the damp ground. The smothering
volones of smoke which arose from piles of crackling wood ;
tl:e showers of sparks constantly emitted, as they stirred the burning em-
bers with their bayonets ; the reflection of the flames upon the bristling
bro.:, and contrasted uniforms of the many regiments, cavalry and in.
fantry, enclosed in squares and circles to imbibe the warmth of they
wa:ch.fires, and the light thus shed upon the.surrounding houses, under
the opaque and dense canopy of a dark sky, presented the most extraor.
Binary spectacle I ever witnessed ; it was not that of a town actually
taken by storm, but it looked not unlike that of one so taken when the
pillage was over. In the Palais Royal, as usual, at eight o'clock,
the regiments of the line commenced ehaunting the Parisian hymn, with
of course, the dissonant chorus of the moh, who were pent up in the
mde walks without the iron railings. In the midst of these vocal per.
Mrraances, around some of the bivouack fires in the Royal court of the
Ptlais Royal, the soldiers dispersed themselves In dancing circles,
thus they went on, singing and prancing like Indians at a fe.i.
real of the desert.

While this strange exhibition of military pastimes was relieving the
ireommoding pressure of a wet night, shouts of " Long live the King,"
vere at nine o'clock heard from the soldiets immediately under the
endows of the Royal apartments. The King and his sons appeared
then on the balcony with a train of servants and flambeaus, and
hosed to the noisy throng of his subjects, who had been deafening him'
t b;:ore with their gambols. Ilia Majesty then descended into the
bent and rear courts of his Palace, and conversed and mingled with the
people. The shouts of Vive le Roi !" were now tremendous, and if
the population of the Palais Royal fairly represent the opinion of Frances
so King in Europe has a more devoted race of subjects than Phillip the
First.

Allured, I presume, by this enthusiastic reception, or perhaps im-
pelled by his own frank and off-hand demeanour, the King called for
the malty of the National Guard, who were in attendance, and who
were certainly as fine a body of men as I ever saw, and placing him.
self at their head, accompanied by his younger son the Duke of Ne.
moms, he rode forth into the streets of Paris, to execute what I have
called his own coup (eclat. The trumpets sounded a royal
flourish, and the officers in front, among whom were several of the
Marshals of France, as they rode into the rue des Petits Champs,
born the Rue Valois, In clearing the Palais Royal, exclaimed, " The
Ring is behind us, in the cloak and without his hat ; the Duke of
Nemours rides with us." The people who lined the streets, cheered the
Royal Family, with enthusiasm. " Long live the King," " Long live
the National Guard," was the universal cry, and the burst of enthusiw
um along the whole line of the streets through which the King passed
for two hours, was tremendously decisive of his Majesty's personal its.
luence.

As the streets were every where strongly picketted by the different
corps of the National Guard, the drums beat up at all corners as the
Ling passed; the Polytechnic scholars, and the students of the differ.
tot universities of Paris, each class wearing in their hats the cards of
their respective classes, joined the parading corps of the National
Guards, and determined, by a demonstration whtch could not be leis-
taken, to wipe off the scandalous imputation some malcontents bad
been for the last two days passing upon them,—that they were
leagued with counter-revolutionary bands. These young men every.
there shouted, '• Long live the King; liberty and public order 1 a
The King seemed, as indeed he well might, to be delighted at his
reception. In the narrow streets he was closely pent by the people,
with many of whom he shook hands, and familiarly conversed, and from
all of whom, as far as I observed, he received proofs of warm attach-
ment. ii Paris be, as some will tell you, the focus of conspiracies at
this moment against the dynasty of Philip 1. the passage of the King
through every street, and in the dead of night, &treaded abundant oppor.
tunitics to these conspirators to execute their purp,re, and veil the new
throne in mourning ; but no hand was raised except to pay him homage
—re evict aas turd except in his applause. The night, a• I have men-
:toned, uas w‘t anti tempestuous. The King, though wrapped in a loose
cloak:lA.4llra t•at in his haat t:.rt ugh this Street of perambulation for two
:lours, e.t.a 'al r., siq,le intance was an obnoxious phrase ever heard by
Ott royal ear, altimegh an hour before the air resounded with phrases,
ti.ich imulted the kingly authority. The moment this procession was
act, ti.c purple cv. ry where exclaimed, " The counter movement is
esevover ; tnaaquiility is restored."

The extracts ;hitch I hubjoin from this day's Paris papers, will con.
re) to you further particulars of the state of opinions and occurrences
in this grciit city.

I 0116iiI to tell you at once, from information upon which I can rely,
dam d'art* was, in vont of fcct, for the last week the great centre of
muspiracies. There I aye been always, for the last 30 years, in this
sky, hosts of people, police.agents, spies, gamblers, young men of
hmken fortunes, who have used every passing grievance to create a
timult. Such a revulmion as the last—such a process so bungled
and mismanaged throughout as that of the late trial, could not fail,
to furnish the eiemehts of combustion to all lire-worshippers;
they, as is ever the case, contrived to mix up with their classes,
the young, the giddy, and the impatiently well-principled perm
pie, who look at the work of politics, like that of anchor-forging, and
expect that metal, once in the furnace, must be hammered into shape,'
anei form at the first heat. It may be also suited, now that the great
mischief is ore., that there was great danger in bringing the National
Guards into collision with the people. Several corp► were formed In
the fauslaturg of small shopkeepers, deperalaut a good deal upon the
worknoa. fcr their trade; the disbanded scciety of the friends of the
people welt also dequt.tely represented in the National Guard, and
it was well kLusn to General I.Alic3ette that great bodies
or his solelt.rs hati declared they would protect the prisoners
it they c iuld, •• but that for such culprits, they would not
spill blood, or provoke the extremity of a counter-revolution."
These express:6ns were even conveyed in writing, and by officers, too,
accompanied with most threatening and dangerous comments both to
the king 4:1 the genetal-in.citief. I have heard of letters of this kind
written both to the highest civil and military authorities, which In say
other country (and I think they ought in this) would have brought the,
writers of them at once to A drum-head court-martial, and, on proof of
the identity and handwriting, have caused their execution on the
°Pm. Napoleon would have been a very ugly customer for the readers
of such commodities ; but these are, happily, different thnes.
The circumstances attendant upon the explosion of the late eonspi-
agora 7..ther singular, and as 1 have them front indisputable authority,
thel are worth recording. The governnient had, since tbs revolution if

July, been harassed with communications of counter Abets, on tho
part or the adherents of the exiled family, and of the extreme old Church
Or Jesuit party. Upon the agitation of these co-acting parties, was en-
petted a compound element of a most extraordinary character; the
broken gendarmes, the disbanded military, and restless half.pay offi-
cers, with two or three generals of well.known intrigue, all whispered
together the chance of a push in the name of young Napoleon ; with I
these for the moment acted the republican party, who hoped, u the
storm gathered, to grow stronger, and thee—
" Ride in the whirlwind, and direct the storm."

The latter had undoubtedly, from the nature of the late revolution, the
strongest party of all, if they had good addres., .end promptitude of
action ; but they lost their cause (happily, fis r. ould have at once
embroiled all Europe in war), and then became li::.: the other, • scat-
tered faction. All the Ingredients, however, remain:; of the wont part
of these political clubs and faction+, and as the teal wark of the revo-
lution had been done by the workmen of Paris, they availed themselves
of the pampered tributes of praise of which they were long the objects,
and endeavoured by means of their own, to extend a system of organi-
sation not exac•ly consistent with integrity of good municipal rule. The
means they employed, were those of your benefit societies, each class
had its own club, time and place of meeting, and fund ; all, however,
under the name of trade purposes.

It was not easy to know how the pay chest was furnished, the em-
ployment of these people being indifferent, but supplied it was; and it
struck the Government as a singular peculiarity, that immediately after
the late revolution, although a reward was offered for each gun, sword,
and bayonet, picked up or snatched during that combat, so few were
brought into the Hotel de Ville, although for months a market was
held of these military weapons by the people on the quays. You
may remember seeing fellows, last summer, selling the swath and
accoutrements of the beaten Swiss and Garde du Corps, near the Pont
Neuf, dressed in the breast-plates and armour of she Cuirassiers.
This was, to the Government, I; have said, a source of uneasiness,
and the police did not buy up these implements of mischief with the
alit-ray they might.

During toe whole of the last fortnight the police were engaged in
seizing small depots of powder in the little workshops of the
tauxbourg St. Antoine; the groups of workmen who mingled, as
I have before mentioned to you, among the National Guards,
on Monday and Wednesday evenings, in their conversation, talked
freely of a republic and young Napoleon, but said they did not want a
House of Peers, nor a large pension list ; adding, that the best plan
would be not to congregate around the Luxembourg, but to attack
the Peers' houses in detail, and plunder the mansions of the
rich, until they compelled them to concede a more equal division of the
property. The great bulk of the National Guards being shopkeepers,
with something to lose, took these hints as might have been expected ;
they saw that the reign of principle was to yield to a rush for plunder,
in which the bounds of the rich and middling classes were not likely
to be very accurately defined or respected ; they hinted to their officers
that this was an altered state of things, to destroy and not to repair ;
and from that moment (Monday night) as fast as the mob broke the
lamps in the Rue de Seine and small streets, the shop-keepers who
inhabited them immediately put forth lamps and candles and
flambeaux from their first-floor windows, and a line of prin-
ciple as well as of action was at once drawn between the protecting and
the insurrectionary classes of society, which put an end to the hopes of
the latter. The arrests still go on, but I cannot learn that any person
of consideration is proved to be among the conspirators. All the adhe-
rents of the Bourbons are under surveillance : the Bonapartists Souk
will soon dispose of in the army ; and thousands of the workmen will
be employed, as soon as the French Government can raise funds, upon
the lines for the fortifications of Paris, and the improvement of the roads,
which are really a disgrace to the nation.

With reference to the late trial of the ex-ministers, their sentence
was not tormally read to them, as I mentioned yesterday, on the same
night of its adoption. I subjoin the particulars. It was, however,
substantively communicated to them by General Daumesnli on the same
night. I have already mentioned there was only one Peer (I believe a
near relation of Polignac) for a general verdict of not guilty ; 7 were
for capital punishment of Polignac; 4 for that of Peyronnet.
But you in England will think it rather singular, after reading
so much of the value of your constitutional law, as used and re-
ferred to in these trials, and of the importance attached to it in this
country, that so little real sense of these important principles had
the French House of Peers, that there was actually a meeting of a
great number of their body on the Sunday night---where do you
think Pat the house of the President, Baron Pannier, where they
in private discussed, and, if I am not misinformed, actually agreed
upon, the general heads of the sentence, and forms of proceeding in
giving it, which they were on the following day judicially to deter.
mine upon. At this meeting, the Duke de Broglie and M. de &t-
-rent., two very able peers, took an active part.

It was said, too, that the King was a party to the calling of
this meeting, to assist in finishing the process on the Tuesday
night.
The purpose, no doubt, was humane and laudable, but what a no.
tion it conveys of the impression which your constitutional law makes
upon the minds of French legisistor..

I hope the whole statement is unttue. I have it, however, from a
quarter not likely to be misinformed.

The reports this morning from all the military posts of the metro-
polis lut night, are favourable to the public tranquillity. Y.
P.S. There is no news whatever this morning from Poland or Russia.

SPIRI OF THE JOURNAL&

CHRONICLL—On the 25th of November, the French Revolution
was celebrated In New York, by salutes from the battery, processions of
Mayor and Corporation, High Sheriff, Governor and Lieut..oovernor of
the State, and Governor of New Jersey, Members of Congress, and the
State Legislature, Judges of the United States, and State Courts, the
Clergy; Foreign Ministers, and the different Trades and Professions.
The usual accompaniments of music and orations were not wanting.
The effect of the whole must have been imposicg.

HIMALD.--If the crime of high treason in France, and that, too,
when committed under circumstances which have caused the sacrifice of
thousands of human lives, does not incur the penalty of death, what are
we to say of the justice and humanity of the English law, which takes
away the life of the offender for stealing a sheep or forging a one-pound
promissory note? Unless the French Government intend to have
one scale of punishments for the rich. and another for the poor,
or to distinguish Ministerial traitors from all ethers by peculiar
lenity and indulgence, it le quite clear that the punishment of
high treason in every ease is abolished In France. The Peers
who tried the ex-Ministers cannot find that the law has, in fact,
provided any punishment for this greatest and most dangerous of
crimes ; but it was strange the Peers of France never made that disco-
very—a discovery so interesting to humanity, and which throws such
a new light on legislation—until its benefit was to be claimed for the
“ regal rebels" who attempted to erase the name of France from the list
of free nations, and in that attempt deluged the streets of Paris with
the blood of its citisens. The Bourbons made no such discovery as this
in favour of Marshal Ney—of Bories and his companions_ of 11.• Ber-
then and other, who expiated the aim* of high treason under the axe
of the guillotine. We rejoice, however fee the eake of humanity,
that it is at length ascertained the victims of Bourbon vengeance,
who suffered death upon convictions for tresses sines the publication of
the Charter of 1814, perished under a tudeappsthetasion V the ler I
We rejoice, because we think the punishment of death for oleo infe-
rior to treason must, for the sake of coosistemay, be abolished. It is
true the French Code does not want so mesh on ibis point
as our own. We had upwards of 909 a7oeee penisbelie with
death, when the French, according to the Code Napebea, had,
if we recollect rightly, only six 1 Nog ef those espied pu-
nishments of ours had become Aegis* in of
the public disgust which they earthed; NA
lature allowed them to remain on the fitatese Wilt
it was practicable to carry them into execution. But die eerestry will
not be satisfied with merely lopping elf the deed beesrese of crimi-
nal law ; many of the living ones must also be cut away, and wessei
them Sir Robert Peel's Forgery bill of last oessioa, which ie se lone.
tire in its operation as it is sanguinary la its spirit, ezteeeive lardsll
having been detected both in England and Ireland within a kw amok,
past, and consequently since it became a law.

Porr.—lr is really painful to obeerre the nameless 'espollons to
which Faction resort in prosecution of their vowenby pIIiIIOSSIL. As
an sliedged set-of against the disposal of so many lucrative dices by
Earl Grey among the whole of his family and relatives, a list has been
put forth of apppointments ander former Administration, with she re-
prehensible design of imputing so the Doke of illington roodvesequally
Wanted and lan as those whkh attach to the poison Prenne.