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land, in vulgar, low, and disgusting abuse. It was
I indeed one of the lit t leee.ses that disg. aced his system
Oct. 19, of governmeitt, and one which the par, isans of legiti-
There i 4 linll•ing too monstrous for the credulity mazy, as it is now •al.ed, were always forward in at.
of Henchmen where the subject k B•maparte ; what it ibuting to the to-7ress of his origin, and the vulga.
could be more imprObable than the re-apposr notorious,
this of rity bf his connect! ots. It was, however, otorious,
-s-
-this personage upou the soil of France ?Yet sects is • that in otivate is spots Ten dilfereetty of our na--
the report of the lest two days—" Ile is come with'tcony and he never disguised the respect which he en...A
• powerful army of Saxons, Poles,. and Turks."-w+ i tertained for our swiftest! character. lowleal,his per-
This is insist Isstly helieeetrhy the tower Mosses.. suasten tliat *e were a *genernus people; was
is curious to observe, the aseener in which.the most 1 motive foi surrendering to the English levy, rather
absurd of 01 rumours is treated in its cieculatien— than to his fattier-in-law the Emperor of Austria, or
SOraits affetting superior reason, treat it as vhionary, to Alesauder, with whom he was personally cc.
but-with that sort of secret hesitating dread which quainted, and from N hoe he had formerly received
appears in weak minds, when they disclaim a belief' many and such striking marks of admiration and
in the appearance of 'bests ; others implicitly be- j respect. Ile wrote too, long before the battle of
here 4t, but are afraid le open their mouths ; whilst i Waterloo, to bit sister the Queen of Naples, recom-
•ti rd party are iudwatriatyttY laboering to agitate mending her, if any greet misfortune occurred, to
anal mislead without acumudtting thethselies ; there surrender herself to the English (car c'est unpeupte
e3e even proclamations fn manuscript circulated in geoe're"). She did so, atul the conditions on which
thenene of Napoleon, in which he is nude to dis. she capitulated were broken, and the Oflieers who
chip any wish to reesceud the throne, but solely to bad shown her the respect due to her sex, her reek,
• restore his wife and sou. The report dots not even it'd her misfortunes, have been neglected and dis-
NM here, it *goes the length of putting the King a eeentenanced...
Second time to flighS.-frons his capital, with great Such has been our comfort to those who resken
bombers ef the French Nubility. • Such is still the us liberal and generous !-What, on the other baud,
unaccountable ascendattcy of this-Mates name over has been our conduct to those who now revile us for
the French, Alit, in'epite of iegradation and defeat, a want of generosity; and who, having called us in.
they suppose every thing must yield to his superior to the heart of their own country, upon the hypocri.
tenon' ; they will have it, that even the Allies are tical plea of disgust at the ambition of Napoleon,
msrehing off post haste, that •the Austrian army Is wish to retain fee themselves the fruits of those sic-
immediately to join Bonaparte, and that Maria tories to which they nowise contributed? For 20
Louisa and her son escaped several weeks since from year they subsisted on our bounty, soil they are
Vienna to Turkey. The sole ground upon which all
now restored to their dignities in their native coun-
these absurdities are sustained is, that Joseph, not try, at the expence of the blond and treasure of the
Napoleon Bonaparte, was the person who sur-
very people they traduce! At the houses of the Con-
rendered himself, and was carried off to St. Helene. stitutionalists, and even of the Bonspartists our offi-
Joseph, it is said, was so like his brother, that he was cars find much dejection of spirits, occasionally some
frequently mistaken for him, anti saluted as the Fn- sullenness and disappointment at the present state of
pror by the French troops. Where, they ask, is affairs, but they always experience personal civility
Joseph at present, if not at St. Ilelena—why is not ad attention, and in many instances great hospitality,
his retreat known like that of the other brothers ? and even kindness : but those whose billets have con-
This lithe usual reply, when the probability of Jo. ducted them to the houses of Dukes, Marquises,
se;)h's having passed for his brother, is disputed. At and Counts, of the ancient regime, are received with
the same time, it is certain that, at this moment, an affected appearance of contempt, and an air of
discoveries have been made which have given rise to I mortified national vanity, which they at least haysno '
the most serious alarm. Cernot has been arrested, I pretension to feel, since in the achievements on
end brought to Paris; no less than fifteen General l which that vanity was founded, they hold no ship"'
Olicers cars also said to have been carried off to pal whatsoever. The solitary instance .in which they
son, in the night, within the last twenty-four hours. evince any national feeling, any motives of patriot-
The most rigorous prohibitions have been issued by l lam, is forsooth, in their ingratitude to their benefae-
the Police against the sale, publicly or privately, of tors—le their base and unwarranted suspicions of
any hosts pictures, nr emblems of Bonaparte; yet those to whom they owe their restoration. To rob,
this is the war to make them sought after and , Imprison, persecute, and murder those of their cm).
circulated—suppression has no ether effect than that trymen who protected France against her invaders
of stimulating the curiosity of the buyer, and the 1 they think would be justice, but to restore to the
avarice of the seller; there is scarcely a day that ; eight owners the provinces or the monuments which
'some oat of the minor Papers sold in Paris is not; the exertions of others had obtained for France, they
"Appraised; the next morning they appear ander a with equal impudence and folly consider as injurious
new aeuse,end with the advantage of having been • to them.
the objects of hfilunterial notice. It is quite clear, They say, that " depuls Cenlreement des chevaux
that by meal of the press, as far as it is possible, le Roi a prix le mord* aux dents."
by the circulation of false rumours, and by seditious Abuse of Wellington is the grand lon at Court,
cries in the DOH- places, the spirit of disaffection is and if rumour says true, Wellington himself has ac-
indlertriously and systematically kept alive. One knowledged, that if be has driven away capacity and
avast ion, he has not yet placed good faith or honest
MUDS assigned for the zeal of the Ronapertiats at the
present moment its, their feeleusy of the Duke of PriliciPles on the three° of France.
Os-leans and hie partisans; this Nobleman has take° t
some 'herein the debates in the House of Peers, and,
as it would seem, with a view to popularity. Re
returns immediately to Emits(); there is a provision
la the prnject of the law for repressing seditious cries,
evidently directed against the possibility of an at-
tempt to change the succession to the Crown, in his
favour. The discussion in the Chamber of Peers on
the Address, was extremely warm ; several Members
proposed amendments, the object of which was,
to pledg . the King to punish those who had any
share in the government of Bonaparte. The person
against whom Out amendments are supposed to have
been directed, is said to be Fouche. It is even re-
ported that he has been arrested at Brussels. The
grand mistake which the friends of the King censure,
in the late 114411111afeS, is the appointment of the
Peers, and the election of the deputies previous to
the change of Ministry. The persons chosen under
the influence of the late Administration, constitute a
strong, or at least troublesome opposition, particu-
larly in the Chamber of Peers. No debate of im-
portance has yet taken place in the Chamber of
Deputies ; scarcely any of the persons elected under
the influence of Fouche and Talleyrand, have yet
taken their seats ; objections have been made to
their election, whch it is supposed will exclude
them : there is no appearance whatever of the eva-
cuation of Paris by the Allied troop' ; the different
posts are occupied by them as usual, and in some
places I have seen Prussian bivouacs at posts before
occupied by the National Guard. It is expected
that 10,000 British troops will take up their quar-
ters in the capital to-day or to-morrow. At no
time since the room of the King has the presence of
the Allies beau more necessary to preserve public
quiet.

Paris, Oct. 16.

Paris, Oct. 111.

I should have sent the enclosed sooner, but con-
cluded you had it*. The manner of the measure has
made it most ungracious. In substance, it is not
perhaps unjoct. The letter is a sad composition, and
unworthy of its author. flow can a man of Wel-
lington's greatuess condescend to call names, and
term the only Captain who can compare with him,
" Ihe :real enemy of mankind."
Even this mode of courting the legitimates has not
screened him from their censures, and the pure
Royalist party are as fool mouthed against him, as
he Call be against their enemy. His appearance in
the King's box (a mere accident resulting from a i
1/11Stlke of the ouvrcusc, but just calculated to excite
the indignation of that pitiful race of incorrigible;
courtiers, who think that a breach of etiquette is a
snore Rapala offence than the spoliation of a capital,
. or the tiegieclation of a people), is become a common-
topic of abuse against him hi all the true emigrant
circles. Indeed one of the Bourbon Princes, with
equal decency, taste, and gratitude, observed on the
Dike of Wellington, that after all he was a mere
upstart (qu'apres tout it n'cloit qu'un parvenu).
Bonaparte, when at war with England, when the
common object of invectives in Parliament and of ca—
lumny nut of it, often indulged himself in his public
speeches and papers, IN national reflections on Eng-

I will relate to you a single fact, upon the authen-
ticity of which you may rely, and which may serve
to give you an accurate idea of the general means
employed to influence the late elections.
A few days before the elections came on at Dijon,
tbe Secretary General of the Prefecture, a man who
has filled that office ;there 18 years, and who enjoys
universal esteem in that city, 'which elected him to
the late House of Representative., was carried off in
the middle of the night by an Austrian force and con-
veyed in chains to Macon. Its remained In the latter
town for above a month after the elections, and was
at length liberated from prison by the Austrian Com-
mander and dismissed from his office by the French
Minister. The Prince de Colloredo is the Com-
mander of the Austrian forces in that quarter. I
need not add that this act of violence, of which there
were numerous instanres at that period, was com-
mitted at the instigation of the present prevailing
party.
M measures of this kind could not be applied to
the mass of the electors, other means were resorted
to, such as exposing them to the vociferation. of a
hired multitude, when they came forward to give their
votes, and thus deterring them from appearing at the
elections.
The Address of the House of Deputies to the King
was presented yesterday. The words justice and
ipuration proposed to be inserted in it, have been the
subject of very animated discussion in both Reuses,
especially in the Upper, which has evinced on this
occasion a more liberal and constitutional spirit than
the [loose of Representatives. These two words dis-
close the whole system of the present Goverqmeut :
an universal change throughout all the offices of the
State, in order to ensure the accomplishment of far-
ther views. The chief bakes, of the Deputies fro=
all the departments at present in Paris is to denounce
to Administration the obnoxious individuals holding
offioe in their respective departments, and to recom.
mend others to supersede them.
The great object of the A, tois faction is to mite,
Feu for vengeance sod prosecution—as if any people
cuuld be brought to call for vengeance on themselves!.
There is not a family that has continued its residence
in France, which in some of its ablest and most la-
losable relatives would not be the victims of such a
course of proceeding. But it is the jesuitical design
of the purists to give the appearance of this applica-
tion from the people to the throne for renewing the
horrors of inquisitorial persecution. And their agents
the priests and bigots, they say, will in the south and
west at least procure the most sanguinary addresses
to that effect. What a system of paternal Govern.
mut! The father is religiously and dutifully called
upon by the children to scourge them.
In allusion to the Duke of Wellington's conduct
relative to the works of art, a caricaturist has pub.
lished a very strong likeness of his Grace, under
which is written Blucher.

• Toe Letter of the Della of Weßlast= to Lord Castlereagh•


Lest week Hums BULK MET OWEN, Eq. of Teds-
mere-hatt, Shropshire, invited his tenants to a dinner
of venison, when he informed them, that in conse-
quence of the depressed value of farming produce
he should lower their roots accordingly.

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