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THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:

WIDNIRSUAY, JULY 51 1815.

We cannot yet gratify public impatience with au-
thentic intelligence from Paris. The statements cir-
culated yesterday, on the authority of a vessel said
to have arrived at Brighton from Dieppe, that Paris
had been surrounded, and was undergoing a bom-
bardment by the Allied Armies, are not confirmed.
If Paris had yielded either on Saturday or Sunday,
we think we must have heard of the event by va-
rious channels, not se Liable to suspicion as the
round-about Brighton rumours. A number of boat•
are waiting at Calais, Boulogne, and Havre, ready
to start for England the moment intelligence arrives
from Paris. The nott.arrival of any of these is pretty
decisive proof that tin such event as either the bombard.
log or surrender of the French capital had occurred
op to Monday. The tri-coloured flag was flying
at Boulogne on Sunday, and no post bad reached
that place from Paris for ft ur days. This is at.
tributable to the Allied Armies having occupied the
roads, and the measures taken on the part of the
French themselves for their internal defence. We
remain without any Papers from Paris of a later
date theft Tuesday se'nnight; therefore, are almost
is total ignorance of the proceedings in that city.—
But the Brussels Mails come regularly to hand, and
from these we have copious, though not very trust-
worthy, accounts of passing events. A letter from
a respectable person at Brussels says, the Prince of
ORANGE had received information that the Pro.
visional Government had assembled 60,000 men in
and about Paris, resolved on defence. But this is
not in the usual character of the Brussels news; nor,
unless the men so assembled are National Guards
and Federates, does it accord with the official com-
munications we have of the strength and operations
of the French armies. The dispatch of the Duke
of Weldartnrost, from Orville, on the 28th, of
which the substance has already been given in a
Butletie, appears in last night's Gazette, and
from that we learn that the retreat upon the capital
of the army under Marshal GROUCHY, at Soissons,
had been cut off, and that the Allied Commanders
anticipated no obstacle to the conclusion of their
march. The British Army was to, be on the Oise the
tier day, the 20th. The Prussians were a day's
march in advance of the British, but the Duke of
Wet.t.tmovoe conceived that there was no danger in
this separation of the armies. The Brussels Papers
of the Ist instant assert, that Marshal GROUCHY,
i n directing his march upon Paris to cover that ca.
pitel, bad come in contact with Btucutn, who had
defeated him, and completely destroyed the remain-
ing hope of the enemy. It is also added, that upon
the intelligence of this new defeat reaching the Cham-
bers, they called ui several of the ancient Legi-
slative Body to join them, and passed a Decree that
Lours X VIII. was recalled to the Throne of his
ancestors. This latter statement we believe to be
totally unfounded. The Duke of WELLINGTON
would have lost no time in communicatiug such an
event had it occurred. A counter statement, perhaps
as little entitle,' to credit is made, namely, that the
Chambers of Government, on the refusal of the
Allies to treat with their Committee, had recalled

lIO?IAPAATE to the command of the armies, of which

he ►ras named Generalissimo, and that they had re-
solved to resist to the last. It is not improbable that
if there has been any indication of a resolution to
oppose, by force of arms, the entry of the Al;led

troops into I'aris, the Duke of WELUNGTOK, to
spare the effusion of blood, may have deemed it ad-
visable to Intim. a little, but we are now without
the expee atinn that Paris will be defended. If, how-
ever, it be true, that the Government has been able
to draw around the capital 60)000 soldier!) and the

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