Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1825-11-11
Tbe Constitutional Jg1btg.
From he London .Hagosn1e
THE JOURNAL OF A. DETENU,
IN Eye Vincss Of The Erents in Paris during the first
four months Of 1914.

in the afternoon the cannon announced thc victory at
Champ aubert, the bulletin of which was afterwards
read at the theatres.
Fixing Joseph Bonaparte reviewed the Gre
nadiers oil the National Guard or the FIRST time
their being called out, in the court yard of the Tue
ries On tIs occasion, the little King; of Rome was
dressed mp IN the uniform of the National Guard.
| was this day at the Theatre tie POpcra Comique,
the first representation of Bayard Mezies-a piece
@en by order of the police to excite public Spirit
1t was got up and announced for representation ten
days sooner but, account of the AR of the
Allies Gavaudan, the actor waited the Minister OF
Police to know f should appear, the Minister re-
piled, ''cc nest pas lie momenn On the 5til para
graph was inserted in the journal dc Paris, saying
that Bayard MezieIs, which intended to nave
been performed that day, was postponed account of
the ndisposion of the three principal performers. On
the first successes of the French it as brought
out, aIri received with great applause.
l6-Thc arrival of General A!sufef who had been |
taken on the 10th at Champ aubert, announced
previously in the newspapers TO take place this day
lie entered Paris by the Faubourg St Martin. At
halt past twelve, | him the Boulevard Eonno
Nouvelle accompanied by Prince Pottarosli and Col
Reiden They on horseback in an undi ess with
travelling caps one had all order round his neck Six
gems darmes, with drawn swords conducted them by
so slow pace, that more than hour was employed
IN gong IRON the barrier OF Pantin 10 the Etat Major
IN The Place Fcndome The spectators near me eazed
on them IN silence, and seemed ashamed of this at
tempt to humate officers of their rank; and some
few expressed their fears lest . Emperor of Russia
should ietailate such an insult. But in the Rue IA
PnIeon, and in the Place Vcndome some miscreanis
vino were suspected of being hired for the purpose
hooiet them, and pointing 10 the bronze column CIV
ed, FYc la Colonne, abiding the report spread by
the governmet of lis being the intention of the Allies
TO destroy all monuments of and trophies OF ,ic-
| tory.
| 1.-THE National Guard was under arms n the
barrier OF Paun, before eight in the morning. to re-
ceve the prisoners taken at Champ ubert The Bou
ievards were thronged by two O'Clock AT four
column OF about 5000 Russians and Germans was pa
radcd along the Bouicvards, preceded bv French
drums aud gems darmes on horseback, and guarded
on each side by file of National Guards who had
now, tor The hrst time, been duty. The pa
pers had boosted that there would be 600 This
show hike the Indecent display Of yesterday, was re
ceIved in Very different manner by the people from
what the government intended expected The
multitude assembled TO them pass, evinced the
greatest pity; a1d money, and whatever caabIes
could at the instant be procured freely bestowed
| by even the poorest persons. Those who passed
Tie 1851, were still better treated the people had
time To provide TO- them On both DAYS a considerable
quantity OF bread was thrown from the windows in the
| lSuc Napoleon NIademc,clie Bourgan, the celeara
ted actress Of the Theatre Francas manifested her gra
ttude for the bcraiy she had received in Russia by
being on the Bouievads with her carriage full pro-
Visions which she distributed Madcinoseilc cgBault.
OF the Theatre de POpera Comique did the same as her
friend Boycleu the composer had been greatly patron
ised in Russia.
i The officers, whose melancholy dignity excited uni
versal admiration, marched at the head of the column,
and almost all the cloth in long loose coart
brown great coats, Ih the number of the regiment on
their shoulders. The Russians wore boots of Russia
leather the and powerful odour of which the Pari
SANS believed cmanated from the Russians themselves
some had cloth caps none had hats; but nearly all
without any covering on their heads Some few had
preserved Their knapsacks and camp kettles Several
were wounded and covered with blood, dried upon them
which shone, and as black as let The Russia ms
were OF very dark brown complications, and their hair
was cut quite close TO the head. | saw two women
am ng them. The column took twenty seven minutes
passing. They bad come that morning from Clayc
Vlcpariss, Liyry, ard the smaller villages of that
neghbonrhoOd general rendezvous for these divisions
. ihpy ,rl
unn to Versailles where they slept they arrived he
tween ten and eleven at night and UP in the
EcurIes du Ioi, large building entering the Place
uArIns, not having lad any thing to eat The whole day
nor until the next morning. After which they con
hnued their route; at half past nine O'clock they pas
sed through ST. Cyron on their way TO the part
of France
There rGmour that many in this display of pri-
soners had been taken long anterior TO the battle of
Champ aubeI it certainly manifested 10 the govern
rlcnt that tie people of Paris bad anmosy against
the Allies, Notwithstanding all their endeayours ex-
? cite IT. Indeed much OF the humanity shown BY the
better classes was sysicmac intended show their
attachment 10 the cause of the Allies
The newspapers asserted that thousand Of those
who passed through the 18th were Ausirans taken
at NaDgs the 10th, and that they entered Paris BIZ
The barrier Of Clarendon Some prisoners, indeed
were brought IN by that barrier, but Austrians were
among them, and the head Of the column which arrived
by the barrier of Pantn halted in the Champs Elysees
Tor these TO come up The whole column in which
there might be six thousand went To Versailles The
there was not single Cosssck among them. Some of
the Germans, on hearing this cFithct in almost every
month, exclaimed neir neia.
| 2Otb.-A paragraph in the Journal dc pEtnpiro an
nounced that girls boarding school had given two cot-
ton DightCaPs TO the arie Of the third ACCOMPLISHMENTS
such was the real paucity of patriotic feeling that the
triilng display of il in the gift Of two cotton nghtcaps
was considered worthy of record.
Immense packing cases full Of stamped paper had
continued arriving for weeks from Holland and
those parts of Germany which had been reconquered
and forot ate
lies. The different receivers general and distrbu.
tors OF stamps hastily tUmbed the contents into pack
ing cases. without order, even caic. Thus was
every department of the government in disorder and
c9DlusiOu.
I 26-An extraordinary sitting Of the MuniciraIity
Of Paris was held at the Hotel de Vile TO receive the
deputation from the numerous towns which had been
occupied By the Allies. series Of Official articles
subsequently, appeared in the Monteur, copied into
The other journals. portrayng 'e horrors Of the nva
sion the humiliations they suffered and which ,er
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