Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1825-11-08

rate the state Of France at that moment On the oh
verse was the head of Napoleon; the eagle
erect having most ridiculous Bubsd air. above his
mead star, ms claws thunder bolt side the
sign Pisces; the other small figure victory flying
with wreath IN her hand. The legend FEvRIER.
MDcccxIv. This the only mcjalllc record of this
| memorable campaign.
February I-Pallisadocs before the ffty-two barr-
gates of Paris, hgan to be erected for the COL
srucon OF which the ues; and largest trees in the Bots
de BoulOgne felled.
The OriGame. an cyera in act, produced by or
dcrof Government 10 excite popular efec; against the
brought out at the Great Opera this even
ing.
Price Of Stocks this day, . per cents 81 francs Bank
actions, 90 francs.
About the 5t the passport office at the Prefecture
OF Police daily thrcnged with ladies' who fearing
The arrival of the enemy, hasened quit Paris with
their children, ard take refuge in Normandy Touraine
and the western parts of France Thirteen hundred
passports delivered in one day.
Numbers pledged their effects at Mont de Pete as
security from their being losers should Paris be plag
cd To put stop 10 this motive of pledging, from the
18Th, however valuable the article offered. only 90
francs was lent upon it. The estimated value was
however, inserted in the duplicate that if accidentai
lost, the real value might be returned
1OBi!ls stuck up about Paris, containing an inyi-
aon from the Project of the departments the Seine
tn the inhabitants of Paris furnish the HOSPITALS with
5000 bedseas 5000 straw mattresses 1000 maftrass-
es' COCO bnsers 100 sheets, 10000 blankets 900
shirts, 10000 caps half pound of linz, one pound
ct linen rags with each bed and money to purchase
cooking vessels This solicited for the newly es-
iabl!slCd military hospitals, accompanied with threat
that If not complied with the sick would be quarercd
upon the inhabitants.
But previous 10 this notice, most of the females in
the higher and ui,iGng classes employed their leisure
minutes in the tedious process of unravclling rags to
make lint for tic wounded, woven lnt being unknown
IN France. This was the evening occupation al almost
all the houses freGuentcd, and saw kIamaison the
Empress Josephine herself set the example, and all her
ladies her drawing thus emDlDVIEn the
ing.
The Project of the department of the Seine gave or
dcrs 10 establish hospital, pro cmpore the newly
constructed and not yet finished slaughter houses al the
top of the Rue Roclehouard and that in the Rue Pc
pinlcrc. The Clerk of the works, Coohard Instantly
visited the place TO molle their arrangements BEDS
were accordingly placed in the stables, slaughter
houses and in those for the sheep, and in the cart hou-
ses glass windows put the place of the luter
boards.
| One OF the slaughter houses was converted into a
Nlcen and lisaneri, place for preparing nusions
OF herbs, &c in the upper story was set apart
for the soldiers knapsacks; pharmacy was establish
ed; the Offices OF the clerks fitted up for officers
be! rooms These works we're begun the 10th, and,
on the 18th, l2CJ wounded French placed there
All the Disgusting imagery Of DISPLAYED
within tc walls of the capital In consequence ofthe
military hospital being found insufficient TO receive the
immense numbers of the sick aud wounded which con-
nucd to arrive either from the army from the eva
cuatlOn ct the military hospitals on the frontiers now in
possession of The Allies, the patients driven from
the hospitals, and replaced by those from the army;
while those thus driven out obliged to rntu,n TO
their small and crowded homes 10 tie popuous fau-
borIg' thus spreading coniagion in these abodcs of
wrctc c,ncss.
The Salpeti!ere the asylum for INDECENT aged
initT, and insane females these miserable objects
were driven from the wards they inhabited and forced
into the workshops of that extensive establishments
and the wards filed with the sick wounded military
From the middle of February the end OF March, Sc
ven thousand six hundred and niue broueh: INTO
ms hospital from the army. The greater plumber Of
tesc abou!ng under typhus and chronic dIarioea re-
sn!ting from bad. rather the almost total want Of
ncuTis!ncnt. Such The CONFUSION In he adnnis-
traicn of the hospital that there GOD for fuel
or even charcoal for heating Tie Sanes, which rom the
severity OF The weather frozen. The broken win
dos remained this, though we'd those attacked
with fever. killed the pulmonary patients Numbers of
conscrips died Of a pulmonary consumption before
they had been month march, and without having
received any medical assistance. Contagon reipned
10 such degree in the Sapetere, that of six phy-
sclans and surgeons who attended there three died and
DR. Esparon, from whom received this iHformatiou
attributed his preservation to taking additional guam
tity of strong coffee All those who sorted the dead
soldiers clothes died. did also the man who funrat-
neglected TO be washed; this also contributed to
propagate the cOntaeion, which so much dreaded
tat tie drivers of the cabrjoes and acres could not
! be induced TO approach the hospital with fare.
There at this time, from eighteen to twenty
! thousand sick and wounded from the army in Paris
TO CONTINUED.