LAFAYETTE.—A dinner was given to General Lafayette at the hotel
of the Prefect of Paris on the 15th. The whole of the Ministers were present, and many of the Peers and Deputies. The prosperity of " the Nation and the King of the French" was given by Alexander de La- borde, and drunk with great enthusiasm, as was that of the veteran on whose honour the banquet took place. THE IRON CHEST.—The Constitutionnel mentions, that when Count Mole took possession of the Foreign Office, which had been temporarily • held by Marshal Jourdan for the previous ten days, he found in an iron chest there, a voluminous correspondence of the ex-King and ex-Minister Polignac, a list of persons proscribed, and of the periodical writers paid by the French Ministry. We wonder if the latter list contained any English names. Some doubts have been suggested about the propriety of publishing those documents. If they are perfectly authentic we can see none. No honest man can be compromised by the publication ; and the sooner that scoundrels, foreign or domestic, are generally known to the world, the better. ManatoNT's APOLOGY.—Every man can command one advocate, let his case be as desperate as it may. The following is a letter addressed
of my mind on Monday, the 25th, and how our manner of seeing • eleven, the King sent for me, told me that there was some disturb- offensive operations, as it was no longer a mere insurrection, but a re- volution. By three o'clock my opinion was fixed. I made a report, and I repeatedly asked for orders to treat. On Thursday I abstained
thing would be set- company the King to Cherbourg. When he is in safety, my mission POPULAR JUSTICE.—While the mob were engaged in gutting the INJECTION* OF WARM WATER INTO THE VEINS, IN HYDRO- Archiepiscopal Palace at Paris, and throwing the contents into the rssoaxA.—C. D. atat. 31, of a strong constitution, was some time ago Seine, one unlucky rogue was detected purloining a watch. He was im- bitten by a dog in the right foot : no attention was paid to the wound, mediately seized, tried by a sort of drum-head court-martial, condemned, which speedily healed. The dog having disappeared immediately after and shot on the spot. An old lady, aged seventy-five, was detected in a the accident, it could not be ascertained whether it was affected with similar attempt at plunder, and condemned ; but, on account of her sex rabies or not. On the 15th of July, about six weeks after the infliction
and age, permitted to escape with a severe reprimand. of the bite, D. felt slightly indisposed, and complained of stiffness along
A YOUNG Heito.—Among the numerous. exploits of the Three the back ; on the 16th and 17th he seemed to labour under great mental Days, the gallantry of a mere boy, mentioned by the Herald correspond- depression, and on the 18th became restless, and so agitated that it was ent, stands eminently out. He was but fourteen years of age, the son feared he would become delirious ; he was bled, had leeches to the neck, of a marchand de yin at the corner of the Rue Verte and Rue St. Ho- and was ordered mucilaginous potions, which he took with some re. fore. Having assisted in disarming a parcel of soldiers at the barrack of luctance. Having been brought to the Hotel Dieu, on the 18th, at Rue Verte, he headed a column that was proceeding to the Louvre. nine o'clock in the morning, he was soon afterwards seized with convul- They had a sharp skirmish in the Rue Pepiniere. " Immediately upon sions, and all the symptoms of hydrophobia ; he violently pushed back reaching the Louvre, they got into the fire. Near the Pont Neuf they all fluids and bright bodies, and struck at the persons around him, so captured a field-piece, and killed or dispersed the cannoneers. In this that it was necessary to confine him with a strait-waistcoat. He talked affair the youthful leader killed an officer and a soldier of the Swiss. In much about his having been bitten by a dog, and earnestly entreated the capture of the cannon, a musket-ball carried off the fore-finger of those who came near him to kill him. At half-past ten he began to his left hand : he continued, nevertheless, his charge upon the artillery, spit around him. The secretion of saliva was very abundant, and con- and having, with his followers, taken the cannon, he very leisurely tinued to be so till the last moment of his life. It was white, viscous, opened the little bucket which contained grease for the wheels of the gun, and spumous. He used much effort to throw it off, and it frequently ran applied a morsel of it to the wound, bound up his hand, and set off again over his chin. He was also frequently seized with sitkness and nausea, in his career of glory. The lad has been the subject of a special report but without vomiting. MM. Petit, Caillard, and Bally, decided on the to the King." injection of warm water into the veins, and the operation was performed EFFECT OF A RETROSPECT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION ON at eleven o'clock by B. Sauson. About a pint of blood was previously .A NATIVE OF DUNDEE.—" The row is over, and everything has re- taken, and between seven and eight ounces of warm water were injected. turned, as by enchantment, into the most peaceful order. When I look No accident took place during the operation, and the patient appeared to back upon the amazing events crowded within the space of a little week, be somewhat more calm immediately after it. This improvement was, I am, like Lot's wife, turned into a pillar of salt." Such is the startling however, transitory; the convulsions speedily returned, and he died commencement of a letter in the Dundee Advertiser, " from a young about three o'clock, without much struggle.—Laneet.
man, a native of Dundee, at present pursuing his studies in Paris."
After thus alarming his friends, the young man agreeably surprises
them with a description of what he saw before he was turned into a MRS. WHITE'S INQUEST. pillar of salt. Among the destructive instruments that supplied the TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. want of muskets and swords, he enumerates "unbuttoned foils, carving- by the Duke de Ragusa to a lady in Paris. It is dated " L'Aigle, Au- his companions in dressing their wounds. This appeal was effectual, gust 6," and begins " dear friend,"—" Have you ever witnessed a fatality and I was pushed into the Hospital amidst the cheers of the tattered like that which attends me ? Am I not crushed by a hand of iron ? guard. There I remained upon duty two days and a night. Upwards You who know my sentiments and opinions, think of what I have to of five hundred wounded were brought into the Hospital." This of suffer now. My only consolation is the thought that it was not in my course formed but a small portion of the wounded; many of them being power to act otherwise than I have done. You recollect the disposition attended in their own houses.
and thinking agreed, in opposition to another person, and how little PRINCE DE POLIGNAC.—It may not be generally known that this I dreamt of what would befall me: On Tuesday, at half-past individual, is an illegitimate son of the ex-King of France—still less that he lived a considerable time in Edinburgh. His mother, Madame de '
ante at Paris, and desired me to take the command and restore order. Polignac, mistress of the Comte d Artois when he resided at Holyrood Order, slightly disturbed, was restored without much effort, and the House, lived in that small white villa at the south end of the lane called night was quiet. But at five o'clock in the morning groups were Croft-an-righ, and fronting into the King's Park, about fiftyyards from formed, and had become hostile ; I ordered the troops to take up arms ; the Palace. Here also lived Louis de Polignac, then only known as a it was necessary for me to try to check disorders committed before my wild French boy, attending the High School. We have been told by a eyes, for fear of being accused of encouraging them—hence a serious lady who attended Madame Rossignal's dancing academy—ye Powers ! conflict ensued. In the evening, I rallied my troops, giving up all it was in Bailie Fife's Close, up three stairs—that Louis de Polignac used to come to the bottom of the stair every day with his tutor, or other attendant, and kiss the young ladies attending the sChool as they de- scended—the said attendant assisting him to catch them, and see that no from all hostility, but I renounced my defensive position in order one escaped. The same youth, afterwards formed a matrimonial con- to preserve the Tuileries. We were assailed by the firing of muskets, nexion with an Edinburgh lady, of the name of Campbell, who, how- which we scarcely returned. I did not allow a cannon to be fired, ever, is since dead. The lively manners of young Polignac are still well
and I sent the Mayor to announce that every remembered by many persons living in Edinburgh.—Catedonian Mercury. tled, in order to appease the assailants. Every thing seems to go wrong The lively (query mercurial?) manners of the Louis of our contem.
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