The President of the French Republic returned to Paris on
Thursday afternoon—sooner than was expected; and the assertions are repeated that his reception was not unanimously cordial: he had last stopped at Blois.
The Civil Tribunal of the Seine has been occupied with an action in which the Presse resists an endeavour made by the families of Benjamin Constant and Madame Recamier to suppress the letters from M. Constant to the lady. Judgment is postponed until next week. In the course of the argument for the Presse, M. Langlais read from an unpublished volume of M. de Chauteanbriand's Momoires d'outre Tombe, the following letter, written by the Duke of Wellington to Madame Reeamier while the Allies were in Paris— "Paris. 13th January.
"I confess, Madame, that I do not mach regret that business will prevent me from calling on you after dinner, inasmuch as every time I see you I leave you more penetrated with your charms, and less disposed to give my attention to politics. I will call on you, however, tomorrow morning, on my return from the Abbe Sicarcl's; and hope to meet you, notwithstanding the effect which these dan-
gerous visits produce on me. WELLINGTON."
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