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From a paragraph in the Moniteur of Monday, it appears that the appointment of Marshal Soult to represent the King of the French at the ensuing Coronation, had either been prematurely announced, or has since been revoked.
The appointment of Count de Flahault as Ambassador of France at the approaching coronation, would have given great satisfaction in England, from the estimation in which he is held, and from his having always been a firm friend to the maintenance of a close alliance between the two countries. We have, therefore, heard, with equal surprise end and regret, that the appointment has been rescinded, after it had been announced as certain, and conferred upon Marshall Soult. Our cor. respondent in Paris assures us, that when M. Soult went to the Tim. leries to return thanks upon his nomination as Ambassador Extraor- dinary to the Court of England, Louis Philip said to him—" My dear Marshal, you have no thanks to render me. They are all due to the young Qineen, who made known to me her wishes that you .11rnild be the person sent to represent France on this occasion." This decluni. tion has caused some surprise in diplomatic circles at Paris, as it was generally believed that the choice of Count de Flaillault, who had pre- viously le en designed by the King of the French for this hiLsh honour, had met with the most unqualified approbation of the English Govern- ment, end that of our Ambassador at the French Court.— (
The selection of Marshal Sonic to represent the King of the French at the approaching coronation of her Majesty Queen Victoria, occu- pies the Paris press, for the moment, beyond any other topic. Even the conversion of the Five per Cents. has given way to it. The ma- jority of those journals (with not much good taste, good sense, or good feeling, you will perhaps say,) are filled with references to "the triumphs of the Marshal," as they pleased to call them, "over the British army,"—or rather, identifying the British army with its immortal chief, "over Wellington," and particularly "at Toulouse ! " The Parisian journalists will, however, I am convinced, lose their labour in their attempt to bespeak for Marshal Soult an unfavourable reception by the citizens of London. Those gentlemen ought from experience to know Ilea the commanders of hostile armies rarely encounter expres- sions of dislike or unpopularity:even in the capitals of kingdoms en. tered by them as conquerors.—Letter/kern Paris in the Times.
The Temps revives the report that the Duke de Neniours is to be present at her Majesty's Coronation.
Prince Paul Esterhazy has ordered a magnificent Hungarian uniform, which he is to wear on her Britannic Majesty's Coronation, and which, it is said, will cost an enormous sum.—Leiter from Vienna.
The Marquis de Miraflores is to come to London on her Majesty's Coronation as Extraordinary Envoy from the Court of Madrid, ac- cording to one report : another rumour is that the Duke of Ossuna will be selected.
The Courier fairly remarks, that the clamourers about the desecra-
tion of the anniversary day of George the Fourth's death, originally axed for the coronation of Queen Victoria, forget that the day on which a King dies is also the day on which a King succeeds, and that the day itself is celebrated with bell-ringing and gun-firing. There- fore it might be said, that Queen Victoria (if crowned on the 26th of June) was crowned on the anniversary of the aceession of good King
There is no authority for the rumour of her Majesty's visit to Ire. land this year.—Moreing Chronicle. [The Standard has truly re- marked, that there is the "authority" of O'Connell, who has selected the theme as matter of blarney for his Dublin audience. Perhaps there is not much in this, however : he may have assumed the truth of the rumour, because it served his purpose for the time. On the other hand, the Chronicle's apparent contradiction may be Jesuitical: "there is no authority for the rumour," but it may be true though not autho- rized.] The London correspondent of a German paper, who from the number of Court anecdotes which he introduces into his letters, is probably attached in some way to one of the German embassies, says, that it was at the request of her Majesty, that the Archbishop of Can- terbury was lately assigned a place lower down at the Royal table than that usually reserved for the Primate at her Majesty's right hand. It appears that his Grace had been greatly scandalized by her Majesty's riding o it occasionally on a Sunday, and had availed himself of every opportunity when he sat near her at table to remonstrate 'out so profane a practice. These repeated table lectures at last exhausted her Majesty's patience ; and awish was expressed that when he next dined at the Palace, means might be found of relieving her from toe close a vicinity to the over-sealous Primate. In repeating this mut. dote, we, of course, warn our readers against placing too implicit a re. Hance on a piece of gossip that must. have passed through several bands before it reached the writer.—Courier.
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