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Overthrow of the French Monarchy. 



From the Boston Courier. 

 We this day present to our leaders a full and 

 connecter! narrative of the recent events in 

 Fiance, by a very ahle and intelligent eye-wit- 

 ness. It forms the substance of a letter from our 

 townsman, S. G. Goodrich, Esq., (Peter Parley) 

 to a friend in Boston. As a history of this great 

 revolution, from an impartial observer, it possess- 

 es the highest permanent interest, and we have 

 no doubt will he duly appreciated by the public: 



Paris, March 4th, 1848. 

 Dear Sir: — As it has been my fortune to he 

 in Paris, anil a witness to many of the most stir- 

 ring and striking occurrences during the late 

 revolution, 1 propose to give you a brief con- 

 secutive narrative of wdiat 1 saw and heard, em- 

 bracing a sketch of other leading events. My 

 purpose will he to take you with me, and make 

 you a participator, as far as possible, in the 

 scenes and emotions experienced by one who 

 was on the spot. 



Before I begin, it may be well to state a few 

 particulars as to the political condition of Fiance 

 at the moment of the revolt. It is well known 

 that Louis Philippe accepted the crown at the 

 hands of Lafayette, after the struggle id' July, 

 1630, the latter saying, as he presented the king 

 and charter to the people — " We give you the best 

 of monarchies — the best of republics." The cir- 

 cumstances, all considered, pledged Louis Phi- 

 lippe to a liberal government, in which (he good 

 of the people should be the supreme object, mid 

 the popular will ihe predominating element. 



He commenced his career under fair auspices, 

 and for a time everything promised a happy ful- 

 filment of what seemed his ilinv and his destiny. 

 1 chanced to be in Paris in 1 83'i, and witnessed 

 a celebration of the "Three Glorious Days." — 

 The king then reviewed 80,000 troops, i hielly 

 National Guards. Ho was ail day on horseback, 

 and of course before the people. I saw hundreds 

 of ihe common people step up to him and shake 

 him by the hand. He was enthusiastically cheer- 

 ed every where, and seemed indeed the idol ol 

 the people. On visiting Paris in 1847, after a 

 lapse of fifteen years, I was amazed at the change. 

 Shut up in his palace, like the veiled prophet of 



rassan, ami entrenched ill military power, 

 with a haughty ministry, pursuing an unbending 

 course of policy, he seemed rather a despot ol the 

 old school — a Bourbon of the last century — than 

 a citizen kill"., crowned at the barricades. A 

 Ureal change hail indeed come over the monarch ; 

 the possession of power had seduced his heart 

 and turned his head ; and forgclling his pledges, 

 ami blind to his true interest, he was busy in 

 building up a dynasty that should hand down his 

 name and fame to posterity. 



Ii seemed, al a superficial glance, that he might 

 realize his dream. He had acquired the reputa- 

 tion of being Ihe most sagacious monarch of his 

 time, lie had improved and embellished the 

 capital; on all 3ides his •■ image and superscrip- 

 tion" were seen in connection with statues, 

 fountains, edifices, and works of beauty and nti- 

 lity. France was happier than the adjacent coun- 

 tries; the famine and the pestilence that bad re- 

 cently desolated neighboring Stales, bad trod 

 more lightly here. The king was blessed with a 

 large faintly; these had all reached maturity, and 

 were allied to kings and queens, princes and 

 princesses. The upholders of the crown in the 

 parliament were u tower of strength. Peace 

 reigned al home, and llie army abroad had just 

 succeeded in achieving a triumph over an enemy 

 that had baffled them for seventeen years. 



Such was ihe outward seeming of affaire; but 

 there were threatening fires within, which might 

 at any time produce an earthquake. The think- 

 ing people were profoundly disgusted with the 

 retiogade tendency of ihe government ; with 

 the corruption of iis officers; the gradual subsi- 

 dizing of the legislature by ihe crown, and the 

 concentration of all the powers of the State ill 

 the hands of one man, who was now using them 

 for family aggrandizement. Although the march 

 of despotism had been cautious anil stealthy, 

 the plainest mind could see, and, indeed, the 

 people generally began to feel, many galling evi- 

 dences of the tj runny to which they had beci ■ 



actually subjected. 



Among these grievances were the constant in- 

 crease ol' ihe national debt, and consequent in- 

 crease of taxation, and the restraints put upon 

 the liberty of speech. By a law of some years 

 standing, the people were prohibited from hold- 

 ing stated i 'iiiii;s of more than twenty per- 

 sons; and reform banquets, of which about 

 seventy had been held, in different parts of the 

 kingdom, within the last year, were now pro- 

 nounced illegal by the ministry, and a determina- 

 tion lo suppress one about to be held in the 

 twelfth arrondissemeiit of Paris was solemnly 

 announced by iheui in the Chamber of Deputies. 

 It is material to hear in mind that there are al- 

 ways in this metropolis at least 100,000 work- 

 men, who live from day to day upon their labor, 

 and who, upon the slightest check to trade, are 

 plunged into poverty, if not starvation. At tin' 



1 1 io nt of which we are speaking, this immense 



body of men, with llieir families, ware Suffering 

 sorely from the stagnation of business in the 

 capital. There were not less ihan 200,000 per- 

 sons, wdm, for the space of three months, bad 

 not been able to obtain sufficient food to appease 

 ihe cravings of hunger. How easy to Btir up 

 these people to rebellion! — how natural for them 

 io 1 1 ■ iii their indignation against ihe king and 

 his government ! The opposition members seized 

 the occasion now afforded them, lo e\cile these 

 discontented masses against the ministry; and it 

 may be added that the latter did more than their 

 enemies to prepare the mine, and set the match, 

 to the train. 



The crisis was now at hand. The opposition 

 deputies declared their intention to attend the 

 proposed celebration, and in spile of the threats 

 of the ministry, the preparations for the. banquet 

 went vigorously on. A place was selected in the 

 Champs Elyseea, and a building was in progress 



of erection for the feast. The programme of the 

 same was announced— the toasts for the occasion 

 were published — the orator (O. Bar rot) selected. 

 The day was lived — an ominous day for tyranny 

 — an auspicious one for liberty. It was the 22d 

 of February, the birth-day of Washington ! — 

 Whether it has received a new title to its place 

 in the calendar of liberty, muft be left for the 

 decision of time. 



The evening of the 21st came, and then pro- 

 clamations were issued by the joint action of the 

 ministry and the police prohibiting the banquet. 

 This act, though it had been threatened, still fell 

 like a thunderbolt upon the people. Jt was 

 known that an immense military force bad been 

 quietly assembled in Paris and the vicinity, 

 (80,000 troops with artillery and ample muni- 

 tions) and that the garrisons around the Tuileries 

 had been victualled as if for a siege. But it had 

 not been believed that au attempt to stifle the 

 voice of the people, so bold as ibis would really 

 be made. Yet such was the lart. The leaders 

 of ihe opposition receded from their ground, and 

 it was announced in the morning papers of the 

 22d (bat the banquet, being forbidden by the 

 government, would not take | lace! 



The morning of Ihe 22d was dark and drizly. 

 I had anticipated some manifestation of uneasi- 

 ness, and at 1M o'clock went forth. Groups of 

 people were reading the proclamations posted 

 up at the corners of the streets, but all was tran- 

 quil, 1 walked along the Boulevards for a mile, 

 yet saw no symptoms of the coming storm. 



The place of meeting for the banquet had been 

 fixed in the square of the Madeleine. This is at 

 the western extremity of the Boulevards, and 

 near the great central square, called the Place de 

 la Concorde — a point communicating directly 

 with the Chamber of Deputies, the Champs Ely- 

 sees, the garden of ihe Tuileries, &.c. At 11 

 o'clock, A. M., a dark mass was seen moving 

 along the Boulevards towards the proposed place 

 of meeting. These consisted of thousands of 

 workmen from the faubourgs. In a few mo- 

 ments the entire square of the Madeleine was 

 filled with these persons, dressed almost exclu- 

 sively in their characteristic costume, which con- 

 sisis of a blue tunic, called blouse, a garment 

 which is made very much in the fashion of our 

 farmers' frocks. 



The opening scene of the drama bad now be- 

 gun. The mass rushed and eddied around the 

 Madeleine, which, by the way, is the finest church 

 and finest edifice in Paris: such was the threat- 

 ening aspect of the scene that the shops were all 

 suddenly shut and the people around began to 

 supply themselves with bread and other food ./or 

 three days. In a few moments Ihe avalanche took 

 its course down the Rue Royale, swept across the 

 Place de la Concorde, traversed the bridge over 

 the Seine, and collected in swelling and heaving 

 masses in the Place or square before the Cham- 

 ber ol Deputies. This building is defended in 

 front by a high iron railing. The gate of Ibis 

 was soon forced, and some hundreds of the peo- 

 ple rushed up the long flight of steps, and paus- 

 ing beneath the portico, struck up the song of the 

 Marsettaise. The ciowd continually increased — 

 shouts, songs, cries, filled the air. East and west, 

 along the quays and through ihe streets behind 

 the Chambers, came long lines of students from 

 the various schools. Standing upon one of the 

 pillars of the bridge, I commanded a view of the, 

 whole scene. Jt was one to fill the heart with 

 the liveliest emotions. A hundred thousand peo- 

 ple were now collected, seeming like an agitated 

 sea, and sending forth a murmur like the voice 

 of many waters. From the southern gate of the 

 Tuileries issued two bodies of troops — one on 

 horseback, came along the northern i:ate. They 

 were the Municipal Guard, a magnificent corps, 

 richly caparisoned, and nobly mounted. Being 

 picked and well paid they were the chief reli- 



