Alexandria Gazette, Commercial And Political

From the Albany Daily Advertiser.

If Miss Williams is entitled to credit it is equally true, that the return of Bonaparte was a source of the greatest anxiety and alarm to the people of France. Even in the city of Paris, formerly the great centre of Jacobinism, and revolutionary madness, this was strikingly the fact. She describes the approaches of this event, at the capital, in the following manner.

" Gloomily arose the morning of the 20th of March on the inhabitants of Paris. It was known that Louis XVIII had left his capital at midnight and no heart was unmoved by the affecting detail of his departure. The national guards at the Thuilleries, melted into tears at the sight of their unfortunate monarch, as he descended the steps of the palace he knelt as he passed through the ranks, pressed to their lips his hands, even the flaps of his coat, conjuring him not to depart, declared that they were ready to sacrifice their lives in his defence.

" During the preceeding day, the people of Paris had been agitated by a doubt of fear, hope and expectation. But the fatal certainty had not reached them. Their King was a fugitive, and the tyrant was hastening to fill the vacant throne. He drew nearer every minute, resistance was forbidden, because it was useless, and Paris was once more destined to bend her prostrated head to the dust. Peace, commerce, security, children, all that binds the human heart to existence, all that cheers and gives it value, was again to be sacrificed at the shrine of the usurper. Early in the morning the shopkeepers were busily employed in changing their signs. Everywhere the crested lilly disappeared, and the victorious eagle again stretched over the portals his terrific wings.

". The women of France had found tyranny brought home to their very bosoms--this iron had entered into their souls." They had felt it poisoning the sweetness of domestic life, shedding bitterness over all its charms, and wasting all its enjoyments. Who had not wept for a brother, an affianced lover, a husband, or a son ?-Who had not lamented the years of youth wasted without hope or those of mature age without consolation ? Here many Rachael mourned for their children, and would not be comforted because they were not? CONSCRIPTION-what a terrible word ! How little you can feel, or comprehend all its meaning! It has drawn no tears from your eyes--it has awakened no anguish in your bosom ! They only understand it well, whose children have been exposed to its savage grasp.

So backward were even the Paris mob to utter the common shouts of acclamation upon Bonaparte's public appearances in that city, after his return, that a regular price was given to a certain portion of them to exclaim "Vive l'Empereur."

We have been told thousands of times, by Bonaparte's friends in this country, that he was the favourite of the French people. Louis the object not only of their dislike, but of their most profound contempt. We should like to have these opinions reconciled with Miss Williams's facts--facts, which she had opportunity herself to witness, and which, if they actually did exist, speak a language which cannot be mistaken. Nothing is clearer in our minds, than that by paupers who are mentioned by his mill- the great body of the inhabitants, (those tary followers with a sneer) his return was dreaded like the approach of a pestilence. They saw, in a moment, the scenes of bloodshed, devastation, cruelty, renewed, & had they possessed the means of resistance, no doubt but they would have been most effectually used for that purpose. But the nation was disarmed, --and the army had been so long under his care and tutelage, that they had lost all regard for the ties of kindred, and the claims of their country--they thirsted for blood and plunder, and they knew who would satiate their ferocious and sanguinary appetites.

Is it in human nature, that the fathers of the most wealthy young Ladies of their * The Prefects had orders, to send Lists then received what was called an invite- respective departments.-Their Parents tion; which means an order, to consent to their marriage with certain Military ages took place ; and the most opulent gion of Honour. Many of these Marri merchants and bankers of Paris, in giving their daughters, found their strong chests also put in requisition, and consigned to the discretion of their Sons in law."