“The cry of the French now was, that it was abominable, execrable, to insult the king in his palace—­to insult him in the face of his own subjects by removing the horses in the face of day!  I adjourned with a friend to dine at a restaurateur’s, near the garden of the Tuilleries, after witnessing what I have described.  Between seven and eight in the evening we heard the rolling of wheels, the clatter of cavalry, and the tramp of infantry.  A number of British were in the room; they all rose and rushed to the door without hats, and carrying in their haste their white table napkins in their hands.  The horses were going past in military procession, lying on their sides, in separate cars.  First came cavalry, then infantry, then a car; then more cavalry, more infantry, then another car; and so on till all four passed.  The drums were beating, and the standards went waving by.  This was the only appearance of parade that attended any of the removals.  Three Frenchmen, seeing the group of English, came up to us, and began a conversation.  They appealed to us if this was not shameful.  A gentleman observed, that the horses were only going back to the place from whence the French had taken them:  if there was a right in power for France, there must also be one for other states but the better way to consider these events was as terminating the times of robbery and discord.  Two of them seemed much inclined to come instantly round to our opinion:  but one was much more consistent.  He appeared an officer, and was advanced beyond the middle age of life.  He kept silence for a moment; and then, with strong emphasis, said—­’You have left me nothing for my children but hatred against England; this shall be my legacy to them.’”—­Scott.

REMOVAL OF THE STATUE OF NAPOLEON FROM THE PLACE VENDOME.

“What will posterity think of the madness of the French government and the exasperation of public feeling in a nation like the French, so uniformly proud of military glory, when very shortly after the first arrival of their new monarch, Louis XVIII., an order was issued for leveling with the dust that proud monument of their victories, the famous column and statue of Napoleon in the Place Vendome cast from those cannon which their frequent victories over the Austrians had placed at their disposal?  The ropes attached to the neck of the colossal brazen figure of the Emperor, wherewith the pillar was crowned, extended to the very iron gratings of the Tuillerie gardens; thousands essayed to move it, but all attempts were vain—­the statue singly defied their malice; upon which a second expedient was resorted to, and the carriage horses, etc., from the royal stables were impressed into this service, and affixed to the ropes, thus uniting their powerful force to that of the bipeds:  but even this proved abortive; the statue and column braved the united shocks of man and beast, and both remained immoveable.”  The statue was afterwards quietly dislodged from its station by the regular labors of the experienced artisan.  It was not replaced till after the Revolution in 1830.—­Ireland.