66 My master's compliments, and he desired me to give you this note," said a footman. Mytton tore it open and read : "Dear Mytton,-Allow me to assure you that it is with feelings of sorrow, as far as you are concerned, that I am obliged to leave you in the sudden and unceremonious manner in which I have done; circumstances over which I had no control compelled me. I have gone to the Cave,' the entrance is guarded by a natural barrier of rocks, which I have strengthened by two Tipperary boys as sentinels; recommend Mr. Macgregor not to follow except he wishes to become the supper of the eagles. Accept the apologies of Lady Macginnis and myself, together with the assurance that we shall at all times be delighted to see you at Castle Knock. Believe me, very truly Pres brown eyes so when Sergeant Fieldday had kept post over the piquet for some hour or so, he became weary, and to disperse his ennui strolled to Mr. O'Flarthy's house to whisper soft nothings into Miss O'Flarthy's ear. ently, Corporal Canteen espied a snug little shebeen near the other lodge gate, and he thought he might just step over there and taste the quality of the whiskey. Thus, link by link was that chain of responsibility broken, so lauded by the greatest captain of our age, the Duke of Wellington. The soldiers followed the example of their superiors, and when Mytton returned he found the horses linked together in charge of a recruit. Tom Shrub, insensibly drunk, Blackwood, a Sheffield rough, swearing he would not go home till morning, while Private O'Rourke swore Jack, Lieutenant Jack, bedads, was a trump." 66 But the retreat to Fethard! Oh, for the talent and pencil of a Leech or a Brown! First rode Mytton on his black charger, heels down, in a hard gallop; then followed Macgregor, toes down, heels up, arms a-kimbo in a good round trot, while his dirty dressed subs would ride the soldiers' troopers, ludicrously contrasting their gay trappings with the men's patched coats, while one finished the picture by appropriating a soldier's helmet, giving him in return his crownless hat. In short, the whole road was strewed with relics of that day's adventure. Napoleon's retreat from Waterloo, or that of the Ten Thousand in ancient history, never equalled it. But let us drop the green curtain, simply to rise it for the reprint of the London Gazette ::"Cornet Waterloo, Quartre Bras Snooks to be lieutenant vice Mytton who retires." New Monthly Magazine. WILKIE'S "RELLY." Chantry and Wilkie were dining along with me, (Collins, R. A.) when the former, in his great kindness for Wilkie, ventured, as he said, to take him to task for his constant use of the word "relly," (really,) when listening to any conversation in which he was much interested. "Now, for instance," said Chantry, "suppose I was giving you an account of any interesting matter, you would constantly say, "Relly! "Relly!" exclaimed Wilkie immediately, with a look of the most perfect astonishment.-Life of Collins. MEMOIRS OF CITIZEN CAUSSIDIÈRE. Memoirs of Citizen Caussidière, ex-Prefect | of Police, and Representative of the People. Two vols. The true history of the famous February revolution will be a marvellous history when it comes to be written. Citizen Caussidière offers his humble contribution to it in these two volumes. They are all about himself and very curious. The citizen takes no trouble to disguise his opinions, though he flings a decent veil over his acts now and then. He is a doughty specimen of a red republican. Red is his favorite color from first to last. He had his sword fastened with a red sash when he was installed in the prefecture; he had a sabre with red knots by his side, and a red sash round his waist with a pistol stuck in it, on his first visit to the provisional government at the Hôtel de Ville. Girt with these red companions, at the first planting of a tree of liberty by his officers of police, he preached fraternity "like a priest of the Redeemer." Blue turned up with red was the color of his republican guard, though he grieves to have to record that the red was changed the other day to blue altogether. However, he consoles himself with the persuasion that it "will become indispensably necessary to return to the red." Citizen Caussidière's greatest glory, before the revolution, was to have been "a brave conspirator." As soon as the agitation about the reform dinners took a a formidable shape, he went rubbing his hands to the offices of the Réforme newspaper, which he knew to be the head-quarters of a host of conspirators as brave as himself. "The meeting which had the most influence on the turn of events was that convoked on the Monday evening in the bureaux of the "Réforme." At this meeting a hundred citizens of tried courage and unflinching character loudly discussed the chances of a revolution. There were present Flocon, Baune, Etienne Arago, and all the Editorial staff of the journal; Caussidière, and other representatives of the secret societies; Louis Blanc, Thoré, and other journalists of the same opinions; Delecluze, of the Impartial du Nord;" Pont, of the "Haro de Caen," and other provincial journalists: Lagrange, Rey, Albert, and a host of brave conspirators and men well known in the different quartiers of Paris. At about 66 | ten o'clock d'Alton Shee and Ledru Rollin arrived from the meeting held at Lamartine's, and made known what had been decided upon there. The sitting was most animated. Some contented themselves with an energetic protest against the king's ministers. Others urged that immediate preparations should be made to oppose force by force. The latter maintained that an insurrection was unavoidable, that one hundred thousand men well affected to the cause would present themselves in the morning in the public streets, and that such a splendid opportunity was not to be thrown away. The former feared a defeat, which the government would doubtless take advantage of, to crush by new and oppressive laws all possibility of meetings being held in future, all liberty of the press and propagandism, and the little that still remained of political rights and means of emancipation. It was, however, finally resolved that each man should betake himself separately, and with his hands in his pockets, to the Place de la Madeleine, to watch the course of events, and to gain over public opinion against royalty. In case of an outbreak, each member was to repair immediately to the office of the "Réforme," to organize the movement with vigor, and to give it a republican character.” ” What passed between the Monday and Thursday the reader knows, and the citizen throws no new light upon. But thence through this rapid march of events, till our amiable citizen, so often in the clutches of the law, found himself suddenly the law's prime officer, the reader shall have a brief glimpse of what passed. The picture is somewhat vivid. "Like many others, I arrived at the Palais Royal with a musket in my hand, and after the Chateau d'Eau had been carried by assault, I entered the Tuileries, astounded at the feeble resistance that had been made by the defenders of royalty. Like others, I stopped before the steps of the throne, and my thoughts wandered to my poor brother, murdered at Lyons in 1834. . On leaving the Tuileries, I proceeded to the office of the " Réforme" newspaper, where a great number of insurgents were appointing a government. When those citizens who had been nominated for the provisional power installed themselves at the Hôtel de Ville, there were still two important offices which demanded im It was with such reflections that I took possession of a hotel, from which, but a few hours previously, a warrant of arrest had been issued against me. I placed my sword upon a desk, Sobrier did the same with his pistols, and we set to work at once." time. The citizen's views, as he tells us, were There is not a doubt of it. They lost no to make the prefecture, which up to that time ciliation and fraternity." In other words, the had only caused fear, "an instrument of conprefecture, which had caught rascals till now, was now to let all the rascals loose. So our good citizen-prefect and his friend Sobrier organized their guard of Montagnards, turned red sashes round their waists, and bade them up their blue with red, armed them, put great Wait their golden opportunity. Caussidière's own expression is, that this force was to give weight to his authority, and enable him "to avoid having recourse to violent measures " in the execution of his orders. Exactly so. There was to be no violence. To the violent, that is. The peaceable only mediate attention, the direction of the Post | appear in that very room, when under a rigorOffice, which was at once entrusted to Etienne ous surveillance as condamné politique; for Arago, and the Préfecture of Police. I pro- the jealous watchfulness of the Secretary-Genposed Baune for the Police department; he eral and of the Prefect himself was condeclined. Several other citizens likewise tinually excited by the reports of the secret refused. All who were put in nomination, police. declined so difficult a post. Flocon and Baune then proposed me, in conjunction with Sobrier. At first I would not accept the offer; but the entreaties of the people, and the knowledge that I should have Sobrier for a colleague, induced me at last to accept it. I proceeded to the Préfecture, accompanied by Sobrier and Cahaigne, without any accession of self-esteem, but also without any mistrust of myself. I gave my musket and my pistols to Sobrier and Cahaigne, who had already laid aside their arms, and only retained my sabre, which was fastened round my body by a red sash. It was the sword of honor of my father. I had a cap on my head, a coat all bespattered with mud, a pair of black trousers, and a pair of boots worn into holes from four-and-twenty hours' incessant scrambling over barricades. I had about a hundred franes in my pocket. As I entered the principal court of the Préfecture with my two comrades, all was disorder and confusion. The ground was strewed with helmets, horses' saddles, and military accoutrements. About 2,700 men, Municipal Guards and troops of the line, had just evacuated the Préfecture. A company of the 11th Legion alone appeared in any thing like military order. It was the officers of this company, seconded by Adjutant Caron and M. Cartaret, who, to avoid a conflict, had induced the Municipal Guards and the line to withdraw. A great number of citizens, more or less armed, and still intoxicated by a success obtained without the effusion of blood, ing Vive la liberté; Vive la Répubwere walking up and down the courts, shoutlique!' and singing the Marseillaise hymn: The coup d'ail was extremely picturesque; it had all the effect of the wildest dream! requested the captain of the National Guard to call his men together; and in a short address I announced my provisional nomination to the Préfecture, and exhorted all the citizens present to lend me their assistance towards the reestablishment of order, and the providing against the most urgent demands of the moment. They promised with enthusiasm that they would do so, and kept their promise with zeal and intelligence. I then ascended, still accompanied by Sobrier and Cahaigne, to the apartments of the Secretary General, where I found only two employés and two bailiffs, who had remained at their posts. I remembered how often I had been ordered to were to be interfered with. Order was to be maintained by encouraging disorder. Brave conspirators were left free to organize plots; and if the plots tended to the glory of the republic, brave Montagnards were at hand to help them. In this way, even upon the showing of his book, we should have no difficulty in proving this good citizen Caussidière's direct complicity in all the successive attempts of March, April, May, and June. the reader to take a glimpse, in company with But we have hurried on too fast. We wish Whilst I was finding my way, as best I could, in this labyrinth of affairs of every were on. 6 description, I only received indirect intelli- be firm, and oppose yourself energetically to gence of what the Provisional Government dense as below. In about an hour I at last was doing in its sittings at the Hôtel de Ville. reached the door of the council chamber. In I therefore resolved, on the evening of the a long gallery, through which I had to pass, 26th February, to go and pay them a visit, so the printers of the Moniteur' were busy as to inform myself on various subjects. I set printing the decrees which left the council out, accompanied by a guard of twenty men. chamber. A somewhat disorderly activity was I had no time to change my dress, and had by visible everywhere. Every man seemed aware my side my sabre with the red knots, a brace of the necessity of getting through his work of pistols in my sash, and my fighting cap. as fast as possible. All the members of the We arrived at the balustrade in front of the Provisional Government were seated round a Hôtel de Ville, through innumerable guards large table with the indispensable green cloth. and challenges of Qui vive?' and General Thiard, Recurt, Flottard, and other obliged every moment to give the pass-word. citizens were also seated at the governmental I can compare the entrance of the Hôtel de table. These gentlemen were literally buried Ville to nothing else than a bee-hive. An alive in a heap of torn papers, which inunarmed and turbulent crowd thronged the steps. dated the floor of the room, and reached up to Those under the peristyle were on duty, and an ordinary man's waist. A heavy and opcontinually drove back the crowd which stopped pressive atmosphere weighed upon this assemup the staircase. To obtain an entrance it bly. I approached a window which was half was necessary to make a regular assault, and open, my sabre under my arm, and awaited bring into play both elbows and shoulders, at the termination of a discussion that was going the risk of losing a limb or two. I was I thus was a witness how the affairs of obliged to leave my escort behind and to try the Republican Government were managed. and force my way, accompanied by my lieu- They commenced drawing up a decree, which tenant only. Twice I was driven back with was soon torn up, the fragments being sent to loss, but, thanks to my vigorous efforts and to increase the heap upon the floor, and then all my being recognized by some citizens, I suc- was commenced over again. The warfare ceeded with my lieutenant, in reaching the between the moderate and democratic parties staircase of the first story. The leader of the existed there in full force. Flocon and Garescort, whom I had taken in tow, was a nier Pagès appeared to me the two most sprightly student, who was all but stifled in doughty champions, the one for energetic, the the crush. The mass of armed and unarmed other for the most dilatory measures. I shall citizens that occasioned this confusion were not relate word for word all that came to my there to see and hear what was going on; ears, lest haply I should commit an error of perhaps, also, to claim service at the Hôtel de memory. I shall only add, that a decree was Ville. It was the Tower of Babel on a small under discussion, and that it was to be drawn scale. If I did not lose one of my limbs in up. It was quite evident that Flocon was this rough passage, I lost one of my pistols. dead beat from exertion; and he soon fell sick, To save my amour-propre as Prefect, I have and lost that warm enthusiasm which animated always endeavored to persuade myself that in him during the first days of the Revolution. the scuffle it fell out of my belt, but the fact He has repeatedly told me since, that they took is it was snatched out. I cannot say precisely a pleasure in working him to death; and this at what moment; some honest citizen, doubt- is much to be regretted for he might have less, who had no arms, was of opinion that I been of essential service to the cause of the did not need two, and that like good brothers revolution. His opinions will doubtless again we ought to go shares. I was somewhat dis- carry him fresh into the lists, but with the concerted at it, as in critical moments like conviction that revolution is only possible with these a man is glad to have his weapons at its originators, and that a man can only get on hand. On the landing-place of the first floor with his own fellows. Let him mark well that I encountered similar obstacles to impede my this advice is dictated by my head and by progress to the Provisional Government. Its my heart. Whilst I was looking on at this orders were so strict, that when one of its decree-making, Albert joined me at the winmembers presented himself alone, he had equal dow, and said: "Matters don't go on well, difficulties to contend against. The evening here; I look as if I was one too many. before, Citizen Ledru Rollin had been refused feel greatly inclined to tender my resignation." admittance, and it was with great difficulty" Do nothing of the sort," I replied, "unthat he rejoined his colleagues. Although the less it is necessary to recommence the struggle. first floor swarmed with citizens and pupils of The people must have in this Government the Polytechnic School, the crowd was not so representatives selected from their own body; I any reactionary measures. The people have paid with their blood for the right of having their own delegates here; they are victorious, your power is consequently great; speak in the name of the people, and you will be listened to." It was not from a sense of his own inferiority that Albert wished to retire, but he was hurt by the airs of superiority which some of his colleagues assumed towards him, who undervalued the intelligence and practical common sense of our friend. The love of talk ruled supreme there. On leaving the Hôtel de Ville, I heard a pupil of the Polytechnic School observe to one of his comrades, pointing me out with his finger: "There goes the Prefect of Police."-"Hum!" said the other, "quelle tournure!" The fact is, my appearance was certainly singular enough. My clothes were bespattered and torn, and my face was flushed from many nights passed without sleep. My sabre is a large one, the blade as broad as a man's hand; I had a red sash round my waist, with a pistol stuck in it: add to which, a height of five feet ten inches, French measure, and my appearance may be easily concluded to have been decidedly eccentric. On my return to the Préfecture, I immediately ordered fresh linen to be brought me, and a change of clothes, that I might not compromise my magisterial dignity, the more so as I am of opinion that a man should always be as well dressed as possible." A day or so afterwards came the question of the ministry of labor, and with it a violent discussion in the Hôtel de Ville. The citizen again describes graphically, and though he was not present, we believe veraciously. "The people were not satisfied with a simple declaration of the rights of labor, but desired to see it put into practice immediately. The different trades, with banners bearing for a device, "Egalité, abolition de l'exploitation de l'homme par l'homme," (No living upon other men's labor,) presented themselves at the Hôtel de Ville. Their delegates, on being admitted, demanded the establishment of a ministry of labor, that is to say, a ministry of progress. The people were waiting below, with muskets in their hands, in a calm but determined attitude. The council entered upon the discussion at once. M M. Garnier Pagès and Lamartine spoke with extreme violence against the claims of the workmen, and entrenched themselves behind a general reserve, seeking to blink the great question at issue. They maintained that the Provisional Government should carefully avoid solving any question whatsoever; that it had neither the right, the duty, nor the power to do anything; that everything was to be referred to the decisions. of the National Assembly, and that their functions ought to be restricted to the simple duties of a commissary of police. Louis Blanc, on the other hand, contended that it was their duty to reform the old system with the least possible delay, and to establish at once the political and social revolution; that the future Assembly would act when it had met, but that the authority with which they had been invested by the people conferred upon them the constituted power; that the Revolution was made by and for the working classes, and that their first step should be to proclaim the abolition of the proletariat, and to establish the most important ministry of the Republicthe Ministry of Labor. He moreover tendered his resignation if the wishes of the people were not complied with. M. Arago, turning towards his young colleague, addressed him as follows:-"Who has fulfilled the duties of a father towards you? I entreat you, in the name of my white hairs, to renounce this idea of the organization of labor. Do not separate yourself from the Provisional Government. Do you wish us all to have our throats cut?" The people all this time were awaiting below stairs the reply of their dictators. M M. Garnier Pagès and Marrast had withdrawn to a corner of the room, where they concocted together a sort of evasive concession, which doubtless appeared to them of little consequence. Instead of a ministry," said one of them, "let us establish a commission of inquiry, which will examine into the question, and appease the people. A ministry implies action -a special commission simply prepares mate rials for the future." The presidency of this commission-without power, without a budget, or any available means-was offered to Louis Blanc. He stoutly refused it, insisting that attention should be paid to the demands of the people. M. Arago repeated his prayer over again, and offered himself as vice president. M. Marrast offered a palace; Louis Blanc still refused; and the people below grew impatient, and made the but-ends of their muskets resound on the pavement. The other members interposed; and it was finally decided to establish a commission of workmen, to sit in the Palace of the Luxembourg, with Louis Blanc for president, and Albert the workman for vice-president.” 66 is also a curious notice, to which we append Of the workshops that were the result there some illustrative anecdotes from a dinner at M. Crémieux's. "Louis Blanc was always strenuously opposed to these workshops, which employed fifteen |