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7.1831

FRENCH REVOLUTION

OF 1830;

THE EVENTS WHICH PRODUCED IT,

AND THE

SCENES BY WHICH IT WAS ACCOMPANIED.

BY D. TURNBULL, ESQ.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY,

NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1830.

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PREFACE.

IN sending this Volume to its public account, the Editor relies on some indulgence being extended to him in consideration of the double disadvantage under which he has been placed, in his distance from London, and in the circumstance of the despatch that has been solicited of him.

In the course of the narrative the Editor has purposely avoided pressing the names of his countrymen conspicuously forward, as participators in the noble struggle which he has undertaken to describe. The French people are conscious of the sympathy which has been felt in England, and still more by the English residents in France, for the glorious cause which was at issue in the

last week of July, 1830. They are proud of that sympathy, from the evidence it bears to the goodness of their cause, on the part of a people who have long been habituated to the forms of freedom. This feeling has produced, in all the French accounts of the Revolution, so many statements of the assistance afforded by Englishmen, that even to transcribe them would be to claim for our countrymen a degree of merit to which they cannot be entitled. When uttered by a Frenchman, such statements are not unbecoming, although tinged with some degree of generous exaggeration; but in an English work it has been thought necessary to reject unsparingly whatever could not bear the test of cool examination and inquiry.

Among the English sufferers were Mr. Madden, resident at Passy, in the neighbourhood of Paris, who, after having been dangerously wounded in the head, was pursued by one of the lancers, and owed his life to one of his own workmen, who was fighting by his side, and brought down his adversary with a pistol shot.

At Lawson's Hotel, in the Rue Saint Honoré, a young Englishman, Mr. Foulkes, was shot in

the balcony which overlooks the street, by a party of gen-d'armes, on Tuesday afternoon, soon after the commencement of the contest. It has been said, that Mr. Foulkes had shared in the struggle, and had been actively engaged in throwing stones from the window. On inquiry, however, it appears that this was not the fact, but that stones had been thrown on the military from one of the adjoining houses, and that the party exposed on the balcony had been mistaken for the actual assailants. In this hotel there were several other casualties; two of the waiters having been wounded, and a shot having passed through the hair of one of our fair countrywomen, while sitting near the window of an apartment overlooking the street.

There are a number of English gentlemen of the medical profession established in Paris, many of whom distinguished themselves by their attentions to the wounded, and more than one of them by assistance of a more hazardous nature. Among those most prominent were Dr. Bradley, Mr. Shrimpton, of the Rue Vivienne, Mr. Donaldson, and Mr. Roberts, of the London Dispensary, in the Place Vendôme. Mr. Donaldson was one

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