The National Register. — London, England, 1814-10-09 00:00:00

€42 religions motive, in a country where hypocrisy would be tr:eless, and where religion is accompanied by no distinction or resiard. Frt.m these observations you will conclude that the attempt to I i dischristianize France has failed; but you will perceive at the same time, that it has produced much mischief, and that it has impaired the faith and tainted the morals of millions, in a degiee most lament tilde avid alarming. The iwiluenec of time, zeal and discretion cnited, is necessary to remove this evil and to restore France to itt; Clnistiao bohours, to its internal comfort and to its external reps teion and place among Christian nations. It still owes an anode luinto gbh; to tied awl to mankind for the blasphemies uttered against the common Father, and the outrages committed against the com mon natme of us all. It is the first, the only nation that ever ap plandud tiLephemy ; it is the fiist, the only nation that ever pro claimed atheism. These are crimes which far exceed the ordinary n:. arose of national guilt, and border upon the rage of despairing drmolng. The Christian Sovereign who now occupies the throne of St, will not, cannot permit such a sin to hang unattbned over the des!inies of his people, and to cast a stain on the annals of his kingdom. Let France make the atonement as public as the crime, and as England commemorates one bloody deed by a day of homi. liation and mourning, so let the present legislature of France stamp on their records their shame and their sorrow for the unexampled crime, and appoint a day of deep national humiliation to transmit the atonement as sell a. the guilt to posterity." We hoped to have presented our readers, in this further notice of Mr. Eustace's book, with his moral, religious, and pt►l',tical character of the French, hut we have been ali!e to give the tw►► first only, the already extended length of the present ai tide compelling us to postpone the latter part of the picture to our next and final extracts in the ensuing Dumber of our paper. Mr. E. we Udieve, hir: elf a member of the Romish PARIS PAPER. TIII LATE AND PRESENT srATE Or FRANCE CON TR.-‘sTED. The Juarnit dr. Dibots, after givin4 a retroTeet of ti:a desperate state iu %t filch Feaver t% nit eh last, awl the condition of the Imaiiy of the Boarbotts at that Oboe, product's thus : It was in this despairinz moment that Providence itccomplished the wt , lk which she s‘islied to tiodertake alone, so as to render Ler 1141.1 si.ilde to alt. Tire lot eigii troops enter Petrie—Ciod chatiges ti.i hearts Of tlse Princes. open% the eyes of the French--a ery of rice Ic Roi stoics the world. I:nonaparte cries that he has been il.e; rayed ! Good God! by whom Wag he butrayed butt by i.intselt i Wes there ever seen a more extraordinary or attertiny, lidk than that of lii• lathy Never have the French soldiers sttow:i toctipielr . rs none tutu Act than at the very millstent whets de the alit::or m 14:4 iiii•ruttl:tief, they VII respected in him tht i r Weal l:avzs died with him if he himself bad known how tv Eat !Alma Le isad cscav sit with life, slid the raiifir,ns Villit4l lie bad aie vottra2,T to slemaiut, Fran-e turned towards our true father, mho arrived from e:g lie witt!osit !MIN With(lUt treaties, with oat treanres, retstruing empty handed, as he ltd left us, lent with hi-. heart full of the teuktertie , :s and j.itr natural to our race of What foinid the King on his arrivri? Four hundred theiscand forciuoers to Ira! !wart of Frtmer, 17110 million of ilebts, armies and without pay for month., more than z . z0,000 of) rers U:10 ildt,i t t ith. to support and re-a ard, 400,0')0 prilosters relttly to their cauu tr,, and iners.s.e the einbariposinent of the 3; i :0,, , :5t, a Coll , “Itiltioil to torso, ft-.ILa to erdin. ilepe* to satisfy, t;al - lies to exkle:tee, nod all the el !trent, of a civil sva7. It rip. t a .f•orcil vii,u to Fonift purloin; that the fling, Not k l , m sn l g in th e mi•;4:,:. Aids the grninvt on which he trust b u r :he slate of opinions, nor th , ,- eharacier of men i i France, %vs! Liossell . so tii. people, :du aid krep near him a t'areign force. ro:!euted tail id ;an ipsisoura:ile i!eare etioseil the A 'st to Jeave Lim kits ti01:1; 1; Co“ Us heititer 0)011640u:is nor OCT. 9 . fortresres; we preserved our old frontiers, and even were aggean. dined on the side of Savoy. The monuments of the arts remained with us. Ali tine was the fi :tit of the esteem of the Allies fur our King. A Chet - ter mitred us our political rights: Speedily this army, so embarrassing from its numbers, saw, as by miracle, almost all its arrears paid, and the rest on the verge of being so. The office's who could find no MOM in the new military establishment, receive in the bosom; of their families, pensions which insure them hoe unable repose—the reatural reward of glory. Property has been seemed—col:Unice alises again—the manufacturers resume their labours—every thing is it progression towards prosperity. The moderation, the genius of one man have wrought these prodi gies • and they have cost not a d r o p of bl ood in France. No one has (teen disturbed or perseented for his opinions; and no pistil has been opened, except to restore -Imo victim to liberty; and no act of arhitrary power is mixed with so many acts of clemency and goodness. We ale too near these wonders to appreciate them as they deacrve ; hut history will present them to the admiration or men, and will add to the name of Louis le Desire the surname ef I Wise, which France has already had the happiness to colder on one of its Kings. " If some person.; who had their reasons for epreadingsuch alarms had been believed, Frznee, on toe arrival of the Bourbons, would have been the theatre of retaliation and revenge. What can they say now ? %fled, not an execation, not an impiisonment, not an exile to console their prephccies! On the retina of Charles IL in England, the Parliament delivered up to judgment sotae imhvidnals. slim the return of Louie XVIII. in France every person preserves life, fortune, and libel ty—nothing is lost for certain men except honour. Howevee gtneral the. opinion may have been, or may be yet held, it is generally agreed thi:t never was France so happy as it has been during the four months which have elapsed since the resestabli-liment of the Monarchy. There is no Frenchman who doe, net feel in himself the j..yful sensation of his liberation and his emit e liberty. Every mate jells melee!) sore of not being awakened in the middle of the Weld to be dragged to prison by the spies of the police, or behle a unfit triinmal by the gens (tamale. The proprietor knows he shall p!e;•eive his goods—the no..,her her child, she trenkl)leS no more in t;ie :ear of set ing each morrow,: at the col.- eer ef the street the hood bill which announces a Hew eonseription. The farmer or artizan no !never torprents himself to kee..v how he shall ;Tactic his only remaining chi!d. The conscript, a being now unknown, thinks no logger to mutilate himself to preserve himself ti em death. The taxes alone press on France ; but at least we are certain tint within a given time. they will he reduced, awl that they wdi no longer be imposezi arbitrarily by the first power in the state, :111,1 ester by the Prefects, Sub Prefects, Mayors, and their adjoincts. The State has its debts—they - omit be paid. Vim has contracted these debts ? It it the King, or the man of the Isle of Ellni ? If the King had chosen to say. " I am not obliged to acknowledge the debts of Boon 'parte—the fin tulles which the greatest part of the contractors have made must he their reeonTenee," what would their have been for an answer? lint the King thought that his honour, as well as that of France, was concerned, sernpulonsly to acquit every debt which might be regarded as the eebt of the State, and, by this good faith, worthy of a descendant of Henry IV. he gives France a credit which will double the public fortune. The writer then answers the objections made to the constitution by the friends to more liberal laws —by retelling them to time for a remedy, and those made by the old alists, by ittovc il;g the int. possibility of restoring the different bodies of which tie old re gime wee composed. tie then ascribes the distrust of others to their having beets accustomed to witness the action of the violent governs meats which have passed away, whence they think that when no men are shot or imprisoned, the government must be weak.—lie then proceeds :--. 61 But let those who think the government so weak, sometime it by facts and results, and they Will see that it ie already much stronger than the iron etel.crnment to which it had sneceeded. Would they, for example, have liven able to witler the books to he prnitel against the last despotism which aro now printed against the misting aetherity, wittloot that despotism being shekel' by thew? 11. e frost iefanonie libels, the tenet audacious work' are elm.. ettlateitio.` yeld publicly. Bid doe% it afteet any one? NVhe seals VT:a. %1.:n.1.4? Or if they read. what readers are persuaded try them? We may say bast the authors. in gignhie th 2 libele,sfestroy the effect cf their (Atli works, as voiCORI neutralize One another—the infamy it' the writer corrects toe vellom of the writing. It is, however, vermin to it a eovernment which has vet seance existed four oh five mtnifioe—which has !ten estatOsited, as we Pave even, in the teidit of so many factious and so mussy i i torteees. resist a tent %thick wetilit have overturned Bum:parte at the height of hie ower. in the coifee-houses and ealocus, tLe acts or the linnirti) And the IMO THE N.ITInNAT, REGISTER.