The Sun. — London, England, 1830-07-28 00:00:00

PRESENT STATE OF FRANCE. (From a Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle.) PARIS, Jut y 24,.....0f late the Ministerial party has become much more bold. Its friends, agents, spies, and Journals, go to much greater lengths than ever. Defeated lit the elections by such over• powering majorities, they now contend that " France has not spoken. The electors are not France. Frenchmen are loyal, but the electors are men of'' the Revolution." Thuw statement is singularly ab surd and original. If France is not represented by the electors, then let France speak by some other means. But how is this possible ? Why, instead of introducing a new law, as is threatened, to restrict the number of voters, and reduce the 80,000 who have the right of voting to '20,000 ; let me recom mend these men who are so confident in the loyalty of France to increase the number of voters. Let us have at least, for an experiment, universal suffrage. Let, for the sake of experiment, every male of twenty-one years of age, who is neither idiot nor lunatic,_ and who has not been convicted of any crime, have the right, at least for once, to vote for Deputies. Let us see what a Royalist Chamber we should have. I will pledge myself that if this plan be tried, at least the Liberals will not find fault with Vie nominations; and if the Royalists will pledge themselves to be equally satisfied, the question may vary soon be settled. I merely predict, beforehand, that if thiirplan be adopted, there will not be foetid even one solitary Royalist in the Chamber of Deputies. No ; out of 430 Members, not one shall be Royalists—but all, if so elected, shall be long to the Extreme Gauche. When, therefore, the Journals of the Ministers say that by the elections which 111iY0 now closed France has not spoken, I reply, " True, France has not spoken as loud and decided as she would have done if fifteen millions had spoken instead of 80,000; but France has so fai spoken, that the 80,000 have returned a large majority unfavourable to II Royalist Ministry." Le .rernps has said, with much of force and truth, " The fllinisters'always appear to art acid think as if they were oppored by a faction ; whereas, in truth and in .fiet, it its they, a small faction, who are opposing the whole nation:' , This is really the ' osition of a ff airs to-day. Each party now rushes forward to the battle--and the.,ll of August is ap proaChiug. But in their violence one party ex ,claims,." The Sovereign -is not .the King"—and the other - party calls down the vengeance of the Xing end of Heaven, and says, " We must make war against' the piraterounl we may be sure we shall Conquer them." The Elections are now terminated. The list is complete. France has before her the names of her new Deputies, and she finds 201 out of 221 re turned who voted the " insolent Address !" She finds also that last year she could only find 230 Members opposed. to. the Polignac Cabinet ; but that now, spite of proclamations, pro Mises, arid pledges,., ensions, and purses well filled with gold, and places, all arrayed against her wishes and in tentions, the can no's Count 270 who are undoubt edly Anti-Rlyttlist ; end after she has made all pos sible Concesalotis of donbtfill men to the Ministerial side, she cati only find 150 who are Ministerial, and ten who may be denornineted Moderate and Con stitutional. Royalists. Thus hiss France proved "her loyalty I" " her' love for the Dynasty-1" " her devoted attachment to the -Bourbons 1" and her " determination 'to connect all her greatness and ' happiness with that et her august Princes !I" But I let us not jest.' Take - the followiug statement, which is as correct as possible (though not faultless) Of the restate of the eleetians 'Arrtindlisej Depaatznent, Unique for .I=l4l. uleng& put loilT. Colleges. 'total, ' Nevi Cons : Mut; D 4 / 4 4300 . as 3 „NI Total , Liber4ls Winittol4l, Apt. Adsttris 611333410 43 34 Now Ililiditertsl Members I% 1.14 ..... six s~ )50 Tioubtail. ........ Daratlet newly elected ' 4 ' 5 1 10 awl 104 perceive In the new Chamber :no are Liberate. IMO are Royalists, 10 are Doubtful. Tots) 430, Bat the Ministers say, that although 270 be Li hersle„,there. are not 270 who will refuse the Bud get; and that „unless the Budget be refused, the Ministers Can remain in office. This is miserable shuffling, valet reasoning, and a dangerous mode of trifling with thirty-two millions of people, and eighty thousand electors. If Ministers believe that France holds opinion s different to the electors, then extend the elective franchise, and let France vote by,every male who is twenty-one,years of age., If Ministers believe, on the other hand,. that if they extended thereleetive franchise, ant one single supporter of the Royalist party or opinions would be returned to .the new Chamber, then let them reflect ere they reject the moderate Counsel of the majority of the present Chamber; and that counsel is to retire. If they do not retire this month, they may be com pelled the next ; or if, even by military force and terror, they may retain their places for even another year—the day of retribution will at length arrive. The Royalists know they, are defeated. Thu King perceives he is in a minority and yet another esw peslatent is to be tried—the Chambers are to be re sesembled—re-invokedte-threatened—te-flattered ; then be re-dismissed, and re-dis solved ; and thirty-two millions of people are to be terrified into order by coups dela,. But we are not surprised, We have seen all this beforehand—and await, more in pity than in anger, the final result. I perceive that the Reformers in England propose to have u banret„ to commemorate the triumph of the French bleetors at the late elections in this country. This is generous and sympathising. But when they so assemble—when the cup passes round when eloquence and humanity shall plead for thst cause of the Liberals of France ; let not the orators and Statesmen who may be present imagine that the victory is yet pined—that the enemy is yet defeated—that because France has spoken, therefore that France will yet he heard. No, no. Believe me, when I tell you, that up to this hour the Court is stubborn--Ministers are unconvinced— *, bourhon have not learned by experience—and abiolutirm will,ouce more be attempted to be este bliahed in . , France. _ . But. what,havo W 4 here ? News from Algiers ! News . which is to reconcile all. animosities—put down all oppoition—silence all outcry. - an d chase a majority in the Chamber of Deputies I! Well, what Is this ? Why news has just arrived that the Dey of - Algiers has sailed for 'Naples —and 13 millions of francs I! or 420,0004 st e rlin g h as been shipped from Algiers for Toulon, in gold and silver, being the amount of the seizures made in the Treasury of the Dey !I This intelligence is to re move all difficulties—get rid of all obstacles—and the new Chamber of Deputies is to be converted, by the magic of a golden wand 111 The Ministers are in ecstacies. The Royalists are shedding tears of joy. France looks on, and sneeringly says--Bali! Cox citzsTEß.—Notwithstamling what has Weti said to the contrary, this town will, alter all, be con tested. A gentlomitn of high. political and literary cliaratur will, We undeivitand, he not:l4l6sec! on Frideiy, and no (luubt eattrtained of hie atictesiki An4PM TIMATItIt.—A new farce, in one 4 " , entitled Pop. or Sparrow Shooting, was last night prtahlead at this thaatre. It was daciiittny and deservedly an-mm*lo4U. iIAYMAttiCKT Tiir.evrtir 1 / 1 Fi9aro was pertortnetl lass e i jo„ ...vera of debutante in 44 PurPom , of intro performance vies *nett as to' itape.ltal:if.g.tu'an,'"" Her opinion of her talents. H er ";i:: & utvourahle IlWettritl6, and shiaings with taste (with Mist Tuartn) mo or w bin r " ' " 40 ' 1 t essotto bg Was heard throughout with nun: applause ; awl 4:,1„Hf sr ll above .the average of our present female suostio4, witl o n tneful avipti.ition to the operatic, eurps 3Vai r r 7 1,0 finale of l'ancredi WM: sntmtituted for that treiono ng to the Opera. It grill was sufficiently comical as Figaro, 11.1.44115 ' 1i druukvo gariltuft 1916 Pit without parks ?KICKS Or STOCKS THIS Rank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 90% siA 3 per Cent. C0n5...91% 114 354 per Cent. Ditto Re. lOO% 100 New 31,', pert cut. 101 ?..-k 100% 4 per Cent. . ...105104 Mink Ann . ...114 9-16 7-16 Ditto 30 years Ditto 30 years ...18 15-10 13-18 India Stock Ditto Ronda 90 88 pm. TO THE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT LIVERY OF LONDON. OINTIATEKN, THE anticipated Dissolution of Parliament has taken place since I last had the honour of ad dressing you, and I avail myself of the earliest opportunity for renewing my solicitation to be a second time returned one of the Representatives for the metropolis. Should I, by your kind favour, be again placed in thin high and distinguished situation, you may rely on my ut. most exertions in promoting the general welfare of the oountry, in which the best interests of the city of London must ever form a very prwninent part, whether in respect to its corporate capacity, or in relation to its great and important commercial concerns. The Day of Election is fixed for Patna v, the 30th inst., at Twelve o'clock, at Guildhall, when a numerous at tendance of my friends of the Livery, to support my nomi. nation, is most earnestly and respectfully requested. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your faithful and obedient Servant, Lothbury, July 26, 1830. WILLIASI WARD. OAT AT ONO O'CLOCK. South Sea Stock 104% Old Annuities ... . .... - New Ditto. .... 71% Ex. ;role put. Ditto... l{4. 83 80 pm. 1)1tt0............501) 2d. 115 80 pm. Ditt0,......,, l{4. 85 $0 pm. Ditto hmall ...... Si. $5 80 pm. Ditto lid. $3 80 pm. Batik for Account --- India for Account Cons. for Aug 20...1.11% '2% 1% , tit Mint LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 98, 1830. The Kt No held his second Levee since his accession to-day. The number of presentations was very great. ANOTHER REVOLUTION IN FRANCE. We hazard little in asserting that a second Revolution, not less decided, though, perhaps, less sanguinary, in its character than the first, is on the eve of breaking out in France. The KING, with a boldness, or rather, with an infa tuation that cannot fail every where to excite emotions of astonishment and regret, finding that the Elections were almost wholly in the hands of the Liberals, and that his Ministers, as the law at present stands, were comparatively powerless whether for good or ill, has published a number of ordinances of the most despotic nature, such as BONAPARTE in the height of his power, with the whole army to back him, and the Continent at his feet, would scarcely have attempted. In fact his Catholic Majesty has drawn the sword, and thrown away the scab bard, resolved, at all hazards, to maintain himself and his Ministry in the possession of absolute power. By his first Ordinance, which, by way we presume of heightening its importance, is countersigned by all the Members of his Go vernment, the liberty of the Press is suspended —annihilated is the proper word. By the second, the Chamber of Deputies is dissolved. By the third, the present Law of Elec tion is annulled, and a new law substi tuted, by which only Deputies of Depart ments are to sit in the new Chamber. Of the probable effect of this last Ordinance we scarcely dare trust ourselves to speak. Its object, which his MAMITY seems scarcely to think it worth his while to conceal, is to do away with the freedom of election altogether, to place the Chamber wholly at the mercy of Govern ment—in fact, to restore the slavish syco phantic spirit of the old " Parliaments of Paris." That France—liberal and enlightened France—will submit to such an infringe- merit on the privileges of her Constitution, we do not for an instant believe. The moment the news becomes generally known throughout the provinces, that moment, we moat sincerely believe, and as sincerely desire, the great moral reaction will commence. When once commenced, who shall say when or at what point it will stop ? From the style and quality of his MAJESTY'S resolves, we should imagine that he considers the army wholly at his disposal. But how can he count on this as a certainty ? An event unforeseen to.day, but taking place to morrow, may alter the whole position both of himself and his army. Let but two or three regiments be won over to the po pular cause, and the liberal contagion will spread, desertion follow on desertion, and the sceptre of the 13°111(11(ms pass away from them for ever. What would be said in England to is law which should disfranchise all cities and bo roughs, no matter how influential, wealthy, or populous, throughout the kingdom, and enact that the House of Commons should henceforth consist of Members elected only for coun ti e s ? What we ask, would be thought of such an unheard of violation of the Constitution? Yet his CATHOLIC MAJESTY'S third Ordinance enacts all this, if not more I It annihilates Fr a n ce as a free nation, and reduces her to the state of a Turkish province, dependant fin its very existence on the caprice of its Royal Master. In a word, it throws her back to the state of vassalage in which she existed under the regime of the Grand Monarque and his drivel ling, idiotic, and profligate successor. Will France, in the 19th c e nt ur y, a f ter all Ind she has shtrered by the revolution ; after all the experience she has gained during, and since, the reign of NAPOLEON, submit to this ? Impossible. Her moral power is too great ; she has but to put forth her full energy, and despite a hundred thousand bayonets—i so many bands can be found to employ them—she will compel her enemies to ,ow to the spirit of the times. 'e wait with intense interest, but without apprehension as to the final result, the next in telligence from Paris. A few weeks, probably '4 few days, will decide whether the nation or the Bourbons are to triumph. Meanwhile we tney observe, that the KING by his precipitate ratilineha—ho w is it that the recollections of the Cotuit IYAnTGIS are so torpid?, —414 5 completely destrt; yeti the healing effect that a timely concession might have produced. He cannot now yield with ho nour : if he does, his concession will be an act not of graciousness but of timidity ; and if be be no longer feared, it will only be, because contempt has taken the place of apprehension in the feelings of his people towards him. (From the Moniteur of Monday, July 26.) REPORT TO THE KING. Sint., --Your Ministers would be little worthy o f the con fidence with which your Majesty honours them, if they longer delayed to place before your eyes a view of our internal situation, and to point out to your high wisdom the dangers of the pe riodical Press. At no time for these fifteen years has this situa tion presented itself under a more serious and more afflicting aspect. Notwithstanding an actual pro sperity of which our annals afford no example, signs of disorganization and symptoms of anarchy manifest themselves at almost every point of the kingdom. The successive causes which have concurred to weaken the springs of the monarchical Government tend now to impair and to change the nature of it. Stripped of hs moral force, authority, lost in the capital and the provinces, no longer contends, but at a disadvantage, with the factious. Pernicious and subversive doctrines, loudly professed, are spread and propagated among all classes of the population. Alarms, too generally credited, agitate people's minds, and trouble society. On all sides the pre sent is called upon for pledges of security for the future. An active, ardent, indefatigable malevolence, la bours to rain all the foundations of order, and to snatch from France the hapt:iness it enjoys under the sceptre of its Kings. Skilful in turning to ad vantage all discontents, and to excite all hatreds, it foments among the people a spirit of distrust and hostility towards power, and endeavours to sow every where the seeds of trouble and civil war; and already, Sire, recent events have proved that politi cal pas:ions, hitherto confined to the summits of society, begin to penetrate the depths of it, and to stir up the popular classes. It is proved also that these masses would never move without danger, even to those who endeavour to rouse them from repose. A multitude of facts collected in the course of the electoral operations confirm these data, and would offer us the too certain presage of new com motions, if it was not in the power of your Majesty to avert the misfortune. Every where also, if we observe with attention, there exists a necessity of order, of strength, and of duration ; and the agitations which appear to be the most contrary to it are in reality only the ex pression and the testimony of it. It must be acknowledged these agitations, which cannot be increased without great dangers, are almost exclusively produced and excited by the liberty of the Press. A law on the elections, no less fruitful of disorders, has doubtless concurred in maintaining them, but it would be denying what is evident, to refuse seeing in the journals the principal focus of a corruption, the progress of which is evertday more sensible, and the first source of the calamities which threaten the kingdom. Experience, Sire, speaks more loudly than theories. Men who are doubtless enlightened, and whose good faith is not suspected, led away by the ill-understood example of a neighbouring people, may have be lieved that the advantages of the periodical Press would balance its inconveniences, and that its ex cesses would be neutralized by contrary excesses. It is not so, the proof is decisive, and the question is now judged in the public mind. At all times, in fact, the periodical Press has been, and it is in its nature to be, only an instrument of disorder and sedition. What numerous and irrefragable proofs may be brought in support of this truth ! It. re by the via ' lent and incessant action of the Press that the too sudden and too frequent variations of our internal policy are to be explained. It has not permitted a regular and stable system of government to be established in France, nor any constant attention to be devoted to introduce into all the branches of the Administration the ameliorations of which they are susceptible. All the Ministries since 1814, though formed under divers influences, and subject to opposite directions, have been exposed to the same attacks and to the same licence of the pas. sions. Sacrifices of every kind, concessions of power, alliances of party, nothing has been able to save them from this common destiny. This comparison alone, so fertile in reflections, would suffice to assign to the Press its true, its inva riable character. It endeavours, by constant, per severing, daily-repeated Ante, to relax all the bonds of obedience and subordination, to weaken all the springs of public a uth or i t y, to legrade and debase it in the opinion of the people, to create against it every where embarrassment and resistance. Ito art consists not in substituting to a too easy submission of mind a prudent liberty of examina tion, but to reduce to a problem the most positive truths; not to excite upon political questions frank and useful controversy, but to place them in a false light, and to solve them by sophisms. The Press has thus excited confusion in the most upright minds--has shaken the most firm convic- and produced, in the midst of society, a con. fusion of principles which lends itself to the most fatal attempts. It is by anarchy in doctrines that it paves the way for anarchy in the state. It is worthy of remark, Sire, that the periodical Press has not even fulfilled its most essential condition— that of publicity.—What is strange, hut what may be said with truth, is that there is no publicity in France, taking this word in its just and strict sense. In this state of things, facts, when they are not en tirely fictitious, do not come to the knowledge of several millions of readers, except mutilated and dis figured in the most odious manner. A thick cloud ranted by the journals conceals the truth, and in some manner intercepts the light between the Go vermnent and the people. The Kings, your pre decessors, Sire, always loved to communicate witli their subjects : is a satisfaction which t h e Press has not thought fit th►tt your Majesty should enjoy. A licentiousness which has passed all bounds has, in fact, not respected, even on the ►nose solemn occasions, either the express will of the King, or the words pronounced from the throne. Some have been misunderstood and misinterpreted; the others have been the subject of perfidious commentaries, or of bitter derision. It is thus that the last act of the Royal power,—the Proclamation,—was dia credited by the public even before it was known by the electors. This is not all. The Press tends to no less than to subjugate the Sovereignty, and to invade the powers of the state. The pretended organ of pub lic opinion, it aspires to direct the debates or the Chambers ; it is incontestable that it brings into them the weight of an influence no less fitful than decisive. This domination has assumed, especially within these two or three years, in the Chamber of Deputies, a manifest character of opp ress i on and tyranny. We have Sect! i n this interval of time the journals pursue with their insults and their Outrages the members whose votes appeared to them uncer tain or suspected. Too often, Sire, the freedom of debate in that Chamber has sunk under the reiterated blows of the Press. The conduct of the opposition jonre 4 l k , i n t h e most recent circumstances cannot be characterioed its terms less severe. After having themselves called forth an address derogatory to the prerogatives of the Throne, they have not feared to re-establish as a principle the election of the 221 Deputies whose work it is: and yet your Majesty repulsed the ad. dress as offensive; you had publicly planned the red fusel of concurrence which was expressed in it ; you had announced your immutable resolution to defend t h e rights of your crown, which was so openly m r i The periodical j ourna l s have paid no s to;his the contrary, t h ey h ave taken it up r i r t Ft t l ii t ed eni to renew, to perpetunte, and to Igo vale the offence. Your Majesty will decide whether this presumptuous attack shall remain unpunished. But of all the excesses of the Press, the most se rious perhaps remains to be pointed out. From the very beginning of that expedition, the glory of which throws so pure and so durable a splendour on the noble crown of France, the Press has criticised with unheard-of violence the causes, the means, the pre parations, the chances of success. Insensible to the national honour, it was not its fault if our flagd:d not remain degraded by the in su lt s o f a barbarian. Indifferent to the great interests of humanity, it has not been its fault if Europe has not r ema i ne d subject to a cruel slavery and a shameful tribute. This was not enough. By a treachery which our laws might have reached, the Press has eagerly pub lished all the secrets of the armament; brought to the knowledge of foreigners the state of our forces, the number of our troops, and that of our ships ; they pointed out the stations, the means to be em ployed to surmount the var i a bl eness o f the winds, and to approach the coast. Every thing, even th e piece of landing, was div u l ge d, as i f t o give the enemy more certain means of defence; and, a thing un heard-of among civilized people, the Press has not hesitated, by false alarms on the dangers to be in curred, to cause discouragement in the army, and pointing out to its hatred the commander of the en terprise, it has, as it were, excited the soldiers to raise against him the standard of revolt, or to desert their colours. This is what the organs of a party which pretends to be national have dared to do. What it dares to do every day in the interior of the kingdom tends to no less than to disperse the elements of public peace, to dissolve the bands of society, and evidently to make the ground tremble under our feet. Let us riot fear to disclose here the whole extent of our evils, in order the better to appreciate the whole extent of our resources. A system of defamation, organized on a great scale, and directed with unequalled perseverance, reaches, either at hand or at a distance, the most humble of the agents of the Government. None of your sub jects, Sire, is secure from an insult, if ha receives from his Sovereign the least mark of confidence or satisfaction. A vast net thrown over France en velops all the public functionaries. Placed in a con stant state of accusation, they seem to be in a man ner cut from civil society; only those are spared whose fidelity wavers,—only those are praised whose fidelity gives way: the others are marked by the faction to be in the sequel, without doubt, sacrificed to popular vengeance. The periodical Press has not displayed less ardour in pursuing with its p o i sone d d arts religion and its priests. Its object Is, and always will be, to root out the heart of the people even to the last germ of religious sentiments. Sire, do not doubt that it will succeed in this, by attacking the foundations of the Press, by poisoning the sources of public morals, and by covering the ministers of the altars by derision and contempt. No strength, it must be confessed, is able to resist a dissolving power so active; as the Press at all times, when it has be en f ree d f rom its fetters, has made an irruption and invasion in the state. One cannot but be singularly struck with the similitude of its effects during the last 1.5 years, notwithstanding circum. stances, and notwithstanding the changes of the men who have fi gure d on the political stage. Its destiny, in a word, is to recommence the revolution,. the principles of which it loudly proclaims. Placed and replaced at various intervals under the yoke of the censorship, it has always resumed its liberty only to recommence its uninterrupted work. In order to continue it with the more success, it has found an active auxiliery in the departmental Press, which, engaging in combat local jealousies and hatreds, striking terror into the minds of timid men, harass ing authority by endless intrigues, has exercised u decisive influence on the elections. These last effects, Sire, are transitory; but effects more durable are observed in the manners and its the character of the nation. An ardent, lying, and passionate spirit of contention, the schools of scandal and licentiousness has produced in it important changes, and profound alterations ; it gives a false direction to people's mind., it fills them with pre judices.—diverts them from serious studies—retards them in the progress of the sciences and the arts— excites among us a fermentation, which is constantly increasing—maintains, even in the bosom of cur families, fatal dissensions—and might, by degrees, throw us back into barbarism. Against so many evils, engendered by the perios dical Press, the law and justice are equally obliged to confess their want of power. It would be super fluous to inquire into the causes which have weakened the power of repression, and have in sensibly made it an ineffectual weapon in the bands of the authorities. It is sufficient to appeal to ex perience, and to show the present state of things. Judicial forms do not easily lend themselves to an effectual repression. This truth has long since struck reflecting minds ; it has lately become still more evident. To satisfy the wants which caused its institution, the repression ought to be prompt end strong; it has been slow, weak, and almost null. When it interferes, the mischief is already done, and the punishment, fur from repairing it, only adds the scandal of the discussion. The judicial prosecution is wearied out, but the seditious Press is never weary. The one stops be cause there is too much to prosecute : the other multiplies its strength by multiplying its transgres sions. In these divers circumstances the prosecutions have had their appearances of activity or of relaxa tion. But what does the Press care for zeal or Juke warmness in the public prosecutor ? It seeks in mul tiplying its successes the certainty of their impunity. The insufficiency, or even the inutility of the institutions established in the laws now in force, is demonstrated by facts. It is equally proved by facts that this public safety is endangered by the licentiousness of the Press. It is time, it is more than time, to arrest its ravages. Give ear, Sire, to the prolonged cry of indigna tion and of terror which rises from all points of your kingdom. All peaceable men, the ups ight, the friends of order, stretch to your Majesty their suppliant hands. All implore you to preserve them from the return of the calamities by which their fathers or themselves have been so severely afflicted. These alarms are too real not to be listened to— these wishes are too legitimate not to be regarded. There is but one means to satisfy them I it is to return to the Charter (renirer dans to Charte). If the terms of the Bth article are ambiguous, its spirit is manifest. It is certain that the Charter has not given the liberty of the journals and of perk). dical writings. The right of publishiag one's per sonal opinions certainly does not imply the right of publishing the opinions of others. The one is the use of a faculty which the law might leave f ree or subject to restrictions : th e other is a commercial speculation, which, like of hers, and more than others, supposes the superintendence of the public authority. 1 he intentions of the Charter on this subject are aceitrately explained in the law of the 21st of Oc tober, 1814 , , which is in some measure the appendix to it this is the less doubtful, as this law was presented to the Chambers on the lith of July--- that is to say, one month after the protoulgation of the Charter. In 1819, at t h e t i me when a con• teary system prevailed i n t h e C hambers, it was openly proclaimed there th at t h e periodical Press r s r tiot governed by the enactments of the e i g h t h Article. The truth i s besides attested by t h e very l a ws which hove imposed u p on t h e j ournals the condition of giving seeurisecurities. Now, Sire, nothing remains b ut to i nqu i re how this return to the Charter and to the law of the 21st solved this questions We ° o f f the present jila4i'etilureQliabse condition of a representative we in nut decieve ourselves,-- we are ao principles on which it has been longer in the ordinary Gover . nment• the established . could not remain entire amidst the po nt. le i g nt i o tim o a u t r e p la o T e , r. tends it disportst o ltit t )ideal vicissitudes. A turbulent democracy, which has pitsrelf enetrates) La: e p il lac e e v o e o f the majority of time eleetions by means of the journals and the assistance of numerous affiliations. It has paralyzed, as far as has depended on it, the regular exercise of the most essential prerogative of the Crown—that of dissolving the elec.ive Cham ber. By this very thing the constitution of the state is shaken. Your Majesty alone retains the power to replace and consolidate it upon its foundations. The right as well as the duty of assuring its maintenance, is the inseparable attribute of the sovereignty. No Government on earth would re main standing if it had not the right to provide for its own security. This power exists before the laws, because it is in the nature of things. These, Sire, are maxims which have in their favour the sanction of time, and the assent of all the publicists of Europe. But these maxims have another sanction still more positive—that of the Charter itself. The 14th article has invested your Majesty with a sufficient power, not undoubtedly to change our institutions, but to consolidate them and render them more stable. Circumstances of imperious necessity do not per mit the exercise of this supreme power to be any more deferred. The moment is come to have re course to measures which are in the spirit of the Charter, but which are beyond the limits of legal ord6r, the recources of which have been exhausted in vain. These measures, Sire, your Ministers, who are to secure the success of them, do not hesitate to pro pose to you, convinced as they arc that justice will remain the strongest. We are, with the most profound respect Sire, your Majesty's most (skilful subjects, (Signed) Prince de POLIGNAC. CIIANTELAUZE. Baron D'HAUSSEZ. Count de PEYRONNET. MONTBEL. Count de GIJERNON lIANVILLE. Baron CAPELLE. ORDINANCES OF THE KING. CHARLIE/3, &c. To all to whom these presents shall come, health. On the report of our Council of Ministers, we have ordained and ordain as follows:-- Art. 1. The liberty of the periodical Press is sus pended. 2. The regulations of the Articles Ist, 2d, and 9th of the Ist section of the law of the 21st Octo ber, 1814, are again put in force, in consequence of which no journal, or periodical or semi-periodical writing, established, or about to be established, without distinction of the matters therein treated, shall appear either in Paris or in the departments, except by virtue of an authority first obtained from us respectively by the authors and the printer. This authority shall be renewed every three months. It may also be revoked. 3. The authority shall be provisionally granted and provisionally withdrawn by the prefects from journals and periodicals, or semi-periodical works, published, or about to be published, in the depart ments. 4. Journals and writings published in contraven tion of Article 2, shall be immediately seized. The presses and types used in the printing of them shall be placed in a public depot under seals, or rendered unfit for use. .5. No writing below twenty printed pages shall appear, except with the authority of our Minister Secretary of State for the Interior at Paris, and of the prefects in the departments. Every writing of more than twenty printed pages, which shall not constitute one single work, must also equally be published under authority only. Writings published without authority shall be immediately seized, the presses and types used in printing of them shall be placed in a public depot, and under seals, or rendered unfit for use. 6. Memoirs relating to legal process and memoirs of scientific and literary societies must be previously authoriocd, if they treat i n w h o l e or i n part of ()an tics, matters, in which case the measures prescribed by Art. 5 shall be applicable. 7. Every regulation contrary to the present shall be without effect. 8. The execution of the present Ordinance shall take place in conformity to Article 4 of the lOrdi. nance of November 27, 1816, and of that which is prescribed by the Ordinance of the 18th of Ja nuary, 1817. O. Our Secretaries of State are charged with the xecution of this Ordinance. Given at Chateau St. Cloud, the 25th of July, o he year of Grace 1830, and the Gth of our reign. (Signed) CFIARLES. (Countersigned) Prince de POLIGNAC, President. CIIANTELAUZE, Keeper of the Seals. 11n1a0ro N n T D B 'll IE A , U lli 8 1 8 r E ds Z ter of Financeiliinitero.Marine. Count GUERNON RANVILLE, Minister Ecclesiastical Affairs. Baron CAPELLE, Secretary of State for Public Works. CHAR To all to whom these presents shall come, &c. Having considered Art. SO of the Constitutional Charter, being informed of the manoeuvres which have been practised in various parts of our kingdom to deceive and mislead the electors during the late operations of the electoral colleges; haying heard our council, we have ordained and ordain as follows: Art. 1. The Chamber of Deputies of Depart.. ments is dissolved. 2. Our Minister Secretary of State of the Inte rior is charged with the execution of the present Ordinance. Given at St. Cloud, the 25th day of July, the year of Grace, 1830, and the sixth of our reign. (Countersign e d CHARLES. ) Count de PEYRONNET, Peer of France, Secretary of State for the Interior. Cll.\ ROCS, To all those who shall see these presents, health. Having resolved to prevent the return of the manoeuvres which have exercised a pernicious in fluence 011 the late operations of the electoral col leges, wishing in consequence to reform according to the principles of the constitutional charter the rules of election of which experience has shown the inconvenience, we have recognised the necessity of using the right which belongs to us, to provide by acts emanating from ourselves, for the safety of the state, and for the suppression of every enterprise injurious to the dignity of our Crown. For these reasons, having heard our Council, we have ordained and ordain—... Art. 1. Conformably to the articles 15, 36, and 30, of the Constitutional Charter, the Chamber of Deputies shall consist only of Deputies of Depart ments. 2. The electoral rate and the rate of eligibility shall consist exclusively of the sums for which the elector anti the candidate shall be inscribed indi vidually, as holders of real or personal property in the roll of the land-tax or of personal taxes. 3. Each department shall have the number of De puties allotted to it by the 36th Article of the Con stitutional Charter. 4. The Deputies shell be elected, and the Chamber renewed in the form and for the time fixed by the 37th article of the Constitutional Charter. 5. The Electoral Colleges shall be divided into colleges of arrondissement, and colleges of depart ments, except in the case of electoral colleges of de partmeets to which only one Deputy is allotted. 6. The electoral colleges of arrondissement shall consist of all the electors whose political domicile is established in the arrondissement. The electoral colleges of departments shall consist of a fourth part the highest taxed of the electors of departments. 7. The present limits of the electoral colleges of arrondissement are retained. 8. Every electoral callege of arrondissement shall elect a number of candidates equal to the number of departmental deputies. 9. The college of arrondissement shall be divided into as many sections as candidates. Each division shall be in proportion to the number of sections, and to the total number of elector*, having regard as much us possible to the convenience of place and neighbourhood. 10. The sections of the electoral college of arron dissements may assemble in different pieces. 11. Every section of tho {; rondissemente shall choose a candidate, awl- pro separately. , ~, ~I'e 12. The Presidents of the sections of thelf tonal college of arrondissement shalt be alt by the prefects from among the electors Of thill rondissement. , ee 13. The college of department shall chewed deputies; half the deputies of departments 4 h s ll chosen from the general list of candidates propel by the colleges of arrondissements ; nevelt)** the number of deputies of the departmentll 0 even, the division shall be made without WOO merit of the right reserved by the college 01 4 partment. vei l d 4. or lneases wher double nominati ons, proposed by the colleges of arrondissements.* be incomplete, if the list is reduced belmvlo lo ' by the number required, the college of department 4 choose another deputy n ot in the list; if the n e t ff b e e c i t ist of eofm oilssedo ioeh ct , reduced below a fourth, the college of depirt. may elect beyond the whole of the &Wieser 6 partment. 15. The prefects, the sub-prefects, and thie ral officers commanding military divisions OP partments, are not to be elected in the deptolo,o l where they exercise their functions. 16. The list of el e cto r s sh a ll be settled prefect in the Co unc il o f P re f ec t u re. Its It posted up five days before the assembling 0 1 ,7 ~ colleges. 17. Claims rega r di ng t h e p owe r of votlllgW„,,,i, have not been authorized by the prefect', • • Inig7 decided by th e Ch am b er o f D eputie s; et itil i time that it shall decide upon the veliditi! i • '. operations of th e co ll eges . ) 18. In the electoral colleges of deportioes, o , 4 „,,, two oldest elect ors an d t h e two e l ec tors Irm v 1 - ' the most taxes shall execute the duty ofeer s ," l l l , 6 The same dispo s i t i on s h a ll b e obserresLit sections of the college of arrondissement, oo 77 at most, of only fif ty e l ectors . I n t he othlr.," 1 sections the functions of set utators shall be l ,:' by the oldest and the richest of the eleclOstr , secretary shall be nominated in the co ll ar section of colleges by th e p res id ent a nd the 19. No person s h a ll b e a d m i tte d into the or section of coll ege , if h e i s not inset:oo ,o o ei list of electors who compose part of it. „ i ol( will be delivered t o t h e pres id en t, and IsuV Ai k posted up in the place of the sitting 01 ° 4 ,77 4 during the period of its proceedings. • ~..ii 20. All discussion and deliberation whet . forbidden in the bosom of the electoral collet 21. The police of the college belong to Ove co l sident. No armed force without his, orde .. ,r . mw placed near the h a ll o f s i tt i ngs . Th e militrq-' 7- mandant shall be bound to obey his requitit 22. The nominations shall be made in the, el el and sections o f co ll ege, b y t h e a b so l u te se e ' the votes given. Nevertheless, if the nett, are not finished after two rounds of serewal bureau shall d e t erm i ne t h e li st o f perseee":7l have obtain e d t h e greatest num b er of r ! r ; doublem bge e i s ymeendeex. ee except h tt a t t tob o pe f e t tr i b i s e iornd n s o r m ienu i s t n i c a dr t ( i b o e tni nl : pons t l e i r,477 : lo ; the second round. It shall contain sc e ri sc on b n to a e and the nominations shall be made by a r e" -- '' •-i jority. 23. The electors shall vote by bulletin' L 0 bulletin s h a ll conta i n as many na mes *0 0 7 nominations to be made. 21. The electors shall write their Vote', , t, ir T 1 bureau, or cause it to be written by ono -, ~,1 scrutators. of each elector who shall deposit his A 25. The name the qualification, and 41 ,0 4 011 ' and ea c2h9 s .s h i a t l t l in b g: e. Conformably T declared hi s pt d roo u c r ae i : a l hellellPr od s be inscribed by the secrets& on a list des/IP '4 establish the number of the voters. , WO 26. Every scrutiny shall remain open (orb.' ^ ~,:i, 27. There shill be drawn up a pre eelv t a erpr t g ivec t ler li b e a4 s i i gi t t h i m e l g lt . bzoo m! all the members of the bureau. ' '. of the 0 tional Charter, no amendment can be Mou e poisi law in the Chamber, unless it bee , been be ep pr o ie and consented to by us; and unless it lute cussed in the bureaus. present. or 29. All regu l at i ons contrary to th e Pre- trance shall re m a i n w i t h out effect . 30. Our Mi n i sters S ecretur i eso f with the execution of the present ordille ncl i . , lo Given at St. Cloud, this 25th day of .11 1 y ~ 4 year of grace 1830, and 6th of our reign. ; Cliitifr rig s4 the (Countersigned by hy all . CH A Atte, liC. Sp el ' To all who shall these presents sees Os Considering the Royal Ordinance 0ft (30.. It respecting the organization of the Electond _ i s t ilt, On the report of our Minister Secretary °' , of the Home Department, ' :`, We have ordered, and order, what folios/ I : $. 01 State sue c1ie5 , , ,,, ,, , , 1. The Electoral Colleges are to meet - ' slli Electoral C o ll eges of A rron di s sements 00 ,„,e lli. oesi of Sep tem b er next, and the D epartm ental P . ~t Colleges on the 18th of the same monl,h• 2. The Chamber of Peers and the tAiTfoll!`, Deputies o f t h e D epartments are con volou 28th of the month of September nest' t he De3p.arOtmuerehtlie cb inistearrgSedec‘rweittabrythoe eu f e S x t e ate t f ic e n r t os befr ot sent Ordinance. he 25 4 .,k Given at our C ast l e o f S t. Clouds ;The ilfr June, of th e year of Grace 1830 , and - year of our reign. By the King (Signed) CIIAB LE e4 I. ' Count de PEY IO: ` CHA ate; Ise. ii Off ' Y' ll To all who may see these presents gr eS siaill„ On the report of our keeper of the Se e ,ttices ir . Secretary of Stat e o f the Department o f e"" . . have ordered, and order, what follows :-'", sol / 1. The Si eur D e l aveau, C ounc ill o r o f coor extraordinary serv i ce , i s appo i nte d Celle State en ordinary service. 2. The Sieurs C ount d e V an bl an c, -- 11 ,1 0 1 1 L 4 don, Mi n i s t ers o f S tate; Marqu i s de •"" Issarts, Baron de Frenilly, Francliet pe s t - CP: 4 count de Castlebajar, Syrieys de ISlarieoeiL cillors in extraordinary service, are aut hor of assist at, rind particip a t e in, the deliberstlee i , Council of State. , f eel 3. The Sieurs Cornet d'lncourt. 10 " mt 0 cillor of State, and Baron de Villeboiss -,, ite i :; Requests, are named Councillors of S til :t sh.,l traorditiary service ; and authorised to se, „e ll ,Oll r participate in, the deliberations of our I: '' ' - State. 4. The Sieurs de Formor, Viscount d e .. C ll l /stager of Requests, ere nutned Councillor s ! in extraordin ar y service, and authorized tor' ' in the deliberations of our Council of State. 5. Viscou nt d e C urzay, Master of Reg ° z or feet of th e Department de la Correies' e , 4 Councillor of State in extraordinary s ervice: 04 6. Baron d e Ch ar di eu , P re f ec t of the D i g riee, r of La Loire, a nd Si eur M er y de 0 3 ° a 1 .... 0 1 named Masters of Requests in extraordina),tste., 7. Our Keeper of the See's, Minister o.t; t h tio the Departm en t of Justice, i s charge d o t execution of the present Ordinance. the silt' Given at o ur C ast l e o f Sr. Cloud, ti list' , July, in the year o f G rac e 1830, and ill ' he ~ our reign. GOARIP • By the King. (Signea) ( "60, 4 . The Keeper of the Seale and 11iinieter 0_,,, AO . ClIANi P '' ........' C 11.4. &C. ree ti t 'O d To all who may see these presents g o so a, , On the report of our Keeper of t_i nd g rilefioe Minister of Justice, we have ordered, ri e enot y I f t 0. 1. The Sieur llergasse, formerly + 4 , i r or eP`_, o l, Litates General, named Honorary Coul'u,"mipisl!„, 2. Our Keeper of the Seel*, eil l ,,f itiO , r' Justice, is charged with the executio n " a d the 2stiip sent Ordinance. s the .. Cloud, , I d 0, 01 of JGoilvy.e,nioattirtehyeeoCraosftleGorfaScet: 1830, year of our reign. By the Krug (Signedd C liAsil li t i k n e tlif t —.raft 111