The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-22 00:00:00

FRENCH LEOISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.

After the tumult, in which our Saturday's report
left the Assembly, had subsided,
M. D. MONTALINDSZT said—l are asked to reply to the
last speaker ;itis my wish and my duty to do so. I. am told
that N. Hugo Is absent, but it will be diScult for me to fol-
low a speech so Impasiewil without some Mom sttaskinp
the speaker, addreming to him questions to which
he has not the right to object by the plea of his shame'. The
duty of ea orator is not to allow an ammalsly to reseals
soder the Mamie of each words and such ideas without
replying to them. Allow me, Weever, to orals, sod you
will judge whether I say anything insulting to any one.
What I will say of the pcsaible future destiorof N. Hugo is
this. Should he at some (were day go to Ruse, to there
seek for solitude, for peace, and fee the repose of hie soul,
he would find them under that statical government which he
has new insulted. Yes, be will perhaps go there to seek and
to enjoy those blessing*. He will then return Omaha to
Heaven for having inspired the Christian powers with the
idea of maintaining in Ramp one asylum agaiost the storms
end vio,ence of polt. teal life. (Loud interruption from the
bit) He will then repent of the speech which he has just
Made, and that repentance will be his punishment. (Hear,
bear.) Y. e, he will then repent of it—(resewed inteerap•
des en the left) —he will repent having calumniated the
esserated head a/the church, he will repent of having ca-
lumniated Frawe in arribeting to her such feelings with
=to the papacy. lie has calumniated the Pope in at-
as to him violence and rigour. When will you find
ate gibbets whisk he alludes to—where art the executioners
and the torteree he talks or, leader the reign of Pies IX., or
even under his predecessors ?
A Vice—History swirl tell you.
N. DB Morratztensav—Yee, and history will prove that
for a long time pot there has not been a single pope who
was tyraneical end oppressive—
On the L-R—And the Borgia. (General laughter.)
N. DB Motreatmumea—The pope always pardons. He
is obli•hed to pardoa.
A Veice on the Left—Yes, when he is p .id fur It.
(Murmurs.)
M. Da MOWfALINBIHT.—That is why, in the amnesty
which you so insultingly designate as a pr scription, he Is
compelled to make exceptions. But where, I will ask, are
those phew and these gibbets of which so much has been
spoken ? It beelike., to the (aims nor to the gibbet that the
Pope has recourse ; but he is e 'impaled to keel, at dye awe
from his states certain men whom he would not punish as
we do in Prase,. He is comp lied to adopt a preventive
system, in order not to be driven to have recourse to a
repressive one. It is th;s, however, which has formed the
groundwork of the most impassioned part of the speech of M.
Victor Hap. bat you forget, you men of the m ideramt no
reromett, you forget that that is a two edged sword. Has
not the President of the Republic, in accordance with the
National Assembly, reseed to grant to other guilty men tit
amnesty which is demanded by those whom yen now ap-
plaud ? You forget that Pius IX. has already granted as am-
nesty. That was the first act es his at:erosion to the peal&
eel throes. He gnat, dit to men Irks have int sat all per-
jured themselves—to men who swore to respeei his govern-
ment, and wno kissed his hand ea taking the oath. I will
do that justice to oar demagogue,' and to our terolutim %%
they would sot have committed such an odi rat sacrilege.
(Laughter.) And yet you blame the Pope for rot granting
a more einirr• Malay, when he was so badly repaid far
the arse. iu IX. has mot with what la mre poignant
than misteetam—lte has nut with ingralteds. Onu conso-
lation, however, still remains to him: before he could have
met with ingratitude, his harness must have fit the Omar*
~lidoing pod. Happy, therefore, are those who give rise to
ingratitude; bat wretched are those who are angraiefel, and
twice wreathed be those who make themselves the &rents iit
the crime. (Hew, hear.) The Pep hie m-t with un-
grateful ma not only at Rome, not *sly an Italy and
Rnrope, but here; for it is to be ungrateful to despise such
melees as he has rendered by pots .yawl's such a. the
Monitarr will have enregiMmed as an instruction for the fu-
ture. (Hew, beer j Allusion has been made to the mums
by whom the Pope is surrounded, but I protest against suet
remarks. (Mho things, we; either the Pope sea as be
*lab peeper, and then the insults which are addressed to
those amend him fall on himself, or he &ea sot act as
he Wake peeper, and then he doss sot merit the derisive
praises which yes bestow is him. That is en old rev,le-
%Maul pima of tads, wide% M. Victor Hugo ought to
have centsideved beneath him. It was iavented by tee en-
foetuses* Loeb XVI. when he staameneed his career as a
estormer--
A Voice ea the Let He betrayed Prance l (Murmurs.)
M. de Keseretzusnav—lle was separated from all who
surroanded hies—from his family, his Mende, and his m-
etals. The constant remark was, " The King means well,
bet he %deceived by thee neer him," and after having is-
primed and easitleed all those who surrounded him, he
was himself led to the -catfold under the name of Is tuffs
pet (Sassadeeh) Ronan justice has three fee:area which
preceding orators have perhspe too mush confounded. I will
or ly notice the last of them I think that with regard to
the %amoral emrereignty of the Pope mid the conduct of the
Rogue ezpeditine, the question is tit eider by the ',Joe of
the Assembly, which can only be revised by history. I
dierefers, only occupy myself with veking what are
OM MWls Wrest to Rome after the room of the Pope.
lift? MO is, efe **least appears to be, weed is admitting
Mat it will be impeesiblu to grant t• the R 'man people what
the Minister of Foreign Affairs cells poliiieal lib.r'y. L^t us
exanda•wkether there is anything else in the siontsp• opri,›
Mae a hind of programme or diselaraion of the H ly Father
skies ecaudas all the principles of the Ware rovernmest.
It kr beest said, and I repeat it, that this moth proprio me-
tals@ leer principal gnarantees—reform of the lava, reform
of the tribeeele, greater provincial and communal liberties
thus em enjoyed in Francs, and in the fuarth p 1 ice the a -
selarklaMma of the administration in this ems*, not that cc
ekeleatige will be excluded, but that lairs will be admitted.
Weald yes hen MI the high functionaries to be lam t You
would then, perhaps, demand that the Pope himself ehriald
Wefts to tee Iday ? (Laughter.) You might as well ask
the Impswer of Rani% whose government is essentially
mi-
uptarryy, to have his aeustry governed by lawyers. (Renewed
lushest) Be has had a prang of iaf 'airy as his minister
of flaansee, and they have sot bees badly 'assure d. I
ezwrlth dame who dodge thee the Frew* gavernment
legit on the fulfilment of all the prtrn;ses that hate
bees glees; for mry thing tha ark b.; h •