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LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 23.

Tan late speech of Prince NAPOLEON appears to
have pitiably embarrassed the counsels of the Est-
rum ROSEN! in the absence of the Chief of the
State. If the appointment of a Regency was in-
tended to prepare the nation for a form of govern-
ment less personal than one man's will—less preca-
rious in its tunas than any single life, and to
convince the world that the Empire was not an
accident or • ceremony, but a system as inde-
pendent of time and change as the English con-
stitutional monarchy or the American republic, it
must be confessed that this desirable result has
not been attained. This Council of Repay is
so incapable of having • will of its own, or of
dealing according to its own discretion with the
passing difficulties of each day, that it has not
even ventured to reproduce or to refer to this
Ajaccio oration in the official journal ; and after
all the unofficial papers had published it at full
length, a private messenger was sent round to
the editors to request them to desist from fur-
ther mention of • subject which all the clubs and
cafds of Paris were discussing with malicious relish.
Nor is Prince NAPOLEON the only disturber of the
Regency Council's peace of mind. M. DS PLUMMY,
whose long and tried devotion to his Sovereign is ,
certainly not that of an " underling," has returned
from Rome, and published in the form of • letter
to the President of the Senate some very decided
views concerning Italian unity, the reactionary
conspiracy at the Vatican, and the necessity of
reforming the Papal Government so as to render
its continuance in some shape or other not abso-
lutely irreconcilable with surrounding civilization.
There are many inconsistencies and inoompetibili-
ties in M. Dr PLESIONY'S own views, as expressed
in his letter, which will scarcely satisfy those
friends of Italy who demand the simple application
of the principle of non-intervention at Rome, and
the separation of the temporal and the spiritual
power ; yet the Regency Council in Paris is embar-
rassed by the mere publication of opinions which may
or maynot be tacitly approved by the Emreanebira-
self. In the Senate, that inevitable M. DE Boas; who
plays the part of the slave in the triumphal car,
has availed himself of the presentation of a petition
to make a wild and vehement onslaught on the
" irreligious and revolutionary speech which has so
" greatly moved us all," and actually to call for
its disavowal. No member rose to repel this
indecent attack upon the cousin of the EYPEROZ
and while Prince NAPOLEON'S speech and M. Di
PIPHIGNY'S letter are denied recognition in the
Mo•itcur, M. DE BOISSY'S denunciation is reported
word for word.

So the EMPEROR is urgently requested to return
home, and he has the consolation of discovering the
virtue and value of personal government as soon as
the manager of the marionettes is oil the stage.
Of Prince NAPOLEON'S oratorical apotheosis of
NAPOLEON it is no concern of ours to say more than
that it was appropriate to the scene and natural
to the orator. The people of a small Italian island
may reasonably be proud of having sent
forth the founder of an Imperial dynasty
and the subjugator of France. In France
it may be that among the educated classes, and
especially the rising generation, the faith in Bons-
partissm is waxing cold. There are many French
liberals who wept with youthful enthusiasm when
the Prince DE Jourvuis brought back the re-
mains of the captive of St. Helena, who have
since bewailed in dust and ashes the generous illu-
sions of their earlier years. There are many who have
learnt to sicken at those songs in which Basilica's,
the poet of the people, embalmed the memory of the
man who left his wounded soldiers to perish, who
sacrificed two generations of Frenchmen to his

devouring ambition, who, while he set up kingdoms
for his family, lost the frontiers of the Republic,
who twice brought the armies of all Europe on
his heels to Paris, and left France in the grasp of .
the invaders. There are French liberals in these
latter days fanatical enough to affirm that nothing'
in the memorable career of the First NAPOLI°, is
so marvellous as the infatuation of the people
upon whom the burden of his disgraces and dis-
asters fell ; except indeed that the hero of Marengo
and the omnipotent Eu7slos was the commander
who had given up the battle, and the usurper
who lost his presence of mind.
Prince Nsrozzow, however is not perplexed by
any of these historical doubts and hesitations of
liberal France. He sees in the despot to whom
sovereigns succumbed, but against whom all the
" liberated" nations rose with one accord, fhe
champion of nationalities ; in all the wan and
conquests of an insatiable ambition he saes the
principles of the Revolution rained in blood, and
Is piously compares the author of all this bloodshed
to tthe Founder of Christianity. It is difficult for
ordinary readers of history, who are neither
Coniosns nor Imperialists, to do justice to Prince
NAsozaoa's bold and ingenious interpretation at
the Fint N.; POLION'S motives ; but it is lees easy
to explain &vs: the fens than to dispute the ver-
dicts of history. Is is not the Esfossow whom
the Second Empire ies placed NI the tsp of the
iitluout in the Place v, end6coe, {Li itvoc.zos in
u.'—•
risa robes, but Lie iteipt recluse :4 Ilbar I