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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
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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 cauutr,, 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.
ta.f•orcil vii,u to Fonift purloin; that the fling, Not kl,msnlg in the
mi•;4:,:. Aids the grninvt on which he trust
bur :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 drop of blood 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

OCT. 4.

discussed in the two houses, are highly judged of; they are ciiticised
exclaimed against, blamed or praised! Tue progress of government,
does it avear in the mean time deranged at this%
" France is open on all aides; travellers outer as they please. If
theie be secret enemies they may come in or go out as seem good to
them. They may correspond, appoint rendezvons, in a mold, con-
spire in the public squares or hi the corners of streets. Are they
feared? Not at all. Could Ituonaparte hare given them this liber-
ty? Now defence against them is despised ; they would full before
the mildness and indulgence of a paternal Goveminent, wou:d
stay the arm notified to punish them. Nothing dreadtill cat' be at-
tempted against a Government founded in law alai justice. Fr once
is 101 l of the relations and creatures of Buonaparte; they are pro-
tected like other citizens, while no one thinks of taking preeautiollB
against them. A great Princess came under the generous protec-
tion of our King, to take the wateis in our provinces—and yet the
AVOallti was fresh and tender. This Princess 'alight awaken powerful
recollections.—Well, what has her presence produced? Let us
unsure the Duchess of Angouleme at the waters of Aix, under the
stout government of tyranny, when the 'mow alone of Ilnerhou
made the King of Kings tremble? In short, a brother of the stranger
is established on our frontiers, where he displays riches which it
wool(' be more decent to conceal, and Ivo the least inquietude
been manifested at it ?—Has his removal been desirtd?—Laarn theu
to jiidge of the strength of a Government, not by its administrative
acts, but by its superiority in newaiity, moderation and judgment.
The strength of Kings cannot be >liArn, when it comes from the
light of their minds, and the rectitude of their heart 4.
" The Bourbons have wandered almost w alma agyhtm on the
lintiVe of the earth, exposed to the fears of the usurper, they etittiii
not approach, above all things, the fraiitiers of France, wit!-ont
ronniog the risk of their life. Ncw they p( r,et'Ute nh t those Who
have so cruelly persecuted them ; they siiikr them to z.hew th.ao-
selves ;About them a ithout testitying the least fear—without tkkieg
the piecautions which would scent so natural. %Vito will refuse to
acimile such magaianiumos confidence—such an absolute want of
resentment ?—Lonis XVII!. is right—i i is in thus giving flinn‘cli up
to the loyalty ot the French that 1w proves invincibly the lawfoisiess
of his ;igtits and the solidity of his throne. It seems as it he ex-
claimed on reachiog Calais. like Pliaip de Valois at the gates of
the Castle of Broye, " Open—it is the fortune of France;' We
have opened, anti we will prove to Lim that we are worthy of the
esteem he IcAtiried 101' us when he confided so to our faitb
virtues and his misforiunes."

T FIE N

ST_ITE P PEI:.

643

't a Prossimi Clii,mherlein. Pri sloe Cliki 1:•-, 111,“:('ii..t% Prihee of Luc% e:1-
rtein, Wertheim Fiendeolierg, and liauti u'Eudt of 11.. den ariivt-d
It; re thy dov before y.-?..tcroay.
B' intelligence l'rum Piugue WS learn that the Grand Duchess of
Oldenburg quitted thut Ctty the 13111, ace.allimuied by l.er sister,
1 the. Grand Duchess Marie, to go to Ohuutz, to coact the Emperor of
1 Russia.

PARIS, OCT. 3.—lt h said that the Duke and Duchess of Orleans
have requested that the wnn►en of the town, and gamblers, shall be
expelled from the PaLis Royal.
A triglitul crime was committed yesterday in the rile Ste. Marguerite,
fauhritiru St. Germain. A daughter stabbed her mother with a parrici-
dal knife, but was almost immediately taken into custody. 'fire reco-
very of the mother is exptCled.
On the 22d of September, died at Manheim, his flightless Henry, 4:3(1
Prince of Revs Plairen, aged 62.
They flatter themselves with a visit of the Emperor Alexander at
Berlin, after the Congress at Vienna.
The Prince of Orange has visited the principal places in Belgium ;
and has every where been well received. The ittlgi.its are eager to
do justice to I►is eminent merit, but they do ruA time less wish to have the
name of Frenchmen restored to them: (Journal de Puri )
PA a IS, OCT, 4.--Six booksellers, distributors of seditious pamphlets,
have been arrested. One at their libels is written bye Septerabriser ;
another by a Regicide, who is covered not only with the blond of Ina
King. hut with that of thousands of victims who perished in 1798, and
wko si'!n•r! tiff their dearli-warrantg.

The King mai Queen of Bayous set out on the 2.4 th ult. fur
Viennn.

D.iriin! 'he Sittivg, of the Congress of Vienna, awl Princess Maria
Louisa nil remain at the Palace of Schlossof, a short distance from the
capital.

MADR rn, Sr vv. 1.(2.—A farmer favourite of the ci-derant Kin 4
seph, i. Colonel the Walloon Guards he has much influence over the
mind of Ferdinand VII.

Peat t', 14.—The Prince Of the raw, who hitherto has not
quitted (711r.rks I‘'. is now at Pvs,ito. It is believed that his P. :Incas
:Ic;er:tii:lud no louver to grant hun an asylum in his Statr•.
Not ib St.ift Ilea' of Ole eilalslatioll of LOW, XVI. A'l that tie
know upon the ciblext conies from Paris. It is 4dieve.l, that if it
it tall not be proceetied on till ufier the Cong:ess•
Tito re-es",..ll)!lNlnuelit of the .le-i.its eatneti lit re a great seitslitioll.
Tligy are 1)4)%v nn In!lcer spoktni of. They du not appear lit hnt e
re...wiled any great imioence. It is, perhupg, sufficient to let th;:iu

lath —lt is sti!l said that the Queen of Etruria will earouse tba
Grand Duke of Tnscany. Her Majesty receives frequent visit:: 11,;:n
Ausiriati Ciiicers of rank, who is litre.
FLonitNent SEPT. Imperial liitzliness Ferdinavd
Grand Duke of Tuscany, on the 17th. wade his solemn entry into
Florence. The return of this Prince was celebrated by mignitieent
fetes zit(' universal acclamations. Tie three children of his Imperial
!li:mess arrived the same evening.
Cs UA , 24.-10 the ni,ht of the Atih inst. a terrible hurt ;cane
caused great ra v:lgls ill the putt and town 44 wenty-six
vesseis were stink itt the par', au.L six wrecked or, the coast tOT 11‘ ts
were lost Ly tie disaster. Many houses in the town suffered cuinri it.r•
ably i.ste! toi4l lus, is ilumeli.e.

TREATY BETWEEN DEN AI IRK :I\D

Fa the name of the most holy and midi% ided Trinity, Ili. 7.1;t.;•c-t1
the King of I)viiinfirk and his 1‘11;1:0). the hing of PI IN .1.1, «pi :t
animated v. int the desire Of r;-estatili,,hing tretweeti their rcip:-eti‘e
States, prare, tiniun, 4iiti the good itodetti:ni(iii); which have 1)(4,3
tinfortunate:y interrupted, 11;11,e tier this poriio.-C au al-
thori-t.ti Plenipotentiaries ; mantels', his 31e.ie,tv the Rittlt. "i I)'
/nark, the Sienr Christian fienry Ati 011- I ft,: C1)1{11t ur liar,.!eti-
burgh Revel:thin ; and his *.llajestv the Kau-;Of PrnsNia, the ince
of Itartlenhnrgh ; who, titer ini% nig exe:lautiet: tilt ir e•ln_c,i%e
fial rowerq, have agreed upon the •
1. 'De re •liall he 'en flit MT iznoti 'ander-
• taiidit;L,, hrt•.+t r n his :\lajt•Av the (A In milark :;sui i.i. :Voiit.-ty
th.• King. of Ftrii4-ia tvp, parties elii-
ploy the 01r:4:it attention to maintain n hiosiitto.y kt [wet-F.6
theta states :apt stibirCl., anti ?41:;11eil•!.:1111.V evcry
tliinri 'Ankh may di2tarb !lie uniot: so h;ll,piiy