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tilltAcr 1110111 A fIIIIIIATE ILLITIEII.
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Ile political haricot' seemed to be clearing up, and iny
last letters breathed only the wainscots of general security;
un a asides • cloud has overshadowed the capital--sinivtvr

projects and criminal attempts are the only subjects of con-
seressimi—Oits formed by same military leaders, aot only
against the Ministers, but against the person of the King
himself. It is rem asserted that the Conspirators had
plotted to carry off his Majesty, force him to abdii ate, and
place Moushoir (the Count d'Artois) on the Throne, in the
hope that that Priace would dystroy the Charter, and ri4ive
with absolute power ail the abuses and inja,tiec whit!' pre.
pared the Revolution.

Whether it is that the Ministers held this Conspiracy in
contempt, which, to every sensible person at all acquainted
wills the state of public feeling in France, was as ridicolons
as it was criminal, or whether the Alinistersi deemed it
proper to envelope their operations in the profoundest m)s-
icry, certain it is, that they have taken no ostensible mea-
sure, Aare testified no alarm. Affairs have gone on a% usual.
The armed force has not been augmented, and the Govern•
bent has remained in apparent security. I have gone
throngli l'aris—l haVe touversed with men of all tiartirs—
not use bad remarked the slightest disposition of Aliiii,ters
to protect themselves against the impending storm.

However, the reamers are accompanied with P o many

eiieumatiatill details, persons are mimed wins are so well
known for their ill-will to Govertimeut, that I cannot (Mold
the exi►tence of the project, even to the full extent assigned
to it. Admittinz it to be so, it is evidest that nothiag
could be inure senseless; it isa real corapiraey of Ultras,
and possesses all the eharacteriatics of it—vain boasting in
sperelore, weakness in the means, fully is the execution, and
want of foresight in the result. 1 kuuw well that if we
were to listen to theta. Gentlemen we might aeon discover
11win capable of may ILiOR of the kind. Bullies in crime,
they have adopted Ilse language of their predecessors the
Jrcubins, aho.e conduct they imitate as far as they dare ;
but happily their cuwardlie is equal to their insolence. If
words and looks could kill, Frisbee "amid be one vast acne.
tery, fur ly any would lie permitted to survive. Rave
those worthies •ha, in March, 1918, so roundly and so
lsdyally swore to spill the last drop of their blood in defence
of Ilse l'lirsitie; yet abets It came to the point, not one,
out even usie dared to book the Usurper in ilw face, though
any one of do m could have ridded the enrtb of the great
Disturber of Europe's Peace; and those heroes who boasted
thvinselves the descendants of the Bayards, the Duzueselins,
is, either tamely bowed before the 'maimed and unattend-
ed Usurper, or gloriously ran away to Ghent.
Thus such nay can scarcely be feared; fur a battalion of
grenadiers would put to the rout Ilk *hole of this party in
Feistier, were They all collected id a single p.sint—they are,
iu truth, only strong in iutrigue ; Ohl have nothing of the
lion, bit every quality of the fux, with one said to be pe-
culiar to the ostrich, that of hiding its head in the reeds,
sad faucying its whole body out of sight. Let us look only
al their viaduct on the present occasion. AAer speaking of
one of the woiSt of crimes with all the vehemence of so
many little Calabar', we see them quietly sheik to their
Isomers, and forget in rearward sleep the rrrereel of the
day. This isisok-nt bullying of pride Sad hatred, attended
with so notch weakens, Foyers them With ridicule in the
eyes of even the Most abject classes of society; and this
ridicule of course tb.devs the party still weaker.
Be it as it may, latillr are we to aectiiiht fur the King re.
twining such remiss amongst his servants—bow can lee per.
mit those traitors, at heart, and known to be suck, to ap-
proach him, and guard the Throne? Can we make the
Throne respected by placing on the steps person, who con-
spire its ruin, and du nut even deign to conceal their exe-
crable designs and criminal hopes? It is not enough for
them to declore themselves to the people as the enemies
of their King, they even dare in their speeches make of
his successor ■ cowardly Usurper, and tread under foot
kgilirstary, of ulsieli they vaunt themselves the may
suppuiters. What more odious or more abominable
cuuW the Jacobins or the Regicides themselves have dune?