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=POSING TIM PUTIZTS AND TOR OILINCT
OF THE LAST CONSPIRACY.
(Cooffeasedftes oar Riper el' poterdays)

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3. TO DUTROY TIM RBPIUBNTATIVZ

Thew we bottomslitanies carried to such a degree that
they canoes be pardwied, sad whim they place as the GNU.-
defies of a system of government, two principles which ere
opposites the erects must nosess•rily be discordant. This
ie what loss happened is the &fairs of Preece. The Allied
Powers haw given to Priam with the same head, and at
the awe .cues!, s Representative Oweretweat, which was
adapted to it (g), sad to lb. ling that pretended system of
eteillhriom between the parties which Would suable him to
role over or to welsh them (A). AN the nacertalaty, all the
weatines., of the Rises Gower/mew arise■ from the impoii-
Whility of reconciling those two cuatradietory principles.
In poist of fact, the essence of the Represeatative Govero-
orate under aay Awn iu which it is established, is to give •
legal Gegen to public opinion, and to this organ a certain
poetise of t►e sovereign power ; and it mast sot be tomcat-
el that it is optional to give or withhold this power. If the
social state is such that this opinion exercises. great indo-
rse, over the earssures of Government, it is impossible to
avoid reeogaising that which it hes acquired; sod the eon-
stitatiosal laws ought to regulate the esereise of t►is right,
in order to render it the support of the Guverament which
adopts it, instead of its beeuntime the terror sad the enemy
of that which is condeowed to be continually repelling its
attacks.

But experience proves that this opinion is never express-
ed by a single voice, and that all the tints sad shades of in-
dividual opinior of which it is composed, sad which divide
it ad laillnifuss, class themselves naturally noder two co-
lones, which assume the name and position of parties, in the
daily expression of their desires, their inclinations, and their
wills. This has been the ease in England for the last 180
years, the national representation has been divided by the
partisans of the Royal prerogative, and those of the privilege
of the people. It is thus America is divided by the Federal-
ists and Anti-Federalists, and the Governments of those
countries have never thought of placing themselves between
those differeut parties. They knew very well, that by such
means they would not he able to govern either, that they could
nut satisfy either, and therefore that they could not reckon
on the support of either; end this is the actual state of the
Government of Fromm—placed between the two grand di.
visions, they who wish for the estahlkliment of the Horse of
Bourbon, and they who are anxious fur the euosequeisees of
the Revolution.

It is evident then, that there exists a moat material
rontradiction between the establishment of a Repemeutstive
Goverameist which constitutes parties, and the iutermediate
coarse of a Government which pretends to put them down.
In effect, un the owe hand, the contradictory opinions winch
constitute and bind the two parties, are called area to de-
clare themselves with all the independence which charge.
terise the Sovereignty, while, on the other, all the iodisence
of the Royal authority is exerted to slier their expressioa.
Oa one side they are desired to speak, on the other they are
commanded to be silent ; on one side the parties are assem-
bled, they are coisfronted with each other, a held of battle,
Asnr, leaders, and lags, are given to them ; and, on the
other, the Goverument, alone and isolated as it is, has had
the pretension to disarm and disperse them. At one time it
is pet under the imperious necessity of seekier their assent,
and on souther it wishes to proceed in a manner independent
;gibe interests of both one and the other. In a word, they
have established a form of Government, which Mania fail
to create parties, even in a country where no traces of them
had existed, and have established in principle that it is ne-
mosey to destroy the parties in a country where they have
existed. and been so strongly marked daring thirty years.
What cam be the result of this tissue of incuasiateecy and
locoaristearies, which are attached to the very foundaelea
and essence of Governasert ? That which bas is effect al-
ready resulted from it—that the Government, a passive
spectator of the strife which it closet prevent, hods Itself
bruised and brakes by the shocks of the two contending
enemies, and that it can oat ~Ape total destruetioa by
t calling to its aid succoursmost preeerione and dao.
serous to its stability. This would not have bees the case
if lllrnNlers had sooderstood the astute of the Government
which they had to direct (f).
It is certain that if France had not altogether lost all
traces of her aneieut iostitatioas; if the people could bear
a more independent yoke, I world willingly my more, ohm-

(p) Proclamation of the &sparer of Regina, April, 1214.
(a) Letter of the four Ilialairra to the Duke de Richelieu,
of the 20th November, 11116. Official Nuts of the four
Minlinen, dated February 10, 1017.

(1) Extract of the Note of the math of August, 1117,
" Bat," it will be said, " is there a reasonable maw who
mould advise the King sod ►is Cavernoient to answers them-
selves with a party, to espouse its violence and it■ passious,
to employ force to procure she trinseph of the iatertsts of
the our, and to crush those of the other? God forbid that
we should be so ',denten:el! But we my, that a Gower.-
went which is in its essence that of Party, which establishes
a Tribune where the interests which divide the nation are
dismissed, should not place itself in this neutrality of weak-
arm, which can wither satisfy nor secure the heterest of
eishrr. We say, soul experience has said mu in easieb stroager
terms, that this wise middle state to which it may he neces-
sary to attain; this state, *hide is the roasideratiest of the
enlightener! maul, and the Wryest of him who is not as, is a
result MOS( desirable to arrive at; but Mew there is no way
of
to it; that when you wish to arrive there at •rst
yon are slope, without power, without support, despised it,
all parties, who quarrel over your head, whew you Mirk that
they have cast themselves at your feet : and that the heat
way to lowered, and to confourol she dive►ging interests, be,
to plate yourselves in the centre of that party whose midi-
meats are most analogous Su the system which you wish to
esishish, and to sultilue t►em by Obit power which they
exercise over those they commend, and eve, over thole with
whom they combat. It is in this a:tuition, and letting one
party feel the ronvictioa that you have • community of inter.
eats with it, that you can avail yourself of all its power, mid
eves' of its pao‘i )))) s, to obtain from it all the neccse.ul sacri-
fices, and the woe euneiliatisos of all the °Rimier Jut. rc.ta ;
awl the better to exploits niy idea on ibis suhjert, I shall nay
the expression of a Prince the nearest to the Throne, who has
said, to govern France it was to ctmary in place lionstif in
the oitil.t of his 110/n perly, and in strvlrls forth his hand to
the other. lu fart, if in Ih.l year 1815 the Irii•ireresmig..l was
placed uu pi melte, mute positive, it would now be ready

Isle ; if property was Neatly less diet& d ; if the informa-
tion were lea genera:lv espanded ; if the a Is.de population
had been lea. aceustmsse.. to interest ihrmaelvee in the ac-
tions of Goveruinesit, to dieciiiis mei to judge them, it
would nut lave been deemed esecesmiy to give Frmee a Re-
presentative Government ; there would have been nu Toi-
lsome fur homage/es' where parties might come with all she
Is at 01 Pawning and self-love to sharpen their weapons, to
arouse the interim which divide the station and call the two
parties to combat; then, and wily then, might this system
of equilibrium be advised and adopted, and it would hive
destroyed wieleas and isolated uppsssitioo, it would have
drawn over the one and discouraged the other.
Thus have we nut hire astonished wheu the Allied So-
vereigns, who govern their people according to the practices
of ancient monarchies, thought that Franey would find it
for her advantage to hoist the halnisee equal between two
contesting isterms. The idea I. sound ; it IN dangerous in
the application which they have matte of it among their awn
subjects ' • but it is useless, dangerous, and impracticable
with Ilse Government which they lave established in Fracee,
mid we have not waited the result of experience to declare
this formally (j.)
Bid we ought to be surprised when we found this idea
psetireipated in by the Beg dab Cabinet, which ought to
know so well all the conslitione of a Government designed
after their model, and of which they have sack old and ho-
nonrables experience. How is it dint they have forgotten
samara us that which would hove appeared so natural
among themselves? And how is it that they have so fie.
queenly gives advice which they themselves have not been
able to follow? Will they say, that wail us, passions and
parties are rut the same? It might as well be said, slat
the know, passions are not alike in all times and in ivery
place. And how can they think that their development
would ant he the mime, when the forms of Government, in
the midst of which they are agitated, are so .smilar, awl the
theatre on which they are established is exactly traced WI
the same design!

But, shall it be said, does nut the example of Bonaparte
prove that • power, aud that • dreallint our, may be I misd-
eal upon the ruin of all parties, and may march boldly over
the heads of use mid the other? Yes, cricaOtly ; an usurper,
• comiyaeror may attempt, perhaps, once more, to break with
his sword those pofiucsl ionise' illtlB which lie himself had
created; perhaps he may be able once more to lead away by
the dithisiou of C 011911111( • nation, ardent, and easily VII,
cited, and tempt their passions by the bait of glory end re-
wards. He may again be able to arm a militias of soldiers
It moditioo that be might deliver Europe to their plun-
der. Yet, after all this, Isis power will 'till lie artificial, tool
will tall the very day on which his conquests become limited.
Must Bonaparte become truce more fatal 11l France by the
false sod danorusis application which is nook of the exam-
ple of his tyranny? All Bonaparte 's force consisted in the
unity of his conceptions to create in France a militai y des-
potism for foreign 4 011qllht. This force could nut be one
for (ranee the moment that it is ft). tuttately utial.!e to de-
solate the earth. Why have they not iticliii;ed that terry
Government, according to its nature, hail a force sufficient
fur itself, and this fume was nothing else than the accord-
ance and bannony of the principles of Government, with
all their consequences, and their applicator's to all Hie de-
tails ? Bonaparte created every thing for conquest, mid Isis
first care was to destroy all the organ, of public °pillion (4).
The Representative Government ought to bud all its
strength is the develop iness* of public opinion ; i• those
iostitutions which are favourable to such development ;
and 1 might say owe, in the regular organitatiou of
parties.
But, besides, what violence wield it not require to wrest
at this moment front France the concession. which she has
received froar the Kin`? They have brew conweerated by the
Posers who have placed him im the Throne—by the use
which is made of them—by the guarantees which are found
in them, in tine, by their free and entire adoption on the
part of those who were least prepared. Thia question did
appear doubtful in 1814 ; it was to be again discussed In
1818 !! Then, however, (Wogs might be viewed in another
point of view. Then there was a IlliflltTollll class of honour.
•ble wen who had preserved the memory of the past; they
wire a inbellwbed fur them by every beauty of poetry and
histury, and with every charm which the period of their
youth could bring; with them it might have Is en attempted,
but perhaps attempted io vain, to replace the Throne sot the
rains of lumina fuondatious. But at present thrse stunt( I -
OUR partisans of Royalty, pursued and persecuted by the
Miuistry, have found no asylum but as, the preservative of
new isistatutions; they have fierly adopted them, they have
proclaimed them, they have swore to the tii, und they have
never swum in Ms. How could it he expected to estahlifis
without them—to establish in opposition to them, that
which would perhaps have been uselessly attempted four
years back with their consent ?
Every thin would be difficult, every thing would be im-
possible in such au attempt, they could not re-establish that
which they call the ancient regime; all its elements are de.
strayed, sad rvea its ashes sic scattered. They would out
retrieve ma the *Widow of thaw great p rips of the State,
who, sincerely &flooding the rights of the (*runt, anti the
privileges of the people, balanced themselves in the c rele
which was marked tint far them, stud gave the surest gua-
rantee fur the liberties of the nation, and the inviolability of
the Throne. It would then be • despotism naked and
hideous which should replace those excellent and irrecover-
able institutions Or socient times—a mere despotism, with.
out force, without institutions, without guarantees—a der
pettier', such as France has never known, end could never
support—a despotism, in fine, which it would lie necessary
to uphold by arms, sad which would attach to legitimacy
all the isicenveoieacee sod evils of an usurpation. "loch a
Government would he remiguent to all France, and still
more so to the noble character of legitimate Princes.
Who should dare under such a system In undertake to ale-
mend from Frame those imerificee which severe circum-
stances implies upon her, when she might almost find the
means io the coticarream of her will and her exertions?
What world be the resources of credit to which she is con.

to attach mum entirely, snore freely, and without danger,
them interests which. perhaps, at ant, appeared to have
been broken down. The Royalists, enconraged by the con-
vietio• that the Govemment of the King would not depart
frons those principles which, in their opinion, were best cal-
culated In consolidate it, would have bees, the gist tu re-
quest that Om King shoold call to his councils Clow who
mirk! serve Ida, sad week! have voluntarily accepted in
their ranks new converts to the doctrine of legitimacy.
And have they net eves, been reproached with hating adopt-
ed messily, sad without cluitinction, all those who preseuted
themselves to sustain she same curare which tlwy defended?
Out the other hood, those who, by their asstecedents, weer in
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natural hostility to the establishment of the Throne, luiits
all hope of explaining their loci in disseminating anti-
monarchical prisseiples, would easily have schism% ledged
those which they had declared immutable, and would frankly
attach Atomic's to them when they found they hid a
guareintes for the (suture. Such was evideotly their disposi-
tion in the first months of the first collocation. It is a this
Insiiiier, mud utly in this insulter, that they could hove esta-
blished the moinivehy, and united she nation in tune roan•
mon bond. Instead of Ibis, the Nlinisters have left every
thing in dispute, except the revolutionary power, !settee
niiich they prostrated themselves. Ng/ nhits Itchiest prin-
ciple has becis reeoguised and cipsiserated ; nn orooorri,ical
institssihoi has been established i and attic tieci:iy•sescn
years of calamity, a fi;alitful limiest still sllisipss h••toeen
the bores %sloth is txerain,t itself to regenerate and 'preserve
that monarchy, au t the force which is mill active to dissolve
and &stray oh"
(j) See the !Voles of 1818 and 11117.

(k) The S !oe exi.t4 pru•imvd. The I.v4;sla!ive
Butly a pi: I mu! na I lie Tr!buttitl deitru:O.

PRICE SEV r,N-PENC E

demised this long lime ?—ne impossibility of adopting such
a measiireappears beyond a doubt.
And in (*scour of it whom would he pretended to execute
anch a snhversion ? It would slot lie fer II e iiitereAs of the
country, which uottld no lion,;:r flnil in the leeitimate Go-
vernment any pledie of st hility ; it would 'tot be the inte-
rest of Europe, which had pledged iiself to aunlaiu by force
the Government whirl, it Lad imposed by force; it would
not be the interest of CERTAIN PERIONE, Who itoj:lit brlin
flint they could thus more easily maintain tht niselVes io
power. Alike ilpiortint in their ideas of rrescrving it, as
they are in its exercise, Ministt rs awtld he astotilthed In
discover, that these constitutimal foitits. *loch they looked
upon CR ObSiIIICICS, were their only cuplMnl, stud to find I hrm.
selves weakened in proportion a. those useful barriers were
brok. n down.

In foes, if for these three years Ministers had understood
the Representative Government for a nenmenl, would they
not hate perceived its tt•tratilaireA, instead of objecting to it
as inconvenient? Attacked by paitisp, 'would they not have
found parties isitereiited in *Pir di fence! If the tiibune hal
resounded with the tries of thee. envtoirs against them,
would they not have had the tribune to oleic tot their actions,
their motives, their into-Winos? Mot resumer.. would they
not have found had they known wto mate themselves
with the defenders of the Hortplro of the Monarchy, re-
source's which are eli denied to the :t!..nisters of absolute
power.

It will then givenr demonstrated to (wetly intelligent mind,
that every attempt in destroy in Flaw. the Government
which is there established. would he 'la :genius; that three
constitutional forms err the beat ad lite.] to the circum-
stances in which France is now placed; that thi y are coimi-
dent with the dispositiorm of men, and the 4614 of the
time.; that the-y are it reasonable covoiatit between the an-
cient institutenis it Lich c :mod he restored, an.l the theories
of the rerointi••n, ehirl, it is s•, essential to destroy; that
instead of reaniitiati•ir tha spirit of ti:e revolution, they have
contributed more thin R:1 , thers to d. compose it ; and, in
fine, that far f • being Ilse obstacle acaitiat which the Go.
remanent of the King 4'00.1 direct its forrr, tlo•y would, out
the central y, have m... 4 'failed to its esta-
blishment, if they bad nut been ewnpliestral by a cyst. in sib-
sulately opposite, ii the Ntris,,,o-rs who were dealt/el
with their direction had understood their Inutile sod c ffffffff
Ilona. The first of these conditions bad bat o, to re•attaclt
to themselves all those aho e:u•nestly 'titn(' for the ems-
blistim, at of the Iczitimate Monarihy. sod the adhe,ence
to those principles Alm le night cousolniste it. We pit/test
to .hew what has INT;) Joie In this importailt :nterest.

4. TO BRING BACK THE KING AND MS PRESENT'
MINISTERS TO AUCII PUN( it-I.Es AS MAY ESTAft

'llll' MON A UCH Y.

We have sufficiently ixylaiurd, in the Notes of 181 n and
1817, by what concurrence of rift umstanee. the King -out
the present Ministele were diawn away fr II nunharchlrat
doctrine., and led into measures wholly opp,,sed to the
establishment of the Throne. All who hive romidered this,
and the situation in which it placed Prance, ~re unakinuots
in hoping that linemen better understood will ecaw closer
the King and his Ministers to the support, is of Royalty.
They knew that the Goverumeut felt oo apprehension at in es
ing that all the silerifites which it made to the Revolution
could not succeed in attaching it to the legitimate Throne,
but that, on the contrary, the itrvolutioli avail.-41 its. If of
these concessions to put wt against the C.i,virismetit a more
hostile aspect ; they hoped, to fine, that the K.ug and his
Miuistiers would put an end to t bid unjust am! impolitic con.
test which they were tarrying on agaiii.t the flirods of 11u
earthy, and that they would win them over 1.1 their •upon t
This course was as easy of ptir.uit, as it nUS cei taut of sue-.
ecu. The Royalists, sintwnlistanding- the opinion of their
strength, both in population and property, .I,d not impose
soy pet-soon' rooditiotis to esnaent this union, and to esta-
blish this eiesirable peen. " Attach yourse!vem (said they
to the Ministers) to the only pintiples that can establish
the Monarchy; nominee your hostility to those who are
Wrong sincerely to defend it. T.. what Col will be your
power, to what end will be your Velity, if, led oil by hl rd
passions, you know out how to make use of the one. Raj
you reject the other? 11 hat have you to hope !lord the
blends whom you Pei k among the paiiisaes of revo'utluti ?
Theyopcoly proclaim the project of overturning the Throne;
.10 you hope fur mil, safety to yours. iv. s amidst its ruins?
What have you to fear from us? all our s, titiments are for
the King • the Ministers of his tiwice coil!: be our catoral
leaden, from the mointut they should nmsent to embrace
with ua sincerely the priticipl. a and the doctrines that could
insure to our unhappy country. nod to 1/111' cliildeen, the
blessing of a legitimate Nlonatelly solidly established."
The Miaishia, deaf to this laugor‘e of peace and con-
ciliation, answi r, we are very de:irons that you would come
to range yourselves nutter our .1, twried Ltl.tivrs q we accept
of a force, which, iu spite of all our taw to, we have not
Loco able to break, but we accept of it with a view 10 in
destruction, that It may be blind:y obedient, that you may
abinolon your principles, your sentiments, your coosciesicc,
and allow yowls, Ives to be guided by the nod of our
calm i cc.
. . .

All the powers of the earth united could not obtain such
a sacrifice, Pod imike the Royalists become suddenly the sol-
diers of the R. volution. This, notwithstandiog, is what is
demanded by a Minister without vigour, without power,
without undeistanding.
It may be easily judged then by what fatality we have
been drawn on; the Ministers who have been so eager aid
so tractable to obtain the approbation of foreigners, in all
circumstances which ministered to the passious, were deal'
this time to the voice of cony Gannet, which said to thews,
you ratimat sustain the King unless by attaching to yourselves
at any price the masa of the tuition who wish to support
him, and by renouncing the dangerous support of those who
are desirous to overthrow hint.

IVliiit hope can be entertained of men blind to such a des
free that the recommendations of the A:lies, the counsels
of their friends, the supplications of the volition*, lie opi-
nion of the must worthy in the country, and the sit ma of the
dangers which threatened it, could not reclamin them, could
they ever return to better sentimer. is?
For what re3Stin is it that they consider it so important to
support, at lie bead of affaire, tome men who were only
placed there from difficult) of choice ? Of the eh wen per-
sons who oureccded to the Ministry, theme rentaiti lint three
that were called to it at first. Can it be hi-limit that they
would become more faithful than the others in follownii: the
path that was milked oat to them by tins epoch? That
path was so uncertain that they were nt Gist Royalists ; at.
terwards they passed to a hypocritit al moiter.tion ; at pre-
sent they sic for revolution, and they would be morn
strongly so if Ike totoiiiiion would adopt thcin ly
as Ihev .dope it, 1)1.11160m So th.,l it trolifol !iv a hil Alt*:
error In believe that by supporting the M iwistry, people sup.
port the saute men and the saint principl!•ll; this 'tibia he a
sort of conclusion as singular as !Ira *lnch would induce
na to suppose that people perst acre when they so intu a mi.
trarietirs.

Rat if they are convinced, as they ought to be, that the
re union of many mtlliuns of Royalists a i.ccirstary to the
king's Government, end can alone consolidate .1, how are
they to imngtne that this political tie Inithe fnrtne.l
wise than by mutual confidence—.a confidence to Qfliu ult to
lie established after so prolonged aid so hitter a cusiesi!
It is then main t (mutely true to assert, that the in. -.111 Mi-
nisters air the Ices, calculated to bring about thierrsoni...;
that they are but little disposed to it, bernure tb, y art iris
In their simulants, and that this mode britLzifiz b af-
fairs to a heater direction it one the most difficult _nil ow
anvil tain.

It ot) ttest.4:lll from ibis how many efforts Favt.
triv,l to euttnret ihi intcrevnt of Slinionis with mos, of the
MMElrtily I,O{V many homy have been digit 11111.1111ii'dr. hell/
-h brfole m fell•:.1 V
lEmuite, emu b:ubtained; huw danirt.m. it woui4 Leto

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linfer to sorb ram! isteests the isterests of sns•
A.ol. is effect, is it more important to preserve •
name is the Ministry of Fraser. sham to make sore
of %on' once'', ? This neutrally leads so is 'a-
tm ie, ther- hr not means m •n simple and more
curtain fiir a • gat thin desirable ono• of all iotereat%
Minc.reloral and &Argon's, amol to disclaim the last osestsue.
5. TO CHANGE THE •YOTF.7I Ole THS GOVERN.
MRNT NY CHANGING THR MINISTRY WHICH
DIRECTS IT.

It is not not?, in a Representative Glivernmeet that the
eha•iee of the men conducting the *Mors of a country bas
&woo found the soma oeinille, the moat natural, and the most
certain mode of chrociiie a system of adminietratioa know.,
to be erroueolis. In fart, stihmigii the direction of public
strios depends notch more on the principles adopted, that
011 the men who conduct them, yet it is common to see men
i.histify Memo-Ives with principles from antecedent circuits-
voi, :ohm, or interest, so fee, that they can no hin-
ter eh 000: other ware, or waren and apply other doctriase.
HAW! we nut seen soder every Government the first egrets
of power changed, when the object i■ view was to change
the *mien of foreign politic*, ur the prioeiples of internal
&deli Minn

If this foi. is admitted in States where the Sovereign con-
e,ntrat.3 the ,•upeeroe power in his person, where the Mims-
le • as., and can be 'only ministers of his will, how much
taus P.. Voile, .6.111 it prevail in a Constitutional Govern-
er, ns, oh. re the Ministers are, us the contrary, the avowed
enumwllsors of the Sovereign. enact a responsibility which
meliorates than to follow wish .sue accord • line to be ap-
in overt of I') t'a Prince, hat of which he does not himself
ihr.M all the involutions? is a Government which must
'toile with hart( a maws of interests which present thens,elves
coder the appearsurii of parties, and which it is absolutely
'i.e.-glary to yons to the idmiisisttation by the confidence iss.
spitvst by the rharneters of the men composing it, that coo.
tiii nee esnout be 1.11 on the Lit asouseot of their arriving
at power; it most have older awl deeper foundations; it
mum he (mold, d or the custviction dint they eon wirer sham.
•ii Uw proiciples nod the general interests wh.ch unite that
Mao..
fact, lams ran Ministers do in a Constitutional Go.
verioso-ai, out ear, y with awns, and attach to the
fee re of the Crown the power of public opialusi,
I, card by our of these piesionainant voices, or, to speak
MOP" $0141:s1,, by a party! USlCllfielli in their proceedings,
lb. y cat. le ashrf adopt a system of fioverunieot, nor a ems-
sistiint (simile of operations; bl.swu about the spurt of every
gateof ;.arty. they remiss', without power, because they are
'without support; soil • Goveruinesit without pewee is au
rill e without a foniidaiion, which falls of itself and Covers
the earth with its rat s.

And let es nut here be reproached with indulging in *b-
efoul theories. It is high time to learn theconditiuosof
the Constituti 111 l al GosTroment which it is desired to esta.
htish ; it Is high time for those who wish to ext seise little.
rove to kern how they *ugh o to direct it • the ignorance of
these eunditioos, sad the resistance mad; to their adoption,
are the only causes of the uncertainly and vacillation in
the aft ins of Fraser, sod of the toeffsetercy of ben Go-
vernmest.
Time, if it is impossible not to admit the charge of per-
s./11s the Ministry, is the must certain means of
etiologies the tithe sod dangerous system of Goveroment, it
is also ilepossible to deny that this champ would be useless
iii • Representative Governmeut, if it did not place at the
head of affairs, wee strong in the confide:sloe of one of the
parties which express public °philtres. All who might be
chosen fur this ideation, without having previous builds of
coonestiort with use party or the other, would not afterwards
belt se firers them, because the exercise of power, which is
airessmerity iss its progress obliged to offend against par.
Hankie vests, serves rather to awake distrust mid op-
cti:l, than to strensibea the ties of confideace sad
ry.
Arch wield be the insurmountable (theistic, which a new
Minister would find, which could not, by the mere strength
of the 111111111e8 composisig it, stitch to itself, from its very
formation, one of the two divisions of general interests and
opinions. Neither three mouths lime, nor the presence of
Chamber, would be necessary to expose the inutility of
such a roodifiestioa, nor for such a Ministry to be reduced
to a *tete as feeble, as helpless, and as humiliating as that
@tithe present Ministry.
" list," it will be said, " if a new Ministry. composed of
meg who have not a decided character, aril whose names, if
they are to afford no support, at least excite so malty,
would undertake to embrace the doctrines maintained by
wee of the parties, *sold we not form an inspirits' Adminis-
tration, which would still be supported by all the strength
of a party?" That mast be a strange jedgmeet which
would expect hi arrive better at an end by uncertain, iliffi•
(1114amd winding ways. than by the simple road pointed out
by coodistus sense and the nature of things.
In the first place, this Ministry, which should not he
united to a party by prelim's connexion, would have to pass
through a period of trial more or less long, and confidence
is no delicate that it migh perish is this time. If it sue.
creed it would be because it had ceased to be impartial;
iu Iltleellillg h. itself the lettersets of some, it would have
certainly alienated those of others: watched with uneasiness
by the party to which it had recently joined itself, it would
never obtain from it that sacrifice of its peculiar interests,
which is often necessary for a wise conciliation of getters"
interest., a sacrifice would readily be granted to those who
had been connected with the party by older and more power.
fel ties. Besi.les, these men wise would have adopted doc-
trines not exactly their own, would experience the greatest
difficulty in applying them la detail ; the principles which
mule a party, see to be found is its isterret, its habits, its
uffections, eta aeutiuseuts ; and all these are necessary for
•t. roma to find themselves agreed I. all times and under all

circiimmincre. Those who had not gone through the same
cireumstances, and espoused the same iutereats,
*hotelier might he their ittelinatios, could sot enter into
Ilan feeling of a party which alone could enlighten them in
the daily application of its principles. They would not
know its doctrines and mesas, sod would ha obliged tames
anatly to commit those who might homy them, and who by
their moppet world gain that of the mass accustomed to fol-
low then, : that la to say, there would be two Ministries, the
owe without support, as soon as it should separate front an.
wilie►'ishfcb would pewees the real strength; the owe obliged
to cosset the other, which would really hold the reins of
power: the are in appearance, the other is reality. Could
way conotry long 'odor, such a divisive?

(I% be CMWaal hmoterrow.)

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