The National Register.
London, England, 1815-03-19 00:00:00

THE NATIONA'

points of the Southern coast—a circumstance already stated
in all the papers. Some people assert that he has come too
soon, and ought to have let the discontents of his former sub,
jects ripen into a more regular and active substance : but he
seems to have feared that the attachment of hia.friends might
wear out, and the resentment of those who wet e displaced by
the House of Bourbon might be gradually weakened; and he
has thus been influenced to select the period of all others,
when the passions which were likely to operate in his favour
would he felt in their utmost force Nor are we to suppose
that his partizans arc confined to the military, who have been
checked is their career by the " restoration ;" or to the civil
officers who have lost their employments. We roust add a
third class, more powerful than either of those—the whole
body of proprietors of. confiscated • estates, and of land-
holders deriving under the •revaution. Every man.of these
is persuaded that the policy of the House of Bourbon is ulti
mately. however cautiously, to oust them from their posses-
sions, and to reinstate their ancient o ncrs. They are, in
a body, for Buonaparte—as arc the non-descripts of vat ious
orders, who hate the ecclesiastics, and fear the return of
tithes—who fear the revival of ancient pi ivileges and prero-
gatives, and therefore hate the noblesse--,or who, in the en-
joyment of revblutionary ribbands and titles, feel themselves
eclipsed and ridiculed by those of former ages ;—and theee-
fore would expel every species of eminence which did not
belong to the revolution. For Louis, are the Chiefs of the
army—the corps of royalists—the civil employes—the Nati-
onal Guards, whose general interests are those of tranquility
and commerce—and the few at dent, enlightened,-and virtu-
ous lovers of constitutional freedom, whose business is medi-
tation mote than action; whose sphere is the closet, or the
senate, not the field ; who can refute and vanquish the doc-
trines of arbitrary government, or shame away the panders
of corruption ; and therefore prefer the most arduous combat
with Ministers whom they reprobate, under a Monis-eh whom
they respect, to the terror of lying mute and powerless under
the bayonets of a military despot. Such appear the actual
distribution of feeling at the present crisis amongst the peo-
ple of France,—and until events shall move forward to cor-
rect the errors of human reasoning, such are the ground
works of the hopes and fears which offer themselves most fie-
quently to my imagination. Curiosity is on the rack to find
out how Buoearatte could escape from the Island, with I
British Commissionets and British frigates to attend him.
Ingenuity is still more painfully at work, to guess why he was
plaCed in a spot so dangerous; why its danger was so dread-
fulls enhanced by the abominable insults, injuries, and vio-
lations, offered to Italy, from Genoa to Naples; why, when
fortuee had emptied all her treasures, and prodigally outran
the most romantic wishes of her favourites, by putting the
very existence of their terrible enemy at their own disposal,
they thus perverted the over flowings of victory into a spring
f fresh disaster, making the successsful conclusion of the late
var, the engine of a new and immediate contest, instead of
the foundation of a lasting peace—and gathering no better
fruit from the valour of so many artniesrand the unobstructed
svistrom of so many negociators, than a second crop of dart
gets and political embairassments, which will cost another
mass ofsubsidies and armies to resist ; and another Congress
to work up into the materials of still further tense, ics. Bee
tweets this prospect, and that of Wit- Corn Laws—and your
rivalship with French matitsfactures—and your peace csta-
Nishment of nineteen millions; turned into a war establish-
mew of thirty-six millionsand your new loans, and sub-
tidies, and the state or vour sinking fond, &c. &c.—we, who
have stone of these good things atPasis," except ft mn
tt) B 11 a most suiilind rem tribn, by the titan Buo- t

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