The National Register.
London, England, 1818-07-26 00:00:00

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No. 540.--VoL. XT.

POLITICAL DISQUISITION.

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CONSPIRACY AND P %RV Es IN FRANCE.-.FORGE.

RY LAWS IN ENGLAND.

etuniot. underssv.l • frolt the French Papers,
tlittt tho plot' whit& •las so much cceupied the conv,:rsa-
ti'.ms of Paris, azuj Uhitch seems, at leng.th, to hare
rawu Wins upon it the attention of the courts Of jai-
*ice, has produced any disturbance of the public tran-
cuillitv, or the least diminution of the r.ational
'file Royal Conrt, at St. Cloud, is ur.,7car.mortly bril-
liant, being thronged with persons of most political
acnominations. •Op the reality of. this extraordinary
conspiracy, Iv:Weals said to have had for its object the
dethroning of Louis XVIII. and placinz his brother
on the throne, with an Uit:ra-Royalist Adatinistr.ation,
it has been observed, on the one hand, that the absur-
dity of snch a conspiracy is•not a congla,ive argutaeut
against its reality, but it it a strong presumption : for
it is not readily to be supposed that thoUltra-itoyali.sta
would play a game, the necessity of tvbich would be
Morn fatal to them than its failure could be. On the
ether hand, it is alledged that the real consriracy is
riot formed by, but against, the Ultra-Royalists; that
the parties r.onspiringotre M. De Care with the French
Police and the liberal party et Paris ; and that their
object is to make the retarned Emigrants And Royalists
qupopUlar at the approacluitx,elections fir the Chamber
of Deputic;, and odious in the eyes of HE: Sovereigns
about to meet at Aix-la-Chapelle. We own-that we
are inclined to think this conjecture by no means ita-:
probable, it so well corresponds with the' syi:tezu., of
mystifecitim which has always been so much a favour ::4
ite in the weak ant knavish polley cf Pra'hce. Wart
respect to the character of parties in that century, there
meets every reason to reckon the Royalists as possessed'
of in.ire private *irtue und•real principle (though their.
principles may he erroneous), but, at the same time, of
least practical talent. Their riutio.n of reviving she
ancio'n regi/ne is wild 'and impracticable, and can be
only fatal 'to themselves. There may be, noel doubt-
leis is, . considerable talent 'among them, but much of -
that talent is
,mis-directed, and, wasters its energy on
unattainable objects, which might with advantage be
directed towards others within reach. In this respee,t,
still more than in numbers, they are ittrz:ior to their
antagonists. The Jacobin party are the very reverse
.-p-eneri.,etic,. active, supple, they are toialfr destitute
of real honesty, end are therefore not so feripiattble. as .
their talenti would. otherwise make themt fotthey
cannot. trust one another. . The liberal .party, or
rather parties (for they nre Fcliararrel into taum-ertuts
subdivision-) arc 11416 to the same principle of
weakness, for they comprehomd all sarts an-I kin,l4
of turncoats, from the profession of
to that of Imperialism, .from thence to • Royalism,
and to and fro, up .ar.d down, thron;;;11 all sets of prin
ciples, religious, anti-reLigious, and political. This
:lass (for w can lordly call them a party) voupre-
fleha the greatest ;a:rtion of talent, of enlarEentent of
views, and ( • NI-I'A' is and always Las been ro much
wanted in Faun: e) of common sense; but,
will reailyl...l:-.r...oni;:e tr.getlwr, they Fill not lidnere;;
like liquid they witl.easilymis, but will not-resist pres-
sure. Tiler; is no them alone, though
they watch prey° a arilition to a party wl.n
Lad principle. The error of the prerPnt policy
is to rely too much upon these men, :coot whom, ne-
vertheless, lie must choose tho majority of the public.
fouctionari.:s. Rut who, considering what elements he
has to iputr.gr., can blame him, if he errs?

• l'rson foreitt we turn to aomeatie polities, where
the whi:•11 we I:ave f 4 enaten:l arise from
an oppoNi;e- :•rn:rre to those in Fmnee--rot from the
cartioluute of u l'oevul,ation which tuts mixed and con-
the ur•:.l.3::::ed abuse, of

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