The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-03 00:00:00

FRAN CE.

Petitions praying for the establishment of the he-
reditary Empire are circulated in several of the de-
paxtraente. The following; is a copy of one which, it
is. stated, has already receivad many signatures in the
rural communes of the department of the Charente:—

" To MM: les Eilateurs.

" The undersigned inhabitants of the commune of
—, department of the Charente, have the honour to
address to you the expression of their wishes. Con-
sidering that the instability inherent in the elective
power is opposed to the security and continuance
of the action of Government, to the establishment
of publics confidence, to the activity of industry, to
operations requiring credit—nay, to the most legiti-
mate and the most sacred hopes of families,—that it
tends to incessantly excite ambition, to keep up party dis-
sensions, to encourage all vain and culpable projects 011
the part of men who are influenced by the spirit of
domination, and that it is for that reason a perpetual
and ever-increasing cause, not merely of uncertainty,
bat of exultation fcr the evil-disposed, of affliction for
the good, of depravity and of scandal for the undecided
and the weak. That instability, moreover, has for effect
to constantly place the Government under the pressure,
always MOTO and more imminent, of factions whose ob-
ject is to overthrow it, and who, by doing so, force it
to oppose an indefinite oppression to all liberty, and
particularly to political liberty, without which a
people cannot possess dignity, grandeur, or vitality.
That the stability of power thus necessary to the
general success of affairs, and to tte confirmation
of public morality, is particularly so to permanent
liberty. Considering, moreover, that the family
whose glorious chief, Napoleon Bonaparte, has orga-
nized the revolution, constituted modern France, and
opened the era of our new civilization, is alone cepable
of representing and guaranteeing the principles, the laws,
and the institatione for which our fathers combated ;
that between modern France and the Bonaparte family
there has been established, by victory as by misfor-
tune, as indissoluble alliance which survives in the
recollections, the history, the causes of grief, and the
titles of honour of each family; and that the actus.l
heir of the Napoleon family, Louis Napoleon Bones-
parse, has sufficiently proved by his words, and by hiss
acts, that be is worthy end capable of becoming, with,
the assistance of God, the continuator and the founder
of a new hereditary power; desirous cf giving So
Europe an example of prudence, and to leave te,
those who come after us the lasting benefits of
state of order which we ourselves have only enjoyed
by internal, using the aucient rights of this country
to, itself, to substitato for the dynasties which become
extinct the new dynasties which Providence raises up
for the necessities of each period; faithful to the free
wishes of our fathers manifested dn 1804 and 1815, we
have the honour to pray you, according to the terms of
the Constitution of the 15th January, 1852, to adopt a
Senates Coes:lite with the view of propesing to the
suffrages of the nation the re-establisbnient of the here-
ditary Empire in the person and in the descendants of
Napoleon 111., actually Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, Pre-
sident of the Republic."
Appended to this petition are parallel columns for
the family and baptismal names of the persons sign.
log, their profession, the names of those who adopt
the petitions, but do not know how to write, and the
witnesses testifying the authenticity of their marks.