The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-27 00:00:00

&Wiled tolay before the Chamber a plan of con-
dust, a system of administration. Probably they
durst not avow their projecte. So much blindness
sail ignorance of their position was all that re-
maimed, as far as the Ministers were concerned, of
that memorable debate.
A notable majority sanctioned, In these terms,
the address to the King
" The intervention of the country," said the Chamber,
" makes of the permanent accord of the political views of
your government with the wishes of your people the in-
dispensable condition of the regular course of public
affairs. Sire, our loyalty, our devotion to your Majesty,
condemn us to say that this accord dues not exist. Let
your royal wisdom decide between those who comprehend
not a nation se calm, so faithful, and us who, with a pro-
found canvictien, come to depose in your bosom the sor-
rows of a whole people." This noble language is not
listened to, and the Chamber is as much surprised as
hurt at the answer that was made to it. " I bad a
right," said the King, " to expect that the two Chambers
would be in accord with me ro my heart is afflicted in see-
ing the Deputies declare that on their part this accord does
not exist."
Perfidious insinuation to which the counsellors
of the Crown do not fear to add, that the resolutions
expressed in the speech from the throne were ims
mutable. The Chamber was adjourned, and this
adjournment was the prelude of the fate reserved to
it. The dissolution was not pronounced at once; the
Ministry wished to have the time to prepare the new
elections, and, as will be seen, to exercise over them
the most culpable influence. Reliance was placed
upon a great military enterprise to act upon the mind
of a nation enthusiastic of glory. The insult offered
to our flag was, the pretext of it. Nothing was ne-
glected to ensure its success; the treasures of the
state were squandered, our best troops marched to
our coasts, and an immune armament destined to
convey them. These expences, incurred without
the intervention of the Chamber, would alone suffice
to lay the groundwork of an accusation, if it did not
sink into insignificance before that which now oc-
cupies our attention. But the success which they
promised themselves would have been incomplete
and valueless, if they had not obtained it by one of
those warriors, the pride of France, who had so often
led our soldiers to victory.
The command of that expedition was given to the
same General whose appearance in the Ministry had
so strongly stung the honour of France. His triumph
was reckoned upon as the means of destroying our
liberties. The nation was not deceived ; and if it
accompanied with its good wishes the fleet which
conveyed so many Frenchmen, it was easy to per-
ceive the extreme unpopularity of the expedition,
Franco had already been alarmed with the spectacle
which several of the departrnents of ancient Nor-
mandy had presented. The flames had there de-
toured indiscriminately the cabins of the poor, and
the mansions of the wealthy,—frightful conflagra-
Cone, whose true author had escaped the inquiries
of justice, forced the citizens to arm themselves to
watch over their properties, and their minds were
given up to the highest exasperation.
It was scarcely natural to ascribe these crimes to
private malevolence : the cause of them was sought
in a political combination, and suspicions arose to
implicate the Government itself. Your commission
have caused extracts of the numerous proceedings
on the subject of these crimes to be laid before
them. They have perused the voluminous corres•
pondence to which the inquiry has given rise, and
have found in it so much obscurity that It will be
difficult to arrive at just conclusions. It is certain,
however, that the conflagrations of Normandy were
not private crimes,,nor can they be ascribed to iso-
lated or unconfederated individuals. It is also cer-
tain that a kind of fanaticism was there at work.
Various facts, and especially the obstinate silence of
the individuals, in the act of perpetrating these
crimes, seem to prove it.
Capital condemnations were pronounced : the
guilty heard their sentences pronounced with corn-
postire, and displayed the most incomprehensible ob-
stinacy, as if an oath had bound them to secrecy,
and lied given them courage to face their fate. The
magistritto continued their inquiries; but it will re-
quire time, to develop dui real statement of these
frightful deeds.
In the mean time a new division took place in the
Cabinet. It is uncommon to meet with seven men
equally disposed to brave the public hatred, and to
overturn the laws and institutions of a state. Two
of the Ministers recoiled from the designs of their
colleagues, and appeared to feel the dreadful respon-
sibility about to be incurred. It becuMe necessary
to think of replacing them. Men of action were
needed : they were sought for among our more noted
political men—those who had given the greatest
impetus to the counter-revolution, and whose cha-
racter, was cunsenuently, the most disagreeable to
the country. The Count de Peyrommt, whose
items so sadly recalls the recollection of a Ministry
which
.had been branded by the former Chamber—
Monsieur de Peyronnet, besides a general accusation
not yet purged, on whom there lay all the weight
of that which related to cruelty, and a denial of
justice towards men of colour of Martinique—re-
ceived the portfolio of the Interior: his enterprising
character induced him to direct the acceleration of
the movement which was to place him in dila branch
of the public administration. The division of this
same Ministry was givers to M. Baron Capelle, who
Mad shown himself expert in the art of managing
elections. This was his title to favour. At length,
M. de Chantelatize had fixed upon him the attention
of We Crown, by the wish expressed in the pre-
ceding session to promote a monarchical title of Sept.
The seals were confided to him : let us always
say that it was unnecessary to force office upon
interrogation diselosee in this respect some de-
tails, which it is the duty of the Commission to
reproduce. Named a first time Minister of Public
Instruction, he refused ; named more recently to the
department of justice, he expresses! a similar
refusal ; but new circumstances arose, and did
not leave him free to persist in this resolu-
tion. In fact, there has been found in the docu-
ments seized at the Tuileries, the original letter
written to him by M. de Poliguac, which is dated Oa
the 30th of last April, as well as the copy of the
answer sent to that letter by M. de Chantelatize,
dated from Grenoble, on the 9th of May following.
In that he expresses a great mistrust of himself, and
Woke it less convenient on the eve of the convo-
cation of the Electoral colleges to modify the Mi-
nistry ; and in any case he regards it an absolute ne-
cessity to recall M. de Peyronnet to power. " His
presence in council," he added, " would raise some
objections, which are to me personal; for an en- I
gegement which I cannot break binds me in some
degree to his political destiny. It is painful to me
to avow, that even in this case I should still have a very
great difficulty in resolving on the sacrifice required of me.
As to the rest I am ready tee set out for Paris as seam as
1 receive ordera. It is only there that I can judge wise-
ttaer my advice and concurrence can be useful to the
King's service." This letter, it appears, was imutedietely
laid before Charles X., and the refusal which it expressed
tear painfully interpreted by this Monarch, for a letter
from his Majesty to M. de Polignac, also beimd at the
Tuileries, and slated St. Cloud, May It, said—" I send
you, my 'dear Jules, the long letter of 11. de Chantelauze—
that, of my son says everything" (that Pritute bad arrived
from Grenoble, where it would seem be had been drawn,
on his return from the provincee, in order to have an in.
terriew with, M. de Chanteleuze), " etreept the last word,
which is, that be is afraid of losing n place at since agree-
able and not liable to removal, to take one unfortuoately
too liable to removal. Moreover, I change nothing of my
project, and if things happen as I. expo, we shall exe-
cute our project through the MAW{ nt M. de l'eponnet."
M. Chanushonce then teceiveel the order to repair to Paris,
where they succeeded in overcorniog his precincts repog,
mince. The Cottuniudon should also mention a document
which has been united to the process. It lea letter ad-
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