The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-25 00:00:00

SPOUT OP tHE PI litiC JOURNALS,

The French Papers of Sunday have arrived.
Thera will be found in them a letter from Prince
; and, from rill that We have heard of the
• man, we see no reason to doubt its genuineness. It
has been always esteemed a peculiar degradation,
when any severe calamity is the result---not of any
great effort to attain a glorious or even an important
object, but—of sheer ignorance eed fully. Can any
one read the letter date Ex-Mini.ter of France, Red
not allow that even the hatred of his atrocious guilt
is merged in contempt for the childish imbecility of
the criminal? The man who has occasioned the
slaughter of several thong:olds of his fellowscitizens,
and the dethronement of an ancient family, speaks
of therm tremendous events with the indifference of
one who might read them a century afterwarde in a
book of annals; and is principally occupied with
procuring a retreat in ss some spacious and conve-
ment citadel," most favourable to his bad state of
health. A child who has set a house on fire, and
looks on the blaze as a line sight,—a madman who
throws firebrands about, and asks if it be not sport,
—could not exhibit a more stupid ignorance, a more
wanton carelessness as to the tilUnfi end conse-
quences oftheir conduct, than this iefatuated rota!,
to whom were intrusted the destinies of so powerful
and intelligent a nation as Mance. It appears
in one paper that Polignae, under the influence
of terror no doubt inspired by the violence
of the mob at St. Lo, declared that be had opposed
the obnoxious ordinances, and had only signed them
by compulsion. An evening paper, the Courier,
contsins the following paragraph, which may be
considered as the recriminatory statement of the
Royal Family, if not of the King :
" Charles X. does not upbraid his Ministers, nor haVe
Ids Ministers any just ground for upbraiding him. There
are others, however, of the exiled family who do not
hesitate to speak freely, and among them none so
freely an the Duchess of Angouleme. We knew from
an authentic sourest that this pereecuted fitly, whose
life, almost from the cradle, has been a drama of
calamitous vicissitudes, in vain urged the Prince de
lignac to refrain from the career which he was punning,
and that since his fall she has attributed the misfortunes of
the !Loyal Family to the mad ignorance of the King's
advisers. It is no ground of apology in the Ex, King's
Ministers to say that they were urged on by the comtnand
of their master. They knew very well that under the
charter they were responsible to the country for the acts of
the King; and when it became a point with them, either
to carry into execution the unconstitutional mandates of the
Sovereign or to resign oflim, they ought not to have heal.
tatted for one moment as to their course."
If this be intended as an exculpation of Charles
X. it must be confessed to be a very feeble one.—
That the King was less responsible for his acts than
Isis Minister is to at certain degree true : the prin-
eiple, however, hardly appVes to extreme eases :
but even admitting the ordinary doctrine of respon-
sibility, still the question must always be asked—
what was the intellecteal—whut the moral character
of a Sovercika who could Armpit such a Minister;
at the certain risk of civil mas,aere, and the not ito•
probable tisk of forfeiting his Crown ? The result
alone is not always the best criterion, for some un-
certainty always attar:hes to human affairs: but we
ask it one men of even average sagucity and COM.
Oat of the body of the Ministry
or even in it, with the exception of its miserable
Premier, could have been found to sanction the or-
dinances of the 2tith. of July, or the massacres of the
three subsequent days Dr. Johnson, a MOH of no
ordinary knowledge, and of very extraordinary
powers of observation and re Election, has recorded
an anecdote relative to Juries 11; which is perfectly
applicable, as showing how little able an obstinate
and foolish King. is to appreciate the welt]) of a
wise and enlighted Minieter
"'Flit King (James taking Waller one slay into
his closet, asked him how he liked one tat the pictures ?
My eyea,'. said Waller, are dim, and Ido not know it.'
The King said it was the Princess of Orange. ' She is,'
said Waller, 'like the greatest woman in list The
King asked who was that ? and was answered, Queen Eli.
zsbetb. I wonder,' said the King, you should think
ere. bet I must confess who. had a trials council.' And,
Mir,' said Waller, did yea aver know a fiva choose a
Was owed''"

If James 11. had possessed sense to choose as his
advisers such men as Slirewshury;and Somers, in,
stead of Sunderland and JetTerys,---if Charles X.
had been mble to discriminate between Polignac and
Mole, between Peyronnet and de Broglie,--the
Stuarts might still have been on the British throne,
and the Bourbons* on the throne of France. Ac-
cording to the articles from Madrid in the Paris
papers, the news of the French revolution has
already had the effect of producing a Change of fro-
bey in the Spanish Cabinet. At a Council held at
St. Ildefonso, a division ,arose' in the Cabinet as tit
the course to be followed in consequence of the
events in France. The King, it is said, concurred
with the kart violent party, and it. was resolved
that some sort of compromise with, public opinion
should be attempted. As a commencemeut of re-
form, a few of the Ppostolical ultras have been re-
moved from official eituetitmo, tied more moderate
men substituted for them. it does not appear,
however, that any alteration has been made n the
Cabinet itself, and we apprehend that were it pos.;
silde to place anycontidence in the intentions of a
faithless despot, the concessions lie is willing to
make bo found to: ,be too; insignificant to
emiciliate the Constitutional party. Ferdinand's
repentance comes too Wel The accounts of the
state of the provinces nearest 'France are contra-
dictory. The answer of the king of the French to
the (.'nu, des Comptes, which we have inserted
emongst our extracts, is dictated by that spirit of
economy for which Paul Louis Courier gave the
Duke of Orleans credit, when lie attributed to that
Prince. "a cettain citizen-like quelity," the value of
which, if ever he came to govern Fiance, would
soon
.be appreciated by, all tax-payers.
hppe says..." The period of prodigal expenditure
bas happily passed away, and to render its return
impossible will be the constant (Adroit of my labours!'
We hope France is riot the'erily country whose Oo-
venni-mat will he guided by this maxim. From an
artiele'in,the Cowrie?' lorancali,, there is reason to
believo.that a consideruide division exiits in the
French Ministry. If we may credit that journal,
the differeuce of opinion is so serious, that the Ad-
ministratien is on the point of breaking up. The
Courrier „Franca, it should be recollected, is onb
ofrOtote papers which iticoleate the motion that the
loiter*volution 1s hicomplete, flowaver, reports of
this kind respecting the: Cabinet may have beili
among the preern,r/mees occasioned the late
fluctuations the The Governrneot
bee withdrawn the tempimay ch:.,ctiotr law which
was introductil into the Clamber of DeputieS, and
the Minister of the Interior intends to present the
project of a permanent law, on tina„ subject: It is
said, ,tori,i that the Minister of Finence. Will im
,
mediately apply to the Chimther for eredif cif
.60,000,000 r, Jo be applied re the removal of eorn-
rnercial emberrasstnents....-7'iater.
A Radical orator, et the Wu dinner of some of
the inhabitants of Farfingdon Ward, iia *auto(' to
hare made a HOMO discoverp,,viz., that " the lower
order of people in this country urn so enslaved by
priestcreft ,and _drunkenness, that they are not in a

11141 e to enjoy the constitutional freedom ()blitttlell ley
tbo,'Prortcli.' The " orator" we beilo:e.to
Inittolly to error both in his facts anti his inf t tout.
It i% fallacious to jtolge of national character by the
cootioet of eithor the highest Or the,lowest renk.. It
ie the whitne elms to evrry quit) whittle coif filet
iiii`ords the atiterion by which the morel clutreeter of
h SO estimated ; iota!, without giving tvay to any
unnocessory ettoteh of notional vanity, hilly we not
ask, where is tho cootrnunity has ever SW'
poised 'ha claheee of England, either ill
the
altraiitica which "Pistilt" worth or public, virtue? We admit tints a protrigate rocornuttity ore
unfit for the erijo7nient of vtiblie liberty; 6ut bow
duel the Itatlicat calumniator of NS notilltlymtn
prove the isilifOtittrity of tioit or the Preach weer
Botb Grjtecites of the Aoyel litortily of FeLoce ate
Jiloarbons; but it itt wood to rah the tirticeaileute of
Louie,xlv, BOUrbfing," 4141 tliObe of 1110 tiNthiet, " the
'louse of °flouts."