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

tures, and endeavoured to ehange the-majority in it,
by the most numerous and theMosi, unpopular pro-
motions. ' •
Happily the election* did not answer. to 'their•
hopes, and before
.that new Chamber` they mho.;
stood that it watt necessary to adjourn' the projects
they were meditating.
No nation more easily won over than ours :
when, at the beginning of the session of 1818, the'
King was heard to promise, with his own mouth,,
better prospects, he was believed : so often de-
ceived, the nation forgot the past, and abandoned
herself once more to hope.
It were ingratitude not to admit the services the
new Ministry rendered to their country in the course
of the first Session. The law to repress electoral
frauds, that on the Press, though we had to regret
the omission of a Jury, are monuments which attest
their wish to give 'to France some- of 'those gua-;
rantees so long expected I
But this very desire 'was a subject of distrust for
an insincere and suspicious .Court : the Ministry of
this period supported itself with difficulty, and al-
lowed the second Session- to elapse without any'
useful result for the developMent of our institinions;
The Chambers separated, and the public were ecen-',
pied with sad presentiments. Ales, they were but
too well justified. The creation of the Ministry of
the Bth of Atigutt struck France with stupor; so
that, after so mud' glory—after having seen all the;
nations of Europe paying herbage ttilmir Coinage in'
battle, to 'our resignation in misfortune,, to our tide-'
lity in fulfillint our engagements, and paying the'
expenses whit the family who had occupied the'
'throne had imposed upon imp it was reserved to our
heroic nation to receive from its King more outrage'
in a single day than fOreigtierikhad ever inflioted'Opon*
it. Thus it was feared that act :army fait Of •a edshould not participate in the, sentiment* :nr the
country ; it was liumilhitedby'receiving its a Chief
the men whose name recalled so ninny bitter recol-
lections. The excesses committed in 18,1.5 revolted
the country-the Ministry of the loterior had been
confided to him Whose etueicategories had mode hint:.
,so famous. France at` length called lousily for the
`execution of the Charter : the man Who had se.lolig
refused to recognize it was placed at the head of ttttr,
diplomacy.
But who were thole who, in the midst of the pro-
found peace in which we were living, pushed the
King to adopt such Measures ? What were the
secret counsellors who prompted him to wage war
with a whole nation ? Alas I their names must re-
main unknown, and baffle all our resentehei. Th,;
accusation has already too many celpriti to bring
forth, without there being any necessity to endea-
your to increase, their number.
However, let us say that Prince de Polignac ap
pears to be the most nititnate confidant of the (le.:,
signs of Charles X. ;, let tot • Maintain that in the
eyes of all Prance he represents in his single person
sill the counter-revolutionary, fact ion, and that when-
ever that faction threatened to , seize the rein* of
Government,, he, and he alone, ,was always the man
who was brought forward to encourage the hopes of
the enemies of order and the laws.
The composition of such a Cabinet like this was
truly significant; it is impossible that France should
have mistaken its (Neat; and even supposing that
she could have done so, the • Ministerial Pepers
themselves sufficiently revealed the main purpose of
the party, for never was any counter-revolution an.
flounced with so much imprudence and audacity.
A contest relative to pre-eminence in the Council
soon arose between the favourite Miniiter end the
most irritable of his colleagues ; and to fill his' place
a man wits called in from the provinces, who
seemed to be commendable neither by political floe
parliamentary influence ;, Prance Wa.4 indignant nt
such a choice, and asked by what principle it could
be justified. The country endeavoured With anxious
solicitude to ascertain what had been the previous
line of conduct of the new Minister. All that was

knoWn of brim, was, that he hail been the President
of in Electoral. College, that he ltad 'obtained pre
ferment in the 'Magistrucy against the customs of
the country, and, in Atte, that he had recently pro-
nounced a speech on becoming a member of 'a great
court of judicel ore. It was naturally to be supposed
that he had secretly pledged himself to approve end
support the acts of his colleagues. 'However, the imw
partiality of your Commissien does net allow:It to
remain silent on a memorial that M. Ourerion Ran-
vile has added to the minutes, and which he re.;.
muted to the. Prince de Polignaa' en the 15th of
December, 180—that is to say, less than a month
after his elevation to the Ministry, and which, us he
says, mede known in :what sentimeeti he had en-
tered it. " The Chamber of Peers," he there
says, " can neither haie confidence nor affection fur
us; that Chamber will not be hostile, bur this will
not be the case with the chamber of Deputies. A
thousand hatreds, a thouiand ambitious ulesti, Will
league against us. On the eve of a struggle so titi-
equal, several courses may be pursued ; but `that
which the opposition will take to be in the plan of
the Ministry, and which will give rise to rumour*
of coups Weld—kW, in fact, to which many
prudent Royalists would push the Goveinment--4
will consist in dissolving the Chamber, and enn:-
yoking the new one, after having modified, by ordi=
nonce, the electoral law, and suspended the liberty
of the Press by the establishment of the consorshio,
I know not whether this course would tows the
monarchy, but it would be a coup (foal of the
most extreme violence—it would be the most
fest violation of .the 35th article of the Charter
it would be the violation of sworn Nth. Such n
project is neither suitable for the King nor for
a conscientious Ministry." It is is thus that M.
de Renviile at that time judged the measures in
which at that later period he had the weakness to
concur.' The Prince de Partite become President
of the Counel It was he who communicated
with the King, and, whether he was only' an instrit=
ment in the heeds of that Prince and his &Milers,
9r that he was really the soul of the faction, it op-
port) to be demonstrated that he prepared and in-
stigated all,the labours of the Cabinet. But on all
sides the citizens prepared themselves for the de-
fence of their rights. lit the expectation of coups
d'elat, they united for resistance. Associations
were formed for the refusal of the taxes, and the
preservation of public liberties. It was in vain
that these petriotic associations were brought be-
fore the tribunals ; the Magistrate, by his very
sentence of condemnation, sanctioned the legitimacy
of resistance, and this very judicial sanction was not
one of the slightest services rendered by that resist-
ance to the country.
The Government was obliged to atop in its ca-
reer, and CYO to deny the intentions stet rated to it,
hypocrisy came forward to support weekness ; but
it took possession of every position, it filed the dif-
ferent administrations with its creatures, and tx..
pelled every man whose heart beat with a generous
feeling for the country, and for the liberal institu-
tions which we had gained after a waggle of
fat/. years.
Light months elapsed; it was improp.lble to delay
any furilier the;eonvoeatton of the Chtiiiibers the
crisis was approaching,—the great 44 relived
when royalty and its deplorable cortege appeared
before the !adieu. How truly criminal were the
Ministers who then suggested to the Sovereign
sailfrllalert:
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ex:II:it:
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monarchy,the te seaneoen acting reptile;i
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and as if nothinpivird to. be wanting rn such hat sh
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preparedt}e Cthoal fulfil'b title duty. 111 r4t4::
"S'eheiereht it:eoP;tniiettt)etein whincherthaelltdiditirshwle:is7:til:
euSsed, the little foresight of the advii,ers of the
CroWn did nest am; ~ktinish the Chamber; t Ideets
us they were of such unteveureble opioione, they'