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London, England, 1830-02-22 00:00:00

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ment for all provoioations not attended with actual results
to mere fine and imprisonment; and such I find is the
understanding of French lawyers as to the possible con-
sequences of the present charge.
" While the capital was still in a state of excitement by
the discussion which arose out of the incriminated article,
the National, another print of ultra liberal sentiments,
the conductors of which lately seceded from the Constitu-
tionnel, to unfurl, on a separate field, the standard of
chartered liberty, in opposition to the encroachments of
prerogative, put forth an article, the theme of which was
that the King should reign without governing.' With
less than his usual tact, the Gazette undertook to show
from the etymology of the terms prerogative—pree-rogare
and roi, rex, regere, that the King's right to govern was
inherent in the regal character, and that his prerogatives
were paramount to the other powers of the State. This
line of argument called forth yesterday an answer from
the National, which has just produced, a citation in terms
precisely similar to that directed against the editors of the
Globe. The passage founded on I understand to be the
following :.
"' The government of societies belongs to those who
" are capable of governing. In countries not sufficiently
" advanced, where the Courts only are enlightened, they
" alone govern ; and no one disputes a right founded on
" capacity. But it is otherwise with nations so ad-
"' vanced as to be able to govern themselves. They then
" because they can. In Russia, for instance, under
" a civilized Administration, the Court is left to govern
" because it knows more than the country. Prussia
" ' might alread► govern itself, but It still confides in a
" Government, with whose fair intentions and superior
" intelligence it is perfectly satisfied. In France the
" country knows more than the Court, and wishes to
" ' govern itself. England has already done so for a long
" ' time; Royalty there yields to the voice of the country,
" ' and far from suffering in its true dignity, it has be-
" ' come in consequence the most tranquil and the most
" ' honoured on earth.

" Such is the fact. France wishes to govern herself,
" ' because she can. Will that be called a republican
" ' spirit? So much the worse for those who wish to
" ' excite terror with mere words. This spirit, repub-
" g lican if you will, not only exists, but manifests itself
" ' every where, and is already too strong for sup-
" ‘pression.' _ . _

" In yesterday's Globe a second article appears under the
same title with the first, viz. France and the Beurbons in
1830, which has been promptly followed by a fresh pro-
secution, the charges in which are the same with the two
former. He declares that his only tic to royalty is that of
the law—that he believes it useful to say what every ore
thinks, to give the lie to the gilded language of his hypo-
critical contemporaries, and to pierce the cloud of precau-
cautiou which hangs as a veil betwee❑ the Bourbons and
their danger. ' Behind this France, 'he proceeds,
" her palaces and her saloons, there is another Franc.,
" ' which endures and is indignant at all these alternations
" ' of liberty and of counter revolution, between which she
" has been tossed for the last 15 years. It is this France
•' that we interrogate. It is her voice which tremu-
" lously murmurs from the one end of the country to the
" ' other, that we wish to re-echo. Long enough has a
" history of France been written for the Bourbons alone
" ' —a history flattering and false, which revives their
" ' ancient recollections, and gives birth to hopes which
" ought to be fur ever extinguished. Long enough has
" ' the liberal party itself, .either from fear or a narrow
" policy, dipemblvd facts which ought-to be avowed for
inst-uctior rt.yslty. Whei entered on a
" course of praetic.4.--puliey, we promisacl to speak out,
to hold nothing back, to play oar cards or the table;
it is :he gryne pf hcnesk ir,rl resolute minds ; the