The Sun.
London, England, 1830-06-18 00:00:00

kers'aining its ground against the factious. Without
Royal authority France would soon fall under their
brutal despotism ; whereas, by royalty, France will
Preserve among the nations that high and honour-
able rank which she had lost by the crimes of
anarchy, but which have been restored by legiti-
macy. The list of the Presidents of the Colleges
presents a mass of respectable names. No colour of
Sound opinion is excluded from it : every socialln-
terest is represented in it; from the Peer and Marshal
of France, to the mere Councillor of Prefecture, the
Magistracy, and commerce, industry, and property.
---Quotidienne.

" The King has spoken to France, and the senti-
ments of the Ministers of the Bth of August, already
so repeatedly expressed in the speech of March 2, in
answer to the Address, and in the Ordinances of
May 19, have received a new de-relopement, still
More clear and energetic, by the Proclamation of
June 13. How noble and how generous is the lan-
guage of the sovereign ! What an admirable com-
bination of imposing dignity and inexhaustible good-
ness ! The Bourbons have ever known how to
address Frenchmen. The present monarch especi-
ally, who possesses that eloquence of the soul which
ever makes its way to the heart, whilst like a father
he declares his sorrow, how like a king does he
express his indignation ! His very bowels are
moved by the errors of some mistaken or ungrate-
ful children ; his honour has been severely
wounded by the insults offered to his crown by his
rebellious subjects; while by turns he gives utterance
to his affliction or his anger, he warms or reproves,
exhorts or commands. A chamber, or rather a
majority, the offspring of a shameful alliance be-
tween defection and revolt, has misconstrued the
intentions and prerogatives of their sovereign ; his
pwerful hand has broken the unmanageable
machine which refused to afford the concurrence
which the Charter had prescribed; and when he
appeals to all France not to judge between the
rebels and himself, because his rights, sacred long
before.they were written in the Charter, are not sub-
ject to any tribunal, but to give him loyal and faith-
ful deputies, such as will not refuse to concur with
the Throne in accomplishing the good he has in con-
templation for us, he is desirous of being listened
to as a father addressing his children—as a king
Making known his will to his people. He will not
yield up his rights, nor shrink from the performance
.of his duties. Strong in the purity of his own
conscience and intentions, seeking nothing but the
welfare of his people, and certain of being able to
Perform all he has promised, he is neither silent as
to what he desires, nor as to what he has sworn.
With the same firmness and the same candour he
declares his unchangeable resolutions, and repeats
the oaths he took at Rheims.— Universel.

For the first time our Ministers, when having
to decide between two bad measures, have not
chosen the worst. They have published a procla-
mation, but have added a countersign. We wish
one thing to be remarked—namely that the Minis-
ters have but the same uniform system in the pro-
clamation of to-day, as in all they have written, or
caused to be written. They declare that they are
within the limits of the Charter ; that it is not they
who attack it, but those who refuse to form a ma-
jority in their favour ; and that they will not yield.
This amounts to saying, that by repelling the oppo-
siti2nt and believing themselves insulted by it, they
are within the Charter; that by refusing to yield to
the majority, they are within the Charter; that by
threatening to resist the majority with an unchange-
able resolution, they are within the Charter. The
electors, satisfied as much as the Prince de Polignac
can be that France owes every thing to the Govern-
ment of the Charter, will judge who are the parties
that really deviate from it, and do justice accord-
i►ngly. We are too well acquainted with the rights
of the Government to complain of the list of Presi-
dents. The formation of this list belongs to them,
and it is perfectly natural that they should nominate
their own creatures. The great number of Peers,
Lieutenant-generals, and Members of the General
Councils of the Departments, is an important fea-
ture. Many Deputies attached to the Government
have declined accepting the Presidency, because
they apprehended the loss of the favour of the
electors by appearing to enjoy that of the Govern-
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men t,—National:

" What is the King's proclamation, issued in a
form seldom employed, with a signature which
merits our respect ? It is nothing but a Ministerial
act, countersigned by the Prince de Polignac : it is
a statement of the grounds of the ordinance, appoint-
ing the Presidents of the Colleges, countersigned by
the Count de Peyronnet. What do Messrs. de Po-
lignac and de Peyronnet say more than what they
have repealed a hundred times ? Instead of a news-
paper article, it is an harangue ; this is the only dif-
ference. In reality, it is a new censure pronounced
by Ministers against the address which refused to
them the concurrence of the Chamber of Deputies.
We remark, -that out of the 181 members who
voted against the address, only 91 are appointed to
preside either at the colleges of departments or
those of arrondissements. The other Presidents
styled Ancien Deputes belong to former assemblies,
especially to that in which the 300 friends of M.
de Villele fought so valiantly. Thus, 90 of those
who voted against the address, besides the three
Blinisters, have not been appointed Presidents.—
Constitution:el.

" The Proclamation is founded wholly upon an
idea which Ministers have been endeavouring to
inculcate these three months, but which is found,
on a slight examination, to rest on a very slender
basis ; the Chamber haVe misconstrued the King's
intentions; they have refused their concurrence;
they have insulted the King. Although we may
regret that the proclamation, to the electors brings
the Crown too directly into the debate, by speaking
of insult, and passes rather too severe a censure upon
the last Chamber, which may be again returned,
yet we may congratulate Ministeri upon having ab-
stained from that menacing tone which they adopted
on other occasions. Upon the whole, the question
comes to this—does France place confidence in
the Ministiy, and is she desirous of being governed
by that Ministry ? Does she disown the mistrust
and disquietude which the last Chamber expressed
in her name, and does she wish for a Chamber ready
to vote as M. de Polignac would have it ? This is
the question to be decided by the electors—the Pro-
clamation has not changed it.—Courrier Francais.
" The Proclamation announced with so much
pomp has appeared at list. It has the countersign
of a responsible Minister, as it could not appear ,
without it. Ministers were aware of this, and M.
de Polignac decided upon signing the Proclamation.
It cannot be said that the heart of the King, his love
for his people, and his high wisdom, are evident in
these repeated assurances of maintaining the Char-
ter and the institutions founded by it. We derive
no information from the proclamation cn this sub-
j ect. Mistrust always stops at the foot of the
Throne. There only love and confidence in the
magnanimity of a great Prince can prevail. To
suppose that France stood in need of hearing, as it
were, a repetition of the coronation oaths, would be
offering an insult both to France and to the King !
Let M. de Polignac consider himself the object of
public mistrust—let him not criminally endeavour to
ascribe part of it to Royalty—it falls entirely to his
lot ! The confidence and love of the people are the
King's. We cannot, however, refrain from saying
a few words on the unchangeable resolution on the
part of the King, who is supposed by the Proclama-
tion to have resolved never. to change his Ministry.
With deep sorrow and respect, we beg to declare
that even Kings are fallible. However pure their
intentions may be, they may be mistaken and de-
ceived. If the welfare of the nation, if the public
tranquillity, should require that the King should
keep his Ministers, he will keep them; if they
should require their removal, he will dismiss therm
This pious and wise King will not hesitate to admit
that he may have been mistaken. To err is the
lot of all men ; to acknowledge error, and rectify
it, is the part of great Kings.—Journal des Debuts.
" It is then fully admitted on all sides, that the
document published by the Maniteur.is only a