The Sun.
London, England, 1830-03-13 00:00:00

VISCOUNT CHATEAUBRIAND.

(From the Courrier Francais.)
CHAMBER OF PEERS.
If the attitude of the Ministers and their friends was
impassable during the whole Session, their conduct was
not void of address on the division. To disguise the small-
ness of their number, and to avoid making their minority
apparent, they hit on the expedient of voting with the ma-
jority, and thus there resulted, in fact, a unanimity from
this trick. However, several Peers abstained from voting
for reasons very different from those which induced
M. de Chateaubriand to take no share in the division,
as he had announced. This Noble Peer rose to make a
speech, which he was pleased to communicate to us that
very evening (Monday).
The following is the tenor of the speech of the Viscount
de Chateaubriand :
" Gentlemen,—lt is not my intention to propose any
change in the Address, which appears to me to be very
powerful, moderate, full of consistency and dignity. I
shall take advantage of this opportunity to explain the prin-
ciples which have lately actuated my conduct. I should
not have felt myself called upon to do so had I not been
accused by the command, or, at least, by the permission
of authority, of being a traitor and a renegado.
I desire four things for my country :—the religion and
altars of St. Louis ; legitimate possessors of the throne
of Henry IV. ; and liberty and honour for every
Frenchman. That the Ministers of the present day
have intended to maintain all these, I did not doubt;
but I could not help fearing front the first, and that from
the ♦ery composition of the Council, that the public
interests would be placed in jeopardy. I conceived
that, wishing to find ancient France in her present re-
novated state, Ministers might place reality in danger by
attempting or by combating chimeras. Already have
they dragged themselves to the edge of a precipice. With
what sorrow and regret must they have considered them-
selves compelled to strike one of those blows which, after
all, alarm no one. A Peer of France, a brave officer, a
faithful servant of the Crown, the son-in-law of the late
Chancellor Dambray (M. Donatien de Sesmaisons), has
been smitten, even when the mouth of that President
whose loss we still deplore, was scarcely closed, and that
for having voted according to his conscience. At length
Ministers have dictated the Speech from the throne. It
comprehends the whole of their system, which I will
hastily examine. It commences with a succinct exposi•
tion of our foreign relations. We are first informed that
Greece is about to receive a ruler. The Speech does not
name him ; but he is well known. The protocol of
London stipulates that the Sovereign of Greece shall not
be selected front the family of either of the three Powers
who were parties to the treaty. The close aldance of
Prince Leopold with the House of Brunswick has not been
regarded as a relationship. His 'enjoyment, by virtue of
an Act of Parliament, of all the honours of the Royal
Family, and of an annuity payable by the people, have
been considered as unimportant, and as not coming within
the letter of the protocol. Be it so—still it is not the
less true that France has marched her armies, despatched
her fleets, and expended her treasures, to place the son-in-
law of the King of England on the Throne of Greece. In
the meantime permit me to aak what has Great Britain
done to entitle her to reign by her own representative
over the Greeks? She opposed, as far as was in her power,
their restoration to freedom. She expressed wishes
for the success of the oppressors against the oppressed.
For the victory of the murderers of fathers and the en-
slavers of children. And the liberty of Greece is placed
under the protection of the cannon of Corfu, which so
ably defended freedom at Parga! Let war again break
out in the East, and we shall see the garrisons of Gibraltar,
Malta, and the lonian islands, occupy the strong places
our troops have just quitted. What resistance can the
crowned Sheriff of the Morea offer to the nation who pays
him his pension, or to the King whose daughter he mar-
ried? The British fleet will be manned with Greek
sailors, and the commerce of the Archipelago and the
Morea will be engrossed by the merchants of London.
For us, who have spread through the East the renown of
our ancient line of Kings, we content ourselves with the
character of illustrious travellers to celebrated shores, and
the glory of presenting to an English Prince a sceptre
forged with our gold and consecrated by our blood. The
story is romantic; but our Ministers have converted it
into history. Was there to be found no where it. Europe
an experienced Prince, a true friend to the Greeks, who
would devote himself to th-ir Crown ? If so, was there
no son of Royalty who, under able tutors, might have ac-
quired the language of Theinistocles, and derived his legi-
timacy from the bosom. of Greece? Let it not, however,
be supposed that I am of opinion that we ought to violate
the treaty. No ; a loyal Government must hold itself
bound by its signature, even though it be found to have
been inconsiderately affixed. Let Prince Leopold, then,
remain Sovereign of Greece. Still there is no cause, in
this negotiation, for reproach to England—she has ably
played her part. Without expending a shilling, and
without marching a single soldier, she has given a Sove-
reign to Greece. Her policy is less frank, but more posy
tive, than our's—we have borne the charges, she has
reaped the benefits. Scum cuiquc.
" I will now refer to the passage on Portugal. The
address pronounces wishes in favour of legitimacy. Don
Miguel is King by virtue of the choice of the people. Wit-
nesses of the revolution that subverted the throne of
Louis XVI , we ought not to capitulate easily to the
doctrine of the sovereignty of the people. In transactions
with foreign states, a Cabinet, not acting alone, has only
to take the best position presented by circumstances with
regard to the movements of other Cabinets; but in this

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