The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-06 00:00:00

(;RE OE THE PEOPLE IN THE STREETS OF PARIS

FLIGHT OF Tug KING AND 1118 IVtINI•TEItS.

Such are the important events which have transpired
in the course of the last week—an outline of which we
hasten to lay before our readers. Upwards of forty years
have elapsed since the commencement of what may now
be called the first French revolution ; and such has been
the besotted folly of the Bourbons, on whom good and had
fortune appear to be alike thrown away, that the French
people are at this moment once morestarting from theexact
same point of action which thee ended in hurling that
priest-ridden family from the throne.* If such were the
elf eta of the intolerant policy of the weak but well-mean-
ing Louis XVI. in the year 1790, when France had hardly
tasted, of liberty—when neither Charter nor law bad ever
interposed between the despotic will of the monarch and
the fate of his people, what could have been expected now,
when nine-tenths of the entire nation have for years been
in the practical enjoyment of a freedr.m they were con-
scious it was not in the power of the monarch legally to
deprive them of. The attempt to do so, Charles the Tenth
has however made. It was on Sunday the 25th of July,
that the Parisians were astounded by the appearance of
the Moniteur, containing the Ordinances 4 founded on a
kind of round-rain denunciation of the French press,
sent by the Prince Polignae and his subs to their bigotted
master, King Charles. A document containing more sophi.ti •
cal and lying arguments against the freedom of the press,
never was published. It is long ; but its absurd and false
reasonings and conclusions will make it read with some
interest by many on this side of the water, who must find
their love of liberty strengthened by seeing that its enemies
are compelled to resort to such wretched fallacies to put
down ene of its main supports. The publication of this
state paper was promptly followed by the important and
fatal (to the Bourbons) Ordinances alluded to. These
abolish the Press—dissolve the Chamber of Deputies,
(which, by the bye, have not yet aovembled an a Chaise.
her, o—reduce the number of electors nearly one-balf—
in fine, they abrogate the whole of the French constitution
and reduce those who, a week ago, were living under a
Charter which guaranteed to all the rights and privileges
of freemen, to the slavish condition of the subjects of Don
Miguel, King Ferdinand, or the Ottoman Porte. It is
well ober ved by the Editor of Le National, that there is
a point at which 'obedience to Government ceases to be a
duty.' This point the French constituted authorities have
attained, and the people in course have ceased to obey them.
To the everlasting honour of the French newspaper
its members were the filet to offer resistance to the tyran-
nical edicts of the haughty Bourbon. With a patriotism
which merits the highest praise, they, in defiance of the
threats of power, distributed their papers gratis, rather
than the people should be without their stimulating in.
fluent% The r, Distance of the Parisian press was quickly
followed by that of the people ; and, four and twenty
hours after the publication of the King's mandates, the
greater part of the city was in arm, to withstand them.
(From the York Courant.)

It Wits mot difficult to foresee, that the proceedings a
Charles the Tenth and his Ministry, if persevered in,
would result in an awful vials. But when vie last week
announced, that the foreign intelligence received did not
comprise any important feature, we were not aware that
we were describing the Pollen calm which forms an ex.
pressive prelude to the flashing fires armed with death.
But so it is—the besotted 'mine** of crowned ambition
has lured to violate that oath by which its crown is worn,
and the present Monarch of Frantic, with a desperation,
far out.tepping the fully of Louis the Sixteenth, bus anni.
hilated ihe Charter of France—ham di.stilved its rightful
legis!atorii—hae destroyed the very shadow. of freedom
to its press—has produced anarchy amongst the peep'e
—has deluged the streets of the capital with b100d,..,.
and has, we trust, roused a spirit, which artillery
cannot destroy, with wide!' royal veneeance eennot
ompete, to.d over which deapotiqn will never triumph.
What ! is it possible, that the solemn leeson lead to
regality in France, within theme foity years, has been aki
NOM Mirle,ll? It it poll4ille, that the dire cons quenees
which then remelted front a long series of mitt ule, have
left no impresaion, and that the reigning Monarch thinks
he my make the bold experiment of repaasing that gulf
with impunity, which the Charter placed between all
future chief mipirtrates of Fiance and ? If
en, deception has usurped the plate of sober judgment,
The liberal of every country will sympathize with
France, and the tottering cause of despotism will not
now meet with the support afforded it in 1702.
No; lamely the tri.eolotneil flag waves over the Teat..
ries, where the whiteness of the lily is sullied with
blood, and Frenchmen will prove, we trust, without the
recurrence of the bloody saturnalia of their last revolu..
tion, that they can support the cause of freedom against
the impotent effort; of a family, who in every country,
and on all occasions, have shown against it their un-
quenchable hatred.

(From the Liverpool Albion.)

France is ones more in a state of political revolution.
The new revolution, however, iuste id of being like the
first, the work of the people, is the work of the court.
The principles of despotism and of democracy are now in
astu 11 conflict. Charles, with en infatuation which is
truly astonishing, and a forgetfulness of the lessons of ex--
perience which one should have thought morally impos-
aible. has dissolved the constitutional Governnaint, and
seized into hie own bands the whole power, legislative as
well as executive, of the state. That these measures are
revolutionary, and equivalent to a dissolution of the com-
pact between the King and the people, admits not of a
doubt. Whether the people will tamely submit to such
violent measures remain to he seen. The probability is,
they will nut. Tito French nation has, during the
last few years, Riven too many anti too striking proofs of
its love of constitotional freedom to pass under the yoke
without rushing a great effort to overturn the tyranny
which a narrow-minded and bigoted monarch is striving
to re-establish in Frsace. The King attribute. the oppo,
sition which his Government has received from the people
to the influence of the periodical press. lien, the se-
verest of his ordinances is directed against that power-
ful moral and political engine, the activity of teh“,
motions lie is resolved to check, or to perish in the attempt.
His most Christian Majesty appears not to perceive, that
the press is only influential in proportion to the de-
gree in whick it embodies the feelings and the sentiments

* The Evening Paper The Sun, thus very appropriately
speaks of that precious noodle, Cherie* the Tenth.
,4 Though, as Cana d'Artoir, he witnessed' the death of
his relations, and suffered a protracted banishment of up-
wwils of twenty years, exposed to insult, Ignominy, and
!Mitering, the great moral lesson which sueh experience
elieuld have taught seems to have been wholly lost upon
uld Bourbon expects to ',over n
the same spirit that his cele-
him ; and, goaded by the ;Jesuits and Ultras, the poor,
wvielanke,eininfatthuaeteyiel,artyirB;tramoicianl
brated ancestor governed it in the year 1730!"
Such was the jesuitical secrecy aid deception p.m-
tieed on this occasion by the French Government, that
Polignac and his associates persisted to the beat in denying
the existence of the project attributed to them, and in
maintaining that they would go to the Chambers, which
were appointed to meet on Tueeday next. It it said, but
this is doubted, that our own Ministry were as astonished
as the Parisians by the promulgation of these edicts.
I We might easily place ourselves in the situation of.
the French people as to the Ordinance of the King of
France, dissolving the Chamber of Deputies, and calling a
new one, at the same time curtelling the number of elec-
tors ; by the supposition of our Premier not liking the
look of the Members chosen for our,new Parliament,
Laming an order to dissolve them, before they had once as-
sembled. Prince Polignac must have been drunk or mad;
to abolish that which has yet no existence.

of the nation in opposition to his measures. It is ion•
sense to suppose, as this misguided monarch seems to
suppose, th tt the present ferment in the public mini of
France is the work of the journals. The journals but
echo the popular will : they are the effect, and not the
cause, of the jealouy and the distrust with which the
hulk of the French people have for some years viewed the
proceedings of the court, the tendency of which has long
been strongly towards arbitrary power, and which tnay
be said to have received their consummation in the recent
violent and revolutionary acts of thelninistry. Tbe peo-
ple will, we trust, act with prudence, and, if they inu.t
again strike for frredotm.:-and we cannot perceive that di.),
have any alternative betwixt liberty and thrahlom—we
hope the blow will inflict terrible vengeance on a family
whose oppressions once before drove the nation to mad.
ness, and who now, after an interval of forty years,
during the greater part of which the Botubons were wan.
&rem over Eutope, are again madly courting either exile
or death.

(From the Brighton Gazette.)

Tl4e revolution which has just occurred in France has
been blot foretold by the political leaders in that country;
but we confess that, in spite of reiterated assurances to
such effect, we were, notwithstanding, incredulous as to
the extent of the designs entertained by the French Mi-
nistry. For some coup fl'clat, as our neighbours phrase
it, we were undoubtedly prepared ; and even last week
we had written, Only the day preceding that on which the
Ordonnances bud arrived, an article which was rendered
useless by ►hat intelligence, anticipating a change in the
law of elections. But, here, no sane man could conceive
the desperate lengths to which the folly of the French
King has urged him ; or that Minister.' weak and wicked
enot.2ll could be found to aid in the accomplishment of
his iniquitous designs. The attempt has, however, been
made, and frustrated, alinuat at the same moment. Never,
perhaps, in the history of the world, Was there witnessed a
Revolution which, for all its circumstances, can offer a
parallel. We speak not alone of the rapidity with which
it has been effected—that has been equalled in other times;
but viewing at once the blood which ham been shed, and
the moderation which has been subsequently displayed by
a justly-enraged populace, we are sure that nothing simi-
lar is recorded in the pages of history. The spectacle is
a noble one; and we need not despair as to the result of a
struggle in which they who contend for freedom show
themselves so able to win, and es worthy to possess it.