The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-12 00:00:00

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST Ult

The French Journals contain little
telligence.fres4
in a desperate state of discomfiture ; and Ifing
ceased to play the bully, now takes up the
of the poltroon. We esteem--we WO°
—virtue in misfortune, but is troll iniitesrjt
CHARLES X., by all account', 0
not for his country but for himself;
too, the tears, not of penitence but velatlar
a sight no less edifying than sstisfact4 to
humanity.

General PEPE, it seems, has arrived in r 94
This is the same patriot who, it may be rell°,l
bered, strove, but in vain, some few Yeers'.:theit'
to rouse his Italian countrymen to toed
freedom and rescue themselves from the 'r
ot
Lapis. If
Austria. His arrival in Paris St tiePregin
vent juncture is auspicious. It looks se if .
eesto
new attempt for the deliverance of Italy were J
p
If so, we trust it may be as 5134"7.0
it deserves. By the way, where is MIOOOO
What has become of him ? Spain be/htio
more need of his services than ever. 01,:...40
he, too, is at Paris, concerting together. rfor
PEPE a temperate and constitutional
the deliverance of Spain and Italy;
M. DE CHATEAUBRIAND, on who"
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extracted from the Paris Journals, we
p.
time yesterday to comment, has been making
self again conspicuous by his advocacy
rights of the young Duke DE 13°V110
There is nothing this politician will tial,
the sake of gaining notoriety. Every 1110
sistency, no matter how glaring; every sisu
no matter how profound; finds in him I°,
and ready supporter, provided it *dell
food to his darling passion. The ruling PO roi
of his life seems, as a Statesman, to 10 old! lg.
desire of doing things Unit no one els. :10
do ; and as an author, of saying thing ,140
one else would say, in a style that n° efletwitli
would think of. Hence, though tent tht
himself, he is perpetually inconsistent 7Aarp
world. At one time a religious tam ~e
whose whole soul is engrossed tifo;
recollections of St. Lows and ral7ol
at another, an enthusiast, like V°l'l''oolll4
L' Ingenu , for the natural freedom of the ~
for the unsophisticated in manners and
ow
nient ; at another, a flatterer of that child 006
tifice and despotism, NAPOLEON ; at *Pa° Ole
an equal advocate for the BountioNs; "P"
COs,
other, their avowed opponent po'
TE.AUBRIAND,, throughout his literal
lineal character, exhibits a mass of WO or
bete
cies, which are only not to be despise" ;0". I.
they are so irresistibly diverting and erw—af,
His latest display has been on the snit
the young Duke DE BOURDEAUX. AS:
guments, on this occasion, are in tlitev''''
position_
to public opinion in Trance, t°
I%' • DE CHATEAUBRIAND has been in lb°
or
bit
of saying of late that the utmost
once should be paid, they will gale hii4
precisely that sort of eccentric notoriety le l
trio
he most delights. To be sure, whet little
mains of his character for consisteconsistencyf 000
endangered, but what of that ? Alen 10 ser
and feeling, like the author of iltalth I sonie
timental travels to the Holy Land, ell bat
dozen romantic tales, once much talked °'
14 the
now forgotten, are not to be hal-1 steaur
same vulgar laws that influence your pis,
sober politicians and men of the war° 10000'
dainful of such mechanical c°
that
D fools
place ties, M. CHATEAUBBIA,-- folnws
his genius entitles him to be eccentric. a ij
isteecY
he persuades himself, flagrant ince°
'nation.
nothing more than exuberant image outlig
This peculiar vanity, paracnable jCithi
is wholly without excuse in age* er
TEADBRIA ND is no tyro either in Yea cs
~,h
ed
perience ; he must be well actin
aim
the 1;*c.0011,
world, both practically and through