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nent part in these delicate negotiations. He natu-
rally takes some interest in the prospects of a
country of which he was himself once chosen to be
King. The Duke of Sdxe Coburg is a man of no
ordinary mould. Nature seems to have designed
him for a wider sphere of influence than that of the
petty and third-rate principality which finds itself
powerless for good or for evil in the presence of the
great German States which dictate the policy of
the Band. As it is, Prince Ernest has made him-
self very prominent as a sort of leader of the party
of Young Germany. To him is owing the only
practical scheme for the realisation of the dream of
a united Germany. He is the heart and soul of
rifle club meetings and gatherings of the people.
He has a taste for liberal and constitutional govern-
ment, which is even in advance of the aspirations
of his compatriots. Serious disaffection has been
produced among the people of the littladuchyby
the attempt of the Duke to govern them on
Eng-
lish principles. The prophet had small
to a
honour
lo
uer in
his own country, and betook himself
the East and the quest of missalpnhgeerexpthloartersseeamfteedr
the sources of the Nile, as to a
to promise more tangible results than that of Ger-
man politics. The Prince is a man altogether be-
yond his age, a man of m3thetic asp:rations and a
noble ambition. He has not found the sources of
the Nile more accessible than the recondite springs
of Teutonic policy. He has transferred his spirit
of geographical research to the windings of the
Alice Verte and the solitudes of Lacken. It is there
that he may dream a happier dream than his last—
a dream of the revival of the golden rule of Pericles.
Should he accept the throne of Greece we recom-
mend him to give up for the present his notions of
constitutional government. The Greeks are chil-
dren in such matters, and incapable of governing
themselves. The new King would find it impossi-
ble to maintain himself for a week, unless he were
backed up by a British or German army. Men
who are acquainted with Greece tell us—and we
believe there is much truth in it—that what the
people need just now is a good strong despotism
wielded by a just man, who will set his face against
corruption and violence ; will crush out the petty
tyrants who afflict the provinces, reorganise the
army, and exterminate the brigands. We do not
envy the man who may have to rule over such a
people as the Greeks, or undertake the adminis-
tration of a country that for forty years has been in
a state of chronic disorder.

PosT.---The Mexican letter of the Emperor of the
French appertains to what has been called the
poetry of politics. It is interesting, no doubt, as
conveying to the public the general ideas which
were floating in the mind of Napoleon 111. six
months and more ago. But a document six months
old, which confines itself to the assertion of then
present intentions, and bases those intentions upon
conditions which may or may not be realised, is
obviously liable to be obsolete. In a natural course
of things this letter has been presented with other
documents to the French Chambers. Nor is its
publication at the present time by any means un-
desirable; for the vehement debates that have
lately taken place in the Spanish Chambers have
imparted every conceivable distortion to the Mexican
policy of the French Government. It would seem
that, almost simultaneously, General Forey in
Mexico, and the French Ministers at Paris, arrived
at the conclusion that this imperial manifesto should
be given to the world. Nor is the coincidence sur-
prising. It was not ill-calculated to win ever dis-
affected persons in Mexico itself; and it tend( d to
place the designs attributed to France at Madrid in
a fairer light than the hostile passions of conflicting
parties there had rendered possible. We may thus
perceive at once why General Forey on the one
hand, and the French Ministers on the other, have
recently arrived at a common and apparently inde-
pendent conclusion to give publicity to the Em-
peror's letter, even if it had not seemed of itself to
require a place among the correspondence just
submitted to the Chambers. But we must
acknowledge that, although this document
does that credit to the perceptions and views of
Napoleon 111. which is always reflected by Lis
published correspondence, we fail to find in 1
it anything that is new at the present juncture.
The two considerations which are here brought
most clearly into view are, in the first place, the
contingency of a monarchy being established in
Mexico ; and, secondly, the motives which had led
the Emperor of the French to attempt the reorgani-
sation of the Mexican Government in such a manner
as to be independent of the Northern and Southern
Confederacies. The former of these points contains
no fresh announcement, and we believe that this
journal was the first to give the world reason to
think that such a scheme was floating at some of
the Continental Courts. That intimation was sug-
gested by us as far back as a year ago. The Empe-
ror of the French stated, six months back, in the
present letter to Gen. Forey, very much what Gen.
Prim has already stated in the Spanish Chambers—
that in the event of the Mexican nation being dis-
posed to adopt a monarchical form of government,
the Emperor himself was willing to give protection
and support to their wish. It may even be added,
from the terms of the imperial letter now before us,
that Napoleon 111. would have been more willing to
see the Mexican people resolve on a monarchical
than on a republican polity. That appears to be
the gist of the communication in question, and we
are by no means surprised that such should have
been the Emperor's general view of the subject six
months ago. But it has for some time subsequently
appeared clear that the monarchy dream in Mexico
is at an end. We have in the first place the testi-
mony of, Gen. Prim, that the French Government
had been grossly deceived by Almonte, who had no
party whatever in the country, and that there was
hardly a man in all Mexico who would vote for a
monarchy. This view again has been confirmed
by the circumstantial intelligence of many suc-
cessive mails from the Gulf of Mexico. It was but
natural, however, that the Emperor of the French
should still adhere to the general view which he had
sketched at the outset. The scheme was nothing
more than conditional then. It was dependent on
the Mexicans declaring in favour of a monarchy ;
and the same may be said now, with the impor-
tant distinction, however, that the hypothesis on
which the idea of a Mexican monarchy was first
suggested has in the interval, according, at least, to
all the means of information which we can possess
in Europe, proved to be erroneous. With regard
to the alleged advance of the French army upon
Puebla, we must content ourselves with the obser-
vation that the statement is not at present con-
firmed. The last mail left General Furey, accord-
ing to the statement of the semi-official French*
journals at P aria, where he was, and postponed his
advance until early in January. He was then
I described as awaiting stores and materiel for his
army, and even reinforcements of troops from
Europe that have been but just now sent out. In
these circumstances, we fear we must receive the
present intelligence, coming especially, as it does,
by way of the United States, with great caution.
Our contemporary
La Patrie
wonimproves
b y
50
ouop
Frencho n this
account by describing a battle
over 25,000. Mexicans. We would hope
true, and that this alleged battle maynotitmay be
resemble
that of “National Bridge," circumstantially re-
Ported a month ago, which, however, turned out
never to have happened at all. La Patric is
blessed with fresh Mexican intelligence almost
every day.
That French troops will beat Mexican
troops in fair
worhewthitehr
the t hewy
haorlee pmitetxedi,,awnith people3.l esai
lcsaon,
fight no one doubts; but the real
qt
ruoeospt iso n only,iB
In the meantime, we must await the next mail in
order to make sure whether General Forey had, up
to the end of the past year, made a movement in
advance or not.

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