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London, England, 1825-02-10 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

( From the Etoile, dated Tuesday. )
PARIS, FEB. 7.
A Journal yesterday pretended that a Congress was going to
meet at Paris. We do not know whence it derived its news,
which has no foundation whatever. The Constitutionnel and
the Courier Franeuise have immediately laid hold of this piece
of intelligence; they consider it as certain, and both of them
speak of war. " Two parties are formed in Europe, one of
them must yield to the other, or this division will necessarily
produce hostilities." We refer those Journals to the speeches
of Lord Liverpool and Mr. Canning, and to the English Jour-
nals. 'They say there is nothing in the step just taken by Eng-
land beyond a'iegislative protection of existing interests.
(Tram-the -Journal des Debats of Monday.)
MADE ID, JAN. 27.
Our Government, after great labour, have perfected a plan of
Representative Government, suited,,it is said, to the state of
knowledge in the Peninsula, and to the extensive Aristocratical
elements which exist there. I can tell you nothing of my own
. knowledge of .the contents of this project, but once more I
assure you of its existence:, and d can equally assure you copies
of it. have been given to the French, Russian, Austrian, and
Prussian Ministers, that they may transmit them to their
respective Courts, to be examined. I can add to what I have
just told you, that persons who are intimate with our Ministers,
and who are in the habitof reading their thoughts, pretend that the
new plan is nothing more than the renewal of a project of the
Aulic Council, which was agitated six months ago, with, how-
ever, a few insignificant modifirations, which, in adding another
.step to begone through jn the march of our political and admi-
r,:strative affairs, will not materially alter the form of the Go-
t4,rnment as it at present exists, because the new body being
only composed of persons chosen by the Government itself,
though irremoveable, the nation would not be in the least repre-
.sented. If these conjectures be well-founded, the Ministerial
combination would produce, at most, a well-regulated Council
Hof State, which, besides its ordinary sections, would have one
appointed for legislation.

PAINS, FEB. 3.
The Speech of the King of England, on the opening of Par-
liament, is what it ought to be. It is astonishing that there
ere Journals who endeavour to find in it what is not there,
and that other Journals (these are Ministerial) should pre-
.Lend to see nothing in it, as if they in fact feared to find
something. The Representative Government is real in
„England, and the nation is a power. If the Speech of the
-King of England can be attacked by the English as being the
•work of the Ministry, it is not unknown in this country, that
'wth respect to Europe, and in the forms of diplomacy, this
4nf....nen is to be considered as being the expression of the King's
ti nights. A double usage is established on this double truth.
.The English have every facility of dicussion on the Royal
and it is so maturely weighed as never directly to
:commit the Royal Speech with foreign governments. But as
qast as foreign diplomacy demands explanations, the power
•of the nation is put forward ; and whilst notes and counter-
. notes are interchanged, the national opinion is expressed with
such strength, that the English Cabinet sustains the resistance
which it had prepared, on .the will of a people who know
their own interests, and which it would not be in the power
• of Ministers to deceive, even if they should so intend, to en-
tleavoar to Iced them to other opinions. The real secret of a
..R.apresentative Government consists, deprived of all faction, in
always opposing the strength of a whole nation to wishes, which,
•in Absolute Governments are only expressed by the Cabinet.
Without doubt English diplomacy is strong in men and
talents; but to know all her power, her point d'appui must
never be forgotten. A French Minister may think that he has
as great talents as Mr. Canning, and not be deceived in that re-
spect; bat if he enters the lists with Mr. Canning, he will be
under the inevitable disadvantge of only looking in himself for
Lis resources, against a man who knows how to make use of the
tinnmgth of a nation which possesses opinions of it own, and
who are not in want of any instigation to make them known.
In England it is known that nothing can resist a nation truly
free, when it agrees with itself and with its King on the prin-
ciples of its prosperity, and on the means of maintaining it.—
Their measures arc taken accordingly.

The King's Speech at the opening of Parliament only opens
the scene. If it be true, as the Ministerial Journals say in
France, that the personal opinion of the. Monarch, and of some
n,2nd)ers of the Cabinet, is not quite conformable to the last
measures adopted, the question will be agitated in the House,
and the .differences will be effaced in conciliating each ocher;
because the great merit of a Representative Government is to
produce unity of opinion as a natural consequence of public de-
nberations. In absolute Governments, on the contrary, unity
of opinion is often deranged by weakness and intrigue, even
• after the proclamation of the adopted measures. Certainly, it
cannot be said that absolute power in Spain produces there unity
of opinion.
The discussions in Parliament must then be waited for to
appreciate what ought to take place in England ; for there is
nothing done in that country till the nation has publicly pledged
itself. All that can be said of the King's Speech is, that it
does not belie any thing that has been done in the absence of
the Houses, and that it will not oppose any thing that remains
—to be done.

Here, we are willing that every thing should flow from the
Crown. In England it seems that the Crown sometimes avoids
using the initiative part which belongs to it. Each people harg
its system. The essential is to arrive at a conclusion with the
institutions, that is to say, with all the power of one's country.
[From the Courier Francais of 411-onday;)
*LISBON, JAN. 23.

Nothing can at present be said of the coarse, a Ministry hardly
fiamed, means to pursue ; but it is to be hoped that it will he as
satisfactory as our intestine divisions, and the situation of our
finances will permit. The acknowledgment of the indepen-
dence of Brazil is already spoken of ; it is a measure which-would'
draw into our coffers considerable sums. A decree of amnesty
which will contain no exceptions, and,-will grant favour to po-
litical opinions of all sorts, is also spoken of as having been
sent to the Royal printing press, and that it is to be published
all over the kingdom. In short, another decree is spoken of,
whose object is to guarantee an asylum to those Spaniards who
are obliged to exile themselves from their native country. If
this news turns out to 'be ccrrect, we shall be obliged to the in-
tercession of England fur having become indulgent one to ano-
ther, and hospitable to our neighbours.

MADRID, JAN. 27.
The acknowledgment of the empire of Brazil, to which Sub-
serra and Palmella were opposed, will naturally follow the fall
of the Portuguese Ministry. It is ackled, that this acknowledg—
ment of Brazilian independence is prepared by a most artful
- train of policy, in order to preserve the unity of the Colonies,
some of which endeavour to separate themselves, and erect inde-
pendent Republics ; but this acknowledgment•will not take place
during the life of the reignir4.; King ; because at his death his
eldest son, the Emperor of Brazil, will become legitimate heir
to the Throne. It is added, that England will guarantee the
integrity of the Brazilian. Empire.
( Front the Constitutionnel of Monday.)
LISBON, JAN. 23.
It was on board the ship Ocean, where his Majesty dinedyes-
terday, that the change of Ministry was decided upon, though
the dates of the DeCrees are of the 14th,..15th, and 20th of this
naohth.