The Sun.
London, England, 1814-12-23 00:00:00

(No. La V%)

POLITICAL MI:FLECTIoNs on the true IxTEnrsrs of the FRIINCII
NATION, 'vie/ on sonnc Publications which hoer lattly
op-
_yerrrPd: ByF. A. CIIATEM7BIZIAND, Svo. Pp. 159. price 63,
lIENRY CoLuV RN, Conduit-stret.

(Contioued from our Paper of yesterday.)

The -preceding quotation appears to us the
most singular portion of the work before
us. The feudal. system had, indeed many beau-
ties ;—chivalrous honour, devotion, loyalty, ge-
netosity, and a thousand graces ming►le in the
bri!liant tints with which
.the portrait of its
features is banded down to our distant days=
the dark tints, the horrible oppression for
.which there was no redress,. the tyranny beyond
appeal, the barbarity, and a long et caera of
evils, are bid from our view. —But even of these
enough has descended to us, to slim that equal
freedom, just rights,. man protected and cbn-
scious of his value in the scale
,of creation ; in
short, that the amended state of the Social Compact

- human race, than the preceding order of things,
on a retrocession to Which M. de C. dwells with
somewhat too much of complaceney—o,
" A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty,
"Is worth a whole eternity of bondage." 7.
But, in truth, M. de CUATELYDRIAND himself,
e few pages further on, furnishes the best an-
swer that could be given to anyone mistaken
enough to desire the restoration of the ancient,
order of things in France.
" In former times, what were the hope and
ambition of a gentleman ? To become a captain ;
rafter forty years service, to retire in ' his old age
with a Cross of St. Louis, and u pension of GOO
francs. At the present day, if Ste followS a miii-
tary career, a rapid advance may raise him to the
highest rank. Except through some extraordi-
nary favour, or by means of some brilliant ac-
tion, could a cadet- from Gasco:iy or Brittanny
become, !older theold regime, a colonel, a gene-
ral, a marechal of France ? If, Mustering up all
his little tOrtune, he made an effort to come to
Paris to solicit some employ, could lie go to
Court ? In order to enjoy a sight of that King
whom he defended with his. sword, was it not ne-
cessary before-he could be presented that he should
ride in a coach ? What part did he perform in the
anti,chambers of Ministers ? AVhat was he, iu
fact, in the eyes of a frivolous and ungrateful
world, -but a poor provincial gentleman Otten
of a nobility more ancient than that of the cour-
tiers who filled his place at the Louvre, he re-
ceived front these children of court favours only
refusals and contempt. What was this brave
man, this representative of the honour and power
of the monarchy, but an object of ridicule for his
simplicity, for his dreSs nod his language, they
forgot that Henry IV. spoke Gaseun, and that
his doublet was out of fashion.
" But the time for such contemptuous sneers is
now at an end : in the provinces, you, gentlemen,
will enjoy that coosideration which ought to be
attached to your fajoily ; whilst at Paris, you will
be admitted every where, even to the Court 01
your King. A new and ex,tended career opens it-
self to your view," &c. epic.
•
Would the Author wish this •system to be re-
stored I He elsewhere says—
" In the new order of things, however, there
are some persons who displease you, who seem
odious to you ; well, be it so; but they will pass
a tray, Rita France will still remain. D.len's
after a revolution, are slow in returning to a state
of quiescence. One remembers to have seen that
matt under such circumstances ; another cannot
persuade'himself that this man can become a good
citizen, or that he can .be usefully employed.
'this is an inevitable evil ; but still it is not such
an,evil as ought to make us renounce the good of
our country. In 1605, Henry W. set off for the
Limousin : he had then been seated upon the
throne., for the space of 16 years and yet Mal,
berbe said of him :
vin maiheur inconnu ttlisse parmi les bouties,
Qui les rend ion.nis du repos otl nous soannes:
La plapart de leers vceux tendent au changement ;
Et comae s'ils vivoient des miseres publiques,
Your les renouveler ils font taut de pratignes,
CiLle gni tea point de; peur n'a point de jugentent.
Nous vayoN les esprits nos a loliannie,
Ennuy4s de couvrir leer erudite manic,
'Towner tour lenrs conseils noire affliction :
Et Ji.son.> claire:tient &dates leer connience
Q.le tiennent la bride a leer irapatieucc
Danes e'en sommes tenus qu'a sa protection (er Ilenti IP.)
Qu'il vice done, Seigneur, et gull nous fosse vivre!
" Thus we sec that the faftions of the League
were still in existence"; and more than five years
atter that, their horrid hands applauded the par-
ricidal RavailiaC.

" At the restoration of Charles 11. in England,
the inindS of men were still agitated. When once
the first moment of joy was past, men who }cad
espoused opposite principles during the Revolu-
tion, still continued to hate each other. The
Whigs and the 'furies sprung out of those fac-
• tions, 'lliere were even some so furiOus in their
politics as look upon the condemned regicides as
martyrs for the goo/kohl cause. They pretended
that Harrison, Cook, and Veters, at their execu-
tion, were most certainly ' clothed. with the
when in reality they were only covered
with the blood of their Soveieign.
"We may from this conclude, that
those
who regret the ancient government ought to at-
tach•themselves to the new, because that it is
very good in itself, because that it is a result to
which we are brought by the manners of the
times ; because, in short, that a fatal necessity
has destroyed the former, a necessity to which all
things are imperiously forced to yield."
The tweatiettschapter proceeds to demonstrate
that the Nell,- Gov ruaient.i for- the interest of