The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-23 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday
and Sunday.
Our readers probably remember that some time
since an accusation vs as brought against the Provi-
sional Government of having entertained a proposi-
tion for a declaration of national bankruptcy.
Several of the members of that Government admitted
that such a proposition had been made, but declared
that the members of the Provisional Government had
indignantly rejected the proposal to break faith
with the public creditor. Thereupon arose u question as
to who had been the author of this very honest
proposition—of course some " Socialist," some " red
man," or, at all events, a Republican of the " virile,"
and great was the exultation of the reactionary press,
and loud the demands for the " name." Still the
members of the Provisional Government refused to
betray the name of the adviser whose counsels they had
refused to adopt, when in an unlucky hour one of the
reactionary journals in the provinces (these provincial
journalists are not such adepts in the art of calumny
as the metropolitans) declared that M. GOUDCHAUX
was the man. Thereupon M. GOUDCHAUX was, in self-
defence, obliged to name the real culprit, and he turns
out to be no Republican at all, but a professed friend
of " order,"—a " respectable Moderate"—a quondam
friend of M. GUIZOT—a member of the club of the
Rue de Poictiers, the chosen associate of the PRESI-
DENT, the confidential adviser of the Ministers—M.
ACHILLE FOULD, the banker. M. FOULD attempted
an explanation, but M. MARRAST declared that M.
GOUDCHAUX had at the time mentioned the circum-
stance to him, and M. CREMIEUX stated that M.
ACHILLE FOULD had subsequently stated to him the
proposition which he had made to M. Gotiucu.aux, and
had expressed his regret that it had not been adopted.
AL ACHILLE FOULD said no more, and we trust that
the French people will now rate at their proper value
the professions of these soi- disant friends of order and
of society. Our readers also recollect that the Pro-
visional Government was accused of having enter-
tained a proposition for confiscating the revenues of
capitalists. That proposition was made to the Pro-
visional Government and rejected, and like the pro-
position fur national bankruptcy, was made by one
of the " respectable" orderlies who now figure away
as chiefs of the reaction. M. LEDRU Rannisi de-
clared in the Assembly that when he was a member
of the Provisional Government M. DELAMARRE, the
banker, the proprietor of the Patric, the official organ
of the present Ministry, proposed to him to levy a
forced loan of thirty millions from a list of capitalists
whose names he furnished.

The following appears in the Memorial Berdelai.g,
a Legitimatist journal :
"Several journal, having spoken of the position assumed
by M. Napoleon Bonaparte as regards the President of
the Republic, we have received from our Paris correspon-
dent, who is so situated as to be well informed, the copy
of a letter addressed by the President of the Republic to
his cousin Napoleon. The letter is authentic; we can
dt clare this posiively to our n'aders. The nobfe and
elevated sentiments which inspired it re quire no comment.
Our readers will be as convinced as ourselves that the
eltcted of the 10th of Dsaember merited the confidence
which has been reposed in hica by the country. The
following is a copy of this letter
Elysee National, April 10, 1849.

"My dear Cousin,—it is pretended that, in passing
through Bordeaux, you held language of a nature to
sow division among the best-inientioned persons. You
are reported to have said, that dominated by the chiefs
of the reactionary movement, I did not freely act upon
my inspirations; that, impatient ut the yoke, I was
ready to throw it off; and that, in order to assist me to
do so, it was necessary, at the approaching elections, to
send to the Chamber men hostile to my Government
rather than men of the moderate party.' Such an im•
putation from you may well astonish me. You know me
sufficiently to be sure that I will never submit to any as-
cendancy on the part of anybody, and that I will con-
stantly endeavour to govern in the interest of the masses
and not in that of a party. I honour the men wbo, by
their cap :city and their experience, can give me good
counsel. I daily receive advice of an opposite nature;
but I obey only the impulses of my reason and my heart.
It was for you less than any other person to blame in
me a moderate policy, you who disapproved of my ma-
nifesto because it had not the entire sanction of the
chiefs of the Moderate party. Now this manifesto, from
which I have never swerved,remains the conscientious ex-
pression of my sentiments. The first duty was to tran-
quillize the country. Fur four months past it has been
daily gaining confidence. For every day its task; secu-
rity first, then ameliorations. The approaching elec-
tions will advance, I have no doubt, the period of pos-
sible reforms, by strengthening the Republic by order
and moderation. To bring closer to each other all the
old partier, to unite, to reconcile them to the object of
my efforts. Tills is the mission attached to the great
name which we bear;"-it would fail if it were to tend
to divide instead of rallying together the supporters of
the-Government. For these reasons I cannot approve
of your becoming a candidate in twenty departments;
reflect that, under the shadow of your name, it may be
attempted to bring into the Assembly candidates hostile
to the Government, and to discourage its devoted parti-
sans by fatiguing the people with the frequent elections
which this course would necessitate. In future, there-
fore, I hope, my dear cousin, that you will exert your-
self to enlighten as to my real intentions the persons who
may bo in relation with you, and take care not to
accredit by inconsiderate language the absurd calumnies
which state that my policy is influenced by sordid in-
terests. Nothing—repeat this aloud—nothing will dis-
turb the serenity of my judgment or shake my resolu-
lions. Free from all moral constraint, I will pursue the'
path of honour, with my conscience for my guide; and
when I shall relinquish power, if I may be reproached
with faults which were fatally inevitable, I shall at least
have performed what I sincerely believed to be my duty.
"Receive, my dear cousin, the assurance of my friend-
ship, " LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE."
The two Ministerial journals of Friday evening, the
illoniteur du Noir and the Pattie, contain the follow-
ing paragraph as a communication from the Govern-
ment

" Several journals having wished to make it be be-
'loved that the letter written by the President of the
Republic to Ms cousin is a proof of a serious schism in
the Bonaparte family, we are authorised to declare that
this letter was strictly private, and that, although it may
reveal a difference of opinion, it cannot leave any doubt
as to the feelings of attachment which the President en-
tertains towards his relative."

The PRESIDENT'S letter to his cousin, which is
dated the 10th of April, was published in the Me-
morial Bordelaia on the 14th. On the 15th the mem-
bers of the Central Democratic Napoleonist Commit-
tee of the Gironde addressed a letter to that journal,
in which they say—
" We affirm on our honour that M. Napoleon Bona-
parte did not in either of the interviews which we had
with him pronounce any of the words which have been
so insidiously attributed to him. Whoever may have
told the President of the Republic that his cousin had
held such strange language is an odious calumniator."
Who is this odious calumniator, who first of all in-
vents a calumny, and then betrays a confidence, for
the letter of the PRESIDENT was never intended for
publication ; and as in the case of his letter to M.
LEON DE MALLEVILLE, he has been betrayed by
some spy in the camp. The offensive expressions
alleged to have been made use of by M. NAPOLEON
BONAPARTE first of all appeared in a Bourdeaux
newspaper, the organ of the parh-pretre in that city.
That paper was, immediately on its arrival, brought
by M. DE FALLOUX to the Cabinet Council (the use
partisan of the path pretre,,,who dues honour to
his Jesuit education, probably knew well w hat
he should find in the report), whereupon the
members of the Cabinet became exceed-
ingly angry, and the PRESIDENT consented
to sign a letter, addressed to his cousin, and which
had been drawn up by M. DE FALLoux, on the un-
derstanding that it was to be considered as of a
strictly private and confidential nature, and that it
should not be made public. It was furnished to the
Memorial Bordelaia, by the club of the Rue de
Poictiere, Who furnished it to the club P The

Presse says, that the straiL!htforw,ird character of
Louis NAPOLEON relieves 'him of ell suspicion of
having done so, hut that an inquiry ought at once to
be instituted for the purpose of clearing up the ques-
tion. It declares that the publication of the letter is
a gross abuse of confidence, and it goes so far as to
insinuate that the object of the person publishing it
was to aid the restoration, of the Bourbons, by throw-
ing discredit on two members of the Bonaparte
family.
The Presse might have gone further and have de-
clared that the inventor of the calumny was the pub•
fisher of the letter. The whole was a guet a pens
laid for the PRESIDENT by the Jesuit supporters of
Legitimatist reactionaries, into which he has unwit-
tingly fallen.
M. FRAPOLLI, the Envoy Extraordinary of the
Roman Republic to the PRESIDENT of the French
Republic, has presented a protest to the Govern-
ment against the expedition to Civita Vecchia.
He declares that the Government which he repre-
sents was willing to accept the mediation of France
between it and the PorE, and that its anxiety to
do so was made known to the French Government,
in a note addressed to it by his predecessor, as well
as verbally by himself, in an interview which he had
with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, on Tuesday
last. He states that the only answer which he got
was, " that France could not negotiate with what
did not exist; that Rome, as far as France was con-
cerned, was the POPE ; that France interposed, in
order to prevent too violent a reaction, and in order
that the principle of secularization might be applied as
largely as possible in the Administration of the State."
After such an answer X FRAPOLLI declares that,
" as the Envoy of a Government and of a people
which has thus been condemned to death, it only
remains for him to protest against the eventual vio-
lation, without any previous notice, of the territory
of the Republic which it is his mission to represent."
The Bill regulating the press was:passed on Satur-
day by a majority of 550 to 72.
" Letters from Marseilles of the 17th state that the
first division of the expeditionary army was embarked
on that day. It is added that much enthusiasm was
manifested by the men; and that when on board they
gave three cheers for the Republic with cries of 'Vivent
les Tuscans 1" Vivent les #onzains 1" A bas les Au-
trichniersr "
The Toulonnais of the 16th has the following:—
"On Sunday the superior military authority received
by telegraph an order to' embark immediately, in the
ships composing the expedition which are in our road-
stead, the .battery of eight which is here, the train, a
great quantity of engineereetools, the field hospital, and
a large store of projectiles. The ships have sent gangs cn
shore to help in the preparations. The troops stationed
in the Var, that is to say, the first battalion of foot-
chasseurs and the war battalions of the 20th of the Bee
and 22d light infantry, have at the same time received
orders to hold themselves ready to embark on the first
signal. A Lumber of steamers have started for Mar-
seilles to take in troops. The frigate Iphigenie, which
was ready to start for Brest, has received counter-orders,
and now forms a part of the expedition, as well as the
lighter Provengale. These naval forces are placed under
the command of Admiral Trehouart."
General DR LAMORICIERE has published the fol-
lowing address to the electors of the Sarthe :
" Citizens,--Several of the committees formed in the
department of the Sarthe have offered me their co-ope-
ration at the approaching elections. Same wish me
to adhere to the programme which they have
drawn up ; the other, less exacting, only demand
from me a promise to defend, in case of attack,
those grand principles on eshich all society rests—re-
ligion, family ties, and property. When a man can be
judged by his acts, what need is there to inquire into his
opinions? When facts Break, words ought to bo un-
necessary. But events and acts may be troubled; they
have, perhaps, been misrepresented and travestied; in
cons( quence, I will explain myself clearly on the ques-
tions addressed to me. To such persons as want a pro-
fession of political faith, I reply, that I look on universal
suffrage as the only source from which can hencefor-
ward issue a legal and regular government. It would
be, in my opinion, a political crime not to recognise the
will of the majority of citizens, regularly expressed in
the electoral colleges. It was with the idea that I was
performing a grave and serious act that I voted the con-
stitution of 1848. It is by executing it frankly and sin-
cerely that hopes can be entertained of putting an end to
revolutions. Such is my way of thinking relative to the
constitution, because in opening a regular path to all the
ameliorations which will be considered necessary, it allows
all struggles to be restricted to the field of free discus-
sion. In a word, it appears to me to satisfy, not only ti:e
necessities of the present, but to contain also the germ
of possible progress for the future. To those persons
who call on me to assure them of my co-operation for
the defence of social order, I have only to say that when
it was seriously menaced and violently attacked, I was
was in the first rank to defend it. If, which may God
forbid! similar evils were again to act our country, I
would do again ve hut I have already done ; my flag, for
no one fights without some flag, would be that under
which I combatted anarchy—that of the Republic, such
as the National Assembly Las desired it, such as it has
been made by the constitution. A year ago you com-
mitted to me your mandate as vpresentative. I con-
sider that I have fulfilled it usefully and faithfully; you
must, however judge the matter; I have nothing to disavow
in the past—it points out to you the line which I will
follow in the future. I accept tor the department of the
Sarthe the candidateship which has been offered me,
and I will not accept any other, for I am, above all,
anxious to again receive the marks of confidence which
you twice conferred on me.
" General DE LAMORICIERE."
It was observed that at the PRESIDENT'S ball given
on Saturday night the number of Legitimatists present
was not so great as on former occasions. The PRE-
SIDENT opened the ball with the Marchioness of
LONDONDERRY. The Marquis and Marchioness of
AYLESBURY, Lord and Lady HOLLAND, and several
other English persons of rank were present.
According to the Reforrne, the following order of
the day was to have been, proposed by M. BRIVES to
the National Assembly on Monday, if the close of
the debate had not been pronounced :—" Confiding
in the sentiments of honour and patriotism of the
Ministry, the Constituent Assembly doubles the
credit applied for, on the sole condition that the
Government shall obtain for our holy army the
right of every one of our glorious soldiers to kiss the
POPE'S toe."
The French Five per Cents, were done some wha
ee,
lower yesterday, in the Passage de l'Opera. After
going down to 87f. 60c., they closed at 87f. 85c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, APRIL 21.
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Indian Ga
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and Bourdeaux, 3X—Rouen and Havre, 11%. —s Orraerist
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