The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-29 00:00:00

EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1831.

FRANCE.

To the EDITOR of the MORNING CHRONICLE.
Paris, Dec. 24, 1831.
Slll,—We are marching ! Oh yes, we are

marching ! But towards what ? Why, towards
the denouement of the tragedy of the commer-
cial system of Perier, and the juste-milieu. We
have had Act 1. The nomination of the Mini-
stry. Act 2. The expression of public dis-
approbation. Act 3. The promises of the
Ministry. Act 4. Jugglery, or the Rentiers
deceived. Act 5. Conviction, or the eyes of
France opening. Act 6. The Expose, or dis-
appointment (and this is where we are now).
And the 7th Act will be the denouement, cr the
Ministry overthrown, and France roused to a man.
We are at the 6th Act. On one side Louis
Philip and his jugglery with your Miss Dawes
and the Duke of Bourbon, are beinp. exposed,
and this makes honest men hang down' their
heads, and patriots blush and tremble. We never
mention this subject in France. It is too painful
—too disgraceful—too contemptible and scan-
dalous—hut it is part of the commercial system
of Perier and Louis Philip. Two millions of
francs might have saved this exposure if given to
the Princes of Rohan, but Louis Philip pre-
ferred a process to parting with money ! He has
run the risk, and now he must submit to the
consequences. I saw a letter from Angouleme
yesterday, which is, you know, the capital of
Charente. It was a letter written by a Patriot—
a true, honest, worthy, and even wealthy Patriot,
and who desires peace and order as much as M.
Perier can do—but peace with honour, and order
with liberty ; and the following is a translation of
the leading sentence in the letter :
" You know that in Charente we were always
disposed to Republicanism, but since the process
of the Princes of Rohan against the Duke of
Aurnale for setting aside the will of the Duke of
Bourbon has been received and read, we are all
certain that no honest King can be found, and
we cry aloud, Vive la Republique.
Kings are now so unpopular, that they should
not run such risks as these. The burning of all
Louis Philip's letters to the Duke of Bourbon
—to Madame de Feucheres, and others, would

Beans.

have been cheaply purchased for two millions of
francs ; but the " commercial and juste-milieu
system" thought otherwise ; and now in the
whole department of Charente they cry " Vive
la Republique !"
I said we are at the 6th Act—and so we are,
for poor M. Perier ! for the trickeries and jug-
gleries of his Administration are also about to be
exposed—nay, are exposing by M. Dumolart,
Ex-Prefect of the Rhone. Read, I pray you,
the two first articles which he has published in
the Constitutionnel, and the Courrier Fran-
cais. He shows, first, that the Minister has
uttered falsehoods at the public Tribune. He
shows, 2d, That the Minister has garbled the
letters he addressed to him, for the purpose of
producing an impression against the Prefect. He
shows, 3d, That the Minister knew several days
before the disturbances occurred at Lyons that

they were about to break out ; and he shows,
4th, That the Minister has accused him of re-
ceiving more money to relieve the workmen at
Lyons than was received by him. M. Perier
has attempted to get out of this by a trick, but
it will not do. He pretends that one Report,
written by the Prefect on the 15th of December,
he never received. This will not avail the Pre-
sident of the Council. The Report was sent.
It will be shown how—and by whom—and in
what way—and then M. Perier must produce
the document, or France will brand him with a
worse title than a fool ! These articles of M.
Dumolart are terrible documents for M. Perier.
They attack him not merely as a Minister, but
as a man—for a Minister cannot be unprincipled
and yet remain an honest citizen. I deplore all
this. I grieve over all this. But it is the na-
tural result of degrading France, and of arrest-
ing the July Revolution. It was impossible—
quite impossible to degrade France as she has
been degraded by the Ministry of the 13th of
March, both at home and abroad, without re-
sorting to dishonest means. These means have
been resorted to, and the expose' is now making.
I said we had arrived at the 6th Act, and so
we have as concerns also poor Sebastiani and
his wretched, wicked, deplorable, external policy.
lie said, our motto is " Peace, and the pre.
nervation of Treaties." The men of the Centres
have cried " Bravo !" whilst France has cried
" Shame !" not shame because he desired peace,
but because peace was to be purchased by hu-
miliating France! !—not shame because Trea-
ties were to be preserved, but because, by the
preservation of the Treaties of Vienna, it was
intended to adopt the system of the Holy Alli-
ance—to consent to the ruin of Poland—to per-
mit the triumph of Austria in Italy—to allow
liberty to be crushed in Spain and Portugal—
and to leave Belgium to fate and fortune ! ! and
now, what has arrived, and is arriving I'
Poland is to be made a Russian province !
Russa mocks France, her Government, her
threats, and her Counsels !
Holland refuses to accept the Treaty of Lon-
don !
Spain has captured 56 patriots, though under
the protection of the French flag, and has or-
dered them for execution !
Russia refuses to allow the King of Holland
to be forced to accept the Treaty of London !
Austria protests that she must re-enter the
Roman States to preserve order ! !
And Spain declares that she will assist the
cause of Don Miguel !
We were to have had a disarming! All
Europe was " agreed," according to these Mi-
nisters of Louis Philip, on a disarming . Rus-
sia, and Prussia, and Austria, and Holland, and
Spain, all '' desired to disarm ;" and if you
could have believed such men as Horace Sebas,
wind (after his conduct in the affairs of Belgium),
you would have believed that the royalty of the
Revolution of 1830 was courted, and flattered,
and loved, by all the despots of Europe ; but
now, instead of this disarming !
Eighty thousand conscripts for 1831 are
called into activity ! "Oh !" say the men of
the juste-milieu school, " these eighty thousand
conscripts are to replace those who go out of
active service by rotation ;" admitted—but what
then ? If we are to have this " disarming,"
why the shortest way in the world to " disarm"
is not to call out the conscripts, and thus the
army becomes diminished 50,000 men by the