The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-29 00:00:00

AIINISTRY. Cli

( From the French Papers of Friday and Saturday./
F9r several days the report of the dissolution of the
tiabinet had been circulated. M. the
and his colleagues
!,liansd demanded an efficacious co-operation against Don Car-
*. and with five other Ministers, bad already offered. to
re,siga• The plan of co-o
rived,
the news of the pre,,,,,i
Pera.lion had been already rejected,
gation of the Constitution ar-
'ived This had the 'effect of suspending all the dime-tw-
n nt that existed., but the Council of Ministers did' not
Apartmeet any more. Each Minister confined himself to his own
ment* 'and the head of the Cabinet declared in the
kisterial Journal, that France would never intervene
against ar
tinan L 1Y part of the Liberal party in Spain. At the same..
tar; le continued to urge the necessity of sending the mill-
Ir.i:A , 'CM)? assembled at Pau over the frontier. In the
-i• a's z of these matters, the order of the day of General
S. id
s'
was published. That officer had only done what
ail frank soldier would have done in his place. He had
•very reason to suppose that other troops would follow him,
"and his proclamation was
quite natural, under the fire of the
panne, was
aenlY. However, be' who no doubt had a right to recom-
disavowed. How could this have taken place ?
-4The contradiction of his order of the day, inserted in the
?,_oniteinistry ar, was
nothing less than a protest on one part of the
Ministry a
his colleaguges
ainst the other. On Tuesday M. Thiers and
•Walraly p lea
, who were in favour of a co-operation, had Pleaded the cause of General Lebeau in the Council ;
ant' M. Thiers had declared that lie would retire, if the dis-
avowal
for
Of a day int,
alMearecl, in the Moniteur, adding that he was going
the country, in order to leave the opponents
the co time for reflection. On his return from
was
c0a4..,-_:.
to Lai, he found the disavowal inserted. What, then,
as a,c, ? . .
cotza_;. - done A decision became urgent, and the
deer': -1 Teat yesterday at Neuilly at one o'clock. M. Thiers
begs, 4r.cd. that to continue . the active co-operation already
tbtal, 'was an imperious duty for France, and. that to aid
be aTovernment of Madrid, no matter what its form might
G.,' against Don Carlos, was the only way of hindering that
avernment from being carried away by the torrent of re-
Volution.l.,,aa The four thousand men, therefore, promised as a
t(Tulurcement to the Foreign Legion, ought to be directed
al"'fards the frontier. The partisans of the other opinion
FLanltained that a portion of the French army ought not to
e alai n,, to the contact of Spanish regiments ; that the
~„ ',eq.% Legiori might be called on to interfere between the
1--eueraa,,
add the ultras, and the co-operation be thus
'orried into an intervention ; and that, at any rate, the
th"atr-ava tadministration ought not to be supported ; that
tr a natadruple treaty did not formally require the sending of
par°2s, and that an army of observation was sufficient. Each
Te,jj'Y Persisting in their opinion, M. Thiers and five of his
agues placed their resignation in the hands of the King.
,ane Council did ',lot end till four o'clock ; and it appears
ip at orders have. been sent to dissolve the military camp at
iokattn M. de Alontalivet can hardly be thinking of remain-
taard-rai "ate from his colleagues on this occasion ; he can
from Y think. that devotion to the Prince can be separated
~n,,d'avot;.on to the country. If there has been more than
alf,-,e anae for regret at what has not been done by the Mi-
,Fel.'s, this retiring explains, perhaps, what they were in-
, tbTe'd to do, and what France might have expected from
al in the interests of liberty.—Constitutionnel.
gr,ie result of the Ministerial crisis has gone further than
ie expected : three Ministers, Messrs. Thiers, Passy, and
aaszet have resigned, and their resignations have been ac-
atel/Lecl: The Journal de Paris states that three others
a.,ve done the sante, and hence M. de Montalivet alone re-
7R.Tr-is, in the absence of M. d'Argout, at the disposal of the
„„''''''''4g. Will he recompose the Cabinet ? Will he form
rhar,..t_ of a new one ? This cannot at present be foreseen.
-6- 1: in the presence of the events of Switzerland and Spain
~at---" the Thiers Cabinet retires ; and it is this very Cabi-
Zt that has perplexed the two questions. The inconsis-
"'neies and rash instructions of M. Thiers have raised
ragainst French diplomacy the indignation of all the cantons ;
the other hand, his apathy three months ago, when
agland proposed an efficacious co-operation for the de-
st.ractioat of the Carlists, has brought on the actual events
6' the -Peninsula. Circumstances were then favourable for
,61,1 intervention ; and if the obstacles which he has lately
..,'"'et vaith have paralyzed his inclination, he might have
've in his resignation then as well as' o-day. Everybody
wool
M' Thiers
at that time have applauded such a resolution, and
:4' ,Thiers would have been thanked for the firmness he
"mud leave shown. But he now retires without causing
aLIY re gret even to the men who seemed the most devoted
to his political fortune, but who have been separated from
Rini lay his late deviations. Here, then, the field is open agoin, to all sorts of ambitions. The Doctrinaires will do
,u they can to get into power again ; they have already
"eta tried in office, but what would happen if they were to
ci
"le in again ? The reaction would be no doubt suffi-
ciently violent to lead quickly to some catastrophe. It is
3arit the right time when the fermentation of the public
ti:raincl is in a paroxysm upon so important a point as Spain,
enrurirsdrierkes
IttY;yrtah,i2nrcotalnivs.ng of France into confusion by putting
the hands of counter-revolutiouists.—
thelt 'ell:let's was for an instant shaken in his opinions by
.so mush' s °f St- Ildefonso, but then returned to them with
Nairwarmth, that he preferred sacrificing his Ministerial
ttar-40 to his principles. The retiring of the Ministry
docatr
iaovrever, be regretted by the friends of progress. All
'bet,. . 4riaa Journals assumed a tone of confidence that
.„
.a3's more than mere pretensions to the Ministerial sue-
•imnsiion a
' tuey have been careful to insinuate that M.
,V,4,sue-
Guizot ;
a .5 opposed on the question of intervention to M.
the
choice his is as much as possible to mark him out for
tightened of
,the Crown. The Crown, however, is en-
h' t',..,ened 11 experience, and will know how to form a Mi-
Ise--,.;" °ut of the limits of that hateful and retrograding
atiegat-;e1 the fall of which was a benefit to the country. It
the added, that the country is reasonably alarmed at
th Instability of Ministerial existence. It has remarked
. - rAt
410 'ae Doctrinaire Cabinet alone enjoyed the
.privilege of.
to !IF career, while all the combinations in which the Li-
. „lia, element prevailed have been broken on shoals more
to be marked out by public opinion. The country wishes
e certain that the bad success of its best friends results
ikot fro'
ceant n anY inherent fatality in the supreme power of the
and ,rY, but rather from circumstances of a personal nature,
4affaairiertssni3 certainty it will begin to acquire if the Doctri-
are once more excluded from the direction of those
to tb, ':ihicli they pretend are a kind of political patrimony tho, .„.em. We have, we think, cause for formally knowing
M. Thiers alone has resigned."—Tenips.
tif, Several Lebeau having been pointed out to the Queen
FrancaPain bY General Harispe, with the approbation of the
,orn Ministry, for the command of the Foreign Legion,
anaaarnitted a very natural mistake in declaring that he was
-..„0„
that ca. by the King of the French to the conimand o
these eerPs• The note of the Moniteur merely
correctedf
terarror, but the President of the Council and those Minis-
at ,who shared in his opinions saw with pain this kind of
Alf :all disavowal inflicted on a brave officer. The question
ail. ending reinforcements met with opponents in the Colin-
tore", Those who were for continuing to orize the ren-
itlitMents of the Foreign Legion insisted nn the danger of
11.10atinn• Spain, and of driving her, by thus solemnly aban-
-1017 g ?ter, into violence and extreme measures ; they asked
~4'e ther, at the moment when the King of England in his
i.e.eeh had invoked the quadruple treaty, the Ministers of
tke,,nce ought to seize the first opportunity of tearing that
could pieces pieces ? The difference of opinion on this point
a4`.(l not be made up, and six of' the Ministers retired, not,
111.1',t Will be perceived, upon the question of intervention,
la 'on that of reinforcement. It was said yesterday even-
,t g;,* that M. de Montalivet was charged by the King to form
to ie-,,w Cabinet, and that proposals have been already made
aeok't ()grit Mole. It was also said that a courier had been
‘,. te Marshal Soult.—lmpartial.
esterday evening the following list of the new Ministry
_as a
'l',
the ,ganded about :--M. Guizot, Interior, and President of
W.'4sancil ; M. Mole, Foreign Affairs ; Marshal Soult,
141,, ' M. Duchatel, Finance ; M. de Remusat, Public
(tIlaAe11; M. de Montalivet, Commerce ; M. Martin
laerae''A°,,l4)! Justice and Public Worship ; Admiral Du-
alirrn; Janne. This Cabinet would thus contain an-equal
agree 4 of Peers and Deputies. M. Thiers is said to have
retirretir, to the idea of the note in the Moniteur, but to have
ed
' TarAoo account of the dissolution of the corps of volun-
P%sed by his Majesty. —La Presse.
tioti € ":Cice d'Alava has refused to swear to the Constitu-
to re°. '°l2. He has resigned his embassy, and is going
Nt're to the neighbourhood of Tours.—illessag2er.
tret.° 43.1;10 can witness the retiring of M. Thiers without re-
Rep
to at war, a e
h "a question of intervention that caused thisn
eessit, 1 token, because everybody had recognised. the e,-
'rig th'' °' completely abandonin.g. Spain, and of withdraw -
th e Vorei,
e we• , on Legion, or of giving to
.the co-operation_ all
•er int efficaciousness of a real th ' Itit and intervention. lathe-
-4 bat
veryeention or co-operation, the difference of the words
414 d tiler important. The question is a very grave. one,
Q eis diffieUlty on all sides. It is certain that inter-
.o4 i
itrli„. n the first instance would have overwhelmed the
tat -", and saved Spain front revolution ; nor would an
erventio
at thn 4 have no i been dishonourable to that country. But
present day
every thing has been changed ;
there is
shouldtheouuer
any central authority in Spain ; and for whom
ttilers to an intervention take place ? Are French sol-
reileh If th.e republic is
ett ? 0 into Spain without knowing for what cause they
proclaimed in Spain, what are
againstagai soldiers to do there ? Are they to intervene
fl all parties at the same time ? After all one na-
it to 43' well help another, but that other must first invite
6Pon SpainB°' Prance has not the mad pretension to impose
has she,il a constitution and form of government ; nor
for 1,041 C ridiculous generosity of pouring out her blood
,0n0t,,,P„ who detest and repel her, for passions that dis-
tthia _ the cause of liberty, nor for parties that perhaps at
aa.`"ment are dethroning the Queen of Spain, her ally.
•Ive be
aid la " e.taisas of intervention at the right tiri:
en to have taken away all pretext for the

revolution, by guaranteeing Spain against the deplorable
return of Don Carlos. The revolutionary spirit is now
unchained. France must now wait to see what that spirit
will do. France will neither intervene for it nor against
it. In the actual state of Spain, in the uncertainty of the
future, this is the only thing to be clone.—Journal des
Debuts.
M. Thiers will now become in the Elective Chamber
the leader of the tiers-parti opposition and of the left, of
the revolutionary and movement opposition upon the inter-
vention question, for which he will have all the sympathies
of the Chamber. It is easy to conceive how embarrassing
would be the fact of M. Thiers coming into the Council
again, hacked by a Chamber demanding intervention. What
sort of a Ministry will they oppose to him ? There must be
a Minister of vigour and resistance in the face of events
such as those of St. Ildefonso. M. Guizot alone will not do ;
M. Persil must be sent for ; and yet in opposition to such
a Ministry resistance is already organising. As for the ma-
jority in the Chamber, will it be found sufficiently compact
and determined ? It is of the last necessity either there
should be an intervention in Spain, but that there is
an unwillingness to execute, or that the Chamber should
be dissolved, which is equally disagreeable. The dissolu-
tion of the Cabinet is so complete that Marshal Maison is
leaving his Ministerial residence, and is going home.
Couriers have been despatched to Messrs. d'Argout and
Soult. It is said that a very sharp explanation took place
in the Council with regard to the orders sent by Messrs.
Thiers and Maison relatiVe to the expedition ; and that
while the number of soldiers was publicly announced to the
diplomatic body as not exceeding 6,000 men, measures were
taken for clandestinely introducing 25,000. The Exchange,
where intervention is unpopular, has struck a last blow
against M. Thiers, by a rise in the funds. The return of
the Doctrinaires is looked on as inevitable.—Gazette de
France.
M. Thiers' post was offered to Count Mole, the other
members of the Cabinet keeping their places. To give
success to this combination, the lifoniteur announced only
the resignation of M. Thiers, and did not repeat the note
of the Ministerial evening journal. But yesterday the
efforts made failed, and several Ministers, among others
Marshal Maison, offered such resistance, and persisted so
firmly in retiring, that this expedient was abandoned. It
was then that M. Guizot was requested to come to Paris,
and he it is that will have the Presidency of the Council,
and be charged to form a new Cabinet.—La France.
PARIS, AUGUST 27.—The Ministry of M. Thiers has
terminated, abruptly too, and under no ordinary circum-
stances. Notwithstanding his repeated offers of resigna-
tion, it is clear that his final retreat from office has been
forced upon him ; that he has not only erred, but offended ;
and that all his courtliness and conservatism have been un-
able to serve him from disgrace. Allow me to state with
frankness what an observer here, like myself, believes to be
the true state of the case :
When the Doctrinaires made the blunder of seeking to
impose their own financial opinions in opposition to those
of M. Humann and the Chamber, the occasion was taken
to trip them up, because they were too arrogant, too full of
their importance as a Parliamentary party, because they
had pretended to have a Prime Minister of their own, and,
through that Prime Minister, direct the foreign policy of
the country : finally, because they were too unbendingly
attached to the English alliance, or, I should say perhaps,
to British ideas of foreign policy.
M. Thiers was chosen in their place, as equally talented,
more popular, and more obsequious. M. Thiers entered
eagerly into certain plans for propitiating Austria, and form-
ing even a matrimonial alliance with that power, if pos-
sible—plans which seemed to the Due de Broglie as fal-
lacious in more ways than one. M. Thiers, however,
adopted it, and, while he did so, remained the idol of the
Court. The Princes took their flight to Germany, and
every regard and wish at the Tuileries followed their pro-
gress, and fed upon their brilliant flattering reception.
" Ah ! hold your peace about the miserabl affairs of
Spain," exclaimed a Minister in the frankness of exulta-
tion ; " what are they compared to the brilliant prospects
which a German alliance holds out ?" At that time—l
state it as a fact, and an important one—the Spanish
Government supplicated the French Government to send
a reinforcement to General Bernell° ; let it be ever so
small, said they, 100 men even, in order to show in North
Spain that we are not abandoned by the French. Yet
this demand was not granted. The co-operation of 100
men was refused.
With the return of the Princes, however, all was changed.
It was evident, at least to M. Theirs, that nothing had
been gained, that the Austrian alliance was a deception,
and that Spain was about to be sacrificed to a chimera. M.
Thiers felt at once his position like a Minister of spirit ; he
felt that he was it the head of a great nation, whose friend-
ship was not to be slighted with impunity, and he resolved
to take his revenge in Spain. If not intervention, at least
co-operation tantamount, was spoken of, promised, acted
upon, and it is impossible to suppose the King of the French
ignorant of the steps and the language held by his Minis-
ters. Meantime the absolutist powers and their agents
were not idle. They were at first loud in their remon-
strances, and on one memorable occasion they employed
their eloquence and menaces as vainly at the Tuileries as in
the Hotel of Foreign Affairs ; they were on that occasion
referred to M. Mars. The diplomatists, however, were
able men, not easily rebutted ; they had all the favours of
the autocrats of the north and east to promise, since me-
naces from these potentates had failed. What they pro-
mised remains a secret that time may disclose. One thing,
however, is certain, viz., that they gained their point ;
that not merely intervention but co-operation was stopped,
and that the fall of M. Thiers was resolved and effected.
And now, who is the statesman that the choice of the
three great Courts would fall on for the post of Foreign
Minister in Paris? Undoubtedly Count Mole. To Count
Mole has been offered the post of Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs, and he has written to M. Guizot to take office with
him. If M. Guizot accepts, he abandons all control over
fbreign policy, and all the ideas on that head supposed to
belong to the Doctrinaires ; he becomes, in fact, a mere
Minister of Police in the Cabinet. Nevertheless, it is
thought that he will accept. His first answer was indeed,
it is said, a demand that the Duke de Broglie should re-
sume the premiership. But this, for the above reasons,
will never be granted. The choice of all places, except
that of Foreign Affairs, is offered to Guizot, and the Fi-
nances for Duchatel. Soult is spoken of for the War De-
partment, and his aid is considered requisite, because the
late revolutions must considerably hurt a large portion of
the French army, and several of its most distinguished offi-
cers. But Montalivet could not sit in the same Cabinet
with Soult ; and therefore M. Guilleminot is spoken of
As for M. Thiers, he is flung into the Tiers-Parti, and
into the attitude of semi-opposition assumed by that party.
The Court will, in consequence, have very serious obsta-
cles to contend with in the ensuing Parliamentary session.
—Morning Paper.