The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-09 00:00:00

SPAIN.

(From the Madrid Gazette of August 31.)
EXPOSITION ADDRESSED TO HER MAJESTY
THE QUEEN-REGENT BY THE MINISTER
FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT.
SENORA,—Your Secretar-5; of State for the Despatch of
the Government of the Kingdom, on examining the state
of the affairs committed to his charge, could. not fail to
give to them, in reviewing them in his mind, more or less
preference, in order to subject them to the plan of reform
which justice and the public advantage require, according
to their greater or less importance. He regards two points
as the most material and as the basis with which are con-
nected, and upon which repose, the ulterior administrative
operations and the salvation of the country ; and these are,
first, reform as to the occupants of official situations, by fill-
ing them up with officers who are persons of intelligence,
and at the same time patriots irrevocably pledged to the
cause of liberty and the throne ; and next, the reinforce-
ment and better organization of the National Guard. 'With
a numerous and well-regulated civic force, and with per-
sons employed in the public service corresponding to the
wishes and the wants of the nation, every thing is easy,
and every thing may be executed with the greatest promp-
titude, firmness, and safety.
As to the appointment of persons to public employ-

merits, the Secretary of Despatch, who has the honour to
address this respectful represenstation to your Majesty, will
ever be decidedly averse from any impulse which may not
have for its foundation justice, and for its object the better
servLes of your Majesty and the country. The, constitu-
tion of 1812 being, re-established, justice will require the
replacing in their employments all the persons who then
served the country with patriotism and integrity, and who
with honour and glory, though unsuccessfully, defended to
the last moment expiring liberty. But it may easily be
conceived, that exceptions must be made in this rule when
the experience which the vicissitudes and disclosures of the
epoch afford demands them. There might be found per-
sons who then perfectly fulfilled their duty, but who after-
wards in some period of our political transformations forgot
it, for such instances contemporary history presents, as, in
all revolutions there are examples of weakness and de-
fection.

Others there ate, who with the best inclinations are
now deficient in energy, incapable of resuming that
spirited and vigorous attitude which the existing circum-
stances require, because age has damped or extinguished
their activity, and opposes an invincible obstacle to the
efforts which their good disposition would induce them
to make. Those persons, then, who were employed
under the constitutional system, who have remained faith-
ful to the cause of liberty, and who are still capable of
serving it with advantage, ought to be reinstated in their
situations. Those who have to be chosen to fill up the
great vacancy which will remain, and complete the supply
of official situations, must be distinguished patriots, whose
ideas are on a level with that progressive opinion which
forms the national spirit, and who know how to act in har-
mony with it. These measures, founded in strict justice
and the true interest of the state, cannot give cause for
either dissatisfaction or complaint with such as prefer the
public welfare and the national liberties to the calculations of
individual advantage and the instigations of ambition.
With respect to the National Guard, it must be acknow-
ledged, that in consequence of the culpable indifference with
which it has been regarded, it is now as deficient in order
and organization as it is surpassing in courage and pa-
triotism. From these dispositions, however flattering as
may be the hopes they inspire, all the advantage they might
afford cannot be derived, and they will often yield only a
vain and barren show of advantage if a well-combined or-
ganization does not regulate their movements, and if that
controlling direction which gives life to every plan and every
effort calculated to produce a favourable result is not
oestraliied. The first thing, then, to be done is to
augment the National Guard according to the provisions
of the decree of the Cortes of 1822, now re-established
in all its authority and force ; and the second, to perfect
the organization of that Guard in the form which may best
insure its discipline, and render it capable of affording the
prompt and efficient service which is the great object of its
institution. On these principles, Senora, the petition of the
Estamento of Procuradores of the 21st of April was founded,
and from them will proceed all the decrees and provisions
which the Secretary for Despatch of the Affairs of the King-
dom may have the honour to propose to your Majesty in the
two branches of the public service here indicated, and of
which the following form part :
ROYAL DECREE RESPECTING THE GRANT-
ING OF EMPLOYMENTS.
" The Secretary for the Despatch of the Affairs of the
Kingdom, in appointing to employments in his department,
shall punctually observe the spirit of the order of the Ge-
neral and Extraordinary Cortes of the 12th of April, 1812,
by proposing to me for those employments only such per-
sons as are notoriously attached to the Constitution of the
Spanish Monarchy, and who, by being identified with liberty,
give solid guarantees of faithfully serving the good cause in
the discharge of their duties to it. You will let this be so
understood, and make the necessary provisions for the exe-
cution thereof'.

" Under the Royal Sign Manual.
" Palace, Aug. 30, 1836.
" To Don Ramon Gil de la Cuadra.'

"ROYAL DECREE FOR THE RECRUITING AND
BETTER ORGANISATION OF THE MILITIA.
" Beirr, desirous that the National Militia of the whole
kingdom, destined to serve for the support of liberty and of
public security and tranquillity, may by means of the most
suitable organization attain the state of perfection which
the importance and interests of these objects demand, I
have resolved, in the name of my august daughter, Donna
Isabella 11., to issue the following decree :
" Art. 1. The political chiefs of all the provinces shall
endeavour, with the greatest activity and zeal, and widi all
the means which the law places at their disposal, to aug-
ment the number of the National Militia in their respective
districts, subjecting themselves entirely to the tenour of the
Royal Decree of the Cortes of June 29, 1822, recently or-
dered to be re-established.
" 2. There shall be established a general inspection of
National Militia, dependent on the Home Department,with
a sub-inspection for •ach province, which shall co-operate in
the regulation and organization of this force. The appoint-
ment of the Inspector-General shall be by the Crown, and
the sub-inspectors shall be appointed from a ternary list pre-
sented to the Minister of the Home Department by the
Inspector-General.
" 3. The provisional deputations, having before them
the returns of the force in each district, shall, in concert
with the sub-inspectors, organise the National Militia in
divisions, brigades, battalions, and companies, with their
corresponding staffs:
" 4. All authorities and public officers whom the execu-
tion of this decree may concern, are charged with its prompt
and punctual observance, under the most rigorous responsi-
bility which will be exacted in the unlooked-for case of
omission or negligence. You will, &c.
" Under the Royal Sign Manual.
" Palace, August 30.
" To Don Ramon Gil de la Cuadra."

" EXPOSITION TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN

REGENT.

" Senora,—At the present moment, when there is scarcely
a Spaniard who is not convinced of the imperious necessity
of resorting without delay to new and energetic means for
terminatinc, this fatal war, the origin of all our misfortunes,
and the obstacle° to the welfare of country, the Go‘wn-
ment of your Majesty, aware of the extent of the present
disasters, and feeling the insufficiency of ordinary remedies,
would betray the august confidence of your Majesty, de-
fraud the hopes of the nation, and disappoint its most
ardent wishes, by confining itself within the limits which
mark periods of order and tranquillity, and refusing to rise
to the level of circumstances which surround it.
" Those circumstances are certainly most serious and
difficult. The Cortes, convoked for the end of October,
cannot at the present moment (when not in existence) lend
the support of their vast power ; nor, even were they con-
voked. is there reason to hope that they would have the
power and freedom to apply remedies which, moreover,
require time to produce good fruits. Meanwhile the dan-
gers of the war are daily increasing, both through the bold-
ness with which the rebels carry on their operations, and
the great loss of men and money. Therefore we must
either remain insensible to the misfortunes of our situation,
which not only banish the peace and tranquillity for which
the people sigh, but retard and compromise the consolida-
tion of our institutions, or we must not hesitate to adopt
measures which, however much they may at first sight
appear to cost, carry with them the certainty of putting a
period to the state of agitation and difficulty in which we
have been living for three years past.

That the object of the Governnient is the happiness of
the nation is a sublime maxim, which existed in all political
societies before our law proclaimed it as a sacred principle,
towards which should be aimed all the acts and thoughts of
those who are empowered to direct nations and lefend their
interests. Bearing in mind that maxim, your Majesty
must not shrink from employing all the resources which the
nation presents for averting the crisis which a combination
of old standing evils has created ; nor must the responsible
advisers of the Crown fear to point out to your Majesty
athtteacsktiantg.e,thaend tplrieeyionigilyonrtehrine gangrene which is
which threatens
to work its way to the Crown, if the remedies be longer
delayed. remedies
siborf
" The two Royal decress of the 26tli of this month, for
rendering the National Militia disposable, and making a
levy of 0,009 men, fully satisfy all the neceoities pf etlr
pje-
eirC siOa'tion, iaasapic,ii is thtx secure ylie tiiuniphof 'our
arms over the hordes of fanaticism. 134 victory is achieyo
not by foFee only tOyee, tar frOa being usefol ;Jo roll-
-tlepytperel Wires `wheel the means re wqntiti tq it4l-

tali it with unremitting vigour) to embarrass and render
difficult the attainment of its object.
" Neither must the whole attention of the Government
be limited to providing the army regularly with all that is
necessary for maintaining them in the path of victory.
With it we shall destroy the enemies of the country ; we
shall stern the blood which flows from the nation's wounds ;
we shall win for it that repose which the restoration of
strength produces ; but its re-establishment and the re-
covery of vigour will be impossible if, by devoting ourselves
to the most urgent duties, we neglect others which are not
less vital.
" It is not enough, Senora, that succour should be con-
veyed to the army methodically and with punctuality. It
is also necessary that all the branches of the public service
should receive the aids which will secure their proper ful-
filment ; that the obligations on the Treasury for expenses
already incurred should not be left in a state of lamentable
neglect as to all provision ; and, above all, the payment of
the rents of the public debt, both domestic and foreign, is
of indispensable urgency. Even though credit were not a
vital clement among modern nations, and the most fruitful
resource for overcoming and relieving them from the con-
flict of painful though transient circumstances, yet the good
faith of your Majesty's Government, and the national
honour, would always consider a duty of the highest im-
portance the religious fulfilment of the obligations contracted
with the creditors of the State. Their debts are no less
sacred, in our opinion, than the necessities of the army ;
and, conceiving that we cannot give the one a preference
over the other, we place them on the same level, in order
that they may go hand in hand.
" Therefore, there is entered in our calculations the sum
of 100,000,000 reels, which, between October and No-
vember next, was to be applied to the payment of the inte-
rest of the debt, domestic and foreign, in order that the
fortunes may not be compromised of an incalculable num-
ber of national and foreign creditors, and in order to sepa-
rate from the credit of the country the disasters and the
ruin which, in a contrary event, would engender such la-
mentable events, both present and future.
" On a computation of all the sums the Government will
require in order to fulfil the obligations contracted for the
five months from the first of September to the 31st of next
January, there appears a deficit which 300,000,000 reels
will make up. The Government calculating at the same
time its usual resources, viz., the produce of the rents, the
ordinary contributions, and the special revenues on which it
may count, consisting in the payments for exemption from
actual service in the army and the disposable national
militia, and in the sale of the edifices which serve as mo-
nasteries and convents for the suppressed religious com-
munities, of their church lands, and of the surpluses of
their ornaments, goods, and chattels, believes upon good
data, that to cover the said deficit an advance of 200,000,000
reals will be sufficient. And it believes that in this way
may be satisfied, without danger to the State, the most
peremptory obligations during these five months, and in
the mean time the Cortes can consider of and adopt the
measures demanded by the circumstances of the moment,
which, doubtless, will be less painful from the cheering as-
pect the state of the army will then present, and from the
increased facilities which will then arise for applying with
good effect the powerful resources of the public credit.
" The Government, imbued with this conviction, has
the honour to submit to the august sanction of your Ma-
jesty two draughts of decrees. The first directs the return
to the national Treasury of the proceeds of the sales of the
edifices which served for the habitations of the religious
communities, of the lands, ornaments, goods, and chattels,
belonging to their churches, and which are not compre-
hended in the exceptions of the Royal decree of the Bth
of March of the present year. But even though it should
be considered that these resources correspond to those
designated for that important object, it must be admitted
that the interest of the consolidated debt should be satisfied
with the means expressly designed for it, and that now the
nation expects this duty from the Board of 'Public Credit
with the resources which its ordinary revenues afford.
" In the other decree an advance of 200,000,000 reals is
asked of the nation, realizable by monthly payments, which
will have to take effect on the first days of the months of
October, November, December, and January ensuing ; and
to be repayable in quarterly portions, or in the proportion
of 50,000,000 in four successive years, to count from next
year, 1837, and with interest at 5 per cent. per annum.
The Government will assess this sum on all the provinces
of the kingdom, in proportion to their respective wealth,
acting on the most recent and authentic data. The pro-
vincial deputations, acting in accordance with the com-
missions of armament and defence, will make a repar-
tition of their quota among the towns and individuals
comprehended in their province, tempering the ends of
justice with regard for the importance of the public service.
The intendants will collect the individual quotas, and those
who come forward and pay in anticipation will receive ac-
knowledgments from the Treasury for the repayment,
which they may either pay in lieu of the taxes of the cur-
rent year, or pass as metallic money.
" Such is the extraordinary effort which the Government
thinks must inevitably be required- of the nation. First in
order (perhaps it may be the only one)„ since we are en-
gaged in the present struggle, will at least be to annihilate
the factions, against which the whole country desires that
sufficient forces and means should be collected to achieve
in a short period its complete destruction. The public
opinion demands this effort, and looks to it as the only ade-
quate means of saving the country and putting an end to
the present desolation and misfortunes. In no other way
can the public credit of Spain be re-established, and in no
nobler way can we show to Europe that we are as resolved
to defend the constitutional throne of Isabel 11. as to fulfil
the obligations of our debt. Taking the obligations of the
debt in conjunction with the support of our army, by the
time we overcome the terrible crisis in which we are now
involved, we shall infuse new life into the national credit,
now so much dilapidated on the one hand by the exaggera-
tions of bad faith, and by excessive timidity on the other.
" In conclusion, Senora, the advance your Government
proposes to your Majesty is not a means disused even in
times less critical ; nor will the nation fail to know that
none can be less severe in its form nor less temperate in its
character. Just and necessary in its principle, the Cortes
when congregated will adopt it, and the Government would
commit a grievous error if it were slow in carrying it into
execution ; because the Constitution, the Throne, Liberty
—all is threatened, and all may perish, if instant exertion
is not made to save them. Not only formulas, but the
laws themselves, are silent when a nation's existence is
threatened, the first right of the people, and the first obli-
gation of their governors.
" Madrid, August 30, 1836.
" Senora,—At the Royal feet of your Majesty,
" JOSE MARIA CALATRAVA.
" RAMON GIL DE LA CUADRA.
" JOSE LANDERO.
" MARIANO EGEA.
THE MARQUIS DE RODIL.
" ANDRES GARCIA CAMBA."

ROYAL DECREES.
" Whereas it is necessary to apply to the increased ex-
penses of the war as many resources as can be raised with-
out detriment to the public, and considering the necessity
of increasing the means which may be produced by the ex-
emptions from military service spoken of in my Royal
decrees of the 26th of this month, and those which must
positively be yielded by the advance of 200,000,000 reals,
according to my other decree of this date; iu conformity
with the opinion of my Council of Ministers, and in the
name of my august daughter, the Queen Donna Isabel 11.,
I have resolved to decree as follows
" Art. I.—There will enter into the public Treasury all
the proceeds which may be obtained from the sale of the
edifices which compose the monasteries and convents of
the religious communities of both sexes suppressed by my
Royal decree of the Bth of March of this year, and which
may not be applied to the objects provided for by its
articles 22 and 24 ; the proceeds of the lands which after
the demolition of the said edifices it may be judged proper
to alienate, for they have no other destiny than what the
public comfort and convenience require ; and also the pro-
ceeds arising from the sale of the building materials.
" 2. Equally will be paid into the Treasury of the nation
the proceeds of the sale of the lands of all the churches of
the suppressed monasteries and convents, with the exception
of some few which the diocesan prelates claim for the ser-
vice of polishes in their respective dioceses.
" 3. Also the proceeds of the sale of all the ornaments,
goods, and chattels, which having belonged to the suppressed
religious
communities, are without destination, or remain
superfluous after the fulfilment of the provisions of the ar-
ticles 23 and 25 of my Royal decree above cited of the Bth
of March of this year.
" 4. I fully authorize my Government to deliberate and
take all the measures which may be necessary for the prompt
and complete execution of this my Royal decree, in which
object they may avail themselves of the 3. oal and ki.etvledge
of the commission of patriotic gifts and of resources, and
means for Ow speedy termination of the war. Let this be
understood, and What is necessary for its fiulfilment done.
" Under the Royal Sign Manual.
•
" In the Palace, Aug. 30, 1836.
To Don Mariano Egea."

.onvinced of the urgent and indispensable necessity of
collecting, by extraordinary means, the necessary funds for
supplying with regularity the great expenses occasionnd by
the war, and the fresh expenses which in R 4140 kn-r**l will
be incurred by the increase of til I.)W.t,Ao,riciAi kree of the
ac:mp:a;csi:it:ertoit:, tpitir,b,:i ic. f 4s -$110,1,1d be re•alized it) the
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li'z-4,i IL(1;1[1 pprmittea anuor actual Qll'o4llAstauces, and
i.o the tc:drms most' conformable to 60 po.eNill wish and the
Toni.:., and kAc.ing, tho liillest confi-
dence in'the efforts of ibis cohle nation, and in its declared
determination not to waive any saorice to insure a triumph
in the pt*%4 which i 4 5411* au with kio luch pertinacity,

and on the speedy and happy termination of which depends
the consolidation of the liberties and of the constitutional
hrone of the Spains ; after the most mature examination
and deep deliberation in my Council of Ministers, and con-
formably to their unanimous opinion, in the name of my
august daughter, the Queen Donna Isabel I 1., I have re-
solved to decree as follows :
" Art. 1. There shall be made by the nation an advancl
of 200,000,000 reals vcllon, reimbursable in the manner and
at the epochs which shall be specified.
" 2. On adjustment of the most certain data, or shell as
afford the greatest degree of confidence as to correctness,
the Government will make a repartition of this sum among
the whole of the provinces of the monarchy, according to
the present civil division, assigning to each the amount
which it 'will have to provide.
" 3. The provincial deputations, in concert with the con-

missions for armament and defence, established by my Royal
order of the 25th of this month, will distribute the reparti-
tion of the amount for each province among the towns and
individuals, adopting the- mode which may be found most
convenient, and endeavouring to conciliate as far as possi-
ble the celerity of the payment of individual quotas with
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justice.
" 4. These payments shall take place in four portions, on
the Ist of October, Ist of November, Ist of December, and
Ist of January next ensuing.
" 5. All individuals who may anticipate the whole of
their respective quotas before the two first instalments,
shall by so doing receive a discount ; those who pay before
the Ist of October 6 per cent., and those who pay before
the Ist of November 4 per cent.
" G. The payments may be made in the same manner
to the public treasuries of finance in the provincial capitals
as in the district depositories.
" 7. The deputations shall transmit to the respective
intendants lists of the persons who in each district have
been comprehended in the repartition, in order that the
collection of the assigned quotas may be made in the same
manner as the produce of the public revenue.
" 8. The advance of these 200,000,000 reals shall en-
joy an annual interest of 5 per cent., paid half-yearly in the
provincial capitals.

" 9. The reimbursement of the advance of 200,000,000
reals shall be affected in four portions is the years 1837,
1838, 1839, and 1840—that is to say, that in each of those
years 50,000,000 reals shall be reimbursed.

" O. This reimbursement shall be obtained through the
medium of national Treasury bonds, which shall be receiv-
able as money in payment of all public taxes ; the bonds
corresponding to the fourth part, or 50,000,000 for the
year 1837, from the Ist of March of the same year : and
those appertaining to the other three years from the Ist of
January of each year.

11. The Treasury bonds shall be prepared in such
manner, that not only will their conversion in payment in
taxes and the receipt of their interest be easily accomplished,
but their free circulation from hand to hand, as if they
were metallic money, will also be facilitated. You will let
this be understood, &c.

Under the Royal Sign Manual.

" Palace, August 30.
" To Don Mariano Egea."

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS OF

WEDNESDAY.

'he English Alliance is extinct. Reduced this some

time past to a mere shadow by the exact balance observed
by the French Government between the succours furnished
to Christina and those permitted to reach Don Carlos, it
has been suddenly broken by the refusal of Prance to
continue its co-operation, whilst England as formally con-
tinues the co-operation of its fleet.—National.
" Of the 40 persons arrested since Sunday, on suspicion
of a conspiracy, the greater number have been interrogated,
and some set at liberty. This affair is said to be connected
with that of the Impasse, St. Sebastian, which we men-
tioned a few days ago, when eleven men were arrested
while seated round a table after a funeral, and some
packets of cartridges were seized. This was learned
from the confessions of two prisoners, Pasquier and Bocage,
who were consequently separated from the rest, and sent to
the Conciergerie. Four others were conducted to the prison
of La Force, and the rest remained confined at the Prefec-
ture. According to reports, Bocage, who kept the house
in the Impasse, St. Sebastian, where the arrests were made,
was for a long time employed by the police as one of its
agents. When the man was arrested at the wine-shop of
M. Guigne, in the Rue Valois Batave, two muskets were
seized, but M. Guigne has proved that they belonged to
him, and they have accordingly been ghien up. The ru-
mour of several soldiers having been arrested, in conse-
quence of the discovery of a plot for an insurrection of the
garrison, it is to be attributed to the fact that several sol-
diers who had not gone to their homes, although they
had furloughs, were conducted under arrest through the
streets and over the Pont Neuf to the prison of the Ab-
baye."—Droit.

A letter from Pau says :—" The three new battalions
intended to go into Spain, being complete, have been in-
spected, and a fourth battalion is forming as a reserve.
The two batteries of field artillery and mountain guns to be
added to these battalions have also been inspected. The
arrival of Carlist officers and men at Pau, requecting, to be
admitted into this service, is a proof of the disunion of that
party. Villareal, the chief of all that are assembled in the
Basque provinces and in Navarre, is at open war with the
Bishop of Leon, who represents the Castilian party, which
is detested by the mountaineers. Amidst these conflicts,
Don Carlos has become no longer the rallying standard,
and such Spaniards as are competent to judge rightly of
his position believe that he will re-embark, if any vigorous
measures are taken against him."
The Dianie of Saragossa, of the 29th ult., contains the
following :—" The Commandant-General of the Merindad.
of Tudela, writes that in the afternoon of the 26th, be-
tween five and six o'clock, Don Basilio, after a forced march,
passed the Rincon de Soto with only 1,800 infantry and
100 cavalry. His recruits had dispersed, and a great
number of his new soldiers were daily coming into the vil-
lages. Don Basilio plunders and burns at his leisure as he
goes along ; but he has been harrassed by the National
Guards at Cervera, who have taken several prisoners from
him. He has shot every deserter he has arrested. Irri-
barren, who is at Peralta, having received timely warning,
kept himself ready to act. The National Guard's of Filero
and Seto have not been disturbed."

The Garde National of Marseilles of the 2d inst. says :
Marshal Clausel has embarked for Algiers, at Port
Vendres, in the steam-vessel the Styx, which put into Bar-
celona on her way, where M. Blanchet, the Consul-General
of France, had an interview with the Marshal. Our ac-
counts from Valencia come up to the 24th ult. The town
was then quiet. The French Consul, M. Gautier d'Arc,
having declined illuminating his house when the Constitu-
tion was proclaimed, had his windows broken by the soldiery.
M. Gautier demanded reparation f 0.,. this insult ; and, in
consequence, the battalion whiPl had committed it was con-
fined to its barracks, and 4200 instigator put under arrest."
The Augsbuq azette states, after a letter from Berlin,
dated the 2607, ult., that the Northern Courts will probably
cease ap aiplomatic intercourse with Madrid ; and that in
th;:s ease their representatives will leave that capital, and
the Ministers of Queen Christina to the said Courts will
have passports delivered to them.

. .
The Prussian Stale Gazette announces that a proclama-
tion has appeared at St. Petersburgh, dated the 21st ult.,
ordering, for this year only, a general levy of recruits
throughout the whole of the Russian empire. The reason
of this measure is stated by the proclamation to be the
too great diminution of the numbers of the regiments, in
consequence of the privilege of unlimited furlough granted
to soldiers who have conducted themselves well during 20
years' service, and the prejudice resulting to the state by
the consequent unequal distribution of the levies. The
proclamation, therefore, orders that 5 recruits shall be or.
dered out of every 1,000 males of the total population of
the empire, and that all the laws relating to the levying of
recruits shall this year be observed strictly. The Cossacks
and the military colonies of cavalry are not excepted. J3es•
sarabia and Grousia only are to enjoy that favour,

COUNT MOLE-THE NEW PREMIER,
OF FRANCE.

Count. Mole, born in 1780, saw his father, a superior
Judge of the French Parliament, perish on the revolu-
tionary scaffold. They were descendants of the famous
Mathieu Mole, the President, who braved and awed the
populace during the Fronde, Count Mole published early
a life of his celebrated ancestor, as well as a volume of lite-
rary essays, that but very recently procured for him the
honour of becoming a member of the Institute. Those
young soions of remarkable families, who did not repudia,i3
his reign, were sure to be noticed by Napoleon. a the
Emperor gave Count Mole his political educat;-0 h-yn k-
ing him pass through the different mradrs of the Conseil
d'Etat. He became administrator
and in 1813, Minister of qot.' roads and bridges,
with the Government
hst'ce. In 1814, he coquetted
but shrunk from apoleon, at first accepted office,
going on with it, and refused to sign the
declar4tin that Napoleon drew up.' Nevertheless, after
tb." second restoration Messrs. Talleyrand and Pasquier
put his name on the list of Peers. The following anecdote
is from the Ilistoire de la Restoration :
`` When Louis XVIII. read the name of M. Mole on
the list he effaced is instantly, saying M. Mole served
Bonaparte in the Hundred Days ; his name should not be
on this list. M. de Talleyrand took up the pen and handed
it back to the King, saving, your Majesty cannot refuse to
re-write the name just effaced, it is the memory of Mathieu
Mole that demands it. Louis XVIII. took the pen, and
re-wrote the name of Count Mole in the list of Peers.

Count Mole next appears as the bosom friend and bro-
ther Minister of the Due de Richelieu, of him whom, the
Emperor Alexander promoted from the place of Governor

of Odessa to be Prime Minister of France. During that
period Count. Mole, as Minister of Marine, wore Russian
livery. And the 'question now to be 'asked is—has he
changed? It may be here observed, that it is unfair t o
argue from a man's opinions in 1817 to his opinions in
1837 ; and that if M. Mole, the Bonapartist of 1813, be.
came the Royalist of 1617, with greater ease can the par.
tisan of a Gallo•Russian alliance twenty years back be the
friend of an Anglo-French alliance at present. Then it
may be sail that there are not ten persons in France fit for
the office of Foreign Minister.
One thing is certain, that Count Mole is a timid and
circumspect man, and so fearful of committing himself ,
that his tenure of office will probably have elapsed ere he..
has arrived at taking one decision. Count Mole is thus
by nature an anti-interventionist. The tide of revolutions
may roll near and around him, he will be sure to wait, like
the rustic, till the river shall have flown past, :And left foot-
ing fir►rk and dry.
These qualities, we should think, should have secured
for Count Mole the confidence of the Parisian monio d
class. But his supposed leaning to Russia, rather than
to England, produced a fall in the French Funds on
Wednesday.