The Sun.
London, England, 1815-09-29 00:00:00

THE M;W TRENCH MINISTERS.

The tlefits, and, 'above all, the fidelity of the
bulie of Fe'frt., says one of the Paris papers, have
lirocured for hnif the suffrages of all the friends of
-the King and The 6nntry, and have even inf-
'posed silence upon those Who are not ; and France
and Europe have -equally applauded the nornina-
iion of the Duke of Richelien to the 'Ministry of
'Foreign Affairs, and the Presidency of the
totmcil.

After the .ex.anni'le of those ancient trench
tni4lits,boln for arms and for gior\', and who,
unable to indnige this generons ambition in a

-countly which enjoyed the delights of mice, went
to offer. their swords to a foreign power; 'atid to
acquire 'the inilitary art tinder experienced Cap.-
the,Unke of Richelieu left France in-early
youth, and accompanied Count Langeron and
Count Roger de Minas to serve under. the stand-
ards
of Suwart-ow, %elle, besieged Itnailow; The.
.i,ntrepid valour of :these: young Vreneb)nen sig-
nalised Itself in this famonssiege, and htcame
the object. of general 'admiration in the Ru2sian

army. . ,
The first trouble's of his cont.:try recalled .the
e from this carer of foreign glory. fie came
to its assistance like a good citizen, lint he atriv-
Fd when good citizens were considered.as enemies.
He for longtime secured the fidelity of the regi-
. ment under his command, and offered to his un-,
fortunate 56Yereign. marks of the most devoted
attachment. In a day celebrated in the annals of
-bur misfortunes, and of the crimes of a sanguinary
faction, lie penetrated to his presence, for the
purpose of affording-hitn salutary warning, through
# thousand obstacles and dangers.
At last, wheW every thing was lost in France,
lie endeavoured, beyond France, to find the means
of • serving his country : and who can censure a
.bole: of Richelieu for placing himself under the
noble banners of the descendants of the great
Conde, rather' then under the bloody standard of
the (.7ommittee of Public Safety.
But when Iris country bad become enslaved by
the name of liberty, he thought it his. ditty to
leave it. He fr:l:iled himself into that foreign
state, in whose artnics he bad first served. In
Russia he Sought an asylum, and he f9und it-his
country. A great Sovereign there knew how to
appreciate his talents and to honour them with his
esteem'. This honourable confidence_ was repay-
ed by the, most 'signal services ; for wird has not,
-heard Of Odessa ?
Family affairs led the Duke to France for a short,
time during the first years of Iltufnaparte's ty-
ranny. The tyrant. offered him eeeryencourAge-
-ment to remain under his Government, and used
• all .his arts- to cajole him, but he kneW how to
avoid the sway,aurt to despise. the faYouts of a
tyrant of his country Who had usurped the Throne
of its king. •

• Soon this throne was miraculously re-esta-
131isbeti, and 70,-de Richelieu hastened to it's ser-
vice. Chtirned by two countries, the one of which
.was sensible of the ser%'ice lie , bad rendered it;
cud the other could appreciate those which it ex-
_peeted from him, he (vas going to decide for
,France: when unfortunate Frairce fell again under
the yoke o!..tlieThurperrand of that faction which
.had prepared the frightful 'rebellion, The, Duke
followed his unfortunate bind to Ghent, where
All the friends Of the Sovereign and of the country
marked him out as the Minister, while those who
;were the friends of ,neither could not even admit
the supposition. While the public was deceived
in its hopes, it continued to cherish them,
.and often asked why the Duke was not Minister,
-nfter it was decided that he should not be so;
fine, to the regret's of not seeing him in the Ad-
.thinistration,was always -mingled a tacit, or ex-
_pressed approbation of the motives which i-c-
-straitted lath from accepting such an appointment.