The Sun.
London, England, 1815-11-10 00:00:00

MORAL.

Who would not prefer a Potiillinti For a 11167
narch, 40 a Ring descended froth a long race of
Lloy,►l ancestors ?
N. 13. 111T.iitAT PENSIONED AUTHORS !"
Oh fie : Mr; Morriing Chronicle ! !

WE:\TFJERCOCKS.

LAN.itifxAis.

'this bentiemaii, Who is Making so conspi-,
cuous a figure at this moment as a Peer of France,
and contributor to the riafriotic columns of the
Morning Chronicle, is a celebrated Weathere
The Journal des .beb tits has noticed some- of file
Inost recent iveringS (see 'kris Strt,; of Wedues-
day), but the following characteristic AinteiloteB
mav not lie inal-aprolio,l at the present period
ALI Jean Denis Lanjtiinais, Was ti Membei• of
the National Convention, where on al I fith Dec.
1792, he-said, " Citizens! the que.,tion with which
we are now occupied, is that of tile expUlsion of
the Targains, of the royal rate this
expulsion, is it to be pronoun Ced ? Yes, Citi-
zens.---*

" I see here -on. one Side sit sincere hatred of
Rovaltv, and on the other the King, and lasi, not
surprized to I)ear.!he head of this el.-decant King
demanded ; for Mit head; all dishonoured as it is,
is', perhaps, still au obstacle to the projcets.of the
ambitious.

" Hasten, then, to unite and destroy the germs
of tyranny" &c.
After this anathetha against tyranny, M. Lan-
juinais became a-Senator, a Buonapartean Count
of the Nmpire, and a Commandant of the Le-
gion of Honour ! !—and in 1814, when Buotta=
parte resigned, he accepted -a peerage from the
King !.! During the last ephemeral usurpation,
he was President of the .Deputies, and Protested
that their dissolution by the King was illegal, but
immediately after undertook to preside at an
Electoral College for returning the new Legis-,-
httore which was-to supersede them !
AU these changes were of course " pour riotre
chere patrie"—for our beloved France, and—tor
the private weal of M.Lanjuinals, a weatnerCock.

COUNT MOLE,

•
Another Weathercock, whose name appears
united with that of a King's :11inister in this
proceedings of the Peers. This Royal Peer was
made.an Auditor of the Council of State bv,Buona-
parte in ISO, a Master of Itequests, and Imperial
Cono.itissary to the Grand Sanhedrin. The Entpe-
rorinrther rewarded his devotion by creating him a.
Counsellor of State, an Officerof the Legion of .Ho.:
-nom., -Director-General of Bridges and Highway's,
Grand Judge, and Minister
.o-f Justice. It did
not suit the King, on his first return, to continue
him in all these offices ; but, by way of compen-
sation-, his Majesty appointed him Member of the
General Council of the. Seine Department.-43no-
naparte next came back—and he re-appointed
this very useful M. Mole •to his post of
Director-General of Bridges and Highways,
&c. —On the .:4th of June last, he
,further.
raised him to .t he dignity of a Peer of France; and
on the 17th of August last, the King, not to be
behin.l-hand in these honourable distinctions-, alsO
made him a Peer of .firunce, and Director of
Bridges, &c. as aforesaid.i
Can it be matter of surprize,the French State.
ITICTI should be ready to serve any 'Amster who ob-
tains the ascendancy, when ever' 'sillaster thus
indiscriminately rewards them ? cou4A.Nole
we doubt not, a very staunch BourholiAt at this-
identical time, but what said he of Rtititiaparre,
after the Russian Caturign, in March, 114 W.•
" If a man of the era of the Medicis or fit Louis
XI V. were. to revisit the earth, and seS unity
wonders, he ‘rould denntntl how marry glorious
reigns, how many ages or peace Witt Ittrzis!ed fo
produce them ;--..you would answer, thAt t weive
years of War, and 0,7 e Man) had ttOex.nplishttl
a. 11"