The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-10 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, WoVEMBER 10, 1847.

According to a national adage, a child may play
with an Englishman with impunity—after his dinner.
It is anything but surprising, therefore, that the
allusions to the French Ambassador, made yesterday
evening in the banquetting-room of Guildhall, expres-
sive of a solicitude for the preservation of amity be-
tween ourselves and our Gallic neighbours, should
have been characterised by such bewitching suavity.
The delicacies provided by municipal hospitality were
too flavourous to admit of any other verbal accompa
niments but those of compliment and cordiality. The
Prime Minister would have been a phenomenon of a
physiological kind had he evinced any acerbity of
disposition after such dainty pullets and such gluti-
nous bowls of calipee and calipash. his only exte-
nuation would have been dyspepsia—his only excuse
indigestion. Nor could his Excellency the Due DE
1311061. LE have remained altogether unaffected 132,
those evanescent sensations of friendship which are
ao nually experienced by the civic guests on the 9th
of November. Had the representative of his Majesty
Louts PHILIP?E abstained from responding in lan-
guage of suitable courtesy to the affectionate aspira•
tions of the Lord Mayor of London, we should eel,
tainly have examined the Court intelligence of this
morning for the announcement of his indisposition
by a sudden attack of gastric fever immediately upon
his return overnight to his residence in Manchester-
square. Such a casualty has fortunately b, en ren-
dered improbable by the mutual expressions of con-
sideration exchanged across the table of Guildhall.
Agreeably as this gauge of amity must have pro-
moted the digestion of the banquetters, the recollec-
tion of its shallowness and insufficiency must have
recurred to the more reflective listeners as unplea-
santly as the qualms of a drunkard when sipping his
morning chocolate.
Howevermuch the more sanguine may regard the
speeches of Lord JOHN RUSSELL and the Due DE
13ROGLIR as testimonies of the confidence existing
between the Governments of St. James's and the
Tuileries, it would be preposterous to deny that
those Governments have become latterly and
still
remain
h singularly estranged. That the popula-
tionsen'ti_nt
of the
w
e two countries regard each other with those
domsinhic Christendomalone befit the two greatest king-
equally well Convinced we are satisfied; but we are
that the retrograde policy of-
the King of the Barricades
Ministers of that sympathy h"
deprived his present and reliance which are
alone compatible with the maintenance of international
tranquillity. The diplomatic juggling
the n
ling in the Penin-
sula ; the apathy betrayed towards Popular
nmeoev move-
at
ment throughout Italy ; the manifest
the occupation of Cracow and Ferrara ;
the
infamous interference in the Helvetried'sen-
sions, by smuggling arms and ammunition "
the soldiers of the Sonderhund, the blundersto
of the plenipotentiary at the Rio de la Plata—have all
tended to sap the confidence of the British Govern-
ment in the administration of M. GUIZOT. The de-
praviti.,s which have polluted the atmosphere of the
French capital have formed an appropriate corollary to
these tokens of political turpitude and legislative im-
morality. The peculation of PARMENTIER and his
associates, the false-swearing of EcQUIVILLEY, the re-
fined brutality of BEAUVALLON, and the diabolical
assassination by the infamous Due DE CHOISEUL-
PaesLix, were so many illustrations of that official
tendency to degeneration which has latterly blurred
the History of the Orleans Dynasty, and dissi-
pated the partial feelings of loyalty peculiar to the
subjects of King Louis PHILIPPE. If a live-coal
w
requisite to purify the lips of the prophet, the
lips of GutzoT—one who by his position and genius
should be an Evangelist of Civilization—require a

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