The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-16 00:00:00

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EVENING EDI EION.

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could not help saving; " I h,'“l certainly ncvsr
psted that fate held in reserve for are so strrnge ald
looked-far a lady's-maid I" lit me welcome you, Mr.
Dupin!
But to come to the point, I absolutely challenge the
learned gentleman ; I am ready to prove, before the cow.
petort authorities, that the copei I sect to Paris, in
order to collect subscriptions for my collections, are
scrupulously correct and verbatim, the counterpart of
the autographs (which are my property,) penned by
Louls-Philippe, with his own hand, during his emigra-
tion, and subsequently during the years he has been
on the Throne, as these ciccuments proceeding from
• Talleyraud's secret papers evidently show. These
on final
documents do not cmsist, as has been falsely represented,
in a few scatteie l scraps, cr demached fragments, but in a
body of letters, memoirs, proclamations, notes, and length.
cued memorandums of both periods of the life of Louis
Philippe of Orleans, where the same train of thoughts
Philips be observed threading its tours. and unfolding itself,
challenged inves:iga_
according as successive events give these thoughts
room
mexpansion. I have sought, courted,
tion (in this land of liberty well understood); any jury er
set of competent indivieluale, would at once level with the
dust the edifice Mr. Dupin has been endeavouring t.) prop
up by means of his wilfully erroneous statements. No
honest man or set of honourable men could for one mo-
ment doubt the evidence that would be produced before
them, as to the undeniable authenticity of al. these papers
in the own hand-writing of Louis Philippe of Orleans),
Tho result of the suit institute" by the Gazette de
France agaist the Massager, ban proved that the Judg a
chose to close their eyes against the truth which stared
them in the face ; tlsv sealed Cieir eyelids, heat, deter-
mined as they were, not to see what was before
them ; the original authentic documents have been
produced; I can produce one hundred more if it

were necessary; but what is the use? the Learned
Judge on the bench would turn away his eyes, and
the Attorney-General would pull off his glasses, no
doubt in order to descant with better case (yet in his mouth
it is somewhat awkward), on the immorality of such pub-
lications, and on the violation of the secrets ofprivate cor-
respondence; it must be owned that there is something
comically absurd in such observations from such a quarter;
and bearing in mind the system by which France is at pre-
sent ruled, it would delight mo much to be told in what
conssts the immorality and violation of confidence
so emphatically insisted upon in the present in-
-fince. Well, well, I see it ;it is necessary for me to
come to the assistance of the Learned Gentleman; none
of these letters or papers were ever addressed to me per-
sonally, as a political publicise ; I purchased here in Lon-
don those relative to the emigr.tion, from a party who was
already the third individual is whose hands they had sue.
ce,•sively passed ; I bought them in order to publish them;
every one will agree with me, that under similar circum-
stances, things ate published day after day, far less curious
or interesting; so we can most resolutely answer the
Learned Attorney-General, that the scandal exists in this
matter, nowhere else than in the opinions, principles, end
Frenchinanlike atrocities expressed in the original letters
cf. Louis Philippe when an emigrant Prince, and subse-
quently continued throughout, in the secret correspondence
of the Ring of the French. This latter collection was
given me, and therefore also became my property for publi-
cation ; consequently the Learned Attorney-General will
allow me to tell him, that in point of morality and scandal,
allowed or disallowed, he is not looked upon by me as a
competent judge.
If, eter all, the head of the French Government Intl
really bre,, very anxious to prove that I had falsified,
imitated, or fabricated wholly or partly his letters, about
which so much has been said, why did he not strike at the
very root of the evil ? instead of seizing the public papers,
throwing the editors in prison, he ought to have attacked
me directly ; he ought at once by legal process to have
compelled me to produce my proofs. Here in London I
would have fearlessly produced them : whereas now, look.
ing at the time elapsed since they were first published, I
have undoubtedly the right to resist such an application;
yet I shrink not from it, and am ready to produce the
proofs whenever legally and properly called upon to do so.
I then, for the last time, again affirm to the public at
large that the letters written during the emigration, ad-
dressed to the Comte d'Entraigues by Louts Philippe, Duke
of Orleans, (28 pages published in London as fee-similes)
that the originals, I repeat, from, which these fac-similes
were struck cff are perfectly authentic, and that all aster.
tiens as to their having been truncated or falsified, are as
egregiously groundless as they are prodigiously absurd.
Further, I attest and declare that the 42 notes and
scraps, proceeding from the private papers of Prince
Tal-
leyrend, are equally authentic, beyond the possibility of a
' doubt or of a question being raised ; all my publications
from 153,5, down to 1839 arc going to be republished, and
a numerous edition of fac-similes will shortly make its
appearance before the public. Isbell give due notice through
the medium of the most widely circulating papers here and
abroad, of the appearance of le volume unique which will
contain one hundred and twenty-six pages, fac-similes of
the writing of Louis Philippe, from one end to the other,
part cf which has been published already, but the other part
never has yet; the whole, being taken from the autographs,
according to the newest and most improved process, will
be, of course, the very counterpart of the original docu-
ments ; the said volume will be preceded by a fac-simile
specimen of the large and small writing of the same indi-
vidual, which specimen will be composed of the most re-
markable and prominent extracts and sentences ; and le
volume unique will further contain some critical as well as
moral strictures, and a comparative view of the two periods
so strikingly diErent from each other, that of the Emi-
gration, and the latter period, namely, the Royalty of the
'Mt of August ; very useful amd piquante disclosures by
" A Statesman," will complete this interesting work,
which it will be my care to entrench and strengthen with
such a mass of evidence, such a host of unanswerable
proofs, that the slightest doubt will not remain one mo-
ment, even with the most sceptical mind.
The well known impartiality of the British press, en-
stares to rue the assistance of those papers in panicular
vho have allowed those articles to be inserted, which
were directed against me, and contained the aspersions,
defamatory abuse, and opprobrious statements which have
been so prodigally lavished upon me; those leading Jour-
nals who have unconsciously been the means of affording
to calumnies cf an unwarrantable description-a most ex-
tensive circulation, will not refuse me what I ask in the
na,ne of common justice—namely, the admission of this
ray declaration in their column 7.
THE CONTEMPORAINE,
Proprietor and responsible Editor of the
" French Caricature" in London, and
of the Fac-simile Correspondence of
Louis Philippe.
24, Tunbridga-place, New-road, opposite Judd-street.
lam credibly informed that Monsieur de St. Aulaire
has positive orders on his arrival in London to institute
proccelings against me and compel my appearance in
Court. Dear me, what unlocked for, unhoped, heartfelt
gratification it will afford me ; it will afford me an oppor-
tunity of appealing to Louis Philippe's Ambassador per-
sonally, producing to his Excellency a fac-simile of an
original letter of his (the Count de St. Aulaire's) with
his signature, at the time he was chairman to the Greek
Committee in 1826. I shall take the liberty to ask the
Ambassador, after he has re-perused his own letter, which
I must admit to be most polite and flattering to myself,
whether in his opinion, it is within the reach of possibility
to produce a fac-si.7.ile excepting from tho original.

LANDLORDS AND LABOURERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlB,—Your remarks upon the suffe7ings of the
labour clas7, cud the blindness of the landowners, reach
the very core of the wronged labourer's heart. You
were strictly right and in point when you mentioned
last night that the selfish conduct of our aristocracy
was occasioning investigation into the right of the ques-
tion ; and should you deem the following remarks
worthy of insertion in your spirited Journal, they ma
be taken as a rude specimen of the conjecturing and
meditation of the labour class.

On what conditions was the land of the United King-
dom given to the ancestors of our near-sighted aristo-
cracy? Every square rare of land had to sustain, when
necessary, a soldier—payment of the army may be
taken as one condition. Each Baron was responsible for
the tranquillity of his district--payment of the police
may be taken as another conditioP.
The wisdom of our ancestors,' in my opinion, was
forcibly shown in making those who reaped the glory,
pr the piper. Now the case is somewhat altered,
capital and labour is not only compelled to pay, but the
profit and honour is retained by the law-makers. Those
law-makers constrain us annually to pay twenty-eight
millions arrcar of army debts, which they, according to
original agreement, ought to have paid themselves ; not
only do they enforce this iniquity, but further, by their
vile monopoly, take full twenty per cent. of the re.
minder from us ; and, out of all this justice, should
any of us be enabled to SetVa a portion of our toil, those
law-makers, at our death, grasp a considerable share ;
while their own real properly remains unscathed.
This shocking conduct is filling the breast of every
workman, who reads, with indignation ; it is in vain to
tell them the population of England excAstis its eapi.
tal. They ask what is capital ? Awl say, give it a fair
n? No. to
h go
is
field and' no favour, and it ;yin become like the sixty
millions recently sunk in railroads. speedily turned into
a hundred millions. What portion of capital is defi-
cient, which constralhsls
it weoctottotiol
spinner
idle,
cold, and hungry ?
ehinery ? No. Is it want of money, providing there
was a profitable demand ? No, for hundred of moneyed
men arc eager for such an opportunity.
What is it,
then ? Want of demand alone. Who is it that shuts
out this demand ?
Mr. Editor, we of the working; class know too much,
or too little ; we must vary shortly have heavenly jus-
tice, or dark, dark dcn)o!igin.
resr) Le,tf U v,
\Val nesJay.
A TIN-PLATE WORKER.

, HE I\Ew WORK BY TIIE AUTIIOR OF
" "EmAINE." —<< Uo Clifford" i 3 a sterling work—a
work not
to he Ferused and dismissed in a breath, but to
be red a'id studied again and again. It is not for the
story but fir the fine celinotion cf the movement of the
human hen, t, for the striking descriptions of eminent
Heal and ci..itinguished persons; for the great knowledge
of life, and men, and things, displayed in every part; for
just reflections on events which belong to all periods; for
vio•orou.; opinions on celebrated authors and the tendency
of their writiq!s ; and, nbov,, all, for un el( vated, wanly,
and nr?ral tone <alculated to, diicoura!:e vice nod inspire
vik.tae in cvrry walk and relation of life. This, v .luau's
will lung continue to be an ornament t the polite liters-
tore of our time.—Lilcron y Gazette.
BRISTGL SU3AIt MARKET, APRIL 14+.—.
Tiro brokers' offices having teen closed since Saturday for
the Easter holidays, w- have no business to report this
week, but, up to that th:y, the buyers evinced a decided
disinclination to buy colonial produce of any kind, and the
few sale:i made were at reduced prices.—Bristol Gazette.