The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-15 00:00:00

THE KING OF THE FRENCH.

The Gazette de France publishes letters which it
declares to be written in 1808 by the present King of
the French. In these letters the Duke of Orleans
shows himself naturally attached to England, and op•
posed to Bonaparte ; and it is for this reason that the
Carlist print publishes them. The principal letter is
dated Palermo, April 17, 1808. Its chief burden is
the difficulties thrown in the way of the Prince seeing
his mother, who was at Minorca ; and shows how large
a part his family affections bore in the life of the Duke
of Orleans.

" I detest the life of an emigre," he writes, " and am
doubly enraged to be condemned to the humiliation of
inutility and vegetation, when I see so clearly what I
could do were people to come to an understanding with
me, instead of keeping me a prisoner at Hampton Court
or Twickenham. lam a French prince, and an English-
man also—for what country but England can protect
me ?—besides being English in principles, opinions, and
habits. Still lam not English in the eyes of foreigners.
They do not listen to me with the same mistrust that
they listen to an English General ; and I might bring
about that conciliation and good intelligence which has
caused the failure of so many enterprises in which the
English have joined. I might be useful on the continent,
instead of being a burden—driving my curricle from
Hampton-court to London, and from London to Hamp-
t on-eourt."

The writer regrets not having had a frank confe-
rence with Mr. Canning on the affairs of Sicily, " the
unfortunate affair of Prince Leopold having spoiled all."
The following views on the state and policy of the
war at that period proves bow fully the writer under-
stood them :

" Austria has sent an officer here (Palermo). I have
spoken with him. Austria has 420,000 men, without
counting the militia. But, then, will they dislocate their
armies. They are sending 120,000 men to Poland under
the Archduke Ferdinand. Why send a single man to
Poland ? To drive the French out of Saxony, and pay a
compliment to Russia, and show its own disinterested-
ness. The compliment will cost dear. Such compli-
ments are not to be made with impunity before
Bonaparte. He never makes any one complimen's.
He concentrates his forces on the weakest point of the
enemy, and when sure of victory at the important point
—when, in fact, he has pulled the key-stone from the
arch—everything tumbles to ruin, and he triumphs
everywhere. It is on Bonaparte you should concentrate
your forces. If you don't beat him, 1'20,000 won't
beat the King of Saxony. If you do beat him, a picket
of 120 men will annihilate the Grand Duchy of War-
saw. The fault is greater, since there are great hopes
from Russia, although I do not share in these hopes.
But I would not have a man less in the armies of Ger-
many and Italy. The Grand Duke alone is mistrusted.
It is feared he will adhere to Bonaparte. Austria
wishes to aggrandize the King of Sardinia, to give him
Genoa, Milan, and Lombardy, Austria taking merely
Venice and Mantua. Bavaria, it is hoped, is disgusted
with Bonaparte, who took Wurtemberg's part against
Bavaria, and who has offered to restore the Tyrol to
Austria. The Archduke Ferdinand is to have Modena.
There is one little state that no one will have, viz., the
lonian Islands. The Queen bade me establish myself
there. I have no objection, if permitted. England
went twice there, and has declared to the deputies at
Malta she does not want to provide a garrison. But
the islands themselves would furnish troops if there was
an active Prince to govern them. Nay, a corps might
be raised there to act on Italy or Turkey whenever
Turkey shall fall asunder ; the moment of this is not
distant, and England ought to be prepared for it. The
Russians don't want the Seven Islands either ; they
cost them too dear. A grand English expedition is
expected. It ought to go to North Italy, disembark
at Genoa, &c." _ .

Another letter is dated Cagliari, May '2O, of the
same year. It commences with the news of the Arch-
duke John having beaten Beauharnais, the Tyrol being
evacuated, and of the high hopes entertained of the suc-
cess of the Archduke Charles :

" The campaign of Suwarroff has overthrown the Di-
rectory, but it has opened a way to the throne for Bo-
naparte, because they have not profited by this great
event to re-establish legitimate monarchy. It is a fault
which they must have regretted sufficiently to take this
time measures to preserve it. The English Government,
master of the sea and of all the riches of the world, is
and ought to be the central point, the soul of all those
armies which are now rushing upon the Imperial Co-
lossus. No power can do without its subsidies to make
war ; thus, as long as they are in a state to resist France,
the English Government will always have a larger influ-
ence upon their political conduct than the others upon
each other. But England must feel her power, and
make use of it, as much for her own safety as for that
of Europe. She must take in hand the great question
of the overthrow of Bonaparte ; she must decide and
speak : for if she leaves to each Cabinet, to each indi-
vidual, the care of making its little plan of political
campaign, we shall have no doubt millions, and conse-
quently we shall have none, and the change will nei-
ther be so complete nor so firm as if it had been the re-
sult of a uniform plan embracing all sides.
" Already they are cutting up Italy, and without
doubt they will also cut up Germany, without England
having been able to give her advice. This hopocratic
system, which England often adopts. is very well for
those who only think of not compromising themselves ;
but it is pernicious in him who is by the force of cir-
cumstances, and by the nature of ,his power at the head
of a crisis like this. The responsibility is only to be
feared when one does not succeed. It is the not suc-
ceeding which compromises, and the best of all argu-
ments, in Parliament as elsewhere, is success and vic-
tory. In order to succeed you must have boldness ;
you must know beforehand what is required ; in fine,
circumstances must be mastered, instead of being mas-
tered by them ; the grand question must then be taken
up and the characters distributed. I foresee two possi-
bilities : one, in which the imperatorie shall be over-
thrown at Paris by spontaneous outbursts ; the others
where the same will take place by provincial risings ;
where the refractory conscripts will unite themselves in
a body, where the troops, the officers, the generals, will
all take different sides. All this must be thought of
and prepared for. There are in Spain, at Naples, in
Dalmatia, French troops, which will find themselves in
disastrous positions. That it is the moment to speak
to the passions of men. An army which may be inac-
cessible when its government is formed, and which cer-
tainly is when victory leads its colours, becomes very
accessible and easy to be treated with when victory.
turning against it, delivers it to the just venueance of the
people, and when the overthrow of the Government and
the internal discord of their country leaves them un-
supported, and throws them, without compass, upon so
stormy a sea."
The following is very prophetic. It is part of a letter
dated Twickenham, Nov. 5, 1806 :
The fate of Russia, as well as of Prussia, depends
on Poland. I don't know whether Bonaparte will try
to force the Oder this winter. If he does so and
succeeds, this movement may and ought to cause him
to meet his Pultowa. Alexander may then avenge Aus-
terlitz, and repair Jena. Celerity, vigour, and resolu-
tion, are alone ranting."

The intelligence from Texas represents that Re-
public to be progressing to a more wholesome state, and
no doubt when the news of the Commercial Treaty nego-
tiated here gets out there and in the United States the
standing and credit of the Government will be greatly im-
proved. The first necessity of a new Government aiming
to take its place in the number of indepenient States is
clearly the enactment of laws for the security of property,
by which the confidence of foreigners may be attracted as
well as that of its own citizens confirmed. Since the gua-
rantee of Texan independence has been formally sealed
by the Act of the Foreign-office here, which cannot fail
of ratification by the Legislature of the new country, it is
quite clear the Republic is placed in the firmest position
possible. For the necessary consequence must follow
by the recognition of Mexico, without a full and good
understanding upon the leading points of which before-
hand no treaty would certainly have been concluded
here. The acknowledgment of Texan independence by
Mexico, may therefore be regarded as a conclusion in
fact foregone, although minor points may have to be con-
cluded, and the temper of the Mexican Legislature and
people consulted and propitiated on a moat repulsive ques-
tion to both. Some vague reports had indeed got out to
the United States of the conclusion of the Treaty now
consummated between Texas and this country, but they
seem to have been imperfectly credited and but little
approved. As one among other efforts to a nearer ap-
proach towards European civilisation a Bankrupt Bill bad
been passed by the Congress, and an Act repealing that
passed by the last Congress for compulsorily funding the
treasury notes issued. A bank was talked of, as about
to be established at Galveston upon a charter from the
legislature of the preceding year. This does not appear
to be a provident step, notwithstanding that other banks
may have been established before. The worst feature of
the bank too is that its notes are to be redeemed only, so
far as appears and is stated, in Baltimore Bank bills to
the extent of 250,000 dollars, that is one sort of paper
discredited is to be redeemed by another scarcely less
so.
.Now banks are a consequence, and not a cause,
of civilisation and social progress, and therefore Texan
hanks are not likely to succeed better than New
Zealand and those Australasian Banks which are
started without adequate population and production,
and which manufacture more paper notes than, if
the whole property of the colony were put up to auc-
tion, would purchase the fee simple ten times over.
Otherwise the Texan Republic was going on well and
measures were in progress to extend the lucrative rela-
tions of trade with Santa Fe in Mexico, and to perfect the
road constructing between the Red River and the Nuecea
to Santa Fe. Although the distance from that place to
Austin was 600 miles, the gigantic project was proposed
and urged with " great earnestness by the Secretary of War
to Congress."—Morning Herald.
A QUAKER BARRISTER.—Monday the fol-
lowing Gentlemen were called to the Irish bar :—J. J.
Quin, M. Synnot, jun., T. Sanders, F. M`Carthy, R.
Foley, G. F. Hodder, F. Somers, J. S. Blake, J. C.
Ogle, 0. M`Causland, W. A. Chaytor, and T. J. White,
Esqrs. Mr. Chaytor belongs to the Society of Friends.
This is.the first instance of a member of that Society being
called to the bar. Under the 2d and 3d William IV.,
Chaytor was entbled to .oaks affirmatiGn, in place of
taking the oaths prescribed by law.-. Dublin Mp