The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-14 00:00:00

PARIS PAPERS.

[From the Journal des Debats of Thursday.]
TO THE EDITOR.

" PARIS, JUNE 9.—Sir, a circumstance unfore-
- seen, and impossible to foresee, .compelled the Quotidienne to
appear to-day without an article 'Which continues to shew the
line of independence and moderation which its founder, M.
Michaud, thought he had traced out for it for ever. When I
repaired to the office at midnight to satisfy myself that the
„leurnal was printed in the manner that I lied pointed out, I
tought in vain for the article Doctrines-" which was to be in-
•Seiteds The copy had been carried off. The responsible Edi-
tor replied, that he had received art order not to sign the Jour-
nal, if it contained a single article in which the name of M. de
• Chateaubriand was mentioned. The homage which you pay,
-Sir, to the illustrious StatesAian, whose loss is regretted by the
whole of Royalist France, assures me that you will insert in
your Journal a reclamation against an order which I am sure
-AL Michaud never gave; and hereafter the tribunals will de-
cide the question which has arisen', and give the greatest publi-
-eity to all.the facts connected with this afildr.
"-I am, Sir, &c.
" J. B. A. SOULIE,
" Principal Editor of the Quotidienne."
On this subject we have learnt that M. Henri shnon, respon.
• Bible Editor of the Quotidienne, is the proprietor of the press
which prints that paper; he is moreover entrusted with the au-
thority of a M. de Bonneau, who has purchased five-twelfths
of the Quotidienne. This M. de Bonneau is said only to lend
l is name, the real proprietor being a man of illustrious birth,
who speculates in newspapers. It was M. Simon who received,
as we are informed by M. Soulie, the order not to insert the
ename of Chateaubriand. It is somewhat curious to recollect
that Fottehe proscribed the same name, the influence of which
he dreaded. We pity Royalist Ministers who are reduced to
imitate so bad an example. Whence arise these unhappy divi-
sions ? M. de Villele, while he despises certain evil Counsel-
lors, too often lends them his ear. He gives himself up too
much to wounded self-love and impotent anger. He is very
skilful as a man of business, but not clever as a Statesman.
Having passed his life in the Colonies, he knows little of
France, and nothing of Europe. He rests more on physical
power than on that moral power which is always victorious in
• the long run, and which cannot be despisediwith impunity. Let
us hope that lie may become more enlightened.
[From'the Gazette de France.]
The safety of France, and the dignity of the Throne, do not
e depend on retaining one man in the Ministry. If the ad-
. ministrative importance of M. de Chateaubriand had been
• so great as the Journal des Drbats would persuade its
-readers' there can he no doubt his colleague would have been
obliged to receive the law from him, and give way to his
-.influence. Far from this, the Noble Peer did not subdue to his
opinions the Colleagues who have managed the State with him,
• but on the contrary they admitted him to share the management
with them. They called him to the Council, not to oppose, but to
support the measures submitted to the Chambers. -If the Noble
" Peer entered the Council with the intention of making the
- other Ministers adopt his opinions, and the hope of doing-this
. was the rule of his conduct-if this intention, never successful,
had separated him from those with whom he ought to have
made common cause--if he did not confine himself to 'oppo-
- sition in the Council, and did not always keep secret con-
fidential discussions, may we not say that the Minister for
'Foreign Affairs had ceased for a long time to make one of the
Administration-a-that his own opposition had separated him
_ from his Colleagues, and that the Royal Ordinance had only
carried into effect a position which the Illinister had chosen for
himself.
[From the Journal de Paris.]
Pants, JUNE 10.-We do not recollect that M. de Chateau-.
hriand ever spoke extempore, either as a Peer or as a ?Minister,
either in the Opposition or in the Ministry ; the Tribune has
•no other influence but that of extempore speaking. This Ex-
, illinister is not therefore reproached with not having spoken
for the Law, but with not having written either for it or against
- it, according to his conviction. Literary amateurs must be dis-
• pleased with him for having refused them a good pamphlet.
. , [From the Constitutionnel.]
PARTS, JUNE'lO—The Journal des D;:bois is "astonished
• at the inconceivable pride of-those who vrocured the ordinance
.of June 6th' or their profound ignorance of public opinion."-
.The Journal des Debats which seems to have such correct
notions of politeness, perhaps does not display it in the passage,
- and ie governed by anger. There is neither ignoranceof pub-
lic opinion, nor pride in a Minister, who has been victorious
in an intestine warfare ; but only a desire to get rid of a col-
' league not attached to his views, and strike a severe blow to
•• teach others in whose hands the power is lodged. Public
• .opieion has nothing to do with the matter. If it was consult-
ed, it would probably reject, to use the midest phrase, the
systems of Go rernment which have been adopted, and which
-ucent to us irreconcileable with public liberty and the national
interest. There is no conflict of opinions or principles. but only
. a dispute for pre-eminenc-a contest between the different in-
• terests of two individuals. It would be difficult to make a gene-
ral question out of it. But will M. de Vill4le's victory be as
decisive as it appears ? will it enable him to subdue the storm
which another opposition is gathering in his path ? Already the
journal des Debar, which has for a long time been forgetful of
.its name, already announces, with a threatening tone, that it is
,going to enter the lists; the Quotidienne has raised the war-cry,
and every thing indicates that the champions of 111. de Chateau.
briand will push their attacks vigorously. The defence ap-
parently will not be equal to the attack; the batteries of the
Gazette, and of the Drapeau Blanc, are very weak. M. de
"Villele can only sustain himself by the septennality,-this will
44se his strong hold, and M. de Chateaubriand erected it for him.
As every one tries to find out the secret causes of M. de Clia-
teau brie:Ara sudden disgrace, and among others the following
ie stated When the law for the reduction was rejected, M.
e.de Chateaubriand did not doubt but the fall of M. de Villele
. would follow. He persuaded himself that he should be placed
at the head of affairs, and even selected the persons whom he
intended to introduce into the new administration he -expected
to be ordered to organize. As these plans were discovered, the
very contrary event happened which he anticipated.
(-From the ronstitutionnel of Friday.)
PARTS, JUNE 11.-We have already announced rhe-torn-
mencement of hostilities between Journals which have till now
held the same opinions, used the same language, praised the
-same men and defended the same measures. • The unexpected
disgrace of M. de Chateaubriand was the cause or the pretext
lor this civil war. But at the very commencement the Quoti-
dienne has been-put hors-de combat, and its principal Editor 91.
.Sottlie, left on the:field .olbattle. The Journal des Debats now
stands alone ; we see indeed that it would not reject auxiliaries,
-and we should be disposed ourselves to offer it assistance, but what
reasons could we-Offer to our astonished readers for .undertaking
the defence of M. de Chateaubriand ? The aristocratic drama
is on the scene, one-person more or less Will not prevent the
'denouement. The presence of M. de Chateaubriand would
.have made no alteration in the intentions and is the parts of the
actors, and his absence will not alter the catastrophe. All the
other Ministerial Journals have attacked the vanquished.-
%ven the Btoile has given him a kick. This is the fate of all
dismissed Ministers. Those who addressed them over-night
with flattery and incense are the most ardent in the morning to
insult them. They find.:generosity and justice only in those
(who opposed not the individuals, but false doctrines and a
.mischievous system of administration. •
( From the Journal des Debats
M. de Chateaubriand, finding himself placed by the side of a
-man of insatiable ambition, who feared every thing splendid,
-and could not suffer a rival, confined himself strictly to his
ministerial duties. He was only occupied in concealing his
glory, in avoiding, on every occasion, to excite jealousy and
ameasiness in the President of the Council. He did not wish
-that the Royalists should be divided by his means, and .though
he was frequently informed that his political existence was
threatened, out of love for peace, he bore what no other Mini-
ter would ever have put up with. He never laboured secretly
against Made Villele, and :it is only necessary to know him to
be convinced. that every kind of crooked conduct is foreign to
his character. Ile has always attacked his enemies in front.-
Those who have given the blow may now take the respoasibility.
Al. de Villele constituted the physical force, and 111. de Cha-
teaubriand the moral power of the Ministry. Men of business,
those acquinted with the routine of administration, attached
themselves to M. de Villele ; statesmen, those who saw in
society something mote than mere brute matter and its working
attached themselves to the latter. M. de Villele will now see
what a Ministry is without talent, and which is forsaken by
public opinion.
it appears from the: silence of the Quotidienne that the Edi-
tors I ave not been table to get rid of the veto of M. Simon. •
( Front the Courier Francais.)
makingll.AllllB JUNE 11.-since the details of the double attempt at
' a Courear Revolution in Portugal have been brought
'before the public, there has been but one opinion of the odious
character of the object to be attained by it, and. the means
employed. The most fanaticaln :Journals felt the difficulty of
their situation, and r
need the task of justifying the
revolt of a son against his father and Sovereigin Satisfied
with the indulgence she,„
y merely Y the Monarch to the prin-
cipal criminal, the
published the official accounts,
and carefully concealed the. disappointment which the
felt at the check and punisnment received by the most
partizans of absolute power and
zealous
Bot dela of re igious intolerance..,
. aneze enters not hesitate to ex-
Less discreet, the Men. c0r..?,1
regret at tne t-ue ot
press its Tr
stinger the. hie . the Lking, caused the tre Isehehieh put in
eatuctiou Of seve-