The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-04 00:00:00

We copy the following just remarks from a letter
written (roar Paris to an Evening Contemporary :
PARIS, SEPT. I.—The Constitutionnel is very angry
that I should have contradicted the first lie of the
Univers, about the baptism of BLOOD AND GLORY, and
corrects what it calls my mis-statements of a difference
between the King and his Ministry. The Constilu-
tionnel, however, takes care not to quote the passage
which it contradicts, for that would not have answered
its purpose. Supposing me to have said as the Consti•
tutionnel asserts I did, that Louis Philippe was " in
flagrant hostlity with his Ministry," it is very easy, by
the credence of a contradiction to this statement, to
throw discredit over the whole of my previous asser-
tions as to the desire of the King for the maintenance
of peace. I did not say that the King was "in flag-
rant hostility with his Ministry." I merely mentioned
the existence of a rumour in high circles that the King
was not pleased with the whole of M. Thiers's policy ;
but I did say that the reported conversation between
Louis Philippe and the Minister of War, in which the
King was made to say that the Orleans family must
have its baptism of BLOOD AND GLORY, was a
wicked invention—and the Constitutionnel dare not
contradict my assertion. That story was too gross
even for the Constitutionnel to copy ; but it did
copy the subsequent story of the Univers, in which the
King is made to use insulting and most ungentlemanly
expressions when speaking of Lord Palmerston—and
so did nearly all the Ministerial Journals. This story
was as great a lie as the " BLOOD AND GLORY" story,
and it was a base libel upon the King to say that he
had used such expressions ; but there was an object to
gain. It was considered necessary to identify the King
with the brawlers for war, and the organs of those
brawlers did net care how much they degraded royalty,
how much they lowered the character of Louis Philippe
as a gentleman in order to accomplish that object.
They knew that the King, coerced by the war-cry,
could not openly deny their assertions; they knew that
there were not two journals of the whole of the Paris
press which would venture to claim for him the respect
due to him as a monarch and a gentleman ; and even
now the Constitutionnel, whilst it is compelled to ad-
mit that " there is more than one error in the second
story of the Univers," unblushingly asserts that if
the King did not use the words attributed to him
by that journal, he is animated by the feeling which
those words imply. I repeat, and Ido so with a tho-
rough knowledge of the truth, that the King has never
ceased to express his ardent desire for the mainte-
nance of peace, and that he has never used the lan-
guage, or anything like the language, put into his
mouth by the Ministerial Journals. Do I mean, in as-
serting this, to say that Louis Philippe has been in-
sensible to what is due to national dignity ? Do I
mean to impute to him a want of energy, an absence
of firmness as regards foreign Powers ? Nu. On the
contrary, I know that although he may be as deeply
impressed with the conviction as I am, that the men
who urge the French nation to war are the enemies of
his dynasty, and that the war, to be even for a time
successful, must be Republican, and therefore danger-
ous to him and to his family, he would not hesitate to
place himself at the head of the war party, if any
sacrifice of honour or dignity were to be demanded by
other Powers as the condition of the duration of peace.
I have merely opposed fact to falsehood, and have not
for a moment supposed that any honest and right-
minded man would consider it an imputation upon the
patriotism or courage of Louis Philippe, to say that.
he was desirous of peace. In asse:ting that he had not
declared a baptism of BLOOD AND GLORY to be necessary
for his dynasty, and that he bad not, in a public audience
to foreign Ambassadors, used expressions towards them,
their sovereigns, and their sovereigns ministers, which
never could have found a place in the mouth of a gentle-
man, I did but say what I knew to be the truth ; and if
it be a libel to say that Louis Philippe is a gentleman,
and not an ambitious cut-throat—if it be a libel to say
that a man whose life has been that of a philanthre-
pist had not declared himself to be a partisan of mas-
sacre for the sake of personal ambition—then I am,
and glory in being, a libeller. If Louis Philippe had
said what the Ministerial Papers had imputed to
him, he would have been a hypocrite, and worse than
a hypocrite ; for did he not declare at Boulogne, to the
English Consul and to Mr. Tuffnell, that he was most
anxious to avert the necessity for war ? Could any
thing be stronger than his expressions to those gentle-
men'? No. Well, then, place those expressions in
juxtaposition with the assertions of the ministerial
press, and allow those assertions to be true, and who
will say that Louis Philippe is not a hypocrite?
But they are not true. In all his conversations with
foreign Ambassadors he has held firm, dign.fied, gen-
tlemanly, and pacific language. I happen to know
some of the precise words used by him to one of these
Ambassadors in two interviews. They were strong ;
they were honourable to him as the head of a
great nation ; but they were not the words of the
chief of a republican faction. He unhesitatingly
admitted, that although the susceptibility of the French
might be considered by foreign Powers as too great,
he could not but respect it ; he declared, however that
his dearest wish was to maintain peace, and that no
personal sacrifice would be considered by him as too
great for such a blessing. The sacrifice which he could
not and would not make, be said, was that of national '
honour. Did he use offensive and insulting expres-
sions towards the sovereigns with whom he is in
alliance, or their ministers ? No, a thousand times no.
And base are the calumniators who have represented
him to have used such language. Did he talk of dy•
nastic ambition—of blood and glory ? No! Indeed
how could he have done so ? To him France owes all
her real greatness—all the extension of her internal
and foreign commerce, the improvement of her roads,
the increase, splendour, and comfort of her towns.

and her general progress of civilization. The blood and
glory days are gone by ; and let the French calmly
and soberly ask themselves what they produced—towns
grown over with grass, or choked with filth—roads
which had become impassable—ports without com-
merce—canals without navigation—an impoverished
treasury—and the annoying and expensive climax of
military occupation.
Such were the results of blood and glory ! Let those
who knew Paris, the capital of the empire, in the glori-
ous days of Napoleon, as they are called, look at it
now. In those days it was without a foot pavement,
without a gas-light, without a sewer. It is now clean,
commodious, and elegant. Who made Paris what it is ?
Napoleon? No : Louis Philippe. Go to Havre, to
Bordeaux, to Marseilles, to Nantes, see the improve-
ments there—the splendid mansions which have risen
up, the extensive warehouses which have been built, the
inflowings of wealth, and the thousand results of peaceful
industry which are there displayed, and ask who cre-
ated them. Did they all arise put of a dream of mili-
tary glory ? No : they are the results of peace, and
nine-tenths of them are due to the pacific and enlight-
ened reign of Louis Philippe !
The report of a kind of adjournment of the Eastern
question, during which new negotiations may be carried
on, gains grounds, but it is not yet admitted by the Go-
vernment papers to be well-founded. There is, how-
ever, an almost general belief in respectable quarters
that something of this nature will take place, and that
in this way an honourable compromise will be effected.
I am sorry to observe, however, that the most infamous
things arc being published in Paris against the English,
and urging the people to war. In one pamphlet the
author has the atrocity, among other things, to charge
the English Government with having been the assassins
of General Kleber. It was not to be expected that,
amid so much excitement, the Republicans would not
go a great way in their abuse ; but I trust that if such
infamous publications as the pamphlets which now ap-
pear should become general, the Government will insti-
tute a prosecution, and show that, although it may be
permitted for Governments to differ on points of Euro-
pean policy, it is not permitted to speak of the English
of
as a nation of murderers.

FRENCH A RMAMENTS.—The Cherbourg J our-
nal mentions the launching in that port, on the 28th
ultimo, of the Somme transport, pierced for 40 guns.
Orders have been received there for launching the Tilsit
and Henry IV. of the line, by the commencement of next
year, and for pushing on the works of the Austerlitz as
much as possible. Great exertions are making to get the
Friedland ready for sea. The Armoricain of Brest states
that the levy of sailors in maritime districts and ports is
ordered to be extended from men who have previously
served less than three years in the navy, to those who have
served less than four. The Loire transport has just been
launched at Brest.

CHIMNEYS.—The fact cannot be too generally
known, that if, when a chimney is built, the mortar with
which it is to be plastered be mixed with salt, there will
be no necessity for sweeping it, as in every damp spell of
weather the salt deliquesces, and the soot will of course
fall down. A chimney which was treated in the above
manner 29 years ago has been in use every winter
since.
Part of the time a fire-place was used with a grate and
bituminous coal, but now with a stove and wood. The
stove-pipe frequently catches fire, which is suffered to urn
in the chimney without apprehension of danger.-13trnanS-
ham Advertiser.
The Russian Consul-General at Stettin has pub-
lished the following notice in the journal of that town:—
" The Russian Government, which, i.. 1935, forbade cap-
tains, passengers, and crews of ships arriving in Finland
from foreign countries, to bring any letters er public jour-
nals, has now interdicted the introduction from abroad,
either under seal or in open covers, with or without ad-
dress, any paper money whatever, under the penalty of
having the same seized, and the bearers treated as
smugglers."

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