The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-02 00:00:00

DOLMAIVS MAGAZINE.

The Anecdotes of Louis XVIII. are concluded in this
number, and albeit the writer is evidently one of the old
regime who would fain exalt Louis into a hero, yet the facts
recorded by the King himself prove that he was un-
principled, selfish, cunning, and low. minded. In an in-
terview with the Emperor Alexander, at Mitten, in
1806, the Emperor said to him, " If God should prosper
my arms, my chief satisfaction will be to reconduct your
Majesty to France," to which Louis, who only a short
time before had written to Bonaparte, " I burn with
impatience to restore peace to my people," replies. " Mine
will consist in entering France under your auspices ; I
hope everything from the bravery of ycur troops ;" and
yet on his return to France in 1814, in his very first
interview with Talleyrand at Compeigne, he says, " I
am anxious to be rid of the Allies." In the following
passage of his journal he describes his sensations on
hearing of his restoration :
" It were vain for me to attempt the expression of all that
passed within me when my return to France was really de-
cided upon. I can well understand the joy which a mere
citizen must experience at finding himself freed from politi-
cal ostracism, how far more intense, then, the feelings of an
exiled and proscribed king, who reascenis the noblest throne
in the world ; my transports of joy, which the due main •
tainance of my dignity compelle4 me to restrain, were of
such a nature, that in despite of ill my philosophy, I could
not but fancy that a monarch must be a being of a somewhat
different order from a mere mortal. In short, for several
days I was enabled to put faith in the proverbial expression,
happy as a king!'"

Surely such a mind was incapable of great ideas. It
was the joy of a child over a new toy. Throughout his
whole career he hated and feared Louis Philippe, and if
that really great man steered his course in safety through
the perils of the Restoration, it was not because every en-
deavour was not made, every intrigue was not resorted to
to ensure his ruin. The interesting novel of " The Coun-
tess Clemente" is continued, and Mr. Miles Gerald
Keon commences a tale entitled " The Catholic Man of
Letters in London," which promises to be a severe casti-
gation of the new generation. A certain Reginald I
Rupert is the hero of the tale :
" His ancestors had been. Catholics ever. They flourished
before Protestantism had a name, and scorned to belong to a
church as ephemeral and more upstart than their own house.
The mighty religion that could boast of a pedigree more an-
cient than theirs, commanded the deep loyalty of their fer-
vent veneration, apart from other considerations of intellec-
tual conviction, such as are not afforded by human churches,
by national churches, by whimsical chuches."
This passage is a curious illustration of the spirit
of Catholicity. Love of aristocratical domination is per-
haps the real cause of many of the recent co,:versions
to that faith.

SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE
This miscellany preserves its character with much
ability, discussing interesting matter about some of our
most interesting colonies, aad does it moreover in a
very interesting way. St. Helena, Prince of Wales
Island, Canada East and West, Cape Colony, and the
Sandwich Islands, are severally described by gentlemen
very competent for the office of narration. A tale of
Australia is continued by Mr. Leigh, and the editor
himself contributes tK o sterling articles upon sugar, both
as a natural production and as manufactured from
maple. There is, however, one blemish about this num-
ber of the Colonial—and an intolerable blemish it is :
we allude to a wonderfully silly " Suggestion for pro-
moting Emigration to the British Colonies," in which,
for no ostensible or earthly purpose whatever, O'Con-
nell, Cobden, and W. J. Fox are introduced—we had
almost said lugged in neck-and-crop—with some sple-
netic remark about those three gentlemen " wallowing
in the mire, like the sow." Mr. Campbell had better
be a little more cautious in what he pens for the future,
or, at the least, not parade his name with such singular
documents. Otherwise the articles are well selected.