The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-17 00:00:00

" AN AVOWAL.
"itis at length avowed. The actual Ministers of the
Republic look upon themselves as identified with all the
Monarchical Governments of Europe—with the Em-
peror of Russia, the Emperor of Austria, the King of
Prussia, and the King of Naples—the Ministry of the
French Republic, charged with the care of our demo-
cratic constitution, is the ally of Nesselrode, who has
violated the Polish constitution; of Schwarzenberg, who
has violated the Austrian constitution; of Manteuffel,
who has violated the Prussian constitution! M. Louis
Bonaparte, who has sworn fidelity to the Republic, is
the auxiliary of the Holy Alliance. It is the Constitu-
tionnel which says that. That which the oppo-
sition journals dare not say is avowed and
boasted of by the journal of the Elysee! It claims
praise for acts of power which we would not
suspect Government to be capable of doing with-
out offering it an insult. Yes, it is the Government
journal which declares that, in causing to be arrested
German refugees, guilty of desiring some other than a
Cossack regime for their country. The Ministry of the
Republic has done an act of international loyalty, and
that in violating the sacred law of hospitality towards
unfortunate provcripts it has only fulfilled duties im-
posed by the law of nations. And at the same time the
same journal suggests to the executive the propriety of
addressing remonstrances to the English Cabinet against
the protection afforded to the refugees in London. And
we are cone to this! The right of asylum, which even
barbarians afford to vanquished enemies—a right
for which even Turkey has just run the risk of war
with Russia and Austria—a rig ht for which
even • Switzerland risked war with the monar-
chies of Europe is violated with boasting by the Go-
vernment of the proscribed of Thurgovia, the Govern-
ment of the French Republic. That which the restora-
tion dare not do openly is done with boasting by the
Ministry of M. Bonaparte. It puts its polies and its
prisons at the service of those who have partitioned Po-
land, devastated Hungary, enslaved Germany, ruined
Italy, and all that in the name of duty. In the eyes of
M. Bonaparte's Ministers it is a crime against the State
to desire any other balance of power than the impious
and unnatural balance imposed by the conquerors of
Waterloo. In the eyes of his Ministers it is a crime for
a Pole to wish to see his country freed from Cossacks—
or for a Hungarian to desire the fall of Austria, that he
might see avenged his brethren hung treacherously, and
his mother flogged—a crime against, the State to admire
Kossuth and curse Haynau—a crime for a German to
desire unity, and to wish to see arbitrary violence give
place to law, by the establishment of principles which
have made the English a free and the French
a sovereign people—a crime against the French
state for an Italian to desire some other rule than
that of Radetzky, Cardinal Antonelli, and the King of
Naples, and to wish to see Austrians and Jesuits ex-
pelled together—a crime against the French State to
hate the bombarders of Milan, of Rome, and of Messina
—an act of felony to say, in the language of the Emperor
Napoleon, Honneur aua Vaincus l' It is, indeed, well
that France should hew the sentiments of those who
govern her. When the Restoration invaded Spain it
did so under pretence of supporting constitutional
liberty. While the dynasty of July showed a disposi-
tion to invade the Sonderbund it yet affected to protest
to the last against the partition of Poland. Those Go-
vernments, too, belonged to the Holy Alliance, but they
were ashamed to say so, You have no such false shame,
Ministers of the Republic. You avow that you are
the allies of the %Cossack. You, Ministers chosen by
the nephew of him who was conquered at Waterloo—
you make compacts with the conquerors, and boast o.
what you do. Thanks!

" P. V. HuGo."
M. LEON FexcEut, who ordered this prosecution,
was himself, when editor of the Courier Francais,
in the daily habit of publishing articles infinitely
more calculated to bring government into hatred
and contempt than is the article of the .Evenement.
What gives: the affair an appearance of mean-
ness, if not of something worse, is the fact
that the Constitutionnel has, since it turned Bona-
partist, been constantly calling on the Government to
prosecute, suppress, and ruin all other journals, so as
to give to the conscientious proprietor of that veracious
print a monopoly of the market, and we here find the
call obeyed.
The other journals all consider it as the commence-
ment of a crusade against the press. The National
says, and says truly—
" We are sure of not being met with disavowals from
any quarter when we affirm that the condemnation of
the Evinement will be received by the journals of all opi-
nions having faith in the liberty of the press with the same
sentiment of sorrow, the same regrets, and the same
disquietude' which we feel ourselves. Yet there are
persons who, notwithstanding the harsh and severe blows
which have for so long a time been inflicted on the press,
think the law is not even severe enough."
The Siecle pithily asks, " What will be the effect
of so much severity ?Will it prove M..,LEON FAUCHER
to be a great Minister, and M. BAROCHE a diploma-
tist capable of comprehending the antique honour of
his country ?" whilst even the reactionary journals
themselves express a fear that this condemnation will
seem most severe. To us it appears an exhibition of
petty personal pique in high places. The magnificent
and unanswerable speech of M. VICTOR HUGO on the
revision question will never be forgiven. AUGUSTU.
Lus, unable to reach the father, revenges himself on
the sons.
The Dowager Duchess DE MAILLE has just been
burnt to death at the chateau of La Rocheguyon,
when on a visit with her friend, the Duchess DE
LAROCHEFOUCAULT. She was standing in her room,
near a waxlight, when a current of air sent the flame
in the direction of her dress, which caught fire, and
in a moment she was enveloped in flames. She was
so dreadfully burnt that all the aid of medical art
could not succeed in saving her life.
The revictualling of the French Mediterranean
squadron is being carried on with the greatest acti-
vity at Toulon, and it is expected that it will be
again ready for sea by the 18th. It is, it is said, to
be reinforced by the Henri IV., now at Lisbon, and
by the Ville de Paris.
The Echo d'Oraee of the 10th says—" Our last
letters from Paris, in which we are in the habit of
placing full reliance, give us a piece of news, which,
at first sight, will appear incredible', but which un-
fortunately appears to us but too certain. According
to these accounts General D'HAUTPOUL will return to
Algeria, to resume his functions of Governor-Genera
The Ist of October is fixed on as the date of his rein•
stallation."

The PRESIDENT of the Republic entertained at
breakfast, at the Elysee, yesterday, the Dames d e
la Halle, the fishwives of Paris, and ceremoniously
saluted one of them as the representative of the
others. They presented him with bouquets of violets.
The Permanent Committee of the National As-
sembly met yesterday to receive a communication
from the Minister of the Interior, respecting the de-
claration of the state of siege in the Ardeche. M.
BENOIST D'Azr, one of the Vice• Presidents of the
National Assembly, presided. Most of the members
of the Committee attended. The explanations of the
Minister were considered satisfactory, and it was
agreed that nothing had occurred to render it neces-
sary to convoke the Assembly before the time fixed at
the prorogation.
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