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London, England, 1851-12-02 00:00:00

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sion of smothered
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my uncle;" and to Marshal Soult tie Kitt looked
/pond all other men. In the insurrectionsof the sth.
6th Juno the Marshal had everything in his hands;
and
the sufficient reply to the doubts which were then openly
expressed of his honesty, was the fact that lagstood
by the King. He astounded the King and the Cabinet
by this suggestion, at that time—that, in the event of a
serious insurrection, they should abandon ,Peril ! But,
his plan he justified: and, perhaps, the counter pima, to
rurround Paris with forts, was not wiser. In Whatever
ho did ho managed to be successful; and his Govern-
ment, in his own department, was confessedly popular.
The responsibility of the general policy of the Cabinet
he shared in more than an indirect degree. Some. of his
Colleagues would have desired a war for Poland or for
Italy; he strenuously resisted all the republican appeals
for French intervention, and whether wisely or not for
Europe, with prosperous consequences for Louis Phi-
lippe. A Marshal of the Empire could alone have sus.
tamed the odium of an English alliance, which meant
peace, and the King fully appreciated the service. It
does not appear that the Marshal and his colleagues
worked welt together. The Marshal and M. Guizot were
enemies; and for " doctrinaires" generally, as M. Guizot
and his sect began to be called, the Marshal had
a profound contempt. On a question of appointing a
Guizot and M. Thiers caballed against the Marshal and
governor of Algeria, there was a split in the Cabinet; M.
the Marshal retired—the grounds being purely personal
between himself and his colleagues. The fall of Marshal
Soult was the occasion of serious complications and diffi-
culties, but he would not re-connect himself with those
home Louis
gove
who had insulted and defied hien. With M. Tide's,
however, he kept up intimate relations; and by the King,
who had already commenced personal government, he
was confidentially consulted. At the breaking up of the
Ministry of the 11th of • October (1834), he did not join
succeeded
which
w in
as esitnabtlhisehienngd
soh a tf
fatal
Cabinet formed by M. Mole, and until 1637 he was
inactive. It was in the period from 1834 to 1837 that
Philipparn
government. For this Marshal Soult was but slightly
responsible. Of the foreign of Louis Phillippe
from 1830 to 1842 ho Waspo icy
reference
to that he must b • 1,1 supporter, and in
tsystem
t o hoisf
e tueged. The foreign policy
and the home
policy, in truth, h d and were
however, rested dependent on ewe another.
In 1837, Queen Victoria came to the English throne,
and at the coronation of her Majesty.
Soult was selected by the Cabinet in
1838, Marshal
Ambassador extraordinary to Londonof the Tuileries as
to cement the English alliance with His mission was
and as a political agent in that ch the new Sovereign;
ceived with a national welcome in Arita ,be was re-
ments were showered upon hint by tgeand.•
Ministers; and the people greeted the great
Court and by
ancient enemy, wherever he appeared, Igeneral the
enthusiastic
cheers. At the coronation his figure was the second in
interest; and in the procession his carriage,,
body, in the shape of a gondola, with silver
anouldteblau
was grander than that of any English peer. The
of Wellington appeared at public places with him, and
though malapropos public instructors sneered about
Toulouse, and even went so far in detraction as to
MOn Colonel Napier into a manly remonstrance and
reminder of the pillar at Coranna,:the public were mad
with joy at the auspicious conjunction of the two heroes.
From London, where military reviews, balls, and public
dinners had ceaselessly invited him, the Marshal moved
into the provinces ; and his journey to Birmingham, to
Liverpool, and to Manchester was a long ovation. Al
Liverpool he was entertained by the corporation; Wil-
liam Rathbone, an originator of peace societies, being
Mayor and host : and at the dinner a fellow guest was
the Sir Charles Napier who has since annexed Sinde to
the British dominions. Excepting Kossuth, who has
gone over the same ground, no foreigner has ever been
so received in England.
We next come to 1841. The Ministry of M. Mole fell.
The Minister, and the press, and the Chamber were at war,
and, to avoid the storm, the King sacrificed a faithful ser-
vant. A new Ministry was formed, and, in consequence of
the dissensions of M. Guizot and M. Thiers, who would
no longer act together, Marshal Soult was called to the
Presidency of the Council. But this was not brought
about without difficulty. While the King was without a
ministry—or rather without a Ministry of repute enough
to meet the crisis—there came an insurrection: the re-
volt of May 12. The Provisional Cabinet was swept
away; and the King and society found a man in who=
they could eonfide in Marshal Soult. While President
of the Council he underwent the storm excited by the
" Syrian question," and secured an intense unpopularity
by his honourable anxiety to keep faith with Lord Pal-
merston. His Ministry was not long-lived. M. Guizot
entered power, and the results constitute the news of
yesterday.
Since that time Marshal Soult, enfeebled by age, but
still intellectually vigorous, lived in retirement, in the
enjoyment of boundless fame and ample fortune.

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