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which relied on foreign bayonets, they denied him the
powerful aid which would have placed their liberties at his
merry."

His remarks on the conduct of the King after
the battle of Waterloo, and the execution of
Ney, show the same good sense and impartiality:

" Two ordonnances had been issued by the King on his
arrival in Paris, one arbitrarily exiling persons who had
taken an active part in the Hundred Days, another order-
ing the rigorous prosecution of the most obnoxious. The
first victim of his own rashness and royalist revenge was
Labedoyere. The trials of Lavalette and Ney took place
under the ministry of Richelieu. The legal guilt of
Ney is indubitable ; it does not appear, inileed, that he had
taken part in any previous conspiracy to bring about the
return of Napoleon, but his baseness in betraying the trust
which he had obtained by his professions of attachment to
the Bourbons was of the most odious kind. The impolicy
of the execution was, however, most glaring. No danger
was to be apprehended from Ney. His conduct during
the Hundred Days had completely forfeited his reputation ;
his execution raised him into a martyr. The French people

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imagined that he was ,del ificed in expiation of his former
exploits ; that the hero of the I3eresina was murdered for
the gratification of the Russians and the English. The
unnecessary cruelty exercised towards him was aggravated
by bad faith. There is no doubt that Ney, who was pre-
viously preparing for flight, imagined himself saved by the
Convention of Paris, and that a similar interpretation was
put on that treaty by Davoust and the other military
chiefs. The allies, whose armies were possibly saved from
destruction by the Convention of Paris ; and Louis, who
owed to it a safe and bloodless re-entry into his capital,
were equally bound to extend its provisions to all who had
imagined themselves secured by it. The execution of Ney
leaves a stain on the magnanimity of the allied comman-
ders, who were bound to secure the most mild interpreta-
tion to the articles of the Convention. The conduct of
Louis not only dishonoured himself, but forfeited the popu •
larity of his dynasty. The execution of the Bonapartist
commanders disgusted a people who held judicial blood-
shed in singular horror, and turned the popular feeling
against the family which thought it necessary to guard its
power by the slaughter of its opponents. How deep and
unextinguishable was the hatred which these acts excited
may be seen in the acrimony with which they are still
spoken of by Frenchmen. It is obvious that the late abo-
lition of hereditary peerage was in some measure caused
by the animosity of the people to the judges of Ney."

The writer then at some length gives a histo-
rical account of the successive administrations of
Richelieu, Decazes, and Viliele, up to the death
of Louis XVIII., and concludes with a pro-
mise to complete, in some future number, the
description of the character and fortunes of the
dynasty, and give a view of the equally interesting
reign of Charles X. We look forward to the
number with some interest.

There are other interesting articles in the
number, particularly those on " Modern Rome,"
and " Young Napoleon, ' but we have not at
present room for more extracts.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, JAN. 29.—Wind S.E., fresh.—Arrived from the
river the Kellic Castle, Patterson, and sailed for China.
The Herefordshire, Foord, Buckinghamshire, Shea, and
the Warren Hastings, Sandy, for China, remain, not
being ah!e to round the south foreland. Arrived the
George, from Belfast ; the Cambria, from Youghal, and
the Adelaide, from Waterford.