The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-27 00:00:00

SPEECH of the KING of the FRENCH.

Oo this document the Constitutionncl has the follow-
ing sensible and cool observations •
" On the subject of our foreign relations the King's
speech does not give such categorical explanations as we
bad expected. Ministers refer to the intimate union
which subsists between France and England, an union on
which it seems to place all its hopes. But, in the passage
relating to Belgium and Holland, we do not find that
confident tone, that accent of certainty, which breathed
in former addresses from the Throne. We are assured that
the Foreign Powers are anxious for the maintenance of
peace, we admit that they are daily giving fresh assurances
of their favourable dispositions, but we cannot help
reflecting with the rest of the world that on any day that
all these Powers should announce an unanimous reso-
lution, the state of hostility between Belgium and Holland,
must necessarily cease. Let the Government then demand
of Europe a full explanation of its sentiments, end com-
municate to us its answer. The paragraph relative to the
affairs of the East is of a laconism which has excited our
astonishment. Ministers say nothing—absolutely nothing
—on a subject to which the public attention has b en
directed with extreme impatience. Not a word as to the
Treaty between the Porte and Russia—not a syltable on
the alarm and preparations of England, who cannot see
with a tranquil eye the 0 toman Empire exposed to the
daily dang,r of Cilling into the bands of a Protec-
tor, who is, in fact, her master—Ministers give no ex-
planation whatever on the important question as to the
future fate of Turkey. The Government has kept
a stilt ;:reater reserve on the subject of Egypt—it
has passed over Mehemet Ali in total silence. What is
this Prince, from whose hands it became necessary to save
Constaniinople, doing, contriving, and preparing ? Would
it not have been right to have informed us of the terms
upon which the Pacha, who has become a Sovereign,
stands with the Muscovite Government, whose diplomacy
is more to be feared than its arms ? What has become of
that Greece for whom eo lively a sympathy has been ex-
cited in France—that Greece whom we saved from falling
under the yoke ? What is Prince Otho, whom we have
contributed to give her fur a King, doing for her ? Have
we gained by the sacrifice of blood and treasure we have ex•
pended in her cause, the satisfaction, at least, of seeing this
ancient country—the land of so many heroes and men of
genius beginning to enjoy the blessing of freedom ? Those
who have not for some time read the news from Portugal,
cannot form the least surmise as to what is passing in that
country between the two Pretenders. As to Quean Isa-
bella, we are left in complete ignorance as to the part
which the Spanish Government has taken, or is inclined
to take, in the vital question of liberty. In that part of
the speech which relates to our internal affairs, we find,
with pain, that Ministers declare their resolution to follow
the same system. They refer with complaisance, and even
with a degree of pride, to the restoration of public tran-
quillity in France. We should be happy could we
place implicit confidence in their assertions. Surely
La Vendee is far from being tranquil ; the fire
of a civil war is still smouldering. At several points
the most serious disorders have occurred with
impunity ; the laws are braved, the magistrates are
without power, and the Government apparently does not
take the necessary measures of coercion, since, in some
places, the National Guards have been obliged to he the
first to come forward in the defence of their Communes.
One thing ought to produce a general and favourable im-
pression on the Chamber, and that is the resolution
announced by Ministers, that all the promises made by

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the Charter shall be fulfilled. In the nam f France,
who has attentively listened to this declaration, we record
the engagement, the religious performance of which is so
essential for the stability of the Constitutional throne, for
the security of the people, and for the establishment of
that liberty for which the people of France bele been
contending far the last forty years."

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