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from the Moniteur, I,ut will exetpe a word or two in re-
ference to the general character of the list, and to some of
the individuals.
The new Peers have been necessarily selected from the
classes prescribed by the law. They comprise two Mar-
shals of France, 15 Lieutenant-Generals, two Major-Ge-
nerals, two Vice-Admirals, two Members of the late Minis-
try, five Ambassadors, or ex-Ambassadors, one Mayor (of
Paris), three Councillors of State, four Prefects, 18 Mem-
bers of former Legislative Assemblies, 13 M-mbers of the
Councils-General of Depar►meats, two Presidenti and one
Councillor of the Court of Cessation, two First Presidents
of the Royal Court, one Councillor of the Court of Ac-
counts, and four Academicians (some of these persons
having filled two or more offices). So far, therefore, all
the classes eligible to the Peerage are represented in the
new creations—but it will be seen that the army has contri-
buted more than its just proportion, a fact on which it
would be idle to comment. The political character of the
new Peers, it is equally unnecess iry to observe, is in ge-
ner Ministerial—" but" (as the Liberaux complain),
" for the purposes of Ministers, they have been chosen
from every party in the state save one—that which effected
the late revolution ;" and they designate among the new
Peers four marked Carlists—MM. de Berbis de Caux,
Labriffe, and the Due de Fesenzac. Some of the rest are
thus described :

" Baron Aikalin is the husband of Madame Adelaide

(the King's sister) ; General Baidraud is Aide-de-Camp of
:be Duke of Orleans; M. Bertin de Vaux is editor of the
Journal des Debuts ; M. Cousin, Professor of Philo-
sophy, lately sent to Alsace, en courrier, with a letter
for M. Humann ; M. Devasines is father-in-lacy of M.
Guizot ; M. Duval is the person who, when Prefect of
Grenoble last year, caused the 35th regiment to charge the
people ; Count Omans is a cousin of the Bonapartes."
More of this, however, at a future day.
The Chamber of Peers having been already sufficiently
pliant (it is asked), why increase its numbers? The an-
swer given to th:s question is, that the Chamber of Peers
having lately been a mere nonentity, is now to be recaled
into existence, and used as a -et-off against the Chamber
of Deputies, in which the Ministers see clearly they will
be in a minority. The number of Peers has been in•
creased in order to make the Ministerial majority in that
House the stronger, while it will have more than conci•

liwed that important class of Frenchmen, the militaires.
Such is the calculation ! Can the meaning sought to be
conveysd by it be misunderstood
I have only time to add that !Marshal Lobau is discon-
tented, and threatens to retire. Such an event as the re-
signation of a second Commander of the National Guards
of Paris would be a more serious affair than you might at
first sight consider it. No efforts will therefore be spared
to conciliate that very plain but excellent soldier.
You will have observed with much interest the proceed-

ings of the trials of the Chouans at Blois, and of the evi-
dence, which proved rather clearly that the Government
had not done all it might in crushing the Carlist fiction.
The testimony of Captain Galleran is peculiarly worthy of
observation. To it add, as illustrative of the charge of

leniency to the Cariists urged against the Government, the
pithy remark of the Echo du Midi :—" The sentence of
death pronounced against Cerny and Lepage for partici-
pation in the insurrection of the sth and 6th of June, has
been commuted to im?risonment for life—a like sentence
pronounced against Guign ird, a Chouan, has been com-
muted to ten years' imprisonment."

Three o'clock.

All our news from Belgium (received since noon) is
warlike. The Funds have consequently declined. The
French troops will, it is said, positively enter Belgium
on—if not before—the 20th instant. A Council was
held this day of the four new Ministers at the house of
11. Thiers. Are they already intriguing ?

FRANCE.

THE DOCTRINNAIRES' ATTEMPT AT A COUNTER-
REVOLUTION—SOULT'S PROFESSION OF FAITH—
AND A NEW BATCH OF SIXTY-TWO COUNTER.
REVOLUTIONARY PEERS.
To the EDITOR of the MORNING CHRONICLE.
PARIS, OCT. 13, 1832.
SlR,—The DOCTRINNAIRES ARE IN OFFICE ! BROG-
LIE, GUIZOT, HUMANN, and THIERS are Ministers ! and
an ATTEMPT 15 to be made at a counter R-volution ! An
attempt, indeed ! Poor creatures! Extinguish the sun
with a syringe ! arrest the Niagara with a straw! make
man ignorant, stupid, and forgetful, by Act of Parlia-
ment! tame the tiger with sugar plums! and catch an
elephant with a net of feathers ! No, no—not with such
stuff—such absurdity—such conceit—Broglie, Guizot,
Humana, and Thiers, have as much chance of effecting a
real, bona fide, enduring, counter Revolution, as they
would have of being elected Ministers of State by the
French Republic ! !
When I answered the question, in a recent letter, of
" What is a Doctrinnaire?" I hoped that this sect bad
failed in its attempt to obtain,office—that the Prince Royal
had returned from Brussels in time to save France from
this act of fully and madness—that the real friends of the
Monarchy had surrounded the throne, and had pointed out
the immense danger attending such a proceeding; and al-
though the Dupin Ministry, then about to be formed, or
prepared to be so, would not satisfy fully the wishes and
hopes of France; yet I hailed its arrival with satisfaction
as leading the way to a future national and popular Go-
vernment. But the hopes of those who love France have
for the moment vanished. The Throne has decided in
favour of those whom the nation repudiates—and the con-
test is now commenced between the revolution and the
counter-revolution. Have you fears for the result ?
Fear not ! I will guarantee you that this Administration
shall be overthrown ! I will not give it two months of
existence ! Its promises will be scorned—its agents re-
jected—its policy hooted at—its Jesuitical declarations
and addresses held up to ridicule—and France will cry, as
already she does cry, from one end of the country to the
other, "Down, down with the Doctrinnaires !"
The nomination of Broglie, Humann, and Guizot is an
insult to the revolution of July. Ever since that event,
these men and their partisans have been attacking, defying,
insulting that revolution. They voted against the banish-
ment of the elder branch of the House of Bourbon--
voted in favour of an Hereditary Peerage—voted for the
destruction of Poland, and the invasion of Italy, destined
to crush the spirit of patriotism in the south of Europe ;
they have been writing in the Debuts for months past,
that all which is born of the revolution is disordered and
worthless—and their chief friends are the Ambassadors of
despotic Governments and their hangers-on.
The nomination of the Doctrinnaires is a concession
made to the Holy Alliance. By this measure it is de-
clared that a restoration is to take place in Balgium—that
the Germanic Confederation is to be encouraged in its
oppressive acts against the people of the smaller states—
that Don Pedro is no longer to look for protection or
countenance to the French Government—that Don Miguel
is to be recognised as King of Portugal—that Italy is to
be left to the surveillance of Austrian troop•—that
Switzerland is to be commanded not to revise her Federal
Pact ; and that the Treaties of 1814 and 1815 are to be
strictly carried into execution by the Government of the
Barricades.
The nomination of the Doctrinnaires is the adoption of
the principles of Government of the Restoration. Who
counselled Coups d'Etat?—The Doctrinnaires ! Who took
the strongest measures against the Press during the reign
of Louis XVIII?—The Doctrinnairis! Who advised
that Monarch to resort to oppressive measures and fierce
persecutions against his political opponents ?—The Doc-
trinnaires! Who made the scaffold stream with blood in
the first years of the Restoration ?—The Doctrinnaires !
Who, when they were no longer in office, joined against
the Restoration—hut not in favour of National Institu-
tions ?—The Doctrinnaires ! Who, when the Revolution
of 1830 took place, kept themselves hid in obscurity until
they thought that the " loaves and fishes" had to be
divided?—The Doctrinnaires ! Who rushed to the Palais
Royal and advised the Citizen King to throw himself on
the support of the Aristocracy, and not of the " Canaille?"
—The Doctrinnaires ! Who have ever since opposed the
wishes of the mass, both as to questions of foreign and
domestic policy—and have always been exclaim•
ing, " What should THE PEOPLE know about such
matters?" The Doctrinuaires ! Who counselled the
state of the siege of Paris ?—The Doctrinnaires ! Who
advised measures of exception and Military Courts ?—The
Doctrinnaires! Who was it that thus rendered it neces-
sary for the highest Law Court in the country to dec'are
that the measures of the Government were illegal and un-
constitutional ?—The Doctrinnaires! Who advised and
urged a crusade against the liberty of the Press—and have
sent hundreds of victims to prison for their political opi-
nions?—l answer the Doctrinnaires ! ! And now they are
in power—now they have seized the helm of the State—
now, when the vessel is leaky, and the anchor is lost, and
the masts are *hot away, and the crew is in mutiny, and
when nothing but the oational colours remain to revive
or encourage—who is it that dares to lay their sacrilegious
hands even on this very flag, with the intention of sul,sti•
toting another which is despised, loathed, and spit upon?
Why the Ductrinnaires !
These are facts ! Not theories-i-not passionate declama-
tions—not the expressions of disappointed hopes—not the
annoyed feelings of wounded patriotism, and mortified but
honest pride. No !—these are facts ! and yet these are the
men who in such hours of peril as those in which we
now live in France, are called to protect and defend the
natiopal interests of the gauntry! What infatuation!—

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What blindness!—What weakness ! —What ignorance of I
France !—What misapprehension of her wants and senti-
ments! It resembles the work of a madman who throws
about fire, and who tells you it's all but in sport.
The nomination of the Doctrinnaires has rallied, how-
ever, all true patriots under the same banner, and that
banner is liberty and France ! It is a fact which we re-
gret and deplore, that the friends of liberty have in these
days been somewhat divided. Some of those who love
their country and their kind with ardour and devotion
have seen themselves obliged to separate from the timid
and irresolute members of the Gauche. The Centre
Gauche is " Juste Milieu"—the Extreme Gauche is pa-
triotic and national—the Gauche is sometimes all that can
be desired, but at other times it is most lamentably timid.
The nomination of the Doctrinnaires has, however, de-
stroyed these differences and suspicions—has united all
lovers of liberty together—and, as in the days of the Po-
lignac Administration, so now in the days of the Guizot
and Broglie Cabinet, the Deputies are uniting in one great
body to overturn this obnoxious and anti-national Go-
verntnent. As it is with the Deputies, so is it also with
the Press. The debtor and creditor accouut of the Jour-
nals with the Doctrinnaires may be stated as follows, and
remember that, as I have proved to you in some recent
letters that the Journals of France represent public opi-
nion, this account is conclusive :
FOR THE DOCTRINNAIRES. AGAINST THE DOCTRINNAIRES.
1. The Debats, whose pro- 1. The Constitutionnel.
prietor is now made a Peer 2. The Courrier.
as a reward for his so 3. The Commerce.
doing. 4. The National.
2. The France Nouvelle, 5. The Tribune.
which is the journal of M. ft. The Messager.
de Montalivet, named In.: 7. The Revolution.
tendant-General of the Civil 8. The Temps.
List. 9. The Gazette.
3. The Nouvelliste, paid 10. The Quotidienne.
6,000 francs per month to 11. The Courrier de l'Europe.
write for the Government. 12. The Edna Francais.
Thus the only paper which advocates conscientiously the
cause of the Doctrinnaires the Debats; for even the
France Nouvelle, though the journal of Montalivet, has
admitted that the names of Guizot, Broglie, and Humann
are unpopular ; and the Nouvelliste, though paid 6,000
francs per month, is so wisely fearful of losing its subscri-
bers if it should take the part of the Doctrinn tires, that
it is compelled to round its periods in favour of the system
of the 13th March, and says as little as possible of the
men who compose the Government of the 11th October.
This unanimity on the part of the Press is conclusive ;
for the Courrier, Constitutionnel, Temps, Messager,
and Commerce unquestionably represent the talent, pro-
perty, and even aristocracy of the country. The National,
Tribuue, and Revolution certainly represent the active
and zealous patriotic portion of the country ; and the
Gazette, Quotidienne, Courrier de l'Europe, and Echo
Francais certainly represent the Priests, Nobles, and all
the various shades of Royalists of the country. These are
facts which are indisputable ; and it is then undeniably
true that public opinion is opposed to the Doctrinnaires;
the Royalists have no confidence in Guizot, Broglie, Hu-
mann, and Thiers. They know they are unable to carry
through a counter-revolution ! The Royalists believe that
the counter-revolution will be made, hut feel confident
not by the Doctrinnaires. The Royalists know that
the Doctrinnaires commenced the ruin of their cause
in the reign of Louis XVIII., and completed that
ruin in 1830, when, after having counselled violent
measures, they ran away from Charles Xs at the hour of
peril. Charles X. was deceived by the Doctrinnaires—
deceived by the party Agier—and so, when he contemplated
with Polignac and Peyronnet a revolution in favour of an
absolute Monarchy, he did so relying on the Doctrinnaires,
who in the hour of peril forsook him. Charles X. was
a stupid old fellow—but the Doctrinnaires were hypocrites
and scoundrels. They were neither faithful to the Monarchy,
nor faithful to the nation, and they are, therefore, re-
jected by both.
The first act was of course to convoke the Chamber;
but this meeting was postponed until the 19th November !
The dreaded day was put off as long as possible. The
Ministers sought to hold their portfolios to the latest hour.
They wish to chive the Chamber of Deputies into a
corner. They hope, that as the Budget is not vwed for
1833, the Chamber will be afraid of stopping the public
service by refusing a vote of credit ; and they trust that,
this vote of credit being obtained, they shall be able to go on.
M. Guizot knows he is hated—the Duke de Broglie knows
lie is not confided in—M. Thiers knows he has deserted the
cause of the people for that of the Holy Alliance—and M.
Hurnann knows he belongs to a partywhich is abhorred—and
therefore they know that their only chance is to brave public
opinion—to set at defiance public indignation, and to rely
on the conviction that the Chamber of Deputies will not
refuse them the " Ways and Means." With the " Ways
and Means," they say, "we can go on, remain in office,
and by degrees effect our object—a counter-revolution !"
But that vote of credit they will not have—those " ways
and means" will not be placed at their disposal—the Ad-
dress of the Chambers to the King will condemn their
nomination, their policy, and their intrigues--and the
Doctrinnaires will learn, with thejuste milieu, that France
is not to be cajoled out of her revolution.
The SECOND ACT of this Doctrinnaire Cabinet is a cir-
cular letter written by SOULT, and addressed to the First
President and Procureurs-General, the Lieutenants-General
commanding the Military Division, the Maritime Prefects,
and the other Commanders of the Departments. Soult
has written this circular as President of the Council. It
is therefore not his act, as Minister of War alone, but as
the head of the Cabinet. This circular, written from a
Minister of War and a soldier, looks too much like mili-
tary government. There is too much of the Empire about
it to please or to satisfy France. It is not in accordance
with the spirit or principles of the Revolution of July,
which placed Louis Philip on the throne. The letter says
that the new Ministry " will be jealous of the dignity of
France—and not less devoted to the glory of the country
than to its surety." This is false ; a Ministry composed
of four Doctrinnaires, and of such men as Barthe
and Soult added to them, cannot intend to watch over
the glory and dignity of France. Their very mill-
nation is sufficient to give the lie to this asser-
tion. Who encouraged this nomination?—Prussia. Who
was delighted to see it made 7—Holland and Austria.
Who, in consequence of that nomination, would be in-
clined to postpone his meditated measures of attack against
France 7—The Emperor of Russia. These are known
facts. I mean, known to those who are aware of what is
really going on in Europe. And what are the intrigues and
the conferences of the Foreign Ambassadors at Paris ?
And why do these Foreign Powers desire, and why will
they hail with pleasure, the nomination of a Broglie and a
Guizot Cabinet ? The reason is equally obvious and well
known. Because they desire a counter-revolution in
France—the restoration in Belgium—and the triumph
once more of the principles of the Holy Alliance.
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at least ruined ! And at home the consequences of the
revolution of 1830 are to be refused—the extravagant
system of the restoration is to be persevered in—sine-
cures and profuse expenditure are to be uncurtailed—and
whatever the restoration did which was anti-national and
illiberal, that is to be repeated by the Doctrinnaires. Poor
France ! Unhappy King ! !
But the circular letter appears to promise that the
Carliats are to be put down. It says, "If the party of
the fallen government shall dare again to brave legal
authority, a rigorous justice will be done to them, and
their foolish hopes will be destroyed !" Is this sincere 7
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what solution ? Why, the circular itself tells us before
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hand. This solution is to be attained "in concert with
the Powers our allies"— or, in other words, with Russia!
Prussia! Austria! Holland ! Spain ! and Portugal ! as
well as England and Belgium. Then what sort of asolu-
tion can be reasonably expected ? Why, only such a
one as will be unfavourable to the cause of civilization,
and to the destruction of the greatest happiness, principle.
The circular concludes as it commences—.with a false-
hood ! It says, " France is free, and she is respected !"
She is not free, and she is not respected. She has not
tasted the fruits of her glorious and just Revolution.
The men who now propose to govern her hate that
Revolution. Those who have joined them have for-
saken their former principles, for the sake of the honours
and emoluments of office. The Ministry of the 11 th
of October is as anti-national as that of the Prince Polignac.
The 'rump ACT of the new Doctrinnaire Government
is the appointment of 62 new Peers ! ! These Peers are
counter-revolutionary Peers ! None of them belong to the
revolution, and none of them, except at must three,
have ever rendered any service to the cause of
liberty. Some of these Peers are Royalists ! ! Yes,
Berthezene, Rayneval, Berbis, Bertin, &c. are
Royalists ! Some of them are quasi legitimists, ! Look
at such names as Gautier, Cousin, Preissac, Louis, Girod,
&c- Some of them are Buenapartists—mere lovers of
arbitrary power and despotic Militrary Government, such
as Brayer—Grouchy—Grange—Heudelet, and a host of
others. But where are the patriotic members of the new
batch of Peers ? There are none—or at most but three ! !
All the rest will vote for Broglie and the Doctrinnaires—
vote for illegal measures, and measures of exception—
vote for the state of siege and domiciliary visits—and will

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consent to be led by the nose by Guizot or Villernain ! !
I cannot examine to-day the lives and characters of all
these 62 new Peers—but I can estimate them in mass,
and I know I am right when I tell you that all except three
would view rather with pleasure, or without regret, a
counter-revolution.
But this measure—so sudden, so unexpected, so un-
called-for, so opposed to the spirit of the Charter, is also
contrary to the letter of the Constitution and of the law.
The law and the Charter decided that only certain classes
of persons should be named as Peers, whilst individu ils
belonging to none of these categories have been appointed.
The Charter decided that none should he appointed Peers,
who had not rendered services to the State, or who were
not so named on account of their wealth or learning. But
several me❑ now named Peers have never rendered any
service to the State—never adorned science or the arts—
and are as poor as church mice. The Charter further
declared that the nomination of Peers should be individual,
and that each ordinance should set forth the services ren-
dered by each Peer so appointed, in order that Court
intrigue and favouritism might be destroyed. But the
ordinances appointing these men give no reasons for their
nomination, except their titles; and many who bear those
titles deserve a very different qualification.
Thus, the three first acts of this Doctrinnaire Cabinet
are manifestly opposed to the wishes of France—to the
spirit of the Charter—to its letter—and with the evident
object of bringing about a counter revolution.
" Unhappy France ! Unhappy King !1'

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