The Sun.
London, England, 1819-06-18 00:00:00

FRENCH REGICIDES.

We extract the following article from Galig-
stani's Messenger, the English Journal published
in Paris, heartily agreeing with the writer, and
not doubting that the miscreants who have al-
ready been suffered to return to France will even-
tually produce a new Revolution in that country,
and the consequent disturbance throughout
Europe :--

" Much disquisition has been excited in the
French Journals on the delicate subject of the re-
cal of the Regicides ; and it is pleaded by the Ad.
vacates for that measure, that his 51ajesty, having
granted a solemn amnesty, and guarantee that all
past political offences should be forgotten flow
the moment of his re-establishment on the Throne,
is not justified in thus making use of his regained
power to punish men for crimes, over the com-
mission of which he had himself thrown a
veil ; but to this it may be replied, that the
amnesty in question was virtually a conditional
one ; it did not say indeed in words, " 1 par-
don the past on the express condition that
you never desert my standard for that of an
enemy who may usurp my Throne," because
the possibility of such an occurrence was not
then recognized ; but surely any one, oust wilfully
blind, must at once see that such a convention
was implied in the very act of oblivion. Louis
XVIII. returned in 1814 to tranquillize his dis-
tracted country ; he promised the people a Char
ter which should insure them against the aggres-
sions of any possible future despotism ; and most
religiously he fulfilled his word. He was received
by those Regicides with all the hollow devotion
of tilt-deep loyalty; they professed the bitterest
remorse for their former crimes ; they swore—
" Oh, ye Gods ! how they did swear I" the most
unbounded attachment to himself, and he believed
them. He even took some of them into his con-
fidence to be his Nlinisters and his Counsellors.
" One little year—uo—not one year" had re-
volved, and Napoleon Buonaparte returned to
France to set Europe once again into a ferment :
well, what was the conduct of these same Mi-
nisters, " this Council's consis:oty; these se-
cond selves ?" Did they continue faithful? oh yes,
they flocked in crowds to the steps of the Throne,
to assure their Sovereign of their most unbound-
ed fidelity ; they imprecated the divine vengeance'
on their heads, if they would not perish sooner
than desert their venerable Monarch, their adored
King. The Invader approached the capital.
" Fear not, Sire," was the cry. " The
Brigand, while we have life, shall never violate
the Throne of your sacred self.'"—Buonaparie
arrived.—'' But where was the constancy, never
to yield, the loyalty never to fade ?" alas,
" Ilene, Tekel, Uphursin," when " weighed
in the balance, they were indeed found wattling."
In one moment did these men desert that Mo-
narch whom a few hours before they had pledged
themselves by every engagement, divine and hu-
man, to meet death for. On the second restora-
' tion, it was esteemed advisable to weed the land
of those viperous spirits, whom no generosity
could hind, no tenderness attach ; and accordingly
the Ordonnance of the 24th July, 1815, was is-
sued. Yet these are the men whom, by some
strange inversion of argument, Louis is desired to
bring back to his Councils, to his esteem. Far
be it from us to break the reed already bent ; but
neither must a morbid sentimentality induce
us ...o shut our eyes to the danger arising from
the adoption of such a measure as the recal of
those Regicides. For those who have been ba-
nished from metres of only temporary expe-
diency, we feel no doubt but that the ready
clemency of his Majesty will be extended to the
least offending. What gives additional stability
to this opinion is, the apparently well-founded
rumour that Marshal Souk, Lieutenant-General
Piri, General Pommereuil, Count Real, and Di-
rat, banished by the Ordonnance of July 1815, as
well as Messrs. Faucher d'Aubigny, Eschasse-
riaux, Thabaud, and Lemailland, banished in Ja-
nuary 181 G, have received permission to return to
France. But, reverting to the Regicides—what
pledge can they give of their future fidelity? could
one be found which they have not already broken ?
even we ourselves should become their advocates ;
but how dreadfully apposite to the case in point
are the following lines from the " Master Spi-
rit"—

K. Rich,—Say I will lore her everlastingly.
Qu. how long shall that title ever last?
K. Rich.—Sweetly in force until her sweet life end.
Qu. Elir.—But how long fairly shall her sweet life last ?

_ .
K. Rich.—Now by my George, my Garter, and any Crown,
I swear—
Qu. Eliz.—By nothing, for this is no oath.
Thv George profaned, bath lost his holy honour—.
Thy Garter We:misled, pawn'd his knightly virtae—.
Thy Crown usurp'd, disgracid his kingly glory.
If thou wouldst swear to be believed,
Swear then by something that thou bast not wroned.
4- • R * • i •

What were I best to say?-
* • • or shall I say, her uncle,
Or lie Who slew her brothers, and her uncles ?
Under what title shall I woo fur thee

Rich. 111. Act. 4.
'We shall not weaken the force of this, by the
addition of another line.**

Ms LOST CHILD.—TIie following particulars,
relative to Elizabeth Telford, though containing
little new information, may be thought in some
degree interesting, merely as connected with the
circumstance of her wonderful preservation. The
fortunate person, who found the infant, was Mr,
Matthew Jackson, of Fell Dyke, whose steps seem
to have been " Heaveu directed ;" for such was

[ie situation of the reposing infant, that it appears

little short of a miracle, that the discovery was
made at that time. "The principal facts were de-
tailed last week.—The child is now cheerfully
playing with its compitions, " with ruddy, rosy
cheeks," apparently in good health. From her
tender years, little information is to be expected.
" She played sometimes, and sometimes slept ;
sometimes awaked when it was dark, and then
went again to sleep. Could nut find the way
home, but thought her wammy would be coming
for ?ter ; saw a man once and a red dog with him,
hut hid herself, for fear he should Lill her."—
Nothing further can be obtained from her, as to
the long and desolate state of her accidental se-
clubiuu frout_society,—(Cumisrlitni Packet