The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-29 00:00:00

FRANCE.

CHAMBER, OF DEPUTIES—ScruNG OF FRIDAY.
The Chamber resumed the adjourned debate on the ad
dress. The following paragraph was adopted without any
discussion :

" A young Princess, sister of the Emperor of Brazil and of
the Queen of Portugal, has taken a place in the midst of
your family, and we share in the satisfaction felt by your
Majesty in a marriage which assures the happiness of one of
your sons, and adds to the consolations that God has re-
served to you."

The next paragraph was then read by the President

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" We are pleased to hope, Sire, that our rule in Algeria
will soon be general and tranquil, and that, thanks to our
perseverance, we are near the attainment of our object, and
on the point of finding, in the accomplishment of our work
and in the diminution of our sacrifices, the price of our efforts.
We unite with your Majesty in thanking, in the name of the
country, the chiefs and the soldiers of that brave army, who
are never weary either of the tati►,ues of war or of the labours
of peace. Among the chiefs of that army we are proud to

number one of your sons, whom we are accustomed t 0 see in
every point where France has either danggr to encounter or
glory to obtain."
➢t. Gustave de Beaumont, who was inscribed to speak on
that paragraph, observed, that lie considered a discussion en
Algeria to be indispensable, but as the question would again
come before the Chamber in the debate on the supplemen-
tary credits, he thought proper to postpone until then the
observations he had to offer on the subject.
The paragraph was then put to the vote and carried.
The next and last paragraph was afterwards read by the
President :

"Yes; Sire, your family is truly national; between France
and you the alliance is indissoluble. Your oaths and ours
have cemented that union. The rights of your dynasty re-
main placed under the imperishable guarantee of the inde-
pendence' and loyalty of the nation. The public feeling
brands with reprobation guilty manifestations. Our revolu-
tion of July, in punishing the violation of sworn faith, has
consecrated amongst us the sanctity of an oath."
M. de St. Marc Girardin, the reporter, having been called
to the tribune, said that the Commissioners on the ad-
dress had met in the morning to submit the para-
graph to a new discussion, and had agreed to insert in it the
following sentence :—" The rights of your dynasty arc
founded on the imperishable principle of the national
sovereignty." Considering, moreover, that the Legitimatist
demonstrations in London were reproved by the nation, and •
branded by the public feeling, they had been of opinion to
make no alteration in the expression of reprobation with
which they had stigmatised their conduct.
M. Bechard, who followed, said that the act,proposed to
the Chamber was very serious, that it was worthy of the
worst times of the revolution, and that it was impossible that
deputies could brand colleagues whom they were every day
in the habit of taking by the hand.
Having complained of an illegal act committed by the
Ministry, in publishing the decision of the Court of Cassation
in the case of M. D'efontaine, M. Dupin, the Attorney-General
of that Court, rose and declared that the Minister of Justice
was alone to blame for the act complainer' of by M. Bechard.
Messrs. Barrot„ Desmousseaux de Givt-e, and Chambolle,
were r3t4p..,1 el.;;
,onAlikinektent.
M. Berryer next addressed the Chamber, when a scene
took place which far surpassed any commotion ever witnessed
even in the House of Commons when at the utmost height of
excitement. The following outline of the proceedings is fur-

nished,by the correspondent of a Contemporary :
It had been previously expected that the trip toGhent would
be made a weapon for retaliation by the Legithnatists for the
attack made upon them ; and no sooner had M. Berryer
mentioned the circumstance, than the feeling it created was
immediately felt through the assembly.
M. 13emer was at the moment alluding to what he called
the injustice of branding a body of honourable men with po-
litical immorality who merely went, when the world was in
a state of profound peace, to pay their respects to the Duke
de Bordeaux, " thinking, as they did, that the principles
which might call that Prince to the throne offered the best
guarantees for the future glory of France," and anxious " to
talk to him of his country, and to tell him how much that
country wanted peace. yHe denied that in doing this they
had outstepped their duties as citizens, and he drew a parallel
between their conduct and the conduct of their accusers ,11 a
previous-occasion. " If," said M. Bcrryer, " we had gone to
the entrance into France to give political council to a
King in the midst of a hostile army." This evident allu-
sion to Ghent promised great confusion. Then, pointing to
M. Guizot, he added, " You glory in it ;" and as soon as the
tumult would allow, he appealed to the house " it the
parallel was not in his favour." M. Guizot was thus changed
from the accuser into the accused, and found it necessary to
defend himself. He immediately mounted the tribune, when
a scene ensued such as has seldom been witnessed. For
more than an hour M. Guizot stood in the tribune utterly
unable to obtain a hearing. " Yes, I have been at Ghent,"
said M. Guizot, but beyond that not one word would be
listened to. " Never," says the Constitutionnd, " have we
been present at such a tempest,—never in the Chamber have
we seen so forgetful a tumult." On other occasions we have
seen some sympathy for an orator who boldly faced the
storm, but it is impossible to give that satisfaction to M.
Guizot. He struggled against manifestations which rose
from all parts of the assembly, and he fought for a deplorable
cause which the whole nation condemns as energetically as
the Chamber. The interruptions came principally from the
Opposition benches. "It is treason—it is infamous," were
vociferated from the opposition in the midst of the
ringing of the President's bell, and noise and clamour
on all sides. In vain did M. Guizot attempt to pro-
ceed. He repeated the words, " I went to Ghent,' and the
storm immediately recommenced. He then expressed his
surprise that he should not be allowed to explain now, though
on a former occasion his explanations had been listened to;
but this was answered with " No, no, we have always pro-
tested," " Treason never prescribes," and other exclamations
equally complimentary. M. Guizot showed admirable cool-

ness and courage under such disagreeable circumstances. —He
stood the storm coolly, and with indomitable patience. " You
may exhaust your strength," said he, in a moment of compa-
rative calm, "'but you cannot exhaust my courage." Still he
struggled on, commencing with the same unhappy—" I went
to Ghent." At length M. Ernest de Girardin brought things
to a climax by calling out " You are a traitor," in which he
was joined by the Opposition. Even in these circumstances
M. Guizot was calm. He merely asked M. Girardin to ex-
plain what lie meant from the tribune, to which M. Girardin
replied, " No, I will not mount the tribune, but I tell you
from my place that you have betrayed your country, and
that you passed the evening before the battle of Waterloo
with foreigners ; that is infamous." Even after this the
most opprobious epithets were thrown out against M.
Guizot, and it was only after repeated solicitations on the
part of M. Barrot, and M. Dupin, that he was allowed to
proceed.
When M. Guizot's defence was at last heard, it consisted
in this—that finding, as all men of sense knew, that the res-
toration of Louis the 18th to France was inevitable, he went
to Ghent togive his political advice,for he thought it more de-
sirable that the Bourbons should return under the conditions
of a charter than as counter-revolutionists. But M. Guizot
seemed to forget that this was just what M. Berryer pro-
perly- called waiting for the misfortunes of France to justify
his conduct. He, however, drew a good distinction when lie
said that his conduct might be very differently estimated, if,
after going to Ghent, and before their entrance into France,
he had again taken his " seat in the convention, which ac-
knowledged the party opposed to them.
M. Berryer's defence is rather a singular one. He draws
a distinction between the oath which was taken to the elder
branches of the Bourbons, and that taken to the present
dynasty. The former was an unconditional oath to the per-
sons of the monarchs, the present was merely an oath bind-
ing them to observe the order of things established by the
national will, but that neither be nor any one else intended
to bind himself to "resist all solicitation for a fresh manifes-
tation of the national will," and he denied that the oath he
had taken was one of fidelity to King Louis Philippe per-
sonally. It would appear that French oaths of fidelity to the
" King of the French" are not without " evasion, equivoca-
tion,"or mental reservation."

After the speech of M. Guizot, the debate was adjourned
till the following day.
SITTING OF SATURDAY.

The President took the Chair at half-past one.
The tribunes appropriated to the public were crowded to
excess, the front seats being occupied by ladies.
The following is the last paragraph as at present proposed
by the Committee, the amendment of M. Bethmont for the
insertion of the words " national sovereignty" having been
agreed to by them.
" Yes, Sire, your family is truly national. Between France
and you the alliance is indissoluble. The rights of your
dynasty, founded on the imperishable principle of national
sovereignty, are guaranteed by your oaths and ours. The
public conscience brands with reprobation guilty manifesta-
tions. Our revolution of July, by punishing the violation
of sworn faith, has consecrated amongst us the sanctity of an
oath." •

The vkange in the above consists in substituting "national