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A
new periodical Work, under this title, came
rtli with the new year, and .as we, observe from
first Number that it evidently possesses very
Orinr claims to Public notice, ,«e take this
ofTnrtimity of bringing our Headers ac,
isinted,with its merit.
There is, at least for our tiMes,cnnsiderable
ality in the design it is to cultivate the
ltte-
ry intercom St, of PEACE, and conjoin in one
lblicatiall, which appear si:nultan?,ously' in
rend) at Paris and in English at London, Essays
the most import nut topics Minn"' to all "a-
rms, and derived from the heat so,irco of
'ttion in each. The Correspondents whose letters
cmitahied in the Number before os are clearly
re rank in life to which the sources of intelli-
'nee are open, and endued with talents to make
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4,IVS, and the:initials employed seem to
notion ity truth that thP Editor is Dr.SToonAwr
"Jltusrtpe►tmost of the eigor-nis politteal
wisitions .
recently published ill the Tiuies N(
liter are attributed. The. Duke de Les
tlvetcAtihtlx,NrYi M..•SarvITHEY., and other etni7
tilt Literati ari!.mentioned as being stinting the
Iliess contributors, tend the letter which We Se".
" as a .sPecilnett of the manner in which
work is conducted, we beliey :• I-e ‘‘'‘ nay safely
,
etthe to 1,11, rle CHATEAUBLIAND.
17t!' (4)Serle from the Introduction that not only
tlitical, !floral, and literary subjects ,arc Pr°Pns'
' to It't di,
eusqed in the sequent Nnmbers,4blit
at tlie Arts, the Drama, and in short every thing
4411 rutty be considered as eliaracteristie of Na.
I's Are within the scope those who
lottedlottedthis Iludf'rklking,.The present Volume
Lit,„lrt,(l and fifty.six pages) has n'ot entered
';" the luster subjects, hut is' chiefly moral; tin"
811(1 bistorichl, It treats of the agricul-
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Municip;l Corporations, in two good
IlaYs ; there IS a biography of JOHN IVULEY'
e founder of tile Methodists, placing the 8".
oy in as amiable a point of view as• the Writer
I.
81. c 64,1 possibly manage ; account of
Le,igue of Virtue •
and politlCal Societies in
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t.
hy NV, J.; a short notke of the' claimantS
' be Ju"Nms, Which denitts that
site i
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‘-`‘e letters is yet kn,,:rn ; thelluY"::1
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; -the' ahnse of the terms .cLibe*
'leas" "(1 `` Ultra Ro‘faliSt," a good article
the Count E; on the Electoriai Colleges
Vrance, possessing useful infornititi" ; on
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!beaus or eradicating on the
mentlicity ;
ate
rtf Pttrties in Prance ; the revision of II"'
cod, the
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of the present
L'ollter of I)eptities, and Oil Fooetta's cele-
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indled a I""sterly iTiftrillet, and tried with re-
r'llee to the unerring p. rincitilea justice 8114
uth.
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this brief sketch a s.electinn from the C°rrts"
r
,ticlettt, witislt WC think trill justify our favour-
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I'oxl liI.STATE ov.PARTIES IN FRANCE.

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"To J. St. Estz.
" Paris, Deceit%Tort, Ulla.
Of Nry.
14
41
11le State
of °lir affairs, I ',plied to have l""i
rt,'",ire in failillia. a promise, which I hail plea-
ilkt:',""kii,g ; hut I now sit down to write,
3 heart • far I fuel, that in ilopitie too
tigilittel ~, ii I. yl. I have promised too larguly: A. per..
eo,(A4BlP,telotliced in my I,ivottr, I, z...., ha bituatt d
, "" te or 'tie without re,het re, .wtmiti not fail ,to
ii:thllletl ; nay, I eau easily conceivet that the
ihtt tittrey..
1 tto credulity would hesitate to believe
lir' ""'s I have now to recount. Prepare
: lell, then, fora surprise of Ito Coillilioli force;
~It''eie to lte,tr What put coulei never have sus-
, 11, Wilrit 'II ' t .1
I.:t ji 11 iitilitiou would llot,
."
thoU ,I •.‘ vi LS 1 `l,
'r„ 1, I,t tat. invent ing—trut Its which resemble
t'. II) and which will.pass fur. fiction With 1105"
Y,..--youssliall judge.
• i-
ntitt tit‘e Illonietit of yitur leaving Paris, the sat f 1,11
id 1‘ ranee teemed to present visible marks u
kl.t( 'lll't.' Iltere was thiteb poll In intention ;
'4B softie in result. One or two men, anl-
- iti i i
and
tin ' ce.o, bnt still obscure, bad begniitt -. 'r,;t st bettdo.; to rake themselves above the TO'
~,,,,,"f the nation ; it few worn,,,out • intriguers
411,,ti5;0, but without ail apparent suocess, to re.-,
10,3eti'e threetion of publit opinion : some agy
more illtilaciOUS, or more bliarp-sightetit
111 ii,._.. ,
t. "ell partners in fraud, appeared now t.tutl.
1). iii
N the W: re bock-ground of the polii cal
11i,'''' ftelie from ‘vhich they seemcd 1)11 the eve
41,19)1w4vitig for 'ever. Certainly.' that great
II 14;11"f Eur6,Pe, which is culled the Radiutionv
i ' "nil dus hot kiNienr, to he riitliehily :enrol.
en"ely thing indicated, that its ravages ha",
ft:n""iilly arrested, thatjhey would spreml I,kii.llger and that in two or, three generations,
14 .4'l .tveatnient would quite tinitiliOate its ye-
'. tvery thin,' nri,li..4 ....1 -i, -' • ' -

. ,
• 'Le 111.4v,p11 pf .
or iostilutio•ns tO
heaths, devote({ to ha
,Ktll4) to the lawful dyucts-
ty, and to the coostitutional character ; perietrated
with the necessity of those sacrifices vvhiell
nn-
happy events had imposed On her ; supporting her.
misfortunes with calmness, Out of affection to her
Siosereign ; and ipienchiag, from respect to his
will, the insist just resentmentss she offered an
sdnioahle spurt deli! to the world, a, noble, exam-
pie to history I . The hm-ne of Frelichmen, Solon;;
menacing and terrible, became something more,
:cod something better it was respectable, it w-aS
interesting; it showed, that a society of mom is
never so tt,;gust, as when it has lost every thins—
but honour:
You remember our happy 'chimeras, our
Unit-
plan hopes !—Well, -even these scented really
about to be accomplished -;;Vehen ail Opposition,• as
sip-lege as it was unexpected--a--Belt I forget, that
it is hoe, that your astonishment nisst begin ; or
rather, that you will not Ice able to 'comprehend
use, unless I depict, with the greatest distinctness,
both persons and events. Indeed, there is no great
art required, in this sketch ; for the features ate ,
ritost Stroll4l, the colours most glaring.
" You must nave ohservel lwo classes of men in
Franee : one of, them large, but inert, tending
,tiwtys to repose,' as the chief good, and perhaps
the principal aim- of. the social state, sees in po-
litics nothing, but a Wean of order and stability :
the Other, much less numerons, but notch more
active (and consequently powerful, when :lot re-,
presje4),,,,,,gris tormented ,ley, ilesikes , nothing
;..4;an tilveasesby passicins whiehnothifig.can calm,
and incessantly pints after new Revolutions ; he-
.canse the bope'of change is a compensation, which
• the ~11tuighty has 'thought: fit to antic, in this
world, to the. painful .disquiet of the wicked.
Again, the first of these two parties is,coniposed
of those, who are in all 'countries distinguished as,
honest men. With the exception of tdit ht lovai
ri:fferences, they are every, where diltinguished by
the same inarks,, they move ,always in the same
path, and they !lever ifdil to orrive, sooner or I .ter,
at the 'Same result, iu all welkegulated commu-
nities , that is to say, in all Snell courniunnies,
they secure an ultimate triumph to kotice and.
morality : and 'if they did not obtain this resills,
the community must cease to exist ; ttitlCC no po-
litical body airs ,survive its own vital principle.•
The other,,party, which I, have no need to distin-
,gnish by `name, gains advantages more precarious,
hut at the same time more tirdiing. It concurs in
forming institntions, only that ,it may the better
knows their. weak pads, and overturn theta the
more easily.. It submits .to the sceptre, , only so
long asit is too weak to bur: the .Slonarch from
the throne. Every step, in its progress to power,
is a stet) toward the dissolution of the State: every
conquest, dial it miski;„ is a homage to death
anti anus Authscions and do catening,
tinder the weal; Governinents, which yield i:S
fit at attack ; ptorltgal leigned caresses, and by.
denWiihr ratitoOS. of fidelity to. those,,
'which are uresoltite, or off their guard; it is, tie.
vfO !iv:lest , easily retniced to submission hy those,
which k now , And
.1 ear not to talploy their own
strength ; for the parts of whichl speak,i ,stion
uniasked, its inconceivable impatience alwass
it, beyond the hounds of dikqetion, and uti
projects are so Open, dolt- they'Crinlitit Old' to be
anticipated by' any, reesonable prinlente.. One
.naturally suppose, that such a party nresi
► every is here cease to. be dsngerotts, front the mo-
ment thsi it' %Jews .are. diseovered. One would
imagine that this must especially lir the case
in
France,.where the, events OF the '2,0111 of Xlarell
brought the men ,o 1 no piincsple distinctly for-
t ward, and Fascicled them in contrast .with.the
honest and virtuous ; even as we ate told,. the
goats will be separated from the lambs, turtle day
ut judgmeot. sand yet, My divat t;:ese very
nice, so unmasked, so exhibited in open thy-light
to the discrimination of tbe whole %%sold : iliese,
say, are the men whom, here in France, O the
time that I write to you, it is the fashion to call
Hie constitutional porty, toe friends of tile K
tilt supporels of legitimate Government !
This is the party, Sir, which assumes io be the
'exclusive organ of pubiic opioion—s he party
which France presents to astonished Europe, as
the guarantee of our hon Our, and, tit the stability
of the nyineiples which we patters. As to those
faithful Royalists, whose sufferings havissflorded
ao rough a test of their virtues, they, forsooth,
Are a set of ignorant oreatiiretr, tar behind the
present age in` reformation, obs final e blockheads,
fanatics, flay, at Jast, yebels t Don't- suppose,
Sir, that titese strange definitions are the irony, of
wounded spirit which gives vent to its feelings
jrl sarcasrli and hyperbole. Nos',they are cited
merbatinz:.tirey are sae ,ordinaryleingintee of the
day ; they are classieal, I believe I may say, (A-
. They enjoy.licre'all the moral. authority of
pamphlets, all the intallibiLit y of jonrnals, all the
dignity of the stisiso conMiunicationsof poliCe.-
opposition to ills Monarchy is the term given
ni
the modern, disleet
.of the Barest!, to the Mist
stows, the last efforts, of those generous French-
Meo-who have lived only fot the Royal coase.—
Was in promising that you should hear
tvonders,?
• ",.Yes. Sir, there is a Constitutional party in
France.S it is the party which Isav made and nu-
made. seven or eight constitutions. There is is
Monarchical party; it is the party which has
abolished the Monarchy, as far as ii possibly could.
There is a y attached to t he Bourbons ; it is the
party which noirdesed Louis XVI. On a scaffold,
ilnintiledj,OinS XVII. in a dungeon, and drove
Louis..XVIII. twice from his throne. ..There
.is, top, in France, you mast know, a party
which is devoted to Liberty, namely, the par-
ty which sold her to Buolinposte, There is a
patty which desires' Equal Rights, to wit, the
party which has inherited the rights. of every
body else, and:which at this 1110inelit
it he by privilege, or by prescription, I know
unt,), possesses exclusively the right of
rnissibidity to 'llll public employments. Not to
trouble youloo far,wili enuniefetion, there
is a party. which stands np fors security of pro-
pert y+,; And which has never ceased to confistate
for the sake of plunder, and to proscribe for the
sake of confiscation. lii flue, this is the French
part v, die party which palls .itself French for ex-
cellkuce rind.conception ; but which would make
if that were I)o3Sible, at beuri" 1-1•;•

4;11,10 t)y !fly:3'o rsf tileso *rrt:!4•,,
L'l"llCe ;;as been so ovvriva,:e.l with eakini y, in
time past, awl is .lireatened with so much
11 Emmy come.

But this is not all; Sir. There is anothrt
party, enterprisin,;., tumultuous, seditious ! It Ii ,
the party t,t those poor old Men, who have brosight
back trout exile nothing hut the antiqu.ated dress
and the noble sword of theAti ancestors; tuid whoie
Minds, docile to mistortiine,, are not even soured
b'y insult, a thousand times harder to bear _than
adVersity: it is that of those delicate but timorous
consciences, which would willingly preserve Cue
interests of morality, by sub Scribing to.
,the ar-•
rangements of policy,: and distingnsli irreparable'
events from principles, the loss- of Which only is
irreparable; it is that of thJse Citizen+Warrios,:
Who passed without ambition from the plough to
Coil wand 01 armies, in the cause oof .6ods,
their King, and their country; and who went.;
back to the plough,, without reCotopense and
without regret : but always devoted to the state
cause—Ound oscine !—Finally, it is that of those.
'exemplary patriots whom 'the Revolution seduced
when ti no only a delusion; alarniell when it
became a wime, wearied When it Was. a folly,
and. disgusted when it wal:the Watchword of in-
triguers, robbers, and scoundrels. Add to, the
it fired descriptions of persons that I have men-
tioned;
.the hnoiense number of Frenehmen who
are inclined to peace, who are fatigued, who are
sick Of all that they have seen, who are anxious
to hoovv, once tor all, what' they have to rely On
—and,,,yel Will find, that the whole forms a party,
which, is calumniated when it is 'described its
alarming: but which is certainly not misrepre,•
sented to be numerous.
" To learn the secret of the present state of
affairs, Sir, ytin 'teed only the key to the words
that are. ii faShion. By the words Constitutional
or Unconstitutional then; as aPplied,to persons,
you must understand the very opposite of what
each appears, at first sight, to si,,toity. The Con-
stitutional men are the melt who will not intve.
.any law, any constitution; or, what is much 'the
saute citing, will change laws and constitutions
when they like, or when they can gain any thing
by the change. The Unconstitutional men are
they who hope th find a guarantee in the consti-
tution,o,llws, against the de facto triumphs of the
IteNolution. You ask me, what are the Ministe-
rialists ? 1 can'only say, .they are neither consti-
tutional nor unconstitutimial ; the only preten-
shin they have is, to he eternal. The); know, by
long experience, that good places are salutary -and
profitable to those who' hold them. 1 cannot
blame this,artiele of their faith. It is the ortho',
dox belief, both of ins and outs, in most'coun!
tries ; but the difference is, that Ministerialists in
sou:e countries (as, for instance, in England)
hare certain political predilections, which arc
stconger even than their love of place ; Whereas,
with os; they stick to their posts, by
,habit, with-
out exceptionbf Sovereign, of law, or of country.
The Revolution was a mine opened by pretended
philosophers, who knew not how to -work it, and
scroutlif by pretended legislattirs, who could ne-
ver have found the way to discover it : it was,
conquered' and :last by the soldiery; and, at last,
it has come to he divided among a handful of pc •
A circumstance: worthy of remark
-rhi, Stilt ohiespotisin kgainst rational liberty was
Headed in' vaiu by •Generals-SWord in band : it
has been gained by Clerks of• Office.
" It is needless to paint the effect which this
subsersion of principles and ideas produces on
public opinion. The natural consequence is, that
people thank the Rtryalists want either the power
to save France, or the inclination, or both ; since
they are hither feared or abatnlotted by the legiti-
mate authority; Another inference, equally reason-.
able, 'is, that the Revolutionists alone formed an
accurate judgment of the state of France : that
theyalone 'fflitierstOod: the country and were
able to govern it; since, liberated , by chance,
01)(1 tree torn. moment, it hastened ,to thro‘i.
itself a gait! 'into thtir bloody arms, and to
in ind laws, ms, limn their experience.
& ,is ,
deduction, tilt' very that melt, who sewn
re.ison IS() aptly,' tor the parlicuhir occasion,
ha,t. ;,I,,,ays reasoned fairly; that the authority.of
their !systems, and of their examples, does not
d,,tr to rely friM) the Bth of July, 1815, but was
equdly valid on the' '2oth of 11:.rcli preceding:
nay, on the 2tl of tieptember 1792 ; and that, if at
the end of the trial we see the Judge_ embracing
the criodual, it 's hecanie crime is becorite.justiCe.
Some tern unpleasant results, it rtrust be owned,
are produced' by this mode of reasoning. There
is in timid and auspicious minds a disquiet, a dis-
trust, a dissatisfaction; in weak souls .a
tliscoti-
rageme:nt ; there is even a degree of sorenetis,
about. certain characters, which are natu-
rally energetic and loyal,, but .Which are tome-
tilions, through sensibility, and Which think tit
hard, after sacrificing every thing, to be placed
below esteem, perhaps below indulgence. 'Dime
is, moreover, a genet al disorder. in men's judg-
ments past,events, and, consequently, in their
roles for fottire conduct—rules which have 'been
extremely unsettled throughout the whole course
of the Revolution. Again, another result is, that
total scant of security which always attends false
combinations, in politics, anti which is a stifficient
proof of their error, when they ate nothing worse
than errors.

" short, were it not for the love of the King,
that feeling which while it alarms public opinion
for the safety of a life, so dear to., us all,..sgtvelb,
at the same time, to keep that opinion ballasted
and steady, the terrible aim. of the .Anarchists
would have,heen long ago attained: scattered iu
an it-nom-Ise void without unity,-without harmony,
,wit hoot concentration, the elements of society
would have mutually repelled eadi other iu
reetions, and the body politic would have ceased to
exist. Even tinder llnottaparte, tinder that rnao:
who represented the character of. the are, with
so much power, a similar state of things, if it
had been possible to
,exist, could nut : have con,
tinned for a single day. Ilappiiy, there is iirwhat,
is morally good, a principle of preservation
stronger than any which the genius. of evil pos.
sews ; tvete it not so, the "rstate of the wovid"
would have been long since " undone."
Frinu all,that I have said, Sir, you wilt con.
cinfte that it is physically possible to save the
narchy, nay to save the Dynasty, even though
theitevolutionists have acceptiM it Save: the

flot%.*ll :ht.' Ineve sevntwei to iv,:
ore.Nr to ett,,:!,t thii physical o“Iti
aitly ht necess.gey -that they should const-nt to
,no longer 'tvlia: they have willed to this thy,
and to will sincerely what, they have never willed
at all ;, to comprett4nel, and to r...lpect, in short.
the rights ut a legit ictnre Government, and the
sanctity of oaths : .and 1,1 return for alllbe gold
and all the blood lavished nv them, anti for them,
honestly to restore pe.ece ti, Europe; reserving lb
themselves, with the,consent of all the Sovereigns,
the special getardiatishlp'of the throne,'
.At this
price, at least, we hit ve !tut a slight change
to stake in the noble and ,:;tivalremS exclamation
of the Royal Francis should have Itls6 no-
thing but honour.

This, however, is a problon, which, as it
depends on 'the good faith of those Gentlemen,
will not very 8001) be resolved.

" After the general -sketch which have bete
given you, it only.rentains for me to enter into
sore particular details, telative to the 'circuit).
tances of our preb't.nt situation. , communi!..
cation he perfectly frank and undisguisetl;
and •sh:dl lam the stibivet of a letter, which you
nnty expvet in a taw-days from -

40 Your sincere Friead,

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