The Sun.
London, England, 1818-03-02 00:00:00

every where ; the cation was ripe for revolution ;
it was ready to burst forth. The Ministry, by
measures, as AiiiSt• as firm, prevented the ordon-
mince of the sth September and crushed the Hydra.
The prisons in all the Departments were gorged
with. suspected victims ; an enquiry was insti-
tuted, and against 99 in 100 not the slightest
shadow of a charge existed ; in CuczAY's Depart-
ment, not one was found nut of 280, against
whom even their enemies could substantiate a
charge. The prison doors were opened ; the or-
donnance of sth September saved the throne and
saved France ; its results restored thousands of
Innocent victims to their families.

It might be conceived that the Ministry, indig-
nant, inspired by a spirit of vengeance, 'would
have also begun its epurations ; but no, it left its
very enemies in place, hoping, by magnanimous
s.entiments, towards them, to convert them ; but
this hupg;was often blasted. The tiger dies not
easily renounce his nature ; and the Ministry was
forced to make a few examples,—bnt they only
made a few.; The Government has shewn itself
unwilling to shtit the door Of repentance. The
Ministers so far detested the name and idea of a
Revolution, that they would not make their epu-
ustions en masse, as they might and perhaps ought
to have done; they sacrificed their resentment to
the wish to consolidate the throne.

Now in this I not only see prudence ,but cou-
rage. The Ministry proceeds with. a firm and
steady step right 'forward,. it turns neither to the
right or left, and will not stoop to vengeance,
which would have betrayed 'marks of weakness
and alarm : and such indeed has been its firm and
steady step, that the false friends of tie King,
and his open enemies, have not for a moment
made it deviate from its route. The Minisity
shews itself liberal, because, bon gre mal-gre,
France can only be brought to obey a liberal Go-
vernment.

The Law on the Elections, atiA that on Re-
cruiting►, are not, whatever may have been said
to the contrary, Anti-Monarchical ; they are, it
is tree, favourable to an equality in the eye of the
law; but there is nothing to be !lone with French-
men, if you would either restore the old privi-
leges or create new ones, and laws nmst be made
for men, as we cannot make men for the laws.

If die Ministry, on two such essential points,
have ceded to public opinion, we must also con-
fess that it has resisted the blind zeal of those
who would surround the Throne with purely Re-
publican institutions.
You observe France from the banks of the
Thames,—l from the banks of the Seine, and in
the capital, in the society of the principal actors
of all parties. At every step I discover the hatred
which all partieS bear the Ministry, which is, to
me at least, a proof that it is not the accomplice
of any. The Jacobins and the Ultras are equally
violent against it ; and vow it. bellunuad interne-
elution. They are enemies, natural enemies, to
each other; but such is their mutual hatred of
the Ministry, that they have more than once
fought in the same ranks to overthrow it.

This simple fact in i‘self speaks volumes, and
refutes the charge of the French Ministry being
in the slightest aegree Jacobinical.

The great !vigil, of this letter prevents my
treating some points where I think the French Mi-
nistry to blame. As their precise character is
interesting to England, I shall return to the sub-
ject, relying on your well known impartiality for
its insertion.