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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1818.

The Paris Papers of Sunday last, 'which were
-due this morning, have not come to hand.

We have inserted the Letter from our Corre-
spondent in Paris 'as we received it, for though
we may differ in some points with him, we're-
,apect the purity of his motives, and the soundness
of his judgment, too much to take the liberty of
suppressing any part of his communications, par-
ticularly as his opportunity for information gives

additional weight to his opinions. We have not
room frt present for expressing all we think and
fear respecting the new French Army. He ad-
, mks that a considerable part of them must be
veterans. They have been inured to plunder and
tnvatcre. How are other parts of the new Army
- to be secured from contagion ? Who can keep
these veterans in order but revolutionary Officers,
and who can tell to what purpose the latter may
direct them ? That France should have a defen-
sive Army we admit, but the security of Europe
will not depend on its compo3ition and character
so much as on the natural alarm and military
posture of the other Powers of Europe.

It is with very great pleasure that we feel our-
. selves justified- in contradicting the rumours which
have lately been prevalent, importing that the
Earl of Livettpoor. about to resign the. high
Office which he so ably supports, for the purpose
of going abroad on a,domestic occasion. We are
sure that we shall gratify all who are attached to
the honour and interest of the Country, when we
do not hesitate in declaring
_our conviction that
. this rumour is wholly destitute of foundation. We
• consider the Earl of LtveaPoot, as one of the chief

= ••• props of our Constittition in Church and State.
He is tl;e legitimate descendant .of the. immortal
PITT is political grounds, and we look with con-
fidence to his-Lordship for a determined resista-ce
• of any farther Cpncessions to POPERY, which en-
joys all that .can safely be granted, and which,
possessing a full RELIGIOUS TOLERATION, can
now have, nothing in view but POLITICAL
;Again, then, we feel great pleasure in ex-
pressing our full conviction that the Empire is in
•••• • no danger of losing the services of a Nobleman
who is above all the impuhes of vulgar selfish
, ambition, and who is obviously actuated by no
• principles but such as essentially tend to uphold
the honour and interest of the State, and preserve
the general •peace and security of Europe.

The dressing which Lord FOLKESTONE received
in the House of Com►nons last night, for having

attacked the Judge as well as Jury, because the

.decision was against him on a late trial, will, we
--hnpe, be a lesson to him. It may fairly be asked
of this great Reformer why, in visiting gaols, he

is solicitous for the conatort of suspected Rebels

and Traitors, and .never spends his humanity on
inferior Culprits or unfortunate Debtors ? It may
be asked of hire also what he had to say to such
'suspected Rebels and Traitors ? But as a Disso•
lution is near at hand, we hope that similar in-
quiries will be proposed to the whole of his Party,
and as they certainly can give no satisfactory an-
swer, we trust that they will never again have a
senatorial existence.

PSTiTtc)Ns.—lt is one of the humiliating cha-
racteristics of certain Opposition Members, that
they are uniformly sought by the disaffected to be
the channels for presenting their offensive Peti-
tions to the House of Commons. None but the
more violent are chosen for such occasions, for
every member who feels the dignity of his situa-
tion as a Representative' of 'the People in the
-Great Council of the Empire, would not so far
-insult the Legislative Body. We would advise
Lord FOLKESTONE; Sit FRANCIS BURDETT, Mr.
LvJeToN, Citizen Wool), &c. &q. to reflect on
this disgraceful preference.

It is very evident that there are Agents from
lIERNADoTTE in this COuntry, who are employed
on the purpose of preparing the way for his ad-
Mission to an equality with the legitimate Mo-
narchs of Europe. The manner in which the
vtictes relating to him are inserted in our Public
JoUrn4h, affords strong presumptive proof thatthOr
are 'laid tor, as the internal evidence evinces un-

equivocally that they are artful fabrications.
.Aefore. it is possible for intelligence to have
r4Cireit this Country of the proceedings in
Sweden, tho'-._ proceedings are accurately de;
• tailed, an evident proof that the Writer's have re-
ceived their lessou. BERNADOTTE was educated
in the School of Jacobin subtlety, and that even
exceeds the subtlety of the Jesuits. It is siid that
Baron MANNERHEIM, Attorney-General to the
Diet, has submitted to the EQUESTRIAN ORDER a
proposition for formally deposing the Ex-King
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS from the Swedish Throne,
and it is added that no intelligence has yet
arrived to shew how this suggestion has been
received, nor whether any consequent Reso-
lution was likely to be adopted. It is said
also, that such a solemn act of depos3l is ne-
cessary to be declared by the competent au-
thority, as a smithy for the rigbts of the reign-
ing Sovereign. We most heartily wish that such
a proposition has been made, and that such a so-
lemn act is necessary to ratify Usurpation ; for
we cannot but hope that there may be some vir-
tue, and some sense of dignity, in the &was-.
'IRIAN ORDER, which may induce them to reflect
on the iojustice and,, injury which have fallen on
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, for having supported the
honour of his Country in ,a resolute resistance of
those principles which are calculated to overturn
all Governments ; and if the same conduct had

been pursued in a firm and vigorous co-operation
on the part of all the other European Sovereigns,
France would soon have been prevented from
disturbing the tranquillity of all other States.•---
We repeat our opinion, that if BERNADOTTE is
permitted quietly to 'occupy the Throne of Swe-
den, such a jeplorable fact will give a deep stab
to Monarchy, from which it never can recover.
We hope that the Equestrian Order of Sweden
will feel that the ebaracter of their Country is
concerned in restoring their injured Sovereign to
the Throne of his ancestors. We are persuaded
that if the voice of the people of Sweden were to
be heard it would be loudly raised against the in-
trusion of a low-born Foreigner, who was the
vassal of the greatest, most ambitious, bloody,
and perfidious, Monster that ever trampled upon
all laws human and divine, and that if their lawful
Monarch were permitted to return they would
hail him universally with shouts of joy, and that
his restoration would be a popular Jubilee in the
highest degree gratifying to all connected with it.
But to prove that the articles in favour of BERNA.

poira are manufactured by Agents in this Coun-
try, as well as in others, to prepare mankind for
his easy access to a Throne, as if it were a matter
of course, and founded on legitimate pretensions,
it is said that " the new King has already been
duly recognized by most of the Sovereigns of
Europe." We deny this assertion, because it is
impossible to know at present how the new King,
a 3 he is called, but the revolutionary Usurper, in
reality, will be received even by Sweden, and
consequently the Sovereigns of Europe would not
hazard their character by such disgraceful precipi-
tation, particularly if the proposition in question
has actually been submitted to the EQUESTRIAN
ORDER. It has been asserted that the British
Government has already sent new credentials to
our Ambassador, recognizing the Usurper !
Inati the British Government that so resolutely
supported the cause of legitimacy, and by its per-
severance roused other States into such a vigorous
co-operation as restored peace and safety to
Europe, disgrace itself by being the first to re-
cognize the usurpation of an Upstart front the
lowest ranks of Society, and the former tool of an
atrocious Tyrant, whom he at last deserted from
selfish motives ! It is impossible that such a de-
grading prostration of national dignity can have
taken place, and it must have been circulated either
by the Agents of the Interloper or by the Enemies
of Ministry, to bring disgraceopon their character
and infamy on their measures. We wait with no
slight degree of anxiety for the next intelligence
from Sweden.

PARIS,AT-ARCH 2.--.:Tite law on the Recruiting
of the Army- has passed the Chamber of Peers; its
faults and its excellencies have been warmly dis-
cussed ; its advocates have viewed in it the salva-
tion of France ; its enemies have discovered in it
nothing but the elements of national ruin ; truth
lies between ; the friends and enemies of the mea-
sure. have made it too much a party question, and
have never considered the subject generally, not
only as it concerns France particularly, but
Europe generally; this we will essay to do as far
as the limits of an article will permit. We will
not put as an hypothesis the necessity of France
having an army; the Allies have declared solemn-
ly, that " it was necessary for the balance of
power that France should be free, great, and
powerful." if so, she must of necessity have an
army, to cause her freedom to be respected. A
standing army, and a very considerable one, has
been deemed necessary in England, whose fron.-
tiers are invulnerable. In France, with her im-
mense land frontier, it is as necessary as to have
locks on the doors of the houses. The time is
not come when swords are turned into plough-
shares, and spears into pruning-hooks and
when the lion and the lamb lie down together.
And as all Europe recognizes the necessity of
standing armies, it follow s a priori that France
must have one too, not for aggression, but for
self-defence, and that not merely against foreign
enemies, but against those in her own bosom.
The elements of discord have not yet subsided,
and without a moderate standing army dispersed
over the Provinces, the stability of the Govern-
ment, in which all Europe is interested, can never
be secured under this point of view ; therefore it
would have been the policy of Europe to demand
that France. should organize an army to de-
fend her against aggressions from without
and commotions from- within. But say the
enemies of the, measure,—" Of what ele-
ments is the Army to be composed ?—Why, of
those which have carried fire and sword, . and
spread desolation over Europe." We would an-
swer, that the position is incorrect, the Army is to
be composed principally of those who have never
borne arms, and, secondarily, of veterans. It is
against this latter class that all the clamour
and accusations are directed. To avoid discussions
I will admit that they have committed all the ra-
vages of which they are accused ; yet they are no
more to be accused as the cause of them than the
sword or bayonet with which the thing was effect-
ed. A soldier is a mere machine, he implicitly
obeys the commands of his officers, and ,the offi-
cers those of the Commander-in-Chief : to whom
alone all the crimes and excesses are imputable ;
for a soldier knows no duty but obedience. As
to the constitution of the French Army thus
accused, without pretending to be its advocates,
we might easily show thatits moral composition is
far superior to our own; it was composed of young
men, taken indiscriminately from all classes; thou-
sands and hundreds of thousands of young men,
of family and fortune, were obliged to march in
the ranks of the Army, and carry a firelock ;
and it would be too much to suppose an-army so
constituted, more brutal and savage, or more fond
of pillage, than an army composed of the scum of
society, whose only vocation is a hatred of indus-
try and the honest and honourable means of ob-
taining a livelihood, or who escape the infamy of
punishment by consenting to enlist. Where
stands the youth whose crimes have stamped him
soldier ?" says SHERIDAN in The Critic. Such,
yea such is the composition-of the British army ;
and if it have not committed all the excesses of
which the French army is accused, it is well
known that it is only owing to the strictness of
discipline. Let us not. then boast of the superior
morality of our own troops, the very idea of dis-
banding which makes the whole nation tremble; for
whenever an army is disbanded in England, it is al-
ways followed byintmerous robberies and 'murders.
Let us now turn to those whom the new law re-
organizes. 'ln 1815, 200,000 were disbanded, the
greater part of them without house •or home, or
means of subsistence. Yet what robberies, what
murders have been the result ? Why, in two
years and a half there has not, in a population of
28 millions, been committed twenty robberies or
murders by 200,000 disbanded troops. This
proves more in favour of their individual morality
than all that can be said against it. We will
now consider the re-organization of this force so
much dreaded. Is it for conquest ? No,—is it
even for active service in case of a war No, what
is it intended for then ? Why, to defend the fron-
tiers in case of attack, and preserve domestic peace;
it is to all intents and.purposes an English Militia,
established• on the same principles and with the
same views; it is indeed more efficiently composed
to answer the purpose, being formed of those
whose efforts have been often crowned by vic-
tory, but who are fati.gued with war, and desire