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London, England, 1830-09-21 00:00:00

already a Member, or conscious of the ability to shine in a Legislative
Assembly. I own I regarded this orator with interest. I could not
dis:;ard the f.elin that he might be destined to a distiremished part,
uhether for goeti or for evil, is the Revolution of 1830. He com-
menced by stating that they were even yet too ignorant of the state of
feeling in the Departments, and not likely to be enlightened therein by
the press of Paris. In fact, there was no free press ; the journals were
conducted solely with reference to the profit of the proprie-
tors, or the private interests of the redacteure. Information had
been tendered to several of them, or corrections of facts, mis.stated
through ignorance or design, respecting the provinces, but the off'rs
were declined, for the blindness was wilfuL The journals were noto-
riously partial, and would not give fair accounts of the state of the
departments. He observed that the Society already counted many affi-
liations throughout the country ; that it was a matter of urgent neces-
sity to extend them far and wide ; but that up to this moment there
was no organised body charged with that peculiar branch of their af.
fain. He should therefore move the appointment of a committee of
twenty-one, for the especial purpose of correspondence with the affili-
ated Societies In the departments, and to promote their universal for-
mation. This committee would likewise have to undertake
functions of an instant and pressing nature. The elections
about to take place in renewal of that portion of the chamber which had
refused* to sit, required all their vigilance. Undue influence would he
employed to procure the return of men addicted to the present anti.
gusted system; and it was their duty to detect and stultify this in.
fluence. It would be the care of the Committee to see to and promote
the elections of men of the right stamp. The present Ministers, he
observed, change only men, not things ; they were themselves not men
of the Revolution, but of the ancient Charter; they were men in every
way unequal to their calling. In conclusion, he begged to remind the
Society of what the Committee of Liberals had achieved under the late
King, in returning majorities against the Government. Their motto had
been, those who are not with us are against us; and he recommended the
Committee of les Amis du Peuple not to lose sight of the successful pre-
cept. The Committee was appointed. The same individual subse-
quently moved that a Report on the State of the Nation be drawn up
for publication. The Report of the Ministry was so meagre, so com-
mon-place a document, as to be dearly no more than a compilation from
the blonilcur and the Journals. It became the Society, therefore, to
supply thedeficiency of facts and reasoning. Ordered, after some dis-
cussion and opposition. During the debate, a speaker having made
use of the term Monarch, he was immediately interrupted by a leading
member, who observed emphatically that there was no such person as
Monarch—that no such word was understood in France. This was
the business treated of during my stay, and I left before the flit•
ting was concluded. If occasionally some little confusion
arose through the impatience or vivacity of the hearers or
the speaker, yet, generally speaking, order was tolerably well
maintained. At one moment, the uncontrollable feelings of a
young man, who stated that his press had just been seised by the Po-
lice, for working without the privilege required by the law, caused a
considerable obstruction to the proceedings. He indignantly observed,
that the old laws should have expired with the old monarch and the old
Charter. Among those present, and appearing to take a leading part,
was a Redacreur of one of the daily papers, whom the Revolution de-
, livered from prison, where he was suffering a six months' sentence, and
lying besides under a fine of 10 or 12,000 francs, for an inflammatory
publication. On his defence this man addressed his Judges with great
, intrepidity—Yes, I awe a Republican in my principles--I glory in and
, shall never deny it, although I defer to the institutions of my country,
established on a different basis.—Ltgler in the Post.