The Sun.
London, England, 1820-03-03 00:00:00

FItOM " TIM BRITISH- MONITOR"

OP SUNDAY LAST.

The news from. France last week is important. The KING
has made a change in his Councils. The Duke de Richelieu
has succeeded in the Premiership, the Count, now Duc De-
cages, who has retired, but with honour and a consciousness
of integrity; indeed, the King has proved his satisfaction of
M. Decazes's Ministry by creating him a Duke, a Minister of
State, a Privy Conncillor, and Ambassador ta the Court of
London. Louis XI7III. has very properly laid, iii the'Ordi-
nance which curates M. Decazes a Duke, that he has given
his Majesty proofs of his attachment on the most trying oc-
casions. No one can for a moment call into question the
honourable character of the Duke de Richelieu ; my ori-,
nions of that -Nobleman are on record in The British
Monitor; but it must also be admitted that his Most
Chriitian Majesty has lost in M. Decazes not only a
faithhil and upright Minister, but a man of most ex-
traordinary talents, for it was neither Court favour, Ultra-,
`Royalist favour, and must assuredly not Ultra-Liberal favour
that kept trim in vlace-,-no! it was a commanding and Mow-
ing talent ; and Frenchmen kn,sw that he has rendered the
State service. His revival of the annual eApositiou of the
French . Manufactures—his establishment of a Commisaiffa
consisting erea- of Members of the Roy-al Family, Peers and
others, ,to superintend the prisons, and to look to the com-
forts of the prisfasers—then again, his endeavours to ame-
liorate the Criminal Code, and to bring to perfection the trial
try.lury, for which purpose ht -suit to French Jtittee to this
cuuutrl•, M.Cottn, specialtycharged for that pitepase.—l say.
all. these matters prove M. Decazes to be a matt possessing
no ordinary mind._ Machiavel, in his , excellent wiirk called
" The
.Prince," ." you may judge of the talents of a
Siiverei4n bj thiCheice tie makes of his Ministers :" and the
Xing of Fr4:ce.;. for Wain( ttioven M. Decazes for his Mini-
ster, proved the trlaxlrlt of hjachiaeel to be true in the fullest
extent-of -the author's Meaning.

Every'one at all acquainted with political :objects for the
last few )ears, must know, that when M. Decazes because a
Minister, and although he only held the Department of the
011 he was the life and soul of the whole Ministry.
France was in a most disturbed state ; so much so, that the
•
Jaibits and :130,z of the French Revolution, the taco grand
artificer: in crime, iniquity, rebellion, and intrigue, Talley-
' 's
nneFouche, could not keep their ground, and were
(61-C4:Atte resign. The Ultra-Liberals wanted too much, and
the Ultra-Royalists: were then not Sparing of their preten-
sions it was .necessary to.keep both within bounds, esi,e-
-' cially as foreign armies mere then in France, and if great
vigilance had not been observed at that period, (and that
vigilance belonged immediately- to M. Decazes' depart-
ment), the consequeneet might have been fatal. Every
one admits that daring the three years that the Foreign,
Armies remained in Fiance, the two opposite con-

tending factions were kept in proper bounds, but 'un-
fortunately, as soon as the armies retired, the 'Ultta-
Itoyalists.oonstneneed their hostility to every institu-
• tiou ; this produced A re-action of J'acobininn, and both par-
ties coalesced in their opposition to Ministers which ulti-
mately produced the retirement of Decases. lam well coo-
viiteeitthat no Minister will be able to manage the French
Chamber of Deputies.; fo, the ultra IRoyalists want the Bowl
bons without a Charter, ant the Ultra Liberals want a Chi r 7
ter without a Boni-bon -; indeed, both parties only want ?lace
and TOwei. It:is2 well known that M. Decants, wait a ;week
since, proposed the revival of two Laws which were orilri-
nallY proposed by M. Deeases himself, soon after his ;seerss
sion to the M yin Iti_ls, and which expired chant a year
and a half One -Law- was,-to arrest and -keep in cie--
tocly persons accused -of plotting against the S!ate ; the
other was to cluck . the • licentiousness of the Press,
and seditious cries by ballads, or by, itetternot fenders of
Pamphlets; these two Laws were highly approved, of by the
Ultsi-Itoyalists in MS, as they had it all their own way in
Meat tliey.called La qzanthre intrqurable; now these very
Ultras wilt oppose. those Laws, although M. Ddcares is not
its the Mittistryoutless indeed the whole Cabinet is to tie
composed of Ultra-Itoyalists. Should that be the case, the

late iktifOitto4,Pertnaueli as the Doctrinaires and the per-
sonal friend* of M. DeCaeca and his colleagues, Will join the
Ultra-Liherals. Who naturally" enough oppose the new
rime aboee-utentiotted, consequently an Clara Ministry will
be.left in the minority. So long as M. Decazes.went on hand
in beset with, the UltrOtoyalists, in ISIS, so long be was
their favnante, but when that Minister saw they were going
too far—when he saw they were organising Civil war in the
Southend in the West, then be eery prudently thought pro.
per to check their ntaehinations, by the sonntch-talked.of
Ordinance of the St h Sept. 2816, which put an end to the influ-
ence of the Ultra-Royalists, then very properly termed "the
White Terrorists" and " White Jaeohias." The Duhe de
Richelieu and M. Lai ne +were participators in that Ordijiance, at
the former was then the Prime Minister,and tbsilit;ee
Minis-
ter of Interior. Roth were centrinted, aa well as M, neaten,
that the Ultra-Royalists were going too far. Unfortunately,
after the evacuation of Fr`anet by the Allies, attempts; were
again made to give that party some sort of enCoragement,
which produced a schism between the three :trincipal Mini-
sters. M.Docates dreaded the re-commencement of the pre-
tensions of the Ultra-Royalists;. amid Itte:7" far Anweeiled,
having been aided by the Doctrinaire*, theConstitutionalistsi
and the Ultra-Liberals; butato sooner had hetriiihiplied over
the Ultra-Rop,tists,..than the Ultra-Liberals jet up, in their
turn, their exaggerated pretensions:, and as bI..DeCIIZCS is
neither au ultra-Liberal nor a- Doctrinaire, hey was deserted
by, that very party whotes, thesight he conlet rely on, and
who he hoped had beeohreanore moderate thaoltrey formerly
wars; but 441,, eras mistaken; so will every French Minister
ite,arhoShlittler-that he will be able to govern' the ("belabors
without tha.sseeistettest of the right or left de.„-ehe,Ultra-
Royalieistor •a Minister looks for his ma-
jority to 21+e former, I ass sorry to say, that I think a.Civil
war is not far distant, and which will end, in a military Rea;•
Public; if, on the other hand, the Millieter calls to his aid
the Ultra.-Liberals, he must make such concessions at will
place the Bourbon.dynasty in a very precarious state. Biro-
Impute is out of the question ; hut I am sorry to say, that
Frenchmen who- may. , nothing to lose, wish for a Re-
public—that is, • a Military Repahlic; and unless the
Chief of a .Government knows how to ride on horse"-
back, he can make no . stand, in case of any serious
diturbance. Frenchmen say, that if Genie XVI. had known
bow-to ride on tuirsehack, he would not have been guillotined;
and the wage say, that, previous to the 11th Brumaire, the
Abbe Sieyes had learned to ride! !! M. lieeazes is a clear-
headed Statesman, and he did, well to retire; it was not he
who framed the Charter; those who did,,it knew nothing of
the character of Frenchmen, nor oft he situation •of France.
and so long as the liberty of the Press:and of Speech. (in the