The Sun.
London, England, 1818-04-24 00:00:00

PRIVATE AND AtiTHENTk CORRESPONDENCE

PARIS, APRIL 18 -Much ignorance,and not a little
deception,appeat ing in severs) of the English Papers
relative to the present state of France, I think it of
some importance to Europe, ant: particularly to
England, to place the subject in a clear point of
My preceding• correspondence will bear
ample testimony that I am neither an " Ultra
Royalist," a " Ministerialist," nor an " Ultra
Liberal ;" for I have exposed, in a frank and
candid manner, the folly, weakness, and errors
of all the three. Truth alone is the object of my
research,. and the maintenance of a system which
alone can secure to France the blessings of peace,
and free Europe from alarm.

view.

Superficial observers are greatly deceived as to
Ihe present real state of France ; they distinguish
'n it two Parties ; one, which wishes to bring back

the Monarchy to its ancient institutions ; the
other, that would plunge it into the most extra-

vagina democracy; between then two Parties,
who do not agree as to • the end, but who come
frequently to an understanding as to the means,
they place tile King Its Moderator. It is scarcely
possible to entertain a more false idea of a coun-
try, on which all Europe has its eyes axed at this
moment.

The formerly privileged classes are at present
nearly what they were under the former Mo-
narchy, essentially jealous of the Royal Authority,
I do not mean that they wish to destroy the
Throne—that is not their ohject—but they ivish
to domineer over it. Reduced by the inexorable
policy of Cardinal RICHELIEU to the condition of
mere Courtiers, and kept in'this state of subjec-
tion under the absolute reign of Louts XIV. and
his successors, they fancy at length the moment
is arrived to found a Constitutional Aristo,
eracy," which will offer them an equivalent for
the loss of their feudal rights.—Read the painph-
lets of the heads of the Party, listen to the
harangues of the CHATEAUBRIANTS, the FITZ-
JAMESBS, the VILLELES, &c. and you will soon be
convinced that such is their idea.
The other Party wishes for the Monarchy, but
strongly insists on an equality of tights, an on
this condition it will do (well; thing to consoli
date the reigning dynasty. The French, from in.
stinci as well as reflexion, are attached to Mo.
narchy ; but the nation, naturally proud and vain.
glorious, -will no longer support the idea of ex.
elusive. privileges, granted to any class of the sub.
jects ; and it is worthy of remark, that this sen-
timent is not the fruit of the Revolution, which
only strengthened it, in giving to a natural in-
clination the force of right, acquired by the laws
of the new Institutions.
It will, perhaps, be objected, that there exists
in France, under the name of Jacobins, Revolu-
tionists, Independants, and Ultra Liberals, a
formidable Factioq, whose only object is to de-
stroy the Royal Authority, and substitute in its
place a Republican Government. Let us first
come to an understanding as to what this " Fac-
tion" is. In the first place, the persons who
compose it are tar from entertaining the sante
ideas and opinions, or passions. It is true, they
often hold the same language, but their views are
widely different. • Amongst these men, whom I
will designate under the common appellation of
Independants, there are a certain number who
have been actors in some of the most disastrous
scenes of the Revolution; the enemies of the
Laws and JuStice Which they have outraged,
they dread the return of order, because they see
in it the condemnation of their errors and their
crimes. Nothing can persuade them to the con-
trary, because conscience, the worm that never
dies, is not at ease. If they patiently submitted
to the yoke of BUONAPARTE, it was because they
beheld in him one of their accomplices ; they be-
lieve not in oblivion, because the past is always
present to their memory. The BOURBONS appear
to theth terrible and implacable Judges ; conse-
qoently they will never be sincerely attached to,st
legitimate Government, and they can only be
kept in obedience by the iron hand of the Law.
Other Independants have not to blush for the
past ; but not counting on the return of the 800 it.•
BONS, they attached themselves to the Govern-
ment of the Usurper, whom they regarded as the
head of a new dynasty. They found under it
protection, fortune, honours, and dignities ; they
had places, ribands, and titles ; they lost their
places on the KING'S return, and have only pre-
served of their former state, titles without honour,
and ribands without di4tinction ; they are, there-
fore, discontented, and sigh after an order of
things which will restore their former fortunes.
The legitimate Government appears to them bur-
thensome, so long as e,hey remain out of favour.—
But the day that the Mitiistry shall deign to take
them into favour, they will be as submissive, docile,
and flexible as the most devoted of its creatures.
A third class of independams consists of a nrul-