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London, England, 1818-03-23 00:00:00

111.1V,11-1-: AND CORRES'ONJ)ENGE

shock-dog clipped ; and another summoned a july
to know whether she should make a party to go
and see 'J'altna or Bobeche (the btiffoon of the
Boulevards) thus not only the institution of the
Jury was perverted, but the very name rendered
ridiculous. The Trial by Jury is indeed establish-
ed in France, hut the maiority, and not ale
whole, decides ; and a cause being put off (-I"rn
week to Weelf first fur plaintiff's Counsel, (I,"
for .defetidant's, then for the reply of the plain-
tiff's, &C. the Juries are tampered with so, that
the Institution of clear • and upright Judges, ar
pointed for life, would be infinitely better. ilhe
French too would 'lave a Representative GoVeo-
Went, but the Chamber of Deputies appears lo
have but very crude ideas of its nature ; it tries to
raise the edifice, but the foundation is still to be
laid; its fact the Chamber neither knows the
theory nor the practice. The Representative GO'
vernment was only instituted to secure the divisien
of power, and to guarantee to each . division
independence ; by this means the equilibrium,o, f
the State is maintained, but if the different
branches of power be confounded, liberty vanishes:
and despotism (whether of the.one or the tuany..llci
matter) commenets.

The Committee of the Budget wish to tc(Mcg

the expences of the State ; nothing is mbke ne-
cessary at present, but how does the Committee
propose to attain that end? It wishes to 5x a scale
of appointments, and decides that Such and sucb
an agent of the Executive Gdv'ernment shall
receive the sum it shall detei•Mine on. It pretend*
that it ought to institute ti Committee to control
and superintend the receipts and disbursements of
the State; in short, it wishes to reduce the Mi"
nistry to the character of mere agents and servants
of the Chamber. I do not ‘risk to establish g"
odious comparison between the Ch amber of De"
puties and tire Convention, but I cannot refrain
from remarking, that the Convention having cte4.
dared itself permanent, adopted the very gam'
plan—it created Commissioners, charged %dill
the administration, and superintended all thfil.
operations. It thus united in itself all the dia.te2
e-
rent powers of Government) and destroyed et
the shadow of constitutional liberty.

There are many superficial politicians Wll
fancy that the weaker the Executive rower
the better liberty is guaranteed. They are tnoWilla'
or too short-sighted, to see that throwing 4W:ill"'
hands of the Chamber the power of tiv King an
d
the Ministry, they lay thelounditions of a despotO
Oligarchy, instead of moderating legitimate
Power. Despotism indeed may easily reside 01
an assembly as in a single person, and it re'
suits from a concentration and the confoar
of powers, that it is of little importance wbethee
it be placed in one hand or many. Properl,

speaking however, one despot is perferabla IC)
250. To administer is to govern. To supoil!1;
tend an administration is to be the master of
And if the Chamber of Deputies adopt the theol
of some of the Members of the Committee on it
Budget, there can be no doubt that the 017
principle of. Monarchy is threatened, and I
'he event will be a new revolutionary C°11;
I avoid naming those enemies, °_

ventioll.

their country's honour and her peace, the
will speedily deelAre themselves, or return fro
he error of their Ways, and then all will be %/ell
,elides these arc only the Cabals of the Secret

Committee, of which the public is supposed t° be
entirely ignorant, but walls have ears, and a rl4)-
against the existence of the Monarchy ought "I
be signalized as soot! a discovered.
It is earnestly to be hoped that the Nlinistry

feel all the dangers of this revolutionary system
and reveal it to the Nation's Representatives ; rt
to be hoped that there are many of them wil° de:
sire the well-tempered union of Monarchy 111“.:
Liberty, and that they will re'kect with one fiC"r`i
the f;lt'al amendments of the Committee. BLIt
should the Chanther, in an unwise thirst °I
Power, refuse to listen to the d,tnger3 of SOCh, a
step, we hope the Mitlistty would he firm
not to yield the point. A vigorous Resolution w°"11

honoor to it, for it ettrlflot he doubted that 0 iis.- -1'
poiNt depends, perhaps, the reit- be:r3g of

PARIS,
MAttcn 16.—Imitations are always ridi•
enlous, when what is to be imitated is only par'
tially known. The French, at the beginning of
the Revolution, heard we were a free people, and
they resolved to imitate our institutions, which
they did with about as much success as a monkey
would imitate a philosopher, that is, look as
wise and as grave externally, but retain all his
innate Wickedness ; hence, amongst other things,
the Juges de Paix are thought to be the very same
as our Justices of the Peace; and so exalted was
their idea of a Jury, that the name was applied
to every thing that required a consultation ; for
instance, a Lady called a jury of her family,- t°
knoS7 whether it was warm enough to have het

,

If the NiinisTry strAng enpugh to resist
Ihtse principles of 'iffiarcilv, it mo ta, and
throne with it 3, but its fall shouldst notil be inglothe
- rious. To concede the least point on so import-
ant and so delicate a matter would not retard its
1.111 an instant. The Ministry has displayed
great
vigour and talent on inianr occasions ;
7" it must be confessed, that it acts with an
illeonceiyable timidity in great ones. 1 know
eop e and the latent entries it has to
„l
:t -°4lhat with, but let it only remain firm
the post of ditty, and its ultimate triumph
tsertnio.
It has gained three great victories
tr,vel. the 'united forces of Jacoliinisin and Ulna-
tila,tlistn, the Ordti
onance the 5:11 September, ii:e4aw on Elections, and that on the Itecruit-
th:tc'f the Army. Why., then, should we despair,
,in the moment of such imminent danger for
it'sfatal ne and the State, that it will yield to the
nuations of one party, or the menaces of
11°lhee.
P,

AR". Maactr 18 —I have more than once re-
b
t4elted the Ministers with their worse than
iealtoess, in leaving the
posts of trust and ho-
i:,°"' in the hands of their enemies; thereby hop-
.g to convert those in whom it is an innate
Prii •
teiPle to use the power they,are permitted to
'ertise in the furtherance of Ole plans of their
0
jtV,sll Party, Blid consequently seek the destruc-
CJ) ot the Ministry vshich employed them, and
ritt" nilvantage of that moderation which suf-
"rs then, t„ terrain ; saving, that. Mioistry can
Ite‘er staod which cannot distinguish between its
tyeads and its enemies, and onhesitatingly confiqes
"e u
posts of honor and of danger to its known
kiversnrics. Ibis system we shall see is about
to Cerise in part, and we trust it will entirely, for
i
:-t 43 Monstrous to see a party affect and pretenil
it)" Power above the law, as it is to witness an
ii-nrePreSt,ed hostility to it, from an opposite
1”4"er; hut to recent facts. Gen. DONADIEU
(WI)
°HI tiee Missionaries compared to TuaellNa,
,w;
'llll whom lie has nothing in cionmon save being
11 lbe stone religion) has been at length'dismissed.
Net at open l sear with M. CnorlN d'AnNou-
si-h. Prefect of the here, and as these two Gest-
iiii;le,rl were diametrically opposite in their po.-
4a,t'4l opinions, it was impossible that the civil
to• military command of the district could be
IlAiSon with each other, and their disputes were
4
t'et,4,PlY exciting civil war. DotiADlEtt, counting
.14'7'ss invisible protectors, carried his insolence
nr sct to threaten to horsewhip the Prefect.
CtioNzst d'Aesouvit.Lc, whose courage
Ai" enemies cannot doubt, had such a cum-
!l'!" over himself, recollecting his situation of
,ta'e Mug's Lieutenant, and that it was his duty
• 4've ao example of coolness and triumph over
st,tilissions, that lie did not challenge the ogres-
t • A man less known. than M. C. d'A. for the
eery,
of his character, and his personal bra-
arle Would have incurred the imputation of cow-
(iice. but such a charge could never fix on him.
mellBl7, M. de Alot:LivauT, one of the best
vi:4t 17,
France, and who governed the De-
C olt4llNi 'if the Isere, with an impartiality full of
's' and wisdom, was sacrificed to the Military
feof the Province, DoNADIEU. It was
slttier that Cuortti d'AßNouvzi.LE would share
"Pen-e4:lt, fate;' but the Ministry has at length
"
teart.,, "s eves, and done justice on this bad
fief aUd brutal soldier. His dismission has
to),yel appeared in the Official Journal, and the
it; t'oly dare to give it as a rumour ; but I give
II as a fact ; then why not openly announce
rude°4 Will say. It will be 60, but not with pa-
to:3 as an ordinary event, and matter of
aal,111," ; at a period when parties run high, it is
e one which doubts its own strength that'
ikt natters forth in a pompous manner its real or fancied
I)et ‘t:etie3- This is a distinguishing criterion
Ilie-f.ll Ole Minitry and the two extreme Parties,
urtuer gains its victories in silence, it issues
04,1411etins ; whereas the latter never gains the
oth
'test temporary advantage without employing
t
gtvlen oe trumpets of fame. Another reason might
DONADIEU'S dismissal, made a parade
ether
extreme
.tend to raise the guilty hopes of the
ti
xtreme party, and the Ministry is resolved
Itat itself averse to every principle that exists
1 .rie Constitution.
At le
tfett M Ministry has also dismissed M. DE LA SALLE,
'1•4:,14 the Haute Marne ; his Ultra Royalist
'4Pies tormented, and rendered unhappy a
111'4 naturally inclined to quiet and obe-
Ivtn.tehei otherwise M de In SALLE is a man of
41travi but Party spirit blinds and leads him
ill It:: There is themaremerit in his dismission,
:1;N ,11,3 a near relative of one of the Ministers ;
p;ittvY have coosetinenly shewn, that when
44,4 to 'weal is concerned the ties of blood arc
AR Y'sscrificed on the altar of their duty.
~7144.:laSaLLF is replaced by M. de ST. GENEST,
sin t-q•ct of • ve recollect he was also
fled Corsica ;
1,135ee,,411 Ultra Royalista, but we suppose he
W.°E the (lie error of his ways, and the example
11 nt4t! of M. de la SALLE, and even his own
It is 1: iit it hoped, be lost on him.
A"Jtieved by those who examine the march
ge folli,"istry closely, that these dismissals will
.I)tost red by several others; it is a consummation
fia~eie:L°:lllY to be wished. The remat k may be
Person -"4elt tines not seem to have struck any
441 is.'j that Wherever there are good Prefects
4ove clinn end tranqUillity, public opinion int-
lions „Sic the petiple are emulous fienlOnStra-
Nbj` loyalty and obedience. This striking fact
it au Lto etilighten the Ministry (Hi the conduct
rite to Pursue respecting its agents.
Ojai*
arc Otr(s will not fail to cry out that the Roy-
Wisepersecuted but the. Ministry 'will, if it be
sttl~cillooll impose silence upon thent ; it is not
of ent tOTelnove those who, under the mask
kthe enthusiastic love of the King, exasperate
oiarrizeos by a thousand vexations. NO, the
~„_s!ry must also remove all those from Public
tipi_oions who are known for Demagogical prin.
tespte • and it has incurred a
.just reproach in this
tifpret,lo Suffering to remain at the hradof t Ire Bank
halt:nee such a man as the Banker LAFITTE, who
tritill 'isle an enormous fortune by his transactioos
ti„,,the porermtent, and who affects the pride of
tlticit, leeder It) politics, by promoting the most
t' 't4ogic.ni • • - „
prtncip es; I ant . thanks to the inatt en-
tri of the Alinisters, he is become a species of
"He, %Ow dispuS please of a
ih.s littl
ee e commerceEc
of at
P his
at is. Andur from the
Witieh LUIS been given to 11