The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-11 00:00:00

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

PARIS, JUNE 7.—M. de Chateaubriand has
returned to Paris, and has resumed his modest
apartment in the Rue d'Enfer. A great number
of visits has celebrated his return ; but nothing
indicates that he is a new star who has arisen
over our political horizon. It is probable that
the hopes of his friends will not be realized.
The Court regards the noble Viscount as the
chief of a party, called so amusingly the apos-
tate or defection party, and ascribing to him the
sin of having transported the artillery of the
Journal des Debats into the camp of the Liberals,
give him credit for the electorial returns of 1827.
It is known, besides, that his project would be
to form a coalition Ministry, selecting the Atli-
nisters only from the right centre, from the left
centre, and from the left side. The right ex-
presses indignation at this project, and the left
receives very coolly his advances.
The Ministry must now repent at not having
assumed an attitude more decisive ; for where it
might expect to find auxiliaries, it finds only
hostility ; and having nobody to support its views
in a manner to give them effect, either by an in-
fluence acqu;.red over the country, or by the in-
fluence which talent never fails to obtain, its
resolutions are uncertain, and its hesitation re-
acts upon the Chamber, whose deliberations
display none of the characters of a settled sys-
tem. The first speeches delivered on the budget
have been only vain declamations, with the ex-
ception of that which M. De Lafitte pronounced,
containing many well-reasoned details and use-
ful views.

Two places of Presidents at our Supreme
Court (the Court of Cassation) have been added
to the vacancy of that of the First President.
The public expect with impatience the choice
made by the Ministry to fill them, because the
selection will reveal more than one secret. Pru-
dent people, who desire to see the Administra-
tion take root in the country, point out as a fit
person for one of these places M. Dupont de
l'Eure, a celebrated deputy and a highly-
esteemed magistrate. Will our Ministers have
the courage to make a choice which their in-
terest ought to dictate ? We have reason to
doubt it. An objection is made to this choice,
on the ground that it would displease the Dau-
phin, because M. Dupont replied one day to the
Prince, who said to him—" M. Dupont, you
would love us if you knew us." " Sir, I shall
always love my country." The reply has been
perverted, but it had nothing offensive. These
little recollections, and these little aversions, can
be nothing else but ridiculous.
You have seen in our journals, if I have not
myself told you, that the King, in a conver-
sation with the Members of the Bureau of the
Chamber, had said that he gave 1,000 francs a
month to some Deputies, who, without such
assistance, could not live in Paris. A new
journal, called Le Courier des Electeurs, pub-
lished these words, which threw the Chamber
into great confusion. The Deputies demanded
explanations from the Ministry, and reproached
them for such conduct. The latter, extremely
embarrassed, promised an official explanation,
and this explanation, which has been given some
days ago, is so equivocal that it satisfied nobody.
You may rely upon the correctness of the state-
ment, as it has been reported.