The Sun.
London, England, 1818-07-06 00:00:00

ritIvATE AND AUILIENTIC CORRESPONDENCE,
(Not from our regular Correspondent.)
[RECEIVED THIS DAY.]

Pants, Jury political horizon seemed
to be clearing up, and my last letters breathed
only the sentiments of general security ; on a
sudden a cloud has overshadowed the Capital,
sinister projects and criminal attempts are the
only subjects of conversation—plots formed by
some military leaders, not only against the Mi-
nister', but against the Person of the King him-
self. It is even asserted that the Conspirators had
plotted to carry off his MaJesTv,,force him to ab-
dicate, and place Monsieur (the Count d'AnTots)
on the 'throne, in the hope that that Prince
would destroy the Charter, and revive with abso-
lute power all the abuses and injustice which
prepared
,the Revolution.
Whether it is that the Ministers held this Con-

spiracy in coutempt, which, to every sensible
person at all acquainted with the state of public
feeling in Prance, was as ridiculous as it was cri-
minal, or whether the Ministers deemed it proper
to envelope their operations in the profoundest
mystery, certain it is
,that they have taken no
ostensible measure, have testified no alarm.—
Affairs have gone on as usual. The armed force
has not been augmented, and the Government has
remained in apparent. security. I !rave gone
through Paris—l have conversed with, men of all
parties—not one bad remarked the slightest dis-
position of Ministers to proteCt themselves against
the impending storm. .
However, the rumours - are accompanied with
so many circumstantial details, persons are named
who are so well known for their to Go-
vernment, that I cannot doubt the existence of
the project, even to the full extent assigned to it.

Admitting it to be so, it is evident that nothing

could be more senseless ; it is a real conspiracy
of Ultras, and possesses all the characteristics of
it, 'vain boasting in speeches, weakness in the
means, folly in the execution, and want of fore-
sight in the result. I know well that it we
were to listen to these Gentlemen we might soon
discover tjiem capable of any thing of the kind.
Bullies in crime, they have adopted the language
of their predecessors the Jacobins, whose conduct

they imitate as far as. they dare ; but happily their
cowardice is equal to their insolence. ,If words
and looks could kill, France would be one vast
cemetery, for scarcely, any would be permitted
to survive, save those worthies who, in March,

815, so roundly and so loyally swore to spill the

last drop of their blood in defence of the Throne;
yet when it came to the point, not one', not
even one dared to look the Usurper in the face,
though any one of them could bare ridded the
earth of the great Disturber of Europe's Peace ;
and those heroes who 'bowed themselves the

descendants of the BAYARDS, the DUGUESCLINS,
(Sv% either tamely bowed before the unarmed
and unattended Usurper, or gloriously ran away
to Ghent. Thus such men can scarcely be feared;

r a battalion of grenadiers would put to the route

the whole of this party in France, were they
collected in a single point—they are, in truth,
only strong in intrigue; they have nothing of the

lion, but every quality of the foic, With one said
to be peculiar to the ostrich, that of hiding its
hc:id in the reeds, and fancying its whole body out
of sight. Let us look. only at their conduct on
the present occasion. After speaking of one of.the
worst of climes witli all the, vehemence of so
many little CATILINES, we see then, quietly skulk
to their homes, and forget in profound sleep the re-
verses of the day. This insolent bullying of pride
and hatred, attended with so much weakness, co-
vers them with ridicule in the eyes of even the
most abject classes of society, and this ridicule of
course renders the party still weaker.
Be it as it may, how are we to account for the
KING retaining such persons amongst his servants

—how can he permit those traitors at heart, and
known to be such, to approach him, and guard
the Throne ? Can we make the Throne respected,
-by placing on the steps persons who conspire its
ruin, and do not even deign to conceal their
execrable. designs and criminal hopes, It is not
enough for them to declare themselves to the
people as the enemies of their King, they even dare
in their speeches, make of his successor a
cowardly Usurper, and tread under foot legiti-
macy, of which they vaunt themselves the only
supporters. What more odious or more abomi-
nable could the Jacobins or the Regicides them-
selves hare done ?

PAnts, JUNE 29.—The loan of 24 millions of
Tentcs, contracted by the Mi;:i!,ter of Finance
with the houses of BARING and LABNYCHERR,II:I:=,
as might have been expected, raised a great
clamour amongst the " Patriotic Bankers," who
complain of two things, to v.-i--!hat they were
not preferred to foreigners, azid that the loan was
lllade at too low a rate, according to riice of