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duce evil alone. It js"an extravagant attempt to
seek to observe whatever Iris heeu effected, thatis
"great'or • useful in our Revolotions—. No one can
deceive in respect to what has passed within tliese
25 years.—" The world is full ofit. •
If people were sittiugated by Napoleon, they
stew but little judgment in seeking to depreciate
lion; the more they lower him thee inure they
debase theinselves. tee traveller smiles with pity,
• when he seesat what great expellee the eagles are
destroyed the noniuments herene.ved
or created, as it the memory of the actloos was
dekroyed with the eagles !
•It Would be far inure reasonable to explain and
to justify the admiration that was paid to him.
At the commencement of Napoleon's Govern-
meet all was miracle, hiS glory had filled among
all 'wh's, the highest as well as the lowest ; be
possessed not only the genius ot battles, he pos-
sessed a science which is inure tisefuLthan strength
to. combv—he understood how to employ it.
His foresight seemed to Make him master 61- events
-obstacles were foreseen, every thing seemed cal-
ciliated butore band to valienish them. The trea-
ties were emieltided as rapidly as the battles were
gained.--At what time did France shine with
greater splendour ? When did she possess more
power, than when all the Sovereigns
.recognized
Napoleon—when, all the soleitittities'af• religion
consecrated him upon the throne ?
lie the interior every trace of discord and dis-
union seemed to he forgotten !• Stich various,
such complicated interests seemed to be recosicil-.
ed ; all parties lived peaeeahly togerher. The se•
vetou religious persuasions shared temples anal al.-
lots with. each other; who did not then seek the
favour of a look from iSrapoleoll? Those w!“-).
!Iwo bowed themselves, the lowest in the oust be-.
tore—him, confess it the least.
Abroad Napoleon had ended the *mein the first
hai: les ; all' the Sovereigns dfesired'to.live a,t pent:
with him. lu
.case of hostilities, tlie love of
glory would have united the whole French youth
under the standards ,and laurels ; the • yowls who
had learned to consider heroism as a' water min
enjoyment. . •
flee fate of Napoleon was too rich in wondei
iii our astonishment that people, who t ere
noire capable of adiniring than jadg:og, doubt
believe that the cause of thew lay neyouti the
(molt. Ills empire. assumed the appearance of
duration, and alonist the propel ties of t hat sat.rcd
elimaeter, .which ,intressel eipon the woks
over tOlicli it passes iii its tapid career. rlil ,licit.
power which seemed to be eternal nits tle,t royed
irself in thee excess of his ambition, the hope tend
the fear of sreing• it revive ed him to ..klae
1q141)(1 of Elba ; all my Lord is, suilk.„ and sunk
for ever on Ae. field of Walerluo,
One thing goei before aii—honesty; he who in
the &Isla his greatness was the arbiter of Fittrop.e,
saw when he made a spoivof his own pledged
word,. when, he.wanted to netfie .this sport, time
prerogqiVe of his throne, how in an eritTl degree
the just indignation of tite.same Sosercigeb, .and
(tithe. same nations,. whose coisfutenee he hail
gained, anti to whom he had given his everyluad
in' EtirAipe, armed itself to ovArtnrow an arbitrary,
.1
powcrt whip 1
nijt tegolated by itidgment, nor sanctieord, by its
own interest, .N.apoleon found hiii.selt moo cri-,
ical a kititation., that like all those whoabuse their:
power, he was compelleo to be always victorious,:
that he might nits iinwhi:a.ted by revenge.. ,

•May what his passed illtSl MCC alto'
having escaped one abyss, we way not he deyouved
by another. All irregular power destroy*: itself.
The most opposite extremes- prodnes. the %pinta
Hphenomena itt the eatablishment, and
irlttuge nations into equal misery. As .soart us lot
pneoujrolied power is in the hands of one or of
Lonany,„ • the snot al deterioration of individuals and
!ttie weakhess of the State will always be the eon-.
7srquenee. 'Mere needs fur this no ticipotistn, no
;'danger ; it may proceed front the lightning which
.trout heavey, or trOm the , torrent of popular
errors, which, if they do not otPerthrow,.at least
lay waste. . ,

I foresaw the storms which•mot: be caused by
; the mode of election, and the consequence of the
elections of• one of the Chambers, ‘visind that
the activity of the Deputies', which seemed to be-
come' destrpctive, migiabe checked by the for-
minion of CommtinalAssemblies. The overthrovr
of this (list bulwark of our liberties has led to
. the destruction of till the rOst. Min, before .he
beltings to the Government and the State, belongs
to the place where .lie was born: • In the boom
of his family, the •first feeling for a country is
originated and unfolded, and the interest of_ the
commune is the first elvineitt of all politico!: inte-
rests. Those' who take it for granted that been
may be united by a number of complicated fortis;
that they may be governed by the publication of
some abstract principles, are unacquainted with
both the buntawheart and the sources of power;,
one might say that they have-studied the anatomy
of free co.nstitutions only in dead systtnis. Obe•
thence forms the measure and the limit of power ;
positiVe institutions unite men, together : the more
the usual relations existing among them tire
the -more do their confidence and their
strength increase.; the more means a Government
has, the mine strong and powerful it is ;.but by
the re4stahlishment of the municipal Govern-
ment, the Throne may be 'amalgamated •:with the
People. The manicipalities are.the first units in
the order of the national representation - ascend-
ing the legislature, and the last,in the order of the
executive 'rimer, which descends. to :.thens, and
ends with Otani

however, lesiened tlie number of so many
sutall e,Onimunes, which cannot touch and balance
each oiler. without being in each other's way,
instead of helping one another. The nature of
timings and of tt►eri requires, and even (tenpin's,
that the, civil and political bodies be not too great
or too small. In the order of auciety as in nature,
there must be neither giants nor dwarf,-

I have suffered myself to be lod away by im&
licit my Lord, which tire beyoiathe object of my
letter, and which lam first to treat-of in my Mc
Moir.

The system which .began to be -predoinjimat,
and which gained pound daily, compelled nie,to
on withdrawing from public affairs, .as
had tetircd•under Nditioleon As soon as it seemed
to me impossible to -effect any
,gooit, l'heoKing,
had been able to tage again liossessiuu of the

. .
Thrnne. Amidst the rolling of the thunder, I did
riot believe that he would be able to maintain
himself upon it, Corruption and inexperience ruin
States—virtue and talents preserve them. 1 beg-
ged his Majesty to accept toy resignation ; I deli-
vered into his hands the letter which contained
the motiveS for thiS step; the King did me the
•honour to answer, that he would consider of it ; I
waited for souse days tor an answer ; as. I did not
receive any, I took the liberty of Writing a second
letter, in which 1 again explained all my motives'
—all my 'apprehensions respecting a futurity,
which threatened at once his throne, his dynasty,
and the independence of my country. His Ma's
jesty now accepted my resignation ; and was do
good as to give me, in it letter written with his
own hand, the•assuranee that- he would not forget
my services—and that I should not lose any :part of
my property in consequence of nu y-removol.
Nothing further remained 'for me but to choose
' the place of my reiirement. When one has the
misfortune of being celebrated, the-most ineonsi-
derable place to which one may, retire becomes
important. l was resolved at least, by tl. Simpli-
city, the priva('y, and the:happiness of my do-
niest;c life, to secure myself from calumny.
King caused an Ambassador's place to be
offered me ; I gave Saxony the preference ;
had "been so fortunate as to approach its Sove-
reign ; his unvarying integrity, which proeured on
the throne general love, and when he Was re-
moved from it esteem, was the cause of this pre-
ference. "To the latest. day of my life I shall
cheri,h t rmimory of t testimonies of goodness
which I received flow thi, Prince after my arrival
in:Dresden. It is particularly under misfortune
that we learn duly to appreciate the value of be-
nevolence I must add also, •tloit in all the re-
lations into which I come, in pollSAlpleaCe of my
Mission with the DAL! of Richelieu, 1 have ex-
.
peyienced every thiiig which a ak:in of honour
410 feeling call do, tri soften air injitstice which
all his efforts could not pt event. It is asked why.
I did nut, upon-leaving :t he Millis), y,,,enter into the
Chitinhei uif Oeputies, to whip ii several elector,it
cifit.i:us,'among the rest a. Paris; had (Amgen
Inc ? .1

Could I have eontemled v.•;:h advantage against
the continually increasing excesses of re-action ?
1... n any one red ‘l the debates of the Chamber, and
lie will see ‘+ hat 1 'night expr.t. froth th:s roo-
t est., A. noble minded mail, fur. 1). Argeosen,
attempted tirraise his voice to point out 'the 'cense&
nod' the atitior,S of the trould,s in the South of,
France. Furious cries hindered him from -proceed.-
Jug, the trutli"Unts rcpaised t; oin , the tabitne.lif
the tuition.. What success could one hope hi an
a,iscnibly in which t! le plrty,o(exaggeration gait)
eti influence, \then (hi!, part,', considered the most
:ntolerable anni-cliy as thehecessary in'strument of
rite tesiOration .'ot orderl What ithotilti one say
,fto melt who' saw the strength and power of the
King in Vinlettee and treason in the language of
nuxleration ? `Called to *peak on the •gi eat intth-
res:s of- the nation, whet Means does oue!possess
fto he heard by those, Avijolbiolt they have only
uo deliberate on the pride of some tudividnAs ?
..What could I lut ,ve added.to all that 1 did as Pre-
'sident of the, Governineht of France, a 4 Mini4ter,
to otrize,, to conjure their: violch4 glen .to vlcriace
their person:Ll vengance to the general good, and
:to chilli.: only on the welfare of all 7 1 have es..-
lianstett,' in respect to theta, all that can interest
a friend' to.hiseountry, I shall not cease to re-
p,,,it to them from my exile, my last words when.
1 was leaving l'aris.--•-•'r.tloW ifitre. one venture to
speak of the tritnipfr of a party when the sante.
will either fall upon or all tet all ! There is no
hope-,.01 one latioital independence, no true ho-
no-nr except in our union,".
The iictittragenient'whiti's. the spirit,:of extra-
' Vitgallee gave to the -re-actions soon announced
the ;intention to make tote of them. That deputy
. who, read it libel frOn, the 'lribune could easily
give us information respecting the source of those
encottragements, 'it he would tell . when he ob-
tained the libel, .and who is the author of it.
In rain :should
.I have reekonedon the support
of the sound part of the assembly." This part pos-
sesses talents, just views, reason, it even- forms.
the nlnJovity. - .lint there are among it 'many
timid 'm :in!
en, re swayed by the fear of draw-
ing great e ~..,,v 'n their country, by their resist-
*
w
ance, thaw .y,t ieir submission ; Sometimes they
are terrified with the phantoms of our revolutions,
the spring of which is destroyed ; sometimes they
are., hreatened with the 14ayonet of the fot eigners.
It is absurd to suppose that any party could now
obtain the smallest assistance from without ; if
particular engagements, stronger thit.o the general
engagements of Royalty are the consequence. , It
is no longer the Sovereigns who triumph over
France. A party then triumphs over the nation ;
thecivil Wars has but changed places, the Ultra
royalists are victors, and all the rest of the French
the vanquished. . .
What tukantage could be derived from giving
up the Government to a party ? The grave 'mold
soon close over its Goverrititent; even terror could
not long support itl for terror vanishes at the first
glimpse of security. Another, party would conic
in in its turn, and would prevail; what would be-
cobie of France, what of Europe, if we were torn
hy'ehanging parties, and transitory ;victories of
parties ? . .
Wherein such a state of things should we find
the nation ? There is no more anygenetal interest,
all the bands of social existence are dissolved, the
heart of the State is wounded ; there is no more
any thing but the shadow of a country. Remind ,
England, nty.l4tord, that it owes only to the sur-
rounding ocean its safety froth our storms and dis-
orders, which were comnion to all nations; let it
reMember, that -the ocean Was on the point of
being passed.' (fur happiness WOl.llO be more ad-
vantageous t 9 it than our misery.' But it will be
too late to prevent it, 'when we are 'beat (limn'
under it. ' -„ .

1 willingly behold the image and emblem of the
Sovereigns, to whom our fate is now consigned
iii that diversity, which the ancient mythology
represented with two foces ; the one turned to the
post, the other to the future. The Sovereigns
tvillinot miss ttaecond time their generous object ;
our: reyo,httion§ mgye.disturh Europe; we
shun goin 4,1,1 e guarantee of our•indepeudence, be-
,.
mune we sapniguargntee:to onrselves our rep9sq.
liar truth tile be 'the thought that there is a nariv

will Blake itself the dreadful instrument Of
the destruction of Friince.

I do not refuse to my enemies the
,justice which
I owe to all men, rarty spirit is more: blamed..
than criminal. Those who have brought the Mco,
narchy to the brink of the precipice, fancy per.
flans that they have saved it ; their ignorance in
matters of Government isitt discovery they have •
yet to make.
In human affairs people often suffer themselreC
to tie led into the most lamentable excesses, hi '
names that they have consecrated. Heaven grant
that the word legitimacy may not cost as many
lives as the, word equality. The bad is almost 09 -•
ways done under a sacred pretext. 'Happily error
is not immortal like truth ; all on earth has aer
end. . I .do not feel myself able wholly to.jostify
myself in respect to the reproach made me of nub
having entered into the Chamber olDepinies.
ought to have appeared upon the Tribunal, had •
it been only to give Occasion in my person for otte
instance More of a tyranical and violent act ;
'misSion to Dresden might appear as a result of
what. I foresaw, and yet I was not allowed to act
for myself, and avoid these attacks.
My Lord, on the 19th June 1 wrote to your
Lordship: The'Republichas made us acquaint-
ed with the excesses of liberty--the Emperor willt•
all the fatal excesses of power ; my wish is equally.;
remote groin these excesses—to find independence,
order, and priiee. I repeat at this m,nuent the
same wish. May excesses of every kind have -
reached the goal. The excesses of ill paties are
alike when once the. passions are aroused k
noblest sentiments may be exaggerated to a degree'
in which they are only hurtful.
I do not •com.plain, nor do 1 wonder at b.eittg:!
barushied from France
.11 those whom I assisted to.-
return to
,that very France. 1 know the ‘vicked.
'less of the human heart,'and I ani accuTtomed
the caprices of fortune. In'the situation in life int.
;vhich I ant, it is always a, contrary thought th 4.,
it i, nt,t in tine power of any man to change the.,
()attire of things. Falsehood can never become.
irnth.

terminated; all iny ainbiti9r"
is s.itiAied, Since I..have obtained among (1,0:1
fi.ench an esteem, vi which •'ncvery where follow,
Iny name and iny person. The jaitice and the':
Voice Of. cvntutirs will decide w!leiher in tli4C
lots bt ought site)) niislort no ~11 my co,'"
try, the tanlt was nn all Sides or nor, and 011
oide was the greatest. •
I repeat to youvGratetbe-ussitrances of my bight
consideration.
{Signed}• The Duke of o-rax.vro..

BRIGHTON, .417 G. By the arrival o!1 thoi
Neptane.Packet, Captain CaEES:EMAN,. last night'
we learn the parieulars of a fatal affair off
Saturd4 last the Nancy Packet, Captain PA"'
ITRtOGf., front London, arrived 'phi* the hachour„,
jtv-heie she lay all the follov,ing (lay, ‘' itl,out at'
,tempting to enter the pOit. On Monday tuorii-
ing, about four o'clock, a party of Officers-, about
20,1rgin the Custom-house, took a boat alai "111'
off to the vessel, and desiretrthe Captain to brilt
to ; this was not immediately Complied with, wbr:
the whole party tired a volley of small tass,e,; tiff
shots only damaged her sails. Tike crew tdc
NatuT vvcre inticaitlateA, and being unarmed
the time, tan below for security. Another vol
ley was fired, awl we re:fret to state two
struck the captain? 4)rie. of which peitetratetil2.!.
through his body, and another wrotinfled ifs
the neck. The Officers bOurda the. vessel; An'
'brought her to the pier lieutr at Dieppe) ‘Lvheirt.
eifouwerean
gshoeolwisas
in two hours after he eras wounded, levingi:,
nnetdt„
nbitittbnnoorda.rti,cilieleocf
Wife and ten children to deplote this melanCh"li -
catastrophe. The delay of the vessel eatvriag
harbourp is not accounted tor,, and it is suppn:scis
that the Captain thou.Olt of evading the
duties briceeping out at sea; Which excited °/1
the part of the officers a suspicion thatlbe
smuggling.
LATE Mt!RDER NEAR FAR*HAM.-111C t"
per
sons suspected of having committed a horribt ,
murder upon the hod T of an old termer it Fors
p
hotil-bCat, on. Sunday morning last, have aol, "I"
on furthevinquiry, roved to he
quents. On Monday forenoon it Was dise°ve,l"2,,,.;
that a man of . indifferent Character,' by trauc.;
turner,. mid living adjacent, was missing loin 1,
home,home, and much suspicion was excited. ,in ;1 1.
course of the afternoon, a smock-truck witvinilr,l-
some distance from the place, which, HP" c'7-
examination, was ascertained to-belong tote
dividual in question ;. it was in part rent, and
aobbliooloduittte.nsdinaTeyhnaelfitmleerasnuto.rlooiintml;
though evidently washed, still retained Mar:Sit ie-
f was met, in the
e placea.arrd under '
ito'
strong circumstances of suspicion, secured. beet'l
murder, however, is not supposed to have c,„
effected singly; and it is evident that tite,lo`:'4
tunate deceased has resisted his murderers, as 1;6
.
body has been cut and wounded in at
least the
places. It is known that a few days. ue'r"
murder the deceased had received nitwit 701.1'1)
a mortgage.
staehtl

. - Hit
On the 17th inst. at MerBriIRTHS-iin-ro , tv, Dublin the LOY°
.
Reverend Dean of Ross, of a son and heir. ,:, th*
On rrilay last at Stz.tighton-lionse, finutinCtions"-P
Lady of Lieutenant-Genera/ Onslow, of a daught,___2.l•,..---****

MARRIED.. 1411141,'
On the 19th of January last, at Calcutta._ E—allfiecal'i
Eurof the Reng.al Nledical Establishment, to Mariatl-•,esty'4
daughter of Benjamin Bunn, gm, Paymaster of his Is)“'"
s9th Regiment of Foot. of 014
On Monday last, at thyton, Henry Ushorne,°pop!)
don-Hall, Niirfolk, to Phoebe Am, Ortest dauFhter
Birch. Esq. M.P. of the Hazels, Lancashire. Arr•
Olt Tuesday, at St. Margaret's Church,
,est tlitat4 „
C. A. Lees,ol the Inner Tette, to Sophia, youov.,
t tt%
of the late Francis ',nacho, sq. of
;Westmitolet4ter
•

liaOinisi ,------
. , DIED. v IS'il'
,the 90th instant, in Grostenor-place,'Mrs. WO, r of
widow of the late Rev.,Heary Willinulg, woo
Chalburg, Dorset. .
In llolton-street, where she had resided S7Years,l.. lili''
Ph'
zalirth 011 i vier
last, i Wife.
Op. Mondry at Hartley Lodge, Lady 1-letstlicli•ei
of Sir William Heathente, Bart, 'f. of Sir.
On Tuesday last,\M rs. Mark wl
s Dibdin, aged 35) -e '
Dibdin, jun. or !9t.triler's Wells., tpanda;
At Smyllant Pall:, Soot latid,an the sth inst. Risher
Marquee-it, Esq, of lir:Wield. ' •
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