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CONMRACY AGAINST :LIBERTY.
Weare told, that M. Torgot, one of the Mini-
iters of tit tinfortuate Louis XVI. observed to him
early in his reign,—` Your Majesty. should antici-
pate the revolution, that is approaching, and conduct
it yourself: if not, one of two things will
-happen :
se
—your Majesty will,either e yourself compelled
to shoot your people, like Charles IX. of France;
or We ,French people will drag, you to. a scaffold,
like Charles I. of England.' .Louis, though natural-
ly well, inclined, did not follow this advice : the.
Revolution advanced in spite of him& and that in.
decisive Prince 'verified the prediction in its two ex•
tremes; at. first making war upon his people through
the meuium of his Courtiers, and then being drag-
ged by that people to a scaffold.
The same advice might have been useful to the
clahses, corps, and ambitious Authorities, who,. on.
the approach of the terrible crisis 'of our country,
were deshous above all to preserve.the influence and
power of which they were possessed. Place your-
selves, might they have been told, in the van of the
Revolution which is apprriachinge--be the. foremost
and the most active in gaining 'rhea) and indepri;l-
once to the State,--chew yourselves the most devot-
ed 'and'most ardent defenders of the rights of the
people. .- If you do not act thus, you are lost : your.
ambition and your pride, iii according with novel-
ties, will' leave you not a moment's repose,: and
you will perform the part of 'odious oppressors, if
you conquer; and of vile conspirators, if you are
conquered,
".That, since the .commencement of the revolu>
lion; there has existed a very numerous party, hos-
tile to every innovation the object of which was. to
reforM our Administration and political'lnstitutions,
is a fact ,quite obvious to the' most cursory aserver.
It could hardly be 'otherwise ; for there was among
vs too many people whose importance, and even
existetice depended upon old abuses; not to be in-
terested in their preservation. Hence have we seen
thern oppose with' rage, or reject with contempt,
every plan of-refermi however' useful and necessary,
that has been adopted by Government or proposed'
ihdividuals. Aud, 'as. the measures for deliver-
ing us. from the French must.go hand in hod with
_those which have the establishment of liberty for
,their object,. (since you cannot expect great efforts
from the people, Without great privileges in return),
it unfortunately happened, that the enemies of good
- principles were depressed when fortune was favour-
able to our arms ; and, on the contrary; assumed
importance. when, events were untavoUrable: not
becanse they rejoiced iu the successes oftheenehly,
but because such success discredited and
.weakened

the authority of men a' lid maxims whose destructiot
• they, sought. , Deplorable situation, certainly,. to
which pride and ambition naturally lead, when they
are listened to rather, than reason and pairioastn I
We liase seen them form. -a •hostile confeder'ky
against all whiam the revolution has summoned into
• e.rupl?yinent,7-pride thethselvei. on their old 813-
boast of 'having been official men under
Charrles, IV. Idiots! as if they could st.n.pose that
the dation, had forgotten tbar•Charles.i.V. Ins Mini-
'titers, hisagenta tind his Whole system of 'govern-
.
mew, were that Ii had ruined it !
' Ihe installation of the Cortes, which they wete
unable to prevent, and its first decrees, confounded
• these meta, Rot they Soon +etyma° rally.; and de-
-it:hawed to avail theinseivea of . the first favourable
conjuncture for dissolving the Cocgress, and putting
a petiod to liberty.
" This crisis Was :approaching. The campaign of
Estreniadrara, brilliant' in its commencement, but
trill•ng in results,—thet4ldost',desociate situation
4 t Catalonia, after the Occupation of Tarragona and
1 igueir.li 'by the French,—V•altlncia .already 'threat-
-I...ented to prepare the mind, far
.diScan.
;te'a't, and smoothed the way for, destroying .that
order at things, which apparently neither,, promised
I, ',city, nor inspired confidence; Hence intrigneS
01.,every kind were set at work. Rumours destined,
to prepare the public mind for insubordination stud
change, fltaw front Valencia to Cadiz, arid (torn
ciz to Valencia. In the former place„ it was assert-
, ed, that the Lirertch• had taken,, the, Ida by survriie,.
various,Depoties were prisoners,—Cadiz rrt
fermentatioio-
-the ,Cartes clisolved,the Govern.
m;ni eliatiged,, Here, at first with a mysterious air,
and Wen with more confidence, Valencia was re,
presented as turnultoons, and as risen against the
negeut-,General i• that the 'latter,,liad died misera-
-bly in the tumult: some said that, he had escaped
the sedition, and fled to Tangiers ;.others, that he
was concealed in • Gidiz. • Such were Atte reports
whose oh:Jed was to discredit that respectable
tionary, who, since the revolution began, has not
ceased, to perform '•eininent .services to the oublie
' cause, is a Soldier and as a citizen. The Cones,,
notwithstanding their continued application 'to the
discussion of the- constitution, 'which is the same
thing as marching straight forward to the termina.
:lion of their functions; were represented as an' as,.
semblage of intriguers aspiripg to perp_ettlate their
power, to arrogate all authority, and to divide all
catlit es among themselves. A •resolution of the
Councll •of Castile .was talked of, which Would
• shear the 00.ngrota its ,the falsehood of
its.principles, and the injustice and-patiticarmis-
chie:s of its measur, s ; erevy
need a black and_ gloomy lisped to We friends
who were in momentary dread of an ex-'
plosion. • •
At,the very time •was published in Alicant, a
manifesto of the Ex.Regvn: 1)09 Miguel de Lardi.
which, when denounced anti publicly' re to .in
rate Cortes, excited the itolignalion elf ;ill wk) hear'cl
stio,vect Congrcvis the drlofff;in which it was
plat. ed. Tit it 3 few' cootemptible.aUtrs, as igno-
rata as obscure, might acCilaiUlate.343‘43 upon the
c,,::rnal bases of social order, adopted and sap`
b Co'rteA, pour for di tit,agco4cites,ll.4.,ealArn-
fries agaitist their d(feJl. .b.ler,ak,llPol6ollll., IQ. tie
otwored. ; and &eh, 'l:nisei-IV:4i roigtit
justly be consigned te.coniemPt rttd oblivion,. Brit
that a Siacrisittati, (Ex-Regenf,: liticiliayitv sword.
Jaws, as the( fOndainettial laws of the n:o-
-,
narehy,—aFer•declating itOterence to the ,asta
blisiled'ordttsr of things, •shoUldtpablish,a lib I for its

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