The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-11 00:00:00

MANIFESTO, No. 1.

France is in expectation. She knows that an
event is about to put an end to the uncertainty
in which she was placed. Never, perhaps, at
any period, were the principles of our policy
more doubtful. Has the Government under
which we live chosen Monarchy or Democracy
for its basis ? Nothing is less certain, if ►v-e are
to form our judgment from the language of the
different parties, or from the conduct of the pre-
sent Ministers, who at one time style themselves
the Ministers of the Chamber, and of public
opinion, and at another time affirm that they are
the Ministers of the King, who leans for sup-
port at one time upon the right, and at another
time upon the left—sometimes on one of the
centres, and sometimes on the other. In this
situation of affairs the manifestation of the Royal
will can alone re-establish order in the public
mind ; and, in point of fact, France turns her
eyes towards the sovereign power as towards her
last hope, convinced that its wisdom will put an
end to all her uneasiness by an act of that sub-
lime prerogative which raises itself above all, in
order that all may be directed and strengthened.
A change of Ministry in a Constitutional Go-
vernment is the means which the sovereign power
tikes of indicating to all the end to which all should
tend, for the purpose of guiding the vessel of the
State in the course which she must take if she would
avoid the rocks which threaten her with destruction.
In this high exercise of the prerogative resides,
strictly speaking, the Government of the State.
Charles the Tenth has made use of this right of the
Crown but once, for on his accession to the
Throne he retained the whole of the Ministry of
1822, which, taken from the right or centre-
right, followed a Monarchical and Constitutional
system. His Majesty declares that the system
adopted by his august brother was his own, and
that as such he intended to continue it. When,
in 1828, he thought proper to change this Mi-
nistry, it was evident that, in the Royal mind,
the change was intended to be rather a change of
persons than a change of system, and that it was
merely had recourse to as a means of uniting
monarchical men who had been estranged from
each other by prejudice and prepossession. It
is well known that the result did not corres-
pond with the Royal wish. The new Mi-
nistry, instead of entering into the spirit
of its mission, kept up the dissensions which
it had been destined to remove, broke up the
Royalist majority in the two Chambers, united
with the left, practised disorders every where,
and proceeded f'rom concession to conces-
sion until it had reached the bri►►k of the
precipice. In order to justify its proceedings, it
put forth as a principle that the Ministry ought
to remain neuter between the different parties,
and yet it belied at every step its own principles.
Meanwhile it heard repeated from each side of
the-Chamber the language held by a writer of
the liberal opposition in 1820. Impartiality,
strict impartiality, is due to individuals, but not
to parties. It is not there that parties are to be
considered as having a right to equality of treat-
ment ; or that they are equally entitled to take
part in the Government. In paint of f►ct, one
must be good, one must be bad, one strong and
the other weak ; one ascends, and the other de-
scends. A choice must be made, and that
choice must be altered. But it excludes not
particular individuals, nor the respect due to
acquired rights and vested interests.
Revolutions are never at an end until the
legitimate party feels that it reigns—no interests
are secure if it be alarmed for its own. Now,
it is only by the certainty, by the confidence
which it has of victory, that its interests can ob-
tain perfect security. Give it, then, this feeling, !
in order that all other feelings may disappear
before it. A Ministry formed from the right or ,
from the centre-right, is now absolutely neees-

sary, insomuch as the right side alone is the
representative `d, the Allonarchial and Constitu-
tional systetni ith4 Session which has just
finished, has demonstrated that the opinions of
the left, and of. a part of the centre left, are
either the opinions of the democrats of 1791,-
or those which exist in the United States;.which
recognise as a principle-7—but all power is de-
nied from the Chambers, as a principle,
RepeesOitative Government, of which
I Monarchy is, as it were, the commence,.
ment, the middle, and the end. The
selection of a Ministry formed of the right side
will place the Government upon its tree basis,
and will put an 'end to the polical sceptism
which has begin to introduce itself into the
minds of the people, prothicing a species of
intellectual anarchy which would soon be
followed by the dissolution of society
itself. it is time that the Royal power
should disperse the clouds which obscure public
opinion ; and that the Royal will, once again
manifested to trance, should appear like the
rays of the sun amidst the storm raised by licen-
tiousness. It is time that the Royal will should
oppose a barrier to the fury of a faction which,
taking advantage of the concessions which had
been made to it by a pusillanimous Ministry,
advances openly to enslave the country. On this
head public opinion will be entirely agreed with
the Royal will, for every body in France wishes
to be governed, every body desires that the So-
vereign power should be invested with dignity
and strength. Nothing can he more important
than the task that has devolved upon the new
Ministry. The present Ministry, forgetting its
noble origin, and yielding to a coalition, has
contributed to form in the Chambers a fictitious
majority, of which it is become the instrument.
It sacrificed the Royal prerogative, instead of
defending it, and it seemed to be occupied in
seeking to learn what was the wish of the Chain-
bers, instead of guiding the Chambers ; a course
consistent with the Royal will.
A new Ministry, which is neither imposed
upon the country by a faction, nor by a Jour-
nalism, nor even by what has been termed Par-
liamentary necessity, since it is appointed in
order to save the Royal prerogative from the
danger of concessions, will find itself in a new
route. The Monarchical principle will be re-
es ablished by the very fact of the new Ministry
being composed of men of the King's choice.
The new Ministers, not having any obstacle,
from the circumstances of their appointment, to
encounter, will be enabled to establish order
where even it may have been disturbed, and ex-
tend at the same time their care to the essential
interests of the country. The King's Government
consists entirely in the management of the inter-
nal and external affairs of the kingdom ; and in
the intercourse with the two Chambers, France
wishes to preserve, inasmuch as it depends upon
her, the peace of Europe. She has agitated the
World long enough ; it will not be now her fault
if peace be disturbed. She alone of all the
powers of Europe has last part of her ancient
frontiers, but she is still sufficiently great and
sufficiently strong, and never will she act from
any feeling of ambition, from any desire of ag-
grandisement. But she has the right to require
that no other shall pass the limits established by
treaties; for were any one to attempt to it, then
she would be compelled to remember that during
twenty years she possessed the Alps and the
source of the Rhine.

The King's Administration has been attacked
with unheard of violence. Associations have
been formed in the name of a faction, for the
purpose of contending against its influence, of
wresting from it its power, and of annihilatir.g
the monarchy, for the benefit of the men of the
revolution and of the hundred days. The Li-
beral Press is become in the Departments an
active and persevering means of disorganization.
Calumnies have been heaped upon the friends of
order and upon the functionaries and other per-
sons employed by the Government ; attacked on
every side, and abandoned by the Government,
they resisted no longer the disaffected ; and
peaceable people, seeing their leaders discouraged,
abandoned the Electoral Colleges to the direct-
ing Committees. It is then evident that the Ad-

ministration of the King ought to destroy every
where the influence of faction, and restore the li-
berty of suffrage to the electors of the kingdom.
The policy of the Administration with respect
to the Chambers turns entirely upon the prin-
ciple that that of France is a Ministry in which
the King has called the Chambers to participate
in his Legislative power ; but that he reserves to
himself the Government both abroad and at

home. Attempts have been made to prevent the
principle on one side ; the sovereignty of the
people has been preached, and, in consequence
of the democratical principles existing amongst
the supporters of this doctrine, theoretical no-
tions have been sought to be established relative
to the power conferred upon the Deputies by
their constituents, and to the unlimited liberty of
the Press and of the electorate associations.—
Others, taking from another country its absolute
aristocratical principles, wish to impart among
us the omnipotence of Parliament and the Minis-
terial domination.

It is necessary that the light should be made
to shine into the midst of the chaos, and that it
should be demonstrated that France is event-
ually monarchical ; that it is the monarchical
principle which has made its Constitution and
its Chambers ; and that it is the principle which
must explain whatever is obscure in our laws,
whatever seems at first to be contradictory.
Should such be in effect the march of the future
Administration, the position of the defenders of
Royalism will be very simple in the Chambers
as well as in the Journals ; and there can be
scarcely any doubt but that at length all the
Royalists, and all those who wish to place the
King and the Charter above the influence of
faction or of false principles, will at length unite.
In order to attain this end, it is not sufficient
that the Government addresses itself to the
friends of order; it must assume at some time
an imposing attitude; it must act with energy ;
it must remember the words of the former Pre.
silent of the Chamber—Constitutions are not
tents pitched merely for repose. Governments
are subject to the universal law of the creation ;
they are condemned to labour; they must live
as the labourer, by the sweat of their brow. It
it an eternal axiom that power never perishes,
unless it destroys itself.

CANADA.—III Mr. MACTAGGART'S valu-
able Work on this interesting country, just published, an
account is given of the great improvements at present in
active operation. Among other undertakings of extraordi-
nary magnitude, the Rideau Canal, which it is proposed
to carry through an uncleared wilderness, between the
Ottawa River, and Lake Ontario, a distance of 160 miles,
is not the least remarkable. We know not what meaqires
Government may have in view, In regard to Canada, which
it must be acknowledged is one of the most valuable and
important of our colonies, but we remember it wai frankly
avowed in the session, before last that " works were in
contemplation for the defence of Canada, which would cost
three millions. "