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London, England, 1829-08-19 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

( From the Journal des Debate of Saturday.)
PARIS, Aua. 16.

Sshymen superest opus (Lucas).—Generally the Ministers are
not displaced or placed except by the Chambers or an Eketion.
Thus the Ministry of the Duke de Richelieu fell before a vote of
the Chamber of Deputies, and this vote brought M. de Vsßele into
power. Thus also, at a later period, IE. de Vsßele felt the come.
vertex of the votes at the Election of 1827, and this elevated M.
de hiartignac into power. 'nu new Ministry has. in this respect,
a deithiy of its own ; $t is neither a vote of the Chamber, nor the
votes at an election, which have displaced its predecessors and ale.
vated it to power. Front its origin it lies beyond the rules and
etagere( a Reptesentative Government: The nuance of ks birth
indicates in what manner It will live. Whence cams it? Where
is its source of power?
Here I ant in a critical situation ; for I wish not to insult, and
I must speak the truth.
France received the Restoration with enthusiasm. This is so
tree that the orator who wished to say that France had received
Royalty with repugnance, lost almost by these words his claim to
public gratitude, and died believing that his countrymen were an.
grateful, when they were only just.
But it is also true that In securing the Restoration, France did
not cut aside all its dearest recollections, all the allictioas that bad
become sacred, and all the natural antipathies connected with those
recollections and afflictions.

Thus there is not a single family in France of the middle classes
without some recollections of 1789. Our fathers delighted in re-
counting the joy they felt when the Hostile was taken, and the
still purer juy, which was excited by the Federation. Whoever
looked with an angry rye en the dawn of the Reveled=
whoever cursed the hours which came on so rapidly and po
beautifully of its morning—whoever did not allow himself at
first to be seduced, as the Duke de Montmorency said of Ma-
self, repented it afterwards. France ought to esteem, but could
not love him. If there are amongst our great Nobles some
family of the kind—if it have returned to the country which it
abandoned too soon—if it have recovered the estates which
could be restored without violating justice—if it have titles and
honours—if it enjoy the remembrances of the goodness of a Queen,
whose courage ren..ered her holy and sacred in the eyes of France,
and whom it was so much the less proper to forsake, as she ordered
that nut of excessive friendship—to all these things we have nothing
to say ; but if the chief 14 this family is appointed to represent
France in foreign countries, we have a right to complain. If on
several occasions he CIIII4CII the Channel to seise the Ministry, and
that even in the time of M. de Videle, as if 51. de Villele was nut
zealous enough, our complaints become alarming. If at length, after
several such appearances, as if he would accustom us, by the tear of
it. to the evil itself, the chief of this family, mistrusted still more on
account of the friendship of the Duke of Wellington, Is called to
power, then haw great must be our affliction ? Is there not remises
fear when we see the destiny of France, as it was created in 17110, it.
livered into the bands of the counter-revolution of the most =dist
date? Have we not reason to suppose that we shall go back to a
period prim. to 89, when power is placed in the hands of the heirs
and the disciples of the men of 88, and when nothing. I imaginett
but the death of M. de Calonne prevents us from having him for a j
Finance Minister?

With such recollections attached to his name, it is In vain thati,
M. de Polignite has made a public profession of attachment to the!
Charter. This resembles the old Test Oath in England, which'
per.ons must take to fill a public employment, but which was of
110 forceeicept tot those who refused it. IJo not doubt M. del
Polignac's sincerity ; but can he believe that a few words can cow:
pen.ate,. in the eye. of the people, for the actions of a whole fife?!
Has hi. name grown into popular favour since that tine? A year
ago he made this profession ; have many persons duce than 4ml-`
breed to his Ministry ? No ; and now the country Is agitated Mud;
uneasy. Every person asks when will these blows of the count/ern
revolution be at an end—this Is at length the last Ile it so, though,
it be the most violent of any.
M. de Pelignac in the Ministry represents the ideas of the first
emigration, the ideas of Coblents. Do his colleagues represent
any thing of less antipathy to the sentiments of France? We wish.
it • bin what must we think when the means have been found to
disfigure in some sort even the recollections of La Vendee ?

Three is in the Ministry a person who nears Li Vendee; but
it is N. de Bourmont : and even La Vendee did hot arst establish
his reputation, but the Clionesnerie. His subsequent fame is in-
delible, fur it belongs to our recollections of Waterloo. Who does
hot admit, the misfortune of such a choice? There is, In the his-
tory of the Counter-Revolution in France—a history made up
Wood of intrigues and conspiracies—one brilliant and glesion
;• scene. La Vendee. There is not a mats, particularly if he be
Taunt, who does nut love La Vendee with its brave peasants ;
its battles at the corner of every hedge ; its Gefiallis elected on
the new of battle ; the generous death of its Utiochamps, and the
splendour of its Larochejacquelin. Is there a man of La Vend&
called to the enunter•revolutiou
,31infrstry ? Were it ',mere sol-
dier, the public would be astonished. but would not complain.—
C.tbelineao was only a peasant. But we take a man from that
Osossisiserie, from that war of highways, she victories of, which are
over mail-coaches ; that war which was never either popular or
ersditable. This is the first folly of this choice. There is another
the same man ; for in the new •7lheistry each member of it is
,big•with unpopularity, and each name is a mar► for public dkhke.
Vase/kin I I do not ask the Restoration to lenient that day ; bust
• it WNW' ask Fiance to rejoice 'foe movh.of nor blood was
viola shed, and too moth of our glory thewprfidied.'There is not

a Pm& eager who does not died tears at

bet there is cue men, they say, who ought, .
day, to blush. You are deceived, Gentlemen.
was only faithless from fidelity ; be remembered beyond the oaths
he had just taken to Bonaparte the oaths be had taken to Look
XVIII. On the eve of a battle, a soldier should only remember
his oath to fight.
Bight days ago history only could ask M. de Stormont about his
loyal treason ; now if he be exposed on the pillory, if the Ministry
of France collect around him, whose is the fault? If children ask
what he has done, and parents answer be lost the battle of Waterloo,
whose is the fault? If from every field of battle in Europe. where
our grand army left sussed its members—lf front Belgium. where
it left even its stumps—litmus the place where Ney was shot there
arise angry cries. which plate, our very hearts—lf the column of
the Grand Army seems to tremble with all its battalions of brass.
as if k bad received an affront. whose is lye fault ? No ; the Mi-
nistry of the Counter Revelation wants nothing until Waterloo is
represented.
Let M. de Bourmont not seam our words s>< vielsete: we
net jw!ge his conscience. He assisted at the disasters of Waterloo.
What be did. he, no doubt, thought right. But how is it that be
does not feel that since that day he has been branded as It were
with a species of fatality? Does be not &claw there is between
him and France all the blood which he assisted in shedding at
Waterloo? If a man, by ,by virtue, even had assisted at
the death of my family I could impute to him the loss of my
friends—no human power could oblige me to give my band to such
a man. Peep* or soldiers, we are in France all brothers and sons
of the 'lurks...deed of Waterloo. and we cannot give our hand to
M. de Bounnost.

What sh.ll I say of M. de la Bourdonnaye? Of all the Mini.
ten his unpopularity Is of the latest date. Against him there are
only fourteen years of public dislike • but never was dislike min-
gled with greater terror. A few words were sulkiest tomake his
name famous, and in the uneasy mind of the public equally, many
actions. The manner in which he speaks, always tiaras and inflex-
ible, has persuaded France that, as Minister, be would push every
thing to extremes. M. de la Bourdoonaye is a partisan and a lo-
giciau—a double reason for dread. He whatever hoofer be .
may possess for the Convention, of the school of those Wilkie
logicians who boldly developed the Revolution. If be does as
Minister what he has said as Speaker, be will develope the cowl.
ter-revoludon. M. de la Bourdonnaye represents In the Ministry
the faction of ISIS, with its murdesoips amnesties, its laws of pro-
scription, and its dependent massacres In the South.
CoblentsWaterion-1815-4re the three principles, the three
persons of the Ministry. Turn them whatever way you piease,
they terrify and affront us. There is not an aspect which is not
evil•Nlet a side which is not threatening. Our hatred of thirty
years ago—our aMictions and our distresses fifteen years ago. are
all there—all have assembled to insult and irritate France. Press
and turn the hlinistry 'as you will, it displeases us with bendlia.
thin, evil, and dangers.
The Ministry, however, is astonished at the public afiliction. It .
says the public is unjust—that it does not know what the Ministry
will be. What it will be? Why; what can it be but what it.has
been? What else can It be? Do you not see that it is bound to
the past? It is, in vat uta deatand that Time should ilium with
ore stroke of his wingi their lives, their actions, and their thoughts ;
they will remain for them as frir us.' The shadow of their past life
is thrown helms them, and marks out their future path. They
cannot tura aside; they must proceed in the same course. " But
we wiU return back." You cannot. "We will support liberty,
the Charter, and the Opposition." You cannot. On. then—on,
driven by necesdtj—on to the abyss of Cliemsd'Eters. Proceed,
your own lives have tried and sentenced you. Your destiny must
he accomplished.

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died tears at reeoUeeting that day ;
, who ought, on recollecting .tier
trod, Gentlemen. M. de ligurniont