Star.
London, England, 1829-09-15 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

From the Journal des Debate

The reports relative to the uneasiness and disunion
(dislocation) of the Ministry multiply, and daily become more con-
sistent. We at first paid but little attention to them, but Dow
the division in the Ministry is sufficiently advanced to reveal it-
self by positive anecdotes, which have escaped from confidence
by bad humour and spite. The Ministers are almost as bad
among themselves as they are with the nation. A few days ago
the Council Chamber was the theatre of a singular scene. The
Ministers had been signing Oreloatalances, and discussing some
measures of economy, when one of them, whose name will boo
easily guessed, said, " There were more important things to con-
sider than those; that he was astonished at the inactivity of. she
Cowen in so imminent a crisis ; that it was necessary, before
any thing else, to think of the Chamber. You know (added
he) that although I am not a Member of it, I was chosen to
represent and attract a part of the left centre. I did not think,
in fact, that it will be possible to go on without it; but it is
impossible to obtain it with the nominations that have been
made, and the language which is held by the Ministerial Jour-
nals. We must take a decided part, and designate by acts the line
of moderation, to which part I desired to attach myself." On
this raising of the buckler, two other voices were heard, and they
uttered the words moderation, moderation, united with firm-
Demi." The Prince de Polienac held his tongue, but his count?.
nance seemed to approve the expression. But M. de la Bourdon-
nape replied, with hauteur, " that moderation had lasted too
lung—that it excited the insolence of the factions—that it was
necessary to go forward boldly, and that all the outcry would fall
of itself; that, above sU, it was necessary, as soon as possible, to
place energetic men in some of the Prefectures, in order to be
prepared against every thing." In concluding, he said, " Un-
happily, energy was rare, and fear even seemed to have crept
into the Councils of the Government." At this word fear the
colour rose on the cheek of M. de Courvoisier. He replied an-
grily, " that the fixed character of his principles was notfear that
he had no morefear than M. de la llourdonnaye." Then, giving
himself sop to his oratorical vivacity, he said some very good things
against exaggeration and violence, as be used to do in the Chamber
in the year 1819. AI. de la Bourdonnaye railed again at the Re-
volution and the pusillanimity which encourages it; and he added,
with great bitterness, " that there was something very strange in
managing at once the Revolution and the Jesuits" •

Hurt at this last trait, M. de Courvoisier was about to reply by
some vehement sortie, but the Prince de Pulignac endeavoured to
restore calm by saying " that every body in the Council was united
by hatred for the Revolution ; that he thought with the Keeper of
the Seals as to the Jesuits, so useful to the Monarchy ; but that the
time was not arrived for reviving the two Ordonnances. M. de la
Bourdonnaye replied violently, spoke for a long time, and was sup-
ported by two Members of the Council. It was even said that up
to a certain point the Prince de Polignac appeared to agree with him
in opinion. They separated without having decided any thing, and
very discontented. Since this scene, the word. fear, and swaltoseu
which endangers the Monarchy, have been much repeated by some
subalterns (sous mires). It is probable, however, that no person
will retire immediately from the Ministry. The bond of necessity
is stronger than all their disputes. How are they to go on? How
are they to disembarrass themselves of each other? Mow, above
all, could they recruit themselves? In every way there is the
same impotence; and yet time runs on, and difficulties grow with
public hatred.
A Journal this day publishes the following ; at the present mo-
ment it appears to us to be of great importance :
" We, the undersigned inhabitants of the five departments of the
ancient province of Brittany, under the jurisdiction and protection
of the Royal Court of Humes, bound by our own oaths, and by those
of the heads of our families, to fidelity to the King, and attachment
to the Charter ; considering that a handful of political madmen
have conceived the audacious design of attacking the very basis of our
constitutional rights conferred by the Charter ; considering also, that
if Brittany has found, in the enjoyment of these rights, the compen-
sation of those that were secured to her by her union to France, her
national character and her honour equally induce her to imitate the
generous conduct of her ancestors, by resisting the usurpation and
arbitrary caprices of Ministerial authority ; and considering, finally,
that any armed resistance would be the most dreadful calamity,
that it would be unjust, and without motive, as long as legal resist-
ance can be had recourse to ; and that the most certain means of
rendering preferable recourse to judicial authority is to ensure to
the victims a mutual and fraternal link with their fellow-citizens--

We declare, connected as we are by the ties of honour and
legal right,

Ist. To subscribers individually for ten francs, and also the
underwritten, whose names are inscribed on the electoral lists of
1830, for the tenth of the contributions attributed to them on the
aforesaid lists; and we oblige ourselves to pay the same money on
presentation of the drafts of Procurators-General, in case they
should be named, conformably to the third article of the present
declaration.

" 2d. This subscription will form a common stock or fund for
all Brittany, destined to indemnity the subscribers for any expense
they may be put to by their refusal to pay any illegal contributions
imposed upon the public, either without the lice, regular, and
constitutional assent of the Kind and the Chambers established by
the Charter and the present laws, or even with the assent of the
Chambers created by any electoral system contrary to the same
comtitutioual regulations.

" sd. In case of any illegal change in the mode of elections, or
any illegal establishment of taxes, two proxies of each district shall
assemble at Pontivy ; and as soon as they are 20 in number, they
will bare power to elect amongst the subscribers three Plocerators-
General and an Under Procurator in each of the five departments.
" 4th. The duty of the General Procurators will be to receive
the subscriptions, to afford indemnities, conformable to the aeeond
article, at the request of any subscriber prosecuted for the payment
of illegal contributions; to sue in his name through the said Sub-
Procurator of his department for justice against the exactors, by
all possible means allowed by law, and to become the accusers s.f
all those who are accomplices or abettors of the establishment of
illegal taxes.

sth. The subsctibets and proxies of this district to assemble
with the proxies of the other districts, and to deposit the present
subscription in the hands of the General Procurators."
It is asserted that in some new subscriptions an article has been
added, in which the subscribers engag► to refuse their support and
votes in political affairs to any author or accomplice of measures
tending to the establishment of an illegal tax.