Star.
London, England, 1829-09-16 00:00:00

From the Courrier Francais.

When a Ministry is composed of such men as style themselves
exclusively as Royalists, it may be taken for granted that such
Ministry is anti-national. This misfortune has been twice expe-
rienced since the Restoration, and our humiliation in the eyes of
foreign countries soon followed. We have seen the Vilkle Admi-
nistration wage a war ruinous to France, declaring that they were
not at liberty to remain at peace, but that the injunctions from the
North had driven them to the Southward. Shortly afterwards we
heard an English Minister declare in the face of Europe, that
France bad, un that occasion, been the dupe of English policy.—
Thus, under Villeel's Ministry, we were afraid of Russia and the
dupes of England.
There is a tendency in the persons calling themselves Royalists,
to march under the English standard, and to humble themselves
before the Cabinet of London; and how can this be otherwise?
Is it not in the very nature and habits of these meet? Front the
moment they saw France telly bent upon a regeneration, they
felt that being enemies of such regeneration, they were like-
wise the enemies of France, and that their own weakness com-
pelled them to seek elsewhere for strength. From that time
their real country was wherever France had enemies, and in
England more than in any other place. hence that invincible
sympathy for foreign Influence, and that disposition to debase them-
selves before that power, from which they were in the habit of
suing for assistance like beggars. Can there be, in fact, a single
spark of national feeling amongst men who have ever made their
foreign influence participate in every thing they did? Wars, con-
spiracies, diplomatical intrigues—they never could undertake any
thing alone ; hut, being condemned to this humilitating inferiority,
they, in turn, condemn France to the same, and overwhelm her
with the ►coin of all Europe.
This is the first advantage which the new Ministry brings with it
by way of a portion ; even betore they have done us any harm at
home, they have already brought down upon us insults front abroad.
As soon as they were in power they became :he English Journals
and Russian Cabinet. Hitherto the Duke of Wellington did not
pass for a clever Statesman; but it must be allowed that if it was
his aim to paralyse and enchain France at the moment when she
could find Sr. opportunity of repairing a little her disasters, and of
resuming her station in Europe, be has succeeded beyond all hope
by continuing the ptesent Administration, and making the party
triumph which it represents. Perhaps he was tint aware that under
this odious Administration France would not afford any assistance
of the least consequence to England, but he knew that the interests
of France would be subordinate to that of England, and that suf-
ficed to him.

What a fatality is attached to the party which now directs our
Cabinet. It neglected nothing as long as England was strong and
glorious to render her inimical to us, and it now ties us to her
chariot-wheels when her helplessness becomes every where mani-
feat. These are the times when we, at our cost, tackle ourselves to
her weakness. No doubt England has still some Rippancy in
her language ; she still says, " The first maritime power in the
world ought always to be the strongest party wherever any
naval transactions are likely to take place." However, in the mean
while, the Russian armies approach the walls of Constantinople,
her ships blockade the Dardanelles—still England stirs nut. These

boastful words are the more ridiculous as they are belied by tarts.
If England was still what she had been formerly, the English fl kg
would lung ago have waved in the Dardanelles, and a coalition
would have king ago been privately organised against Russia, nor
would the first threats have issued from St. Petersburgh.

The capture of Adrianople was a singular Goo-send to our
English Administration mi its entering into lace ; and mark ! that
the Russian Manifesto, which has been given from the Augsburg
Gossett, was launched nut before this decisive success, which, un-
questionably, will not lessen the assurance of the Czar. Be this as
It may, the great events passing at this moment at the extremity of
Europe will soon reverberate in the heart of this part of the world,
and cannot fail to have on the destinies of aver, people an influ-
ence proportionate to their importance. The l'olignac Adminis-
tration, by causing us to be taken in tow by England, who can
hardly drag herself along, would at all times have proved a great
fatality to us. but is an infinitely greater one during the present
position of Europe.