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London, England, 1826-10-23 00:00:00

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public which has not reposed its old age under' the proo
tecting shelter of monarchy. Rome, the mistress of the
world—Rome herself was obliged to have recourse to a
master ;and nothing, not even her horrible Cetus, could
carry her back to her ancient institutions. The tr, ining
which modern societies have received has not disposed
them towards popular Governments. The whole of them
have been formed by the feudal system, and in so far
as regards democracy, they could not have had a worse
training. What has become of all those opulent Re-
publics which commerce amidst the ruins of the Ro-
man Empire, reared here and there upon her fertil,l
shores? They are no more—modern policy and modern
manners have io concert destroyed them. In latter
days but two remained of all their felloa s, one a Re-
public of Merchants, the other of. Shepherds, and the
former, a distant province, which war alone had set
free from its master. But Holland, notwithstanding
her riches, and Switzerland, notwithstandittg the peace
of her mountains, made no proselytes. Yet, the ocean
and the lake of Geneva, are two things; these Repub-
lics were scot twat, thousand Wanes distant from Europe,
France bad than at lisCAates. Some ones may remind
us of the FrenCh Republic ; we intend also to invoke its
bloody shade in aid of our secnrity. Long, long will
the remembrance of those days, in which crime and
folly seem to vie with each. other in spreading terror
over the world, dwellin the hearts of Frenchmen. As
that of England did before, our Revolution bas proved,
that for European societies, such as past institutions
have formed them, there is no medium between demo.
cracy and royalty. Thank "Gon the experience derived
from those tertible times, has not been thrown away
upon us and upon our neighbours; the conclusinns thit
we draw from it are now popular ; there is none so
senseless as not to know, nor so obstinate as to dispute
them. Besides, it was nor in the power of France•to
erect- a Chine,e wall in the Atlantic, to shut out the
American Republics from tbe.view of her people. At
a distance they would have heard nothing but the cry
of war.; they would have c A lculated on nothing bar the
prosperity of the Western world; admitted more near,
they will see its vices and its ninety also. The French-
men who visit those countries, cross not the ocean to
caress a race of Utopians, but to live among real men ;
they will have more to do, and less to admire, than at
New York and Philadelphia. They will find there mwe
food for the understanding than for the-affections ;
;bete, in a word. they will create rather than imitate.
A consideration here presents itself, which must strike
loyalists from within, as well as Statesmen from with-
eat. If there exist any danger to the Throne, that clois-
ter. will not be found in administering aliment to ex-
slink but in compulsory repose. French activity must
1 tom in _what direction to exert itself. Our interior
tranquillity, in this point of view, is as much interested
it these arrangements, as our prosperity abd our glory.
, Under the last Clove:alma the seas were sealest up,
mid the genius of Prance, enchained within the limitsof
le4 ized dowel* even then too narrow for its
egg, VlMllit heti 401111411111 to ALMS IMP& ita 11111111..
daries, with its destructive fleets and powerful armies,
and its warlike pomp. The day of that disastrous glory
is gone by—but the restless ardour that produced it
remains, and that ardour the Government of the King
lisprieraad
has neither permission, nor power, nor wish to destroy.
The duty of Government is to rule by giving it a safe
direction—the ability of Government will be displayed
in turning it towards useful and durable conquests, such
as those which now call us front the other side of the
Atlantic. The old generation of men, battered by the
storms of civil discord and foreign war, are rapidly re-
ceding from the view, and, and on every hand, a new
generation are springing up, who are attached to that
restoration, with the milk of which, if we may be al-
lowed the expression, they have been nourished—who
are strangers, indeed, to that taste for theories and
love of war that influenced their fathers, but full of that
activity. which has been, of necessity, generated by
the long turmoil, in the midst of which they first saw
the day.

The new world is new added to their domain, and in
that field there is, for all the arts, a career without
bounds; science there has her miracles yet to perform;
she has to teach America, to trace her streams, to study
her plants, to drain her marshes, to unite her seas, and
to reclaim her deserts. Suer labours call for ail the
efforts of industry—for grave deliberation—for com-
prehensive thought. It is not of such elements that re-
volutions are made up ; commerce delights in peace,
and peace again seeks embellishment fiom the arts,
honour from science, and perpetuity from public pros-
perity. By a delightful reciprocation, peace, in its turn,
sheds upon the earth thosi benefits which. contributes
essentially to the durability of states—wealth and glory.
FRENCH PAPERS—RECEIVED LAST NIGHT.
?ROM TAX aroma, DATED SATURDAY.
PARIS, Oc-rmsza
It seems certain that the Russian Ultimatum has
been accepted at Akermann. Our letters from Constan-
tinople and Odessa give us room to foresee this result.
The Turkish Government have sheen no preparations
at Constantinople, threatening warlike projects ; it was
evident that the answer was to be given at Akermann,
and that the iwtructions of the Divan had been of a pa-
cific nature. All the letters iron Germany of to day,
confirm this opinion.
For some time past, It has been agreed, by all sensible people In
France, that a new regulation of the Press was required.
A new project of law upon this subject, which is to be
presented at the approaching sitting of the Chambers,
has been communicated to the Committee. _ _

A Journal says, that according to this project, the of-
fences of the Periodical Press are to be tried in the same
manner as those of the Press in general ; but it has been
universally acknowledged, that the responsibility of the
Editors of Newspapers ought to be augmented ; and,
henceforth, rest upon bases more real than those which
exist at present; for the future, those persons only will
be received as responsible Editors, who are attached by
claims, or a ml property is the Papers, for which they
will be responsible.
His Maje.ty the King has honoured Mr. Coining
with an invitation to dinner. Ti e Duke of Wellington
and Prince Metternich are the only persons below the
rank of King, or Prince of the blood, that hare hitherto
been admitted to that high honour.