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at the Court, the most approved servants of the Prince shrug up
their shoulders, or tremble at the Deadness of your attempt.
And what If those six men had dared to print in their Journals ;
that they were the balance of the Monarchy—that but for these
and after them it would have no resource? How is It that the
Precursor &NMI has not prosecuted them for this insolence ?
AU you honourable celebrated men—Marshals of France, who
have nbt deserted on the field of battle—you Statesmen, who
have nal denunided SOO heetb—great Lords, who have net made
yourselves Jeasits—Magistrates, who have not become the ser-
vile Ministers of the Congregation--yoe will we the Throne
from the danger of having only six defender,. This is what is
good In the mischievous enterprise now undertaken—lt will try
men ; it will bring them together ; it will form and mask/ an
immense constitutional opposition, in which the Crown cannot
fail to find an Incontestable support. Every day the names of those
who denounce may be opposed by the names of those who resist ;
the names of those who recommend salutary rigour, by those who,
in a multitude, are ready to suffer it.
Bet if the Ministers, not daring to wait for the Chamber, in
the name of which it is said they have temporarily changed their
offices, should attempt any carps ttua ; if they should attack the
public liberty; the contest would be still less doubtful. They
would be everywhere resisted by manners, opinions, and laws ;
they would find a whole people aggrandise, since they have had
the Chatter. Taxes would be refused ; public credit would fail.
In their bosom there would be some afraid, and perhaps some de-
serters. Why not? The assassinations of the Rue Sat Denis,
the fusillades of November were blamed at the time by hi. de
Chabrol, and then be was working at the downfall of his first col
league; he would do this for his present colleagues, if necessary. for
he is a prudent man. M. de Polignac and M. de N Bourdonnaye
have a germ of division between them—oue is absolute as a de-
votee, the other is absolute as a politician. 11. de la Bourdonnaye
will voluntarily perform the tyranny without a Priest ; SI. de Po-
lignac requires to confess him, and would need absolution to obtain
confidence. M. de la Bourdonnaye has suppressed the Ministry of
Ecclesiastical Affairs, and will have no Bishops in the Council.
M. de Polignac gave up this point with regret and remorse. He
does not love hasty and violent mousses, and he will mistrust his
impetuous associate. Both of them see in M. Montt's& the
shade of SI. de Villele, their old enemy. A reconciliation has
been effected, it is said ; M. de Vallee advised this backward
step ; be expects to swim amidst the chaos of re-action, and to
become the moderator of the evil the Ministers will effect.. In
the mean time M. de Manche! is an inconvenient Inspector for his
colleagues. We hope, indeed, that the Ministry may be broken ,
up before it has had the misfortune to attempt any thing further.
While it exists, though It do nothing, it excites terror. We mat'
apply to it the reflection of an English historian, on a Magistrate
being appointed, who is too celebrated in the annals of Ragland:—
" There is not a greater danger for a Monarchy than to elevate
men to power, who are so implicated that they can only maintain
their stations by grand strokes."
The Journals of the Departments are unanimous In expressing
the sentiments of alarm which the appointment of the new Minis-
try has called forth.

From the Courrier Francais.
PARIS, Aua. 17.

The opinions of the departments are known, the Ministry can-
not deceive itself ; its appointment is every where regarded as a
public calamity. Trade and manufactures were never struck by
such a blow. Who will begin enterprises and speculations in a coun-
try when nothing is heed—nothing on which theyean count for the
two next days—where every thing is brought into question without
any cause, except a caprice or an intrigue. Representative Govern.
meats have crises, but they are preceded by known symptontsswkich
may be observed—which may be traced and foreseen. The
moment when the Minister has lost the support of the Charnben is
known • and by the strength of his adversaries a conjecture may
be formed as to who will be his successor. Is the present
change there is none of this; and it oversets all our received
ideas. It does not resemble a Representative, but the Govern-
ment of Constantinople. Even when the Royal Will was uncon-
trouled, it had a less capricious march than the Royal Will
clothed in some legal forms. Owe erEtat are accordingly talked
of ; it is said that they have been discussed in Council; that
MM. de Cl ahn! and de la Bourdonnaye were in favour of
them, and MM. de Polignac and de Bourniont against them.—
Hitherto we supposed ourselves living under a Representative
Government, tottering, perhaps; but now, by the creation of the
Ministry, we know that we hays nht such a Government. It has
chosen its Superintendent of Police ; it is going on in the same way
as its sisters in Spain and Portugal ; it has around it a quantity of
Priests. Monks, and Jesuits. It is animated by the same spirit
and it pursues he same objects as those Governments, and will
reach the same end. The Ministers have lost the only colleague
who was different from themselves. It was too much to wish to
unite to the recollection of the glories of Navarin another appoint-
ment that invoked the remembrance of an execution.
The Ministers find no support in the literary world any more
than in the political world. A pension of six thousand francs has
been offered to kJ. Victor Hugo, and refused.
The Ministers, and those who speak in their name, assume a
friendly appearance, but their talons may be seen. On many of
their names there is blood—the blood of the Categories—of men
politically accused, but not defended—blood shod at Waterloo.
Their advisers recommend them to draw the sword ; and when
we point out these signs of a reign of terror, they declare they are
calumniated, and they protest that their intentions are honest,
friendly, and just.

From the Constitutionnel.
PARIS, Alio. 17.

M. Royer Collard said of the new Ministry it is an effect without
a cause • but this cannot be said of the general irritation which the
Dames of the new itlinisters excite in all minds. One of these names
is an insult to the army, and Fiance feels very keenly this att-mpt scan
her military glory. Another recalls the clemency which, deigmng
to bestow life on the French nation, reserved 1500 victims to be put
to death—part immediately under the eyes of their families and
friends—part at a later period, in the torments of exile. He was at
once Tiberius and Nero. The name of the third recalls those scan-
dals and those prodigalities which hastened the ruin of the old
Monarchy; recalls what was the fatal and immediate cause of the
Misfortunes of the Royal Family ; and how, in order to kill one
man, fifty were put to death. and a whole quarter of the town
blown up. The fourth is ',receded by the law of sterilise and
amputated handi ; the fifth will recal, in the South of France, the
remembrance of scaffolds, of repeated funerals, and the horrible
game of baits with heads recently cut off. All these names united,
cause the highest clamour, and the mod violent threats that were
ever hurled into the midst of the French people. The irritation
is great and general, and must increase in strength and thumbs, ;
it is increased by the love of national independence. Why is the
attention of the people recalled to the most disgraceful periods of
the old monarchy?
But if it is the destiny of France to be replaced under the inimical
Influence of England; to again descend to that state of disgraceful
debasement from which she had so nohiy raised herself—is the Eng-
lish *Ministry, who prepared this new affront for us, certain of never
having to blush for those which other Ministers may prepare for
England? Is there nothing suspicious in Austrian good faith? Is it to
intintidate Russia, and check its triumphal march towards Cunstan-•
tinople, that Acstrithas spread so many battalions on the eastern
frontier? Is it nut rather to take possession of Bosnia and Beryls,
of which the sovereignty may have been secured to her by an in-
strument wbkh has not passed through the hands of English
Attornies? When the Russians have compelled the Turks to strike
the tents under which they have encamped for four centuries in
the midst of Christian people, is the Duke of Wellington certain
that they will not open to the warlike • Mabmoud the passages which
lead to the Mahomedan provinces of India, where the English yoke ;
is borne with• so much impatience? We throw out these doubts
for the reflection of the skilful and powertul foreigner, whose in- •
fluence has given to France a Ministry that is for her so very
strange and novel.
To what degree of debasement the new Ministry have already
fallen may be known from the circumstance that the late Ministers
have friends who follow their example of resigning, and going into
a peaceable retreat. France will not forget the honourable conduct
of MM. de Laborde, Bertin-de-Vaus, Hely d'Onel, Lepelictier
d'Aulnay, Froidefona de Belk Isle; &c. The fatal Mlniory, cap
neither find men to take nice, nor literary.men to accept pensions.
They, believe themselves contaminated by its. ',Unity, and die-
bemoured by its benefits.
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