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TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1829.

TO NOTE ILEEP.I3RS. •
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. ibpjITANTS. a'SITUATION.as CHAMBERMAID in
an *Motel, a respectable middle-aged active Woman, a
native of Prance; who spealtslosiisb fluently ; bas no °Moeda) to
ITiwn or Cotton*, and can give a two years' reference from ber
ad place.—Address by letter, pest paid, to A. B. No. 1, Piekett•
slice. Strand.

COPENHAGEN, October 1829.

fattleol but poked!, Meted subject. .4 Unhappy France ! un•
haPPY Mae"
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tI walked up and down under the portico of the Free Kirk, and
dossed so Fame and ksanortallty. I was almost a stranger in a
lend of strangers, and, of the crowd. that passed backwards and
forwards. there was not, a countenance which awakened a remem-
brance of the past. So I stood in looeliness. and in that frame of
mind which soon dire:lobs thoughts into the channels of melan-
choly. I had been asked to accompany the remains of an eminent
man to their bit:lel-piece, bet, by some mistake or other, I missed
the address of the friend who was to introduce me to the sad cere-
monial. I was a little smt of hansom whh the disappointment,
and the exceeding tempoutiousoess of the weather, whose violence
was almost without example' had not exercised any beneficial in-
itiated an my temper. In fset, I was wetted through and throne'
in the vain search of Mm whorls I could not find. and I hastened
to the metropolitan church, determined, .at least, to be a speetithe
of that in which it was intended I should be an actor.lbcie—
backwards and forwards while I pronsenaded in the portico—l
saw the assembling together la a neighbouring street of the
mournersdor the dead. There were, I should think, scarcely lees
than a hundred earrieges—for the deceased was a man of eminence,
both In the political and literary State (one cannot say Republit
here). It was, la fact, Therialtins, whose Laths " Prohniones'
inlailierotisibiLunitoown in Enid od. Yet it becomes me not here to
Allfeitihe ear tie fimoes II deaf to its music In&
the lesson is taught on what a poor. spider's web it bangs. The
boys that passe lip and down the able—the half frozen fly that
walks over yon Corinthian pillar—nay, the very moo that grows
between the grave stones—make more noise now than be who is
passing away to the mere elements --Me mere atoms of earth.
The hearse is standing—it has been long standing—patiently at the
door. &wept that it is painted black, hailed almost serve for
car of triumph—its gold and silver fantastic fineries seem to mock
the surrounding gloom. It has pillars adorned with palms and an-
gels—not those beautiful beings with whom the Greeks associated
the idea of death. but the winged messengers of what may truly be
called our mythology—for certainly the Bible gives no sanction to
half the devices which blend with our common notions of death.--
The dead are nowhere so neglected as in Great Britain, especially
in Scotland, where a churchyard is the mat of all abOmination and
offence. This neglect Is worse even than the folly which in some
parts of France paints tears. in the shape of tadpoles, on the
crosses which are erected over the dead. The Mussulmans are
wiser ' • their cemetries are places where Meditation may take
het ill of quiet and gentle thought. 'Many nations raise flowers
over the dust of those they loved. A foreign poet has exqui-
sitely said :

The artirii was written in haste and on the spur of the moment,
under the Infinence of the events in the midst of the agitation
which the tdtcumstance had caused ; I know not if in the hare,
under the eitsetion so strongly felt by the author, under the do-
minion of hie personal feelings augmented by the general agita-
tion of the public know not that the pen of the Pali.
for htansisrepeesented his thoughts; but it is certakt,my client
has always eMeMtd, and is ready now to aMrst, that his
intendon and dot of his young friend were never more
pure ; both: befitted that they were fulfilling a .duty eons-
=andel Ilic* fern of circumstances; they bad no desire to of-
fetid the Alfama of the King—Gon forbid!—whom they highly ho-
mer ;. tiered/ deplored an error, Which they regarded as mis-
ddeione.. They did lot pretend to doubt the constitutional power
of the Three, et which they have always in need declared them.
selves the tiefenders, but to rouse the public attention, and tibat Ot
the Prince, to the probable manner in which the new Ministers
would.geteraillance,
*pointing out beforehand. ie the lincetttf
of
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to Franco.

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An anmation; .however; wee Itenslth egaNsilif Jawed des
Debars, an accusation altogedm pealed.* stolid= of veldt-
ketion ridiculed to prefiwitunt by the Wary, as an expiatory
sacrifice..an holocaust to the wanes of the Administration before
the last—a lesson to be taught to those wise had been called by its
predecessors men who were guilty of defection; a terrific warning
finally to those other authors,-who, not having the same service to
the Bourbons to plead, must expect to find still more rigid jus-
tice. The chief Editor was carried before the Tribunal of Cor-
rectional Police, and he was sentenced to be imprisoned six manilas
for the imputed crimes of offence to the person of the King, and of
attacking the Royal dignity.
Without any doubt the person of the King is inviolable ; without
any doubt his person is sacred-4acred in itself, and by the august
title of King—by the single fact of his succession to the throw; in.
dependent of his coronation.
This pompous ceremony, in times of ignorance and superstition,
might have been improperly considered as conferring the crown and
the royal power by the hand of a priest; but in times more en-
lightened as to 'the independence of the dvil power, and since'
our ancestors proclaimed an order* to prevent the Church friss
saying that it bad a right to take away what it bad bestowed, as
a fundamental maxim that the King of France acquires his
right from God, and his sword and the law alone—the
Coronation has only been considered, in its true point of view, as
a purely religious act; and in this character deserving of our re-
spect, bat not affecting in any thing the essence of royalty, which
might be omitted or deferred, which added nothing to the polid.
cal character of the King, or his natural and legal power, and to
his immediate and natural inviolability. If his person is said to be
sacred, it is only to arra at all times his holiness, and that be is
most venerable in our eyes. This inviolability, however, has no-
thing in common with the crime imputed to M. Herrin, as offence
to the person of the King.
The whole article, the Advocate contended, was written in a
spirit different from that imputed to It. As for .the words" break
the vow of confidence and attachment," be justified his client by
the example of M. de Polignac himself, who, writing in the Caw-
Walker In tele, and speaking of the King taking away from'
Monsieur the command of the Nadonal Guard, used the phrase—
"such a measure loosens the bands which united the National
Guard to the Throne." The Advocate also quoted the circular of
M. de la Bourdonnaye, which speaks of " reviving coalition, ;"
and apbrate of M. Cottu, who bad said It was "Abet the attach.
awoke( the nation might be recesseuered;" and as M. Cotta's ad-
vice had not been followed, this attachment is not yet regained
(laughter). I may even quote M. Syrieys de Mayrinhac, obi
after having said that the King has many enemies, has been piled
at the head of the Police to look after those be believes to be the
enemies of the King (renewed laughter).
M. Dupla then showed that to criticise the composition of a
Ministry win not to attack or doubt the King's prerogative, butsag
use a legitimate right. It was said the Ministry have done ambit&
but there was cause to fear. Long articles of mad decimals*
had declared that the majority was the King—the doctrine, of Dl,
vine power has been revived ; and into this new confession of Augs.
• burgh a doctrine had glided, which substituted a Dictatorship for
the Constitution, extinguishing the limited Monarchy by NOW,
force in the place of right, and by lifting the power of the barns;
above the holy authority of the laws. They pretended to fens a
majority sometimes with the King and the Chamber of Peers aria
the Deputies—sometimes with the King and the Deputies apt*
the Peers—end Haaviot preserve us from a third combination
for under such a system every thing is possible.
If a single stone of the social edifice is, toadied, the eat:denser
fall to the ground. And how can we expose ourselves to ibis
danger, when there are two exiles to prove that legitimacy is sot a
sufficient security against the strokes of fortune? At the bottom
the trial proceeds from nothing but the Malice of the Ministers, who.
under the pretence of revenging a pretended insult to the perms of
the King, have only endeavoured to take vengeance for.an offueliei3O
themselves—to intimidate the Constitutional press, and create ties
silence which seems peace to them. Hence the numberless us
cusations against the press in Paris and in the Departments,
and the declamations of which it is the object by a party which.
has never been in power without requiring the censorship and laws
of exception. In err laws, the Press has merited well of the
country, for it has watched over its interests during the cessation
of Parliament. " The liberty of the Press," said the present.
Keeper of the Seals in 1519. " is the spring and the support of Re-
presentative Government ; it is our object to strengthen that species
of Government, and we must endure the inconvenience of the Press
for its advantages. Can we hope to obtain, after a revelation and
under the Charter, a silent deference for the acts of the Govenr
meat ? Can we hope to keep down the Press, when an impotent op.
position in ancient France only aggravated its unfortunate effects?
Opinion has governed here from the sixteenth century ; factions in-
voked it, and authority found support in it against factions.—
Satire was even more powerfil against the Leaguers than the
awned of Hens y I V. Ft was to opinion that Loch
XI V. bad recourse in : • his reverses ; and from it he
obtained resourses in 1700 and VIM against the arrogance of
his enemies. England was violently agitated as long as authors
and their works were prosecuted with severity ; and the agitation
mated whets thought could take its boldest flight, without dread
of a Government prosecution. By prohibiting the publication t,f
any writing not authorised by the Archbishop of Canterbury or
the Bishop of lastiden, James I. only tempered the weapons of
which fanaticism made use to destroy the throne of his son. Did
the ezeenden of Sydrws, and the bloody decision of Jefforriss, seders
the Nower.orc haries IL sad of James II? If the press had sot
been pet down, would it not hive informed these Sovereigns that
a King,., metered by misfortune, bad left them the wise eiransel to
place tbeiritreagth and gluey in the liberty of their subjects? N.
Dui& soaelatiod a long ors**, by .explaining the . sanative of
franVneeaip sevetvieg. swab,' to the 'uiiiffies of the people ,

The lower-seeds on thy grave I fling
- 'Shall struggle into life and bloom ;
.s.find so shalt thou!—and both, some spring,
Moll waken from their winter tomb.
• .;tbe • flower shall not oppress the flower,
Nur aye disturb thy sacred rest ;
But bloom into that sweeter hour
Which beams with promise for the blest.
While occupied with thoughts like these the funeral train ap-
proached—it was beaded by two persons with silver staves, orna-
mented with crape—then a number of friends, in black robes, many
of whom I observed, by their ruffs, were Lutheran Ministers--then
came the corpse, over whose coffin were what seemed to me to be
laurel branches, intermingled with flowers, and a Bible amidst them
—and then, twain and twain, followed the procession of Invited
friends, each wearing a black cloak. The body was car-
ried to the altar, and raised on its bier • and one of the
Ministers, taking his station at the bead of the coffin, harangued
the assembly en the event which had assembled them together.—.
A small quantity of earth was then brought on a silver salver, and,
with a bright silver trowel, he sprinkled it over the laurels which
lay on the coffin of the dead. " Earth to sank, ashes to ashes,
dust to dust," How beautiful—how affecting—how appropriate
is this phraseology! The banana of Nature again receives what it
gave forth—again to be moulded by that Divine band which works
the marvellous combinations of :matter, and holds, in ever-during
but quiet agitation and change the infinite imams of saistenee.-.•
Tbe discourse was ended—the attendants each in turn looted to-
wards the bier —and bowing to those around them in silence, re-
tired, one by one, from the place. What became of the corpse I
know not; it was probably left in the hands of the grave-digger.
The formalities are over—the two tall candles at the sitar are es-
tinguished—and it only remains to give the tomb possession of
its spoils.
Let them pass on then to its solitude and its peace—a solitude
and a peace, which seemed to me the more enviable, as the winds
howled around me, and the bail-stones fell, and the wretches—
" pelted by the pitiless storm"--passed me by. Of death I form no
admire of terror. life has enjoyment enough to make it toler-
able while it lasts, and death has rest enough to make it welcome
when it comes. Life has too much of sorrow to render it worthy
of a wise man's intensest love, and too much of joy to be lightly held
In a good man's estimation. Its pleasures overbalance its pains,
and so, on the whole, we rightly desire to live. But the Omer we
look at the administration of Paomiscs, the more we shall dis-
cover that, of all its instruments for the improvement of our race,
death is the most effectual.
The church-yards in Denmark are, for the most part, at a con-
siderable distance from human habitations—a wise and salutary
regulation, which is friendly to the public health, and makes a
church-yard a fit place for an evening walk, when the peaceful
hour of twilight seems more especially to invite us to the city of the
dead.—Morning Herald.

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PRICE SYVENPENCE.

having for 3 motto, " the Legitimate Dignity, the Consthudonal
Charter, and the interest of France." Then those sentiments
would be awakened which are now asleep, but have never ceased
to esibt ; and the last year of a reign, Go* permitting, would be
honoured with the same acclamations which greeted its cons-

M. Berard Desglagetik,,Advocate General, sustained .the prose-
cution, and quoted' tielvords " What will they, howeier, do?
Unhappy France!' Unhappy 'Kini,l6 as falling within the law.
"We would exclaim," he said, " unhappy author! who shuts
himself up in his own hatreds, and raises his own passion to form
those storms with which he threatens his country, and is noc afraid,
in appealing to discord, to take the responsibility, of that which he
provokes. To suppose that the NI Misters would do what the writer
imputes to them, supposes the consent of the King—supposes that he
would renounce the laws, tear the Chatter in pieces which he has
ippsecra:ed by his oath ; but against those lean you have a refuge
the sincerity of our Kings in their promise, for they never de-
ceive.
" You have a severe duty, Gentlemen, to fulfil—yop have to re-
- limmiessusism ' the - which, mat:lib'sall tha:

press. dint of - • Peas. -
is most elevated among —mankind, sees nothing beyond its
reach, and leavespathing unassailed: If its words wets to be
credited, feeble and isolated, it could effect nothing against ob-
jects placed so high in the general veneration ; and after has
ing boasted of its audacious attempts, it excuses itself by the im-
potency of its blows. According to this rule, the more an
sheUct is worthy of our respect, the less it would be se-
minary to deiced it from outrage; the dignity ut the King may be
delivered up to contempt, and his authority treated as the image of
a vain illusion. You must decide, Gentlemen, if these things shall
be. These high interests are confided to you, and society places
them without apprehension at the foot of your justice-seat. We
require for these reasons, from M. Benin, the application et the
Ninth Article of the Law of May 17, 1819, and of the Second Ar-
ticle of the Law of March 95, 1822."
M. Dupin replied It bad been remarked that the Hon:bons
were worthy of attachment, and allusion had been made to Henry
the Fourth ; but be gave a Maker—the Charter of Nantes—to
which be was faithful. It was a great calamity when the Charter
was broken at s later period—a consequence of false cosneib—
and from it resulted oppression and injustice, the impotretisitment
and the ruin of the State. Henry the Fourth returned from
exile with companions in distress; but he did not think of reign-
ing for the gratification of a few—be reigned for the freedom of
all. In his reign they did not send secret notes, for he had said to
the foreigners—" Adieu, Gentlemen, but do not come back," as
though he had applied to Queen Elizabeth for assistance in his dis-
tress, he would never ask instructions of this Queen fot the conduct
of his internal Admioistratioo--(applause.)
Something had been said of the recent journey of an illustrious
Princess. The mother et the Duke of Bourdeaux was every where
received as she ought to be by the French, for whom the young
Prince is an object of hope. He has not seen the ancient' regime
asd the entigratiou ;be will he like his age—be will bosuitalifile
that the French who love their Prince, also love, ratty; and that
he wW have to govern a nation which is proud andefree. His mo-
ther may be convinced of this by the acclamations she beard on her
journey, so that it will be a part of the education of the Duke of
Beurdeaux.

" The couclution of the Article (M. Dupla said) related to 'delta'
acts which were usentlenal for the drat dew ea that day. They Webs
be easily defended. As for illegal taxes, they ought not to be ;
and if they were demanded of me, I declare I would sot pay thew
Is a question of property, the State has no right to demand
from me anything except what the law has given The re-
mainder belongs to me. Thus, If there be no law, there can
be no taxes.—(A number of voices expressed approbation of
this doctrine). As to the words intelligent bayonets,' there is
nothing to complain of in them. Our soldiers knot the laws; they
are not mercenaries, but faithful subjects of the King, Ind observers
of the laws; soldiers to-day, and citizens to-morrow ; and what sod
would it serve to increase their pensions, If they are to forfeit
all their rights, and if more than is given them may be taken
from them by illegal taxes ? Let us not make Promises now for
the King against the law ; hereafter they may. be for an
usurper against the King himself. The army is constituted only to
defend the country against foreign enemies, and insure obedience to
the law. It must be employed on things it can perform. •
Crillon will always be preferred to Teenier, and a. Viscount
d'Ortbez to him who could be an executioner. 'tie • bad game
to employ soldiers in improving the State. Calms (lust are the se-
dition. of power, and will not succeed against the law, any more
than sedition. of the people against Royalty. There is for Kings,
as for' their subjects, one means only to live in peace—it is to re-
spect the rights of every man—law and justice for all. Never,
Gentlemen, bad I more confidence than I now have to your dee-
sion."—(The reply is said to have produced an 'unordinary effect
on the audience.)
bl. BCIITIII. the Editor of the Journal des Ikbais, then addressed
the Court as follows :
Germinate—After having beard the skilful advocate, who has
been willing to undertake the charge of demonstrating to you, that
in the article inculpated there is no offence to the dignity and the
constitutional authority of the King, you will not expect from me
that I should, on the question which brings me before you, add
anything to a defence so complete; but I think it I. my duty to
say, after this defence,a few words on my perigee! situation.
For thirty-six years that I have exercised my honourable pre-
Cession, surrounded with difficulties, and toll of dangers, I 'can
treader to myself the testimony that In the Journals, of which I
have been the proprietdr and chief editor, the Majesty of tlsesKing
has never been outraged ; never have I written, or allowed to be
written (whenever I have been free), a single Noe, 'which bed sot
for its object the defence of those principles which ebuld alone, in
toy opinion, restore to the legitimate Saveseip his usurped biog.
odem, and to France its lost liberties. Have I been deceived in
'expressing these principles? I do not believe it; bet soy con.
I science irookl always contradict the error of my weidsis.
Without goingback. Gentlemen, to Aims which rev:men sow
hint have seen, to speak only of the Aerosol dee Dekerls:establi4ed
by my brother and myself thirty yeirs ago; those vita bear me
know if I speak truth; the enemies of the King have preceded.mr,
and many years past to render me justice ; witness 4e saws.,
the forcedaights,'the exile, the imprisonment, the banistiment, pro-
nounced against no. many times, both wader the- Nepublic, and
under the Empire,.as ao acknowledged aid declared partisan of the
House of Eourborr.
Goo forbid that I should spealetif these di* as' boasting ; I
only did say duty We:041% ntlt if to the dangers belonging to
my ophdene; se Duey Frenekiien have vidiati4..sed saving them
So many illistilens victims; si' army Propellor& km 'Oedema
more important services than I havOohat is wooliPillbecesse me,
an obscure cidotto, to crisps iperitigrolities eassieiserdoes • but
compasedi i right to
per. eztemidbrry,l only rote tilusiodapiottim sm
no{ ag malmorlet she Throne, Sod lisiposajkfreeirisii so be
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