Star.
London, England, 1821-03-27 00:00:00

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

" PARIS, MARCH 22.

" Every day's experience convinces. us of the ex-,
treme ignorance even of enlightened. Frenchmen, re-
specting England and her legislation. An Orator bad
spoken of the sovereignty of the liw ; the law is not
sovereign, say the Ultras with indignation—,6 there
is no Sovereign but the King. And the ex-Minister
of Finances, Vaublanc, dashes to the Tribune, and;
arming himself with the name of England, tries to
crush his adversaries with such• authority. I will
teach these Orators,' said he, '.the maxim of the

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English nation, of the Parliament, and all publicists.
The King, saithe English, is the head, the princi7.
ple, and the end' (le eke., le principe, et la ja)—
(Loud bursts of laughter).—' :Your roars of laughter
1 will not efface this maxim from the books of all the
I publicists ; your roars of laughter will not prevent
its becoming a French maxim also. I repeat it ; the
King is the head, the principle, and the end—he is
the only Sovereign. Could you suppose an ex-Mi-
nister capable of such nonsense?
" As this letter will be read in Paris, we will tell
CountVaublanc, that such a principle has no existence,
save in his crude and uninformed imagination ; that
in England, on the contrary, the King is only the
first subject of the laws, and that be swears to main-
tain and obey them; and that even he cannot infringe
the laws with impunity. 4 The King,' added Vats-
blanc, g is Sovereign; and it was as Sovereign that
he gave the Charter. The manner of giving the
Charter , has often been discussed, and General Foy
was right in declaring it irregularly given. The pa-
triarch of liberty, Bishop Gregoire, was the first who
pointed out the fact : but it is to be considered, that
at the period it was urgent that the King's sentiments
should be known : the nation was without govern-
ment and without laws; for it was impossible, on the.
RestoVation, to admit the exercise of those which pro-
scribed the Bourbons. The Abbe Montesquieu was
ordered by .he King to-prepare him a Plan of a Con-
stitution—the King modified and publishe.l it: there
were na Chambers, legally constituted at the time,
to examine it ; but when they were formed, the Chat-
ter was accepted and recognized by the Nation and
it, Representatives. It is in these discussions that
the time of the Chambers is occupied, when dan-
ger is at 'the door ; when on every side they heal
rung in their ears prosinzus ardet Ucalegon !
Yet the Ministers confess the' danger, and oppose
no remedy—the contagion is inevitable. Spain, Na-
ples, and Piedmont, have brought it to their doors ;
and at the very moment they suffer a most infamous
work to be circulated a fortnight, declaring open
war against all the holders of national property, and
asserting that the emigrants would never forego their
rightful claims to their property, and wrest it by
force, if they could not obtain it otherwise-,when
this work had done all the mischief it could, and
created universal alarm, then the Police seized it.
Adverting to those facts, General Foy declared the
Ministers could not remain—that it was ahsclutely
impossible. The King seems to think so at last. In
fact, its composition is ridiculous. The Duke de
Richelieu is an excellent man, but more Russian
than French: he neither knows the wants of France,
nor how to remedy them, and he is in a school where
he cannot learn. Then next comes Baron Pasquier,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, brilliant, but not pro-
found, and too much of a Vicar of Bray, acting
often contrary to his better judgment, because the
powers above will have it so. Count Simeon, Mi-
niste.r of the Interior, the fides Achates of the in-
triguing Talleyrand, perfectly resembling his proto-
type in everything but talent. Of his Secretary,
Capelle, we can say nothing but nullity. Baron Mou-
r, iiier, Director-General of the Police, a man of supe-

rior intelligence, and firmly attached to the Charter,
but paralyzed by the efforts of an occult Government.
M. Roy, Minister of Finance, and Political Stock-
jobber, a man who has no appearance of either dig-
nity of mind or manner, an Ultra-Royalist, and an
enemy of Napoleon, who always spurned him and his
riches, and who refused his consent to the Duke of
Massa marrying his daughter. In the suite of these
Ministers come a tribe of Ultras : Villele, a man of
great talent, and the best of the set—Corbiere, a man
whose only qualification to be a Minister is his hatred
of the Duke de Cazes—Benoist, an outrageous Roy-
alist, now that Napoleon can no longer employ his
wife as ' Painter to his Imperial Majesty::—*****,
the printer and author in general of all the cor-
respondence of the occult Government, and who
printed the infamous work, called the Moniteur
Royalist, in the cellars of the Count D'Artois, and is
regarded as one of tile principal instigators of the
troubles in the South. The Minister at War, Marquis
de Latour Maubourg, who treats as seditious his old
brethren in arms, and refines them employment
though they are starving, he saps the foundation of
the Throne of the Bourbons, in alienating the affec-
tions of . the brave, who, with kind treatment and
equal justice, would be foremost to die in its defence.
Such a Government has neither the confidence
of the King nor the Nation—it is neither respected
at home nor abroad. Had M. de Cazes the nomi-
nation of a Ministry, he would probably preserve the
Duke de Richelieu, from gratitude, and Messieurs
Pasquier and Mounier for their utility and Constitu-
tional principles, if permitted to act on them ; but
we much doubt whether even the Duke de Cazes'
great talents and popularity can avert the storm
ready to break. Yet the French do not want Revo-
lution—they want peace and tranquillity ; but when
they see their peace and their property threatened,
and, that the Ultras commit crime* with impunity,
and menace them every day; their patience may
become exhausted ; and whenever this takes place
they will rise, they will destroy their oppressori, and
in their rage may be deaf to the voice even of. their
Monarch. Such is a faithful picture of France on
the 20th of Marcb, 1821. The Duke of Orleans, as
if be knew what s#as to happen, is seeking to ingra-
tiate himself with the People; but, if a new Revolu-1

tion takes place, all the foree cf Europe yet
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again reinstate the Bourbons on the throne of France
EXTRACT OF ANOTHER LETTER—SAME DATE
a The greater part of the population of Piedmont
has declared its readiness to take arms in defence of
liberty. The old King has dispatched several cou-
riers to Austria and Russia, begging their aid to re-
' place him : these couriers have been intercepted.—
Genoa, it is believed, has declared itself for tke neer
order of things; and all Austrian-Italy only waits a
signal to rise on its oppressor. Venice and Milan are
in a state of great fermentation. Several bodies of
troops, that General Frimont had ordered to march
to join him, have been countermanded. Austria now
holds Italy only by military possession." .

A Mail arrived this forenoon from Hamburgt
with Papers mid Letters to the 21st instant. The
following' are ens acts :

RENDSBERG, MARCH 17.

The navigation has now again commenced: yes.
terday fourteen vessels arrived at once from Holland,
by way of Tonningen, bound to the Baltic and the
Belts. Great part of the canal is already free floss
ice, and the other pan will shortly be clear, so that
there will be no obstacle to the navigation.