The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-10-31 00:00:00

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PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

Ort. 76.
I have received the letter in which you BA me to
send you the names of the persons whu constitute the
Secret Cabinet of the Kin; of Fraoce : but I . mule
have expressed myself very incorrectly, or you must
have misunderstood me, if yeu imposed that I
meant a second Cabinet organized like the Ostensible
one.

I perceive that as a good Englishman, accustomed
to plain dealing, in your admirable and excellent
country, you cannot e that the erne centre of
a Government, which is composed of a Ministry, a
Chamber of Peers, and a Chanaber of D.,puties,
should be found in a coterie, the number and nature
of which vary every day, ►a.ries according to the
circumstances of the moment, and which derives,
precisely, from this fluctuation, the means of escap-
ing the notice of the greater part of observers, as
well as all legal action and all responsibility. Not-
withstanding this, however, it tines exist in France,
and this coterie forms the Secret Committee in which

the real power resides.
Unfortunately this practice is not new in France.
Weremember the disgusting excess to which it was
carried i►t the trips of Louis XV. and Louis XVI.
when we beheld the seism of the Government fall
successively into the hands of Lottery Agents, of
Madame de Pompadour, of Madame do Barry, of
the Duehess de Polignac, &c.
This shameful irregularity was one of the principal
causes of the revolution, for nothing less than a re-

volution was suffi.lent to extirpate this pernicious
system, and Of Vi voicites‘ of those Princes who had
occasioned it, werailragged beneath ire ruins, from
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the unestasiiu otistioacy -with which they identified
themse:res with their Court and separated from the na.
lion. But, to-use the words of one of our learned
Publicists, and greatest Statesmen, who has justly
iharacterised them, " the Princes who, during t 5
. years of misfortune, have forgotten nothing and have
keened nothing," no sooner regain that throne from
which they seemed to be for ever excluded, than they
exert all their power tore-establish those same abases,
the existence of which had been one of the principal
cause of their fall. ►t is in consequence of that de.
plorable infatuation, which Racine has so well de.
wilted is/ his Alkalis
" Get eruct d'aveitglefuent et errs-ear
" De la chew des lb* fileette avant-e..e 'ter,"

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And they think they behold their safety in that same
system and in those same measures which caused their
first calamity.
In England you have Ministers who govern, who
bestow offices, who take them away, who distribute
pensions and titles, who propose -laws, and regulate
all the great political interest. of the country ; one
of these Ministers has a preponderating influence,
he is at the head of Administration, all his Col-
leagues concur with him, slid there is unanimity iu
the progress of affsirs.
It is not thus in France. The Ministers are only
Clerks (cliffs de bureaux), who obey the orders of
the Print•es anti Princesses 9f the Royal Family, in
sending away those whom they dislike, and intro-
ducing those of whom they approve.
• Public affairs, therefore, in France, are not trans- .
acted in the Cabinets of the Ministers, except for
• the sake of form. They are previously concerted
ttnfl decided upon in the coteries, which consist of
those who are intimate with the Princes; and it was
this that I meant when I spoke of the secret Cabinet.
Each Prince of the Royal Family, beginning with
the King, has his first Gentleman-of the Chamber,
Captains of the Guard, Masters of the Wardrobe,
Grand Steward, end other Officers. The Duchess
d'Angculeme has her Dames de Compagssie, her
Gentleman Usher, her First Equerry, Sic. All
vtese persons have their deputies or dirks, to re-
gister and make reports of petitions, complaints,
and proposals. The first Gentleman of the King's
Chamber, and his Ceptain or the Golfed, have reps-
hi-0 MM taTIIP all Ow Mirsiatess. •
• Each Prince, as well as the Duchess d'Angoolense,.
has his little circle of favourites, and it is among
them he imbibes prejudices, listens to false reports,
complaints, and recommendations, or praises, ac-
carding to the passions of individuals.
If you still wish for names. take the Gond Ca-
lendar of France, and under the head " Household
of the King and the. Princes." you will have the list
of the Members of the Secret Committee. Hut none
are admitted into the circies which compose this
grand coterie,escept these whose opinions are known
to be conforinahle to those of the Coon party. Now
Mese opinions are preeiiely the same as they were '25
• years ago, at the period when emigration commenced.
and when they formed themselves into a political
Council, the fundamental principle of which MISS,
" there is no safety except in emigration." Thcit
• also was established that political catechism, which
described Kings as the Representatives of the Disi-
• pity on earth, which made the people and the nation
• •the patrimony of the King, and concentrated all au-
thority in his person : thus wills the King, sud thus
- wills the law ; and which represented as acts of rebel-
lion and impiety every barrier against that authority,
every resistance to coppresbion, or 'even precautions,

agaiisst it.

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Nan, it is the Snuth—it l•; the *hole natioon who If wish for details respecting this catechism,
must 1w a.mblaule.l. My gnu only shared Will. them open your history et the reign of James U. and there
:ii4 z.... 1, his entho•itt'ln, his devotion.—tbanks ire pseud% ilia the& word Tor word: iii present Court
-due lii the kii,e4 of spah,. . bf Frisbee,' like that of the litttertss helloed in •it its
iii it,lNt li'ghtleas then moved the Order of the safety and only Means of retaining the-throne. Can
ihy. you Englishmen then 'be elAuniihed that the French
Mai voices were heard against this proposition, nation beholds in it its ruin, and Inexhaustible source
and it ass demanded that the Speech should be of misery ?
rioted. . .„ -
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A Nlersleer grad, that eat of respert to the brother NEXT TUESDAY. ALI. TIIE 3 IIitIEES tiit £IO.OOJ
yr Cie Khui, hie wishes ought to be attended to. I Asa TIIK 4 PRIZES £10.00). IN GOV EltN NI ENT
This N., 4sitiss ..a3 maitpossetl. • • ! STOCK. MAY IIII• DItAIVN. AND THE VAIWE
Ili, Eacel:..itcy the Minister of Police, presented .RECEIVP.II IN mcretiY ON Dv.itiN D.
the prvjb-t of a is.* ultich had been adopted by the
Chatahvr.of Dimities. i
In the dibrourso whirls his Excellency pronounced
smb.the ertiminit, he replied to the principal-objections
which had been made against the law.
The Clamber ordered that the pride/ sod the dig.
rola.. bitoo,tl be printed and distributed' in the 'dig:
ferrtsl bure.tu‘.

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7'14 S-71.47'ESMAN.

A great number Qf Officers are slid toilette been
arrested within the .last week, some of whom are
Generals. " I hate been told,!. says a letter of the
44th, " that the Colonel who commanded et Boar-
deaux, and GROUCHY, by whom the of AN-
nourrsts was made prisoner, have been both arrest-
ed and in Paris, where they had arrived secretly:—
NEY'S trial is no longer spoken of : there is no
doubt that his wife has obtained his pardon through
'the Emperor of Russia. When she threw herself at
rest, the answer of the latter was, thlrifiiiisiglit
be perfectly tratiquil-he had not forgotten that he
bad merle her husband a Prince." •
. :the King of Wirt-Exult:no and his subjects are
still at tarianci, on the subject of their Constitu-
tion. From Gerrhan Papers recoived'inst night, we
And that the Assembly of the States met on the
16th instant, at Stutgard, when. a liescript was de.'
livered on behalf of the King, stating, that bit
'newly-acquired StXtes could not, have any claim to
the old Constitution, and recommending the States
An assist in forming a new one, which should retain,
as much of the old as suited wifh present circuits..
titaness. What we hate to piy on the subject of
- - ill Illy apply to thO question between