The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-12-18 00:00:00

'THE STKT

will ant, are think
*hi lity. Oug °ie".
dare six asonthe../. Ns eishall ..-
the order in which their appointments are anaoun.-
.by Royal Ordoeswanoe- in the *emitter of Saturday.
The first, M. Peyronnet—who figures as Minister of
Justice and Keeper of the Seals, a leading department
is Pruett administretioa—is wholly unknown to the-
public of Europe, and bet little eves to that of France.
He was an advocate at the French Bar. but undietio-
gaisbed before his being recently appointed by the
Ministry to the functions of_ a latie Officer, or public
prosecutor. He is a Depsty.,. but we have never ob-
served his name among those who take a eloare in the
debates. The probability ierthat be is the mere beans
towns of M. de Serre, who had used kill utmost ens
deavours to nuke the late Ministry ester into the
views and principles' of the Ultra party. But the
Duke de Richelieu, whether from sagacity or holed-
sion, could not be induced to go that length. 111. De
Serre will probably join his friends, after the decorum
of a few days' Ministerial mourning. The. second is
Viscount Mootmoreocy, Peer of France, a men of ir-
reproachable life, with little mucky, bearing an il-
lustrious name, of which be has an exaggerated
'sense; wedded to the abuses, the prejudices, and also
gte the glories of the French monarchytbefore the Re-
volution, and known on the stage of politics only by
,his extravagant zeal in *ippon of that proposition of
'M. Barthelemy in the Chamber of Peers which, theeek.
years ago, threw France into a ferment. The third isthe
Duke of Belluco (Mashal Victor), as Minister of..Wai,'
Military men, both in France and oot of it, rate hinit
perhaps the eery lowest among the Revolutionary Ge-
nerals. He has, however, one merit. which hu
made his fortune with the Ultras. In the campaign
of 1814, he was charged by Bonaparte, in a Bulled*
—and in oo very measured terms—with having com-
mitted a gross and fatal error during the battle'
fought, as well as we recollect. at Areis-sstr-Aube.—
He was the first General, and very nataraily, who pub?
licly stigmatised his military character. The fourth
is M. Corhiere. as Minister of the Interior, who for
some short time formed pact of the late Ministry with
M. De Villele. But both retired from the Council of
State, upon finding that the Duke of Richelieu did not
march quick enough towards counter-revolution. He
is an Ultra of the most unqualified opinions—iboth
political and religious. Whist in the department of
public instruction (or education,) he gave sgreal
alarm to the Protestants of France, by qtrestioning
the right of Protestant pupils in the University to
have religious last:Actors of their Cotnnounion, as
part of the establishment. The question, however..
was determined against him. There is no country
in which the Protestant religion has a firmer hold'
than France, because the enlightened and liberal,
even of those who are not of that communion identify
it with the free exercise dilution reason as well as with
political liberty. The fifth is the Marquess Clermoat
Tonnerre, Peer of France. He is. like M. De Mont-
morency, of an illustrious family, was several years an
emigrant, and has hardly a recommendation for the of-
fice of Minister of Marine beyond his high rank and his
absolute principles. We do not know (but witarerioclined
to think) that he is the Marquess de elermoaklion-
nerve, who distinguished himself at the begianink of
the Revolution, and is described in one of the re-
markable publications of that day, .e &abutted,
active, ingenious in his discourse, conciliating
in his temper, exhibiting himself in a very inter-
esting point of view, and defending his order (the
Nobles) with more eagerness than true perception of
their interests." Since the restoration be has made slew
Ultra speeches in the Chamber of Peers, and has
figured in uniform, as Aid-de-Camp to the Marshal
Commandant of the Guard, during the periodical re-
views, or inspections of a few battalions of the garrison
of Paris in the Court of the Tuilleries. The sixth
and last is M. De Villele, whose name is tu!strably well
known from his activity in the Chamber of Deputies.
He is the constituted leader of the Ultra-Royalists.
and in high favour with the Angonlenie party. lie was
wholly unconnected with the Revolution, and passed a
great part of that period in the French colonies. A
French colonial education naturally made him a peril-
sin of absolute power ; and, accordingly, one of the
few publications, if not the only one, of his, which
has attracted notice, was a pamphlet, in 1815, in which
he treated the French Charter as little less than a de-
mocratic usurpation forced upon the Sovereign, which
the latter was at liberty to revoke or modify according
to his good pleasure and hie power. A sketch of his
character is given in the last work of M. iinizot.—
There be is described as a person, the scale of whose
ambition far exceeds the stature of his mind, the cha-
racter of which is described to be littleness. This
list is not complete ; it will be observed that there is.
no nomination to the Presidency of the Council of
Ministers. M. De Villas is, no doubt, the actual head
of the Administration.
Our Ultra of The Nem Times may be well expested
to exult on the change. The following are the.ternm
in which he expresses himself on the occasion :—The
event which we alone predicted in opposition to aft
our cotemporaries, has at length taken place.-4
Royalist Ministry has been formed in France' The
Ordinance announcing the new appointments appeared
in the Moniteer of Saturday. The effective Premier
(having the Finances for his particular department) is
M. De Villele, the celebrated leader (of the Royalists in
the Chamberof Deputies. He is as ably seconded in
the Cabinet. as he used to be in the legislature, by M.
Corbiere, now Minister of the interior. The tried
fidelity of Marshal Victor, Duke De Bellune, is recom-
pensed by his nomination to the War Ministry. Vim.
Mathieu De Montmorency, well known for his speeches
in the Chamber of Peers, takes the port-folio of Fo-
reign Affairs. The. Marquess de Clermont—Tenure,
also a Peer of France, is Minister of Marine. , 111.
Peyronuet, a distinguished lawyer, succeeds U. De
Serre as Garde-des-sceaux and Minister of Justice;
and the Marquess De Laurirton, a Peer of France, re-
tains his situation as Minister of the King's House-
I hold.
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