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Sts,--Things artHtither mastituted by themselves
or by the people, tinit)heg. ere,
whoa pow is an im-
pudent fiCtiOn, ievelsAettcy'Priestsirr order to divide
with kings the densiSsiss•ef mankind; In the rude
and early wt. tof the.:!terld eoperior power was ob-
tained by sit le abliities,• this in
time beenineisigitimitedf•hy the consent of the people,
either implied by their ailmaissims, or expressed by
their actual ehretiqn. 1s our
••tre history We' hive
slimy Kings of, the Saxons who. ,witre expressly
elected by the people, and men *tit:mist rug
Ceenction (as he in caged) .anbvnitted to, the,
form of so election, which Alms not:look much like
roiling his claim
,upon conquest*. A week and
wicked attempt has lately been.made •in France to
' revive the abominable doctrine that Kings reign by
divine right, and not by the choice of their people.
it is utmost needless to show the perniciOus tendency
et thii doctrine, both ,to . grtvernors and the
govorned,—the *est of whom it inevitably renderi
• iyontlis se*, irnitet eaves ;"for it the Will of
Gob' sitatfiMt be:revisted, that. of itTs Vicegerents,
euiet" see, titid Obey who believe themselves under
vtch Grofenunent, will. peter darer to question the
viitee oeflie wisdom of the Luto's Anointed, the
chosen seriants of Oots, ,That, there is a dispeillion
win:my persons connected with the present Ciererti:
raent of France to revive this degrading doctrine,
theiecan' lift!, doubt with those who are ace
quaieted' with the despotic principles of the old
Government, the friends of 'Oise are by no means'
extinct, and many of them are to be found 14 in
high placs" that tln. doctrine will ever become so
general of •: well received as to eurlanger the feeedoci
of the Constitution,,.there is little_reason to appre-
hend. But the friends of freedom must be ever on the
watch, they must be careful whom they send as
their Represeutatives to the Chamber of Deputies ;
and they must, above all (hive Watch over the
liberty of the press, at soon as that detestable fac-
• Lion is extinguished, which lent. its aid to the
massacres of Roisestrinac, and basely slumbered
daring the tyranny of 130aAPAISTE. As a true
friend to liberty, I have ever detested, with equal
warmth, .the excesses of the Revolution, and the
gloomy tyranny which affected to put an end to it ;
soul if I ever for a moment wished for the success
of BONAISAttIit, it was only when he was likely to
lie mastered by that rising spirit of liberty isbich he
could never wholly extinguish with all Ills art and
intimidetiom Should any disposition bemattifested
by the Government of France to restore the ancient
state of things, or disturb the property acquired, by
the limitation, it will then be time for the friends of
liberty to bestir themselves; in the mean-time let
• them be employed in repairing the evils they.luon!
Oefered during the reign of tyranny—let them coliie
Stela She affs-ar peace—setiffem seek to found mo.
Wiry on the basis of principle rather than of interest
or convenience—let them turn themselves inwardly
end reforit their own lives, for where there is vice
there cannot long he liberty—let them support the
present. Government as long as it deservei support,
had hasten le relieve their country from the heavy
burdens imposed on it. When she French first chose
to reform their Voiernmest, the other Powers of
Europeßresomed to dictate to them, and attempted
to restore their Bing to his former authority ; the
French were successful in resisting their altemps, and
ceased their antagonists-to repent of their temerity.
They tnight many times hare had peace, had they
not chosen to submit to a man whose ambition sought
for more than the punishment of the aggressors, and
brought all the Kings in Europe to tremble for their
own safety. That man pursued his 'conquests till they
recoiled upon himself and the nation he governed, and
the Allies hiving compqiely overturned his power, are
taking the means to extinguish it for ever. It is to 130.
NAP.tart that the French must attribute their present
situation ; it is be who has made it requisite to re.
strain the power erf France; it is he who so far over-
strained-the strength of the nation as to reduce it to
its present eak Hess ; it is he who first destroyed its
biter:sal liberty, and then left it a prey to its enemies.
' No man who is the friend of liberty, can be the
friend of BowAnSitTa. It will possibly be realms.
bend by some of your Readers, that I first core.
sponged with) our Paper as the determined enemy of
13oti1PARTE, and a friend to the restoration of the
Munson:. .The gross t iulation of the Treaty of
Fontaiublein by the Allies, and the consequent re-
turn of Botiectaes to France, induced me to be-
lieve, from the change of his situation, that he
might become the friend and supporter 'of liberty ;
hat events happened %thick . rendered the trial
impossible, and by the fatal battle of Waterloo,
the Allies triumphed over the independence of
France and the power of BoaAPAltrt. All
hopes of liberty from him therefore being destroyed,
what remains for the friends of freedom, but to hope
that some portion of it may be left to the Freneh na.
lion, and that a few years pf peace and tranquillity
ins) render it completely prosperous and free. That
the military. system of Boteapment was both danger.
1,434 to the mime of Earope and the freedom of
France, cannot, I should hope, for a moment, be
doubted—that mocha system is at anent! every friend
of liberty must rejoice—and all attempts to restore
it should be viewed with abhorrence.. It was a sys-
tem of tyranny, perfidy, and immorality, revolting
to the feelings of every honest many and as destruc-
tive of social order as of civil liberty,
I remain,
W. BURDOIII.
ittlheth•sttreS, Carktmlist!-musre._Detr._3. lest.