Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-06-03

oel, who expect TO succeed them, are influenced
by the prospects, ard ruin with them the race of
servihty. So much for the purity of the legisla-
| ture A general election would give the people
some power OF checking thls evil. 1t remains 10
be seen when the Court VIII venture upon such a
compliance, with the letter of the constitution
NJ Carnot appears TO have many doubts on tins
head but in case any OF our countrymen should
| anticipate much from the purity of French e'ec-
ton, and should be disposed to reecllo the pras-
IS OF the New Government, rather hastily bestow-
ed by some Well-me9ning men, who were led away
by the fur appearance of u system Of represen-
tation without rotten borOugh's,'' we may add.
that the elective franchise IS enjoyed by exactly
one man in one thousand every where-a proper
tioh winch gives TO de metropolis about SIX hun
dred electors, and converts towns Of thirty or forty
thousand inhab tants nio some thg very ike our
Cornish boroughs or Scotch countries. So much
for the purity, and, we may add the uniformity,
which IS indeed perfect of French elections. We
are not Oh merlcal enough TO expect an improve
ihet, q the present crlss, m TIE representative
system or France; but a least we may be per-
united 70 express hope, for The sake OF pubic
anqu iity IN hat couptrg, SO essential, IS expe-
rlence has proved Il, to The peace of Europe
mat Lewis XVII VIII ut length listen 10 W ser,
and more hone t counc l.lors than those who have
dared advise him to forte his royal word upon
inc most momentous interests on Which cver mo-
IA en- gave pledge, the purity and .ndep endence
OF the Judges OF the land.
" The breach OF faith which we have been
discussing, - not the only symptom of danger
Gus nature observable IN tc state of affairs at the
court OF The Restored King. VI. Canot COM
plans of an universal system of partially
ard exclusion; a marked preference 20 persons
VINO have been hostile to France for the last IS
years; an equally marked disregard of those
VINO have stoodby Their country, and exalted it
Dy arts or by arms. He thinks ne sees tendency
TO carry things still firther-to violate the secu-
rity OF persons and property guaranteed SO sa-
crediy IN the Kings proclamation, but not Ger
tainiy more sacredy than the already invaded m
dependence of the judicial establishment That
such fears are groundless, who VIII assert The
breach oil faith already committed IS sufficient to
warrant them. The partlalities of the court are
almost equally impolitic they half gan paltry
set OF Jew hundred Unsuitable fayorites, at the
expense OF the hearts Of thirty millions of people
mat a court so cicumstanced rs the French
kings should venture upon such an offensive DO
hey, and ensure the dislike of civil population.
wnhle the military are almost necessarily It's enc
mes, would exceed the powers of belief were
not the history of past times but too fruitful IN
example OF Royal infatuatioI-alwavs supposed
impossible by the byestnders, until It was exhib-
| ted-and deemed safe By It's victims up 10 The
instant when 1t worked the.T irreparable destruc-
| ton.
The object of NJ Carnot, in his Memorial.
was to warn the court, through It's august chef,
! OF the danger and endeayor betines 10 check n
career which he perceived was leading. towards a
| repetition OF every i'll that had cliequered the re
! voinloN2ry history Of France. The moment the
| barrier was broken down, which at first seemed
TO secure all persons, and therefore The restored
! government, he appears TO have apprehendcd
that nothing was safe. Whether ne came for
| ward 90 CRAFTY actious disposition, or. at the
| FISK OF personal inconvenience, to discharge a
| solemn duty to the country he had so often serv-
| edo the cause OF liberty for which he had suf-
Tered so Iargeiy-to the public tranquility of
| which he had ever been the steady friend we
might leave to be determined from view Of his
past conduct. TO this we shall briefly advert
after extracting his own statement upon thus
| point.
Car foln me Ne the most distant thought
which could afford the least preext for new trou-
Dies. complain btterlyof those which some
men are endeavoring to excite, by forming new
| parties. II IS certain fact that there were no
| parties at the time of Napoleonss res enation It
IS certain that new parties now exist and it is as
| suredly not the former Republ cans who have ex-
| cited them. 1t was not they who caused Incen-
diary WI tng5 against the const tut onaI chart 10
| be hawSed about, winch chart IS their guarantee
| II was not they who counselled his majesty to e.
lude The accomplishment of such promises as were
| favorable TO them, and 10 fail in his rovAi word
| Why, contrary TO that word, are distinctions
made, and those distinctions marked more strong
| " than ever, between those who renamed attach
ed to the person of the king & those who remain
ed attached TO the soil of their country That dis
tncuon was natural so long as the one was in arms
| against the other but it ought TO have been eff
faced as soon as the former repassed the sea
| which separated them. When they set their
feet again on their native sod, they then pretend
to return IS conquerors, who were reckoned as
| nothing IN the crisis which has just passed %
p. 26,27.