Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-05-01
From the Boston Daily Adye, tiser, April IL. !
FRANCE.

fNANGE.
ErEract Of letter to The Editor, dated
Paris, Jan. II, 1916.
The first circumstance which arrests
the attention i'll contemplating France, is
the real character of Bonaparte and his
policy, and thu impression they have left
on the nation. He has been so lone ON
the scene however, that lie Justly appre
Grated IN America. Int pamphlets of
Pradt ard Baurel, send YOU the most
interesting additional information which
mas yet appeared on this subject, and
shall only observe that the French try him
by his own criterion, success. Except a
monS his tavoured pratorian guards he
eXites no interest. aud has left no regret
Behind hin but what is connected with the
general dislike ofthe Bourbons.
Inc House OF Bourbon is divided gainst
itself; suffice it TO mention the Dukes
D'Orleans and D'Angouleme. In the
character of the King himself, am un-
able to discover any traits of Majesty,
except that he is a royal eater, and has
critical acquaintance with Virgil and H0-
race.
Alter the personal greatness of the
king, the next important enquiry regards
his talents i'll selecting ministers of distin-
guished ability. But if we can believe
Baurel, and l am well assured he deserves
the utmost confidence. his first ministers
were rather of 2 distinguished imbecility -
M. BiiCas, the Premier, was furnished with
such previous evidence Of the conspiracy of
Bonaparte, that his entire neglect of it be-
trays the bas,st folly undistinguishable
from Crime.
Nor does the selection of the present MI
nstry, serve to aBpui the irresistible con-
ciusion which is drawn from the FIRST
he Duke dc Rlchelieu, in his intoduc to
nv address to the Peers on the tria #
Ncy, n Il violent luminosity, excited by his
method of OrcainiBg the amnesty, and the
dsgracetul disputes so long suT red to ex
ist between tie PTotestants and Catholics,
force US to eXc.aim, Nm tall Qurii0 feBis
fHS eget. The remainder of the ministers,
superanuuatcd emigrants and patriots. mo-
deTateS, and ultra royalists, arc worthy Of
their head, and their violent animos ties &
Continued divisions, complete the toHt en-
8cB,Lic.
But as the revolution q France is un-
parallellcd i'll history, so are its cousequen-
ces, and perhaps there never existed a ma
ton wHicn presented difficulties so nume
rous, If not msupr rable, to the statesman.
! doubt wac iher the greatest mona, Oh
ham for bis Premier, could dvse any rules
of correct policy Tor the present race Of
Frenchmen. Henry tire Great qgho 7vas
just enough q dc5auch u fleaSe them, un.
dets,ood teii ,ion'l character the best.
To heal the wounds ina cted by the wars
of religion, he called a general assembly
al told them he put himself under their
guardianship, and wncn reproached by the
fair Gabrieie for this condescension, he
! answered. be had said it. but with his
sword by his side. Iae French have al
ways required tyranny, and from the
J comm ucement C their revolution. have
/ really been governed by abs lutte Gcspo-
/ tism, under whatever name it has exist
| ed.
What induces me to doubt whether any
thing short Of IN extirpation Of tie present
race, would make this naEon ft for mere