Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1820-08-08
. sITJrATIoN OF ERANCp

SITUATION OF FRANCE.
From The London Morning Post, received al the Office
o; Tue N. Y. Conn., Advertiser, v Inc British PACKET
The French revolution, after an uneasy
and feverish slumber, seems about 10
awake again and what may sc the ronse-
quence Uf that awakening we trenlble 10
,tnk. What siapendOuS events arise from
conieihp,ib.e causes! NJ. De Gaze has AL.
ready cost The Interior of France more
disturbance and b.oodshe,l than even b.
naparie himself. Napoleon was master
spirit, who could rule as well as excite,
and he repressed by the force Of his ".
Fanny the Indignation which j; created !;
but De Gaze had just so much strength
aud talents as enabled him 10 make dis
turbaUce; like a COW ardiy boy, he sci fire
to a train OF guupowder with areried ewes,
and ran away from Tie explosion. In
spite OF the objects which NJ this moment
interest us at home, in spite of the dis
gust which De Caze's administration has
given us for all French politics, The state
OF France has Of late grown so tremen-
dously volcanic, this. the attention of En-
gland will soon be painfully forced 10
the dagger, cur own iitle family quarre.s
Will be forgotten when we see our neigh
borS house IN flames, and threatening 10
involve ours IN The conhagratjon. We
know from tie French papers, and still
more FULLY from private sources, that Pa
rIs exhibits now the features of August
lT32. and that her streets resound with
The cries OF March 1910. The voice is the
voice OF Jacob, but lie hands are the
hands OF Esau they carry the pixies
oi Sanlerre, but their cry IL Eive PEm-
pereur: and The spirit of the Bona
parilst leaders Of this sanscuIo,te mob
have arisen'i 20 such ;;itch, that they talk
openly OF chdSent, hunting away The i'm
beciie 3ourJons, and recalling The Jaco-
bin emperor. They can call spiri.s from
lie vastly deep; but will they come, being
caIledF Can their cries Charm Prone
theus from his roci Can they bring
BonaParle from 81. Helena Yes ! ,hry
think, they say, ihee can !-ThPy talk of
aIresting all Tie English tn France, as hos
tages for the restoration OF Tie Emperor.
This may be only the talk of madn,eu !;
but, III the presehi state OF France, il may
well be feared THAI these mad men are
not unlikely 10 get The power into their
iinuds; and we earnestly atuiSe ON c0ual-
frymen to return Tome aUithOa detay. Per-
haps the danger may not be 80 near nor
50 gfea, as II appears, but, after the les.
sons which ouT counlrymeD received in
1893 from Robespierre, and in 1902 fro IN
Bonaparte, those Will deserve bat little
pity who SHALL be third time caught in
the same trap.
The immediate spring of all Ibis COM
motion Is the election law The remote
cause NJ. De Gaze. That unworthy ia
vurIte f0und France at peace, eunleutetI
'lih IFS hiug, and happy under lis GOV
'ernmeni. The chamber of deputies, at
20 grInnH nf
CHATTER, united he king and the people :
but uLlIappi.y this same chamber would
mol truck!e 10 The faporiie, and De Gaze
had power enough over The mind of tie
weak monarch to induce him TO dissolve
a representation, whose fault was. that il
was al once too independent of tie min
ister, and too much attached TO The mon
arch. But the mere dissolution Of the
chamber would have been insufficient 10
have secured The JarOyiie; the real sense
oil France was against the upstart and his
measures (; lie therefore took the bold re-
solution Olpoisoning The very springs and
sources oil representation, by net0 lar of
e5ectt0n, which, threw the power into The
hands OF The old iacobin party. All the
friends OF good order and the charter op.
posed this horrible violence, and forelold
lis revolutionary effect. la vzin--the fa,or-
ite carried all before him. The rovalists
we're every where employed, encouraged
and infiamed. Madame, the orphan of The
temple, Monsieur the kings brother. were
insDlied, and almost driven from the
Court while DavnuSt vas created peer
and duke, and General Vandamme, OF
bnichering memory, and Regnanlt, Ma
poleoDs toad eater, were recalled from
exile Ia Fayeiie, IS vain and silly as lie
was lhIIiy years ago, was reelected 10
the new National Convention: the de-
magOgue Manuel Was forced upon The
electors of La Vendee, aud Gregoire, the
regtcide, was brought forward again 10
try whether The King had the nerve 10
stand the sight Of bis brothers. blood he
stood II all, aud The favorite stood IL also
but The blood of Louis's nephew, assassi
mated so near his person that his own turn
might come next, did, il seems, touch al
last the generous soul Of the m0narcb,
and the faU0Tie, after having tuned oui
two SETS OF cOileagues--Ibe one because
they WsUtd alter tie law of elections, and
the other because they would not--was
himself fenderiy removed, with tie title
% duke, and the rank OF ambassador 10
England-we cay ibe rdnk. because we
cannot believe that the French govern
meDt Slll dare TO insult the English patton
, by The actual presence Of II. De Gaze.
lie Law Oh elections, thus made by De
Caze Tor ilis Own purposes, thus favorable
10 He revolutionary doctrines, and thus
fertile 10 JacObin Regicides and Bonapar.
tist deputies, was OF course TO be repealed
und lie attempt to undo this GOrdian kno
OF De Csze's has brOughltiie monarchy "a
'ne brink OF precipice over which, ev Ell
while sc write, il may have already isl-
len
10 hear all the cries which are uttered
about Tie chartey, one would scarcely he.
lieye thai The law, which is attempted Ia
be repealed, was made about four year.
ago by De Gaze, late a clerk Of old ma