Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-08-07

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the interior of France more disturbance ard
bloodshed than even Buonaparte himself.
Napoleon was master spirit. who could rule
as well as excite, and he repressed by the
force OF his tyranny, the indignation which
il created; but De Gaze had just SO much
strength and talents as enabled him to make
ds.urbance-lke cowardly boy, ne set
fire TO a train OF gunpowder with averted
ewes. AMI ran away from the explosion. In
spite of the objects which at this moment
interest US at home, in spite OF the disgust
which De Caze's administration has given
us for all French politics, the state of France
has of late grown so tremendously volcanic,
that the attention of England will soon be
painfully forced to the danger; our o"n
little family quarrels will be forgotten when
we see our neighbours house in flames ana
threatening to involv. ours in the conhagra-
ton. We know from the French papers,
and still more fully from private sources,
that Paris exhibits now the features OF Au-
gust 1892, and that her streets resound with
the cries of March, 1915. The voice IS
the voice of Jacob. but the hands are the
hands of Esau; they carry the pixies OF San
terre, but their cry is Vavs rEmpereur; and
the spirit of the Buonapnrt,st leaders OF this
sansculotte mob have risen to such pitch.
tina, they talk openly of chasseat, bunting
away the imbeciie Bourbons, and recalling
the Jacobin Emperor They can call
spirits from the vasty deep; but z"'H meg
come, being called" Can their cries charm
Promelheus from his rock Can they bring
Buonaparte from St. Helena; Yes! they
think. they say, they can! They talk OF
ARaEsrING ALL THE ENGLISH IN France. as
hostages for the restoration of the Emperor.
This may be only the talk of madmen; but,
in the present state of France, it may well
be feared that these madmen are not unlikely
to get the power into their hands, and we
| therefore earnestly aduise our countrymen TO
return home uithout delay. Perhaps the
danger may not be so near, nor SO great, as
| ii appears-but after the lessons which our
counlrynen received in 1893 from Robes
pierre, and in 1902 from Buonaparte, those
will deserve but little pity, who shall be
third time caught in the same trap.
The immediate spring of all this conmo-
ton is the Election Law the remote cause
is Nj. de Gaze. That unworthy favorte
found France at peace, eontented with its
king, and happy under his government. The
Chamber of Deputies, at once the friend OF
the throne and the charter, united the king
and the people bu, unhapl,y this same
chamber would not truckle to the tavorile,
+ and de Caze had power enough over the
mind of the weak monarch to induce him
to dissolve representation. whose fault was
that it was at once too independent of the
minister, and too much attached to the mon
arch Bu, the mer. dissolution of the cham
Der would have been insufficient to have Sc
cured the fro rife, the real sense of France
was again the upstart and his measures {; he
Their fore took the bold resolution of poison
ing the very springs and sources OF repre-
sentation. by nesu ta7o Of election, which
threw the power into the hands OF the old
lacobin party. All the friends of good order
and the charter opposed this horrible vlo-
Ience, and frrtold ITS revolutionary effect.
In vain--rhe flvorste carried all before him.
The royaIists were every where prosecuted,
prosecuted, and punished; the revclutonists
were every where employed, encouraged,
and ATTAINED Madame, the orphan OF the
Temple, Monsieur, the kings brother, were
insulted ard almost driven from the court
while Davoust was created a Peer and
Duke, and Gen. Vandamme, of butchering
memory, and Regnault, Napoleon's toad
eater. were recalled from exile La Fayette,
as vain and silly as he was thirty years ago,
(! was re elected 10 the new National ConDen-
ton; the demagogue Manuel was forced up
on the electors OF La Vendee, and Gregoire,
the regicide, was brought forward again to
try whether the king had the nerves TO stand
the sigh, of this brothers. blood he stood it
all and the favorite stood also: but the
blood of Louis's nephew, assassnated SO
near his person that his own turn might come
next. did it seems, touch at last The gener-
Gus soul of the monarch: and the faUorite,
after having turned out two sets of colleagues
the one because they could alter the law
of elections, and the other because they