Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-09-05
EOREAGN.
FROM THE LONDON MORNING POST.
ALARMING STATE OF FRANCE.


The French Revolution, after and un-
easy and feyerish slumber, seems about
to awake again; and what may be the
consequences of that awak ening we trem-
bic to think. What stupendous events
arise from contemplate causes! M
De Cazes has already cost the interior of
France more disturbance and bloodshed
than even Bonaparte himself. Napoleon
was a master spirit, who could rule as
we'll as excite, and he repressed by the
force of his tyranny the indignation which
it created; but De Cazes had Just so
much strength and talents as enabled him
10 make disturbance like cowardly
boy, he set fire to a train Of gunpowder
with averted eyes, and run away from the
explosion. In spite of the objects which
at this moment interest us at home, in
spite of the disgust which De Cazes' adj
ministration has given us for all French
politics, the state Of France has of late
grown so tremendously volcanic, that
theattention Of England z0iHaoOn be Pain
fully forced TO the danger; our own
little family quarrels will be forgotten
when we see our neighbours house in
flames, and threatening to involve ours
in the conAagration.
| We know from the French papers, and
still more fully from private sources,
that Paris exhibits now the features OF
August, 1872, and that her streets re-
sound with the cries of March, 1916
The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the
hands are the hands of Esau they carry
the pixies of Santerre, butthei cry is YiUe
PEmhereur and the spirit of the Bona-
hartiSt Leaders of this sansculottee mob
have risen to such pitch, that they talk
openly of chassent, hunting away the i'm
beetle Bourbons, and recalling the Jaco-
bin Emperor. They can call spirits
from the vastly deeh; bet will they
come, being called 2" Can their cries
charm Prometheus from his rock Can
they bring Bonaparte from ST. Helena
Yes they think, they say, they can -
They talk Of arresting all the English
in France as hostages for the restora-
ton 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 VIC
therefore earnestly adDiSe our country
men to return home gvithom delay. Per-
haps the danger may not be SO near, nor
so great, as it appears but after the les
sons which our countrymen received in
1898 from Robespierre, and in l8O2 from
Bonaparte, those will deserve but little
pity who shall be third time caught in
the same trap.
The immediate spring ofahthis commo-
ton is the Election Law the remote cause
is NJ. De Cazes. That unworthy favor
tie found France at peace, contented with
its King, and happy under his govern
ment. The Chamber Of Deputies, at
once the friend OF the throne and of the
charter, united the king and the people !;
but unhappily this same Chamber would
not truckleto the favorite, and De CAGES
had power enough over the weak mo-
march to induce him to dissolve repre-
sentation, whose fault was, that it was at
once too independent 1.-THE minister, and
too much attached 10 the monarch. But
the mere dissolution of the Chamber
would have been insufficient to have Sc
cured the .fGUorite; the real sense of
France was against the upstart and his
measures he therefore took the bold
resolution of poisoning the very springs
and sources oil representation, by aerv