The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1823-04-08
LOUIS XVIII. OF FRANCE.

Mr.. BRouGHAM Zone of the leaders OF the Brit
ish Oppostion) in late philippe against the
Allied Sovereigns, for compelling France to
make war with Spain, gives tie following Por
trait Of the present King Of France -
Z" Mr. BRoUGHAM said, it gave him some pain
to find that a monarch so enlightened as the
King Of France had shewn himself sn various
occasions to be, should have yielded obedience,
even for time to the arbitrary mandates Of this
tyrannic Junta. He trusted, however, that it
would only prove temporary alteration on his
part from the sounder principles on which he
had hitherto acted; he trusted that the men who
appeared TO have acquired his confidence only
10 abuse it, would soon be dismissed from it or
if not, that the voice of the country, whose in
terests they were ready to sacrifice, and whose
rising Liberties they seemed anxious to destroy,
woL.I compel them to pursue more manly and
more liberal policy. Indeed, the King of
France had been persuaded by the parasites by
whom he was at present surrounded, to go even
beyond the principles Of the Holy Alliance. He
had been persuaded to tell the world, that il was
from the hands Of tyrant alone that fie peo-
pie could hold Constitution. That accomplish
ed Prince-and all Europe acknowledged him to
be at once most finished gentleman and most
able scholar--could not but be aware that all the
wise and good men of former times differed with
him ID opinion upon this point and if he Mr..
BRoUGHAM) reminded him of a sentence which
he had recently found in a recoyed work, of one
whose eloquence was only to be surpassed by his
wisdom, and whose skill as a stateman was only
to be rivaled hy bis observations as philosopher
If he reminded him Of an opinion Of Cicero, in
direct variance with the antSD-e which iIs mad
reoo4tiy promulgated, il was in the sincere hope
that he would consider it with all the attention
that was due to such high authority. That great
man had said /" Non 10 ulla ciyitate, nisi in qua
summa potestas popuh est, ullum domicilium lib
eTtas habet." He recommended to his Most
Christian Majesty TO reflect, not only on the wis
dom Of 50 great philosopher, but also on the ex
perience of So great statesman. He recon-
mended him TO consider, that be was one Of the
greatest statesmen Of the old world--that, like
himself he lived in times Of great danger, and Of
great dificulty--that he had to contend with the
most formidable conspiracy to which the life and
liberty of social man had ever been exposed
that under such circumstances he had recourse
only to the Roman ConstltuGo n-th at he threw
himself on the good will of his patriotic country
men--that he only put forth the vigor ofhis own
genius, and the vgor OF the law, and that he
never thought of calling into his assistance the
Alobroges, the Teuones, or the ScythIans Of
his day (cheers) and now say" continued Mr..
BRouGHAM, " that if ths King of France calls
on either the modern Teutones or the modern
Scythian. to assist him in this unholy war, Hear,
hear) Judgment will that moment 60 forth against
him and his family, and the dynasty Of Gaul will
be changed at once and for ever"