The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-12-02

month, he nust &c brought, by fnne
nn.ans or other, to ahdlcate the Crown III
favor of his brother. lie wIll be allowed Il
nr,ision, aud a residence at Rome aud
The Infant Don Carlos will become hing ol
Spain and the Indifs.- Don Carlos Is moi
oniy partisan Of absolute power. hut he Is
almost new on the political scene; anu hei
their tie C9nsilintlenalIsts can rrpr1dch
him fur hi. pcrfdy, nor the Royal''ts
| for lss ca.ardice. Hence il IS ma
gined that Government with him at Ms
head might maintain nselfin Spain. Fer
dlnand's abdcalion has frequent prece-
dents in Spanish history. BESIDES those
ofCharles V. aud Philip Y. II has notbcrt
forgotten that Ferdinand VII. mounted the
throne only through the ahdieation OF his
father, Charles ". The .jdnattgues and
potdtqueS as the two pa ties in the French
Ministry are called see no Inconvenience
in tllls plan nj operations, but on the con-
trary, great many advantages, they hold
il to he so proper, and of such almost IN
fallibe success, that they no longer conceal
their hopes. They confess thr difficulties
that are daily rising up To oppose the ter
minati0n Of anarchy in Spain, to restrain
the violence of party, aud to form any Just,
regular or toierable form Of government ;
but they imagine they have found the cue
to escape from the labyrinth that has been
formed by their own corporation, while il
is probable that the very means of safety
they rely upon will only plunge that un-
fortunate country into still greater wretch
edness and confusion. Such are French
politics, and such the plans of De Vii
l.lc and his cabinet at this important juno
tire.
...sos.-
The writer of the following jue d'esprit
on Liberty, is Mr.. Jay, one of the proprie-
tors and editors of the Paris Constitution
mel. II is translated from work de Cir.
constance" the Hermit in Prison, written
by Mr.. Jay, and bis friend NJ. dc Jouy,who
were both at the same time imprisoned for
political writings in ST. Pelegic, the crim-
nal prison of Paris. II is piquant in itself,
and the more so from the position of the
writer at the understanding of liberty
through grated windows, and amid ciains
and bayonets. y. Y american.
Whenever | reflect that the larger por
ton of this world is sunk in the most fright
ful slavery that in Europe alone, two or
three hundred thousand human beings are
pcrlsblnS, at the very moment am wri
ting, in the obscmity of dunseons-l look
upon myself AS comparatively free in st.
PeIagie and the medIatlons IN which my
mind INDUCES, do not spring from any
nj { nj,
terday evening as | was sitting near my
window, woich somewhat pettlshly style
my vent-hole, b.held the last beams Of
dyh6in fade away, and gazed through
my grstluss upon thai sky, of which
could see SO small a part. Judges have
sentenced in vain ; they cannot bind dow,
the thoughts and mine had sprun,
upon their wings and travcrsins, as Mi,to,
has it, the concaye of this airy DOME, as
sembled around me beings from all coun
tres, and Of all complexious having frs
contracted their dimensions, like Milton
mps that they might enter Pandemonium
AS fast rs they presented themselves,
ranged them along the four walls, withou
any regard to the colour of their skins -
Callr"s, Italians, Turks, Tartars, Brazil
ians, Greeks, Patagonians and Persans
then passing the whole human race in Ie
view, in the person OF its representatives,
put to each Of them this question, ARE yot
FREE?
Every free answered the Italian, { OF
condition that may visit The .nadOnna, a
least every day that make no sort Of us'
of my ten fingers for the maintenance u
my family on Sundays aud holidays, tina
is to say, IA tiird part Of the year; aud tina
| be not obliged 10 go into my own hous,
whenever find the sandals of Father Ca
ceretto NJ the door.
"' am infinitely mere free said a maj
with d turban, for | Can insult Franc, Oh
khi Greek, Whenever take the whim in
To my head and can choose between tn,
bow string and the scimltar, when his high
ness the Sultan has need OF my head to or
nament the walls Of the Seraglio.
"'Thcrc is no liberty cried an infahi
tant of Thibrt, except in those place
where the DAlIy-Lalna reigns. In m,
| country there never was any revolution
and no wars of succession; since, by ia,
grace of Bad, we havea king who ne,c
dies, and whose BONES exercise their powe
in the most paternal way imaginable, pro
'lded we pour exactly four filihs of our re-
venues into the treasury of his Ministerial
c"nvent provided we enr"l all our male
children, at the age of sixteen in the stand
ing army, which the reigning BONES ke.,
up on the frontiers of Mogui and China
provided we receive with the profoundeS
respect, and swear TO die in defence Of tn,
PoHch, when the grand Lama vouches I,
decorate us with it; provided we work ;
days in each week for the advantage Of III,
immortal. that is 10 say, for Eve hundrc,
priests with long boards, who rcprcsea
hun; provided we eat the flesh of no hu
initiating animal, and that we visit tire,
times day, the grand pag"da provide,
we do all these things, we are free AS air
] md l.. I.