The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-02-04
From the .Nep York Commercial .4drertiSer.
LETTER FROM EUROPE.

France is now reaplng the fruits of her
revolution. She has indeed passed through
a terrible ordeal, from the reign of terror,
to the despotism of Napoleon and the eXac
tiCns of the Allies and although now ruled
by dynasty that might perhaps have been
dispensed with, she is still happy under
government of laws, and is advancing in the
career of national prosperity under the adj
ministration of liberal ministry. Their
late triumph over the Jesuits, in spite of the
unfortunate prejudices Of their monarch,
was every way worthy of them and of their
country. The Jesuits and the priests go
hand in hand, and with them are united the
ultra royalists, and to this phalanx the king
extends his patronage and favor. Notwlth-
standing the lesson which it might be sup
posed the election of 1897 had taught the
rulers of France, the new ministry had still
a difficult task to perform in staying the
progress of the principles, and putting a
stop to the increasing influence of the Jesu-
it's. The present ministers were compelled,
unanimously. to tender their designations to
their sovereign unless he signed the ACT
required, as they conceived, no less by the
dignity of the crown than the happiness Of
the nation, and the judgment of an enlight-
ened age: the king indeed yielded at
length, but only at the latest hour. Every
| friend to rational freedom must, think, re-
ioice in the downfall of the power of Napo-
leon; hut although France suffered so Sc.
verely from the effects of his ambition, she
still owes him much She is mainly lndebt-
/ ed to Napoleon for the completion and
| equipment of her dock-yards and arsenals
the establishment of public schools, the i'm
| provement of her roads, the protection ex-
tended to domestic industry, and for the
code that bears his name; and although
that name is now fast fading away in the
remembrance of the present generation, il
is still cherished in the recollection of a
portion of the people, and must ever live r
the recorded annals of his country's glory.
| France is receiving great benefits from
the free intercourse with England. She Is
far below her island neighbors, not only in
some of the comforts of life, but in many Of
the arts, the implements of agriculture, and
the construction and application of machin-
cry but in all these particulars she is daily
improving, while the number of English
families of moderate and fixed incomes who
reside in France is extremely great.
| The number Of occasional travellers from
England, who were impelled by curiosity tc
visit the continent from which they had
been so long estranged, now that the nov.
city wears of, is rather diminishing; but
the number of permanent English residents
in France is increasing; preferring to the
heavy taxes and increasing expenses o.
their native land. the cheaper living and
more genial climate of France; carrying
with them, as they do, many Of the arts and
improvements of their own country, and
thus encouraging a taste, and increasing
the demand, for those comforts to which
they have heen accustomed at home, anC
for which they are willing 10 pay wher
abroad. But in all this, the advantages tS