Litchfield enquirer., 1830-10-07

17S7, and he was educated at Geneva He returned to Paris, and there met in so- ciety a learned lady," MademoiseIIe Paul lin De Meulan, who married him. To- gether they conducted several public jour- nals, among which were the Mercury and the Gazette of France. In 1914, when the Abbe Montesquion came into power and was engaged in drawing up the famous re- port on the state of France, which passed over in silence all the recent improve nlents of the Emperor, GuizOt was made Secretary General to the minister of the in- terior, through the Abbe's influence. He afterwards occupied q similar post under the minister of ofjustice. He was also censor until the office was abolished. He has published {" a dictionary of Synonymes.'- A work on the state ef the fine arts. The annals of education. Lives of the French poets in the reign of Louis 14th. Ideas on the liberty of the press, and variety of other productions, all of a high cast. We have no account of his peculiar political sentiments, but from his signature being annexed to the protest of the deputies, we presume that as to his being a liberal thsre can be "no mistake"
 NO. VII.
 BARON SEGUrER-L0te Chancellor.
 We select among the late ministers of Charles Xth, one who is fair specimen of the character of the others. There are exceptions, however. Polignac, who has exhibited equal want of discernment and discretion in his public career, has at least the merit of consistency. In his pri- vate life he is said to be an amiable and agreeable man, and in future number we will give sketch of the Count Jules, with the hope that it may find the favor with which our former sketches have been re- ceived by the public.
 The Baron Scgdier, as far as we can judge from the facts tn our possession, is the fit instrument of a tyrant.
 "The Aatiercr of the festive hour,
 The heartisss parasite of present power"
 He is evidently disciple of the Tal- leyrand school-one of those who can turn and turn and yet go on," and if for- tune sometimes deserts him, it is only the just retribution of his abject sycophancy. He was born in 176S, and is the descend ant of an illustrious family.
 His father, Anthony Louis, was the ad- vocate general of the parliament of Paris. The predecessors of Anthony were also distinguished alike for their eloquence and legal attainmen:s. and the French biogra-, pher claims for them the grateful admira- ton of their country. A sad contrast are we obliged to draw between the past and the present.
 The subject of this sketch was from his youth educated for the law, and was ascen- ding the ladder of promotion, as Deputy Attorney General, when the revolution drove him and his father out of the coun- try. Under Napoleon's consular govern ment, many emigrants were restored to their native land among them was Seguier, who received an appointment connected with the profession. In 1902 he was cre- ated president of the Court of Appeal, and in 1910 president of the Imperial Court. On this occasion he was made Baron, and member ofthe Legion of Hon. or. In the days of promotion, he was the most servile of the servile. He addressed his master in words like these on one occa- sion: " Napoleon is beyond history, he belongs to the heroic ages! he is beyond admiration, there is nothing but love which can elevate itself to the contemplation of his character 2" This was said in 18O7.- Tn 1914 the Baron began to talk of the ty- ranny of his benefactor, and went over to the King. He was made counsellor of statO for this demonstration of loyalty. When the Emperor returned from Elba, Seguier was expelled the country, but on the re-establishment of the Bourbons, he resumed his place and was made Peer of France.
 It was during the same year that in his address to the members of his court, ,he pro- claimed the following sentiments from the bench. "All authosity comes from God. the people are not allowed to dispose ofitl A monarch being the image of the divinity, no more represents the people he governs than parent does his own children. Our ancestors, who were wiser than ourselves, admitted that Kings reigned not by consti- tutional authority, bct the grace of God"
 Ourreaders cannot wonder 1.-the French nation has grown weary of listening to such doctrines. Yet these have been the in- cense offered to Charles X. by his besos- ted ministry, and these have been the cau- ses of the restlessness which that nation has shown for the last ten years under their application. An attentive observer will long since have perceived that nothing short of a revolution could efface the bad