Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-12-07
From Cobbetfs Weekly Register.
TO TALLEYRAND PERIGORD.

under the Republic then Prime Minister under
Napoleon, then under the Bourbons, Louis
and Charles and the White Flag; and now a
Prince Hnvoy from the "Ct,zen- King" of so
vereign People," who hoist the rrcoioured Flag.
Eensington 5h October, 1880
TALLERANp,
When the causes of the blowing up of the two
LOAN JoBpiNa SYSTEMS, existing in England
and France, shall become matter of history; when
we shall have To speak OF those base systems as
things that have been; when our children, while they
express their surprise, and restrained only by their
fl 4! feelings, from expressing their Indignation, that
their fathers constituting two great nations, should
have snbnlttcd for years, TO sway of couple of
bands of loan -mongers stock -jobbers and Jews. at
whose command they aside justice. freedom and
renowp, things of no vaiue when shall
blush for conduct, anl shall express their aston
ishment, that nation like The English, who had ne
Yer, for any length of time, submitted to tyrant,
whose laws breathed freedom i'll every line who suck
Ell in love Of liberty with Tie milk from their
Tiers breasts, whose deadly enmty to arbitrary sway
is recorded III thousand scenes of civil srife and
that nation like the Freuch who. at single effort,
broke To pieces and cast from them the chains in
which craft and cruelty combined had held them
bound for twelve hundred years who then sailed
forth on the dcspots that had combined to enslave
them, and by deeds of vaour eclipsing all that hsto
ny had ever recorded, subdued the whole of those
despots and made them crouch NJ their feet: when,
Taleyrand, Our so1s shall think of these things, and
CYPRESS their astoDsiment, that nation like the
English should have crouched TO Jews and borough
Mongers FOR fifty years, and that nation like the
French should, in 1880, have famely submitted to
have their houses visited night day, by excisemen
10 pay tax the the produce of their fields
to have the leaves of their tobacco plants counted by
the employees, and to refrain from subtracng single
leaf lest punishment should fjlow the crime when
they shall express their astonishment that the men
who fought at Jena, ut Ausrsrlz, at Arcole, and
who marched 10 Amsterdam, Berlin. Rome, Naples
and Vienna; that the men az he bare approach of
whom fortrcsses. by hundreds, before deemed preg-
nable. opened their gates: when they shall express
submitted to pay for patents FIR permission to
carry their trades, that they submitted to be re-
strained from moving about their own country with
ont a passport, that they submitted to laws n1ad,
without the assent of a twentieth part of itcm and
made, too. in great part. by who claimed an he
redtary right to Dc their law gvers when they shall
express their astonishment At this, and their still
greater astonlshment, that this brave nation having
reused itself second time, having a second tims
broken the chains that had been gently put BIZ by bit
about its limbs, should all of sudden, and before
the chains completely shaken of. not ONLY sion
in their glorious efforts bur really seem as if they
feared that they had already done much nav that
what they had done was wrong! When our sons shall
express their establishment at these things and mar
ticularIy at this concluding. this strange and to
France, most Illuminating, event; then will those sons
turning to this page, TO these letters Of mine 10 uy
plain and fearless statement, the true causes Of
occurrences, apparently so wonderfully and from that
same page. before they Come to the end of it, thew
will learn that these causes finally failed of their in
tended effect and instead Of security to the inventors
brought dest uction on their heads
Thus you see, i'alieyrand, have opened large
subject. You know. most likely, bnt whether vo,
know it or not, the fact ill., tina. have demolished
moro schemes of knavery and oppression than anv
man that ever lived; and that have in me that dual
'ty for which my countrymcn are famed. steady and
stubborn pursuit of every object that I once mark
out for mster Of exerfinn know well hoy safe
you are from my immediate grasp; | have no power
physically to touch You; you surrounded and ca
rnsscd by those WHO have standing army of a hon
Frrd nd mons a. taf and
tls people so happy and well fed, are steeucd
misery and covered with rags and fed upon potatoes
are taking from them SIXTY millions year in taxes
but still shall rench you by degrees it is to be sure
makes impression You have, too, the rich paople of
France your eide; they, whose god is Kent IN
bag or pocket book, care not who is the priest so
long his efforts secure the rod NV correv.i
ponden, Paris tells NE, that some of these. unnn
reading my TABIEAU I'AsGLuTEnRE No. VIT |
in the Register Of the 18th of September, which
Number was IN French well as in English; INV
correspondent tells me- that some Frencfmeu of Tho
class ''couame IL jaut,' upon reading this which was:
an address 20 the brave Parisans on youT wonderful
aPpon mcnt, and which contained my opinions quite
frankly expressed, the strange circumstances con-
pccted with the choosing of king again. and auo
teo and with the voyage and the civil
list and slow march of Charles these ssens CONNIE
II (1ut," or people who live without ysrk saws nv
corresponden, "when they came TO that part of the
address which speaks of the new king, shruooed nm
tbeir shoulders They greatly applauded what Won
say about the priest bishop citizen prince; but the
part in which you give it your opinion that Louis
Phppe seems to have been chosen to keep the place
YARN f,r Charles his heirs was rDuci, too warm
FOR hem"
Thus, you old priest bishop that am moi, !
blind to the difficulties with which have to dea but
SHALL overcome them. lspow. too, that you have
Though they ashamed ofit) me greater part of
tie Paris journalists with you. We, in England,
know that our press is corrupied those of us who
are acquainted with the matter, know that the otyp
efs of the daily part of have generally nonopo-
]y, created by the enormous tax upon IT, we know that
these have, sometimes, Offices and cmolunen,s
bestowed on them by our Government; but this is
done i'll way artfnl, for tho main part Of the
people not 10 see it, The government Of the ''ctzen
king" has for want oil experience, been less crafty
they have brbed the press of Paris openly if the Pa
papers speak TRUTH they gave posts and salaries
at once and by name, to the writer's Of the several
journals: and some Of the journals complained that
they had not got their share All, Talleyrand An.
Baron Louis! All, louis Philippe, premier This