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taiaed or confidently expected for its publ
cation. His character, connexions, and po-
%si;ion, impart interest and Importance to bis
opinions on a subject which now engages the
attention ef a large portion of mankind. 1t
is evident that he does not deem a rerubli-
can government the most suitable for the
French natisn.-jTagisnag Gszeits.
Copy OF a letter from the Count Of Survilrers
to -, an officer formerly serving
in the republican, and imperial armies Of
Francs.
Porxr BEEEzr, m. y Sept ID, 1880.
Sir | received the letter by which YOU
efer TO accompany me to Europe, should
ere umstaaccs cali me there. Duty alone
can induce mc to quit this country. My de-
vice, like that Of my brother Napoleon, is,
all for The Fyeaeh People. j therefore do
not consider myself bound by any thing but
duty to,eards the nation. ] have no right to
exercise, either in my own name sr that of
my nephew. Government is q want Of the
people; to be created or destroyed by them
according to its usefulness :--And ! am re-
signed to conform to the national will law
fully expressed. You know that three mil.
lions five hundred thousand suftrages called
my family to the Empire, at a time when for
eigners bad no influence in France. You
may well suppose that | cannot without pu
siIlanimlty fail TO recollect that my nephew,
the sen OF my brother, was proclaimed by the
Deputies IN 1915: that my brother, the Em-
peror abdIcated on that condition alone; that
nothing but foreign b~ayonets on two coca
sions restored the Bourbons, and protected
the execution Of so many illustrious defend
ers Of their country.
1 ahanii have saf ,H aIraaJv .CI ia nalao.
among the national names ofthe members of
the provisional government, that oil a prince
.HIth which, mime never can have any thing IN
common; being satisfied that any Bourbon.
whatever NAV be the branch 10 which ne be
ioass, cannot suit my country. / have Of
tea told you that the only family in France,
winch tte nation VIII not choose and cannot |
like, Is that OF the Bourbons. If that family
loved France, and was aware Of the eternal
divorce between them, it would have long
ago renopnced the throne. That divorce had
been sealed by blood enough, both French
and foreign, during twenty live years, with
out any necessity of exposing the family to
be the cause of shedding the blood OF the
citizens of Paris, under the mcrcenary steel of
Swiss.
The great trial of the revolution is not yet
determined. The Emperor Napoleon HOT
thai blood enough had been split in The lnte- |
rior Of France, and wished 10 close every
wound. He threw the country open 10 all
those whom he deemed as tired oil civil war
as he was; adjoprning the complete freedom
of the nation till a general peace, when he
should no longer need immense dietatoriai
power, with which TO make head against The /
united forces OF Europe, necessarily excited
by the rivalry OF England, and the oligar.
chy Of its ministry. He wished TO put an end
4. Fhu vaxnN,sffan .ni nsApnl h..Nwc1r. &c -. (
diator in France, as moderator IN Europe.
England constrained him by the wars she {
perpetually raised, TO those conquests which
she denounced as excuses, though she alone
was anSwerabie for them; and concluded by {
crushing in France all the lrIit of thirty
years heroism and victory, by Imposing the !
family Of the good old times ON d re.eneratc
nation.
As long as there is any question in France
of a branca oil that family, 1 wili stay where
| am Nylamly never desired civil warPand
does not now. Should the nation declare for
a republic, you know my sentiments. They
are # long standing. Happy the people a
mong whom | might make this application
without danger. You remember what I OF.
ten said to The Spaniards--'You viii never
have as much liberty as | should like 10 give
you; but you must be able TO bear it. Zine
IS a necessary element IN every thing +
Assurances are given that our youth have
made great progress towards republican OPT
NOUS. Doubtless government is a remedy
for an eytl. Happy the country wise enough :
10 do without ii We perceive scarcely any
traces of ii ia the happy country where We
have so long resided. But is lhat a state
suitable % France? Is it not the irritation
caused by the absurd pretcnsions OF The gov
eTnment that has weighed it down for hf-
teen years, which has reused that generous T.
youth beyond, perhaps, what viii suit the
rest of their fellow citizens at present, !,
and the tranquility Of France and Europe.
a third hypothesis remains; that Of nv
being called upon by honor, by duty, by what
| W to France emancipated, and to Napo.
leon the Second, TO the son of a brother
whom ! ought 10 love and respect more than ,
any other person whatever, because | knew
him from infancy better than any one else,
and l am sure Of the sincerity OF bis feelings
and opinions. When dying on the rock of
ST, Helena, he charged me through Genera!
Bertrand's pen to let his son govern himself
BY my advice; never, above all, 20 let him
forget that he is a FFenchman, 20 let han
give France AS much liberty as his father
gave her equality, aAd TO let him adopt for
hls device, al for the French Peopie.'
have positive assurances thai Napoleon
the Second, IN spite OF fortune, is as good a
Frenchnan as you orr. and viii be worthy
OF hIs father and 81 France.
4 am pouF aHrclionate-