Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-10-09
THE FRENcH REVOLUTIoN.
SPEECH OF lfR. JEEFRE Y,(or Gorpvnar
pUsLIC MeErlNG-FRENcn RENOVATION.

DC meeting OF the CIT zens-ot Edinburgh was heId IN
Stsverton's Rooms, Regent Bridge. pursuant TO
reputation ITO consider the proprety of their
Pressing heir admiration Of the energy and prompts
tude with which the French people have lately resist
ed the violation of their public rights and the mode
ration with which they have hitherto used the sudden
AMI nnexamped triumph by which their patriotism
mas been rewarded" The door of the great rosu,
wss opened about 10 o'clock, and in a short period
the apartment was crowded in every part-and among
the auditory were number of ladies.
A one o'clock, the Lord Provost, attended BY Mr..
Hume, the member for Middlesex the Dean of Fa.
Guilty, Mr. Cockburn and other reguisitionsts, at
tsnded The platform and were received with the most
enthusiastic CHEERING
M Gibson Craig moved that the Right Honora-
Die the Lord Provost be requested TO take the Chair
II Chrers.)
Tho Lord Provost having been called to the Chair,
The Dean of Faculty (Nr. FRANCIS JET
FREY rose and said, take il for granted tina, we
are all agreed, and that, the subject which
met, feeling pervades the country at large
II was fitting that on an event which men have been
triumphing with words exultations, and congra ua
tons in private they should have the happiness
OF meeting together to give vent to their feelings in
public and to assure each other by their voices, their
couDenances, their eyes, and their feelings that they
participate in one common Joy, common hope,
one Common principle, by which men of all ranks,
orders, and conditions, united tbs happy and
unprecedented OCCASION (Great applHuse.) | hope
do not arrogate too much weight TO the sentiments
of foreign country, when say that the tribute OF
admiration and gratitude which offer the mag
and heroic popuoce of Paris-cannot be altogether
without value, or wlthou. benefit and use The tri-
butte every one midst feel that they have richly
earned and cannot believe that persons capable of
those virtues of such heroic deeds can be insen-
sibe the applause of kindred spirits, or to that Of
People convened in lawful assembly under their
lawfi, and constituted authorities; such trlbute
must be peculiarly dear and valuable, coming from
those who have been from ancient too frequent
~ their enemies; who have been actuated towards
them by feelings of excessive rivalry, and towards
whom there might yet be some remains of grudge and
il-b0od
warm triumph of unmingled applause would
come encouragement To those who had fought
well for their country and with accumulated fear
and terror to those whose evil deeds not exceeded
by any hing in history, had called forth such stom
of popular mdgnltion.-( Applause) The third
reason TO Justify congregsiiDC on this occasion
was the prospect which the event held out of good
not only TO ourselves but to all mankind. The late
revolution is the termination of those amentabe and
painful struggles which have existed over most parts
of the world, and may yet to certain extent prevail
between obsolete preJudces and preposIerous and /
degrading pretensions the one hand. and on some
occasions the too just fear of revolt disobedience
and INSTRUMENTATION the other. The happyy re- |
Cancellation of those two opposite principles beng
effected in the miraculous short space of three DAVIS
did give hope and assurance that the minds of men
IN the irritable and exciJable nature have M I
least learned the lesson that mutual Concession can
alone render People happy aud pe7ceablc; and by |
that the dignity of the throne will be upheld, and
serve prot lection TO the rights OF the Peonle TO
which ii has hitherto been too generally opDused !
(Cheers think therefore, that these sentiments
are in accordance With the feelings of every ono who
conteIDpates that bright fufurity which hope has
been fairly Illuminated with the spcndcr of those
events, which trust may be forestaed by thi.
public declaration of sentiments, but which like
other prophecies, will rather insure and accelerate
its accomplishment. 1t is impossible 20 look st
the event thus gloriously and happily concluded (
without feeling that IL aided by the rdent
coincidence of happy circumst anees. Its GLORIOUS
termination has been, that Prince and his Minis
tiers, capable of The atrocious violation Of pledges
they had given, Of the oaths which they have sworn
and of the rights which, without pledge and without
oath, they Were bound by common duty and common
humanity to observe--have been expeed-(Ap-
pause(-the Prince and Ministers who have been
guilty Of such fragrant wrong, and of such afro
cIous and uuprovOked a9gression-an aggression for
which there was no pre;eDce by any movement or
appearance of movement, against suthosry-by any
plot, alleged rnmor of plot, against the legal sue
cessIon by any appearance, or even by any tenden-
cy TO InsurTectlon or tumutuaTy movement in the /
capital, which is seldom altogether free of such
movements. There talk of Napoleon; no |
bankerpg aer the gore of his cOnquests no desire
of revnlutonlzng each others interests; no resist
TO the of the ordinary tribunals OF ustice
the excuses Of the Press left to be indicated
where they proved by tire sufficient coercion
of the appointed tribunals quietly exercised. They
were going on IN that state of things which promised
TO be beneficial to the sovereign, by increasing his
lawful authority. Persons appointed Ministers
who were decidedly unpopnlar-but not a murmlr
raised against the authority by which they had
been named, which might produce an effect DANCE,
Gus to the legitimate succession of the infatuated
monarch, whose line formed perpetual series of
sovereigns to generations of free people.
Ia was in those circumstances that an attempt was
made 10 restore absolute and biggoted tyranny to put
an end to laws and rights, and break that solemn
compact by which the Government was raised TO the
highest point of monarchlcal adaptation Previous to
those steps Preparations were made, by the aceumn-
laiion of large military force in the captsl which
was dlsunled, unsuspectGg, without arms apparent
ly incapable % making Observation-Disclosures of can.
non were raised in the heart Of the city; foreion L.
gons were marched in troops were selected olIicered
b. those man who were understood to be most devo
ted TO the royahst party-Bl this had taken place md
was folowrj by the flight Of the monarch from Inc
scene Of hazard, though he within hearing oftbe
roar Of the cannon and the shouts Of his mvTmions
who were INJECTING slaughter on the people U,ong
continued cheering.) u was to be looked upon as
heppy circumstance, that this conflict which tbus
and so glouousy terminated proceeded cIenriv