Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-11-03

'moioh' tue ran OF Napoleon, and the accession of
the Ilouse'of Bourbon.
On the 18th of May 1914, Talleyrand was ap.
pointed. by Louis the Eighteenth, Minister of For
cign Ai'ars, and on the 18th Of June following was
made Peer of France.
At The second Restoration, in 1915, Tallevrnnd
was at tho Congress of Vienna, and he who now is
to represent the King of the French the Court OF
London where the princes of the to,ise OF Bourbon
are oanishcd ard exed, was IN l3lj OF the most
jealous and enthusiastic conspirators against Napo
leon, and IN behalf OF Louis XVIl, protected as ne
was, by the Holy Alliance and BY Europe in arms
lie returned with Louis XVIII from Gand 70 Paris
and once more found himself Minister OF Foreign
Affairs.
Three months afterwards the Prince de Talley-
rand found himself once III disgrace, and as he
refused TO sign the treaty NJ 1915, lie retired into
comparative obsc"rlty, holding the place of Grand
Chamberlain, first 10 Louis XVIII, and then to
Charles y TO the very hour of mis- abdication.
From, The London Courier Of i3h Sept.
The Times of this day contains long and able
article on the state of parties and the growing in
fuencc of a military democracy in France i'm the
course of which 1t says
five be asked, is there effective authority
no controlling power within this mighty land, on
whose awful position we are now remsrking, we an
swcr at once that there is; but il civil author
iiy-Dot the kirg in CouncI!-nur the Leoislature-
net the magstracy-no the law; it is military DOW.
er-vast irregular, and imperfecty responsible
National Guards Of France with LAFAYETTE for their
rms enormous army contains. by reasonable csti-
mate from 100000 TO 100000 of inrn self organ.
lz"d-self Differed, with duties so frequent as 20
keep them almost constantly under arms: and NJ all
even's, such with their degree Of discipline ard OF
esprit DIR corps renders them a distinct and lniepen
dent body in the statc-a body with which 10 o;hcr
can reasonably think of contcnGing Ii is said that
he National Guards arc tradesmen. with prope-tv
ana steady domestic interests IN the country We
believe that they truly described SUCH and hat
Il more SPIRITED, spectacle, independent, aud adm
rabIe body of citizens is to be found in civil Eu-
rope. But res this mitigatc-loce it not uicsti,
nsgravae The possible dangers of heir existence as
separate and sei gorerNcd body? Is not the com
0hation oflmmensc property with almost countless
numbers, when both placed IN an unnatural and
false position, PE"dIgou> increase Of the rv' A
military monarchy IS not very euriabie form of no.
Vetan. mt for those over whom rs authur.t. is eXrr
! ted But n'iiHi'-y d'mocrocy ~ per aus the most
! 10 be deprecated. We have no disposition and ma
rlght, to question TIE unsnllied pairioisn of TIN, ir
tuous g. pure Lafayette. He might. here = no donbt
~. 1t sn.pcaSed HIM. have by trcah crowned himself
instead of Louis Philip. BY nod, he might have
gained his own election President for life Of the
French Republic He is old TO be sure and rf, rvon
TO the young, Is precarots. But the institution Of
tic National Qua I'd survives what earthly power can
say 10 II, iou shall not be immortal VINO shall
change the construction of that ganc body or tell
the prvatcs You shall no longer elect vour officers
or dare to bud those offers form a''inilary Par
lament or that council Of nuskatbcarrn LEGISLATORS
not 20 make upon the Chambers and seize the
King; or the President not choose to be Lord Pro.
tector Of the realm"
We agree fully in opinion with the Times that
the fatc ot france, immediately after the numora
lie days OF July, was entirely IN the hands of La
1S e 0PPaas o ~t ths I'D I'D seS -
partly by the persoyerng assiduitv of his
ana the influence OF the soirees held at his housa in
iariS a"d which were froquented by the Liberals of
every country resident in Paris, had for some TIM.
declared itself IN his favor, and on the JOth of TuIv
Lafayette might have bcHn kim, or Consul or ,rv
thing else that lie pcased bur il is due TO this dis
tIngIlshed man to say, that his ambition has ALWAYS
been tor his country not for himself and tina, TO make
france happy would be the happiness of Iq,avcitn
whatever might be his own worldly condition. I'm
fortunately, however, Lafayette has in5ibcd an mr.
dent love Tor Republican institutions and his beoy
'dedt OF good government appears to be Prcsd ncy
such as that OF the United States entirely overlook
ing he difference of character between the inbnb;-
tants OF the two countries, and the important fact
that in the United States the torn of povcrnn,rnt
was OF no newer date than that of the society for
whom 1t was created, whereas, I'm France there aro
old preIudices, old institutions old habits TO conmI,I
al the certainty OF much mischief and with only the
remote chance OF benefit from entire change of
System-On this subject the Times says,
There is, however, another and not a small or
weak parry, whose representative aud Chief Lafa5-
cite, IN giving his occOade to The King d d entiile
the new French monarchy "a Repuplic'-.the bes,
oil ltepubhcs.' There was something extrlordInarv
in these words Of The old enthusiast for Amercoyy
democrdcy-n the old leader Of the French rcvolu
ton IN 1892 Many persons were of eplnlon when
Lafayette uttered them, that he applied the suita-
bic and characteristic term to the mighty change by
which the Bourbons of 1880 hud been rot rid Of
Ihey gave credit to the honest veteran as to one
who deSPlsed hypocrisy, and scorned to separate
names from things"
Shortly after the late Revolution we took occa-
sion to aude to tho bias OF Lafayette m favor of Re-
publican principles, and stated that we heard on We
ry good authority: that the General about two vea~
ago declared that although lie was sincere adm.
rer "f Republics generally he did not conec,ve that
the state OF society France such as to ustifv
the attempt to establish Republican form Of Govern
Lnent IN THAT countfy-From this we conclude that
France was safe from Republican doctrines. as The
influence Of Lafayette would be sufficient 10 pnt
down every effort 10 disturb the new Constitutional
Monarchy. We have however. been subsequently
informed by persons who pretended to be in tho con
ildcnce OF Lafayette, that were mistaken as to
the precise nature OF his words, and that he mere
ly said that Republican principles had not made
sufficient progress IN France to justify sudden at.
tempt TO establish Republican form Of government.