Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-10-28
ENGLAND AND FRANCE.


representations of heir country and institutions
by British travellers and the British Press, they
will see, by the subjoned extract IRON the Leading
editorial of Bells Weekly Messenger, that we
are no, alone in the i'll geaces Of the British. Inc
writer for Bell seems to have imbibed iull share
Of the good old fashioned prejudice Of the Eng
Iish against their Gallo neighbors:
Having this opinion Of France, and most truly
believing, and knowing her to be such as almost
poisons her honester neighbors by contact. we
cannot withhold The expression OF our sincere sor
row, that our intercourse with her people has be-
come so very close and intimate as we now see
it, and that so many of our families, so many OF
our rising generation Of both sexes, have already
become almost domes,cated in the French towns
and cities. 1t is scarcely possible to mix with
any town or country family without hearing that
they have sent some of their children for French
education, or that they themselves are SO pressed
BY the weight of taxes aud the higher price of pro-
visions at home, that they about to leave their
own country, and fix their future residence at
Marse,lIes, Nice, or Toulouse. As regards the
first point, the education Of children. the vital
importance of the subject induces US to step out
of our present line of remark. and most strongly
and seriously to suggest to our readers, that the
sure, the certain, the inevitable consequence OF
this French education is the total destruction OF
all their Christian faith, practice and principles,
and the acquisition of such habits. such feelings.
and such morals, as are horribly offensive to the
sound judgment, manly tastes, and honest, natu.
raj, and substantial feelings and affections OF En-,
elshmen 1t has occurred to US to know many
examples of this kind, and we have never known
one person so educated, whom we could induce
ourselves (even in our own condtion) to receive
into family intimacy as our friend or familiar
companion; We have never known one OF them,
who, in the course OF even one days acqualRt,
ance, had not said or done something which has
been offensive to that common sense, that gene
raj taste that natural decency, that love OF cOuD.
try, family, and home, which characteristics US
nationally as Englishmen, and which Is the Joint
and happy result Of our reformed religion, our
free government, and OF our sober and manly
course of education. We earnestly and sincere.
ly, from principle and from our actual feelings,
upon the mention of the subject, commend this
lesson Of our own observation and experience to
such of our readers as it may possibly concern.
With these opinions, we we're about to say, it
gives us much pain, that King Louis Philippe,
during his recent stay at Cherbourg, was honored
by such an indecent exhibition of British noble.
men aud British yachts. What is there in this
King and in his present avowed system, that our
nobility and gentry should thus honor him, and
endeayor to Outrun even the French cOurtiers
themselves in the race Of fattery? Is he more
or less than the crowned child Of Jacoblnism-a
prince who is purchasing crown at the expense
Of all those duties which become Christian King
who has become King, not that he may reign,
but that he may serye-not that he may restore
and revivify a corrupted and most proaIsate ma
ton. but that, BY fattering and subscribing their
abominabie RIGHTEOUSNESS, and departure from
every thing that is respectable amongst men. he
may continue to enjoy the external ensigns and
sensual indulgencies Of royal condition, at the
cost of the further progressive abasement, ii not
absolute destruction, of her people?
By the confession of his very enemies, Charles
z lost his throne, in great part, from an effort
njudiciously managed, to restore the religion, |
morals, and French honor and generosity Of the
Did French monarchy; he ventured as King
and lost as King. But this man is now using
The crown in the same spirit in which he acgulr.
ed it; getting 1t, as it were, as bargain on the
Stock Exchange, he is now dealing with it to
make the most of it as to his own personal gain, !
giving every brother broker a scrip. that he may
mite as many as possible in his fellowship Of in-
guilty. Is this the King. whom We Englshmen
ought thus ostentatiousIy 10 uphold Is it that
we fear him, or admire himf Fear him we Ger.
ainly do not Do we admire him theus Dye
descendants of our Saxon ancestors,-ye chill
lren Of that honest, noble, -and hardy House,
Who, Il rough so many generations of our annals
rave Transmitted to US that sound Judgment, that
manly heart, those soft and generous domestic
affections, that honor amongst men, that chastity
amongst women, that fear Of God, and that re.
'pect for others and ourselves, that decency and
'obriety in age, aud that attentive regard to pu.
.ity in the education Of youth; that love Of home,
Is the scene Of happiness and the field of duty,
Ind that scorn Of folly, vanity, and frivoIity in
Nj shapes and forms; are We. we say, prepared
% abandon and sacrifice all this, in exchange
'or French religion, French morals, and French .
Infancy Of manners,-for men without probity. |
women without chastity, and youth without any |
safeguard in religion or discipline; for land
without homes, and for homes where parents nei-
her train their children nor children respect their
parents. where to have family friend is to have |