Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-06-28

clergy in France, and weaken the attachment of his
subjects to religion" The real exertion and OBJ
vious policy of the French King are absolutely the
reverse. Mr.. HENRY GRATTAN thought g the bill
was conceived in hellish jacobinism, and he hoped
il would be kicked over the bar Of the House." A
sad imitation this OF his eloquent fathers energy in
rhetorical speech. Sir RoBERT Jacobn!
| Among the most substantial of the new French
works which have examined is royal octave of
| four hundred and sxy-fve pages, by the Director
of the Seminary of st. Sulpice-a literary history
of Feneios--a thorough historical, analytical, and
personal dsquisition, embracing the body Of the
Arclbishop's productions There is no bigolry nor
Pedantry in these pages the temper and style have
conciliated the praise of the lay critics equal at
tention and credit are given TO the Sections of The
Appendix on the Papal Authority; the Public Law
OF the Middle Ages, the Jansenian Controversy, &c.
handsome octave, sent forth last week, entitled
Letters ana Instructions OF Louis XVIII Count de
Saint Priest, is in the hands of all political literat
SAINT PRIEST was a minister Of Louis XVI, and the
confidential friend and agent of the brother until the
Restoration in 1915. M. DE BARANTE, the histo-
rian Of the Dukes OF Burgundy, supplied, editor,
a biographical and historical notice OF Saint Priest
which constitutes the largest half and the chief at
traction of the volume. M. DE BARANTE traces the
beginnings and progress of the French Revolution
with characteristic ability. This diplonlatist, who
has still the Office dignity of Ambassador to Rus
sia whence he obliged to retreat by law of di-
plomatic International etiquette is said to be APP
pointed TO Rome. He acquits himself well in the
Chamber of Peers, the French Academy, and any
| sphere of authorship and negotiation.
| You will note the appearance Of new book of
| libels on the American people in London. refer
to :. Jonathan Sharp, or the Adventures Of Ken
tuckan." The London Atheneum, admitting that
it is forgery, POSSIBLY Of Captain MARyATT,) and
pretending to blame its general spirit of rancor and
| exaggeration, nevertheless uses and sanctions its
statements and pictures with opprobrious allegations
akin to the worst of the impostors. In the san 9
number of the Athenaum is an account of a master
piece the Greek Slave, by Powers, the American
satuary. Avowals of excellence are dashed by as
much disparagement as possble but the gracious
conclusion comes that "the Americans may boast,
by has means, of sculptor in Europe" To say
the least, Europe cannot show his superior. The
London Spectator has discovered that the healthy
days of the Engishman double those of the Aneri-
can i'll given number OF years" and that the per
centage of mortality is enormously great against
America compared with Great Britain II happens
that there is an enormous per centage of increase
the other way, and as much productive labor Of en-
terprise and industry. The practice of disparage-
ment is nveterate, and may presume, now uncon-
scious as wrong with all the British writer's, when
America in any way happens to be named. Thus,
you read in Tait's Magazine: Till about his 3Oth
year, BURKE, appears by his correspondence
just published, seriously contemplated emgratng
: to America; destination for which his love OF
agriculture would, perhaps, have made him less
unfit than we might at first suppose. If this pur-
{. pose had been executed, it would, undoubtedly,
have bestowed upon the list of those who founded
the independence Of America name eUen more
= Musfrions than The best Of those oho compose IT,"
Time has yet to teach how supremely ustrious the
American patriot should be considered. SARRANs,
in his Life of Bernadotte,' (the most satisfactory
extant) relates that after the cession of Louisiana
TO France by Spain, Napoleon appointed Berna-
dotte Governor-General Of the Province; who, says
Sarrans, accepted it readily believing that an indie
pendent empire might be formed there but the rup-
ture of the treaty of Amiens rendered sale TO the
United States advisable. Bernadotte was then APP
pointed envoy to Washington. He preferred how
ever, adds the biographer, fight England elsewhere
The premium of ten thousand francs for the best
French tragedy has been accorded, by the Academy,
to Ponchard's Lucrcfid, which argues that no such
composition of this era is much above mediocrity.
Serious revolts of the Arabs have occurred in va
rous parts of Algeria, owing, il is affirmed, to the
inccssant Vaccinations OF Abd-e-Kader's emissa-
ries but naturally and evidently from the invinc-
BILE repugnance OF the tribes to the French yoke.
Marshal BUcEAUD is correspondcndy active and Sc
we're. He burns villages, devastates fields, uproots
trees, captures women and children, converts every
tnlng INTO booty, anu compeiS the warriors 10 Srren
der their arms and ammunition. Exploits of havoc
and rgor of every kind coolly related in the bull
letins, which Guido the 6ercest hostlies Of your
Seminole war, upon which the Paris journalists used
10 animadvert with pious horror.
A sensation was produced here, for some DAYS,
by the refusal Of the Emperor of Morocco to ratfy
a treaty of limits and trade concluded by his COM
missioners with the French envoy, General. Il
is now admitted that the former were overreached
that they yielded more than their instructions
thorized. The same opposition in the press and
the Chambers, or large number Of them who for
ced NJ GuIzoT TO refuse, as Minister OF Foreign
Affairs, the ratification Of his signature TO the
Quntuple Treaty, affixed as Minister Plenipoten-
tiary, complain that the Government seems disposed
to excuse the Moorish Emperor, and little inclined
to renew the war for the a6ronf.
SWITZERLAND is said to be threatened with an
extensive combination TO dissolve the present Con-
federation the foreign Powers interfere with the
Governments of particular Caa,oae, not less than
with the Vorort and Diet. They oblige Lucerne to
be merciful TO the convicted Radical invaders
Blood enough has, indeed been shed in the politico-
thcologicO-cvil war.
The chief difficulty Of the SPANISH rulers is now
with the Holy See. They reject convention trans
United by their envoy at Rome, which does not
tisiactorily acknowledge the young Queen and con-
firm the past sales Of the ecclesiastical property.
In regard TO Spain, the event of most import and
excitement is the abdcaton, after very protracted
and intense peUotiatons Of Don Carlos i'm favor Of