Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1848-05-25
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Thursday Morning, May rs, lS4S.
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M. LAMARTINE.-The London Quarterly
Review, issued in March last, contains ana
BILE article on the events, causes, and promi-
ncnt actors IN the late revolution in Paris,
which furnishes many new facts to account for
the sudenness and unexpected success OF the
long meditated movement to establish Re-
public, in which, as the reviewer believes, M.
Lamartino and some Of the leading persons in
the Provisional Government had early been
participant 1t accounts better than any state
ment we have seen for the singular inertness
and incapacity manifested by the King and his
ministers, and places the responsibility of the
failure to protect the existing Government
where it seems to be merited, with the King
himself, who lost his self possession and ap-
pcared entirely bereft of the frmness and equa
nimity which were thought to be his character
istics. The reviewer then sketches the char
acters of Lamartine, Arago, Ledru Rollin,
Louis Blame, and others, members Of the Pro-
visional Government, with short notices of the
events of their lives. In the account of La
MARITIME, after giving the particulars of his in
tervew in Syria with Lady Hester Stanhope,
when that insana Yates told him his fortune,
and predicted the eminence he would reach in
the future convulsions Of France, the review
er adds" what is more remarkable, and
much more important, is a PROPHECY, which
he himself has delivered, and which we are
surprised has not made more noise." He
then subjoins sketch ofthe work in which the
prophecy is contained, which we give in the
language Of the review.
1T is a small work published anonymously
in ls43, and reprinted with his name on the lst
of December lS47, entitled France and
England, or a Vision Of the Future" Of this
work we had never heard till we saw an Eng
| lsh translation of it, which came out in Lon
don at the close of February simultaneously
with the Revolution that the original work had
announced in l843. The vision is that of a
Young Frenchman, who while uuder the infu-
ence of haschish, an intoxicating druFof the
Fast, sees what the world is to be hundred
years hence. He need not have taken so long
a period, for much Of his prophecy has been
accomplished within five.
He sees the corrupt and fraudulent govern
ment of Louis Philippe overthrown, and re-
public erected and society reconstructed on the
principles of Louis Blanc's Organisation du
TrardH, and on its banneris inscribed LIBERTY, !,
EquALITY, FRATERNlTY--the motto; and
there are whole pages on this subject, which
seem to be repeated in the proclamations and
speeches of the Provisional Government. He
sees also that, in imitation of the the great Re-
public-not by any armed interposition, but by
the moral force of fexample-all the small States
of Germany and Italy have, by simultaneous
instructions, constituted themselves into two
great federal nations. He sees that Spain, af-
Ter having absorbed Portugal, has also consti-
tutcd itself one Iberian nation; and he attrl-
buted this event, as well as Louis Philippe's s
own downfall, to Spanish marriages-the re-
suit of the dynastic selfshness Of Louis Phi
lippe. lie also supposcs spontaneous ANAL
gamation Of Belgium and the Rhcnsh proyin-
ces with France her natural boundaries !;
and he magines France thus constituted TO
form, with Spain and Italy, great confedera-
ton, to be governed, as to International con-
Germs, by what he calls an lber Callitalian Con-
gress.
Il In short, this extraordinary book-snnounc-
II ing five years since, so much of what has been
done-emitting so many principles and opin-
H ions which the Provisional Government have
adopted-prophesying so much that, we fear,
is likely to happen, and good deal that we
confidently hope never can happen-this book,
we say, seems to prove his early connexion
with the Republican conspiracy, and it was no
doubt the cause that, when Provisional Gov
ernment was to be created, he was inscribed on
both the lists; and thus placed in position in
which his energy, courage and eloquence were
of signal service, in the first throes Of its eIs-
tence to the Republic, and we believe to the
preservation of life and property in Paris
II CouRr OF MAoisrRATEs.-Tu Tuesday, May
23d, lsis.-!Nate - Joseph Taylor, complaint
dismissed.
h State rs. w. f. anthony, complaint
l by ]. Taylor, Of assault and battery on
his son. The Court find the responder,
GuILrY, and sentence him to SO fine, and
! costs.
\ State rs. Henry Young, complaint Of Henry
j. Gahagan, requiring suretes TO keep the
peace. Dismissed.
/ State rs. Henry j. Gahagan complaint o.
Henry II. Young, requiring sureties to keeT
the peace. Dismissed.
State rs. Henry H. Young, complaint Of
II Harriet Watson for assault and battery by re-
spondent. The Court find the respondent
GUILTY, and continued the case for sentence.
II State rs. John F.. Augustus, complaint BY
Il Harriet Watson for assault and battery by re-
spondent. Continued, on suggestion Of com
plainants counsel.
State Us. Patrick Shea, complaint fol selling
1 liquor without license. The Court find tn,
respondent GUILTY, and order him to recog
nize for his appearance at the next Court o
| Common Pleas in 500.
State ps. Cornelius Clarke, on similar com
I plant to the next preceding-the Court fine
the respondent GUILTY, and order him to re
cognize as above in 500.
i State rs. Caleb s. Knight, complaint fo
selling liquor without license. Nor GUILTY
Complaint dismissed.
II James Dunn Us Daniel T. S,cinburne, actor
iii IN kooL .ccount .cI c. ,.o-l, 81 l.Lo- L..