Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-04-22

Provisional Government Of France Of them able
and eoquentall of hem believe, well meaning and sim
cere men, But they out With dscadng the lessons OF
experience their principle entire negaon OF all former
systems Of government They think that new era has
opened in human ar that the 6rs, Revolution has de-
soyed the former method Of directing mankind and the pre-
sent has usbered in the novel They no bounds to
the spread Of human felicity by the adoption OF social sys-
tenn different from any which has yet obtained among men
They have adopted the ideas Of Robesperre without his
biood-the visions Of Rousseau without his profgacy
Nor LET II be sad that these ideas dreams OF en-.
thusias which never be carried into practice by any
government These enthusiasts the ruling power IN
the State; their doctrines those which will quickly be
carried INTO execution by the liberal and enlightened Masses
invested by universal suffrage with supreme dominion in the
republic Most assuredy they will carry their ideas into
ecution the seed which the liberal Of France have
been sowing for the last thirty years will bring forth its appro
pirate fruits What power prevent the adoption of these
popular and highly auded Improvements" after the govern
met OF Louis Philippe and Guzo have been overturned by
their announcement These persons stood as the barrier
between France and the 'soca revolution with which It
menaced when they destroyed all Of resist
ing II are AZ end and the friends Of humanity must
trust TO prevent its extension To other States mainly to the
reaction arising from its experienced eff cts 10 the land OF its
birth.
II If with material resources continually and rapidly diminish
ing, capital leaving the country, employment failing bank
rnpes general the expenditure of the opuent at an end the
finances Of the State in hopeless embarrassment the French
Government satisfy these exayagant wants and expecia
ions without pGnsng in foreign war; they will achieve
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Who ansverable for this caatous revolution, which
has thus arrested the internal prosperity of france, involved
its finances in apparently hopeless embaassmen thrown
back for half century the progress Of real freedom IN that
country and perhaps consigned to series of internal con-
vusons, and Europe to the horrors OF general war, for
very long period We answer without hesitation that the
responsibility rests with two parties onythe King and the
National Guard.
The King is most Of all to blame for having engaged in
conflict and when victory within his grasp allowing
slip from his hands from want Of resolution at the decisive
1t is too after these great and astonishing
events to be able to form decided opinion the whole details
connected with them but the concung statements from all
parties prove that the first day the troops OF the line
perfectly eady aud history will record that the heroic
rmness of the Municipal Guard has valed all that is most
honorable in French history The military force i'm
less than eighty thousand backed by strong
FORTS and amply provided with all ihe muniments OF war
Their the first day unbroken they had carried
above hundred bacades and in possession OF all the
military positions of the capital But at this moment the In
decision of the King ruined every thing Age to have
extngushed the vgor for which he celebrated
He shraDk from with the insurgents parayzed the
troops by orders not to fire the people, and openly receed
before the Dsugent popuace by abandoning Guzot and the
firm policy which he himself had adopted, and striving TO
concate the revolution by the ternine Of Count Mole
and liberal cabinet 1t is with retreat in presence OF
an nsuecton in the Of invading armythe first
towards the certain step TO ruin The moment
that the King giving way all parayzed,
because all foresaw which side the victory would incline
The soldiers threw away their mukes the officers broke their
sWOrus ana the vast he
Austerz, dissolved like rope Of sand Louis Phi
rpe fell without either the ntepdity Of the royal martyr in
1793 the dignity of the elder house of Bourbon in $780,
and it be true, generally said that the Queen urged
the King horseback and die zen ro in front
of the Tuieries and he declined peferng escape in dis
gue this country. history record with shame that
royalty rished in France without the virtues entitled
to expect in the meanest Of its supporters.
The second which appears to have occasoned the
overthrow of the monarchy in France is the general
I've said universal detection of the National Guard II had
been openly announced that twenty thousand OF that body
line the Champs Eysees IN their uniform
cason Of the banquet il perfectly known that that
banquet preiext for getting the forces OF this
revolution together and that the intention Of the consp
ratos march in body the Tuieries after il
When they called the afternoon, they declined
against the people, and their eachery occaoned
the detection of the troops of the line and rendered further
resistance hopeless They expected, by this declaration
agans the King of their choice the monarch OF the barr
caes TO secure larger share in the Government for them
selves They the Chamber of Deputies, intending to
put up the Duchess of Orleans Regent and the Count Of
Paris King and to procure large of reform for
the constitution. What the result Why, that they
speedily suppaned by the rabble who followed in their
footsteps and who, deridng the eoquence Of 0don Bao
and insensbe the herosm of the Duchess Of Orleans by
force and violence expelled the majority Of the Deputies from
their seats seized the Presidents chair and. amidst
paraeled and confusion subverted the Orleans
dynasty, proclaimed republic and adjourned 10 the Hotel
de Vile TO proclaim Provisional Government.