Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-03-12
French Invasion of Great Britain.

French Invasion OF Great Britain.
A Frenchman named NJ. Frederic Billot, has
written a series of letters 10 Louis Napoleon, in
which he says:
"When your victorious flag shall wave over
London, you will summon the powers to Con-
gress where the Just rights of all will be decided
at an alliance really holy, France will resume
her limits, and all the maratime ports which are
her due Her colonies will be restored. Malta
will be hers, and Egypt will flourish under her
laws. Poland will be restored to Independence,
Russia 1oiH rule IN the East, and Constantine.
pie 1oiH become Christian
The above, in our oplniou,ls sublimey French.
1t is of no to call it absurd, ridiculous, bonn
bastic, foolish, vain, concerted, and non-senscal.
for the word French, in these days, comprehends
all those quaties,w when applied to rhetoric. 1t is
French, nothing less, nothing more.
In the first place, Mr. Billot seems to consider
the passage across the Channel, as smooth as the
sidewalks on the boulevards, and the rocky bar
rier which surrounds Great Britain, does not APP
pear to him to be more formidable than bani-
cade in the rue ST. Antoine. This intelligent
gentleman has probably studied history in the
sale de bataille, at Versailles, and does not
know that is, OOO.O 900 of Anglo Saxons iuhabit
the island of Great Britain, and that they would
not be disposed to permit Louis Napoleon to take
London, without some questions as to his title TO
do so. Ii seasckness, which is particularly fond
of Frenchmen, permitted NJ. BiIlot's compatriots
to cross the Channel with any starch in their COL
lars; and if the British Navy, which is manned
by men who have passionate Of love and pride
IN their country, and who have no very exalted
opinion ofFreuch maritime prowess, were TO al
low them to reach the shores Of rocky Albion,
here would still be rocky sleeps round which the
wild waves roar and foam; and on which the dark
artillery yawns, 10 meet the invading Frenchman
and frown him back from Britain's shores
London alone contains 1890, 900 inhabitants, to
dispute the occupation Of that city with LOUIS
Napoleon. The whole of Great Britain is inter-
spersei with railroads. which can transport troops,
with the utmost rapdity, TO any point of the
country; and which could concentrate 500, 600
armed men in the metropolis in "a hours These
men would not be the mercenaries of which the
standing army is composed, but the people of
Great Britain, called to defend their parents chill
dren, and wives, their native land, their liberties
and their lives. Mr. Billot and Louis Napoleon
would need to conquer these men, before they
could hold their holy alliance in London, or take
breakfast al Buckingham Palace. We suppose
the liberty which Mr. Billot wishes the HOLY
French alliance to propagate, is the same sort
that prevails in France now. No press, no pub
lie lectures in the colleges, no public meetings, no
unrestrained conversations; but spies, informers,
soldiers, jailors, and pensioned brigands instead
What polite, complalsant gentleman Mr. Billot
must be, to call that condition of things liberty,
under which Frenchman is put into prison for
struggling his shoulders. We suppose he would
confer the equal freedom upon Johnny Bull, of
being put in prison if he indnlged in his
natural propensity for grumbling, or shaking his
head.
Great Britain is not so free as the United States
in the matter of lchite folks; but she is as much
ahead OF France, in he matter Of true liberty as
Queen Victoria is more decent in character than
Bonapare is. The British have no passport sys-
tenn, and no spy system. They have'a free press,
the right of public meeting, the right of petition,
aud, in some parts of the island, the most ample
facilities for the education of youth. For the
French to talk of invading such people, in the
name liberty and progress, is simply French
impotence.
That Russia shall rule in the East when France
becomes empress in the West, is very possible
Louis Napoleon, the assassin of the noble Italian
republic, would gladly assist the Gar 10 destroy
Turkey, if the latter would forgive him for being
parvenu. But we trust that Great Britain will
stand forever, like a wall of adamant, between
both French and Russian despotism. She is
likely to do SO, despite Of all that Mr. Bilot can
write, or Nj. Bonaparte can do.