French Papers.
The Times, 1824-09-27T00:00:00

I- V c-pec (FrOu;l the R.toile. ) *Ve copiedl yesterilay from the Englisli Courher ant article v ich contains the biltowinrx observations :_." A few Years ago (froml the dangers which threatened the throne of t'rance) it is a kWo~vn fact, that, In the southi and west of France, the Royal. sts were making dispositions to secure themselves against the con- 'equeates of a secon( revolution." We remarked on this in a rote, that the men whlo conspired opnly againit legitimacy, de- Soarticed continually, as conspirators, the frienrds of the Mionarchy- 'th,lse whom, In thelanguageof theJacobin Fouch(., they called the 8fltias. Many letters which we have received on this subject, con. ain tntbornation, which places beyond all douxbt one characteristic of the histoty ef that disastrous period. It is vertv certain, that at sicht of the intrigtues and plots of the enenmies of legitimacy, faithful subjects who had defended it through years, in the provinces, prepared to defend it still. The au- tiacity of the conspirators exceeded all bounds, when they saw them. selves supportel even by the fuinctionarics wlhose duty it was to ex- pose their machanationse The Royalists alone were poiuted out as the enernies of the State, in a word, the9had nizain become " sus- pected," as they were during the worst part of the reign of terror. Alen in office had no hesitation in announcing the day when the eeat clanve was to take place and that was the dav on which Louis MIl. should breathe his last. Faithful t) their instructions, these camc agents of power nade no secret of the zutceessor wlho had heen dedignated by the chliefs of the plot. It was not the son of the former usurper, as the lower classes of the Liberals believed, 'ut it was that of a Sovereign of the secittd rank. In him thev dis. covered all varieties of merit: tatlie recousmendation of illegitfilacy thbv joined that of his being a Calvinist. 'During that period, insidious writings, circulated by those who hat been apiointed to preserve the public peace, disposed the minds -of thepeop eto violate the ancientand well-known laws of the mo. narchy. From the example set by the journals of the faction, there vas ltething suggested in every painphlet, but to Lolltw, with regardl to the natural and legal heir of the crown, the same course as was tak in m Rni1and wvith tegard to the ithke of York, brotlter to Charles 11. rhe inost Ignorant enissaries of thie conspiracy, pro- pared against a prince the object of the love andl veneration of I-rance, spoke like the most leartierl of the famous bills of litnita- a40 and exclusion, after contining themselves In the beginning to erivnscal insinuations. The well-known authors of the intfamous stc ottrrespogondence received frfom their master orders to attack, *dittlv and personally, the august indiviclual wlhose inheritance had already been transferred te a foreig n race by anticipation. Part of these execrable schemes were exposed, even at that time, in a work 4uuished by an excellent Royalist, under the title of i; Bsl,and in .88 .an.. Fronre in 1820." A !ompilation entitled " The Thou- ,.Q and Onc Calumnies," which is but a translation, with corn- Yhenta, of the private correspondence published diuring so long a pc- riod in the Englislt papers, completed the expositioin of this iniqui- tolls mystery. But tas it accomplished ? Of titis then, hansily, there is still much veason to tdoubt. If all the enetnies of legitimacyv were at their post, if power was exclusively in their hands, it is hot less certain that all the defenders of the thronie hield themselves ready again to fight in that sacred cause whichl had covered La Ven(lee with impe- i9hable glory. A Darticular passage contained in a letter which we hatc received, enables us to iudge of the disposition whiri prevailed. Onre of those heroes of fidelity, to witom Louis XKVITI., before he diet1,had just decreed arsns of h,onour, was sent for in 1819 by the UJnder Prefect of liis district. " Wi'hat do r hear, Sir ?" said he, to the noble Vendlean. *' They tell tne that vou have kept arms by you. Against whom do you conspire ?" " I have never conspired," Ie?hid the loyal knight, "1 the vword is unknown to me, but all my Iix I have serveA my God and my King. If it shail be necessary to fight for them againi, I am quite ready. This I now tell you, and von may report it." But if we recall those days of grief and shame,itis but to enjoy the higher satisfaction in repeating, with the English writer whom we quoted yrsterday ,"Iho now hears of consoir2cies? All ideas of subverting the throne are abandoned. The Population is content- ed with the Government, and the army is devoted to its Prince. 2Never, perhaps, was so grcat an alteration in the aflairs of a nation effected in so sbort a time. Three vears have sufficed te restore to orde and tanuqullhity a nation distracted by thirty years of anarchy and confusion. This cirreinmstance alone speaks 'for the talents of he Ministry which has producee such important and unlooked-for F'RE"TCH PIPE*