French Papers.
The Times, 1824-09-25T00:00:00

(From the Etoie.) Few wordA will suffice to re.omrrcnd to the love and admiration sf the public, the French Prince whom Providence has Just called to reicer ovrer them. The Count d'Artois was esteemed by Louis XVI., his .3ucst brother, as much as he was beloved by him. A pproved devrcim., chivalrous lovaltr, unerring iudgment, these fonred the title f this Prince to the coiuntenance of the Alonarch. It is not yet foreont.ta that Louis XV'I., speaking one day of very hazardour cvurnsel w4ich had been qiven to him at a most momentous crisis. said aloud. "I oppose it; I know that my brother, the Cottnt d'Ar- rnt, wouid never give it the sanction of his approbation." The moment arrived too soon, when France had occasion to ad- mire in a Prince of thirty. discernmeznt and prudence, which are ordini ilv but the fruits of ace anti experience. Louis XVI. had cn:rvokcd the Assembly ofthe Notables, for the purposeof conferring with them on the subject of the reforms which were nadle the pre. text for the revolrtion. A Prince presided over each bureau of that r.sexnbly. On opening their Sessions, his Roval Highness Pro. nouvncrA a Rperch, in which this phrase was remarked-" Frenich- wnen- like volt a subject, like you, I will justify the confidence wsich the King, m"y brother, manifests, bv the utmost frankness, antd bv the Movt perTfct subntission to the ottlers wvhich he may he 14ccsed to tircfar the happiness of his pcople, and the glory of his tt'rnne. Alreadv the Count d'Artois foresaw the fatal projects of innova- to-s. Titev were all unveiled to him by the opening of the States (-rtneral. lie Raw that that Assentbly would prove but thein. s,-ruent (ti a faction, and he was the first to sign that ever-memo. .-hbe paper, in which the Princes of the Hlouse of Conde joined with Hi7. to announce-we may say to prophesy-to the unfortunate 1^i:is XVI. all the calamities which were ahout to fall on him andi ^sn France As soon . s a handful of wretches had seized on the Beanrile without resistance, and unpunished assassinstions served for a pr-elude to the horrors which the chiefs of the revolution meditated, 0be C-ount d'Artois anticipated but too correctly, that the King, Ias larmler. was a capttve in the hand of rebels, and withdrew, with -'7t two mtang Princes, his sons, to the dominions of the King of -he.-dinia. hus father-in-law. The Emperor Lecp^ld lI. invited this Prince to a secret con- fererrce at Mantua. This conference was very lonig. Those who thor-. urrounded the Emnperor have not forgotton that that Prince, wbo was endowed with uo common intelligence, said aloud, in re- t:rnn2 frorn the interview, " I knew that the Coount d'Artois was a Primce of brilliant taleuts, but I did not expect to find in him a sratesn-mn equally judicious and well-infortnetd." It s knoswn that l[ouis XVI I.. on rejoining the Count d'Artois aind the Princ of Conde. after their separation, quoted thcse flic Oui poiquc je rcvois tea plus fermes appuis Rome n'cst plus tlans Romc. elle est totite ou je suisW* 1 *rr body is aware that. aftcr the failure of the first attempts to r.Wttdh Lotuis XVI. from the hands of kis g.aolers, the Empress Ca- therine 11. expressed a desire to receive thc Count d'Artois at her Ccurt. But everv body does not know that on his returvn from Rtts- sia the first caere ot this noble Prince was to divide among the faith- ful smran.ts of Louis XVI; the rich presents whichI he had received fram that great Princes. Jt was by similar traits that Eurone re- c.scstzed him, to whoni it ddcreed the glorious title of " tlie first French Knighr," and in whom the Knights themselvcs, assembling nround him. rceinized thegrandson ot the good Henry, like him always afi.ble, always benevolent: like tirim he might saY, " I.c R, ataij is poor-he gives what he laa." FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, SEPT. 21.