Star. — 1830-03-04 (London, England)

FRANCE AND THE BOURBONS IN 1830.  From Le Globe. (Continued from the STAR of Saturday).  What would have been the fate of France and of liberty under .Buonaparte and his dynasty ? Uneasy, and perhaps little dignified; st Inuit, so we think: and even at the price of the humiliation of a. second lavasion,--even at the price of so much treasure and glory lost,—even at the price of so many and such fierce years of contest, our education as a free people does not seem now to have coat Wei .:melt. But in priportion to the price it bas cost, and continues So eon every day, so the dangers of those Princes who do not accom. • modate themselves to it, increase.  We have just Seen how the Bourbons were banished by the people and by the army, because they offended the people and the army. • In vain had.s faint Aurora of political liberty shone upon them, in the midst of a feeble and ignorant legislation : habituated to the Imperial .yoke, counter-revolutionary sophism had obscured it, and though tome patriotic minds, some young spirits awakened by hope, for a moment rallied round them, the same hope drew them to Buonaparte, imploring liberty in the Champ de Mai, perhaps as an actor, but as an actor whose part carried him farther than be wished. Too long has been forgotten the influence which those three months had in our political regeneration, when popular and military scenes were acted—when the renewal of federations was seen —when club and tribune agitation resounded through the land— when appeals were made to the recollection of the campaigns of 1792 and 1793, and when the sacred songs of old victories were heard. Ah ! which of us, then young, amidst the agitation caused by so many unknown emotions, ',obi& the books of our intik/icy had been unable to excite,—whlch of us in the midst of this clangour of arms and these cries of liberty, though but a cold imitation of what had been before, did not fancy himself carded back to the great days of our fathers ? Which of us did not, with tears in his eyes, and his arm trembling with enthusiasm and indig. nation, and fired with fidelity and bravery,--which of us did not brandish his sword and believe himself as great a hero as any of the heroes among the Marcelloise, ready to conquer or die under the standard of reviving liberty ? Who, too, among the children of the old emigrants or Vendeans, still recollecting the hymns to the martyrs of Royalty chaunted in 1814, did not also dream of fortune, and endeavour to seek it in some obscure part of the country, where they thought themselves powerful and likely to be seconded ? Pardon us this return to 1815. It was not for the purpose of diverging from our object: for, after the victory of the Bth of July, after the restoration, this time certainly forad on us by foreign bayonets, the counter-revolutionary party, which returned with the Bourbons, was obliged to follow the same path which Bonaparte and the friends of the revolution had just followed. It also made an appeal to liberty, and by means of speeches, laws, and votes, it undertook to destroy what had been consolidated for 25 years. The Chamber ',arousals raised the hatchet against every popular institution while pretending to popularity, as the adherents- of the south murdered the Protestants while pretending to compassionate them. Confounded, broken spirited, and divided, the nation seemed to submit. No well-connected opposition was organised r there was no longer any military Buonapanism, or civil discipline, as on the loth of March. There was no longer any intelligent, liberal, strong, tkr united opinion. Still here and there attempts at conspiracy and revolt were made, and it wss always the son of Buonaparte that was opposed to the Bourbons, but still without sincerity and without sympathy in the muses of the people; or rather, the muses did not dare to trust themselves, though in their hearts they were very much inclined to seek any Prince rather than him in whose name a legal counter-revolution was operating and boldly advancing. Had the power of this Chamber, conducted by the La Bourdonnayes, the Corbidres, the Villelea, the Castelbajacs, the tribunes of aristocracy and Catholicism, continued much longer, a civil war would have broken out. The foreign Kings perceived this, and Louts