The Sun. — 1849-04-10 (London, England)

LAUD. Had the Edinburgh Reviewer but followed out to the full the example of the Parliamentary candidate who contented himself with bawling from the hustings in Somersetshire, " I say ditto to Mr. Burke r, he might have spared himself the labour of enditing these very eccentric revelations, by shouting  in pica or bourgeois, from the last page of the Quarterly, " I say ditto to Monsieur Guizot !" The paper is merely a servile echo of the pamphlet. It says ditto to Monsieur GulzoT with a vengeance—for in so doing it utterly falsifies all those doctrines against finality, all those pithy syllogisms in favour of reform, all those eloquent declamations against the restriction of speech, of meeting, of printing, and of petitioning, upon which the publication had deservedly built up its reputation. Speaking of the Republican Government of February, 1848, the writer has the effrontery to say that "the total absence. of any new talent is so striking as almost to suggest an incidental proof of the utter needlessness of the revolution." The utter needlessness of the revolution ! As if there could by any possibility be found in the records of the human race, in ancient or modern times, from the earliest to the latest epochs of civilization, any revolution so justifiable, so imperatively necessary, so actually forced upon the population ! If a corruption more flagrant than the corruption of the venal days of VERULAM is not a justification of the punishment of a monarchy, then we admit that the Count DE NEUILY ought at this moment to be residing in the midst of splendour in the palace of the Tuileries. But when we look back to the vicious days which preceded the glorious outbreak of democracy in February we exult in the boldness of the heroic Parisians in kicking the degraded rulers of France out of a backdoor, through the streets, into an ignominious flight, which fate has since converted into an eternal banishment. We see in that grand rising of the people the suppression of a system which had converted one of the first statesmen in Europe into a political pandar and a financial pimp—a system which had transformed the Assembly of Representatives into tuft-hunters and parasites— a system which had led, in fine, to such a general vitiation of society, that the solemn promise of a Prince could be broken as idly as a rotten filbert, that a Minister of the Crown could be charged in open court with petty larcenies from which the soul of a cadger would have revolted, and with wholesale peculations at which even the hardy conscience of FAUNTELROY would have hesitated. Before the Revolution of February the world was becoming habituated to such spectacles as those of the associates of the Government killing one another in single combat, from quarrels arising between them when flushed with wine and surrounded by courtezans in the intoxicating debauchelies of an establishment combining the villanous attractions of the hell and the brothel, They witnessed in another direction, a royal princess kidnapped under shelter of dragoons and artillery—to enrich the youngest son of the sovereign with the riches of her appanage. They saw in another a magnanimous enemy cheated by unkingly guiles into the horrors of perpetual imprisonment. They witnessed the compulsory sacrifice of a neighbouring monarch to the intrigues of the French Administration. They saw a member of the aristocracy, one of the intimates of the reigning family, permitted to escape from the avenging hand of justice, and to cap the climax of his infamy by committing self-destruction, after imbruing his murderous hands in the blood of his unfortunate wife. They saw official after official convicted of bribery, and sentenced to the expiation of their offences. They knew the whole monarchical scheme to be the cause of misfortune throughout the departments, and to be the opprobrium of every European population. They recognised the gradual disappearance of all the guarantees of liberty given in 1830. They found the representative system undermined, the Chamber of Deputies a packed assembly of placemen, the Cabinet a gang of clever but unscrupulous sycophants, the princes of the blood the friends of duellists, and gamblers, and profligates, and murderers.