The Sun. — 1836-12-30 (London, England)

CITIZEN-KING happily escaped, on Tuesday last, another terrible attempt to assassinate him. While his MAJESTY was proceeding to the Chambers,to assure France that " the impotence of so many guilty efforts against his life, had begun at length to weary the passions, and to discourage the audacity" of regicidal conspirators, the breaking of his carriage windows by a pistol ball, awakened him from the drew-et of fancied security into which Mbiistcrs heed lulled him ; and, in an instant, converted, the happy presages of his flatterers into omens ref direful import. For the particulars of this affair, we direct our readers to the report of it, which is given in another part of The Sun—contenting ourselves here with making a few observations upon it. The assassin is said to be a young man about twenty years of age, but his name has not yet been discovered. The Journal de Paris finds consolation in the discovery that he is poor, ill-clad, has the itch, and was armed with a very; bad pistol. The latter circumstance, in our opinion, is alone consolatory. Had the KING fallen it would have mattered very little by whose hand the pistol was levelled. It is enough to establish danger to the Royal family, that the man is not proved to be mad, and that he made the attempt under the plea of ridding Fiance of a tyrant—not to revenge any real or supposed p':irsonal injury done to himself. In the frequer,cy of these murderous attempts upon the life of the King of the FRE NC uove see great cause for se. rious alarm. They evidently are the result of a deeprooted 'hatred, on the part of the people, of the destroyer of the liberties of France. Monstrous we pronounce them ; but neither our expressions of deep abhorrence, nor those of our Contemporaries in eve:y part of Europe, have tended to diminish the dreadful determination of the fanatics who make them. While a single arm may prostrate the Sovereign of the FRENCII to the dust—when the guillotine has lost its terrors_ it is ridiculous to Threaten the guilty with fresh punishments, of to double the guards about the KING'S pesoo. There is but one way of saving the KiNci's life. We have said so before more than an *hundred times, and we fear that we shall be allowed to repeat it with no better effect. The KING can only be saved by restoring the Constitutional Charter to his people—by re-granting them those privileges which he voluntarily swore to maintain—and particularly by abolishing the laws for restricting the freedom of the Press. Unless his MAJESTY do these things, be will not long remain at the head the French monarchy. Nor would his untimely death benefit his successor. What he risks his life rather than grant, must be granted the instant he falls. What madness then is it to compel desperate but devoted men to stain the character of France with a crime which can be so easily and so righteously avoided' The KING'S repression of liberty—':is disregard of his solemn oaths—his contempt for the will of the. people-, nerve the arms, strengthen the hands, and steel the hearts of the assassins who seek his life.  From the correspondence of several eye-witnesses we learn, that on his way, to and from, the Chamber on Tuesday, the King of the FRENCH was suffered to pass without the slightest, demonstration of pleasure cr respect by the people. The men all remained covered, and as mute as if they had suddenly been struck dumb. His MAJESTY'S reception by the Peers and Deputies  was, however, as cordial as could be manifested by such grave personages. The following is a copy of  the Royal Speech :  •