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CONTIN E NTAL NO T E S. In the Continent...
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The Bonapartist Involution. "K0c1kty Is ...
disposed of "by surprise and violence" ; never were " the principles of authority and morality" more audaciously invaded by force and dishonesty . The army , Btirog by allusions to its former defeats , and inflamed by more vulgar stimulants to its passions , was first set upon the scattered members of the Legislature , and then let loose with unmitigated ferocity upon the people . All that offered the least show of resistance to acts which overturned the Constitution and threatened to annihilate every trace of public liberty , were confounded in one common proscription with the Socialists and anar chists , and swept off by grape-shot on the Boulevards , or by the military executions which instantly followed in the Champ de Mars . Every sign of that popular enthusiasm which commonly marks the commencement and the close of the reigns of Princes was wanting ; but it was
compensated by the overbearing arrogance of an army confident of victory over the civil power . We learn , from the numerous accounts which have reached us , that the aspect of this army was not that of troops engaged in the painful duty of repressing disturbances amongst their fellow-citizens , but of men pursuing their enemies to the death , without quarter or forbearance , in the heart of a conquered city . It will never be known at what cost of life to the citizens of Paris Louis Napoleon found himself master of the Government on the evening of the 4 th of December ; but from the comparatively small loss on the side of the army it is evident that the resistance was at no time comparable to that of the insurgents in June , 1848 ; and that every means were taken which the improved science of street warfare , and the pitiless commands of the African generals could suggest , to strike with the whole force of an armed hand on the heads of
the people . The army , to use a significant expression , did its worst . Such an opportunity of exterminating the Bed faction in Paris had long been sought for by the principal generals , and this lesson of terror is the inauguration of Louis Napoleon ' s absolute power . Speaking within the limits of historical truth , and upon the evidence of many eyewitnesses of these events , we affirm that the bloody and treacherous deeds of the 4 th of December will be remembered with horror in the annals even of that city which witnessed the massacre of St . Bartholomew and the Reign of Terror . "
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We need only print the following . It is from the "Wednesday letter of the Paris correspondent of the Chronicle : — " I am assured that the coup d ' etat effected by the President of the Republic , has filled the representatives of the Absolutist Powers of Europe with joy , and that all the representatives of the Northern Powers have already intimated to the Minister of Foreign Affairs , as well as to Louis Napoleon himself , their full approbation of the course pursued On Monday evening , not one of the Ministers of the Northern Powers was absent . " The Vienna Correspondent of the Times , only to be relied on when his facts tell against himself , furnishes additional evidence of this conspiracy .
" Many who are wellwishers to the President , do not scruple to assert that the coup e ' tat was long since arranged between that high functionary and the representatives of the Northern Powers ; although , as a matter of course , the exact moment at which it was to take place was to depend on circumstances . It is deserving of mention that early in the morning of the 3 rd—the day on which the Paris occurrences became known here—the Vienna garrison was suddenly put on the alert by order of the Emperor . The whole of the troops appeared under arms at the appointed place within half an hour , and were rewarded for their promptitude by three days' extra pay . "
The Times of Monday in the week published a rumour that the Prince de Joinville and the Due D'Aumale had set out for France . It has not been denied . From Berlin correspondence we learn that the Count de Chambord was bestirring himself , and the old agent , the Duke de Blacas , put in requisition . Where is France that she does not dispose of all these pretenders ? Where ? Let the votes of the army tell . The Patrie publishes the following votes of the army : — Number of votes 05 , 281 ) Votes for Louis Napoleon ( il , 4 fi (> Against 3 , 740 Abstained , 81
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CONTIN E NTAL NO T E S . In the Continental Notes of our number of the 1 / Hh ultimo , we mentioned that Nicholas , taking into consideration the services rendered by M . Likni Faucher to the cause of order , had restored to bin brother-inlaw , M . Wolownki , a French rcprcHentii-tive , the value of his landed property situated in Poland ; an assertion , against which the latter lias protested in several French papers , declaring that liin sister ( Madame Faucher ) had a legacy left her by her
father , which was mortgaged upon a confiscated landed property , but which she at hint , after sixteen years of reclamation , recovered , mid . which . gave rise to the false rumour , in spite of this protect , however , the Parisian correspondent of the . Berlin National Zeitung writes : — " I can vouch that the JtuKHiau Emperor , already several months ago , ordered that the sum derived from Ilio sale of tho confiscated property be restord to M . WoIowhIu ' h winter ; ut the manic time referring to the policy of M . /'' aucher , by which ho no won tho approbation of the autocrat , "
An order , characteristic of the Itusuian police concerning tho railroad travellers , has lately boon issued by tfio Director-Uonoral of Polico in , St . Peteraburg ,
in virtue of which every inhabitant of a place situated near the Petersburgo-Muscovian line , wishing to travel by it , is obliged to produce a certificate at the railway-office , declaring no cause or impediment why he should not travel ; every functionary , an authorization from his superior ; and foreigners , their legalized passports . The name of every traveller is inscribed in a separate register , and with it the specification of the document presented . The officers appointed for such verification are paid out of the railroad funds .
General Kempen , governor of Vienna , has issued a proclamation to the inhabitants to the effect that , whereas it has become manifest by the arrests and domiciliary visits made recently , that a large quantity of seditious and revolutionary matter has been printed and got into circulation here * it has been judged necessary to enforce anew some of the conditions of the state of siege , founded upon the proclamations of November , 1848 . All persons , therefore , from the date of the proclamation ( December 3 ) , whether Austrian citizens by birth or foreign residents , who shall be found in possession of these incendiary writings or prints , will expose themselves to the rigour of the law—that is to say , to a " Kriegsrechtliche Behandlung , " which means military
fortress arrest for a term of months or years , according as the circumstance maybe more or less aggravating . The like punishment will overtake those who omit to give notice to the civil or military authorities of their having seen such documents or placards . The Government is on the alert , and is resolved not to be found sleeping a second time , should the people of Vienna take it into their wise heads to conspire and fraternise with the democrats of Prance . To try the soldiers , the Emperor yesterday morning gave orders for the alarm to be beaten , and the whole garrison called out . In half an hour they were all at their posts on the glacis , and his Majesty rode down the line . To mark his approbation of their conduct , the Emperor has published an order of the day , permitting each man to enjoy double pay for three days .
The Ministeral Austrian Correspondenz of the 5 th instant states that the Military Governor of Vienna has addressed a circular to all the newspaper editors of the capital , informing them that for the future they will not be allowed to mention any arrests which , take place , or to publish the names of the persons so arrested , because it has been proved that such publication interferes with the judicial proceedings . A similar circular has been addressed to the provincial newspapers . Lord Palmerston ' s organ the Post , contains the following sentence in a letter purporting to be from Vienna , dated December 3 . Does the gentleman who penned it think all the world is either blind , or in the llusso-Austrian interest ?
" In spite of all that has been said and written on the perplexed subject of Austrian finance , in spite of the fact that silver stands at a premium of twenty-eight per cent , over the National Bank notes , there are not wanting those who consider the panic prevailing among the holders of Austrian paper to be altogether groundless ! " The significant italics are not of our making . Exchanges governed by the police are certainly not ** grounds" for a panic . Who but stupid merchants and brokers , and nine-tenths of civilized Europe , ever thought they were ?
The following facts can , perhaps , hardly be equalled in the annals of tyranny : —Six thousand families have been banished from their trades , and friends , and homes , in different parts of Austria , and compelled to return to their birthplace , under the surveillance of the police . All foreign newspapers have been forbidden in Hungary . No passports of any kind , or on any pretence , are granted to travellers for Hungary . Some time ago an order was published forbidding any newspaper to refer to the movements of any of the Imperial family without authority . Jlithcrto , as they did not particularly interest anybody ,
the unlucky journalists have contrived to encape pretty well ; but a few days since the editor of the Soldier ' s Friend was brought up before the military governor of Ureslau , Baron Kctupfer , and by him solemnly reprimanded for having " dared to publish an article too eulogistic ; respecting the Emperor ' s journey to Galicia . " The Imperial family , observed the Baron , with uingulur naivete , do not . require the praise of newspaper writers . The Augsburg Gazette atateK that the Karl of Westmoreland , our umbasHudor at . Vienna , has cancelled the leane of his hotel , and holds himuelf ready to take his departure from the capital .
Robert Walkklt On Till'! Conspiracy Of D...
ROBERT WALKKlt ON Till' ! CONSPIRACY OF DESPOTS . Manchester , following the example of Liverpool , haw given a dinner to the Honourable 11 . J . Walker , of the United States . About 120 persoim dined at tho Albion Hotel , and among thono present were the Right Honourable T . Milner ( Jibaon , M . P ., J . Brotherton , Esq ., M . P ., Charles Hindley , Km \ ., M . P ., 8 ir Klkanah Avmitugo , ( icucral Will bridge ( United . Staten ) , J . Bright , Esq ., M . P ., R . Cobden , Esq ., M . I' ., Colonel Colt , ( of rovolving-piHtol celebrity ) , Messrs . William Ratliboue , juii ., of Liverpool , W . S . Still , L . Thornton , M . Human , W . J . Atherton . It . ( Jardncr , II . AuUworth | * 15 . Ash worth , and 3 . Schwabe .
Passing oyer the free-trade portion of mT ^ uT ^ speech , we cut out without comment of anvK ? ' 8 concluding words upon the topic of the aLw ment for us as freemen and Englishmen . greatest mo ~ " Gentlemen , I will say a very few words on awi , subject . I believe that there ought to be not m ^ ? commerce , put in friendly feeHng , and ii ^ jfij ^™ ways , acordial union between England and a « ( Applause . ) I believe that theirs is a join ? nusfi ™ " * ; a separate one—it ig a joint mission to carry the hi ings of free trade , of commerce , of civilization of ' 11 m and religious liberty , and of Christianity under their iS flags all over the world . And at this perio d ^ hen tE fe Jr * e ' ? Ik ? *» * « * 1 Iiance of England S
ro France and Spain , in which I am not a beu 7 ver , and which would be resisted by us to the last extremitv permit me to call your attention to an alliance that on ^ did take place between England and the United State * and in which their joint cooperation effected great ami glorious purposes . It was in the time of Canning I read it from a publication , under the si gnature of mv ho noured countryman Richard Rush , who has held the office of Prime Minister of our Cabinet , Minister to France , and Minister to England . It is his statement of their joint cooperation : —
" « The main proposal was , and its first suggestion came from the English Foreign Secretary ( Mr . Canning ) to the Minister of the United States in London , I then being in that capacity , that the two powers should make a joint declaration before Europe to the effect that , if the Holy Alliance , after overthrowing the then existing constitution in Spain , established by the people under the auspices of the Cortes ( which ultimately they did overthrow by the instrumentality of a French army ) ,
attempted , by force of arms , or force of influence , to arrest the progress of emancipation and independence in the Spanish colonies on this continent , the two powers would put themselves against so arbitrary a project . The project was stopped effectually . England would have stopped it herself , but sought our cooperation ; and the knowledge by the allies that , if things had proceeded to extremities , it would have been afforded , was doubtless , of full value in raising a bar to the least attempt at so
audacious a course . Now , then , gentlemen , here was an alliance , proposed by Canning , and assented to , although not by a formal treaty , by my own country ; in which Great Britain and America united declare to the world that , if the Holy Alliance should attempt to reenslave the Spanish American colonies , or subject them again to the colonial bondage of Spain , then England and the United States would interpose to prevent such a catastrophe . And , gentlemen , bear in mind the important fact that the mere communication of this determination of England and America to the despotic powers of Europe prevented such a catastrophe : and further , it prevented it without a war .
And I do fully believe , for I am not amongst those who , looking at the continent of Europe , think that the sky is cloudless—I believe at this moment , that if England and the United States would announce to the despotic powers of the Continent , that they must observe the doctrine of non-intervention—that every nation must be permitted to judge for itself , and to select such institutions as best suited it , according to the will of the nation—{ hear , hear ) — that if England and America — { loud applause)—would make such an annunciation to the their march
despotic powers , it would arrest . ( Hear , hear . ) I believe that it would have precisely the same effect in 1851 that it had in 1820 . Why should it not ? Is England less powerful in 1851 than she was in 1820 ? Is my own country , of which I shall not boast , or speak in any flashy spirit , but I hope I may be permitted to ask , is my own country less powerful in 1851 than she was in 1820 ? ( Hear , hear . ) It was then that the mere enunciation of a principle stayed the march of the despots . ( Hear , hear . ) I will not dwell upon this toDic . but it is mv duty to sav one word . I believe ,
gentlemen , that the events which have recently tranapireu in France are of a momentous magnitude to England , to the United States , and to the world . It is true , gentlemen , there may be a momentary repoae of despotism—u is true that that man , who has combined in Inmfiell tne character of a traitor , of an insurgent— ( hear , hear ) and of a military usurper—( hear , hear)—may ' trample down for the moment the liberties of France . JJut , f ?< ntlemen , I propound this single question to Englishmen . if he docs succeed , who can doubt that a government established by the army of Louis Napoleon—cBtaimsii . u in favour of a man whose hands are dripping witn ui <> box
warm life-blood of his countrymen—of every ap , , and condition—that a government thus establisliec i wni not become a military despotism—that Loins ™ P '" " will not become a mere power to be moved on «"' I »«" tical chessboard by the iron finger of the Czar ? ( # l « jr , hear . ) And , gentlemen , is it for the intercut of lw ( , « J «» that 8 ho ahould have another military dcspotis ™ ° " £ continent of Europe , and immediately on Jior <> borders ? 1 « it her interest-is it the into < « tof £ constitutional Government of Eng land-that a the con tinont of Europe be covered by system ^ which ar very antipodcu of her own ? Is it her interc ^ J ^\ mt that great continent , thorn shall be no &™™« °%£ those that arc found in armiesi and m car 1 » inorcnt . 0 her commerce ? Will it rendci \ tr nrnxv and Hflcurc from tho assault * of dejpoUo I » J Will England be more « afe when there is » , £ but deHpo . io government ,, throughout tho w :: ;;•¦ :. ifx ' - S *¦ £ -- £ >¦ - £ SwiSr ^ SjSiSaS ESESSSfcAe
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 13, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13121851/page/4/
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