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Letters From Paris. [From Our Own Corres...
As ^ e ' Bbui-sbwis viol ^ ittyagi * **^ by all these threatening rumours of projects and measures , L . Bonabarte feigneda retreat ; but his decree * are only adjourned , : His intention is very clear-to ^ caressthe lower classes , on whose support * e relies , -and . to . strike the . rich Classes , who are hostile tojum . H <^ will , therefore , lighten the indirect taxation , which falls upon the former , and > on the , other hatod ^ augmentthe feet taxe - s , Whichfall upon the . latter . Aureate , it iV the same with financial as with political questions ;
in neither case will Louis Buonaparte suiter any control . He is determined to dispose of the entire resources of the budget a 5 Q 0 million francs ^ 6 Q , OpQ , O 0 Qk ) at : his own free will and pleasure , and render no account to living man . the Legislative corpse will vote , the Budget of receipts , but it , wont vote the Jhidget ; of expenditure . A round sum will be appropriated to e ^ ch Minis try y but the apportionment and the vote , of ilie different estimates will be henceforth abolished . What , a capital niilch-Qow is France for tlie son . pf Admiral Verhnel !
A . decree has just appeared in the Moiuteur reestablishing convents for women . So . here , we are landed again in 1825 . One step further , and we shall be refreshed again with the sight of Capuchins , Dominicans , Franciscans , Benedictines , Celestins , Augusiins , & c . & c . The considerant of this decree declares that it is " in the interest of the people" that the measure is taken . . 1 Thursday , Feb . 5 th , was the reception at the Academy of M . Montalembert . On these occasions it is the custom for the newly-admitted member to
deliver an address in eulogy of his predecessor . M . de Mcmtalembert , in mentioning a history of the French Revolution , by M . Droz ( his predecessor ) , attacked with extreme violence the principles of 1789 ; that is to say , all the rights arid all the liberties of peoples . It was M . Guizot who had been commissioned to reply to M . de Montalembert . He did so in noble language , taking occasion , in contrast with the new Academician , to defend Constitutional Government . The two discourses were not allowed to appear in the public journal * until they had undergone due mutilation from the Censorship . Four passages of the address of M . de Montalembert were suppressed .
The secret of Lord Palmerston ' s retirement is now known in France . The good English public has been befooled , just as we are befooled here in France , by the truth being kept from us . It is the Gazette ( V Augsburg that has given us the key of the mystery which had been refused to your curiosity . This journal receives , as you know , the semi-official communications of the Cabinet of Vienna . This is the note published in its columns on the subject r—
" Whatever the English journals may say , it is certain that Lord Palmerston was driven from office by the remonstrances of the great Powers . Such a fact may be disagreeable to England , hut it is true . A collective note was addressed to the British Cabinet , by the" Cabinets of Austria , Prussia , and Russia . In substance , this note was as follows : — ' It is useless to insist once more upon the dangers which the plots of the refugee ' s in London arc preparing for the Continent : it is equally useless to recal the desire expressed by the English Cabinet to abstain from extending ; its protection to these intrigues ; it is
enough to recal to the mind of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs that we have never applied , against British subjects on the continent , the principle which Lord Palmcr 3 ton himself expounded in 1848 to the Government of the United States , on the occasion of the arrest of two Americans in Ireland . At that time not only did Lord Palmerston justify that arrest , but he invoked the principle that every government is supreme within its own erritories , and , consequently , has the right to remove any foreigner whom it may suspect of an intention to disturb the public tranquillity . '"
To this note the British Minister found it quite impossible to reply : but , it seems , feeling the absolute necessity of submitting to the opinion of his colleagues , who were inclined to give satisfaction to the demands of the great Powers , he never appeared again at the Council Board , but sent in his resignation instead . It results , then , that the infraction of ministerial discipline or of official etiquette was but a pretext to salve over the susceptibility of the national pride . General Csivaienac has accepted the candidateship
of the 3 rd arrondisstement at Paris . lie has , personally , groat probabilities of success . The Orleanist Opposition has also put forward tho names of MM . Delesfiort and Mortimer Ternaux . MM . Marc DufiaiHBG and Guoppo , ex-representatives , who had been marked by Bonaparte for transportation to Cayenne , havo just been Bet at liberty , with orders to quit Franco within forty-eight hours . Tho several detachments , the employes and agents destined for 1 'the pretended colony of Cayenne , have received orders to embark at Brest . S-
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' -. The qircumstances of then attempt were briefly . The iqufeen was traversing the long gallery whi-ch feada from the palace chapel to the Boyalo « pa ? f * a 6 lJ *> Mben an aged main in ; the . gafb ; of & priest adyanced ftOHiMbhe crowd and , threw himself on his knees , before . her ,,, ¦ The queen supposing him to $ Q a , < , petitioneryv held ^ out -her hand , having the infant child tin ,. her arms ., when ,, the assassin , drew a knife . frpm ; : his .: robes and ; stabbed / the queen witi violence jpsfcrabove ; the groin . ;; the ) qu ^ en uttered a piercing shriek , bu ^ did ^ ot fiall , /^ r los # her presepce of miod ; - -. ghe banded ; ovejj -the child , t <^ the king . Thei assassjjn wasinthe aqtof Aimingfa second blow when hU hand was , arrested by Cpun ^ , Pino Herrooso of the royal house ^ ol : * , \ Y hose fingers . , were nearly
puit off in ; the struggle * The queen made , ^ an attempt to" proceed but . almost imme 4 iately ; fajnted in the ^ rws of a lady in waiting . Jfrex ^^ first thpu ^ it wias abputher child . AJlthis ^ ime , a vas ^ c ^ ncpur ^ ^ f . persons ^ aite <| for -the royal i ^ oce ^^ oji : ; af thfi . chur ^ li of Afo 9 ha .: When the a ^ sauli was kpp ^ cohsternatiph prev ^ ed ! anidrjg ^ the' loyal ppnulation of M ^ adrid . They w <> iilcl have ; torn the assailaipt topietces had it not been for a strong guard . All the authorities attended at , the palace with anxious [ inquiries ' . . The queen is said , to have buffered from feyer and nightmare for a ifew nights , but the iirifavourable 1 syinptoms
were subdued , arid by the latest accounts- sh ^ Vr ^ s declared to be completely ^ out Jot dangeri j t"he' sjiab niust have been exceedingly Violent , ^ m the dagger passed through heavy velvet rbbes / iridei ^ garments , ' stays , and inflibted a ' wjoufid ^ lieariy thtee incjoes deepr The cPnduct of the prisoner after his Arrest vras hardened , brutaL and eynical inthe eitresme . '' He shewed no remorse for the crime , but regretted that iie , had nbt effected a great good for : society . ' ' He had intended to assassinate the Queeii Mother ^ and Narvaez . He appears to have served inV fche \ € ? arliBt armies , and to have been for some time exiled from Spafril' He behaved with extreme insolence and perfect composure
to the last . His last hours , are described by thp correspondent of a daily journal : —After the regicide was placed in capUUti two clergymen constantly" Attended him . He said to one of them who offered to confess him- — " I thought some honest friar would have been sent to me for the purpose . As to you , I know you too well to have confidence in your ministry . Yon are as great a reprobate as I am myself . ; Your oonduct is well known to me , Begope . "; Merino at first quietly listened to the second ecclesiastic , but when the latter spoke to him of hell and his crime , he suddenly stopped him , saying , " Let us not talk of such nonsense . You no more believe in hell than I do . Leave me quiet . I can dispense with your sermons . " ,
The Governor of Madrid having heard that an attempt would be made by the mob to iutetcept the culprit , and to tear him to pieces on his jway- to . exe ~ cution , was obliged to issue a proclamation , that any such attempt would be resisted , ! and .. thatrtH ^ iwimwd should die by the hands of the execu , tioner « ¦¦ , ' ¦¦¦ : The mode of execution ( garotte vil , as it is called ) is described graphically by the Times' correspondent , i 1 Itis , an instantaneous death , the sudden compression df the garotte squeezing the neck quite flat . The moment a man i » doomed in Spain , he- is considered as already belonging to another world , » nd jrega < rded almost with . awe . He is attended by all the cpnsolationB of his
religion , and as he passes through , the streets "on a mule of low , size / ' repeating prayera fop , the dying , and accompanied by the prieBte , flambea , ux « , re burnr ing in the baloonies ,, and . men ^ women , and children on their knees in the streets praying for his soid , ,, At the place of execution , there is . no indeeent ' mu-th ; when the prisoner is on the platform , and , the instrument adjusted , every head is uncovered , aijid tho lips of all in prayer " At the bistmomenrt , too , " a groan , but not of disrespect , is uttered by the multitude , ' , ' if it wore the last adieu to the soul . " Thia Merino does not appear to have belonged tp any conspiracy , but to have L > eon a thoroughly abandoned , and desperate man . His crime has made the garb of the priest * liood very suspioious at Madrid . ,
From the rent of the Continent the news is very scanty . In the Chambers at Turin , the debase on the new press law , restricting observations on foreign governments , has been ! in warm discussion . The Mar--quis d'Azegliohaa doacribod tbe meaauro as not n > piely politic and necessary in the peculiar relations of P ^ edrnont to her ppwerfiU neighbours , but as in i , tpelf wise and just . It will probabl y be carried , as the miniatera have made it a , cabinot question . A secret treaty between Austria and France , as to " certain eventualitieB in Switzerland , " ia spoken of , whereat Prussia ( npt being consulted ) tftkea unabrago , \ ¦' . ¦ ' ' ' ' ¦ ¦ 1 '¦ ¦* < r- \ . ¦
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contemporary history ; andr lastly ,, to declare . unambiguously , witHput . any cowardly , . ife ^ jaiical rjefipepce ; wKat he wante from'the ^ nd . wft ^ Thank ' jfeodl and my CQuritry- ; I c ^ n .. fulfil these duties . yUfhsat we , t ^ e rNatiipnaj IlaUan . party , aye , whfti ; we . want , what we hope , what free ^ ng lawipugliit to do , for us , may be frankly stated to an English ^ audience ,, tnthout fear or tacti ^ ianry precautions . "V ^ e haye ; nothing , tp ponceai We v j ^; ^ w rong . p ^ . nght ,.. ^ jiatt ^^ 'p ^ sanguinei in some of pvu * inteliectual views ,, b ' ^ jt we ^ are ,, and , ever ;\ yill be , true —true to others as to purselves . s * J ^ . i ^ ajppmfprt ,. a comfort that soothes even . exile , to be ab | eL'jfco say' 90 in & . twe . { in wfcich all daring ^ of nipra ] i ' s ^ enae ( seems . tp ; , ] ie ex tinct under the atheistical ^ conventional ties 0 / What political , diplomatic , official world T ^ -that fs , of a world the mission of which ought tp be , speaking out-boldly and
powerfully the word of the silent unofficial millions , it is a comfort to me , in a time in which , no statesman ventures to say to , the 1 usurper ' . ath ^ i sipwp door , . ' Ifpu have broken your oath , yoivbayej without , ^ he ' lieast shadow of necessity , and merely for persona , ! ombition ' ^ sake , shot , butchered , transported , pillaged ; , thiexefore ' , we cannot transact business with you ;' , t- ' apd , ' wieja . Tj . ev ^ n , republican manifestoes have prbmuiga ^ efl fr ^ ift Jpam to the wprld the impious doctrines now in course , pf exmatipn , tjiat a fact is to . be accept ^ , tKoug ^ . tfte . rjjghteou 8 ^ J ? denied—to' feel that I can eag ^ y ' sei ^ e ' inw iirat occasion of expressingsumma ^^ thenmn ' sand yieiv-a o £ , tbaJ ^ # ?^ 1 ri ^ oklnartj ^' wllira ^ wp TOt ^ rytp » g r , eay may be remembcrei byeaclxof , you , and prove a test for judging what we have dpne ^ and what we shall endeavour to do . ¦¦ / ¦ ' . ' , " ¦ " ¦ , , 'V " «¦; , ' ' I . ¦ . ' ¦;¦¦ < ' ; " ¦ ¦¦ , r ¦ 1 Fi r ^ t , then , what we are . The rating spirit ; tho general creed—rfor individual exceptions you will not take to accoHnt-r-Tiof pur national party . It is notienoiigh that we have , ond claim a right ; you must know / the direction in which we mean to exercise it . Life is no aaored thing ; unless ifcfulfiK or , struggles kb fulfil , a mwsioin Bight is a mere assumption , unless it springs ifirona the intended accomplishment of a duty , There have < been in theao troubled days 60 many errors engrafted on Jtrathv « o m » ny sects and'hevesiea defacing our own pure religion of Godlike hunmnity ~ nnd there have been-rthere are atSll— -so many calumniea and ocousationa heaped / iutentionolly <> ' not , ; ion Italian liberalism and on myaelf ^ that it his grown impossible to state » imply n > y own belief , hut one fecla bound to declare , firat , what his belief is not . This , then I am going to do , wbriefly and explicitly aa lean . W ° are , not atheiste ,,, unbelieving © r ; sceptical . : Atheism is despair j-sceptioism weakness . ^ nd ; weare , full with hope , faifcb , and energy ,, that nothing , time or events , wiH quench .. Owrwholo life i « , an . appeal , a protest'mgainst - ' brutal , force . To \ whom , if not to : God P , Between God , th , e everlasting truth and fprco—betweea prpvidenco and f ^ tal % -T- ; can ypu find an intermediate safe ground for ft struggling natipnP - We believe in 0 od , as w « beJievo m the final triumph , of justice on , oftrthr ^ as wo believe in an ideal of . perfection , to bo puirewed by , ( raaukiad > » n V mission oft our country towards it j in martyrdom , whiou . has no aense f ; or the godless } in love , . whieh is to mo a bitter irony , i { not a prpmise ^ the bu 4 of immortality . The analysing , disaplving , dissecting materialist 4 owru » of * h « pigUtqentl » c ^ tuxy pa ^ provemiavoida ^ where-¦ 1 , ' ' ' . « . 1 ! > ¦¦» 11 iv ' , u i •¦¦ ' , ¦ 1 / 1 . - . ¦<¦ 1 : u * ' c V ¦'
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 14, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14021852/page/6/
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