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984 THE LEADER. [Saturday,
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CONTINENTAL NOTES. Bordeaux, the most se...
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saviour and her glory , proclaims him Emperor by the style and title of NAPOLEON III ., and confers upon him and his descendants the hereditary Crown . Observe , at the date of this proclamation the town of Sevres had not even voted . At Belleville , too , registers of votes have been opened to proclaim Bonaparte Emperor Napoleon III . A word apropos of this " style and title . " A serious discussion has taken place in the Council of Ministers on the subject . The old Bonapartists { de la veille ) , with Persigny at their head , proposed the title of NAPOLEON III . The adherents latelv rallied to the
cause ( Bonapartists du lendemain ) , such as Fould , Drouin de l'Huys , Barochc , proposed a new title , one which would entail no traditional engagements , and , in short , get rid , once for all , of the heavy baggage and lumber of the old Empire . They wanted Louis Bonaparte to take the title of LOUIS NAPOLEON I . The votes of the Council were equal ; . but , to cut the matter short , Persigny sent his instructions to the Prefects and to the Moniteur , and since that day the Mayors have opened registers of votes in favour of Napoleon III ,, and the Moniteur , ceasing to register the cries of Vive V'Empereur , has no cry but Vive Napoleon 'III .
The form of reception to the President on his return to Paris has also created discussion in the Council of Ministers . The pure Bonapartists were all for a reception of a military and warlike character , while the rallied adherents feared that a purely military spectacle would revive all the old bellicose traditions of the Empire in the heart of the army and of the population . To escape the risk of being carried away by events , it has been decided that the reception shall be pacific .
Instead of twenty triumphal arches , representing each one of our grand and immortal battles , there will only be one of that character on the Pont d'Austerlitz . The course of the triumph is also changed . There will be no " Te Deum" at Notre Dame , and the procession will pass along the Boulevards instead of the Quays . As the National Guard of Paris , purged as it is , is still disaffected , the National Guard of the banlieiie of the Seine et Oise , and of the Seine et Marne , composed of the most barbarous peasantry in France , is convoked to stifle any manifestation of the city force . All the mayors of three departments are summoned as in the provincial programmes .
Bonaparte will make bis triumphal entrj" on Saturday , October 1 G , at the head of fifty-two squadrons of cavalry . These fifty-two squadrons , making a total of 7 , 000 horse , arc announced by a loud flourish of trumpets in the official journals , to excite the ardent curiosity of the populace , and to fix the public gaze on the passage of the Hero with awe and wonder . The rest of the army of Paris , namely , 43 , 000 infantry , will keep the ground , with 100 , 000 national guards of the three departments .
J he Society of the Tenth of December is summoned to attend in full numbers . A coup de theatre is expected from these gentlemen . They burn to proclaim Bonaparte Emperor ofl-hand , and , it is believed they will take the horses out of his carriage and drag the triumphal car of their hero to the Palace of the Ttiileries .
I he Nenafe is convoked to assist at the ceremony . There are some who uflirin that immediately after the proclamation by the Decembraillnrds , the Senate without anv further deliberation , will declare the Empire to be . tin ? national will , and that Bonaparte should henceforth assume ! the title of lOinperor . In that cast ; his carriage would be dragged to Notre Daine , where indeed , notwithstanding counter-orders , great , preparations are continued . Then ? u " Te Deum" would be chanted in honour of the proclamation of the lOinpiro . The Corps Lcgislatif has not , been summoned : what could it do ? its services are not , required . The Senate ; alone has a part , to pl : iy in the comedy . Cr / a , dit tout . A word about , what has been going on in the heart of the true France all this while . Arrests en wassc .
At Lyons , during the . President ' s visit , seventy-seven persons were arrested , of whom thirty-live still remain in prison . At , IVlonf . nuban , eighteen ; all persons under political surveillance . Besides these eighteen , four other persons in that , ( own were arrested on account , of their known advanced opinions . A I , Carcassonne ( wcnly five muskets and twelve individuals were . seized . The journals of the Puy < le Dome inform us ( hat a great number of
political arrests have taken place , in the Haute Loire : among of , hern iVI . Audcard , arrested at his house , and M . St . Fcrriol , brother of the representative of the people . Four persona in the Kuro have been severally confined ( i / i / rrncx )) at , Dijon , Mezieres , St . l ! riene , and Napoleon Vendee . These " individuals are three alforiieyK and a bookseller . They were under suroeiUancc , and consequently under obligation to appear a certain number of iiuiob in the . month at the Prefecture . They nro guilty
of having bad enough of personal dignity to refuse to submit to such an inquisition . A man has been arrested in Paris for having threatened to kill Bonaparte on his return . In a Cafe on the Boulevard des Italiens , two young men took the liberty to talk politics audibly . The police warned the proprietor , of the Cafe that his establishment would be closed if he continued to allow politics to be talked at his house . So that the cafetiers are converted into police agents ! Many more municipal councils have been dissolved , for having refused to vote an address to Bonaparte on the occasion of the Marseilles conspiracy . S .
984 The Leader. [Saturday,
984 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
Continental Notes. Bordeaux, The Most Se...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . Bordeaux , the most servile and politically corrupt city in France , has only been faithful to its traditions in falling down a prostrate worshipper before the rising sun . It was Bordeaux that in 1814 welcomed the English with enthusiasm : Bordeaux , the legitimist city , that feted with ardour the princes of the House of Orleans in 1845 . Bordeaux , that in 1848 accepted the Republic like a crouching slave , and then was the first to sow reaction and distrust . Bordeaux in 1852 , is fiercely Bbnapartist . In the spring of ' 48 there were merchants of Bordeaux who deliberated whether to place the Gironde under the British protectorate , or to establish a federal republic . The political creed of Bordeaux is—open shops and plenty of business : material comforts : vive anything or anybody you will ! At no more fitting place could Louis Bonaparte have thrown off the mask , and accepted the Imperial crown . The President ' s really able and dexterous speech at the dinner of Chamber of Commerce was as follows : — " I accept with eagerness the opportunity afforded me by the Bortleaux Chamber of Commerce for thanking your great city for its cordial reception and its magnificent hospitality , and I am happy at the end of my journey to communicate t he impressions I have received . . " The object of my tour , as you are well aware , was to make myself acquainted , by personal observation , with the beautiful provinces of the south , and to ascertain their real wants . It has , however , led to a far more important result .
"I may say , indeed , with a candour as far removed from pride as from false modesty , that never did a people more directly , more spontaneously , more unanimously , testify a determination to free itself from all uneasiness respecting the future , by placing in the same hands as heretofore a power which , sympathizes with its feelings . ( Applause . ) " The people has now at last learned to value at their price , the false hopes with which it has been cajoled , and the dangers with which it was threatened . It seems , then , that in 1852 society approached its dissolution , becauso each party consoled itself with the belief that amid the general wreck it might still plant its standard on the floating fragments . ( Sensation , and cries of ' Vive V Kmpcrcur ! ' )
' ¦ Now that its eyes are opened to absurd theories , tho people has acquired the conviction that those pretended . Reformers were mere visionaries , inasmuch as there has always been a disproportion and a want of con sequence between their expedients and the promised result . ( Loud applause , and cries of ' True , true ! ' ) " At present , the nation surrounds me with its sympathies , because I do not belong to the family of tho Ideologista . To promote the welfare of the country , it is not necessary to apply new systems , but , tho chief point , above all , is to produce confidence in the present , and security for the future . For these reasons , it scorns Franco desires ' a return to the Umpire . ( 'Yes , yes ! ' prolonged applause , ' Viva I'' Kmpcnur / ' )
" There is one objection to which I must reply . Certain minds seem to entertain a dread of war ; certain persons nay , the Umpire is only war ; but I say , the Kmpiro in peace ( sensation ) , for Itrance desires it , and , when France ? is satisfied , tin ? world is tranquil . [ These ; words , uttered in a firm voice , mid with strong emphasis , produced n magical ell ' ecL Enthusiastic bravos were heard from all sides . ] " Glory descends by inheritance , but not war . Did tho princes , who justly felt , pride that they were the grandchildrcn of Louis XIV ., recommence his wars ?
" War is not made for pleasure , but through necessity ; and at this epoch of transition , when ? by the ? side of so many elements of prosperity spring ho many causes of death , we iimy truly May , -Woe bo to him who gives the first , signal to a collision , the consequences of which would be incalculable . ( Long and profound f . ' ensal ion . ) " I confess , however , that , like tho Kmperor , I have many conquests to make . I wish , like him , to conquer , by conciliation , all hostile parties , and to bring into tin ? grand popular current those hostile streams which now lose themselves without profit to any one . ( Applause . ) " I wish to restore to religion , morality , and opulence , that still numerous part , of the population which , though in the bosom of the most fertile country in the world , can ncurrely' obtain the common necessaries of life . ( Sonf at ion . )
" We hnve- immense waste territories to cultivate , roads to open , ports to dig , rivers to render navigable , a system of railroads l . o complete ; we have opposite to Marseilles a vast , kingdom which wo must assimilate to Franco ; wo Iiiivo to la-ing all our great western ports into connexion with tho American continent by a rapidity of communication which we ktill want ; lastly , wo liavo ruins to restore , false godn ( , o overthrow , and truths to bo made triumphant . ( Prolonged applause . ) ' Thin i . i IlioHonsc which I attach to tho Umpire , if I ho Umpiro iH to bo restored , ( Cries of ' Vine . V ICmpormtr ! ' ) " Such are tho conquest )* which 1 contemplate , and all you who uurround mo , and who , like me , dosiro your
country's welfare—you are my soldftre ! (' Tea , yes ' - * , ™ longed applause . ) " ' P * - lhis speech has been placarded over Paris and ; n n the communes of France . ' a " The correspondent of the Morning Chronicle writ ™ . I learn from a gentleman who was at Bordeaux ™ C ~ the speech was d « jhrered , that the published speech { 71 ** precisely the same as the one spoken . One very imnor ^ modification has been made . Some allusion was niaoW Bordeaux to the treaties of 1815 , every word of which V been suppressed . I may as well mention also that in tt copy given last night by the Government agent in porif the words occurred of ' Malheur a celui qui le premieZ donnerait en " Europe le signal d ' une coalition ; ' while in the speech published in the Moniteur the word ' coalition '
is changed into ' collision . ' If the Government scribe made a blunder , it must be said that he chose a blunder which was likely to give satisfaction . It will be also re marked that Louis Napoleon , in speaking of Algeria , speaks of it as iin vaste Hoyaume . This word seems to confirm the report to which I alluded some days ago , that the title he is to take is that of Napoleon . III ., Empereur des Franqais et Hoi d'Algerie Louis Napoleon has not said one word which can be considered as binding upon him with respect to the European Powers . His language towards them is pretty much like the
Constitution which he published after the coup d ' etat , as regards France , and in which all the guarantees were in his own favour , and none in favour of the liberties of the country . He now tries to place the European Powers in the wrong if they should attack him , but he does not say one wora which guarantees them against his aggressions . In truth the Emperor Napoleon went further in his promises in 1801 , when he assumed the Empire , for he declared that not one of the States of Europe would ever be incorporated in the French Empire ; and every one knows how the promise was kept .
The Independance of Brussels ( Tuesday ) says , " Nothing has as yet been settled respecting the new Cabinet ; it is therefore an error on the part of a contemporary to announce the Ministry constituted on the 8 th . " The Pays gives a hint to the new Belgian Ministry that it will be expected to control severely the Belgian press , and to prevent attacks on Louis Napoleon . The Cholera in Central Europe seems to have almost disappeared . The last accounts from Silesia , Posen , and the province of Prussia are satisfactory . It was everywhere decreasing . The King of Hanover has undertaken to mediate between the Cabinets of the Coalition States and Berlin , and to endeavour to prevent a total break up of the Zollverein . At all events the King has resolved to adhere to the treaty with Prussia .
Queen Marie Ame'lie of Orleans and her son the Prmce do Joinville have been received at Mayence with royal
salutes . The Russian Minister at Florence , M . de Eeumont , has been making efforts to obtain the release of the Madiai . The Grand Duke affected to feel gieat indignation at this interference with his prerogative . The Grand Duke , says a recent letter , remained silent for some time , and then changed the conversation to—what think you P—the wonder working powers of the image of the Santissima Annunziata ; upon which M . de lteurnont , finding he could obtain no further answer , took up his hat , and with a profound bow left the palace . You may judge from this what chances of success await the deputation coining Mher in tho hope of awakening in tho mind of the Grand Duke some respect for tho rights of conscience . The Grand Duke has surrendered himself body and soul to the Jesuits , and is now little more , than a police agent to the " V uii
Court ,. In fact , but a short time ago lie astonisneu . Cabinet by proposing to become the first sbirro of Ins own dominions , and take the entire direction of tho pohco into his own bands . This project , was onl y defeated by tiio Austrian Minister , whom it did not suit to part witli ma share of that department . , The Guerrazzi trial drags its slow leng th along , anu i » felt to be an egregious blunder . Had < ho proscc . iti . ) boon confined to acts committed nfter the flight oi u «> Grand Duke , and tho formation by Uuerrazzi oi a invisional Government , a plausible ease might have i > Gurrrazzi isthat no <¦ '
got up , but tho charge against , ¦ mired to overthrow tho Constitution ; im « l no w > p li « iry l blind the world to tho fact , that this very olmrpo i . i ono to which tho Grand Duke hiniHolf is the most a " nablo . Kvery vestige of tho Constitution which 1-copoiu ^ nwore on tho crucifix to maintain , has , sinoo Ins reuu the bead of an Austrian force , been formally aiioiia In like violation of solemn engagement , the AuHt . rni » _ veriunont continues to pour fresh troops into 1 ut- J ^ mid it is now reported that it has obtained from <<>•; ' Duke the accession of Tuscany to tl »<> Austrian » ' 1 JH horn
League . If ho , farewell to our trade with Leg - ^ The sitting of the Koyal Court of Florence , of "" V ^ was entirely taken up with G uerrazyi ' n e \ p <• - !• ' . 'flio incident on this day's trial oxcilo ' d Home , a tei . tioir . President objected to Guerruzzi that his military |» t ^ lions against Austria might be considered , n >< > - ^ f , _ least , as intended to prevent the restoration ol ''' ' ' . '• tl , e it boiii" natural to foresee that AuHtrin , on ol ) « r ^^ victory , would havo replaced that I ' riuce <» n '" anHW ,, r To this Guorrnzzi replied- " Hir , allow me n <) 1 . | iurl ,, l this question , for I did not believe , Hint < ho . «•"" , | lll ( i I tho Grand Ihiko was to bo effected by A" * ' ' ; i t tlH I believed it , 1 should have thought it my < luiy did . " Tho court then adjourned . , ¦ , || ic The examination of Guorrazzi was conom " ( illi iiitil .
Count Nessolrudo has arrived at Vienna- , | 1 J ) OI 1 The succession to the Tlnono of ( -Ireoeo is - ^ , IVineo Adalbert of . Huvaria , tho y oun ^ 'H ' Ultt ' ¦ for reigninif King , who has adopted tho Unm * »« h . , ^ J , o tl . it Prince tho hand of tho l > rinoe » Ww « » »«« served .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 16, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16101852/page/4/
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