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with the recent events in France . One of these , written by a soldier belonging to the 6 th Regiment of Light Infantry , proves that the coup d ' etat of the 2 nd of December , was to have taken place on Saturday , the 1 . 5 th of November . Orders had at that time been Issued , recalling- all the men absent on leave , to their respective regiments ; that the coup d ' etat had been postponed from " the 15 th to the 17 th of November , and then again to the 22 nd . In order to accomplish the coup d ' etat , the regiments had been carefully isolated from each other , and from the people , and then , in the absence of any communication , or means of knowing
the truth , the soldiers had been told , eafch regiment separately , that the army of Paris had declared unanimously for the President against the Assembly ; that their regiment was the onlyone whichhad not pronounced , and it was dangerous for them not to join the rest . The men had then declared their willingness to act with the rest of the army . It is also proved , by the same document , that the 42 nd Foot , commanded by Colonel Espinasse , was the only infantry regiment favourable to Bonaparte . The most murderous orders were given to the troops by certain colonels . " You are about to engage in a sanguinary struggle , " cried Colonel Gardarens , to the men of the 6 th Regiment : " the anarchists and the rabble have sworn to be revenged of their defeat in June , 1848 ; spare no one ; make no prisoners !
You understand-me , no prisoners ! Kill ! kill every man , woman , and child you see in the streets . " A representative having presented himself at the entrance of the Assembly , in the Place de Bourgogne , where the 6 th Regiment was stationed , Colonel Gardarens galloped up to him , and , in a very coarse manner , said , " Now , sir , don't come here propagandizing ! You had better be off , or I will have you laid hold of by four of my men , and put into prison . " '' But , sir / ' replied the representative , " who are you , who thus address me . " "lama Colonel ! " " And 1 , " said the other , " am a representative of the people , and am going to the Assembly . " " A representative ! there are none now ! " " But if there are no representatives there is a constitution—there ; is law \ " " You are mistaken \ there is neither one nor the
other!there are only bayonettes . The same letter also furnishes some curious details as to the manner in which the voting of the army was managed . " Colonel Gardarens first'began by closing the register in which would have been entered the names of those who voted against Bonaparte . ' It is quite useless to keep any such register , as I do not for one moment doubt the enthusiasm of the men whom I have the honour to command . We are the soldiers of Order , let us vote for Order I' He then signed the
book , and passed the pen to the Lieutenant-Colonel and the other officers of his Staff ; to the Captains , Lieutenants , &c . As for the soldiers , as each man answered ' present , ' to the roll-call , his name was entered by the sergeant-major . A corporal having expressed a desire to write his najne in the register himself , in order to see how the thing was done , was denied by the colonel . " This method of election in the army confirms all that has been said about the voting in the rural districts during the election of Louis Bonaparte .
I have something of importance to communicate to you on the subject of the late presidential elections . Tho Emperor of Russia , being anxious to be able to judge of the rumours which had reached him affecting Bonaparte ' s popularity in France , and being desirous of knowing how the elections really did take place , has employed a number of secret emissaries , whose business was to proceed into tho dopartments , to learn the real opinions of the people . Tho reports of tho emissaries unanimously prove that tho peasants generally aro opposed to Bonaparte , that those who had voted for him now regretted it , and that many had not voted at all . Tho result of this information will doubtless bo to influence tho relations of
tho Emperor of Ruhhm and tho northern powers . Tho Cznr has fixed upon holding another conference on this subject , at Warsaw , between Kuhhki , PruHniu , und Austria . It in said that a manifesto w being seriously contemplated , in which , after having laid bare the usurpation and imposture- of Bonaparte , ho would bo p laced beyond tho ]> ulo of tho law \_ liors la lot ] , nnd war would bo declared ( againnli hini . Tho invaiMion of Franco by tho allied powers would follow tho manifesto . Tho pretext would bo porwuml hostility to JJonnpnrto , tho real motive , the re-establishment of tho Bourbons on tho throne of franco . The Com to do
Charnbord , it is said , has recently received nn atwuniuco to that effect . Ho in ubout to proceed from Frolwdoril to Wiesbaden , to receive tho homage of the LegiliuiifcitB , to whom ho will point out , viva voce , the lino of conduct they must follow in future . This clever inanaiuvrc compols ovory Legitimist openly to come forward at onco , and take a part in tho grand driunu which it ) being prepared . From this timo thoro will be a Lo .
gitimist Army and a Legitimist General . The Princes of Orleans , as representing the hitherto dissidents , will be the first to render homage to the King of France . They will be followed by the rest of the Orleanists . * While the storm gathers , Bonaparte is philosophically enjoying life . This new Louis XV , has installed his JDuoarry > Miss Howard , hi the Palace of Saint Cloud . It is there he proposes to spend thesummer with her . Gotill 6 nIV . vf \\\ give a series of fetes , at Avhicli the faithful will be allowed to assist . It was at one of these fetes
last week Bonaparte and his roue intimates—SaintArnaud , Maupas , the Comte d'Orsay , Lavalette , and De Morny , each man bringing his mistress—enacted the most frightful orgies . Everything which frenzied debauchery can conceive was perpetrated . It would shock your English ears to hear what has perhaps happened a score times already since the 2 nd of December . All Paris knows of the soirees of Madame Lehon , Morny ' s mistress . We are too well accustomed to the eccentricities of the entourage , to be surprised at the orgies of Saint Cloud .
A vast system of espionage is organized throughout France , the ramifications of which extend to the small towns and villages- —" where , " says the circular creating a large addition to the number of the commissaries of police , " the spirit of hostility and anarchy still holds its ground . " We have now the police of thegensdarmes , the police of the commissaries , the police of spies arid Informers , and the police at the post office . France is now a complete net-work of police and espionage . The effect of this deplorable state of things is to destroy all private confidence . There is safety nowhere , —neither
with relations nor friends . All conversation is completely stopped . In the salons of the fashionable world , at the least word bearing upon political matters the guests withdraw in fear , as though they were about being seized by gensdarmes , to be conveyed to Lainbessa or CayenneV The only confidences made are within doors , between sworn friends . Yet notwithstanding all these obstacles , pamphlets and letters circulate in Paris with extraordinary rapidity . Every man has four or five trustworthy friends , to whom he communicates , or from whom he receives all the news .
These , in their turn , have other friends . An invisible chain links these persons together , and it requires but a moment for any information to reach from one end of the chain to the other . In the provinces , however , the government measures destroy these facilities of communication ; for if two persons are seen much together they become the object of administrative rigours , and are immediately placed under the surveillance of the police , From that moment an agent of police fastens himself on their footsteps , and follows them like a shadow . It happened thus at Metz , where
several persons belonging to the advanced democratic section have been placed under the eye of the police Incredible difficulties attend the leaving or returning to France . Women , who had hitherto been allowed to move about without passports , have been deprived oi this privilege . Two ladies were arrested in Havre last Friday , and inarched through the streets of tho town in the custody of seven gensdarmes , because they had not provided themselves with passports for England . The transportations are still going on . The steamship , La Ville de Bordeaux , has just embarked 24 political prisoners for Lainbessa .
While Louis Bonaparte is revelling in wealth and debauchery , Lamartino is suffering the privations of poverty in Paris , and the furniture of Victor Hugo is being sold . Tho warnings" to tho press still continue . The JSmancipateur of Cambrny having presumed to say that tho new reduced tnx upon wine had not brought any relief to tho people ( it having been shown that tho diminution only amounts to one per cont . ) , the prefect went a " warning" to the imprudent journalist , accusing him of endeavouring to throw odium upon tho President . The Auhe haw also had " warning 1 , " for having paid that M . Montaleinbort desired the postponement of
tho law on education , but that some ono more powerful was of a different mind . Tho prefect saw in the last phrase " an allusion and insinuation too evident for tho Government to tolerate . " Tho sumo pupor had Haid that , according to Bonaparte ' s constitution , tho budget must bo voted'before the 29 th of June , otherwise tho Government would disponso with the consent of the Legislative Body . Tho prefect accused the Auhe for tlicso statements , " of lmving lowered the dignity of ono of the great powers of the Mate , and of having endeavoured to " attach to tho government of tho lYince-PreHidont an allegation , tho principle of which , if true , would provo tho arbitrary substitution of ono power by another . " Ah though Bonaparte hud allowed
any such consideratiors to weigh with him on the 2 nd of December ! . ¦ ¦' , -. ¦ The Legislative Body will , on the 15 th or 16 th of . Tune , discuss the budget . Many reforms , as I have -already told you , have been introduced into it by the committee . But we have yet to see whether the Legislative Body will adopt ' them . It has been clearly shown that the floating fe ^ amounts to 750 millions , not 520 millions , as had been stated by the Government . It has also been proved that the deficit for 1853 , estimated by the Government at 30 millions , will in reality exceed 85 millions . Louis Bonaparte knew very well he was
attemptingbarefaced imposition upon the nation , as proved bv his intention to levy 70 millions of additional taxes 1 , A duty on dogs ; 2 , A duty on horses and carriages 3 , A duty on domestic servants ; 4 , A new tax on sugar The three first are calculated to bring in 10 millions and the last 60 millions . By this means the defici t would be nearly covered , and the revenue increased to 1500 millions to suit the convenience of M . Bonaparte . The Elysee is extraordinarily tenacious of having these 70 millions ; and , to such an extent , that , in spite of the constitution , the Legislative Body will meet again in October for T the purpose of voting the new taxes by which they are to be raised .
The Government , seeing the end of the seBsicm at hand , has quickly expunged from the " project of law , " on the departmental and communal administration , the clauses relating to the nomination of general and municipal councillors . The " resignations " which continue to come in , threaten to leave the departments and communes without any local government whatever ; to obviate this inconvenience , Bonaparte proposes to assume the right of selecting from a list three persons , chosen by universal suffrage ^ the councillors rer quired to fill the vacancies in the departments and communes . S .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . ENGLISH EDITOBS PROSECUTED IN" PAEIS , BY PBOXY . The most prominent fact in the Parisian news of the week is the invitation to the correspondent of the Daily News , and of two other London dail y papers ( the Chronicle and Advertiser ) , to visit the Director of the Press at the Prefecture de Police . The Director * M . latour Dumoulin , received them , we are told ; with the most perfect courtesy . He stated that the tone of correspondence , and of the leading articles traceable to that correspondence , lias become so outrageous in its attacks on tho " elect of eig ht millions , " that the French . Government can no longer tolerate such an abuse . That , however willing to allow tho English correspondents to send news , and even to furnish them with early and exclusive information forbidden to French and continental journals—however indisposed to deprecate opposition—it would not suffer tho name of the " chief of the state" to bo « dragged in- tho mire . " The correspondent of tho Daily News eays , ne Was then given to understand that if either tho Paris letter of the Daily News , or the leading articles of that paper , contained any expressions outraging the person of tho Prince-President , ho would be considered as the responsible person , and bo forthwith expelled from Franco . It « was found that this measure did not suffico to put an end to tho practice of insulting tho head of tho French , state > in the English press , it would then become tbo duty ot tno French Government to deliberate upon what further
measures would be necessary . . , Tho correspondent explained how completely foreign io tho political direction of tho * journal was bis ottice , ana that tho true remedy of tho nggrioved Government lav either in an English court of Jaw , as in ¦ tho tanporor fl case , or in diplomatic representations . But M . Jjfttour Duinoulin concluded by declining to accept tho " responsibility of correspondents . So the first blow a * the Ungiisn press is struck .
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Wo briefly alluded in our last number to an ofl ^™ article in tho Constant ionnd , by Granior do ^ "S * threatening Belgium with a war of tariffH , if not of cnrinon , and even tho closing of tho frontiers and ports ot Jjwnto agninrt all trade with that kingdom , if tbo Belgian oicu tors did not , at tho approaching elections , choono uuu dates opposed to their present Ministry and favoura » i » tho prcwont Government of Franco , < o which « 10 n 1 "" . nanco in of lice of a liberal Kolgiun cabinet would De conn dorod on act of hostility . . ry , rii , linfc Tho Belgian Minintor in 1 ' ar is made a formal com wu m of thin insult to nn independent fltato , and w « 8 nil on by tho MiniHtor of Foreign Aflhirs that , iih tho Mo ™ ' ° m wiko tlia onlv olfioial orurun of the Government , ho *> i
plaint could bo founded on an article m . tJio ; m «> tionnoh Last Saturday , however , M . Gramor rot'Um tho ehnrgo , declaring < hat it was not in his own wi » ' he had writton ; but that , boforo venturing on «» fc arid clolioato a mibject , ho lmcl taken euro to a " \ " it o (\ tho Bohlimoutfl of tho Chief of tlio State . " Me oven inn _ tho Belgian MiniHtor , if ho uhould Uavo any douOt tm ^ Hubioot , to iiHcerluin their correctness by w PPv i « ith tlio President ; hiinaoU . Such an aflirmation , cowlw w ' ^ Prcmdonffl lAuno , compollod tho Belgian MinwMa i ^ muwl fur ( , hor nnd more categorical exp lanations ,, w Sunday lust tho Jlfo »«< w » v contoinoiHlip Jollow »» b ' xnunicated paragi'aph : — ii .: i ,,, <« to lh ° " It in very natural that pooplo should ft «»^ " biab aovernmont the ideas put forth by the journtUfl w »
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* Wo havo good reason to lioliovo that , tho Ftisiori in Iohh in favour ut Oluremout than at Frohedorf . — [ Ep . of Jjeadet . l
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Leader (1850-1860), June 12, 1852, page 556, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1939/page/8/
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