The Times correspondent in Paris makes a great deal of
the dismissal by the French Government of the Marquis de Monte- bello, Ambassador at St. Petersburg. The causes appear to have been the favour shown by the Marquis to General Lords Bonaparte, the most dangerous of that family, though not technically a "Pretender," and the imprudent language of the Marchioness about the Government her husband represents.
The Marquis is exceedingly irate at his treatment, and repu- diates energetically a rumour that he has resigned. It is alleged by his friends that the Government has determined to get rid of all aristocratic diplomatists in high places, and there seems to be some ground for the assertion, the Adminis- tration finding that while such Ambassadors are devoted to their country, they are by no means devoted to the Republic. It is a pity, for diplomacy was one of the few careers in France still open to men of birth or belonging to the Monarchical parties; but we do not suppose that the "Hanoverian" Ministers would have tolerated active Jacobites as their representatives. Republics, as well as dynasties, seek agents who sympathise with them in feeling, or at least conceal hostility to the regime under which they live. M. Bompard, who succeeds the Marquis de Montebello, is said to be unusually skilful in commercial and financial negotiation.
