The Count de Chambord, last of the French Bourbons of
the elder branch, on 9th December issued a sort of manifesto to his party. It is in the form of a letter to General de St. Priest, and informs him that the year has not been fortunate for France, she having allowed two vast States to form upon her frontiers, and having deserted the Pope. "Soon," says "Henri Cinq," "it will be logically demanded that all notion of God shall disappear from our laws and our tribunals." The remedy is of course "a power founded on hereditary monarchy, respected in its principle and its action, without weakness, as without caprice ; a representative government in its vigorous vitality ;" and all manner of other political benefits, which it is tacitly assumed the legitimate Sove- reign would bestow. Of course lie promises " conciliation " for all parties, and is ready, if called by France, "to save, or perish with her." The Emperor's Government have forbidden the publi- cation of this document, but they might safely have left it to the Parisians. They are not accustomed to believe in much, and cer- tainly will not believe in the capacity of a Bourbon to defeat Prussia, dismember Italy, replace the Pope, and secure the "grandeur of the destinies of France."
