NAMES.
" Call every thing by its right name."—Mrs. HAMILTOX ; fourth Rule.
WE have, like our contemporaries, designated the late changes in France a revolution, but they were, in fact, no revolution at all. The King would have produced a revolution, for his object was to remodel the whole machinery of government; but the people fought not to change, but to preserve from change. In this respect the late extrusion of the elder branch, differs essentially' from the extrusion of the whole of the Bourbon family in 1793. !Then, the nation fought for conquest; the fight of the Three. Days was a fight for maintenance of possession. This consideration not only ren- ders the case of the French wholly inapplicable to the case of the English Reformers, with which some thinking and some unthink- ing men would confound it, (for the English Reformers ask for a new thing--the Fren.ch.only. asked to keep the old,) but it renders the recognition of the existing French Government a matter of facility to all the allies of the last. The treaties of one nation with another are not personal to the Kings of those nations ; and where the framework of the constitution and of the laws remains untouched, the removal of a family or of a dynasty for incapacity or wickedness, ought no more to disturb the peaceful relations formerly entered into, than ought the removal of an individual by any of the common accidents of humanity.
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