a position i hostility of the press, have served merely to
secure for M. DE POLIGNAC T n which he can be assailed by arguments and abuse of a ti somewhat new kind, whilst it has deprivedhim of the benefit of part- ners in the popular odium. While M. DE LA BOURDONNAYE was in ration of tranquillity in Europe, their deputies were denied access ; and office, we were told that he and BOURMONT were the blemishes of the the only resolution agreed to on the subject by the assembled Monarchs, France—has divested his Cabinet of all its moral weight, and deprived or consenting to the late changes, his ruined himself and betrayed the country of its only bulwark against the encroachment of British a Provisional V1L LE LE ; but it is now admitted by all that La BouanoNerAYE's retire- the Prime Minister. t Crown, has been rejected by the electors ; and as the power of the done. On the accession of NICHOLAS, the Duke of WALLINGTON Ministry declines, their jealousy of revolutionary principles is stated to increase. Shopkeepers have been fined for having the picture of puree NAPOLEON in their possession, and other absurdities of the same sort protocol of April 1826 was the consequence. In the autumn of that have been enacted.
aspect of affairs. Minister, METTERNICH, in December 1826, while he praised the spirit " Let M. de Polignac not deceive himself—M. de la Bourdonnaye was the of the protocol, declared that Austria would not sanction the employ- only power in his Ministry—a power which would have destroyed every thing went either of force or menace against Turkey ; and Count BERNS- if it had been brought into action ; but it was power given by M. de la Bour- TORFF, in January 1827, with more reason, declined any interference donnayc's skill in debating, and by the twenty-five or thirty votes that he on the part of Prussia, because of its geographical position, and the can dispose of. advantage that might result to all parties from possessing in her an " In the Home Department the doubles of M. de la Bourdonnaye and M. de unprejudiced and disinterested umpire. The negotiations between Villele remain ; in the Foreign Departnent we have the Duke of Wellington's and the Prince de Metternich's pupils. The King is fortunately there, and London and Paris were renewed in the spring ' he will remove those who would shackle the liberty or lessen the glory of the the French people having now been kindled in behalf of Greece, the. country." disinclination of the Ministers to negotiate was beaten down, and A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, who assures its readers the treaty of July was signed. Admirals CODRINGTON and DE RIGNY that he knows the state of France better than any other man, asserts were already in the Mediterranean, where they were joined by Count that the days of Monarchy in that country are numbered ; that affairs HEYDEN in August. Secret instructions, dated the 12th July, were are driving on towards Republicanism ; and that a revolution more transmitted to Admiral CODRINGTON, by which he was directed to complete than that of 1789 is in rapid progress towards development. enforce a suspension of hostilities by sea, and to .prevent the landing of How I his may be, we cannot pretend to say. Those, indeed, among reinforcements from Asia, the Dardanelles, or Africa,on the coast of con the French themselves who guide and represent public opinion, seem tinental Greece, the Morea, or neighbouring islands. On the 4th Sep- t() trust a goad deal to the chapter of accidents, and whatever be their tember, these instructions were enlarged by the Ambassadors at Con. system, to show a good deal of the slipperiness of rhetoricians in the stantinople, to the prevention of all hostile expeditions from one port
