Last week, President Bonaparte told - the French People that he
would net seek to beimlide Emperor unless the " enenues of order" aonniellea him to atannie the dignity in self-defence: Rumours 04104-this week in hkown journal; of attempts to reorganize the secret societies, and an expectationof new arrests pervading Paris; have excited suspicions that he is preparing to be forced to crown himself. -It may be asked, Would hehe'more abSolute as Emperor than he is as President ? Perhaps not but he Would coirreit-"ti ten years lease into nlife-tenine ; would establish a .dynasty,; with the right Of hereditary 'succession'; niight aid by Marriage his re- cognition' as one of the corporation of European sovereigns ; might perhaps, were the Great-Powers Of Europe to evince disinclination to his aggrandizement, arouse the torpid nationality of Frenchmen in his favour: Meanwhile, the President or Emperor, or whatever he is Or is to' be, having attired the legislators of France in suitable liveries' is devising 'uniforms for the subordinate .functiona•ies of government ; and -havieg, received the oaths of fidelity of the Senate an'a Legislatiie -Body,' has -issued a decree to regulate the manner in which all other, functionaries, down to gardes champe-- tres and auctioneers,. Shall take theirs. Strange, that a man who set so little store by his Own Oath to maintain the late constitution should'expect anything-from the oaths of others to maintain' his'
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