The Pays is in a great state of mind. It
appears that a meeting of Reds has been held in London, in which the Emperor Napoleon has been declared hors la loi, and therefore, as the Pays thinks, liable to assassination. Thereupon the writer, supposed usually to he demi-official, thunders against England and Belgium, declares that "the right of asylum cannot be confounded with the right of impunity," and bids the Queen of England and King of the Belgians beware. " You have allowed your capital cities, London and Brussels, to become the refuge of assassins, and to rival Algiers and Tunis, as they were of old, in harbouring all our political pirates." And then Leopold is reminded of the death of Maximilian, and the Queen of her son's "assassination." "King of the Belgians and Queen of England, Providence judges you." Are we to have another series of Colonels' letters in the Moniteur ? or is France seeking a quarrel with Belgium ? or is the Pays "frozen," as the Americans say, for a sensation ?
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