LETTERS FROM PARIS, BY 0. P. Q. No. IV. 14.F.

THAI'S LAID BY TN E tioLy. ALLTANCE, OR AN AlTEMPT TO AlAKE AN INataRRECITON IN SAVOY.

TO, THE EDVIOR THE SPF.CTATOR.

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Inperi, lint from residence areal cl,, o:;scrvati,-ti, will not liar: to di.pnt.,. That CHARLES ALIIERT, the Kim; of Sardinia, and the Duke of Pielnamt and Sitvoy, has broken f dill with his subjects—has deceived them mos: aro-sly—has violatol all the roans anal oaths he made when Prince C on a a N —IRIS left the liberal mind enlig !ached portion of his former frieenla and rouncillona, who advised him to grant popular and elective institutions to Piedinoat and to Savoy, and has now become the mere tool or pup- pet ,if the Prince HE :METTERNICH :1O11 the Emperor FRANCIS—were incontea- tilde and well-known facto Nor is it has true, that the once-promised antresty has nut been granted ; that the most enlightened and generous slants of Pie I- mam are still banished from their native Land; that an inpusiterial police keeps Turin in order, simply through fear and by means of bayonets and force ; aid that the army as well an the people are dissatisfied with dear condition, and sigh for freedom and for light. 'file readers of the .Spectator will also remem- ber, that twice since the accession of Prince na CARIGNAN 111 the throne, se- rum's disturbances have 'metal) out nautili; the troops of the King of Sardinia 'nul Piedmont ; and these disturbances were encouraged and excite:I by Austrian emit:aries, who travelled under Austrian protection, and with Austrian money, in order, first, to induce C'tr :antis ALBERT to abandon for ever his former liberal friends and opinions, and to attach him to Austria; second, in order to afford a pretext for the occupation of Piedmont and Savoy by Austrian troops; third, in order to prevail on CH.% it ILES ALBERT to enter into the pripesed plan of an Italian Confederation ; and fourth, in order to supply eara :es to the Au-tram, to-itia nual Prussian clot:et:a:dors at the Courts of St. lielies'a :nil the Tuileries,14 the maintenance of Large armies iu those CE1171- tri _ler their demands that ail tioliticallefoaanis in la atone shotial be putt under :he most rand sarveillance - a' ffinaily, in t.r,lor to impress on the Pr: tislt and , Cabinets the datig,ir etwoura7,itit any 'Ulna like agoar rous, liberal, or ca, dazing system of foreign AS tit at we're ije fur its orcupatioa Pru,siau and att triaa two, ,.—as the !• ercrIONS is the Stitei. seas Biaile the pea text for the oecilleeit n of Panel and alodetta by A list ram I-tacos—as tile:revolt in Basle noel Scliwitz was sciaial held of as a motive for the apartancli of an Austrian atter to the frontiers of switzerland ;—so the defection of tine troops of CHARLES ALBERT in le 13, and the discovery of a plot in Pa:dine:it, gut up among the soldiers IVR.I pre- sented to the Caul t of Turin as a sufficient ground for the (mention of an itnlian C nfolcoatinn, over which Austria should preside, and to which, if the ..111;Z of ;soraudit has not already ru r ed, Sue will not now hesitate to assent. At the moment at which I ant writing, the liberties of Germany are being attacked at Vienna ; the independence of the Press, the Tribune, and the con- stinitioits of the smaller states are being cenfiscated; and Russia, Austria, and Prussia, have been therefore getting tip a teat of diversion to the current of I hought and feeling,—with the attention, first, of distracting the public atten- tion from Vienna and Germany ; second, of supplying a sort of apt logy for these cruel and barbarous measures. by pointing to Savoy and Piedmont, and saying Ilehold the Revolutionists!-" and third, of yet further seducing CHARLES A LIIERT, who was once so libesal and is OW so tyrannical, from all his former associations and partisans, anti thetahy of rendering more easy e a establishment

of an Con.f deration.

The attempt which has rseenjust male to effect a ItsvFnuro at to SasoT, is

Paris, nth Feartrara 11a3-t.

Sae • in a recent letter, I spoke to yes of those who, though sincere and :w- him, are ill-advised and weak lovers of the great cause of social anti political reaenet ation. Their want of taet—their ignorance—their non-adaptation of the let hat to the m ttttt mit when action is :Wail:dile—prove that they are •wholly in-

capable of leaching great tmwetnents, are thus, practically speaking, enemies nttlit•I than frietak of the cause they mast sincerely desire to serve.

The hisiary of the past three years lila preached its with several examples of

this sett of fricitallv treason, whet,. a good curse is injured by the officious zeal oat tintitnailv alaattr of very honourable but mistaken men. The insurrectional nowenteet made on the frontiers of Sprain in 1,0) by VA Lori. and MINA—the tumults led rising at Fran irt- on-thia Maine in It432—the mad ernerprise: of the Polish refugees who left Ft note and Germany in 1833, to effect a new revo. Intioa on the hanks of the Vistula. awl afterwaols to rouse the inhabitants of the smaller Gentian States to nivoltelan, and which was to be commenced and en- Crilriaell in Switztoland--and the rash and undigested attempt to estabash a Repablic in France in IS32, which led to the putting of Paris into a state of siege—are among some of the most sat iking, illuatrationa of the oath of arty open- ing °boort/ion ; and have read and love will read to tn, the sail lesson, that It good, promiaima, and forward c not., may lie thrown into the background mast seriemly retarded, and even Haire or less perman,mtay itaured, by the :fatal im piton-it. of those who imagine that all who will not revolt every twenty-f ur Lair; ate lakewarm or iiisinefnIC.

The writer of these In tters lints been teijit-tly illVell4N1 of beloneing to this im- p:gimes party ; and laaretae he has protested :against the Government of Frante hanilina itself to any aria not y measures, called fur and demaluled against the 'Oa Taw -aro, the MINA% 1 in former dayal, the S %LOA NHAS, the Roo A RINWS, awl the Cu ROWS ass of Europe, by the fitly Alliance, therefore he has been vented of favouring Laity pojects, eatiouraa it g rash elite' prises, and hatching to hopeless plans of uational Dot all this is unjust and ignorant. The write] of these letters has encouraged pripuler education, popular journal:. pepular tracts, cheap governments, the dtotruchon of momintlies. the allmiaatet of all ranks and der:eaves of pat tie to the civil rights and duties of electors, and its smell out for the pi inciahn of election in every institution : but to time he !eaves the result ; anti lie conjures ail the chiefs of all that is gzeilerillis and noble, Mt, Peened mid praisewordly in Emcee!, not to become the dupes of the Holy allianai, or of their own generons nature: and easily, excited sensibility. It is pert:ally true. that the Revoletion of I anal was made in three days at Paris, and gain:mac:A in by all Franice ; but it is not hos true, that the preparations 14 ti,c• duo, ,lays wire going on air tifaieu %Tara, nether melantilmly oaaple af ta :aiif result, from rash anal unfittitia

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a sad and pntable example of the success of I I oly Alliance stratagems, and of the weakness and inconsideration of many zealous but intemperate friends of the mass of the people. The Polish refugees in the canton of Berne—the Italian refugees in the canton of Genoa—the Piedtountese refugees in the canton of Vaud—and some Savoyard» residing at Gremible, LyallS, anti in the depart- ment of Isere—Isere the dupes in this cue of 'Holy Alliance stratagems arul of their ill-regulated and iffacaleulatingseal. The Official Piedmont Casette ad- mits most distinctly, that (Inamorata: past this iexpedition ihas been known to the Sardinian Government ; and that for weeks past measures have teen adopted to prevent its success. This is true—and this is-false. It is true that the Sardinian Government knew of the plot, through the Austrian agents and Ambassadors at Turin, in France, Anil at Berne; but it is not true that any measures were taken either at Berne, Lausanne, or at Geneva, to prevent the expedition front being attempted. Quite the coutrary. Abney, mans, officers, projects, and plans, were all prepared for them ; wolves in sheep's clothing introduced themselves among the Polish refugee.; the most clamorous for " acting "—tier striking the blow—were employed agents of the Court of Vienna ; and not till the actual Nailing of the boats and barges with the refugees from the shores of the canton of 'Vaud acroas the Lake of Leman to the opposite batiks had taken place—did the well- informed and well-paid agents of Austria and Sardinia attempt to prevent the success of the first potion of that expedition. Those who know Geneva and Lausanne, It- well as Berne, are aware, that at this season attic year there is so little travelling in these districts—the roads are so unfrequented, and the hotels so untenanted—that the congregating on the shores of the Lake of Geneva, of multitudes of refugees, Polish, Italian, Piednionteae, and Savoyards, in the month of February, not only could not escape attention, but would, as it d'id, become the subject of general nisei vation. Yet the Austrian and Sardinian Ambassadors I etnained quiet—looked on at this clustering of the elans—and iialy pretended to have made the diacuvery on the second day of this month of February IS:34. Yet the refugees were armed ; yet hundreds appeared in pub- lic who had lea been seen betere ; yet Byrne had been quitted by the Popish exiles, and ('yon, Viorges, and Lausanne, as well as Geneva, crowded wiz]: guests: and this at a time when the dark mountains of Savoy were revered with snow—when the streams of the rallies wertt frozen—when the Savoyard peasant was sleeping away his exist. nee, visaing, like the bear, the long winter days of his life in solitude and set row. And RomArcINO was also thettaa-a Incise tamale was European, whose fame had been borne on the wings of the wind fri :the banks of the Vistula to the blue waters of the Rhone; and his mime w.tc anuoutwed as the leader of the rapt:dither. Besides that, each man w mined. there were deptats of at ms, of all sorts : ammunition was provided : there Was uo lack of powder or of shot : and the object of the undertaking was clisenasea with freedom.

To Rom:tar:0 I must here address myself. I know him ; i know de- votion to Lis countr v, and his love of liberty. If I did not, I should accuse Ian of treason, instead of fully and madness. This is the second great fault he Inge taitmnittea. 'The other hue has not fingotten—and France will long remember:. Two such faults are more than sufficient to outweigh even the debt of gratitude we owe hint for his exertions, courtge, zeal, and talents in the Polish warfire. His adhesion to the calve of the Mame Duke of BRUNSWICK, and his arrangement', tor an expedition iu his fanmr, was the first great fault of Roar a iti No. The second we have now before us. By giving his Haire to Knelt an enterprise as that just illlilertaketi and which has so si;•ally failed, he intim-eft multitudes to follow ; la s eximple; riskid their lives, their property, and their future hopes anti eN- h icama the dupe of Austrian mains and tl e Austrian Cabinet ; Ica!). Iles Win,: :Mil 1111/11y hilt prudent aLd fricnila or liberty weep ,:ml • as well in Italy. air! i r, nice, n; k 1;:t.:•t hi. •t Lilt' arias sigo the policy of the :lily AIH.IITie, w!,in•ti is to (ergs chairs I.,: t iaa•p'eet ; 1/0.11.1` the •• Of ( ,1(14 friends nit grona anal tuff r i tellaiVei! thi• 7.•A“! ; On: t-1,1/2' ;11:p.• in. I■5 el al. t ,WVen`,.!!:^ Ii111,1at':! IIIZ.11, je. :led s*:!,! trde,1 in-; • 0, iif aco•ler !aid tree aroares. that r. form ( and if non n v. id, ai that reveluniiie) ina whirl, sae,

Si, much in iivod —but which must ed fecal tail Lin, and not from e.

out the e,ttetry. Roo.% to No 1 thua addiess myself, awl I entreat him ta sheathe his sword. viltielt in other days and in other lands was so het uicalla drawn and sa i f lily wieldol. RoarARINO might repose under the laurels of Warsaw—study the -history of man, of his country, of constitutional govern- ments, and of liberty—and wait with patience for the moment which will arrive sooner, much sooner, than his impatience will allow him to hope, when be rosy again serve the vast and universal cause of Paliah regeneration. To those who formed part of his expedition, I can only say, may those who were sidn and traitors become known ; and may their names be handed up to universal execration ! and may those, who were sincere but ignorant, faoliali, and intemperate supporters of this rash and injurious expedition. learn olive for all, that it is nut by such movements they can serve the cause of humanity, Re- publicanism, cheap governmeats, or eivilizatiou. Pao above all, there is one cunsideratioa has most weighed with ine, and has induced rue to devote this week's letter to the, Soeciotor to this subject; and tl at is, to expo:e the traps laid by the I loly Alliance, in which to catch the unwary, enterptaaing, and inconsiderate refugees of Polaud, Germany, Italy, and Piedmont. The Holy Alliance lets entered into it treaty, a copy of which. ha, aeon aubliala:•.!, engaging formally that no political refugee shall he allowed a shener in Aeon ia, Russia, or Prussia, if he shall have revolted against the

Govermr.eut- ither of those states. Thus, na Polish rebel (!) from Gallic at would Ian sin::-ro:1 to reside in Russia, or in Prussia; uo Polish rebel (!) hone

Posen aic : allowed to satea even :t single night in Russia or Austria; me Poh..11 eioni WarS.V.V ur Russian Pail:Sul would be permitted to rpps.s..,l to Pr .m i nn or ;-.iistrian hospitality for an hour. to be delis, oaf.

up a- t naa's ! aials treaty, the Italian, smaller German, 1)44. and Purtuguese Governments are to tr.7 requeste.1 ,:so to il-seat to. T‘s

I lat.,. aait Ea:natter, or to America. all refuges ate in v first last:ewe to ha hannsiaia ;aid a hen this treaty shall in a year or two lienee have received the signal e: wally Europe:La Government.. then an attempt ia to he made eve:, to prove nie tine coacurrete e of England ate! France ! This is one of the projects of the I lely carry it into execution. it excites the Polish, German,

and n fuatees to revolt. It did this iu 18a2, in Pat is, at the iestirrectau

of Jut e. it dill dirt in 1832, at Frankfort. It did this in P.:33, in Medium,: ; and in I 4:12, in the Roman States ; it has just done this in Switzerland. And its object it everywhere to render the refugees unpopular, and to di ivethem beak from all Europe into France and England. The refugees, by .accepting the baits thus offered to them by the Holy Alliance, fall into the traps set for them —drag with theta there the hest and most holy of causes—ruin the hopes of those who, though more prudent, are not less sincere, and who, though more temperate, are not in heart or soul the less enthusiastic. Human society is aridly improving. Bad Governments are rapidly hastening to decay. I: uoar- le Ige and books will do all the rest ; aided by the spirit of liberty, the voice of freAom. and the gradual but certain extension of popular principles. A bright futurity is before us. But zeal is not the only-attribute of a courageous citizen; for there is sometimes more true bravery in suffering and repression than ems

Sn aggressi: a mid revolution. I am, Sir, your obediedt servant.

0. P. Q.