ENGLAND AND FRANCE.
THIS is a rapid enumeration, and in some instances a disclosure, of the circumstances and characters connected with the Revolu- tion of 1830. It is conceived in a spirit of bitter contempt of the present order of things, and with a strong and habitual leaning to the side of arbitrary power, in whatever form displayed. " France is our natural and hereditary enemy," is the text of the author. Any political connexion with our enemy must be fatal to the honour and interests of England. LOUIS PHILIP is despised in France, CASIMIR PERIER detested. HENRY the Fifth must be crowned; and the Duke of WELLINGTON reign in England—as be- fore. Then all will be right. If there should be a war, indeed, we shall be on the right side, viz. that of Russia. We of course cordially despise such false and mistaken views; while we allow that the author has dressed up his work in an amusing form—we are now regaled with facts, and now with declamation. The most effective part of his artillery is levelled against the poltroonery of many of the principal supposed friends of the People at the great crisis of the Revolution. This is a standing joke in France; and the au- thor has adopted all the scandal and calumny with perhaps the truth afloat in that country, and huddled it up in the shape of a strong case against the French Government.
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