LETTERS FROM PARIS, BY 0. P. Q. No. XXXVIL TIM

TORY WAIL—AND A WORD OF CAUTION.

TO TI1E EDITOR OF TI1E SPECTATOR.

Paris, 22d April 1835.

Sin—You were right, and I was wrong : so much the better. But at any rate it was a near run—an escape " by the skin of the teeth "—a eeek-or-nothing affair. Twenty more Tories in the House would have been even more than sufficient to have elected Sir CHARLES MANNERS Serrosr, rejected Lord RUSSELL'S resolutions, and saddled you hard and tight with a Tory Cabinet for at least a year to come. So, though you were right, I was not far wrong ; and my apprehensions were at any rate very well founded. But, thanks to the energy of the Re- formers and to the union of all enemies to Tories and Toryism, these Holy Alliance statesmen have been overthrown ; and the course is once more open to improvement and advancement. This is a vast deal ; and the Reformers of Great Britain, and above all, Mr. O'CoN- NELL and the Irish Reformers, have recently rendered to Europe and to the world as signal services by their abstinence and moderation, as they have formerly rendered by their decided and energetic opposition.

The wail of the Tories is loud, deep, and agonizing. I do not mean of the English Tories alone ; but of the French, Dutch, BAgian, Rus- sian, Austrian, Prussian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Swiss Tories. i Their howling s natural, well justified, and by no means excessive.

The FRENCH Tories, or Royalists, wail and lament, because, by the fall of Sir ROBERT PEEL, their schemes in favour of HENRY the Fifth and of a priestly influence at Court are destroyed; and the French Tories or Doctrinaires wail and howl, because they admired of all men Sir ROBERT PEEL the most in Europe, and desired to take him and his policy as their model and guide. I believe, in my conscience, that Geizar and DE BROGLIE are more truly grieved at the overthrow of Toryism in England than are BERRYER or Frrz.JAMES. The DUTCH Tories wail and lament, because, although the Duke of WELLINGTON told their Ambassador in London that he could do no- thing at present for the cause of the old King WILLIAM of Holland, still he promised to get "time," to "see what could be done ; " and time and delay are all which the sly monarch desires. What with the Agnats of Nassau, and the Germanic Confederation, and the objections of the inhabitants of Limbourg and Luxembourg, the Dutch King bad excuses enough supplied him for years of delay and ages of negotia-

tion. This was all be r ed—sever to tel minate. Ile is a royal

edition of Lord ELDON.

The BELGIAN Tories, or Orangemen, wail and howl because their schemes of exciting seditious movements in Belgium against King LEOPOLD are thus overthrown ; they will now labour in vain at Gand and in the two Flanders ; the priests will not be got to budge ; and as a young heir to the throne bus arrived, the Belgians will remain quiet till that moment shall come (and which sooner or later must conic) when Belgium shall be reunited to France.

The RUSSIA/4 Tories, both in London and Paris, are in " the Devil of a passion." Louis Pinup has been offended by the removal of Pozzo DI BORGO to Loildon—and all for nothing ! Pozzo ni BORGO has been rendered broken-hearted by his removal from Paris—and all for nothing! Count Pansesi has been named Ambassador from the Czar at Paris—and all for nothing ! Very great expenses have been incurred by the Russian diplomacy in London, in order to cut a dash, and to show how respected were the Tories in the Northern Courts of Europe—and all this for nothing ! The favourite English nobleman with the Czar, the Marquis of LONDONDERRY, has been insulted—for nothing ! The Russian schemes in the East have been momentarily suspended—all for nothing ! And finally, the favourite idea of the last eighteen months of making a Russian and French alliance, has been deranged and abandoned—for nothing! Therefore the Russians wail and howl, and curse the Tories and the Reformgrs, the Whigs and the Radicals, all in one breath—and all most loudly and most deeply.

'1 he AUSTRIAN and the PRUSSIAN Tories howl and wail, because they also have been most grievously "taken in " and deceived. They were induced to send special ambassadors to London, to incur likewise large expenses, to make promises of " partial disarmings," and even to begin such disarming,: in some portions of their territories ; and they thus acted on the faith of the Tory assurances, trawenitted to Vienna and Berlin, that " the King would be firm ; that if one House of Com- mons would not support the Tories, another would ; and that dissolu- tion upon dissolution should succeed before the King would yield."

The SPANISH 'reties, or Carlists, are the loudest of all in their millings (except the French Doctrinaires) at the fall of the English Tories. It is trite that the Duke of WELLINGTON did not aid Don CARLOS. It is true he did not send him out a British army or navy, a British supply of arms, money, or ammunition : but it is true that the Duke of WELLINGTON refused to carry the treaty of Quadruple Al- liance into full effect ; it is true that the Carlists sent from England much of both arms and ammunition during the duration of the IS/EL- LINGTON-PEEL Administration; it is true that a vessel seized full of Carlists and Cailist stores was liberated, though seized, in consequence of the Duke's influence ; and it is true that lie obtained the liberation of English and other agents of Don Carlos. Whilst the Duke was in office, the Carlists affected to call him ugly names, and to say that he had deserted their cause. This was in order to deceive or "throw' dust into the eyes" of the Queen's party. But now he is Minister no longer, the Carlists openly declare " The Duke was our friend."

The PORTUGUESE Tories, or Miguelites, are rampant with rage ; and they not only howl, but shriek with passion and wo. 'They do not mind Lord ABERDEEN having called their Monarch "a monster." They know the value and the weight of such an epithet against all the gold and all the protection of the Tories for many years past. Where the Tories returned to office, all the Portuguese Tories, or Miguelities, reappeared on the field ; and whilst MIGUEL conspired at Leghorn, and CARNEIRORt Rome, and DE HABER in Holland, and TASSIN at Paris, the Tories were conspiring with them in London and in Downing Street. But all these schemes are knocked down, and the Miguelite Loan will soon be again at a most miserable discount.

Finally, the Swiss Tories are wailing and moaning, because, aided by the English Minister, and supported by the Austrian and Russian Ambassadors, they hoped to have upset the Popular Government of Berne, reestablished the old Aristocratical Government of that Canton, and above all, retained their federal pact of' 1814, imposed upon them as it was by the Holy Alliance, and have postponed to a very distant period that so much-desired revision of the pact, which can alone secure to Switzerland its wonted unity and necessary force.

With the ENGLISH Tories I do not intermeddle. I know as well as you can, what the more moderate of them desire and hope for,— namely, a coalition of PEEL with MELBOURNE, and of RICE With GOUL- BURN. It is for you on the spot to prevent the final accomplishment of these wishes.

But suffer MC to add A WORD OF CAUTION! In our moments of Suc- cess, we do not sufficiently often think of the hour of defeat ; and when plenty is before us, we dream not of' a future famine. God forbid that " I should sow the seeds of disunion or of discontent ! God forbid that I should excite groundless suspicions, or aid in dividing those who should unite ! But THE PEOPLE—THE REFORMERS of Great Britain—have been so often mystified, so often deceived, and so often betrayed, that I must utter one word of caution: Let no one put off his armour. Let no one throw away his sword. Let no one repose under his laurels. The MELBOURNE Cabinet is not the end, but the means—not the Para. dise, but the stepping-stone ; and the MELBOURNE Cabinet must be looked upon and partially supported in that light. Lord PALMERSTON is not a fit Minister of Foreign Affairs in April 1835. He sacrificed Poland ; he left Portugal unaided ; and it was his fault that Don Caltsos is now in the Basque Provinces. Therefore let your confidence be very moderate, and your joy be well-tempered; for the battle is not to the swift, and "let not him who putteth on the armour boast like

him who taketh it off." Yours, obediently, 0. P. Q.