The Paris Correspondent of the Times affirms that one of
the reasons why Marshal MacMahon maintains the Septennate so strongly, is that he has no predilection for any form of govern- ment, and no antipathy except to "demagogy." He is a soldier merely. He was bred a Legitimist, but he served under the Orleans Government, under the Empire, and under the Republic, and he says of himself that he has no regard for any cause but France. He had the courage to tell the Emperor this, and that in 1852 he had influenced the soldiery to vote for him only be- cause the Red flag was appearing in the windows. He considered the Imperialist cause the cause of Order. Caring nothing for Legitimism, Orleanism, or Bonapartism, and rather distrusting the Republic, he naturally admires a nondescript Govern- ment, of which he is himself the head, and which ensures order, and nothing else. He would, however, the Sept,ennate once over, accept any Government which France might choose, and which kept society together. It is to be observed that the Marshal did not rebuke one Mayor in Brittany who spoke to him of the next Assembly as being Constituent, but said he should be always at the Assembly's service.
