ABD-EL-KADER.
Louts -NAPOLHOlt cultivates the great, the dignified, the chival- rots: he has ati opportunity. Iii Algeria' the power of France was resisted for years by one fYtati, w'ho was subdued by no single antagonist, nor even by theAttexhatilitible';retources' of a great state. Unsubdued, but -Wearied thee(' in which he had been pursued by France for years, stipulating for permission to retire to a Mussul- man place of exile, stirrendereCtoc, lie 4)4 4it. rAtit
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Louis Philippe was recreant enough to accept the prisoner and re- fuse the condition; and the Arab of the desert was kept a prisoner in France. General Lamoriciere was pitied for the wattage tri his chivalrous fame. Louis Philippe fell—and bow much may not that treacherousfaith have helped his fall ! General Lamoricia•e came into office; every eye was turned upon Abd-el-Kader ',but he was'kept in prison. Immoveable is that stain on the sword of Lamoriciere I He has been deposed ; and Louis Napoleon, the prisoner of Ham, heir to the prisoner of St. Helena, bent upon earning a fame that shall rebuke his own royal gaoler and con- trast with the stern treatment of his uncle, presides over the councils of France.
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