CONTINENTAL CORRESPONDENCE.
A PARISIAN correspondent informs us, that while. the German Prince has been amusing us with the exhibition of our own fbilies, another German has been puLlishing a work describing his tour in France, in which he takes an opportunity of lecturing, not the French, but his countrymen. The author is M. BOERNE, said to be a German Jew. His Istaelitish origin might perhaps be con- cluded from some of his ideas, which smack both of the Jew and the German : for instance, he tells us, that LUTHER " discounted German freedom three centuries before it became due, and had thus swallowed up the capital in the discount." ERASMUS was of the same opinion.
Comparing the three countries of Europe, he says, happily enough—" An Englishman loves liberty as his wife, a Frenchman as his mistress, and the German loves her as if she wore his grandmother."
M. BOERNE has also some happy speculations on the former liberality and the present tyrannical follies of the King of Bava- ria. Liberality was with this poet-king a caprice—a trick of the will : his imagination has now set up another idol, and of course he will worship it much more in the style of a poet than a politi- cian. His subjects must bear it : they are not in a condition for any thing better. We may remind M. BOERNE, that it is dan- gerous to discount freedom at too long a date.
Our correspondent's remarks on the mysterious expedition of Ancona are worth attention- " You appear to have misunderstood in England the spirit and intentions of our expedition to Ancona. All your journals have shown a suspicion, that cer- tainly the Ministry of M. Phier does not deserve at their hands. Assuredly, it is not ideas of ambition that has suggested this step : it has been principally produced by pique against the Pope, who has grossly deceived the French Ambassador at Rome. In fact, M. St. Aulaire went enormous lengths to per- suade the Romagnese to submitlengths that endangered the popular character of the Government. He did so upon promises from the Pope, of some amelio- ration in the administration of the disturbed districts but the Pontiff showed a total disregard for his word; and, moreover, it leaning towards the exiled dynasty of Fiance, to be expected front Capellari, the old friend of Chateau- briand. The expedition to Ancona was accordingly resolved upon, to convince the Pope, that he must govern his patrimony without reference to an Austrian occupation each year. It is reliance upon this that makes Ids Holiness deaf to the just plaints ()ibis subjects. To deprive him of this, we are now at Ancona, telling the Pope emphatically, if you will have the Austrian eagle in Romagnas, you shall have our tricolor too ; therefore take measures so as to govern inde- pendent of both. "I can tell you that the conduct of your journals has retarded for a long time, if not struck the final blow, against the possibility of an alliance betwixt England and France, so much talked of. But last week our moderate papers upheld the feasibility and advantage of this. But now the Mouvement trium- phantly quotes the article of the Courier, and asks, Are these your vaunted
• Allies?"
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