British Monitor (Newspaper) - July 18, 1819, London, Middlesex BY LEWIS ET LETTERS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF BY MISS HELEN MART A V A A new from the very able and prolific pen of Miss has just been published at under the above The work treats principally on the persecution of the Protestants by the since the restora tion of Louis a persecution by the KING and his Ministers the Law of 2nd on the Congress at Aix I shall this day commence with extracts OM the latter subject and shall continue them as I am certain that the pro had aright to make the of Europe mint have an equal right to watch over yet the French thought that their elections were tine af faire de with which foreign potentates had no or in which at least they ought not to Hut the Congress of was not an ordinary assemblage of independent France was there called to ar of and the verdict was about to be have COM to i were now exiles who had of Miss WILLIAM will be perused with pleasure by classes of as he has been an eye witness of almost all in France but who has always been attached to the true equally abhorring tyranny of and Of ths latter she very properly in her new publication having been accused of on account of her hostility to him in one of her former 1 am yet to there may be in common with the abhor rence of military and renunciation of liberal These and have al ways been my feelings I must therefore call upon our English friends of to ex plain this preposterous Inow proceed with the extracts of which was to decide the great whether the armies of occupation or were quit the French length assembled at A general anx iety all ranks people throughout France the of suspense appeared into lerable that admirable pa became exhausted when most Every day the public disquietude increased the reproached with being too and the telegraph of moving too It was indeed believed that certain duals had addressed a secret note to the allied only with apprehensions of the danger arising from the departure of their but even proposing that that departure should be Indefinitely The sovereigns of Eu rope it was knew too well the temper of France to accept the Every eye was now turned towards the fron tier the functions of moral life seemed ded and every thought was concentrated in one great Will they or stay It was no intelligence that was expected it was loss or the gain of a battle but tidings connected with he most sacred public it was the desire to learn the termi catson of a national disgrace which had fasted three years it was to know whether the alies would have the good to avoid draw ing France into a conflict in which ur very exis Vj would be the prize and forcing her into ao unnatural in which every sentiment if justice when the moral nature of man gives place to the ferocity of and every means of warfare is thought to he provided it Ln Have we not in every become a ditch a and every human being a Those imprudent dispatches from Paris to as 1 were thought to have occasioned suspense which the Parisians found so difficult t were ri part founded on the effect produced on the public mind by the recent Persons who held important in the men of good intentions but narrow hkd in their expressed their tears of the de complexion of tiie elections the at the which was the Duke de hul already some that they who though it was At that awful and decisive these ground less fears and apprehensions were brought They were in the good mew but every thing in was mis The ministers of the allied sovereigns held the pen in their to sign the emancipation of and th sig nature was it is in the shape of a conditional promise to modify the ic mode of and to guard against the sins of was at length given on the part of the French minister the treaty was then ami ransom was while the conquerors of France like their sword in the The allied armies now turned their faces to wards the frontiers the fortified towns of France received French garrisons and the Emperor of and the King of travelled from to with a kind of chivalrous to leave their cards of with the King of The French were no longer prisoners in their own land the cup of was had not been suffered to overflow they hailed their with but in i ii silence for air as unbecoming the national Nature seined also to be in sympathy with and decorated France lavish gifts for the festival of The harvest had been abundant the hopes of the husband and the vintage crowned with gay profusion this season of Ail was in strong and delightful contrast with the gloomy horror of the preceding The cora hud been destroyed by incessant and the mi shed unable to find either employment or flocked in crowds to demanding alms in the in a tone of that told the passerby to beware of But sedition and humiliation and were all together in the joys of this auspicious The husbandman no longer saw the tent of the stranger pitched in his field and was no longer compelled to furnish subsistence for men who expressed their or their in strange and a con fusion of all to equally It was not an easy task to satisfy of tastes and inclinations of guests who some from the Caspian and others from the Scotch Wine was like the preceding want ing to fill the empty but casks wanting for the The cornet of 1U11 hud been supr posed by the people to have had an influence upon the wine of thai which was and has ever since been called the wine of the It was surpassed by the vintage of which is believed to have felt the influence of a more propitious star it has taken the name of the via du depart and the abundant vintage was celebrated m many a the burden oi which the delightful certainty that the allies would not di ink of PROPOSAL TO CHANGE THE LAW OF All was tranquil in The departure of the fur from letting loose the hostile and giving scope to new had guarantees to public The chambers were peaceably pied ia the discharge of their important ons the King and the nation under the tutelar influence of the stronger ties towards Ci The laws of drawing towards a The banished without were suffered to and had lean to appreciate Amidst these promises of the scene and dark ness gathered over the political rivi wars seemed about to fill he void which army of occupation U appears de on his return from of the necessity oi changing the law of elections hid long the same The and particularly should ne be vrc oS und t br a ministry thus divided new formed under the fitt te of Ultra and renew the good times of They s in obtaining the dismission of de during and exulted on tire object of their immortal hatred quit the i of Bat to their great discomfiture his Excellency out by one only to conic in by The Ultras believed them selves masters of the place the Ministry of the police was abolished but how short was the delusion a few hours they beheld de the of on whom they leaded an iiut not irec from as a in defending the the popularity he had acquired m opposing Yet his county would be ungrateful were it to forget the noble struggle he once maintained against imperial Despotism to have resisted NA on his throne was no The ephemeral ministry of fortyeight hours was followed by an interregnum of some during public on as well as they could without any ministry at At length a constitutional ministry was which still maintains its and whose in the crisis to which we are has inspired the most honourable confidence in the public his place in the chamber of Deputies in the ranks of the and de soon after left Paris for the South of Previously to his departure he had been the subject of a warm discussion in the The Government had proposed to the legislature to confer on him a national recom pense for tiie services hehad rendered the coun try in his with foreign This proposal met with a vigorous in the Chamber of and was generally disap proved of by the de RI CH was deservedly and ample justice was rendered to private yet it was remembered that he had weathered the storm of the not in struggling against its but at a safe distance on the shores of the Black Emigration is an offence which in her never quite The French admit that it was death for the higher classes of society to and yet they are in to think that it was a crime to independently of the personal merits or demerits of the Duke of it con as highly impolitic to commemorate in a public and solemn manner the events in which he had a however well led only to humiliating It was kis misfortune to have signed that so deplo rable resigned her territory to be occupied by foreign Ue had indeed also signed the treaty of liberation but even that treaty was of a nature to be received only in com placent Jf the Romans thanked their ufter a for not Laving despaired
