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Deiihyite Manifesto At Banbury. "Iuniuih...
painful incarceration would render them in any respect less sanguinary or more peaceable than before P If such an event were to happen , what might not be the fate ot this country , if she were then found with a democratic eovernment in power , a disbanded army , and her sole national defences the childish , twaddling dogmas ot Mr . Cobden and his precious Peace Association . ( Vehement and continued cheers . ) To avert so great a calamity as that , he ( Mr . Kniglitley ) had great hopes that moderate and independent men would join in support of -the present government ; and though they might not perhaps coincide with them in opinion upon every subject , regard that government , with Lord Derby at its head , as the chief barrier to the advance of democracy , and the greatest champion of the Protestant faith . "
From the country gentlemen at table Mr . Knightley carried away the lion ' s share of the applause . He is not a bad type of the overbearing politicians who allow him to be their mouthpiece . A '
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LETTERS FROM PARIS . [ From our own Correspondent . ] Letter XL . Paris , September 28 , 1852 . Bonaparte pursues the career of his triumphs . From Lyons he proceeded to Grenoble , from Grenoble to Valence , from Valence to Avig non , from Avignon to Marseilles , from MarseiPes to Toulon . Everywhere , according to the Moniteur , the entire population rush to meet him , and to greet him with
the warmest enthusiasm : everywhere , according to the same Moniteur , he is saluted with cries of Vive FJEmpereur ; throughout the course of bis progress triumphal arches of flowers and evergreens gladden his approach , while every bouse is adorned with flags and streamers by day , and with illuminated lamps by night . Everywhere the most enthusiastic inscriptions endeavour to express the pretended sentiments of the population . How much of truth is there in all this ? The following edict of the Mayor of Valence will be a sufficient answer : —
" As early as ten o ' clock in the morning the proprietors and occupiers of the . houses , situated in the streets and in the squares through which the cortege is to pass , will decorate ( devront pavoiser ) their windows with flags of the national colours , and at night there will be a general illumination . All contraventions to this order ( disposition ) will be legally reported . " This edict of M . Sapey , mayor of Valence , which we read at full length in the Courrier de la Drome , is perfectly explicit . No citizen has liberty to take refuge in the dignity of silence . He must illuminate his house and decorate his windows , under penalty of being bad up before the magistrates . Such is the naked fact : observe too that Valence is full of legitimists .
Let us now see bow the Moniteur which alone possesses the monopoly of the public car announces the entry of the President into Valence . We shall then be able to judge of the measure of its veracity . " The enthusiasm is at its height . The presence of the hero of the great name in which France takes pride , recalls to this city tho sojourn that the chief of the Napoleonic dynasty made within her wnlls at tlie opening of his brilliant career . The cry of Vive I'Empereur resounds on every wide with an inexpressible excitement ( enlrainement ) on the passage of the new liberator of his country . " The recital of the reception
at Grenoble is full of the same exaggeration . " Everywhere , " says the Moniteur , " the windows are decorated with banners : tho imperial emblems glitter at every point of the town , immense transparencies bear tho following inscriptions : " Vive Napoleon ITT . ! " " Vive V Empe . reur ! " "To the Empire Grenoble was ever faithful ! " " To the Emperor , ! th March , 1815 ! " " To Napoleon TIT ., his immortal 2 >? rZ of December /" " Vive VEmpe . reur Napoleon JIT . ! " It is scarcely three weeks since that same Grenoble professed so deep a contempt for Honaparte , that the town would not
even admit into its municipal council the Mayor and deputies imposed e . r offteio upon it by the Government ; and these ; magistrates , who arc supposed to possess the itSHCitt of the population , were not even iiiiined municipal councillors , because they were nominated by Ilonaparte . And then ) are sensible people who seriously imagine that in a town actuated by such feelings tho population is an accomplice in the disgusting imperial adulations inscribed upon tho transparencies which wcro cot up to perfection by tho authorities . At
. Lyons it was oven worse . It is now mi ascertained fact , that ; on the Sunday when Honnparte made his entry into that , city ho was greeted by tho workingmen with the unanimous shout of Vine la Repuhlique ! a great number of arrests wcro inado on that account . Tho men who escorted the President wcro furious , and oven doHiml to charge the crowd . Some wcro toppled ofl' their horses : Colonel Floury ( the same who a month ago waa inspecting all tho vulnerable points of the English count ) was unhorsed . Another personage of thtt entourage , M . Mcache do Loisno hud his log
broken . Here , too , as everywhere else , orders had been given to decorate the windows with flags . The orders were obeyed ; but by way of protest , every flag without exception bore the famous republican device : Liberte , Egalite , Fraternite . The Ministerial journals were obliged to confess the fact . See now how the Moniteur recounts the reception of Bonaparte at Lyons . "Never was the city of Lyons more brilliant or more animated . In ¦ the day time , garlands of flowers , at night magnificent illuminations marked his passage , and throughout His Highness was welcomed with the most enthusiastic manifestations of the popular hopes and sympathies . "
These pompous oflicial reports are all rank falsehood , then ! But what is the object ? To prepare the Empire : little matters it whether Bonaparte do , in fact , receive ovations or rebuffs , provided that the Moniteur proclaim the lie aloud to France and to Europe : the end is attained . For what other reason is it that the circulation of the Moniteur is doubled , tripled , quadrupled , by every conceivable effort . The editors of the other journals were summoned to the Ministry of the Interior , and there informed that they could have copies of the telegraphic despatches twenty-four hours in advance . The gaping noodles fell into the trap laid for them , and so , by the extended publicity they have volunteered to give to these despatches , they have made themselves accomplices in the great work of
falsehood . For some days past copies of the Moniteur are stuck up on every dead wall in Paris , and the suburbs , to feed the curiosity of the crowd . About 1200 copies are used in this way daily . An immense publicity is required to mislead the public . It is imagined that the intelligent population of Paris , struck by the enthusiastic demonstrations recounted in the Moniteur , will contentedly accept a regime saluted by the vivats of all France , and discouraged by the pressure of false reports , abandon any hopes they may still cherish . The whole order of Government is a calculated system of falsehood . Probably even the conspiracy of Marseilles is a fabrication of the police . I give you the terms in which the Moniteur of Monday last
announced the discovery to France : — " By a despatch dated this day , the Government has learnt , that , on the 24 th hist ., an infernal machine was seized at Marseilles . It is composed of four principal pieces of ordnance , and of 250 ordinary gun-barrels The barrels contained 1500 balls . The authors of the plot are arrested , and all its ramifications known . It is in the bands of justice . " Now , according to the Moniteur , it is on the 24 th inst . that the detection of the machine was effected at
Marseilles , and on Saturday the 25 th , the news reached the Exchange at Paris , and occasioned a fall of one franc . As early as the 25 th inst ., incredible details were circumstantially related , details which the Monileur has published : details which no telegraph , aerial or electric , could possibly haver transmitted in the time . " A secret society , entitling itself ' Les Vengeurs , ' had been organized ( said the report ) at Marseilles , with the intention of making an attempt on the life of the President . An infernal machine bad been resolved , and promptly completed . It was composed of 250 gunbarrels , and four blunderbuss barrels , ( canons de
tromblon , ) of powerful calibre , the whole divided into twenty-eight compartments ; these twenty-eight pieces bad been , for greater precaution , deposited in twentyeight different places , until the moment a place could be found to fix and put the machine together . The conspirators then occupied themselves with the choice of a situation , which should naturally be situate on the passage of the Prince President . They first iixed their choice on a first story in a house in the Rue d'Aix , whither they were to remove , and raise the machine on Ike night previous to that in which the President was to arrive at Marseilles . " " It . was seized on that spot , " adds the Moniteur , caught in a flagrant contradiction .
It was not . to have been . set up before the night ot the 2-lt , h how then could it , have ; been seized on the 24 th , when it , had not been removed into the house in question ? However , it may be , hen ; we find the little Monnparfe with his infernal machine , too , like the Great , only , his police being more skilful , that is to say , itself organizing the conspiracy , ho will enjoy the honour ol having incurred an immense danger without having run the risk . The people of I 'ranee , notwithstanding their enthusiasm , don't hcciii to appreciate enough the immensity of the services that , Honapurte rendered to society on the 2 nd of December , in seizing the supremo power by force . No doubt the Klyse ' e thought that when l'Yanoe , panic-struck , Hliould learn that she had wellnigh relapsed into the horrible convulsions of anarchy , she would throw herself into the arms of her deliverer ,
incontinent ! Doublet the usual number ot copies ot the ) Moniteur we're ) placarded on that day . It fell on a Sunday , to a nicety : us on tho next day the Paris
elections were to take place , and it was hoped that f * immense danger they had just escaped would arouse \ T apathy of the electors , who would not stir a sten to ercise the privilege of a vote ! ex " As I write , Bonaparte is at Toulon , whither on * Mediterranean squadron has been expressly recalled to celebrate his coming with manoeuvres , evolutions and shanj fights . Thence he will return to Marseilles * and will afterwards proceed into Languedoc , where th * prefects are busily preparing the same ovations that have marked his passage hitherto . Throughout the departments of the South one hears of nothing but edicts and ordinances of the prefects and mayors enjoining the municipalities and the citizens to fete the President . The Prefect of Toulouse , among others has indited circular which the
a even Gascons , who should be good connoisseurs , call a gasconnade . ' Not content with his first success , this prefect has published the following instructions : — " The mayors of the several communes will select a certain number of citizens to accompany them to Toulouse , and to be presented to the President . MM . les Maires , will take care to bring with them the flags and the banners by which their communes may be distinguished ; MM . les Maires will specially invite the societies of Mutual Assistance to be represented at this solemnity . Such rural communes as may have fifes , and drums , and hautboys , will bring them . The mayors and their deputies will wear their official scarfs . They will see that the drummers and the musicians adorn their button-holes and their hats with ribands and flowers , & c , & c" Is not this
enough to prove how factitious is all this enthusiasm to word of command ! In the midst of all the forced adulations which the race of courtesans has invented to fete the President , the Prefect of Agen has distinguished himself by a new invention . Beside the tri-coloured flag will wave the flag of green and gold , the colours of the President ; such is the decree this prefect has delivered . We have then a new national flag , the flag of green and gold , like the livery of the President ! The livery of this man ' s menials for a flag—that is all we deserve !
Bonaparte does not alone receive triumphs and ovations . It appears that Granier de Cassagnac competes with him for triumphal arches . We read in the Courrier de Qers— " M . Granier de Cassagnac continues to receive from the population of the Gers testimonies Of grntitmclo deeo * v < acUy duo io tho man who took so energetic a part in the re-establishment of order , anel whose devotedness to the person and the policy of the President is so well known . Sunday last a bouquet was offered to him at Aignan in the name of the municipal authorities , and the notable inhabitants of all the communes of the canton . M . Granier de Cassagnac
was received at the entrance of the town under a triumphal arch elegantly decorated by the ladies of the place . M . Laignoux , mayor , having at his side his deputy , M . Laffont , the municipal council , the clergy , the mayors , the justices of the peace , the gendarmerie , and the other functionaries of t he canton , and surroundeel by a great concourse of inhabitants , addressed to him a speech , to which M . Granier de Cassagnac replied . " Now , if a miserable hireling bravo like Granier de Cassagn . ic is saluted with triumphs like these , how can we be astonished at those which Bonaparte , his chief , receives ?
They both draw up the programme of their triump hs for themselves , the one in the Moniteur , the other m the Courrier du Gers . Their end is the same : tno one object of both is to sound the trumpet , and to c <> - lect a ' crowd of curious fools before their stage . * o it is for both an enterprise de reclame . The one bores to obtain credit with bis tailor ; the other , to wm imgood graces of the ) nation . Mountebanks both .
Mean whiles transportations te > Cayenne and Al ffC " continue-. Olel ae-eusatieniH are exhumed , and itmuy poor citizen who had bum left , in pence for nine montn , is Hiiddiiiily torn from his family , and shipped for exi ¦¦ Ke > rty-t \ ve > e-itizenn in a southern department were ¦ ee ) ntiy shippeel , at Cette , on board the ViUe de //•> j deaux , anel sent to Algeria . Eight others , who been confined within a penal district , and who e > xeee ele-el the limits of the town to which they assigned , have ) been shipped fbr Cayenne ; » lM | eU Moniteur describe ^ them as convicts who have U their ban ...
. . ,, _ --A great many municipal councils have H <« ^ pendcel , on the pretext that they are composed ^ publicans while ) l'Vaneio M ine > narohieo-iniponfl" « •¦ ^ you may se-uively believe this , I subjoin the decree < ^ Pre-foct of the Var , who , for his share , has suHjr . ^ fifteen nnmieupal councils in his one depui ^ " Having examined the lists ( proces verbawc ) ^ municipal council * of fifteen communes of - •"" „„ . Hieleriug that tliemtyorityof ineuiberH compouing - ^ nicipul councils of tho undermentioned comnron
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 2, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02101852/page/4/
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