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ditAtion , ^ ib £ ecure of the strength of feeling of th ose to whom they had to look for support , and knowing that upon them rested the onus of recommencing a state of internal feud in France * not yet recovered from the storms of the Conclusion of the eighteenth centary ; - * - » weary after that terrible disorganization which yet had thrown off a vast mass of political disease , she was willing to endure much , rather than again evoke a power which had once befctt bo tremendous *
, ' The moral character evinced by the actors of those three daya was agloriousone ; and the choice of the individual to place upon the vacant throne was the grand mistake . The haste in which their electioti was made seems the only explanation of how such men as the leaders of July could , for a mottietit , have consented to admit as their leader sucha man as the Duke of Orleans ^
We believe almost ail parties agree m thinking France to be m a worse condition thati during the administration of Charles X . ; &nd why is this ? Because , though the mass of the people rnay have desired no revolution of institutions , yet they did dfesire a change in the character of their ruler ; as it is , they have only changed one king for another * who is ^ as far as he dare show himself , of the same make and mould as his predecessor . May he speedily follow on the same road !
It is now seventeen years since the Bourbons returned to France—France , weary of turmoil , yearning for tranquillity , and prepared to welcome them , if not certainly with enthusiasm , yet with content atid hope . In such a complexion of things , how little might have sufficed to have awakened the gratitude of a generous and enthusiastic people . That little was withheld , in conformity with that short-sightedness which seems to become inherent in hereditary rulers .
The first measures of a restored dynasty , which might tvell haVe fconsidered that it h ^ ld the throne on sufferance , Were either avowedly or in secret , to vitiate some of the most popular clauses of the newly-obtained charter . Then £ ame that insult to every free country- —the invasion of Spain . From this period , positive dislike took the place of indifference in the public mind towards
Louis ., but which fell yet more strongly on the intriguer Vill&le . Accordingly , it was seen needful to change the administration ; and Charles may be said to have begun his reign with all the chances of popularity in his favour . The people , with renewed Jhop ^ i teent to their Parliament popular members ; and , showing towards the king affection and gratitude for this so small con-Cession * ventured to believe hita sincere .
But , as of old , it may still be said , * Put not your trust in prittcfcs . ' Tha liberal ministry found itself looked upon with suspictottB eyes , and ( their measures , though rather those ofconcitiatibtf and time-serving , than of effective remedy , \ tere found to fee neutralized by the secret machinations of thfe court and its ad ^ -
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1832, page 758, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1824/page/38/
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