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    risers . This " was in 1829 * and the month of August saw an ' extreme droit' ministry , with Polignac for its head , preparing to wield the sCeptre of France . - For all who had watched the progress of events , the named composing this cabinet afforded ample foresight of the measures to be expected . An association was formed for the purpose , if

    needed , of resisting the payment of taxes . The press performed its duty of warning , counselling , and encouraging . The Tory ministers , intimidated for a time , endeavoured , without effect , to veil the designs of their government . All was distrust and dissatisfaction on the part of the people , and on that of the ministry blind determination , when , in May , was convened the last

    parliament Charles X . was destined to meet . The royal address was peremptory ; the reply of the liberal members anxious and supplicatory , yet firm . The refractory Chamber was speedily' dismissed , with a view to corrupt the new elections . But , spite of all the arts and the influence which the government could bring to bear on the returns of the electoral colleges , an immense

    majority for the popular cause appeared on the list of deputies . No sooner was the fact of this majority decided * than were issued the ' Ordinances ;* the first of which pronounces the Chamber dissolved before it had yet assembled ; the second annulled the existing electoral laws , by which the Chamber had been appointed ;—deereed the reduction of the number of representatives

    from 430 to 250 , leaving to certain colleges , which had hitherto the privilege of electing , only that of recommending candidates , and abolished the vote by ballot ; the third appointed the time for the meeting of the new assembly ; the fourth abrogated the law which guaranteed the liberty of the press . Such were the famous Ordinances of the 26 th of July . On the evening oT the 27 th , an attack was made by the royal troops on various groups which had assembled in the streets , but which had as yet

    manifested no intention of resorting to force . By this attack the resolution of all Parrs was determined . At the time of the appearance of the Ordinances , Lafayette was at some leagues distance from Paris . On receiving the intelligence , he hesitated not a moment in taking post ; and in the evening of theJ 27 th , put himself at the head of the insurgents . On the morning Of the 28 th ,

    the people , led by bands of the Polytechnic students , assembled in the principal avenues of the city , at each point met by detachments of troops . At noon the Hotel de Ville was in the hands of the people , with whom , at the close of the day , it remained , after having been three times taken and retaken . While this scene

    Was transacting without , a meeting of editors of journals , by whom it had been convened , and of influential liberal deputies , Was held , at -which Lafayette opposed the hfesitating counsels of the- timid , and declared his resolution , whatever might bfc the

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    The French Revolution of 1830 + tW

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1832, page 759, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1824/page/39/