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anism . Nothing In its principles could have led us to suppose that it favoured a form of governraeut for which it is true that neither France nor Europe is yet ripe . Its indefatigable endeavours to bring about a better system of representation , to introduce into the administration a sounder system of political economy , and to make the municipal law
more democratic , all prove that it wanted only a * ' monarchy surrounded with republican institutions . * ' These wishes , which the revolution of 1830 must fulfil , the Courier has already advocated under the hypocritical reign of the restored monarchy , and thus it was the object of the constant watchfulness and the repeated persecutions of the powers of that time .
The Courier then was naturally found placed among the op posers of a Chamber whose only endeavour is to continue this system and its illusions . It was , in fact , the first to unmask the schemes of the " doctrinaires , " and to denounce them to the public . It has since never relaxed , and although death and defection have taken away some of the champions who have fought under its banner , it has
enlisted others no less talented and patriotic . We may remark , among them , a man , whose J a hours the friends of their country follow with delight , M . de Cormenin , whose vast acquaintance with administrative legislation , and whose pure and nervous style , are also usefully eraployed in the Chamber . All that distinguishes the Courier Fran 9 ais may also be applied to two other journals of the 1
" Mouvement '—the " Journal de Commerce" and the " Tribune . ' * Like it , they represent the opinions of the progressive liberals . The " Tribune" is remarkable for the elegance and correctness of its style ; the " Journal de Commerce" has often excellent articles on government , the author of which is M . H . Guillemot .
The " National" was established at the moment when divine right was going , for the last time , to try its strength with law and the sovereignty of the people ; it contributed greatly to the popular victory .
The " Gazette" had raised the standard of divine right ; the " National , " that of popular right . A warm warfare was commenced between the two publications * a warfare supported ou each side almost entirely by one man , —M . Thiers tor the « ' National , " and M . Genoude for the " Gazette . " All reflecting minds paid the most profound an 4 deep attention to this debate ; for the right of re-
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sistance , and the legality of oppression , were the subjects of it . Never , perhaps , were any opinions supported with greater energy aud talent ; never was the exchange of thought more active ; never was the periodical press raised so high ; and never did it so completely sustain its reputation . The three days likewise proved that the advocate of resistance knew how to
practice his doctrine , and M . Thiers , as well as his assistants , played a brilliant part in the great victory . We will not attempt to explain how M . Thiers , thrown in the road to power , conld ally himself with men who understand so badly the theory of revolutions , which he has developed in his great historical work . However that may be , the " National" was for a moment the auxiliary , the weak aud feeble auxiliary , of the doctrinaire party .
It soon found that this step was a false one , and it hastened to retrieve it 5 the direction was confided to a young writer known by the great sacrifice he has made in the cause of liberty . Since M . Arm ana . de Cavnel has been at the head of the National , it has resumed all the vigour which signalized its first days . The liberal consequences of the revolution are daily proclaimed in it , with a clearness aud loftiness that have
placed it in the first rank of opposition . The National represents at preseut those young aud talented liberals who are alike strangers to the bloody dissensions of the republic , to the fawning sycophancy of the empire , or the hypocrisy of the restoration , and who support their opinions with a lively feeling of the wants of the preseut time , into which they have a complete insight .
This would be the place to speak of a periodical conceived during the Polignac ministry , and whose first publication coincided with the events of July 1830 . Personal considerations prevent the writer of this notice from saying much , or passing upon it any judgment . We will only say that the " Communes" was established to circulate in the provinces such opinions of the liberals as have among
them little credit , because they find among them no defenders . It should , above all things , have treated of practical politics , because this is a mode of becoming more easily understood to minds unaccustomed to reason , and also because it would be a means of preventing many local vexations and petty tyrannies , which only exist in the absence of - cojitroul and of publicity . The " Communes" ought not to be only a
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402 Critical Notices . — Miscellaneous .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1831, page 402, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2598/page/42/
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