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of place and pension amongst the sixty. And some are absolute paupers. 

 There is poor Cousin, for example, 8a Seig?ieurie Monsieur Cousin, 

 as the National calls him in derision, who had not cash to buy himself 

 that green-embroidered uniform in which councillors of state go to court, 

 and who went in consequence in a tatterdemallion of a robe, its tail 

 stuck in a kind of girdle that the philosopher had invented. I remem- 

 ber the whole court of Louis Philippe, not excepting the monarch him- 

 self, holding their sides with laughter, at the inexprimably queer figure 

 cut by Cousin ; and yet this man is now his lordship. But why should 

 poverty be an obstacle to advancement ? Why indeed ? But at least 

 when a king gives a coronet, he should give a new coat. 



The only excuse for making these peers, is to out vote the Carlists. 

 Yet in the list we find, De Caux, the old sub-minister, and the Due D' 

 Angouleme and Colleague of Villele, De Berbis, De Mezij, De Freville, 

 De La Briffe, De Lamoigner, De Montguyer, De Montlosier, DeNicolai, 

 De Preissac, De Rayneval (the friend of Polignac) all old Marquises 

 every one, men whose sole aim will be to embarass the government. 

 And why are these dregs, these younger brothers, and hangers on of 

 the old noblesse elevated to the peerage. Simply Louis Phillippe coquet- 

 ting with the royalists, and begging them to rally to his side for the 

 sake of a tarnished, gingerbread coronet, to be accepted too in company, 

 will aides- de- camps of the national guard, with ex-professors from the 

 university, ex-chimists from their laboratories, ex-deputies from the 

 chambers of the restoration, all exes, because employers or electors would 

 have no more to do with them. <r 'lo te,Bi-< 



The fact is this, that for an upper chamber in the legislature, there is 

 no medium betwixt hereditary and elective right. Hereditary right 

 without great property, and privileges is absurd. And between this, 

 and the senator elect, there is no possible mode of framing a legislator, 

 so as to endow him with the sacred character, necessary to command 

 respect. For in fine, the day is come, when men will not reverence 

 laws, unless they can reverence those who make them, which is the 

 secret of our own Reform, and which is not the secret, but the precise, 

 and inevitable cause of the fall of the French Chamber of Peers. 



When some months back, the National, the great organ of the Repub- 

 licans, gave out its manifesto, or that of its party, which demanded an 

 upper chamber elective, and based upon the possession of large property, 

 there was a general out cry against the proposed and proposition. Not 

 sp.now. JEvery person begins to see the exceedingly great good sense of it. 

 I meet with men in society, who support Louis Philippe, nay Charles X. 

 who praised the Pope's regime, and Napoleon's and Polignac' s, and what 

 you please. But any one hardy enough to defend the present Chamber 

 of Peers, and to say that it ought to endure, is not to be met with. 

 The very members of the batch are .ashamed of their elevation. And one 

 personage, who was highly delighted, and solicitous of the honour in 

 prospect, has kept his room since he was gazetted, for fear of being 

 overwhelmed by ironical congratulations. ^(j ] 



But its condemnation lies in the fact, that Roger Collard, the prince 

 of the Doctrine, refused to be peerified. He would devote himself for 

 them, he said, to the infernal gods, but not to be sacrificed on the altar of 



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Now, what was the Senate, which the National and its Republican 

 party demanded ? Was it such, as would please the Jacobins? It was 



