170 The Parisian Newspaper Press. [FEB. 



among the people and the army, articles fit to excite great courage in 

 the former, and desertion in the latter. It must be allowed that he 

 strongly contributed to promote the success of the insurrection, and the 

 triumph of the popular party. When the new government of Louis 

 Philippe was established, the Temps by degrees became the partisan 

 of the juste milieu, and the champion of the Guizottine administration. 

 At the resignation of Lafitte and Merilhou, Casimir Perier, the inti- 

 mate friend of Guizot and Dupin, was chosen to succeed the former, 

 and, it may be said, that he became the seven ministers of France, as his 

 colleagues are bound to his tyrannical control. Since Perier reigns 

 over Louis Philippe and his subjects,* the Temps militates in his 

 favour ; but now and then Sebastiani is rudely attacked, and his expul- 

 sion is strongly recommended. This must be attributed to the private 

 animosity of a writer to whom Sebastiani has not granted a demanded 

 consulship. This journal exercises no great influence on the public in 

 general ; but its articles have much power over the principal agents of 

 the administration, and are not disguised by those friends of the new 

 king. Klaproth, the well-known master of several unknown tongues, is 

 the conductor of the foreign department of the Temps. 



The Journal du Commerce was chiefly established for the ameliora- 

 tion and welfare of commerce, and the best French economists contri- 

 buted to its publication. For a very long time it has been of great 

 service to commercial men. Politics were not the main object of this 

 publication ; but no subject of importance on this point was ever neg- 

 lected. Since the revolution of 1830, the editors of this journal have 

 shewn great personal independence ; for they have neither demanded, 

 nor obtained any favour, or places. Very little of all that has been done 

 by the different administrations of Louis Philippe has been approved 

 by the Journal du Commerce ; it is for the movement party, and strongly 

 co-operates in forwarding the popular interests. Such is the prudent 

 manner which the editors have adopted in attacking all the past and 

 present ministers, that their journal has never been compromised, and it 

 is, perhaps, the only opposition paper which, since the late revolution, 

 has not been prosecuted by the king's attorney-general. 



The Nouveau Journal de Paris is the most scandalous ministerial 

 paper of Paris, and it is truly despicable. Voltaire was very right in 

 saying " II y a une certaine fatalite attachee a certains noms." For 

 the old Journal de Paris, by selling its independence and its opinions 

 to M. de Villele, disgraced all those who had had any thing to do with 

 its publication ; and the Nouveau Journal de Paris has done still worse ; 

 for after having been for some time one of the warmest defenders of 

 popular rights and national independence, it has sold itself to Casimir 

 Perier, and to the nabobs of Louis Philippe. Such is the submission 

 of this paper, that not one article, nay, not one word, can be inserted in 

 its columns unless it has first .been approved of both by the secretary of 

 Perier, and by the appointed censors of Louis Philippe. Ab uno 

 disce omnes. The Journal de Paris has fallen into such contempt, that 

 although it is dispatched gratis to several places, no one takes the pains 

 to peruse it ; but all the public authorities dependent on the ministers, 



Now Casimir Perier, and his ^ successors, may reign over the King of the 

 French, if they can, but as for his subjects it is impossible, since it has been 

 proved before the Chamber of Deputies, that the French are no longer subjects of the 

 King of the French Hi 



