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it, as he has already obtained the annulment of two of its most vital 

 articles with regard to the press and jury. 



During the restoration the press was only thirty -four times prose- 

 cuted ex-qflicio, and six times only for having personally attacked 

 royalty or its rights. But, under the liberal citizen-king, the press 

 has already been prosecuted, ex-officio, two thousand seven hundred 

 and forty-six times, and fifteen hundred and sixty-nine times for hav- 

 ing personally, but historically, censured the acts and life of Louis 

 Philippe. 



During the restoration only four partial conspiracies were disco- 

 vered against the existing government, and they were almost all se- 

 cretly and indirectly fomented and supported by the agents of the 

 late duke of Orleans. But, since the " three glorious days of July," 

 how many mock conspiracies have not been invented by the present 

 government to serve the despotic purposes of Louis Philippe? How 

 many real ones have not been discovered against the throne and life 

 of the king of the barricadoes ? 



During the restoration, notwithstanding the unpopularity of the 

 Bourbons, the government only once were obliged to call into action 

 a few battalions of troops, after the elections of Paris, to check a 

 kind of tumult which a furious mob was making in the Rue St. Den- 

 nis, at Paris, and then only three of the lowest order fell victims of 

 their disorderly conduct. But, under the patriot-king, Paris has been 

 several times in a state of rebellion, its edifices and streets have wit- 

 nessed the destruction of thousands of lives of the middle and instructed 

 class, the state of seige, and the establishment of martial laws and 

 martial courts. Besides Lyons has had/owr patriotic butcheries, and 

 martial laws and martial courts, St. Etienne/bwr Philippist massacres, 

 Marseilles two Orleanist human hecatombs, Toulouse several Philip- 

 pist slaughters, and Vendee and Britanny have been almost always 

 in a state of continual legal butchery under martial laws. 



During the restoration no attack was ever made on the persons of 

 the royal family, with the exception of the murder of the Duke 

 of Berry by the mysterious hand of Louvel, who, according to his 

 own confession, for the good of the Orlean family, intended by that 

 assassination to prevent the ancient branch of the Bourbons from 

 reigning long over France. But, since the " three glorious days," 

 Louis Philippe hasoften been the object of premeditated assassination ; 

 and, within the last twelve months, he has been twice saved from 

 imminent death by mere chance, and it. is more than probable that, if a 

 very great change does not soon take place in his governmental and 

 political conduct, he must ultimately fall a victim to the hatred of the 

 French nation, which he has not only deceived by false promises, but 

 has also oppressed and degraded. 



During the restoration the police of France and of the court was 

 performed by six thousand secret agents, and that system was justly 

 considered unconstitutional, oppressive, and inquisitorial. But, under 

 thegovermnentofthe barricadoes, more ihan forty thousand spies are 

 employed for the welfare of France and for the protection of the pa- 

 triot-king, who is described by his partizans and paid defenders to be 

 the elected of the majority of the French nation, while it is an histo- 



