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rical fact that he was precipitately chosen by two hundredand nineteen 

 deputies out of nearly six hundred,who ought to have concurred in his 

 election. Moreover, it is also a fact, that during three months after 

 the 9th of August, M. Guizot, and all the prefects and mayors of 

 France, his creatures, did all in their power to obtain from the de- 

 partments addresses approving of what the two hundred and nineteen 

 deputies had sanctioned, and that, after having spent nine millions 

 of francs of the public money, they scarcely obtained four thousand 

 three hundred and seventy-one addresses out of forty thousand com- 

 munes that compose the French kingdom. 



During the restoration the civil list swallowed up every year about 

 thirty-five millions of francs of the public money. However, out of 

 this sum twelve millions of francs were employed for the support of 

 the royal body guards, and three other millions for the encourage- 

 ment of literature, science, and arts, and for the improvement and 

 keeping of the royal domains. But, under the present government, 

 the economic patriot-king, possessing himself an annual private for- 

 tune of more than seventeen millions of francs, receives the round 

 sum of twenty millions of francs per annum. But the civil list of 

 Louis Philippe may be also truly considered his own private fortune, 

 because it has no incumbrances, and not a single farthing of it is em- 

 ployed for public purposes. Besides, the great stock-jobber and shop- 

 keeper of France makes a capital speculation with the productions of 

 his royal domains, because all that can be disposed of for money is 

 publicly adjudged to the highest bidder, be it a Carlist, a Republican, 

 a Buonapartist, a Philippist, or the devil himself, provided there is 

 the certainty of payment. 



During the restoration the standing army scarcely ever exceeded 

 200,000 men, who were sufficient to maintain tranquillity at home, 

 and to inspire respect abroad ; and the interference of France at that 

 epoch was of some weight with the continental powers of Europe. 

 In fact, under the administration of Martignac the diplomatic media- 

 tion of France saved from the scaffold and from the dungeons of the 

 despotic tyrants of Italy arid Germany many political victims. But, 

 under the present government, notwithstanding that France keeps at 

 an enormous sacrifice of the public money a well disciplined standing 

 army of nearly 500,000 men, backed by 800,000 national guards, 

 with much difficulty it is enabled to prevent agitation and revolt at 

 home, and its interference in the continental affairs is, if not utterly 

 disregarded, not much thought of by the great powers. Nay, the 

 generous paf.riot-king and his partizans, notwithstanding the entrea- 

 ties and declarations of the most liberal and most enlightened states- 

 men of France, have witnessed with apathy, or rather with sympa- 

 thy, the re-est-ablishment of the order of Warsaw, the destruction of 

 the nationality of Poland, the enslavement of the Roman legations, 

 and the butcheries of the petty tyrant of Modena; and all this has 

 been permitted, although those improvident patriots had been directly 

 instigated by France to raise the standard of national freedom in imi- 

 tation and support of the " three glorious days of July.'' 



These are historical facts which have occurred within our own 

 knowledge. How can we be surprised, therefore, in seeing France in 



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