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only declared him an ambitious apostate, a parasitical courtier, and a de- 

 ceitful statesman, but called him also a base ex-carbonaro and a perjured 

 conspirator. Thiers, at the same time, did all in his power to appease 

 the resentment of Carrel, and endeavoured to silence him by every 

 means. Louis Philippe engaged the republican journalist to his pri- 

 vate parties; honours and high situations were offered to him; but, as 

 all the bribes and courtly attempts to convert Carrel to the juste mi- 

 lieu had proved unsuccessful, vexatious, unrelenting, and personal 

 persecution was resorted to, in order to silence and crush the stub- 

 born editor of the National. But Armand Carrel resisted with manly 

 fortitude the brutal oppression and tyranny of the citizen king, and, 

 remaining faithful to his political creed and friends, through his 

 spirited writings excited and propagated amongst the young and in- 

 structed population of France, and chiefly amongst the lower classes 

 of the people, the contempt and hatred by which Louis Philippe, his 

 system, and his administration are at present stigmatized and exe- 

 crated. 



However, the mock patriot king and his late prime minister, 

 despairing of ever being able either to silence by bribes or to crush 

 by oppression the unflinching editor of the National, during the last 

 two years, indirectly and under-hand excited and fomented several 

 personal quarrels between Carrel and the conductors of the Carlist 

 and Philippist periodicals, and have at last succeeded in silencing for 

 ever a powerful and popular opponent, whom they could never have 

 conquered by legal and despotic means. The death of Armand 

 Carrel has been a great loss to his party, and of some utility to Louis 

 Philippe, but it has relieved Thiers from much uneasiness and ex- 

 posure, because no man knew better than Carrel the late deceitful 

 prime minister of Louis Philippe, and no man can be found in France 

 who could dare to attack the renegade ex-carbonaro and his master 

 with a frankness, address, and success equal to that of the late 

 editor of the National. Besides Thiers by his apostasy having raised 

 himself to the highest station of France, and having amassed a great 

 fortune, saw in his former editorial colleague of the National still a 

 simple citizen without kingly honours and kingly places, a living 

 striking monument of his changeable and dishonourable political 

 conduct; and thus, while Carrel was accompanied to the grave by the 

 most enlightened and most popular members of all parties, little 

 Thiers was drowning his feelings in dissipation and courtly intrigues, 

 and committing to durance vile several of his former friends, after 

 having inspired terror and dismay in the mind of his hateful master, 

 the present tyrant of France. 



Carrel, being a man of principle, has lived and died honourable 

 and honoured ; but Thiers, being a man of no principle, is living dis- 

 honoured, and God only knows what will be hisVjnd. If his late 

 quarrel with Louis Philippe be not a political stratagem of the 

 cunning modern Dionysius, Thiers has already begun to feel the 

 effects of his unprincipled conduct; but, if it be a trick, he must be- 

 come more than ever disgraced and execrated by his fellow citizens, 

 and his name will be handed to posterity as a specimen of a true am- 

 bitious and parasitical apostate, and as a warning to all those who 

 under the cloak of patriotism are the scourge of mankind. 



