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 THE MINISTRY MOLE-GUIZOT, 



OR LOUIS PHILIPPE AND THE PRESENT STATE OF PARTIES IN THE 

 FRENCH CHAMBERS. 



SINCE the 18th of September, 1830, when for the first time Louis 

 Philippe showed in public his naturally tyrannical disposition, by 

 taking the personal command, his purposely intoxicated satellites of the 

 line, and in ordering them to clear his royal palace of the Parisians at 

 the point of the bayonet, exclaimed, " Allans, mes braves, eventrez mot 

 ces groups de canaille" every thinking mind in France foresaw with 

 dismay, that the cunning and double-minded Duke of Orleans, having 

 swindled the crown like a fox, wished to keep it like a lion, and that 

 his" mock citizen majesty aimed not only at reigning shrewdly, but 

 intended to govern France with as much despotism as ever Na- 

 poleon displayed during his glorious imperial sway. 



However, when the too liberal Laffitte, and the unflinching, up- 

 right, patriot Dupont de 1'Eure, disgusted with the perfidious and 

 treacherous conduct of their master, resigned their high ministerial 

 posts, and when the well-meaning but too easily duped Lafayette, 

 not choosing to participate any longer to forward the hypocritical 

 projects of a monster whom he had made a king, gave up the com- 

 mander-in chief of the National Guards of France, Louis Philippe 

 thence forward, became the object of general distrust, and was aban- 

 doned by all those who had really at heart the welfare of their 

 country and the prosperity of mankind at large. 



But the " best of republics" having succeeded in framing the 

 famous cabinet of the 13th March, 1831, and the apostate Casimir 

 Perier and Co., having basely undertaken to become the constitu- 

 tional tools of the son of Egalite, it was now evident that the king of 

 the barricadoes had determined in his pensfe immuable to exercise 

 despotism over the French nation under the shield of a nominal 

 ministerial responsibility, and that in all domestic and foreign politics 

 he would make use of that maxim of the tyrant 



" Sic volo, sic jubeo, stat pro ratione voluntas." 



In fact, from that eventful epoch all became mysterious and 

 doubtful in his council ; the system of juste-milieu and resistance 

 paralyzed the progress of liberty and improvement at home, and 

 SD much changed the foreign policy of France, that the brave and 

 unfortunate Polish and Italian patriots were all of a sudden aban- 

 doned to the tender mercy of their conquerors and natural despots. 

 In the mean time domiciliatory visits and political inquisition began 

 to make the tour of France, and soon after led the way to the dread- 

 ful insurrections, bombardments, and sieges of Paris and Lyons; 

 caused the slaughters of Toulouse, Marsailles, Grenoble, and St. 

 Etienne, and engendered the abolition of all political associations 

 and discussions. As the public press dared to remonstrate against 

 such tyrannical acts, and as it even insinuated that those measures 



