394 The Ministry Mole-Guizot, #c. 



Valuiy were of great use to Louis Philippe, and that now this very 

 turn-coat Thiers, in behalf again of his own private interest, has been 

 also ihejirst who has officially denounced to the world the citizen 

 king as the absolute Mahmoud of the French nation. 



After this unpleasant and distressing preamble, we shall now come 

 to the subject of this article, by showing impartially how the present 

 French ministry, or rather, how Louis Philippe is placed with regard 

 to the French chambers, and how he intends to manage them in 

 order to continue in his anti-national system. 



It is more than probable that the ministry Mole-Guizot, still a 

 pure incarnation of the pensee immuable of the French Mahmoud, has 

 been framed in accordance with the wishes of Nesselrode, Metternich, 

 and Ancillon, in order to paralyze any possible good results which 

 might arise from the quadruple treaty, and to prevent the final es- 

 tablishment of a constitutional government both in Spain and in 

 Portugal. Certain it is, that as soon as the present French ministry 

 came into office, all the stipulations of that treaty have almost become 

 a dead letter with the king of the barricadoes, who, notwithstanding 

 in his late speech from the throne, has had the impudence to assure 

 his hearers that he is still faithful to that document. For what 

 regards the future internal government of France it is evident, that 

 the ministry Mole-Guizot are to forward with zeal and activity the 

 system of resistance, restriction, and oppression, and that new mea- 

 sures are to be resorted to, which will greatly surpass even the exist- 

 ing exceptional Fieschi laws, and already two projects have been 

 presented to the chambers, which are subversive not only of the 

 charter, but of the first bonds of human society. But will these 

 tyrannical projects of the French perjured king have any final 

 success ? Will the chambers of France permit the total enslavement 

 of their country ? or will the French nation consent to lose at once 

 the fruit of all the hardships which it has endured during the last 

 fifty years in order to obtain its present fettered liberty and its com- 

 promised independence? No, this seems to be almost impossible, and 

 consequently, Louis Philippe and his immuable pensee of duplicity 

 and perfidy must shortly terminate, either by a total change of sys- 

 tem or by his overthrow. 



With regard to the chamber of the present elective peers of France, 

 we shall not detain long the attention of our readers, because it must 

 be well known to them that those hirelings of the son of Egalite are 

 a real disgrace, not only to their country but to Europe at large, by 

 their servility to the dictates of the court of the Tuilleries. We may 

 assert without the least fear of being reasonably contradicted, that 

 were the reigning French Mahmoud to choose for his prime minister 

 the priest-ridden, anti-liberal, but honest, and consistent Prince 

 Polignac, the recently liberated ex-premier of Charles X., he would 

 certainly meet with the approbation and support of the majority of 

 those elective noble strawmen of Louis Philippe, because, with the ex- 

 ception of a few enlightened and independent members, and of about 

 a dozen of stubborn and fanatic Carlists, that branch of the French 

 constitution would sanction any arbitrary act or project of the living 

 despot of France. Therefore the citizen king has nothing to appre- 



