during his own Reign. 
dom of Poland, because it was the only 
way to erect, a) harricr againstthat for- 
midable empire which threatened sooner 
or later, to, subjugate. Europe, ) 1f Alex- 
ander do. not, like Paul, tum, bis atten- 
tion to India, to acquire wealth and fur. 
nish employment, for. bis numerous, na- 
tions, of, Cossacks, Calmucks, and. ether 
barbarians, whorliave acquired a taste 
fonluxury in, Lrance and: Germany, he 
will, he jobliged,.in ,erder to prevent a 
revolntion, in, |Russia,to make an ir- 
ruption jate, the South of Europe. 
Should he suceeed.in thoroughly blend- 
ing. Poland swith Russia, and in recon- 
ciling the Poles, to the Russian govern- 
ment, all must.bend: beneath his yoke, 
Every country in Europe, and England 
in? particular, will, then regret: their 
having - neglected. .to . re-establish the 
kingdom ‘of Poland . independently of 
Russia, and, their having made it a. Rus- 
sian provinee at the Congress of Vienna; 
bat the/-English ministers. were then 
blinded .by, their hatred, of Napoleon. 
All |they. did ;was impolitic, Had. the 
Congress ,of,.Vienna made peace, with 
Napoleon, Europe would now have been 
in,a, state, of tranquillity, and the revo- 
Jutionary,spirit would, not be under- 
mining |every ; throne. ._In France, it 
would have been repressed and satisfied 
by new, institutions. 
[UU ESS°o° PAPERS OF LOUIS. 
The table in, the king’s closet was 
covered with all, the works which had 
been dedicated, to him dnring the pre- 
ceding vine, months, and with seven or 
eight bundrcd memorials or reports on 
secret affairs, Lis true that his personal 
Porttolo, in. which were his private pa- 
‘pers, such asthe Duchess of Angouleme’s 
correspondence since {he time when she 
Was in the Temple; that of Louis XVI. 
-and Lord Malmesbury’s letter announ- 
-cing the death of the king, had been left 
on the small table. No person obtained 
jany knowl dge of these papers; Napoleon 
eseryed the examination of them to 
‘;bimself, exclusively; several of them 
pwere very curious, and sometimes gave 
irige to singular scenes, 
eat to DUKE (DENG HIEN. 
~The death: of the Duke. d’ Enghien 
Ought to: bev attributed to those! persons 
at London who direvted and ordered the 
‘assassination of the First Consul, and 
who intended the Duke de Berri to en- 
tern France | by, Beville-cliffs, and, the 
Duke d’Enghien by Strasburg ; inought 
also to be ascribedtothose who eagerly 
Ait ; 
635 
sought, by, reports and conjectures, to 
represent the, Duke as the head of, the 
conspiracy; it ought to,form.an eternal 
reproach ,against., those who,. hurried 
away by. acriminal ,zoal, did) not. wait 
for the orders of their sovereign. to exe- 
cute the judgment of the, military .com- 
mission, The Duke d’Enghien fella 
victim, to the intrigues of the time. His . 
death, with which. Napoleon had. becn so 
unjustly reproached, was. injurious. 10 
him, and could not. have. answered any 
political purpose. Had Napoleon been 
capable of such a erime, Louis XVIII. 
and Ferdinand would not now. be reign- 
ing: their death, as has already. been 
observed, was several, times. proposed, 
aud even recommended to him, 
THE GIRONDE: AND MOUNTAIN. .. 
The factions of the Gironde and the 
Mountain were. too violent in their mu- 
tual animosity. Had they both con- 
tinued to exist, the proceedings of ad- 
ministration would have been encumber- 
ed with so many impediments, that. the 
Republic could not have maintained the 
contest against. the. combination of. all 
Europe. _ The good of the country re- 
quired the triumph of one of these par- 
tics. On the 31st of May, the Gironde 
fell, and the Mountain thenceforth, ¢o- 
verned, without opposition. The .con= 
sequence is known: the campaigns of 
1793 and 1794 delivered France from 
furcign invasion. et 
W ould the result have been the same 
if the Gironde party had gained the day, 
and the Mountain bad been sacrificed.on 
the 3lst of May? We think it would 
not. The Mountain party, although 
checked, would alwa;s have possessed 
great influence in France, in the popular 
societies and armies,,and weuld have 
essentially diminished the energies of the 
nation, the whole of, which were ne- 
cessary at that erisis. There was. un- 
doubtedly more talent in. the, Gironde 
than in the Mountain; but.the Gironde 
was composed of more spcoulative men, 
with less, resolution and decision of will ; 
they would have governes more mildly, 
and it is probable that.under their reign 
only part of the excesses which the .e- 
yolationary government of the Mountain 
-committed,, would bave. taken. place. 
The Gironde prevailed, in the towns of 
Lyons, Marseilles, 'Voulon, Montpellier, 
Nismes, Bordeaux, and Brest, aud in 
parora provinces. The home, of the 
ountaip was the, capital, and it was 
supported by, all the Jacobins in Vrance. 
On the 31stof May it triampbed; twenty. 
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