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rule of absolute monarchy than under that of the citizen mon- 
archy, it is quite natural that it should prefer the first political form 
to the second. If it be true on the oilier side that the represen- 
tative system be a system of corruption, venality, and falsehood, 
where money makes the law, it is still very rational that the beasts 
of high character, which symbolize the just man persecuted, should 
experience but a moderate sympathy for this impure system under 
which permissions to cut down forests are bought for a cask of 
wine, or sold for an electoral vote. 
And because the French people have hitherto confounded the 
charlatanry of liberalism with liberty, and because M. Guizot, the 
English historian, has made it believe that the advent of the shop- 
keeper to power was the last v/ord of political progress, the 
French people have come to consider the roebuck and stag, who 
hate the bourgeoisie, as the enemies of liberty. 
I hope to see all the intelligent men of my country yet do jus- 
tice to the sagacity of the stag and the roebuck ; whom their rec- 
titude of mind has preserved from the snares and trickeries of pre- 
tended liberalism ; and partake with them their profound antip- 
athy for shopkeeping governments and destruction of forests. 
THE WILD BOAR. 
One of man’s most useful conquests has been that of the Boar. 
The tame animal known as hog, swine, or porker is one of the 
chief sources of the wealth of nations, and one of the most pre- 
cious elements of culinary industry. 
The breeding and exportation of hogs have, from time immemo- 
rial, contributed to the commercial prosperity of the Gauls. That 
quarrel of the’Eduans (Burgundians) and Sequanians (men of 
Franche Comptois) which so powerfully favored the invasion of 
Julius Ceesar, originated in a right of toll on these animals. 
Bayonne, to which the human race owes the invention, not of 
the' bayonet, but of the whale fishery — Bayonne, the adventur- 
ous, has sold hams to the old Carthaginians and Phoenicians. Cer- 
tain vicious habits, such as that of eating young children and of de- 
vouring its own little ones, have been imputed to this species, but 
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