London, Tuesday, March 23...
'The French. Ministerial papers are loudly celebrating the extiiotion of the Liberal party in the Chairdher by the late returns of Deputies. The triumph, indeed, -is complete auidiminlisputed, . so far as it is the cyeation of an immense mnaljrity of'Ultra. Royalists, and the-utter exclusion of even .i.decent iumi)er of inidependent men from the Assembly of the National Itcprcsentatives; but is this exultation a wise one? Tlic ineansby -which t1te eleotions were carried arc welll. koown,.anid are forcibly described in an -excellent letter: in. tbis dilvs journal. Corruption-at least what we undletstaud in .inglanid by the worst andi foulst Miiiste- rial corrtiption--wouid not express, no, nor so much as in- dicate ever so faintly, the practices which have been car- ried on by the French Treasury in ihe face of tday, and in defiknce of every thing like law, couscience, or decorum; ~~4t 1%, "*hat ?. T'1' nhtaill a vict"-y- n. the principle of representationi itself-over the vital spirit of that s-pecies of goven2ment which the King of ERAn'CE established, be- eause he thought and aeknowledg6d a representative govern- nent essential to 'the. sqfety of the House of BouzIsoN How eome's it, then,. that fraud,_ and bribery, and perse- cutioli, and violeuce, have all been brought into re- gular co-operation in this instance, -for no other end than to destroy the main security of the lawfulu thronie of France; andl that the Nfinisters who have thus strippe(ti Kling Lobas of his armour, boast of the robbery as of a triimph accomplished in his name? Do the Mi- histers of the vear 1824 pretend to discard as a wvorth- lcss fallacy that whlih only in 181- was an axiom admit- ted by all reasonable Frenclhmen, with Locis XV'III. at their head? Do they actually forget that BuONAPART'r vas ruine(d from having refled on force in contempt of opi- nion ; or imaiine thit a cbnstitutional and representative 'Government derives-.strength in liroportion as it tleparts fromn its funilaihentat prindple, and transmutes itself into despotism like that of Turkev ? They have reduced the opp'merwts of Ministers. hi the C(amber to the conitemiptible number of ' 17 votes ;" but hoW wany miore ti4an 17,or ten thousand tisTes 17, enemies to the present system of goverument have been created out of doors by this overthrow of the constitutional opposition? The question is not about the carrvin g measures in the Ohaamber-that was secure enough: the substantial ques- tiona is; whether the hoid of the houSe of BOOaRBbO oxer thq' people of France has been confirmned or relaxed by thus despoiling 'the nation of the power to be represented by Deputies of- its own choosing. If the nation has not been rendered more loyal by this illegality, the aet was as impo_ litic as it sva3 dihEoncst. 'The Chamber of 1814-181.5 was was so devotedl to the Court, that the nation had no confi- dence in -ifi `,BaxVAPRTe cAme,- and; n0twVithstan1ing the unatiigmtity of the representatives, the constituents re- fusd toa hold up one hand in defence of the reigning fa- mily. No ag, 'A forer is gained ifthe goad-will of the countrj be lost; anrl that systeln which seelks to exchange a sh'rp series bf- debates within a legislative.assvmbly, for fernientations:and conspiracies'beyond its walls, is a policy wliich no sane miind can assent' tog If the design of- the French Alinisters be to overtuiin the charter of isi4, and to establish a hona fidi' despotism ort its ruin-, tlihe, indeed, tie scheme i. - at least c6ns4stelt -no matter- what it? -wis_ dom may be:. buttve.doubt whether the next generation of BonasRoN Viil have'reasonr te be' grateful for the change- Fic'cH FluxPS.-Ol Satilrcay, at half-past 4, Five'per Centsi nere at 100. 55.; Naples Stock, 903; SpanishStock, 22. _ e ,~~~~~~~. - * L ONDON, TUESDA V, ALE RCH 23, 1824"