, in one of his earlier
addresses, talked hopefully of the period when France would be capable of
more liberty than he now thinks good for her, "Un jour," he exclaimed,
"mon oeuvre sera couronnee par la liberte." I join in that hope. I look
sanguinely towards the time when she will be worthy of the English
constitution, and she will obtain it. Vous tenez le corps de la France,
mais vous ne tenez pas son ame. Cette ame, aujourd'hui effrayee,
engourdie, endormie, cette ame c'est la liberte. Elle se reveillera un
jour et vous echappera. La certitude de ce reveil suffit pour consoler et
fortifier ses vieux et fideles soldats a traverser la nuit de l'epreuve.
Cette liberte honnete et moderee, sage et sainte, j'y ai toujours cru, et
j'y crois encore. Je l'ai toujours servie, toujours aimee, toujours
invoquee, tantot pour la religion, tantot pour le pays; hier contre le
socialisme, aujourd'hui contre un commencement de despotisme; et, quelle
que soit votre decision, je me feliciterai toujours d'avoir eu cette
occasion solennelle de la confesser encore une fois devant vous, et, s'il
le faut, de souffrir un peu pour elle.'

These concluding words were drowned in universal murmurs.

N.W. SENIOR.

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