POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY NIGHT.
The letter of O. P. Q. establishes a strong case of violation of the Charter by the Government of Louts PHILIP. From another cor- respondent we have received the following communication, which con- firms the view he takes of the despotic principles of the French Ca- binet.
" The tendencies of the French Government towards the Holy Alliance are becoming more and more maniCas Louis Philip dreams that he has the af- fection of the Whigs at all events, and not a whit the less for his persecutions of the press, his destruction of the right of assembling, and the open avowal of the most despotic principles on the part of his Ministry. That Ministry is become a huge police, occupied with nothing hut the violent suppression of all hostile opinion. The Chamber welcomes the march of tyranny with shouts of joy ; and the people see the guarantees for good government wrested from them one after another, with an indifference inexplicable to those who thought the tera of freedom, of emancipation, had been ushered in from the Barricades. The intimacy between the Ambassadors of the Northern Sovereigns and the Court and the Ministers here, has been visibly as it is notoriously strengthened. The King has made out his claims to admission into the sanctuary of misrule. He is proving to the full content of the Legitimates that he can suppress "the factious clamour" of the Movement party. So the men of the Juste Milieu are strutting about in their glory ; the .High Priest has obtained the honour of the monar- chical consecration, and the millions are as silent as death!
" But the People—the People of England! Was it for this that England re- echoed the shouts of French liberty? Was it for this that she welemned the glorious days of July ? Was it for this she sent her fraternal embrace to the redeemed and heroic land?
" It would be well if it Were known that the high-hearted men of Britain had no design to help the setting up of another legitimate idol—another of the herd of deceiving and perjured Monarchs. They meant, and they still mean, that France shall be meat and free !"
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