M. Derourede has taken advantage of a delay in sending
him for trial to write an insolent letter to the President. In this he accuses IL Iroubet of having arranged his condemns.
tion beforehand, and asserts that he himself is the servant of the people as against the servants of the Parliament. "I am not unaware," he says, " that it is just this democratic doe. trine, much more dangerous than all the monarchical thrones for the privileged and for the Parliamentary aristocrats, which your Ministers now prosecute in me, and which your Senate will punish to-morrow. Nor am I unaware that the protests and demands of the Patriots of the League are like a permanent insult to your policy of abasement before the foreigner." M. de Blowitz calls this letter the effusion of a madman, but to us there seems method in the madness. M. Deroulede is relying on the distaste of Frenchmen for "government by talkers," and their desire to see an in- dividnal at the head of affairs who can be applauded,—or hissed. One will arrive some day, and then M. Deroulede will go to Cayenne.
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