The French Government adheres to its false position, at home
and abroad. M. de Tocqueville does not repudiate the liabilities entailed upon him by his predecessors and his colleagues, but has openly taken his place among the new order of Doctrinaires. In- terpellated by M. Mauguin, as to the safety of France amid the intrigues of reactionary crowned heads to crush the Republic, and by M. Savoye, a naturalized German refugee, as to the relations of the Paris Government with the insurgent parts of Bavaria and Baden, M. de Tocqueville made some curious avowals, not less by his manner than by the terms of his reply. He accused the Ba- varian and Baden insurgents of having bad an alliance with the Paris conspirators of June, and admitted that the French Go- vernment had given a negative aid to the Prussian Government in resisting those insurgents. He denied that there is any crowned conspiracy against France, but avowed that there would have been one if M. Ledru-Rollin and the Red Republicans had attained a majority in the French Assembly. He did not disavow the recently published correspondence of M. Drouyn de Lhuys, explaining how the French intended to replace the Pope. By his whole manner, the author of Democracy in America avowed sympathy with the Monarchical Governments of Europe, and antipathy for those insurgent peoples who are emulating tile Parisians. We can well understand how a political philosopher gnay advocate constitutional Monarchy; but not how the Minister of a revolutionary Republic can join in maintaining the Louis Philippes of Europe on their seats.
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