The "stormy petrel of the Tuileries" is flying abroad again.
On September 1 Prince Napoleon made a speech in the Senate of an hour and a quarter, in which he declared that the way to pre- vent revolutions was to anticipate them ; that the Empire ought to burn its ships and declare for liberty ; that the bases of liberty were the same everywhere ; that he hoped to see the Empire advance in its new course ; and that a clause conceding municipal freedom ought to be inserted in the Senatus-Consultum. The Prince's speech appears to have created some dismay, it was declared by Count Segur d'Aguesseau "scandalous," and by the Minister of the Interior as "marked by an impetuosity of ideas which ignores all transitional states " in politics. The Prince is supposed to be fighting for his own hand, but many believe that he is only so far Jacobin as all the Bonapartes have been, and that he would be a safe Regent for his cousin should an interregnum occur.
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