The Comte de Chambord'e new manifesto from Frobsdorf, —the letter
addressed to the Marquis de Foresta on July 26th,—is very curious in the appearance of unhesitating faith in his own restoration with which the letter con- cludes :—" No ; I will not accept the tutelage of men of figments and Utopias, but I will not cease to appeal to the co-operation of all honest men, and as you admir- ably said, armed with this power, and with the grace of God, I may save France ;—I must and I wan" It is easy to understand this sort of faith in a religious teacher, or even in a patriot who is endeavouring to liberate his country from a foreign yoke ; but in a mere representative of a political system, a man of calm mind, to take him all in all, who has hardly had a single sign of popular favour throughout his whole career, this sort of obstinate superstition in his destiny is almost unique.
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